rjfryman

Wow things are looking up for freeman with all these uncapped

This is exactly what I wanted for Christmas.

claiming... Totally thought the other thread was day 1. I feel so smart sometimes...

Hope everyone who travels this season gets to their destination safely.

Damn what will this do for each teams chemistry?

Erik Killinger + 15 Kyl Oferson + 16 Jim Bob + 2 Ola Vikingstad + 12 Hugh Jass + 5 Alex Burrows + 7 @TheFlash @Gaudette @Peace @Nykonax @DilIsPickle

Vancouver Wolves 4-2

319 HC Davos Dynamo @ New York Americans 320 Vancouver Wolves @ Malmo Nighthawks 321 Toronto Legion @ Seattle Bears 322 Prague Phantoms @ Helsinki Titans

not really. more than one person tried something...

So another week and another chance to just write and share what is going on in the world of rjfryman. Updating: still one of the best things about my jobs. I can just put on a good album and get into zen. Things got interesting with the recreates this time. Had to do some math with a couple of players to help them get the tpe they earned in a past life while not giving them a crazy leg up from work they did in the past and not giving it to them in the new character. I feel like the boundaries I am setting for myself is helping me not get burned out with updating and helping have more time for other activities/jobs I have in the VHL. Good report with this. Still feel like I am pulling my weight and earning the full 3 tpe. WJC: This has been much better than last season. We have a great simmer in josh and that has helped when I know things will get done when they need to be done. We have had and continue to have great coverage from the vsn. that has been a great improvement next season. things that i feel like i need to improve on for next season if i am given the opportunity again. i need to get a better schedule and expectations from all parties involved before we start the selection process so that everyone who has a role can either confirm that they are able to meet all expectations including what enough hype to hopefully make this a tournament that more people are talking about or at least excited about. I think once people start to realize that we want this to be a great thing and are showing that we are growing people into gm's who can take on real teams they might see that it is more than just a gimic or just another meaningless tournament but something that can help grow our members and maybe bring some from the brink back. Either way I feel like I am improving in my wjc commissioners roles more and more and that I am earning the full amount. I just have to say acyd has been one of the best co-commissioners to have since he helps so much and is able to help me think about things in a different way and hopefully will lead to a better wjc future. VSN: I am still super excited about how the vsn is running right now and since i have more time with limiting myself to only updating during certain hours it has helped me work on things for them and anyone to use for the future. I hope to be releasing something for them this weekend. hopefully when it launches it can be useful to them. Draft Rankings: Just launched season 71 and it looks to be a fun race for 1st overall. I need to fix the last bit of code holding me back from relaunching past seasons. But hopefully that will be back soon. VHLM Mag: Honestly this one is super hard for me since often times there is nothing new to talk about and with the addition of vsn campells corner some of the news of the vhlm is there. Im not entirely sure what to do with the mag. I need to release another one soon but im wondering about making an application that will do most of the work and then just doing it weekly after i do the vhlm presser. Draft Helpers: Still not huge strides with this I need to focus on one thing than just start crossing things off my dev list. New fun data driven tools: So along with draft helper the draft ranking the app to make the mag since i am grabbing so much info from the api it makes sense to do some cool stuff with it. I messed around with some elo stuff and made a sample graphic that is also interactive that i think people who are interested in that will get a kick out of. Either way I need to start getting list and just doing one thing at a time. Sometimes with tech its hard to do just one thing especially since this is all a hobby and i just want to mess around with cool tech sometimes. VHL: For the first time in a long time Freeman is actually doing well and not just a hot start. He has a chance at maybe some awards or even like the goals race. Not that individual performance is the most important but it does make me feel better that all this work is finally paying off. IRL: My brother is out of the hospital and is doing much better. He is doing rehab and is having trouble with nerve damage but if he keeps it up it should be better. Mother-in-law is starting chemo today so hopefully she doesn't struggle to much with it. We are visiting them this weekend and I hope that she recovers from the chemo since my wife is wanting to spend some time with her and maybe go to a baking class with her mom. Again if you actually read thanks for your time. I have no idea why you want to read my ramblings. I am excited to share what is going on with myself and just being more active with the league in more than just the background. If you did make it this far i am interested in which project you think should be highest on the list if I were to make one?

Edwin THE Encarnacion + 14 Mikko Lahtinen + 24 Shawn Glade Jr + 2 Odin Omdahl + 6 Jacques Lafontaine + 14 Damien Wolfe + 14 Lewis Dawson + 12 Chad Magnum + 33 Iangenere Risteneen + 14 Gabriel Gutzwiler + 12 Jimothy Frost + 6 Dick Cheezy + 2 Leon Gutzwiler + 8 Kyle Andersen + 11 Derek Eriksson + 4 Owen Kaitanaq + 2 Mikeal Cuddy + 10 Jared Spaz + 8 Jaxx Hextall + 4 Jack Feriancek + 14 Adil Mahmood + 6 Alex Bridges + 12 Aleelee Kiak + 6 Nikita Kulikovich + 6 Elias Ostling + 2 Vladimir Shaposhnikov + 6 Jayden Zelinsky + 4 Michael rassmussen + 4 KSI + 10 Kristopher Fish + 6 Aldis Auzins + 2 Thomas Kurt + 2 Alden Hall + 2 Danny Sammyson + 2 Julian Dalvao + 2 Luke Cechosh + 2 Ethan Magee + 2 @monkeywrench15 @Corco @Maasa @Frostbite @goldenglutes @Gwdjohnson @DirtyDerek @cjc_24 @Spaz @ROOKIE745 @Jackie4967 @Adil @Alex Bridge @Lockdown Defense @Elias Östling @ng1291 @Jayden Zelinsky @Michael rassmussen @Kritz @Alden Hall @Danny Sammyson @Julian Dalvao @Luke Cechosh @predsfan59

Live S71 Draft Class Rankings Rank Δ Player Name Position TPE Team Nat. Member 1 Kyl Oferson C 260 SDM BN Nykonax 2 Roque Davis D 257 SDM PT Josh 3 Erik Killinger LW 240 HOU CA Peace 4 ↑ 1 Stone Wolski G 231 HOU US DollarAndADream 5 ↓ 1 Ola Vikingstad C 230 OTT SE Dil 6 Jim Bob LW 227 OTT AL jRuutu 7 ↑ 2 Thomas Landry II LW 187 SDM US Doomsday 8 ↓ 1 Hugh Jass D 180 HOU CA TheFlash 9 ↓ 1 Uhtred RW 172 SDM GB leafsman 10 Joakim Bruden G 150 OTT SE PadStack 11 Alex Burrows RW 135 MIN CA Gaudette 12 Adam Syreck LW 120 OTT US Spade18 13 Xavier leFlamant RW 103 PHI MQ BarzalGoat 14 Jeff Blaze RW 93 HOU US NyQuil 15 ↑ 2 Richard Penisson C 76 OTT IS bluesfan55 16 ↓ 1 Kendall Rasmussen C 72 MIN CA Connor mcdavid 17 ↓ 1 Dax Lewis RW 61 SDM US Daxoftheflame 18 ↑ 1 Nicolas Konig LW 58 YUK CH Daniel 19 ↓ 1 Jon Vinson LW 56 SSK US Bamz 20 ↑ 6 Bennet Dahl G 53 YUK KP Nothing but goals 21 New Kazimir Komarov LW 52 SDM RU Gooningitup 22 ↓ 1 Domonique Williams RW 52 LVA BR Domkey 23 ↓ 3 Trey Nets C 52 HOU US KillaScrilla 24 New Zyrok12 D 51 YUK ES Zyrok 25 ↓ 2 Big Chungus LW 50 OTT CH Ferda 26 ↓ 2 Rich Dickbutt McFudderdudder D 48 OTT CH Weretarantula 27 New Gavin Harris D 47 MIS US BigIrish 28 ↓ 6 Hex Valentine G 46 HFX DE DrHexDex 29 ↑ 7 Xavier Hills LW 44 PHI GD inflastud 30 ↓ 3 Cummins Aulhovere C 44 OTT CH BoucherFan12 31 ↓ 3 Apple D 43 OTT CH apricot 32 New Gino Alkamino LW 42 FA CA ChaceT 33 New Gary Neal LW 41 YUK CL LittleRiDog 34 ↓ 9 Blake Bridges RW 40 SSK US Blake Bridge 35 New Derek LW 37 FA CA Dérek 36 New Seth Fish RW 36 MIN US Insomnia 37 ↓ 7 Matt Sovick G 36 FA US matt sovick 38 New Giles Rigel RW 36 MIS US Giles Rigel 39 ↓ 10 Tyler Green C 36 LVA US wild_soup97 40 New Jason Goeson D 36 YUK CA Legend0985 41 ↑ 14 Mickey Dickson RW 34 YUK US Brewins15 42 ↓ 9 Carter Fetterly G 34 SSK CA Boltzy 43 ↑ 6 Dean Big Chungus G 34 FA CA Big Dee 44 ↓ 12 jimmy butler C 34 MEX CA butler0509 45 ↓ 4 Peter Louis RW 34 PHI CA CosmicStorm 46 ↓ 11 Raiens Grasis RW 34 MIN LV raiens 47 New Bob Helminen LW 34 HFX FI Bob Helminen 48 ↑ 2 The Boi RW 34 LVA CA Jackson 49 ↓ 10 Hunter Harrison D 34 OTT SE I'll change this later 50 ↓ 13 Brenden rose RW 34 OTT CA btown03 51 ↓ 17 FuzzKins RW 34 YUK CH FuzzKins 52 ↓ 21 evan gardner LW 34 MIN CA Evan Gardner 53 ↓ 11 Reuben Peterson C 34 HFX CA doubl3 54 New Tommy Sorensen RW 32 FA SE D-Note 55 ↓ 10 Robin Banks RW 32 FA JP No Regretzkys 56 New Randy Stewarts LW 32 MIS US Hawkins309 57 New Pavel Friskinov C 32 FA RU Justin Frisk 58 New Kalle Pohkola LW 32 FA FI ahmantti 59 New Ian Not So Short RW 32 FA AF Ian Not So Short 60 New oscar kalvain C 32 FA CA p91 61 ↓ 14 Scott Sharman D 32 HFX CA ScottySharms 62 New Blaze Delhomme C 32 FA US Shadowbeast 63 ↓ 17 Ryder Pyatt C 32 MIS NO Battlepopcorn 64 ↓ 3 Maurice James RW 32 MIS CA Thunder70 65 ↓ 6 Nathaniel Cherry LW 32 FA CA Leafsfan328 66 ↓ 9 Noah Louis G 32 PHI CA Imanowl 67 ↓ 11 Jordan Ross LW 32 FA US Jross 4 68 ↓ 14 John Shally LW 32 SDM US John 69 ↓ 18 Mason Burns D 32 OTT CA Itsyaboyburns 70 ↓ 18 Derrick Fonza LW 32 FA US Vectorboss 71 ↓ 18 Joaquin Ventura RW 32 FA CA ChiefKeefe 72 ↓ 14 Adren LW 32 FA CA Andren 73 ↓ 13 Weston Hamann LW 32 FA US CarlUnts 74 ↓ 12 Fat Beast C 32 OTT SE kiddingsoda 75 ↓ 12 OneAndOnly StoneHands C 32 FA CA Huntsy41 76 ↓ 12 Logan Burke C 32 MEX CA fr0sh 77 ↓ 39 Joe hofer LW 32 FA CA Joe 78 ↓ 38 Bobby Tables RW 32 FA MX Tables 79 ↓ 36 Cole Caulfield C 32 FA US Nasher4 80 ↓ 32 Semaj Leir G 32 FA JP RiochousOne Includes all players entering the S70 VHL Draft who have added TPE to their player. Once your player has had an update approved by updaters that puts you over 30 TPE, you'll be added to the rankings.  Last Updated: Jan 20th @Josh @Joe @kiddingsoda @fr0sh @I'll change this later @Domkey @KillaScrilla @jRuutu @Peace @Nykonax @DilIsPickle @TheFlash @Gaudette @Bamz @PadStack @Doomsday @leafsman @DollarAndADream @Connor mcdavid @Daxoftheflame @Tables @CarlUnts @Nasher4 @Spade18 @BarzalGoat @DrHexDex @NyQuil @Blake Bridge @CosmicStorm @Huntsy41 @bluesfan55 @Daniel @Ferda @Weretarantula @Nothing but goals @BoucherFan12 @apricot @wild_soup97 @matt sovick @Evan Gardner @butler0509 @Boltzy @FuzzKins @raiens @btown03 @CosmicStorm @doubl3 @Zyrok @No Regretzkys @Battlepopcorn @ScottySharms @RiochousOne @Big Dee @Jackson @Itsyaboyburns @Vectorboss @ChiefKeefe @John @Brewins15 @Jross 4 @Imanowl @Andren @Leafsfan328 @Thunder70 @Gooningitup @BigIrish @ChaceT @LittleRiDog @Dérek @Insomnia @Giles Rigel @Legend0985 @Bob Helminen @D-Note @Hawkins309 @Justin Frisk @ahmantti @Ian Not So Short @p91 @Shadowbeast

New Presser: 1. How do you feel we are doing right now? 2. Looks like we bounced back in the standings how do you feel after that accomplishment? 3. Do you feel we are ready for a deep playoff run? 4. New blood just joined the vhlm who are you most excited to see progress through their career. 5. Out of the vhlm draft eligible players who would you like to see a wolf next season? 6. out of your line mates who is the funnest to be around outside of the ice. 7. Out of all the players in the vhl who is your biggest rival and why? 8. HHH and Freeman are neck and neck in the goal scoring race... Who do you think will win out? 9. If you could change one thing about your game what would you not want to change. 10. What quote do you have in your locker?

VHLM Players Answer 3 for 1 Capped TPE or 6 for 2 Capped TPE: 1. Which team do you think will win the WJC? 2. Are you excited about the WJC? 3. If you could change one thing about the WJC what would it be? 4. What do you think is the biggest strength of the VHL? 5. What extra tools would make it easier for you to write articles? 6. What tasks do you like to do in order to improve your player? 7. Do you like interacting with others and creating your own story? 8. What would be helpful for you getting into the story that is the VHLM? 9. Which team do you think will win the VHLM Cup? 10. Who do you think will be the MVP of the VHLM this season?

Gold: World Silver: Europe Bronze: Canada MVP: Steve Roadkill

S69 WJC Predictions *DO NOT CLAIM UNTIL TPE CLAIM POST HAS BEEN MADE (tagging you)* 1. Who wins Gold? 2. Who wins Silver? 3. Who wins Bronze? 4. What player will be named tournament MVP? @Members

Welcome to the league. Glad to have you here. if you have any questions let me know. a great resource for you to check out is the newsletter.

Welcome to the league. Glad to have you here. if you have any questions let me know. a great resource for you to check out is the newsletter.

I am choosing to write a vhl.com article a week now due to the fact that it allows me to feel more involved. I have been working in the background with a lot of things for a while now and while those are great it does lose something when I am not as active in the threads writing or talking. I still have a bunch of jobs and projects that I am working on but I am trying to make it easier on updaters as well as critics of the recruitment team getting 12 tpe automatically. Updater: I love updating but honestly I need to relax at times with it. In the past I literally would have the update screen on my laptop at all times refreshing every couple mins and approving or correcting as soon as I can get my hands on them. Im going to try and set a limit on myself. The last few days I think have been a good compromise. When I get into work and am just getting warmed up for the day I spend like an hour going though as many updates as I can. Then at lunch since I'm fasting most days at lunch time I will probably do 30 mins than relax, and probably do another 30-60 mins later in the night depending on the queue. WJC: So I got selected again and we are doing great with it. 4 of the 5 GM's are in our discord, the eligibility list is done and 1 team is already done. things are going smoothly. I think we have the simmer set up just working on a time frame so that it can be more smooth next week. Hopefully this season goes a lot smoother and doesn't lose its momentum since It was ultimately my fault for not securing the simmer last season. Only I can be blamed for that but it was my first time I'm glad I got a second chance to remedy it. VSN: Got a request for my amazing programming skill to make something for the vsn. Work and life have been busy and I just got off vacation but I still think I can deliver something that will be helpful to them and hopefully I have some time this week to work on and possibly finish at least the team part. The player part will take more time but I think will be an amazing addition to both the vsn and possbily the vhlm mag. VHLM Mag: I dropped the ball on this one but I think with some new tweaks this will be a good thing that will be able to be setup and run weekly soon. Draft rankings public: Honestly with the changes in the portal my old code that just scrapped the leaderboard broke so hard. I got it working with the API but the issue is some of the data that I was getting from scrapping is not in the API. Hopefully it will be soon but honestly I can grab that data like I did before and soon will be getting the past draft classes set up again soon. I know a lot of people like those. Draft helper Private: Still working on a project that will help gm's of both leagues draft and be more informed when it comes to their pick. This is on the back burner since it only helps a few people and truth be told they have been doing a great job in the past and my thing will be just helpful not ground breaking. If you actually read this thanks. but honestly if no one else does its just good to get this off my chest. Hopefully some of the next weeks updates will have more wins than loses but we will see.

Edwin THE Encarnacion + 14 Mikko Lahtinen + 33 Shawn Glade Jr + 28 Odin Omdahl + 18 Jacques Lafontaine + 24 Damien Wolfe + 16 Lewis Dawson + 17 Iangenere Risteneen + 32 Chad Magnum + 39 Jimothy Frost + 8 Gabriel Gutzwiler + 10 Dick Cheezy + 14 Aleksandra Olsen + 14 Aleksandr Aleksandrov + 8 Leon Gutzwiler + 12 Owen Kaitanaq + 18 Derek Eriksson + 18 Kyle Andersen + 12 Teddy Smith + 2 Jaxx Hextall + 21 Jared Spaz + 29 Mikeal Cuddy + 29 Dylan Carpenter + 2 JaredN + 18 Adil Mahmood + 15 Jack Feriancek + 15 Elias Ostling + 15 Alex Bridges + 14 Aleelee Kiak + 9 Nikita Kulikovich + 6 Jayden Zelinsky + 10 Vladimir Shaposhnikov + 9 Jacob buchholz + 4 Jake freuer + 4 Stanislav Lesko + 4 Aldis Auzins + 4 dylen peterson + 4 Ryan Da Silva + 2 The Siv + 2 Linden FORTIN + 2 Kristopher Fish + 2 Danny Sammyson + 2 Austin Blackstone + 2 Alden Hall + 2 Curtis Stagger + 2 @monkeywrench15 @Maasa @Corco @Frostbite @goldenglutes @Gwdjohnson @DirtyDerek @Siddhus @ROOKIE745 @Spaz @cjc_24 @Carpenter74 @jared @Adil @Jackie4967 @Elias Östling @Alex Bridge @Lockdown Defense @Jayden Zelinsky @ng1291 @Jacob buchholz @Hbk16991031 @leskooksel @Ryan Da Silva @Linden fortin @Danny Sammyson @cmccauley208 @Alden Hall @ReaperAiden

VHLM Players Answer 3 for 1 Capped TPE or 6 for 2 Capped TPE: 1. What do you like most about your team? 2. What do you like most about the vhl/m? 3. Who do you look up to most in the vhl? 4. Who do you think is the best player in the league right now? 5. What is your biggest strength when you are training? 6. Who do you like to sit next to on the bench the most? 7. Which player in your locker-room always makes you laugh? 8. What do you think makes the best teammate? 9. What kind of questions do you like to answer? 10. What is something you think we can do better?

Done Twitter/Facebook

First off I want to thank everyone for applying. It was a tough choice since everyone had something great to bring to the table. I just want everyone who applied know that I am grateful for their excitement and passion toward the WJC. With all that being said let's get into it. ?? Team Canada ?? @diacope ?? Team USA ?? @ItsMcLovin ?? Team Europe ?? @Greg_Di ? Team Asia ? @Erik Summers ?️ Team World ?️ @zepheter Congratulations to those selected. If you did not get the job don't be discouraged and please apply again next season.

175 Seattle Bears @ Helsinki Titans 176 Prague Phantoms @ HC Davos Dynamo 177 Calgary Wranglers @ Moscow Menace 178 Riga Reign @ Vancouver Wolves

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