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I think people missed that when the brackets changed, the maximums changed (though, it was never $5.5 anyway, unless you're just saying they take the min during vet contracts - which you probably are). Assuming you have a player who only signs max deals, they could end up with 3*6 + 5*9. That's $63M. Plus up to $3M for VHLM pre-draft, a player could theoretically earn $66M, without endorsements, by the time they finish their 8-season career. Also, side note, that's an insane amount and is why I argued for a floating max of 4 brackets above, to prevent such crazy earning potential.

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#16 on that tab...

Hahaha never saw the Poptart one

A fair amount of people can have over $30M to spend in their careers. Bassolino just dropped ~$22M in the store, in his 6th season, and while Smarch is a fantastic member, he hasn't exactly capped out with this player. There's also earning in the 9th+ season idk if you are taking into account here. With expansion, there will be cap space for players to actually take more than the minimum salary for their bracket (also encouraging player movement and possibilities where big FAs sign with "bad" teams for more money). And even talking about money, you have rookies making $4M+ because their teams are trash, or $3M because they got returned to the VHLM. It's not like only ones making money in the VHL are the ones you would expect to...

That's who I thought it was, based off the title lol

Brand deals doesn't really change anything from how it is now, or am I missing something about bigger brand deals impact right now? And yeah, sure, you can fight off depreciation by banking, but I think you're overestimating how much that can fight off depreciation when it hits 10% and greater. Hell, I think you've overestimating how much banking really prevents without purchases. I'm nearing the TPE record, and without OBNF+Jagr this season, I'd have about 130 less TPA this season. If I wanted to extend my career further, I'd be down to about 800 TPA next season, which, yeah, is still legit, but then I'd be down to around 650 the following season, 500ish the season after that, etc. I think I calculated last time I brought this up in the BOG that it doesn't really level off until you're around 350ish TPA (restoring after depreciation), at which point you're not likely to have enough cash to go for too much longer. I think I had it around 15-16 seasons absolute max before you can't really afford to keep going, assuming you only purchase the extension, unless you're somehow signing max deals as a <500 TPA player... Once I get down to 400 TPA, that's still a useful player, not someone who will be getting season records, but someone who I would still enjoy and would have a chance at hitting some cool milestones. I mean, just getting to 1000 games would be cool for someone to hit.

Yeah, that would be kind of cool to see. Even without sealing the books, it's something we could always go back and do at any point. It's just a matter of deciding on what we want to call an era. Every 20-seasons would be about 3 years, and just over 2 career lengths (if you count pre-draft, a player is around for up to 9.5ish seasons), and have us in our 4th era currently, which sounds about right to me?

Makes it a choice again, of whether to buy Jagr/OBNF/Uncapped/Career Extension Right now, it's pretty easy to load up and buy 2 Jagrs and OBNF, if not Still Kicking as well. Making it a purchasable option makes it a choice of what to buy.

Eh, most drafts recently have been heavily first gen. While there's no way to forecast how long that will last, I'd be willing to bet that spreading out recreates from each draft, rather than them all going up against each other every time (i.e. S63 draftees re-entering for the S72 draft together) wouldn't cause a huge issue. In terms of career points, I mean, yeah, it's a way for people to go after counting stats. That's not exactly hidden. What's wrong with someone wanting to win 10 Cups? Or a first Cup if they can't do it in 8? Or hit 500 goals. Or 1000 points. Or 1500 points if that's how long they want to try and play for? It's not so much the actual records, more the ability to push past them and create new ones, that are different.

Eh, I mean literally any player who plays 8 seasons will earn enough to buy at least one (1*3 + 1.5*5 = 10.5). Any player who would realistically be looking at this will earn enough for at least 2, if not more, should they want to.

W/E Jan 6th

Yeah, for the record books, we would need to seal the current one off. I'm not sure we need one for every era, but a capped career length record book, and an uncapped record book would definitely be in store. Would be cool for players to forge new records.

I'll fight for them 'til the day I die (or inevitably get overthrown).

Continued from Part 1... The Career Extension purchase would allow players to chase certain milestones, records, and even Continental Cups, that may not have been possible without extending. Doing so would then come at the cost of fighting depreciation. If you want a 9th season, you first lose out on the early career purchases, such as an Uncapped TPE purchase, or a TPA re-roll. If you want a 10th season, you lose out on a Jagr. If you want an 11th, you'd probably then lose out on the OBNF. Just based on salary, you could probably continue for a 12th or 13th, but it would be at the cost of not being very good. The breakdown of this would look something roughly like this: The Chris Chelios 9th Season: $10,000,000 / 9% depreciation 10th-11th Season: $10,000,000 / 10% depreciation 12th-13th Season: $10,000,000 / 12% depreciation 14th+ Season: $10,000,000 / 15% depreciation Something like this wouldn't come until expansion has taken place, as there's already a squeeze on rosters for playing time, but is something I think can add a lot, and wouldn't force members to continue moving forward with their career, since it's not a "free" option.

So, the first season of the VHL's Brand Sponsorships has come and gone, and has come with fairly mixed reviews. This isn't really a piece on Brands, or the Sponsor's Shield, but one of the points that was brought up by some of the members who are against the idea: that it floods the league with extra money, making the decision to fight depreciation a fairly easy one, as most players can easily save up for the late-career purchases of Old But Not Forgotten and the Jaromir Jagr, while also making purchases earlier in their career as well; that used to be more difficult to accomplish with the league's old salary structure and Player Store. Something I've proposed before, and something I fully believe in, that could help make purchases a tougher decision again, is the idea of purchasing a career extension. Basically, for a cost between the Jagr and OBNF, a player could decide to extend their career, for as long as they like, while facing much harsher depreciation each time they decide to do so. End of Part 1. +2 For Bailey

And... @Members

Also, just gonna tag everyone so they see these... @Members

Congrats to the son of the net @Sonnet on his first career shutout, the first of many!

Should probably just pop his email in the notice thread in the GM forum, just so that it’s always there and visible for when we need to send him lines.

Do emojis work for usernames? Probably something I should know, but I’d say: Jim14??

Were mine one of them? I know last season there were some issues with spam filters

So, not a long one, but I’m pretty inaccessible this weekend. I’ll check in from time to time, but most inquiries would be best directed to @Beketov until Monday.

I know we let things go pretty easily here, but was there anything done aside from haphazardly cutting the Quebec logo and adding text?