Nykonax

put me in coach

wasn't a diss track, 0/10

Nyko - 4 Spartan - 0 The sweep is complete.

there is actually *kinda* is! @Squidwarddid a regression analysis like a few years ago. unfortunately a lot of the images have been lost to time I guess, maybe if he's alive he can give more insight. But you can read his conclusions and somewhat get an idea. I find it really interesting that it showed passing was negatively correlated with goals/assists/points before we even knew about meta. also shows that skating isn't really important which was found to be true in SHL for STHS 1.5, but I assume it's somewhat similar for us too. Also note that when he says 1 TPE increase I think that means 1 increase in an STHS attribute. Eagle's sample is really small though just one season, but down the line I want to redo this with more data.

@Enorama 14 good joke

vancouver and spartan losing, name a better duo

yeah get used to it pal

the evidence is damning.

hot take, as always I do agree with the part that the CoC is so general that it essentially allows the mod team to do whatever they want.

quadruple now, Bek hates the E confirmed.

Yes, I forgot to include that in my original post. It is important for new people and is an introduction to the league, and it's important they have a good experience. But it's also important for recreates, they just have different priorities, like wanting to just spend the time there with their friends and see their brand new player play. Are recreates joining one team ruining the league and thus the experience for new players? No, they have like 70 TPE and scored 3 goals combined. Like Spartan said, Saskatoon lost to goalies, not recreates. If the recreates don't score maybe they get lucky and lose in 5. However, if some rule stopping recreates from joining the same team was implemented, would that ruin the experience for the recreates? Yeah probably.

I don't think recreates do it from the perspective of like needing to win a championship. Once you're out of the VHLM, and especially once you're on your second+ player, you kind of stop caring about the VHLM as much, it's just a place you go for a season and then you're onto the VHL/E where you start actually caring about performance. I couldn't tell you a single cup winner in the VHLM in any season, and I don't think many people could. Instead, I think the primary reason recreates join certain teams or not is because of friendships, as well as wanting to see their players play. The best way to do that is to join the same team, and join a team that has a solid chance at making a playoff run. You wouldn't want to join a team that's not going to make playoffs or will be out in the first round because then you don't get to see your player play, which is the primary reason we're here. It just ends up that there's usually only one or two teams that fit the criteria of a) having room for a bunch of signings, and b) being able to make a somewhat good playoff run. YEAH KYLRAD WOOOO

i agree we should ban @badcolethetitan and @Kylrad by association

mod team gonna lock this thread zzzzzz

dil also deleted my voice channel in discord for fun so i can get behind this

No, but I think the biggest issue would be rate of earning. Previously you'd be able to hit 200 TPA within a season or two and be one of those top players, now it would take double the time. I think a combined M/E would also have enough teams to be generally running 6-4-1? Or even 9-4-1 with a double shifted 3rd/4th line would give a fair amount of icetime. I don't really have an opinion of whether this is a good idea or not to combine them, would have to look much more in-depth, but I don't think it's an outright bad idea. I do really like the idea of a seperate recreate/new-gen draft for the VHLM, but I'll let the commishes handle that one

Honestly is it actually that big of a difference now with hybrid attributes? If you look at TPA in the STHS attributed scale (old system) a capped E player is like 200 TPA, a capped player in the M is like 100, and a brand new player in the M is like 20. Assuming the portal isn't wrong, I don't think that's a huge difference, and would be comparable to what the M was before the VHLE.

wat

big if true

fixed it

fake af

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