Victor

I rank all 8 teams as draft destinations: https://www108.zippyshare.com/v/qdPHAARa/file.html

1. Probably still winning the cup with Calgary in Season 18 - I feel like I've had a lot more enjoyable careers since but not one outstanding "holy fuck how did we do that" moment. I think it has to be an underdog moment for me and the only other ones I can think of are Calgary totally dominating and sweeping Davos in S30 and then Clegane doing an absolute madness against FA-stacked Calgary in S51. I will respond to your other 4 questions separately - partially because I only needed 1 more answer for the TPE this week and partially because I feel I can really go to town on these ones.

Better than nothing, at least another trophy this season. Personally don't think Conte should leave based on his work over the 2 years and also the lack of any realistic alternative that would be an obvious improvement (I don't think Sarri or Allegri are going to leave). But it's Chelsea so that's all pointless hoping the manager gets time so hello Enrique/Jardim/whoever else and a weirdly better season with the same players. As long as Hazard stays we're a threat but City, Liverpool and Spurs probably too far ahead atm.

Huge if true.

Seth did in fact know. And I don't like this stuff, it's just my job!

Gloop OT winner in Game 7 vs Seattle needed.

Spain, Germany, or Brazil to win it. France maybe if they get their tactics right. Feel like one of the semi finalists will be at least a bit left field. Maybe Uruguay again... or maybe Egypt. Or someone from that very unpredictable last group (Senegal, Poland, Colombia).

Rattled ? What do you even do you bitter old fossil.

I think you need someone to claim him to be on the safe side. I don't know if the rules have changed but don't think just waiving a non rookie releases the full cap hit. Can't check the rules for like another 12 hours so if someone wants to do the research.

Not anymore!

whoa come on it took us like 3 times to perma ban boubabi, steady on ..I'm still not sure if we've permabanned boubabi

You're not wrong. We pay simmers a weekly PT and have done for years, not much harder than updating. We pay recruitment crew some obscene amount and well the less said the better there. Grading's dead so updating is the last pillar of the VHL which doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

Also 8 week careers but you can earn 1000 TPE if you make a post exactly at a randomly generated time on the 2nd Tuesday of a 30-day month.

2 hour window to make trades imo, you snooze you lose.

1. I certainly have no intention of staying in the VHLM past this season. I've always had good rookie seasons in the past, I wouldn't expect to be a top scorer of course, but in the right conditions I'm sure I'll be in the RotY race. 2. Currently a very British show called Peep Show. I have no idea if anyone of the UK has even heard of it, but it's a massive cult thing here. When it ends I've got my eyes set on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I like the clips that I've seen. I also will binge the latest seasons of Billions and Westworld this summer, though I guess that doesn't count as downtime, it's more of a set target haha. 3. I suspect it'd be skewed towards North American teams due to familiarity, and in particular Toronto and New York. That said, given most members here know the VHL lore, I suspect some will go for a place which might not be a huge location but just because it's known to be a good franchise in the past will attract some people - like Calgary or Davos. Those two would attract me anyway.

Damn I miss the days of us having 4 games a sim. Could we not just play more games than everyone else? Seems fair to me.

I'm not sure he has a NTC. That said, Seattle is still over the cap by 900k from what I can tell @Banackock

Oh if you waived it before then no.

Muller has a NTC but I'm sure you all know that.

What a shitshow of a season. Thank fuck the Champions League kept me sane (not Chelsea in it, obviously, but everyone else).

I think the ratio became too negative to be sustainable.

Another change is needed. I feel like 6 point PTs should be scrapped and replaced by two smaller weekly PTs. Or even three and scrapping VHL.com's as well. Then you'll have 3 lower effort PTs per week but you'll have to engage with the league more to do them. Two could be themed, one could be more lax. I know people like the flexibility of being able to post a large article and claim it over time. I appreciate that but the reward is excessive IMO for what can in theory be a once-a-month contribution. I'd cap that at say 2000 words and only let it be claimed as max 3 TPE per week.

I went on a 3-day trip to Athens last weekend (Monday being a day off here in the UK). A thunderstorm diverted my flight to the Greek island of Rhodes for about 1.5 hours and on the way back to London the plane took 2 attempts to land, so it was interesting to say the least but not really the point of this post. The point is, after coming back on Wednesday, I already felt I had drifted so far away from the VHL somehow that I didn't really care to check what I missed. I could use work on Thursday and Friday as an excuse, but then again I still had plenty of time in the evening. I didn't have any plans for this weekend, haven't watched much football (my usual lazy pastime), and yet it took me halfway through Sunday to properly log into the VHL this week. Why has this happened? Why has it become so easy to disengage from the VHL? Is the problem with me, and it might well be given I've just taken over a year's hiatus, or is it deeper? Is it the fact it's so easy to earn TPE now that I don't feel motivated to participate much when half an hour is enough to get me 14 TPE? Or is that actually what's keeping me here, having abandoned the effort to make a proper point task. In the last half hour, my plan for earning TPE has downgraded as follows: 1. Do 2 podcasts (6 and 3 TPE), claim VHL trivia, and answer 3 press conference questions. 2. Write a HOF article (6 + 3 uncapped TPE), do a 3 TPE podcast, claim VHL trivia, and answer 3 PC questions. 3. Claim welfare, do a 3 TPE podcast, claim VHL trivia, answer 3 PC questions and ask some myself. What have I actually ended up doing? Claimed welfare, claimed VHL trivia, answered some PC questions, and wrote this because that's all it takes. Also got 2 TPE from the VHLM practice facility even though just last week I would had to make 3 additional posts for 1 less TPE. And why is VHLM facility now open to non VHLMers too? What benefit is there? Maybe I'm overreacting and next week everything will be fine again. Hopefully. P.S. I've also spoken to Will and we agreed that trade salary percentages are outdated given there are less games in a 8-team VHL than 10-team. I will therefore update finances using these numbers. Cheers. 100% - off-season - Game 40 85% - Game 41 - 110 70% - Game 111 - 170 60% - Game 171 - ~210 (number not always correct, must be the last game simmed on the trade deadline day)

absolute carnage here

5 TPE