Ricer13

Also, I shamelessly voted for myself. 
Ongoing Dedication to the VHL during a trying time with my mom in my house on hospice care. But, I honestly didn't know who else to vote for as I'm sure there are better candidates. Regardless, the VHL has been a source of sanity (sometimes ironically) for me, and a place to focus on something else. Cheers.

I am interested in GMing

I'm looking to apply for gm or agm

The Mighty Ice Wizard will join the fray. I shall lead one (1) team to glory.

I'm applying.

Hmm. Sure, why not? Gotta learn at some point.

I will apply

Reducing VHL unemployment since S65.
 
It's true that I have an important job. It's true that I have a lot of posts, that people have liked those posts a lot, and that I'm a big fancy old guy who can make targeted attacks against you and your player specifically influence league policy through both my job and my role in the Board of Gustav. But I still find it hard to claim that I'm any more influential than I used to be. Maybe I'm a little more respected as the portion of people here newer than me continues to grow, but influential? I think I was at my peak as a VHLM GM. That influence stayed within our own team for the most part, while others just heard about it--but I've never been able to say that the work I put in to interact with people helped to shape them into active members quite as much since then.
 
I won't tag everyone who played for me and eventually ended up in a management role of some sort, because that would be a few too many tags (💪). Instead, I'll point out a few who started on my teams and made it really far. I like to think that the work of @Ricer13 and @Berocka speaks for itself, and while I take zero credit for anything that's happened since S68 or so, I still think about their beginnings with the Hounds--Ricer as a then-pass-first forward who initially described himself as a "lurker" in our server after we drafted him late, and Berocka as a waiver signing who didn't even join our server at first and who we had to pressure a bit to talk to us. I think both of these were cases where the VHLM can really change the course of a person's involvement--I described in my first article here how I was very hesitant to say or do much at first, and the teams that go beyond a simple "welcome, tell me if you need anything" can make lots of things happen.
 
VHLM GM is also the one job I've had where I feel no need to self-deprecate. I never won much on the VHL level, I've done some unpopular things and been less visible as a commissioner, there have been times where I've said things I now disagree with in BoG, and my heart was never in updating during the time when I did it. But I was really good in the M and I believe that on some level, the league has seen activity from people other than myself that may not have necessarily happened had my team been run by some other GMs of the day.
 
This led to me writing up a statistical article a few seasons in where I concluded that people on my teams were more likely to get hired than people off of them. Looking back on the first one, this wasn't even true. It's a long story, but my analysis showed a p-value of about 0.2 and most stats people don't care until that goes under 0.05. Some of the comments I got weren't incredibly friendly, either--I managed to make it funny by joking about it on Discord a lot, but it definitely rubbed some people the wrong way. It was still a joke about 6 months later, and I still occasionally caught some snarky comments about it at that point, so I ran the numbers again.
 
This time, it came with a better understanding of calculating statistical significance (along with a better understanding that maybe I shouldn't tag 27 people in passing mentions to get my point across). I had the right p-value in mind and put together an updated list. And lo and behold, after a few more seasons as a VHLM GM, it had become super-ultra statistically significant. In fancy statistical talk, our "null hypothesis" was "Gustav does not positively influence a member's chances of being hired" and the results pointed to strongly rejecting that statement. Like anything in stats, though, this isn't direct proof, and I also think that the multiple layers of interpersonal relationships and luck and whatnot that are separate from the numbers don't make any test like that definite. But I'd done my best to quantify it in a way that I've never seen anyone else do, and I think that in the end it is a real testament to my own effect on the VHLM (however seriously you want to take the results). 
 
In the end, 15 people who were either my teammate or a player I had GM'd (mostly the latter) got jobs as GMs or AGMs between S65 and S70--not counting three hires I'd made on my own terms by making my players my own AGMs. At a rate of about three hirings per season, I think that's pretty solid. So I hope you can forgive the ego stroking in this article, because it's kind of what I have to do to make it a readable piece about what I've done for the league's first-gens. What happened to these players on my teams is a different (and less biased) story from the player and team end, and I'll be happy to tell it soon.
 
 
Read my other articles for the full Gustav experience (hi Berocka):
 
#1: Lightning Glory Gonna Be My Name
#2: Can't We All Just Get Along?
#3: Who Needs Cybersecurity Anyway?
#4: The House That I Built
#5: Can We Fix It?
#6: American Beauty

Woooo! Welcome back 🤗 

1) Honestly about the same. After my hot start I had hoped to sustain it a little better, but I figured somewhere around PPG or slightly above was a good target for this year and that's where I am.
2) Detroit
3) I've never gotten to play a season as a player with @Ricer13 and still would like to get to do that at some point, just because of the fond memories of the season I joined the league in Miami with him as GM. One of these days!
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1) Who do you think is the VHL MVP so far this season? 
2) It's a playoff game 7 and your starting goalie goes down, but fortunately you can pick any other VHL starting goalie to fill in that night... who are you picking?
3) What's your favourite pre-game meal?

Top 3 Star Wars character imo 

Top 3 Star Wars character imo 

Top 3 Star Wars character imo 

Top 3 Star Wars character imo 

Top 3 Star Wars character imo 

Bana's S93 Quick Q's - #6 

 
Press Conference Rules
Seattle Bears Team Page
 
 
This season's PC's:
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
 
*Follow PC Rules. Each time PC is posted, there enough questions for you to answer for multiple weeks if there isn't for the following week. One more time, I POST LOTS OF QUESTIONS SO THAT IF I MISS A WEEK, YOU ALWAYS HAVE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER. YOU CAN ANSWER ANY OLD WEEKS Q's. Old weeks/posts will be above as "S87PC - #X". You have to answer or ask 6 questions, in any combination. ANYONE is more than welcome to ask and answer questions. ENJOY!  
 
55. Thoughts on Seattle recently adding Rask, Dixon and Mina to the Bears?
56. How would you grade Seattle Trade Deadline performance?
57. @Mongoose87 and @Jubis now share the net... they share a lot of things come to think of it... What are some things they share together now?
58. The Bears threw a Walking Dead themed welcome party for Dixon @Ricer13 ... what was happening at the party??
59. A new Seattle themed Dijon Mustard came out. What does the bottle look like? 
60. How do you think your player finishes on the season?
61. Ford approaches you and tell you they want you to develop a vehicle.. Bears themed.. but still how you want it. Car? Truck? What's it look and sound like etc?
62. If you had to be stuck on an island with 2 of your teammates, which would you choose and why?
63. What are your plans for this week?
 
 
 

1. I don't think so.
2. I think we can take it as a positive note and rebound next year.
3. I far exceeded my expectations at the start of the season. However, I declined quite a bit as the season went on.
4. It's fun to see yourself and your player develop to become a great player in-game.
5. I can be a little too difficult to understand at times.
6. Toronto Maple Leafs
 
Edit: I just realized I did the wrong one...

Sakic!

@FiZi @Bazeus Helsinki will be a great home for my Bulls 🔥🤝❤️

reunited with @Ricer13   

@Ricer13thank you for your time in Helsinki! It's been a pleasure! 
 
 
All the prospects welcome to Helsinki!

@Ricer13 @tinafrombobsburgers

Thank you for getting me on my feet Miami, I’ll always be with you.

Thank you everyone who applied! I’ve decided at this time to give some fresh blood a chance. Congrats to @ace_five_ on being selected. Welcome to Miami!

Thank you everyone who applied! I’ve decided at this time to give some fresh blood a chance. Congrats to @ace_five_ on being selected. Welcome to Miami!