emidas

Or, y'know, people just don't use those words in the first place because it's, at least at some level, immature and used in a derogatory manner? So yeah I agree, people should grow up. 

I am locking this thread due to ongoing change in Code of Conduct behavior revisions from BOG. Please refrain from further discussion and reference of this issue until further notice.

This perhaps will become the first of many articles that will only be claimed for this league. I have EFL as well, but the motivation was lost very quicckly. Need more vacations or sick leaves for coming back lol. That feeling when my second league is NSFL. And lowkey I think I can even try another another player who obviously will be kicker. It's so fun to collect awards, even if this is kicker/punter ones. 
 
Anyways, back to subject. I won't tell much about my opinion on this situation, just going to tell what was happening with me during this debacle. 
 
So, the game 6 was simmed and everybody were ready to congratulate Houston with the championship. For obvious reasons I wasn't immediately checking this game log because the only team I care is Riga. And sort of a care for Moscow as long as Randoms is there. After some time, I checked that thread and saw Josh saying the ''gay'' word which was doubled by Bana moments later. Honestly, I didn't care about these posts for simple reason - wasn't the first time I saw these words and won't be the last time either. And it seemed like some guys weren't paying attention to that either cause...they just don't care about minors altogether. 
 
Then, the Friday came. I finished working and was waiting for a bus. To kill the time I checked the VHL through phone (which became my habit for the past 2 years or so). Nothing special...until I saw that game 6 thread. It appeared that Doc popped in to voice his displeasure about Josh and Bana posts. I almost immediately replied this with Conceited gif. As much I like to see the drama at times, this was the one I was not a fan of. My immediate reaction on this was like ''ugh, here we go with this bullshit''. It was only a matter of time before this could turn into a major shitstorm. This always is happening when someone is mentioning sensitive topics. Hell, I experienced this 4 years ago so I know what's up. 
 
No surprises occured during that time. This indeed turned into a hysteria. First in forums, then in discord. And then Howe's just retired their players. Honestly, I wasn't sad about it as I never believed they could make something more than depth players. The only difference is they abruptly ended their careers here. Shrug. People still were going with this all day all night long, but I decided to do my sleepy job and the see how it unfolds next morning. 
 
I wake up early and my first move was reaching my hand up to the phone. I checked the VHL and saw a post from Beketov about affiliation welfare. VHL was ending their programm with SBA. I was kind of suspicios about that, but didn't pay much attention to this. After all, I never saw the same announcement from SBA and I'm doing all of my PT's here anyways. I never paid enough attention to every sentence from Bek from that post and pretty much missed the ''it wasn't our choice'' part...For the sake of interest I checked the basketball league as well. And the first thing I saw that they did the same thing! Needless to say I was pissed by this decision. The minute I saw that I knew - my time in SBA is coming to an end. They really stripped innocent members from TPE because of this bullshit. And I don't wanna hear that shitty ass explanation about ''we were monitoring this league before, this is not the only case of using slurs blah blah blah'' crap. My selfish nature is telling me that I'm just not hearing this shit. You took away the main stuff that allowed me to have some fun there? Ok, I have nothing to do there either. Bye, Felicia. Can't wait for the ending of their season to finish it all for good with a smile on my face. I didn't want to screw the Lightning because their coach was heavily banking for this particular season so I didn't retire immediately. But God damn, please finish that season asap. 
 
So I guess you know my opinion on this. I didn't support their decision then, don't support it now and most likely will never support it in future. Yeah, that happens when I'm not getting what I want. You can check to some game threads here when Kallis was garbage and see what I'm talking about.
 
That's it and I'm out. 
 
6 TPE to Cricket. 

Here's an interesting idea, maybe just don't use slurs?

Mo Howe has announced their retirement.

Doc Howe has announced their retirement.

Beo Howe has announced their retirement.

Considering this a "generic comment" is exactly the problem. Using slurs adds nothing to a conversation and only serves to be hurtful to others. It is immature, plain and simple.

How does anyone read "big gay" when talking about a game you lost and not see it as you saying gay=bad? You're being a troll if you're seriously trying to make that argument.

Howe Are They Doing?
A look at the latest additions to the VHLM's greatest team.
 
Just before the trade deadline, the Houston Bulls added six new players, the Howe brothers. This full line (including goalie) has only added to the excitement growing down in Houston about their chances at a cup run this season. So let's take a look at how these newest additions have impacted their team.
 
In the eleven games since the Howes joined the Bulls, Houston is 7-1-3. Seventeen points in eleven games is impressive, but what is even more impressive is that they just keep getting better. Two of those four losses came in their first two games with the team. Since then, the Bulls have had three straight wins against 5th-ranked Mississauga and a win against 3rd-ranked Minnesota; both of these are teams that have given the BUlls trouble earlier in the season.
 
So how are each of the Howe boy's doing individually?
 

 
As you can see, Moe has been a hits machine, and he and Doc have each sat for ten penalty minutes. Although his group hasn't had major offensive production yet, they are still a young group of players and are developing quickly. The being, said Midas's 11.11% shooting percentage definitely isn't a bad showing.
 
However, easily the most impressive player in this group so far has been Haz Howe. In his first three starts, he has had two wins and a shootout loss. While he has certainly benefited from having the best defense in the league in front of him, it has still been a great start for the young rookie.
 
@MWHazard @emidas @TheNano74 @Molholt @Beowoof @Doc Holliday

@emidas good to see you decided to create, i guess @Quik better get back from vacation and finish that dark theme for you ASAP! 

just here so I won't get fined

Greetings VHLiens,
 
I'm fresh off of a permanent ban from VHL affiliate, the Simulation Basketball Association (SBA). I was permanently banned for responding to a post from a Board of Director member with an ableist slur, along with a vast history of behavioural issues (one official 2 week ban and a 2.5 day discord mute in ~5 years of activity) and an accusation of driving away numerous unnamed members from their website and sim league.
 
Of course, a lot of you may already be familiar with my permanent ban from VHL-rival hockey sim league, the SHL. I was banned from this sim league for similar vile behaviour and similar accusations of being responsible for "driving away" members with my anti-authoritative and politically incorrect online behaviour.
 
By sheer coincidence, it seems like I run into permanent bans when my heinous behaviour gets directed towards a league commissioner, director, or head office member. I'm certain that these permanent bans are truly the result of me being a despicable human being, and definitely not the seemingly common trait shared by a fairly alarming amount of sim leaguers in "positions of authority", of an unwillingness to be questioned, or disrespected, by a lowly run-of-the-mill sim league member. Obviously this can't be the case and I've come to terms with the fact that I am indeed unfit for online social interaction.
 
With that being said, I am using my VHL.com written article this week to announce my intention to complete the "Triple Crown" of sim league permabans, with the final and most important sim league, the VHL.
 
It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but I'm fairly certain that my attitude and behaviour are just not compatible with the current politically correct social climate. I'd like to forewarn @Beketov, @Will, @Quik, @Devise and the rest of the VHL's power structure that it's very possible my disgusting, offensive, and downright abusive e-behaviour should eventually send me to the place where boubabi at. This will fulfill the prophecy and secure my legacy as the only man permanently banned from the "big 3" sim leagues. Until that time comes, I plan to be quite active on VHL since it's the only sim league I'm not permanently banned from.
 
Thanks for reading!

(Posting this with express permission from Beketov)
 
Hey everyone, you may (or may not) know me from the SBA. I'm here today to gauge interest in our community for a side project I am working on with Molholt. 
 
Now, before I go further - a lot of the elements are wildly different than the typical point task league. That's why I am here to gauge interest - to our knowledge, this hasn't really been done so much (if ever), so we aren't sure what to expect in terms of interest.
 
First things first, this will be a baseball league run by OOTP, using a backend similar to SBAO (or, for those here not in SBA, something that functions similar to the VHL Portal). Let me run through some bullet points about this new league.
 
Baseball, which brings with it OOTP, probably the best sim engine on the market quik sim. Each season will last two weeks, meaning up to 26 could happen in a calendar year. Random player creation. No starting archetype or base attribute list, every player is randomly generated by OOTP (with some requirements). Decide what position you want to play and then see what your starting point is! Do you have some potential for the future, or are you a solid player already? How will it impact your build strategy? No manual player regression or forced retirement. Players can play until they retire in-game. Careers in less than a year. With quik sim and no career length, experience an entire career in less than one calendar year! Player progression and regression are ON in-game. This means you can develop naturally in addition to your own points being applied, and will regress naturally. Injuries and suspensions turned ON. Given the quik sim nature and no limit on career length, missing time for injuries isn't a huge detriment and brings with it much more realism. No point tasks. You do not have to write an article, create a graphic, record a podcast or do anything of the sort to earn points. Subscription model. The league would be setup with a subscription model, meaning that if you're a monthly subscriber you get a lump sum of points each season to apply to your player(s). Given that two seasons would be within a month, each month would be two seasons worth of points. Low Price Point. I'm thinking $5/month gets you one pitcher and one hitter. Once created, they'll be in the system. Any month you subscribe you'll get points for both of them for two seasons. Potential for more players/levels if there is desire. Automation. No requirement for jobs. Updates will be handled by the system I am building specifically for this. Simming done by Molholt. No need for any other jobs. Potential Monetary Prizes. There is potential to reward league MVPs, Cy Youngs, etc., with a monetary reward. If there is a buy in for GMs then there is potential to pay the championship GM each season, etc. Just a thought right now. Low Effort. With no tasks to do, simply show up and enjoy your player's development and career. Chat with other players, decide on free agency, see where you get drafted, etc., all without worrying about writing an article or making a graphic each week.  
Because this is so wildly different, we are gauging interest before we devote a ton of time to it. I know it's out there compared to the standard leagues such as the SBA, VHL and EFL and even the money leagues like the SHL and PBE. However, with the two of us behind it and our passion for not only sim leagues, but baseball as well, I think this could be a really fun community to be a part of. I also think it could attract a completely different group of people that might find some interest in this that then filter over into our standard sim league community. Start them off with low effort and get them hooked, bring them over here. I think it's important to throw out there that we aren't competing with the SBA, or the PBE even, or really anyone in the sim league community. Our subscription model will also not find its way to the Affilite Trio of the SBA, EFL, or VHL - this is a separate endeavor entirely.
 
Let us know what you think. Would you have interest? What elements are exciting for you? What elements would turn you away or cause concern? Hit me up here or on Discord anytime if you have thoughts, love to hear them!
 
Link to our site, where you can sign up for the SimLB mailing list: https://www.simlb.com/
Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t7VJXUg

(Posting this with express permission from Beketov)
 
Hey everyone, you may (or may not) know me from the SBA. I'm here today to gauge interest in our community for a side project I am working on with Molholt. 
 
Now, before I go further - a lot of the elements are wildly different than the typical point task league. That's why I am here to gauge interest - to our knowledge, this hasn't really been done so much (if ever), so we aren't sure what to expect in terms of interest.
 
First things first, this will be a baseball league run by OOTP, using a backend similar to SBAO (or, for those here not in SBA, something that functions similar to the VHL Portal). Let me run through some bullet points about this new league.
 
Baseball, which brings with it OOTP, probably the best sim engine on the market quik sim. Each season will last two weeks, meaning up to 26 could happen in a calendar year. Random player creation. No starting archetype or base attribute list, every player is randomly generated by OOTP (with some requirements). Decide what position you want to play and then see what your starting point is! Do you have some potential for the future, or are you a solid player already? How will it impact your build strategy? No manual player regression or forced retirement. Players can play until they retire in-game. Careers in less than a year. With quik sim and no career length, experience an entire career in less than one calendar year! Player progression and regression are ON in-game. This means you can develop naturally in addition to your own points being applied, and will regress naturally. Injuries and suspensions turned ON. Given the quik sim nature and no limit on career length, missing time for injuries isn't a huge detriment and brings with it much more realism. No point tasks. You do not have to write an article, create a graphic, record a podcast or do anything of the sort to earn points. Subscription model. The league would be setup with a subscription model, meaning that if you're a monthly subscriber you get a lump sum of points each season to apply to your player(s). Given that two seasons would be within a month, each month would be two seasons worth of points. Low Price Point. I'm thinking $5/month gets you one pitcher and one hitter. Once created, they'll be in the system. Any month you subscribe you'll get points for both of them for two seasons. Potential for more players/levels if there is desire. Automation. No requirement for jobs. Updates will be handled by the system I am building specifically for this. Simming done by Molholt. No need for any other jobs. Potential Monetary Prizes. There is potential to reward league MVPs, Cy Youngs, etc., with a monetary reward. If there is a buy in for GMs then there is potential to pay the championship GM each season, etc. Just a thought right now. Low Effort. With no tasks to do, simply show up and enjoy your player's development and career. Chat with other players, decide on free agency, see where you get drafted, etc., all without worrying about writing an article or making a graphic each week.  
Because this is so wildly different, we are gauging interest before we devote a ton of time to it. I know it's out there compared to the standard leagues such as the SBA, VHL and EFL and even the money leagues like the SHL and PBE. However, with the two of us behind it and our passion for not only sim leagues, but baseball as well, I think this could be a really fun community to be a part of. I also think it could attract a completely different group of people that might find some interest in this that then filter over into our standard sim league community. Start them off with low effort and get them hooked, bring them over here. I think it's important to throw out there that we aren't competing with the SBA, or the PBE even, or really anyone in the sim league community. Our subscription model will also not find its way to the Affilite Trio of the SBA, EFL, or VHL - this is a separate endeavor entirely.
 
Let us know what you think. Would you have interest? What elements are exciting for you? What elements would turn you away or cause concern? Hit me up here or on Discord anytime if you have thoughts, love to hear them!
 
Link to our site, where you can sign up for the SimLB mailing list: https://www.simlb.com/
Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t7VJXUg

(Posting this with express permission from Beketov)
 
Hey everyone, you may (or may not) know me from the SBA. I'm here today to gauge interest in our community for a side project I am working on with Molholt. 
 
Now, before I go further - a lot of the elements are wildly different than the typical point task league. That's why I am here to gauge interest - to our knowledge, this hasn't really been done so much (if ever), so we aren't sure what to expect in terms of interest.
 
First things first, this will be a baseball league run by OOTP, using a backend similar to SBAO (or, for those here not in SBA, something that functions similar to the VHL Portal). Let me run through some bullet points about this new league.
 
Baseball, which brings with it OOTP, probably the best sim engine on the market quik sim. Each season will last two weeks, meaning up to 26 could happen in a calendar year. Random player creation. No starting archetype or base attribute list, every player is randomly generated by OOTP (with some requirements). Decide what position you want to play and then see what your starting point is! Do you have some potential for the future, or are you a solid player already? How will it impact your build strategy? No manual player regression or forced retirement. Players can play until they retire in-game. Careers in less than a year. With quik sim and no career length, experience an entire career in less than one calendar year! Player progression and regression are ON in-game. This means you can develop naturally in addition to your own points being applied, and will regress naturally. Injuries and suspensions turned ON. Given the quik sim nature and no limit on career length, missing time for injuries isn't a huge detriment and brings with it much more realism. No point tasks. You do not have to write an article, create a graphic, record a podcast or do anything of the sort to earn points. Subscription model. The league would be setup with a subscription model, meaning that if you're a monthly subscriber you get a lump sum of points each season to apply to your player(s). Given that two seasons would be within a month, each month would be two seasons worth of points. Low Price Point. I'm thinking $5/month gets you one pitcher and one hitter. Once created, they'll be in the system. Any month you subscribe you'll get points for both of them for two seasons. Potential for more players/levels if there is desire. Automation. No requirement for jobs. Updates will be handled by the system I am building specifically for this. Simming done by Molholt. No need for any other jobs. Potential Monetary Prizes. There is potential to reward league MVPs, Cy Youngs, etc., with a monetary reward. If there is a buy in for GMs then there is potential to pay the championship GM each season, etc. Just a thought right now. Low Effort. With no tasks to do, simply show up and enjoy your player's development and career. Chat with other players, decide on free agency, see where you get drafted, etc., all without worrying about writing an article or making a graphic each week.  
Because this is so wildly different, we are gauging interest before we devote a ton of time to it. I know it's out there compared to the standard leagues such as the SBA, VHL and EFL and even the money leagues like the SHL and PBE. However, with the two of us behind it and our passion for not only sim leagues, but baseball as well, I think this could be a really fun community to be a part of. I also think it could attract a completely different group of people that might find some interest in this that then filter over into our standard sim league community. Start them off with low effort and get them hooked, bring them over here. I think it's important to throw out there that we aren't competing with the SBA, or the PBE even, or really anyone in the sim league community. Our subscription model will also not find its way to the Affilite Trio of the SBA, EFL, or VHL - this is a separate endeavor entirely.
 
Let us know what you think. Would you have interest? What elements are exciting for you? What elements would turn you away or cause concern? Hit me up here or on Discord anytime if you have thoughts, love to hear them!
 
Link to our site, where you can sign up for the SimLB mailing list: https://www.simlb.com/
Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t7VJXUg

(Posting this with express permission from Beketov)
 
Hey everyone, you may (or may not) know me from the SBA. I'm here today to gauge interest in our community for a side project I am working on with Molholt. 
 
Now, before I go further - a lot of the elements are wildly different than the typical point task league. That's why I am here to gauge interest - to our knowledge, this hasn't really been done so much (if ever), so we aren't sure what to expect in terms of interest.
 
First things first, this will be a baseball league run by OOTP, using a backend similar to SBAO (or, for those here not in SBA, something that functions similar to the VHL Portal). Let me run through some bullet points about this new league.
 
Baseball, which brings with it OOTP, probably the best sim engine on the market quik sim. Each season will last two weeks, meaning up to 26 could happen in a calendar year. Random player creation. No starting archetype or base attribute list, every player is randomly generated by OOTP (with some requirements). Decide what position you want to play and then see what your starting point is! Do you have some potential for the future, or are you a solid player already? How will it impact your build strategy? No manual player regression or forced retirement. Players can play until they retire in-game. Careers in less than a year. With quik sim and no career length, experience an entire career in less than one calendar year! Player progression and regression are ON in-game. This means you can develop naturally in addition to your own points being applied, and will regress naturally. Injuries and suspensions turned ON. Given the quik sim nature and no limit on career length, missing time for injuries isn't a huge detriment and brings with it much more realism. No point tasks. You do not have to write an article, create a graphic, record a podcast or do anything of the sort to earn points. Subscription model. The league would be setup with a subscription model, meaning that if you're a monthly subscriber you get a lump sum of points each season to apply to your player(s). Given that two seasons would be within a month, each month would be two seasons worth of points. Low Price Point. I'm thinking $5/month gets you one pitcher and one hitter. Once created, they'll be in the system. Any month you subscribe you'll get points for both of them for two seasons. Potential for more players/levels if there is desire. Automation. No requirement for jobs. Updates will be handled by the system I am building specifically for this. Simming done by Molholt. No need for any other jobs. Potential Monetary Prizes. There is potential to reward league MVPs, Cy Youngs, etc., with a monetary reward. If there is a buy in for GMs then there is potential to pay the championship GM each season, etc. Just a thought right now. Low Effort. With no tasks to do, simply show up and enjoy your player's development and career. Chat with other players, decide on free agency, see where you get drafted, etc., all without worrying about writing an article or making a graphic each week.  
Because this is so wildly different, we are gauging interest before we devote a ton of time to it. I know it's out there compared to the standard leagues such as the SBA, VHL and EFL and even the money leagues like the SHL and PBE. However, with the two of us behind it and our passion for not only sim leagues, but baseball as well, I think this could be a really fun community to be a part of. I also think it could attract a completely different group of people that might find some interest in this that then filter over into our standard sim league community. Start them off with low effort and get them hooked, bring them over here. I think it's important to throw out there that we aren't competing with the SBA, or the PBE even, or really anyone in the sim league community. Our subscription model will also not find its way to the Affilite Trio of the SBA, EFL, or VHL - this is a separate endeavor entirely.
 
Let us know what you think. Would you have interest? What elements are exciting for you? What elements would turn you away or cause concern? Hit me up here or on Discord anytime if you have thoughts, love to hear them!
 
Link to our site, where you can sign up for the SimLB mailing list: https://www.simlb.com/
Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t7VJXUg

That makes sense, my experience with IPB is pretty much non-existent outside of the rest framework. Doesn't help that my PHP knowledge is rather limited. 

No problem. Note there are a few columns in the members table you'll have to iterate in order to get the notification to show. If you look into it more seriously, I can point you in the right direction.
 
It was about the same amount of work, honestly. Doing it how I did allowed to me learn and understand the IPB backend better than their techs do for other projects. 

Agreed.

I was waiting for you!

Welcome man. You're definitely not the first non-hockey fan to join. We had Irishbucsfan back in the day, I don't think he had even seen ice before, but he pumped out a couple great players.

That I did, lol.

After years playing sports that he thought were manlier than "figure skating with sticks", Emidas Blair has decided to try his hand at the world of hockey. Despite his negative pre-disposition to the sport, Blair has since learned that insulting the manhood of hockey players may not have been his smartest idea. Despite his recent run ins with his new peers that has included getting beat up at a strip club and getting tossed into a shark tank at Sea World, Blair has stayed adamant that he will persevere. When asked about his recent venture into hockey, Blair had this to say:
 
 

That I did, lol.