MWHazard

Fair enough. It’d be disappointing to not get to see my player perform at his actual level in the regular season.

Ok- It seems farther out of date than just the last update cycle, but as long as it’s up to date for regular season I’m happy.

Hey- kind of confused as to why I’m not updated in the sim. What’s in the sim right now is pretty far behind my player page.

Chase Keller @Will

Bo Boeser @Smarch

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Can I get Calgary LR? Or do you guys wait until callups for that?

We’ll wreck faces here, then in Calgary!

Johannes out here dishing (yeah, yeah, secondary assists)

Yeah

@Beaviss I'm Johannes. @Týr is Jakub.

@Shaka @Týr 1. This draft class great. My brothers and I are in it. Except Jakub. He sucks. 2. Wranglers. I can learn how to ride horse, wear leather boots. Not Helsinki. We left Europe to play hockey. If we get Helsinki, we just back playing hockey in worse Euro country. 3. How you say, "the hand eye"? I need to work on getting good passes to teammates, stickhandle. 4. My brother Jonas, eh? Many clutch goals. 5. My brother Jakub. I told you. He suck.

Bump, since the draft is tomorrow

Man, looking back on this, the series got crazy close as it went on.

BBQ ez

All I have to say is that you’re definitely most outstanding in being insecure.

Real talk, check out my article on why I voted Boeser. LINK

Exactly. If you go above it, it’s your final season in juniors.

Yeah. I’d really like this to be implemented.

Now that THIS thread is over- I noticed a few people voted for Bo Boeser (including myself). I'm wondering if they saw the same thing I saw. Franchise Cornerstone (FC) had a killer season, no doubt about it. 133 points is amazing. I noticed a lot of discussion about his hit total of 341, which, to be sure, is extremely high. League leading, in fact. He had 202 PIM, though. That also led the league. That got me wondering about other high hit total players in the league. None of the other players that broke 300 hits are "big" point scorers, and generally seem like lower quality players aside from Fook Yu (83 points- 11th best), who racked up 316 hits- good for third most in the league. I'm not suggesting he's a Slobodzian Trophy candidate, but I think you'll get why I'm bringing him up. Let's look at FC and Yu's "hits versus minor penalties taken". Hits are great, and sometimes force turnovers. But there's a cost to all that physicality, and usually it’s paid in putting your team on the penalty kill. FC's 202 PIM included 30 Major PIMs from fights, so let's subtract those off to get 172 PIMs from minor penalties. I'm going to assume that corresponds to 86 minor penalties, since I haven't been able to find a real count of "minor penalties taken". Potential for some marginal error, there if some of those were double minors. That means that FC has one minor penalty taken for about 3.67 hits. Yu, on the other hand had 113 PIMs. Subtracting off his 5 Major PIMs from fighting, he had 108 PIMs from minor penalties. Assuming 54 minor penalties, that corresponds to one minor penalty taken for about 5.85 hits. So about an 8%* advantage in hits, with a 59%** difference in the number of minor penalties taken. Honestly, I don't think that's a very good trade-off, especially for such an important offensive player. Because of this, I posit that FC was not the best two-way forward in the league. It honestly might have been Yu, or potentially Gabriel McAllister, who also scores well in this metric, racking up 290 hits and 88 minor penalty minutes (44 minor penalties taken), or one minor penalty taken for about 6.59 hits. An 18%*** advantage in hits for FC, with ~95%**** more minor penalties taken. McAllister finished with 80 points, good for thirteenth. But that's not what we're here to discuss. In my opinion, the key fact here is that FC's physical game resulted in so many penalties, which by definition puts his team at a disadvantage. That makes this a close three-way race for the award between FC, Rhett DeGrath, and Boeser. DeGrath had a great season, but personally I believe he's a better choice for MVP as opposed to "Most Outstanding". That leaves FC and Boeser, who had a brilliant season. He had just five fewer points than FC, with 128. Over a 72 game season, those are very similar point totals, in my opinion. FC did have a superior P/20. Boeser did not play as physical of a game, totaling 121 hits. But when he did, he was responsible. Boeser had 39 PIMs, with 15 PIMs from major penalties off fights. That means he had 24 PIMs from minor penalties. Assuming 12 minor penalties, that means Boeser took one minor penalty for about 10.08 hits. That leads me to conclude that Boeser was the more outstanding player this season, because not only did he put up a similar number of points, he also didn't put his team at nearly as much of a disadvantage through overaggressive physical play. The numbers are sort of stupidly large, given the disparate physical play, but for the sake of completeness, FC had about an 181%***** advantage in hits, but he also had about 617%****** more minor penalties taken. What would really help in evaluation efforts would be to be able to track takeaways and giveaways. Nevertheless, I believe that Boeser was the superior player and voted for him accordingly. Their offensive output is comparable, and FC's inability to play a physical game without leading the league in penalties makes him a second place candidate, to me. Congratulations to both of them on their seasons, and thanks for reading. If anyone checks my math and sees an error, I apologize. ---Math Referenced--- *(341-316)/316 = ~8% **(86-54)/54 = ~59% ***(341-290)/290 = ~18% ****(86-44)/44 = ~80% *****(341-121)/121 = ~181% ******(86-12)/12 = ~617%

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GG lol.

You'll get through it, bud. I'm glad to get to be in a hockey league with you. Usually in the leagues we're in you know way more about the sim than I do. Now the turntables have turned!

We out here

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