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D - Maxim Kovalchuk

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Oyorra Arroyo

@gorlab

some shit below for 10 free TPE

11 minutes ago, McWolf said:

Not bad for a..

*inhales*

Glorified welfare player.

Welfare time over by the way, since it's uncap year in SBA. Whether I unbank those TPE is another question.

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Wohoo, All-Rookie team

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Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 2 TPE)

Game 3 - Toronto Legion

Game 4 - Helsinki Titans

Game 5 - Helsinki Titans 

Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE)

Game 5 - 3-2 for Helsinki Titans 

Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer)

Series leader in points: Mats Johnsson
Series leader in goals: Oyorra Arroyo

Series leader in assists: Mats Johnsson

6 minutes ago, Beketov said:

We can’t use a newer version of STHS that allows that. If it exists (I don’t know that it does) it would be a newer engine version which we’ve been testing but can’t stabilize. Trust me, we don’t want 450 point seasons which is what we get.

 

At the very least two other leagues are doing successfully that without big statistical oddities, STHS is a bitch, but not that ridiculous one as you are painting it to be.

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As for the email, we’re working on a fix via the portal but it’s not fully implemented yet. The email is actually shared and Will / myself use it. However we live near each other. If Devise tries to use it while living across the country it gets flagged and locked. Thus the need to send lines to two addresses was created and explained to all GM’s in both the VHL and VHLM.

  Then use another solution if that account is getting flagged,  many ways to do that e.g. you can use google group with an email address and add members with access to it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!overview . Or add two-factor authentication that will override strange places warning.

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I also don’t think a tracker would help us much. You might get a few reconsidering but honestly goalie has been a position that always swings back and forth and if people want to make one a small red flag isn’t likely to deter them. I also don’t see how we can force teams to sign a human backup; most of which would be inactive. Unless we make a backup literally cost 0 against the cap there will always be teams that don’t want to spend the money on it and the lines require 2 goalies, the engine won’t aim without it.

 

 

It wouldn't eliminate problem 100%, but at least players would be aware of the situations and at least some of them would reconsider. The point of forcing human goalies is that the active backups would be in demand, considering teams need to spend money on them anyway, and giving them more time makes the rule more than an annoying oddity.

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Im just amazed that something which has always been a rule is creating such drama when enforced. I’ve been here since day 1 and since day 1 backups have been required to play 8 games. We didn’t do anything dramatic by deciding to enforce the rule.

I don't really care how long you are here, but certainly, you'd have to notice conditional and decided on anybody's discretion punishments cause drama. Also ignoring the rule for years and then trying to reinforce it out of the blue is a bad precedence to take, especially when it impacts the season's outcome.

Conditional punishments are the worst idea, it will always deservedly spark controversy. Having gazillion ways to update lines is yet another bad idea, why just not use a newer version of STHS and let GMs upload the lines instead of using mails, or at the very least can't you create shared Gmail account for that purpose anyway if you need backup simmer taking over, so no line update get missed? Everybody defends their point without seeing serious flaws and mistakes, that could've been easily avoided. Punishing players and the team for the organizational mess is laughable and only sparks more controversy when you decide punishments on your discretion. 

Especially funny is that many people talking in this thread and trying to negate the magnitude of this punishment were on the opposing side and benefited from this ruling, the claim that worse in every aspect goalie helped the team, in a losing series, after all, is one of the worst I've ever seen.

I understand this rule might be needed with an overflow of goalies (which could be easily stopped if you started tracking players and needed positions in a position tracker or gave small red warning when creating the player), still as every rule should be crystal clear, because your gray area is apparently only about punishment and not about mitigating circumstances, that were certainly here. Imo, much better choice would be to eliminate bot goalies altogether and give backups even bigger role if you have more than 8 active goalies in the VHL it's a no brainer, and you certainly have enough non retired goalies, with portal showing 70 non retired ones.

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