Gustav

The forum only gives you a limited amount of storage space for photos. If you make an Imgur account you can upload as many as you'd like there, and then right click --> "Copy Image Address" (not Copy Image or Copy Link) and paste on the forum. The picture should show up from that.

We were talking about this in dead chat last night but had you won Jiggly would have won as well.

Coven had actually talked it over and agreed not to target you tonight but to do it tomorrow night (assuming the game was still going at that point). Seeing as I'd also have to announce that the game would end in a draw after tomorrow night, Blazzer would have needed to straight-up forget to do anything then, even after said announcement. We've also had games before that have been called because the last person left couldn't defend themself and (correct me if I'm wrong) I believe games in the EFL often end in the same way. So I get your point @JorgTheGoat03 and I guess I might have kept it going had I known that's what you were going for but the chances that the outcome would be any different are just about zero.

...and, as per usual, here is this game's spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yke-lITtIiNM2KiRfuiPFRNkBkHjsKSRoJg4tifPwQA/edit#gid=0

Day 7, Town vs. Mafia vs. Coven vs. Pestilence vs. Gustav (over wins btw): "I'm the PESTILENCE!" says @Caboose30 yesterday. "Jorg, if you keep me alive tonight, you can kill me tomorrow and have a chance at winning if you take out the Poisoner!" "Ok," says @JorgTheGoat03, killing him tomorrow. Except the boombox that's been blasting country music off Jorg's front porch the whole week has lost the juice from its eight D batteries. The shotgun's all out of shells, the knife's been worn down to a dull piece of metal...yeah, Thicc Boi can no longer defend himself. The two people left in the town are Jorg and @Blazzer , the newest resident of Salem and the POISONER who's been quietly terrorizing the town for the last week. She's also got the power to kill off Thicc Boi tonight, completely unhindered, so... CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN A VHL TOWN OF SALEM GAME, THE COVEN! @Berocka (technically I guess) @Blazzer @MMFLEX I'm going to wait the few weeks until I'm out of school for the semester to start another game, but by this time next month we will absolutely have something up and running. Thank you all once again for making this a wonderful game, and I hope I'll see all of you in #14! @BarzalGoat @Berocka @bigAL @Blazzer @Caboose30 @chatfan036 @Devise @Doomsday @JeffD @jhatty8 @JigglyGumballs @JorgTheGoat03 @Mike @MMFLEX @Mr_Hatter @omgitshim @osens @Ricer13 @TheLastOlympian07 @ZP16

I knew you were a boomer smh

D - Latrell Mitchell @FrostBeard

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I actually originally wrote this up for a much smaller, much more casual community, but I figured like three people might read it and not all of them would care. So it's going here because I think it could be a legitimately interesting topic of conversation. There's a book called One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand that was written by Luigi Pirandello over a fairly large amount of time in the early 1900s. I've actually never read it, but there's one thing about it that's stuck with me since I heard about it--at one point, the main character realizes that to everyone else you've ever met, you are someone different. Everyone has a different perception of you than everyone else--Jimmy might think you're a genius while Billy thinks you're an idiot, Sandra thinks you're hot while Ashley thinks you're ugly, Theo sees you as a really interesting person with a lot of deep thoughts while you've never been more than just "a person who exists and whose face I happen to recognize" to George. It's sort of like the Schrödinger's cat experiment, where you don't even exist until you're observed in a certain state of existence by someone else, and everyone observes you in a different state of existence--the Copenhagen school of thought in physics might even argue that everyone sees an alternate reality of you, even when you only experience what you know to be your own. So, I feel like this raises an interesting question in the Internet world, particularly in communities such as this one. How do you see yourself in the sim league world? Who do you think you are? Who do you think other people think you are? What's the difference in perception between newer members and older members, between more and less active ones? What about other leagues and other places on the Internet--is your VHL persona unique to the VHL, or are you seen in a different light (whatever that may be) elsewhere? Maybe this is a bit too deep-thoughts-y of a topic for a sim league, but I'm genuinely curious as to how everyone feels about themselves and others in the community, and how that may vary from member to member.

F - Markus Nygren @Mike for two

That's fair. I think overall it's still the best-made one and the logos will be a bit less apparent when it's shrunk down to forum display size.

I voted 5 and I think 3 gets second. Very surprised 4 is getting as many votes as it is but to each their own.

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It is Day 7...who woulda thunk it? To the surprise of absolutely nobody, @MMFLEX died last night to the PESTILENCE. Also to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Flex was the COVEN LEADER. @TheLastOlympian07 was also found dead this morning, also killed by the PESTILENCE. He was the GODFATHER. Time for another day phase... List of those alive (3)

I guess this has become a bit of a trend with me every offseason when trivia dies (does league history just stop existing during the offseason? Hell, I'd even run it in the offseason if Victor wants a week off then). I did it last season, had some fun, learned some interesting things, I think a few people read it, and that's enough for me to do it now. It's 150 words and I've probably used up half of that, so let's get to the info. -Uhtred is a SUPER underrated player. He's basically nowhere to be seen in league talk and in fantasy drafts, and I forgot he even existed until I looked at the index a few weeks ago. But he's consistently active and finished eighth on the points list, with a season that broke 100 points to boot. He isn't much of a physical player, but it's super impressive that he did this while only taking one penalty all season. Something else worth mentioning, though--of his 41 goals, only three were game-winners. -Dagmar Havlova may have had a very good season, but she can't shoot. With the 11th-most shots out of anyone last season, one would have to go all the way down to 28th-most (Aleelee Kiak of LA) to find another player with under 30 goals. This also gives goalies against Havlova a combined SV% of .934, a full 10 points ahead of Raymond Bernard's league-leading mark. -Speaking of goalies and SV%...is Condor Adrienne really good enough that his team doesn't need a goalie to win? Malmo's Grekkark Gyrfalcon finished fourth in wins despite finishing 25th in save percentage (and dead-last among starters) with a .903. Even β-MAL G did markedly better. -Can you say home-ice advantage? Davos may have been disappointing overall, but ranked fourth in the league in wins at home (11th in away games). I wish all our games were home games--is there an actual advantage to playing home games in the sim? It might be something to look into. -Oh Sens was traded from Helsinki to Toronto in the middle of the season, and due to the way the sim schedule was set up, ended up playing two extra games for a total of 74 this season, rather than the usual 72 or the lucky 73 that someone usually ends up with when moved on the right end of the sim schedule. In contrast to Havlova, too, Sens finished second in the league in shooting percentage.

Yeah, I had a much, much better player render for my Prospect Scouting Report. Deal with it. It's what every kid growing up skating on ponds and on driveways and in local rinks dreams of--playing professionally and hearing one's name called in front of tens of thousands (or zero, in this day and age). Taro Tsujimoto, after a thunderous run through the minors, finds himself set up for a rookie campaign with Davos, and he's got quite a bit to prove as the top-ranked player in the largest draft in league history. One out of seven forwards on the Davos roster (and easily the newest, Vlad Imir is from S73 and the only other rostered forward still on a rookie contract), Tsujimoto finds himself sixth out of the seven in TPA (though given earn rate, he could possibly end up fifth or even fourth by the end of the season). With the most potential the Dynamo have seen since at least the arrival of SS Hornet three seasons back, he's very willing to make a mark, and should end up in at least the Hall of Pretty Decent. This season, don't expect Taro to do a whole lot. The seven-forward issue puts Davos in a position where it's going to be impossible for every forward to put up maximum ice time, and current low-TPE status combined with GM selflessness should leave this draft's golden boy out of the sunlight for at least this season (barring a mighty act of sim luck). Playing at center and having the team's second-best face-off rating does do him some favors, though, as he could end up getting the edge for the possession game in some situations--so don't look for him to be completely and totally buried in the lineup. As far as career goals go, let's be honest--with a prospect as good as this, no player agent should shoot for anything short of the moon. Tsujimoto has all the tools for (theoretical) success, and with a still-young team around him and an up-and-coming potential franchise-caliber goalie in Kunibuni UnGuri in the future role on the back end, it's entirely possible that he could be one of the driving forces behind moving Davos up and out of the ranks of VHL purgatory and into the land of legitimate long-term success. He's aiming for perennial all-star territory, first-ballot induction, a few cups along the way, you know the deal. Think @Beaviss but good.

It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope, it's the greatest center in Hounds history*. *Kris Rice played RW in the minors. I did my homework. Taro Tsujimoto came onto the VHLM scene as a super-hyped prospect at the close of S74's (otherwise entirely uneventful) trade deadline. Living up to said hype in the minors with the Mississauga Hounds, he's ready to make the jump into the VHL with HC Davos, who were able to select the draft's top-rated player at #9 overall due to the league's rules pertaining to GM players. It's no secret that quite a bit is expected out of this young phenom, with great expectations coming from not only his franchise but the league community as a whole as he aims to put the Dynamo on his back and reverse a plague of bad management and worse luck. Here, we'll take a look at how Tsujimoto figures to produce as a player in Davos and analyze his performance as a prospect. Strengths: Offensive output! It's no surprise that this is far and away the number-one spot on the list. Tsujimoto managed to put up VHLM numbers in his first season as a prospect which are often reserved for slower-earning players who begin a season at or near the TPE cap. Managing to hit 50 goals and 119 points (there's a "nice" in there too if you do the math), Taro was a minor-league beast who could terrorize other teams' goalies and defenders, putting up the largest single-season point total the Hounds have ever seen from a center and being one of the driving forces in the team's run to the cup finals. Defensive positioning: Something often overlooked about Tsujimoto's play is his ability to put himself in a solid spot to disrupt opponents' attacks. With all of his measured defensive attributes being at a solid level for a player at his stage in a career, he wouldn't be the worst choice for a penalty kill unit at some point in the near future--he managed to put up almost 150 hits while staying out of the penalty box much more than most players noted for their physicality. Weaknesses: NOTHING! Thank you for coming to my TED talk. ...ok, so since I do have to write something down, let's talk about physicality. This will be something for Tsujimoto to work on at some point soon--as of right now, it doesn't appear that he's the world's greatest candidate for a checking line, and his workout numbers in the weight room weren't the most impressive. It should be noted that he's embarked on a rigorous training regimen, though at the moment this remains something for Davos to keep an eye out and for other teams to potentially exploit.

"Hey, Jorg! It's free real estate! Vote for this person so I get to kill you!" say a couple different voices today. ...and things are quiet once again. It is NIGHT SIX TIME. D7 coming I don't even know when yet. Shouldn't be any later than 10:30 and could even come before 8. List of those alive (5)

Week 4 claim. You finally get to see this not get bumped every week.

You were one of the most underrated people in the league (in my opinion) when you were in the minors with us and I did notice when you disappeared. Great having you back and I hope you're here to stay ?

Day phase at 8? Nah fam! Gustav rolls out of bed and falls asleep on the floor for an hour. Because logic, that's why. @JeffD died last night at the hands of a member of the MAFIA. He was the JANITOR. He didn't leave a last will, but picture him screaming his head off and you've probably got what it should be. Speaking of screaming, the coughing that we heard earlier has now morphed into wailing and grinding of teeth. That's right, the town is now graced by the presence of the PESTILENCE. Have fun! List of those alive (5):

Graves was already picked, so I'll let you have the other two. Mike gets: F - Chad Magnum D - Jeff Downey Gustav gets: F - Ola Vikingstad G - Raymond Bernard @FrostBeard

For the week ending 11/22: 1. It's suddenly announced that you can extend your player's career by a season (with depreciation), at the cost of 50 TPE from your next player. Do you choose to do it? 2. Some random passerby walks up to you on the street and says "hey, you're [your name] from the VHL!" What's your first guess as to who it might be? 3. I announce that I've done a "GM trade" with another team, with me moving out and with another existing VHL GM moving in. Who do you hope it is? 4. What's your favorite food none of the rest of us have ever tried? 5. I'm not much of a gamer myself, so I tend not to ask questions about video games--but since it's fresh question material, are you into any games? Which ones? 6. You can instantly become an expert in any one given field of study. Which do you choose? @Jer_Lefebvre @studentized @Sonnet @Velevra @McWolf @Big Dee @Lefty_S @Ahma @Advantage @Grape @PadStack @Berocka