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I don't have a player in the league at the moment (he's coming at the deadline) but I'd be interested in the position of updater and taking up the role prior to my player's creation. When I was in charge of the LIVE Player Rankings as Recruitment Crew, I would go through the update queue prior to updating those rankings and put through everyone's update free of charge, often on a daily or every other day basis, so I have experience with the job (and actually still have the powers leftover from that period). I'm very alert to what is and isn't considered valid in terms of TPE claimed (No complaints were ever levied my way in regards to incorrect updates) and in the past have spotted errors that other updaters had not.

I guess I just don't understand why it couldn't just have followed the same path as the media, which kept pretty much the same requirement but allowed you to do that much (500 words) multiplied by however many weeks you wanted to do, given that nobody has ever made a complaint about the minimum required for a podcast previously. Like I don't understand why the TPE:minutes ratio gets better value once there's three or four people given that it's much easier to do a podcast with more people as that gives you more people to bounce off of, more follow up question opportunities, etc as opposed to having to come up with all the discussion topics yourself as a sole podcaster.

So for the most part, excellent changes. Even as someone who was more in favour of crossover, I can understand the limits the sim presented and I think a decent compromise has been made. HOWEVER... Im really confused by the changes made to the podcasts. As someone who puts more than enough information into their 10 minute podcasts to warrant the 6 TPE, I don’t understand why the required length of a one week PT has now gone up by five minutes, especially given the more relaxed approach that has been taken to other PTs (e.g the quality required of graphics) across the league. Is there an explanation for this?

Good stuff, will give it a listen when it's done. If you fancy a question for it: The last time that Team Scandinavia won the World Cup was in Season 48 (10 tournaments ago), given the amounts of Scandinavian talents featured in the first round of this last draft and some top prospects for Season 69 Draft, do you think Scandinavia could break that spell sometime in the near future?

Woo, I got myself even though I realised after the fact I messed up one of my answers (put that I'd been here 10+ years, but I was thinking of sim leagues in general rather than VHL ?)

The thing to bear in mind in regards to doing order of draft picks by regular season is that we operate in a league that gives an incentive for teams to grab players later on in the season through a reduced salary hit based on when they come in, therefore their regular season record isn't neccesarily a great indicator of how good the team is come the end of the season (which in turn would be closer to how they will look at the start of the following season), because some of their star players could have been playing elsewhere for 2/3 of the season. If the trade deadline had been more akin to say the NFL one (less than halfway through the season) I could see more of an argument in favour of regular season playing more of a part in the draft.

Talking about Preencarnacion's retirement and the plan with the next player

Nothing wrong with offering, but I'm putting all my offers through Random.org to see which teams gets me. TBH, I got the feeling pretty early on that I was more going to be a Jody 3 Moons big-stats/no-awards kind of player rather than a HOFer, which I'm still more than happy with given some people didn't have those expectations of me pre-draft.

Posting up a thread because I'm not sure if something's affected the BOT but no thread was posted when I retired. Retired to save Riga from cap problems and my stats from plummeting even further. Recreating at the deadline.

This is some good shit! Think the most telling thing about the struggles we had pre-Beaviss/Spade recruitment/retainment is that only 6 stuck around from 2014, given how hyped up those S40 and S41 draft classes were (in part because of their first-gens).

I couldn't remember which one it was and googled annendum and it came up with a definition so figured it was that, didn't think to read that google had auto-corrected me ?

Ah cool, I'm only about 10 miles away from there! I'll be sure to add in some northern slang for the next one!

Thanks for the feedback! Yep, it’s an English accent, I’m from Manchester.

The top podcast is the main podcast, the second one is a small one to correct an error that occurred in the first (for the record, the player I was referencing in the second podcast was Marquis Hyvarinen)

That feeling when you get a 4K with 3 headshots and you don't get POTG

Oh nice, are you moving over this way? My internet is way better now than when we last played (got a wifi booster for my room) so I'm even getting very playable connection even on PTR (30 m/s latency)

Ah cool thanks, I'll have to keep an eye out! Is the gaming talk typically in the general chat now (there used to be a gaming channel when I was last there but I don't see it anymore)? My SR for anyone who sees are (for PC): Tank - 2345 Damage - 2585 Heal - 2301 Was surprised by those because the one class that I never really played was damage (mainly play as a tank)

Anyone still playing Overwatch? Gotten very interesting recently with the new role queue feature and the new hero Sigma.

Podcast looking at the current status of some of the features I implemented when I was involved with retainment,

Reviewing the picks I had most right and wrong from the S64 Draft

Had enough time on my hands to churn this one out for the Theme Week

I made the purchase in the player store.

It's not burnout, if I had as much free time as I did when I was active, I would still be just as active as before. I do still check on the site every once in a while.

Rank Change Player Name TPE Team Nat. Member 1 C - Hunter Hearst Helmsley 356 YUK USA Beaviss 2 LW - Shane Mars 323 MIN USA Spade18 3 LW - Julius Freeman 261 HFX USA rjfryman 4 RW - Mikko Aaltonen 258 LVA FIN GRZ 5 C - Jet Jaguar 256 HFX UKR gorlab 6 LW - Dimitri Volosenkov 241 HFX RUS SirRupertBarnes 7 Up 2 RW - Arnor Sigurdsson 235 YUK ISL bluesfan55 8 C - Maximilian Kirbsson 234 HOU SWE Kirby 9 Up 1 LW - Bert Meyers 231 MIN USA RunnerBert11 10 Down 4 RW - Shawnomir Jagr 230 SSK CZE TheLastOlympian07 11 D - Aron Nielsen 222 MIN FAR solas 12 Up 1 D - Jerry Garcia 210 HOU USA GustavMattias 13 Down 1 LW - Kari Jurri 209 HOU NED hockeyis66 14 Up 1 G - Owen May 206 HOU SWI FacebookFighter 15 Down 1 D - Charlie Paddywagon 204 LVA USA DMaximus 16 Down 1 LW - Kyle Sabertooth 199 LVA USA uphillmoss 16 Up 2 C - Ludvig Sederstrom 199 HOU SWE aleks 18 Down 1 LW - Chico Smeb 197 MIN SKR xDParK 19 LW - Valeri Morozov 192 YUK RUS Dangles13 20 Down 1 D - Codrick Past 188 OTT UK Kylrad 21 Up 1 LW - Hans Gruber 185 SSK GER TheFlash 22 Down 1 D - Rhye Tyr 177 HFX CAN Plate 22 Up 4 D - Apollo Hackett 177 SSK USA Renomitsu 24 Down 1 RW - Nethila Dissanayake 175 SSK SRI nethi99 25 Down 1 D - Rusty Shackleford 172 SSK USA K1NG LINUS 25 G - Clayton Park 172 YUK AUS leafssteen 27 RW - Mat Tocco 164 MIN CZE Matmenzinger 28 RW - John Frostbeard 159 YUK LAT FrostBeard 28 Up 6 RW - Aleksander Rodriguez 159 OTT USA Jtv123 30 G - Wendy Kandee Cain 158 MIN USA SlashACM 31 Down 3 LW - Jordan Joshua Tonn 157 LVA CAN MexicanCow123 32 Down 1 RW - Emil Passerelli 153 SSK USA SparrowLTD 33 D - Beau Buefordsson 152 HOU SKN Radcow 34 Down 2 LW - Edgar Tannahill 144 SSK CAN Gregreg 35 LW - Hunter Wagner 138 GER GER Inf1d3l 35 Up 1 D - Edward Vigneault 138 HFX CAN Patpou22 37 LW - John Perdue 135 SSK USA johnnyhockey42 37 Up 4 D - Andreas Sundell 135 MIN SWE VisualDarkness 39 Down 1 D - Samuel Sparrow 132 HOU USA Birdman 40 Down 1 G - Juan Jaundice 131 SSK USA Jus 40 G - Kolur Bjoernsson 131 PHI ISL jab3 42 Up 3 C - Rhys Chism 129 HOU USA Jake Levine 43 Down 2 C - Raphael Nazarians 128 SSK ARM LIL V O D AK 44 Down 1 D - Anthony Amberback 127 SSK USA Oost 45 Down 1 C - Nacho 125 HFX USA Nacci25 46 Down 1 D - Richard Hejtsel 123 YUK LAT hejta 46 Down 1 D - Cody Parkey 123 SSK PRK SaltyTalty 48 Up 1 LW - Blake Laughton 120 HOU CAN Grape 49 Down 1 G - Luke Derion 112 LVA USA Barracuda 50 LW - Cody Smith 110 HFX CAN cody73 51 D - Duncan Jeffers 94 LVA USA Tophdaddy 52 D - Titus Stone 90 YUK USA MD9 53 C - BALLS McZehrl 89 OSL GER Rent A McZ 54 D - Guillaume Fontenette 88 OTT FRA okocha5 55 D - Papa Gage 87 HFX USA PapaGage 55 G - Sunny Burst 87 LVA USA Sunburst 55 C - Pascal Batz 87 OTT SWI efiug 58 Up 2 D - Dean Clarke 86 PHI USA Kyle 58 Up 6 LW - Dylan Doyle 86 PHI USA zepheter 60 Down 2 RW - Sami Van Den Dreissche 82 YUK BEL TsarPeter 61 Down 2 LW - Devin Gabella 80 HFX USA Gabella19 62 Down 2 C - Eeli Harju 79 OTT FIN Teztify 62 Up 2 RW - AJ Axelsen 79 HFX SWE littleboi 64 Down 2 D - Dwin Championship 78 SSK SWE Award97 64 Down 2 D - Srraxxarrakex II 78 OTT JAP flan 66 Down 2 LW - Blake Gaudette 77 HFX CAN Gaudette 66 Down 2 C - Walter Clements 77 PHI SIE cpetrella 68 Up 1 D - MORPHEUS DESTRUCTIOUS 68 PHI IM Abaddon 69 Down 1 LW - David Clarkson 63 PHI CAN Jacob Kundrat 69 LW - Ben Hafkey 63 PHI USA itsmclovin 71 D - Dave John OQuinn 60 YUK CAN JohnOQuinn 72 LW - Jean ClaudePaul 55 HOU FRA Yusuf Abdul-Latif 73 D - Hiromu Takahashi 54 MIN JAP O4L 73 D - Finn Theismann 54 HOU GER StaticShocked 73 C - Charles Alderson 54 HFX USA Kithoo 76 C - Thomas Kennedy 52 OTT AUS Walter Fizz 77 D - Fabius Adomaitis 51 HFX LTU Claire 77 LW - Micheal Rasmussen 51 LVA CAN Connor mcdavid 79 LW - Joakim Sederstrom 50 HOU SWE Samee 79 C - Adama Traore 50 PHI USA Adama Traore 81 LW - Thomas Vancheck 48 LVA AUT Thomas Vancheck 82 C - Markus Lulic Descheneaux 46 LVA CAN mxld17 83 RW - Karlis Liede 43 MIN LAT DoubleCarl 84 RW - Alexis Lafreniere 42 SSK CAN Yehboi 85 D - Londortharl 41 LVA CAM MattyG 86 D - Yuri Kalerov 40 SSK SWI Camel 87 D - Jack Logan 39 YUK USA WeaponX 87 D - Quinton Collins 39 OTT CAN Jepox 89 C - Logan Swallow 38 PHI USA TriaL Exotic 90 D - Jakobe Puffalump 37 LVA CAN Puffalump 91 RW - Fudge Popsicle 36 HFX CAN LaprasRuler 92 LW - Waluigi De Rossi 34 OTT ITA Kitras 93 C - Matthew Tolsma 33 SSK CAN matthewtols 94 D - Anthony Griffis 32 USA Tygrzz 94 G - Marchello Mirabella 32 MIN ITA Wandering_Buffalo 94 LW - Tim W 32 USA Spadesy 97 C - Gervais Bulhoes 31 CAN HOCKEYBEAST9000 Ordinarily I would have used the up/downs from last week, but as I didn't have the time to do one of these last week, this is a straight Copy/Paste of the current VHL Rookie Class as it stands. For this week, I'm going to focus on Capped TPE per week that each rookie has earned. A players ability to consistently earn TPE on a weekly basis is arguably the greatest focus for any GM in the VHL, as this will likely be a strong determining factor in how quickly a player is going to progress once he finds his VHL team. Here is a graph breaking down how much capped TPE per week the Top 50 TPE players (I will likely update this tomorrow with active players below 50) have been earning. Raw Data