Gustav

I talked about this a while back--GMs should be required to have a player. There's no excuse for running a team and not even having a reason to be active outside of drafting and trading. I liked it. We've been running out of ideas lately and it's definitely better than last season's. Gustav week. Make the people worship me. I can't really elaborate on what's being talked about, but to me a nice solution would be to incentivize having a bigger roster by increasing cap for teams that go beyond the standard 6-4-2. Crunches. Real-life Gustav has been doing a set of 50 every night lately. It's not going to make me look good, but every bit counts. Spaghetti. And you're lucky I remembered because I usually have no idea what I ate 5 minutes ago.

Week 3 I guess since theme week interrupted this one.

I can now feel complete with my VHL life knowing that I've finally been called "motherfucker" by Jardy.

I follow the fantasy zone forum and already get pings when you post the threads...and from there, into the locker room it goes. So no real need to ping me/Davos here. For anyone who's interested in being directly pinged on the forum, I'd definitely suggest following the fantasy zone section. It works great!

*Gustav noises* YEET! Nothing new, so I'll just hit you with the copy-paste: Rules are here The wiki is here Hopefully this is a nice change from the usual psychedelic/prog/fusion recommendation nobody listens to CLICK THIS LINK IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE DISCORD SERVER JOINING THE SERVER IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PLAYERS! Non-players are welcome as well. Remember that ALL game-related notifications will be given on Discord! Make sure you join the server, and check it BEFORE speaking in the game thread each day. Also, do your best to be there at the start of each night phase! If you're new to the game, read up on some roles on the wiki and go through some old game threads in this subforum. TRIVIA TIME: HERE IS THE LINK TO TRIVIA! -If you won the last game, you have an automatic 30% chance to receive a role of your choosing, if you'd like to request one. The winners of last game are listed below: @MMFLEX @Lefty_S @Domg5 @Ptyrell @Advantage @osens @Ricer13 @Jericho @Devise @Sixersfan594 @Mr_Hatter @bigAL @Doomsday -If you didn't win the last game, you can still request a role! Play trivia, and for each correct answer, you'll earn a cumulative 5% chance toward a role of your choosing, for a maximum chance of 20%. -If you won the last game, you can still play! This possible 20% chance will be added to your 30% chance for a maximum of 50%. -No, you do not need to do this if you don't want to. -If you'd like to play without requesting a role, simply write "Random" in the role request box. Vote for your preferred format up top and sign up down below, as always. Target start date: Thursday night!

This is supposed to be alternate reality smh

VH(e)L > SH"V"L at least.

Well look who it is Welcome!

Sharpe would have gone down as an even bigger draft bust and would probably be a lot more of a commonplace meme today. I'm not sure many new people know who the VHL's first-ever draft pick was, but if said pick immediately went inactive we'd probably hear the story told a hundred times more than it currently is.

I'll take being on the list I guess

No, earning is a bit different. There's affiliation with our VHL.com articles--it's not as strong as some other leagues have, but it's something.

For the week ending 4/18: 1. It looks like our playoff hopes are starting to fade away, with a couple teams who were behind us catching up. Were you expecting this, and do you think there's anything we can do to get back to overperforming? 2. The trade deadline is coming up on Monday! Do you think we'll see many deals made around the league? 3. What's your way-too-early prediction for this season's champion? Current standings can be found here. 4. We're lucky to see COVID vaccination efforts paying off recently, as many back-to-normal estimates put us around the end of the summer. What's one thing you can't wait to get back to doing? 5. Are you in any other sim leagues? Which ones? If you could be a part of a sim league for any other sport, with zero extra time taken out of your life, what would it be? 6. One of your tweets blows up (in a good way or a bad way, you decide). How do you use your new social media presence? Do you change anything about what you put out there? @Big Dee@Advantage @Grape @Berocka@Kmatt @jimmyallen93 @Brrbisbrr @WebberP@Duddy @Azlan @Ricer13@efiug

I'm pretty sure the league is older than this Elijah so no. Have fun feeling old over that.

I was actually going to shout out to @bigAL at the end but forgot. So consider this a belated shout-out.

I thought about just picking a random draft season and running with that with a full redraft. S70 came to mind, where Davos had three first-rounders and ended up with one bust and two players who were immediately traded for what effectively became 2nd overall in S72, where I eventually drafted Robin Winter--basically turning three firsts into one player who I eventually traded for one first--but I've already done redraft articles, and even though S70 was a pivotal moment in the Davos rebuild which had disastrous consequences and arguably significantly contributed to us being where we are today, it wasn't even a good draft class. Assuming the two players who were drafted and subsequently traded are not to be included on the list of "people it would be in our best interest to draft", there isn't much to be seen outside of the top 5. So, I'm going to take the more difficult but also more interesting road and review every 1st-rounder I've ever picked up, from S71 to the present. S71 2nd Overall: Roque Davis | D | 382 TPE | @Josh Alternate Reality Pick: Stone Wolski | G | 366 TPE | @DollarAndADream One of the things Davos was criticized for in its past competitive (or, I guess, "we should be competitive, why isn't this working") period is the lack of a true top-level talent in net. For most of that time, we relied heavily upon Joakim Bruden, who peaked out on the lower end of average, and even though I loved him we just simply didn't have a high-TPA player there at really any point (save for one season of Rayz Funk in S74, pun intended). We actually picked Bruden near the start of the 2nd, and I held out hope that he'd peak out at a higher point. Davis has actually gone on to be one of the league's top defenders, so I'm not saying he was a bad pick--but he did (understandably) leave in free agency after four seasons. With Wolski, we solve the goalie problem and potentially put ourselves in a better situation, where we'd actually be able to convince our big picks to re-sign with some success. If we retain Wolski into S75, that's one more solid player--and that can make a big difference in our little sim world. S72 1st Overall: SS Hornet | C | 379 TPE | @McWolf 2nd Overall: Robin Winter | LW | 325 TPE | @Sonnet Alternate Reality Picks: 1st Overall: Andrew Su | C | 247 TPE | @Da_Berr 2nd Overall: Latrell Mitchell | D | 305 TPE | @dasboot I spent pretty much all of S72 being hyped that I was potentially in position to make picks 1 and 2 the way I eventually ended up making them. Sonnet and McWolf are two of my favorite people here, they'd both reached out to me wanting to play for Davos, I knew I was getting high earners and loyal people who I really liked, and life was great when I won the lotto twice. And, in fact, these were two of the main players in our last run, so these weren't bad picks either. Simon just wasn't very kind to them (or us), and after a lot of disappointment we saw them both shipped out for the draft capital that would soon become the main part of our current rebuild. My alternate picks are purely stat-based. There was no reason to suggest that I should have gone for Su early on (especially that he'd jokingly hinted at going inactive just before draft night), and I'd already picked Davis in S71 so there was no reason for me to want another high-profile defender in Mitchell. In this scenario, though, I haven't picked Davis in S71, and I already know that Su is going to be the draft's best forward (as well as Mitchell being the draft's best defender), so into the future we see and I make a couple picks that would have drawn some ridicule given the availability of Hornet and Winter. S75 3rd Overall: Kunibuni UnGuri | G | 236 TPE | @Berocka 9th Overall: Taro Tsujimoto | C | 309 TPE | @GustavMattias Alternate Reality Picks: 3rd Overall: Cabe McJake | C | 235 TPE | @RedSus 9th Overall: Taro Tsujimoto | See above S75 was when we finally got our goaler. But in this article, we already have Wolski, so that doesn't matter. Instead, I go for the best earner I can find at #3 with McJake, who's climbed up to #2 in the class in TPE. Later on was everyone's favorite player who I won't shut up about in Taro, who is the obvious choice given that this was the last season GMs had their players tied to their teams at all. As to the "but now you have three Cs" thing that someone might raise (because stuff like that has been brought up quite a bit), Taro has no problem with playing on the wing if his GM decides that's the right thing to do. S77 2nd Overall: Reylynn Reinhart | D | 301 TPE | @Ricer13 13th Overall: Miles Johnson | LW | 190 TPE | @Midnite Alternate Reality Picks: I like them both! Short of one of the above going inactive, there's very little that could happen to make me say that I made the "wrong" choice after less than a season. Reinhart is up with the big squad and seems to be with us for the long haul (which is certainly a bonus), and Johnson is a steady earner with not many better choices behind him in the draft who will be joining us next season. It's exciting to see some more high-profile names make their way into Davos with this draft, as we start laying the foundation for our future yet again, and I certainly hope these picks work out! So that's it! Surprisingly, I haven't picked any actual busts in the first round in my time as GM. What's left to judge is based on opinions and sim luck, but that doesn't mean some degree of reflection isn't healthy nonetheless. What do you think? Have I made good choices? Bad choices? What should I have done instead? 1,007 words. I have an article I'm in the middle of claiming now, but I'll loop back to the capped part of this in a few weeks when I'm through that one.

Damn, Malmo got some VALUE out of this given how difficult it's been to buy and sell this season. If it works, though...it works.

smh my head I'd ask why I can't get half the community backing me up but I'd be setting myself up for another roast.

Absolutely. I once had a player who would bash me every single week in our press conferences. I'm talking stuff a hundred times more insulting than anything written here. I reached out to said player in private, found out that it was a roleplay thing, and didn't have a problem with it going forward. Even if this is a legitimate trade request there's no reason why everyone should have jumped down a newer member's throat over an article that...really wasn't all that bad.

David pack

Shush

That too, we have to get rid of all 13 VHLM teams eventually.

@Quik nuking Saskatoon on the portal was just a test run to prove we could do it.