Mr_Hatter

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Presser for 8/29 1) Which VHLE team are you most excited about? 2) What are your thoughts on the VHLE expansion as a whole? 3) Would you rather GM in the M, the E, or the VHL? 4) What is your biggest priority in a teammate? 5) Who do you think is the best player in the league right now? 6) Do you see yourself winning any awards any time soon? 7) What is your favorite soup?

IDK, piano is not very easy to learn imho. Maybe simple chords in the key of C, but past that it can get challenging.

Presser for 8/22 1) If you had to be/were in a band, what instrument would you play? 2) Tell me the best thing that happened to you this week! 3) What injury scares you the most? 4) Have you ever scored a hattrick? 5) Do you think professional athletes should get to complain about their job? 6) Have you put in any suggestions for the Suggestion Drive? 7) Similarly, do you have any suggestions for a Helsinki Titans Suggestion Drive?

I mean, if not for worry of him DDOSing himself/probable international shipping fees...

Good luck my man @GrittyIsKing09 let me know if I can help with anything. not that I really can

If I remember the talks I've had about this correctly, we have tried to do this, but ol' Simon isn't too cooperative to do this.

So with that post out of the way, I suppose now I didn't actually do the prompt that was requested here, so: 1) As per my larger post, add in a VHLM bounty/newsletter system to VSN that gets new VHLM players an opportunity for a larger audience. 2) I'm a big fan of forum games. It gets people logging on and interacting. Town of Salem has been a lot of fun, but other potential games like other people have suggested. I don't have too many ideas on exact ones to do . Would love to play garticphone with people. 3) Maybe we could have a weekly/monthly album listening/review thread? Basically a kind of VHL forum-based music club. I bet I could get @GustavMattiason board

This is something that I've been toying with for a while, and while this may fall under the lens of "improving VSN" instead of "improving the VHL" I do thing "improving VSN" accomplishes both of those things. One of the struggles has been finding people to write recently, and though we have a great cast of VSN contributors right now, with the expansion of the VHLE, I'm wondering if the old VSN model is becoming somewhat bloated/difficult to keep running at the same pace. So an idea that I've had for a while is adding in some kind of "bounty" system for stuff like the VHLM, to where players on a VHLM team can send in some articles for editing/compilation into a kind of VSN-sponsored VHLM newsletter, focused on players articles/stories as opposed to to old VHLM newsletter content. Might be a good way to get some regular content out onto VSN, while also giving some new joiners/VHLM players a platform. The point of bringing it up here is to say, what would everyone think about this idea? I've floated it before in some private chats and have gotten semi-positive responses, but I'd like to know what everyone thinks of it. Would it work? Would it crash and burn? Would the blues support/want that kind of thing on VSN? I'd assume there would be some kind of TPE reward for it (presumably allowing them to earn another 2 capped TPE of "Job Pay" that effectively allows them to double up on a vhl.com article for that week, but I'm open to suggestions, we could also make them be PT length to get them to replace their PT for that week, but that might be a little trickier to actually accomplish) For anyone who is still reading at this point, any other ideas for VSN improvements? I am seeing a lot of ideas on here for some more regular league-sponsored content, such as @Greg_Di's interview idea, and obviously I tend to approach those ideas from a "how would we do this using VSN's platform" perspective; such as when we had the push for BoG writeups. I'm open to any suggestions for improvements/ways to freshen VSN up, so let me know if anyone has some ideas!

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Questions for 8/15/21 1) Who do you view as our biggest rival? 2) Are there any teams you'd want to play for, outside of Helsinki? 3) What do you think is the best part about a sports rivalry? 4) Would you prefer to have the league leading defense, or offense? 5) Have you ever given a half time speech to your teammates (or, for hockey, period break)? How did it go? If not, have you ever gotten one? 6) Do you prefer Macs, Window's PCs, or Linux? 7) What are your favorite non-hockey sports teams, if any?

Was my first year in college, I was with two of my best friends from highschool in the dorms, all of us Sharks fans. That was rough. My best friend's family has season tickets and he watched the Penguins lift the cup in the Tank

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Thanks for the in depth response! I definitely see your perspective on a lot of stuff, and for sake of brevity I won't respond to everything This is the only thing I disagree with you on. Since we are limited to exactly 3F 2D 1G, defensemen earning more doesn't mean anything in terms of overall fantasy performance. IMO you are conflating the total points of F/D with the spread of F and D fantasy point distributions. Like, the issue here isn't that Dmen earn 100 points more on average or whatever, its that the drop off from higher performing F is much higher than the drop off from higher performing D. If we were able to make the bell curves of F to D points roughly equal, in proportion with the number available/required to select at that position, then that would make picking Dmen earlier more viable, as your expected drop off relative to that position would be more equal, in terms of the standard deviation at that position. (I recognize that you agree about this in the quote later on, but for discussions sake I'm going to keep talking on this point) Instead what we have is a class of F that has a few high earners before a significant drop off, whereas with D you have some high point getters sure, but there is an oversaturation of medium-high point getters relative to the number of Dmen that actually need to be selected. But that doesn't matter in regards to the balance between the point totals received by D/F. Like the best way to explain this is to look at the logical extremes of the situation. If there were 10 Dmen available to pick for 10 slots, and five scores 400 points with another 5 scoring 350, you don't need to prioritize D. Whereas if there are 15 F for 15 slots, and the top 5 are at 300, while the rest are at 150, obviously you want to pick F first, because otherwise you will miss out on one of the good forwards. But if we were able to improve it where, generally speaking, those 10 D are spaced between 200 and 400 in 20 point increments, and the 15 F are between 150 and 300 in 10 point increments, there is more room to pick D early, depending on how you read their team situation/build. idk I'm not sure that my math is 100% correct in this exact scenario, but it gets my point across. The more you balance the point distributions within a position relative to the number of pickable players, the more viable picking any position at any time is. Yeah I probably would be down for lowering SB's a little, but I don't agree with raising hits. They are already overvalued IMO. I think I probably like raising goals and assists a little. I'd like to explore kinds of team modifiers that might raise or lower your score in some ways, I'm just not sure of how to do that effectively/fairly. As far as goalies, I am hesitant to increase shutouts, as they are incredibly random/team dependent. I think we need to factor in some kind of penalty for GA though, or just generally some way of factoring in SV% as opposed to only considering base number of saves, as I think it slightly overvalues goalies on bad teams, regardless of that goalies performances.

Followup/counterpoint to my original response; the differences between F and D aren't important IMO, but the differences between D and D are. IE, we should try and maximize the points differential between top F and low F, top D and low D, and top G and low G, not the differential between top F and top D. That makes the game more exciting, because then every pick matters. So we want the standard deviation from F1 to F30 to be similar in scale to D1 to D20, to G1 to G10. That way, you prioritizing certain positions at certain times becomes more important. Idk just some thoughts. I might be wrong haha

First off, great article @Spartan! Obviously a lot of work went into this. My only major critique (without diving into the stats yet, since I have to work) is that I disagree with the sentiment that defensemen are overvalued, for one specific reason: its all relative. Due to the roster constraints, everyone picks the same number of people at any given position. So saying defensemen are better than forwards at getting fantasy points is a non-issue, as its not like you can pick 3 defensemen. It would be like saying forwards score more than goalies; the position is different, you can only pick an exact amount of each, so the differences in points between positions is immaterial. The only reason it feels worse for dmen-> forward as opposed to forward-> goalie is that dmen and forwards calculate using the same scale. But the actual number itself doesn't matter. That being said, I think the major takeaways are points percentages coming from certain stats, which is a fair one. I don't 100% agree that it's always a problem that good players on bad teams will perform better in fantasy due to higher SB numbers, as this whole VHFL game is a meta game to begin with. Learning how to pick players is part of that, and an important part of people's enjoyment. I think you could argue the numbers could be rebalanced, but I'd be wary of going to far in the wrong direction. If we completely nerf SB then there is no reason to pick players from bad teams, which completely destroys the fun of the game for me. You should be able to consider players from all teams, so there has to be some benefit to being on a bad team, which is usually what that SB total represents.

Presser for August 8th 1) Do you prefer to listen to music to hype you up before a game, or calm you down? 2) What do you think is the strangest hockey tradition? 3) Have you grown up watching hockey, or are just recently getting into it? 4) What do you think is the easiest position in hockey? 5) Who do you think is your early prediction for the cup this season? 6) Describe your ideal way to score a goal! 7) What is the worst holiday?

Presser for August 1st 1) Do you have any post game rituals? 2) What do you think the most important thing to having a successful career is? 3) How have you felt about your performance thus far in the season? 4) Have you been keeping up with your Career Tasks? 5) Long or short stick? What do you prefer? 6) What is your ideal cross-training activity? 7) Favorite food that you used to hate?

Now entering his third season, the Duke Paul Atreides has found himself at the forefront of the Moscow Menace team, along with his trusty right-hand man Duncan Idaho. Though a few truly veteran players remain on the squad, such as Cole Newhook and Pietro Angellini, Atreides and Idaho are the top talent at this stage; the responsibility to win games starts with them. It is a situation the young Duke is not unfamiliar with, as he has been forced into the spotlight numerous times before, and has thus far proved equal to the task each time. To start off this season, however, he is sitting a bit off the pace, with 4 goals and 11 assists in 16 games, just shy of a point per game. Considering he had 76 in 72 last season, you really don't want to hit a mid-career slump this early. What's more worrying, however, is his lack of concentration in front of net so far, as he has 4 goals, at which pace he is only projected to hit 18 goals, which is less than half as many as he had in the prior season. Even fewer than his rookie campaign that saw him on the all VHL rookie team and in contention for Rookie of the Year award, where he at least broke 30 goals. That being said, there is a lot of time left in the season to make an improvement, and realistically, the Menace aren't looking to truly compete for another season or two, at which point 1st overall pick and future franchise goaltender Papa Emeritus should have developed enough to help bring the Menace into contention. Nonetheless, its always worrying when a star player isn't performing. The questions inevitably come up: what's wrong, is there an issue within the team, why is he only beautiful instead of heart-wrenchingly gorgeous today? Despite some of the worrying signs early in the season, the GM of the Menace saw fit to agree to a contract extension with House Atreides, extending both the Duke and Duncan Idaho through Season 82, with an additional player option for Season 83. Really, that's all you need to see to get an understanding of the level of trust that the Menace front-office holds in the two stars. Along with the rest of the talented young core this Moscow team has managed to bring together, the boys in yellow are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the coming seasons. MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW

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