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Season 93 VHL Draft Lottery Date: February 28, 2024 Time: 7:00 PM EST Hi Everyone, Before getting into the final draft odds and the lottery itself, a reminder of the rules regarding the Draft Lottery: Please keep in mind that the Draft Lottery Tournament was removed, and is no longer being used to adjust odds after the regular season's conclusion. From the conclusion of the S93 Regular Season and Spirit of Competition rule violations and punishments, these are the final draft lottery odds: Results will be added here after the lottery: VOD and stream will be on: https://www.twitch.tv/thespartan84

Rumor mills on hyperdrive

Honorable mentions from vhl chat

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1. I think getting a very young team some playoff experience and battling it out against a tough, experienced HSK team was good for morale and a sign that we can definitely compete with top EU teams. 2. Hand is raised, super excited to see the growth we can achieve this offseason and how we can start next season! 3. Ripe young age of 12. Oozing youthfulness! 4. I'd agree with that. I think even in this PC thread we have other players saying that Moscow has made a splash, and @badcolethetitan wrote an article highlighting our success in season and draft capital as well. GMs are definitely on notice around the league. 5. For Syko, it's just improving in every area as much as possible. Want to be a top goalie next season before I'm off my ELC. 6. Pretty much the same, got some contract negotiations done quickly in the offseason, now I'll just have to focus on scouting and league admin things, along with a bit of trading. But it'll be a quiet offseason, hopefully!

Curious to see if you evaluate pick pools based on quality vs quantity. Did you weight picks at all based on the round? Or adjust pick value based on which draft class they're in?

Yeah I think that's something you could, and should, bring up to Blues. While GMs generally squabble with each other when transgressions occur, I still think that the most effective way to hold everyone to the rules is by policing each other and bring up infractions as you see them. I don't expect Blues to be sitting there looking at every team's strats throughout the season. And personally, I tend to consider spirit of competition to lean mainly towards the human/bots/inactives piece vs the general tanking instance. Because I think ever team will tank at some point or the other, especially when we incentivize trades mid-season via cap hit reduction. Tanking and rebuilding are fairly synonymous, but you're right that there's no clear line there. However, we do have clear lines drawn for backup goalies and bot backup goalies, so that's just what the low hanging fruit is each season.

Trading players away is always going to be considered a slippery slope if you try to match it up against bot start rules or backup rules. Goalie is a position where every competitive team in the league would prefer to play their better goaltender if we had no rules around it. We have no injuries (league would be chalked if we did) or endurance as you say, but that'd arguably hurt skaters a lot more and we'd almost certainly have to contract the league in half to be able to roll a full 4 lines plus have some sort of system to replace players in your lineup entirely. So lets just rule that out for now as a way too complicated situation. While we can't go to a rebuilding team and say "hey, you're not allowed to get value out of what you have when your season is lost already," we can still maintain the base of this league which is that human players matter more than bots. Should report to Blues if you see this though, no? Not sure if you've already done it, just saying you should if you haven't. Though if it's just line strats and not team strats, it's near useless in our version like ice time sliders lol.

Have to read the whole section to see the bot backup bit. Its one of the explicitly defined portions within that rule that is easiest to uphold due to the quantitative nature.

You're mixing up two different rules here. The Louth rule specifically requires every VHL team to play their backup goalie 8 times in a season. It doesn't have to be just 1 goalie, could be any combination of backups as long as a single goalie on their roster doesn't have more than 64 starts in a season. Not GP, just starts. From what I recall, this rule was to ensure teams would be forced to play their secondary goalies since there are almost always a few human backup goalies in all seasons. If competitive teams aren't required to start their backups, GM's will take advantage of it. The Spirit of Competition rule simply states that if you have a bot backup goalie, the bot can't start more than 8 games in a season. The logic is that pretty much every VHL-eligible human created goalie will be better than a bot, attribute wise, and we should always be playing user created players over bots. If you don't have a human goalie, you must make a significant/reasonable effort to acquire one. That's the rule that was broken here, hence why overplaying human backups is never punished, since there's no rule around their max starts.

Why did I watch a harpy lay an egg

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Find Jesus holy shit. I'm 22 seconds in, there's no fucking shot man. I'm canceling this contract by abusing my admin powers. edit: I had to crop this image too to save everyone else

Straight to Warsaw (in S94) @Grape what anime episode am I watching

Said nothing about broken rules, just about "one mistake" when they seem to be adding up. Not like you to miss things after being in the role for this long.

Happy to pitch in mate. Arbitration rules weren't an oversight on your part either?

So if the punishment is still just reduced odds but not a punishment to overall position, couldn't a team egregiously tank (perhaps doubling bot starts and losing a majority of those starts) and guarantee 2nd overall at worst in a class with 2 elite players? Almost like the situation this season? We had the warning with WAR/CGY that further infractions would be punished more harshly since it was one of the first instances with the rule being broken and also punished, when do we hit the threshold of actively punishing teams that break these rules? Seems like even Bana recognizes this tactic? Multiple "honest" mistakes this season for a very tenured GM....

One more game

You were the simmer, could have changed it

If we win game 6 and 7, I'll have next season's simmer rename our arena to Jarmo Ruutu Arena

Voss??? C'mon, you've had some studs since Tordahl, cut yourself some slack. You make fantastic players, don't let anyone tell yourself otherwise.

Shit's cursed

By now? You're like 10 seasons late.