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Suggestion: Give 1 Experience Point to VHLM Players for a season played.

Suggestion: Give 1 Experience Point to VHLM Players for a season played.

Suggestion: Give 1 Experience Point to VHLM Players for a season played.

The VHL has always been and will always be free. Donations are rewarded but rewarding them too far means that people who can afford to pay get a significant advantage which we are not in favour of doing.

I'm a capitalist. I don't understand that my ability to buy perks for real money should be limited to others that don't feel like they want to invest in their players. Protecting people that don't donate? Really?  I don't think this is worth my time. This sim is clearly going in the wrong direction. Take take take and improve what? Nothing. This sim is just getting worse. Fix the cap issue or something that is fundamentally flawed.

Reviewing Re-work
@Members
 
The VHL’s reviewing system, as it stands, mostly stems from the way it was designed back when we had grading as a paid job. Several seasons ago, however, we made it open to everyone and didn’t effectively change the way it worked which made it so very few people were interested in partaking. We have looked all all the suggestions and personal messages that we received and we came up with the following.
 
Reviewing should now consist of at least 1 Constructive Paragraph for 1 Capped TPE each. You may do up to 2 Reviews Weekly and they must include a score out of 10 on top of the constructive criticism that they would normally contain. The score is purely for the person doing the PT to see at a glance how they did, it does not affect final TPE payout which remains as auto-6.
 
What these changes also means you do not require @DollarAndADream to accept your reviews. He will remain on as head of PT in order to handle disputes regarding both reviewing and quality of PT’s however claiming reviewing will now be under the discretion of the @Updaters Team. We will also be removing the cap on how many reviews a single post can have.
 
While we recognize that this means fewer reviews per week from the people who were doing it we hope that it also makes it more accessible as a means of getting to the weekly cap which should give us a net gain in the amount of reviews the league receives.
 
Thank you to the following people championing these changes. @Proto @DollarAndADream @Sonnet

Hi All
 
I am very excited when @Victorapproached me asking to be on the podcast. Someone of his calibre in the VHL it was an honour to sit down and have a chat to him.
 
Please if anyone wants to be on a future podcast or has any questions to ask me or future guests post them here: 
I returned to the learning the ropes title because I believe everyone already knows who Victor is.
 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/73K4XC9KPCmc4CGVg1MaEC
 
https://anchor.fm/berocka-vhl/episodes/VSN-Australia---Learning-the-Ropes---Episode-8-Featuring-Victor-ebi1u0
 
Someone said that Spotify wasn't working great for them so I have compiled a list of places you can find my podcast below: 
 
 
 

Could you imagine telling a member in like S5, take HoF Defenseman Petr Shirokov for example (325 TPE), that 65 seasons later players with 1,000+ TPE wouldn't even be reaching 100 points in a season?
 
(This isn't a dig at anybody or the current state of the league, I just think it's pretty cool to see how different the league has become.)

The donation is by definition one of the pay to play things, that makes it harder for newer members. Also they aren't getting rid of it, just removing the $20 tier and limiting it to $15. I fail to see how protecting people who don't donate every season is a bad thing.

3 TPE if you win the lottery, 3 TPE if you lose the lottery
 
Seems fair, yeah?

Could you imagine telling a member in like S5, take HoF Defenseman Petr Shirokov for example (325 TPE), that 65 seasons later players with 1,000+ TPE wouldn't even be reaching 100 points in a season?
 
(This isn't a dig at anybody or the current state of the league, I just think it's pretty cool to see how different the league has become.)

Making an engine change isn’t something that can happen at the push of a button. We’re looking at it but everything runs smoothly because of the engine we have. Take that away and everyone on the portal breaks and we go back to slow manual labour for everything; and that’s the best case scenario. It’s not a quick fix. The engine also isn’t nearly as bad as some people imply but I digress.
 
It May seem like a couple TPE over a career but it’s not. For example, the donation you mentioned. That one level is usually used for another doubles week since that’s the biggest TPE reward. That’s 6 TPE a season which seems low enough except that it can realistically be bought 10 times in a career. That one level is now worth 60 TPE purely from having more disposable income than someone else. That’s not a matter of earning, that’s a matter of buying.
 
A lot of these also weren’t really ways of “earning” TPE. Awards and ASG were just handed out to more or less the top players already without them doing anything, lottery was pure luck, graduation bonus was going to everyone anyway so no earning there, theme week covers everyone but technically could be an earning thing so yeah, 2 TPE per season lost there. Recruiting is the same amount as before, just spread out. Trivia is about the only one that’s removing any effort based uncapped and we simply deemed it an unnecessary amount of TPE to be handing out.
 
I’m not saying you have to like every decision we make but yes, this was necessary to help reduce the amount of inflation going on in the league right now.

Uncapped TPE Changes
@Members
 
As lots of you are well aware we have a bit of an inflation issue with the league and its TPE, specifically that there’s far too much uncapped TPE being thrown around.The @Commissioner  and the @BOG  have gotten together and have discussed how best to address this issue. Our aim was to start to reduce the amount of uncapped available but not take away anything from the league and not to take away any capped potential, simply uncapped. Therefore the following changes will be coming into effect.
 
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Removing All Star Game uncapped
Effective Immediately
While this is a very minor change it will hopefully stop the "rich getting richer" as over a career it could add up to a total 40 uncapped TPE for something that not everyone can participate in.
 
Lowering Award wins from 2 TPE to 1
Effective starting next season
Award wins have always been a “rich getting richer” reward and while we still want to have them present having them be 2 TPE can add up a lot for good players. Therefore personal awards will now be 1 TPE instead of 2. However, shared awards, which have historically only been worth 1 TPE, will remain at 1 TPE. We feel as if players should not be disadvantaged because they tied for an award but rather both should be rewarded as if they hadn’t.
 
Removing Trivia uncapped end of season reward
Effective starting next season
While the capped reward each week for trivia will remain we will be removing the end of season uncapped bonus. For the most part it was pure inflation for everyone but also further to hurt people if they missed a single week.
 
Removing Weekly/Monthly Lottery
Effective Immediately
Ever since we changed the lotto it has lost its community engagement and most people don't even know its a thing anymore. Considering it’s pure luck based it has been deemed best to be removed to give everyone the same fair chance with the player.
 
Reducing VHLM Graduation bonus from 20 to 10
Effective starting next season
When the graduation bonus was based on performance the max of 20 made sense since not everyone got it. However no it is simply a large pile of free TPE so we are reducing it’s effect from 20 down to 10 uncapped.
 
Reducing Theme Week to Theme Doubles (8 -> 6)
Effective Immediately
The reward for theme week haven’t been the clearest to earn or to claim. This helps de-clutter it and reduce uncapped inflation at the same time. Theme weeks will not consist only of a doubles week for the PT without the added VHL.com bonus.
 
Removing Extra $20 Donation reward
Effective starting next season
With the removal of a lot of uncapped opportunities it does not seem fair to keep the paid version as high as it has been, simply because people would be effectively buying what they cannot gain otherwise. Therefore the $20 donation reward is being removed. All the options shall remain but will now cap out at picking 3 rewards of the 4 for $15.
 
Spreading out the Recruit a Friend TPE Rewards
Effective Immediately but with old recruits grandfathered in.
Because of the recent inflation and the raise of the VHLM TPE limit we are increasing the spread for the Recruit a Friend rewards. While we see the importance of the Recruit a Friend rewards we also don't like how top heavy it is. Therefore no amount of TPE reward has been removed from recruiting but the rewards are staggered out at larger intervals.
 
New Scale:
50 TPE EARNED: 1 TPE for yourself
250 TPE EARNED: 4 TPE for yourself (Up from 100)
500 TPE EARNED: 10 TPE for yourself (Up from 200)
Total 15 TPE
 
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Hopefully these changes will begin to reduce the uncapped TPE given out per career and season. These changes will hopefully slow down the inflation issue without making anyone lose anything they love to do for TPE.
 
If you have any questions or concerns about the changes feel free to leave a comment in this thread or send me a private message. Please keep in mind that these changes are for the health of the league and is no way targeting certain members (other than @Enorama)
 
 

I disagree. I think that new players seeing many existing ones at 1500+ TPE saw it as a daunting task to try and reach a level of competitiveness in a league with boys that big. As everyone across the board scales back, competing as a player with a few hundred TPE to their name should seem less daunting.

Season 71 Donation
*I made this donation before @Beaviss' announcement thread about donation changes, so I'm hoping I'm still able to get the 4 rewards?
Doubles Week
Doubles Week
5 Uncapped TPE
Free Week
 
 
Date:    March 16, 2020
Transaction ID:    2536-9008-7496-4893
Donation to:    jeffory_james@yahoo.ca
Donation amount:    $20.00 CAD
 

10 TPE

Definitely, it's ours. Just like Gibraltar.

"Head" commish
S1-S14: Scotty Campbell (scotty)
S15-S17: Brett Slobodzian (slobo)
S18-S31: David Knight (Knight)
S32-S41: Victor Alfredsson (Victor)
S42-S56ish?: William Shaw (Will)
S50s for some time: Ryan Power (Devise)
S50something-present: Robert Sharpe (Beketov)
 
Other blue team members
Brett Slobodzian (slobo) - S1-S3
Scott Boulet/Mike Kloepfer/Kevin Brooks - S1-S10ish
Sterling Labatte (sterling) - S15-S52ish
Jardy Bunclewirth (JardyB10) - S20-S56ish
Mitch Higgins (Higgins) - S33 (?)-present, sort of
Victor Alfredsson (Victor) - S42-present (with hiatus)
Jim Gow (flyersfan1453) - S42-present, sort of (co-head with Will for a bit)
Conner Low (Smarch) - late S40s to mid S50s (co-head with Will and/or Devise?)
Ryan Power (Devise) - ever since he hasn't been commish
William Shaw (Will) - ever since he hasn't been commish
Matt Bailey (Quik) - S64-present
Keaton Louth (Beaviss) - S68-present
Josh - S69-present
 
 
Think that's everyone.
 
For @Beaviss x

PBE affiliation is up, which means I will subject you guys to my meaningless ELO rambling once a week to grab a PT over there, even though I don't need the TPE here.
 
Yes, S70 playoffs have wrapped up, so this is extra meaningless, but this was still an interesting season to look at, ELO-wise. Without further ado, let's have a look at the chart.
 

 
1. Davos' mid-season thumping of D.C. saved their ELO, while Toronto and them ended up nearly tied. The best potential post-season series would actually be between Davos and Toronto for who was truly the worst team of S70.
2. Apparently that Davos L was a wakeup call for D.C., because the Dragons went on an absolute tear in the latter 1/3 of the season, eventually finishing 4th in the league in ELO. Not a bad showing for the 3rd-year expansion franchise.
3. Prague did not deserve to make playoffs. Not a good showing for the 3rd-year expansion franchise.
4. Calgary's early season run was apparently inflated due to them playing weak opposition, as evidenced by the way they fell in the latter part of the season. Them making a run at the cup came as a huge surprise, considering they barely deserved to be in the playoffs at all, according to their ELO.
5. Vancouver and Moscow were the clear teams to beat. One clearly lived up the the term, one clearly did not.
 
 
Now if anyone has an idea of what to do for an off-season VHL.com article that's data-related, let me know. I need something for next week.
 
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welp here we go
 
 Practice Facility +2 TPE
Job Pay [Recruitment] +12 TPE

Total TPE: 364 + 14= 380

Bank 4>>8
Leadership 40>>45 +5 TPE
Passing 40>>45 +5 TPE

I remember when Jardy used to sim, your player attributes were lucky to get updated more than once during the season; it used to drive me insane.

Moscow has won there is nothing left to achieve. Delete league.