Spartan

your uh...*checks spreadsheet*...6 total hits and 38 blocked shots did not help the cause.

Hello, below is the overall ranking of all 102 users that participated in VHFL in S81. Tagged the top 50 and then got lazy, congrats if you did well. Better luck next season if you didn't! Edit: Added in group rank as well for comparison purposes across groups (group #'s would be too difficult to add for this season, I can try to make it work for next season) Rank Group Rank User Score idk how to delete this row 1 1 @DMaximus 1808.4 2 1 @FonziGG (GM) 1777.4 3 1 @kelvi (GM) 1755.7 4 1 @Will3 1754.2 5 1 @dlamb (GM) 1743.9 6 1 @Daniel Janser 1739.1 7 1 @JB123 1729.5 8 1 @Alex 1724.4 9 1 @Mr_Hatter 1712.8 10 2 @CowboyinAmerica 1711.8 11 1 @McWolf 1703.2 12 1 @Lemorse7 1685.6 13 1 @N0HBDY (GM) 1679.8 14 2 @RomanesEuntDomus 1678.4 15 2 @Spartan (GM) 1672 16 2 @BarzalGoat (GM) 1670.8 17 1 @Nykonax 1662.1 18 3 @Renomitsu 1660.6 19 2 @dasboot 1659.2 20 1 @DollarAndADream 1652.5 21 2 @chikn(GM) 1644.4 22 3 @Frank 1638.9 23 2 @Esso2264 1635.5 24 1 @fishy (GM) 1631.3 25 3 @a_Ferk 1620.5 26 2 @Phil 1620 27 2 @DQ 1618.8 28 1 @v.2 1617.9 29 2 @bigAL 1617 30 2 @Beaviss 1613 31 3 @WranglersSuck (GM) 1610.1 32 2 @Juice 1609.6 33 1 @Doomsday 1601.2 34 2 @diamond_ace 1599.1 35 2 @qripll 1595.9 36 3 @fromtheinside 1590 37 3 @Johnny_HX 1588.5 38 3 @MubbleFubbles 1587.8 39 3 @rjfryman 1586 40 3 @teknonym 1581.8 41 4 @Baby Boomer 1579.4 42 3 @rory (GM) 1576.5 43 3 @Underclass_Hero 1575.6 44 3 @Ahma 1571.2 45 2 @BrutalBoost 1559.2 46 4 @Advantage 1557.4 47 4 @Ledge 1553 48 2 @Dom 1551.7 49 4 @Josh 1551.6 50 5 @hylands 1549.2 51 4 @jRuutu 1538.3 52 3 @Crstats23 1537.1 53 3 @animal74 1536 54 4 @DQed 1533.5 55 5 @MexicanCow123 (GM) 1524.7 56 4 @Jubis 1524.5 57 4 @KaleebtheMighty 1516.2 58 4 @telkster (50%) 1511.1 59 6 @NSG88 - 50% 1508.9 60 5 @JardyB10 1503.8 61 3 @GustavMattias (GM) 1501.1 62 2 @Beketov (GM) 1497.9 63 5 @leafsman (GM) 1495.7 64 4 @Brewins15 (GM) 1492.4 65 6 @Bulduray_1 1485.6 66 3 @GreenGato 1484 67 5 @OrbitingDeath (GM) 1482.2 68 4 @Acydburn 1475.8 69 4 @wcats 1474.1 70 5 @Viper 1463.5 71 4 @bukss_a 1460.7 72 4 @DQ 1457.1 73 5 @Blazzer 1456.4 74 5 @(DQ) 1441.8 75 5 @UnkemptCL4PTP 1439.9 76 3 @Jamomayo 1436.9 77 5 @Agito 1433.1 78 5 @FrostBeard 1426.5 79 4 @KC15 (GM) 1425.3 80 6 @Kisslinger 1423.9 81 6 @Vice 1409.3 82 5 @Gaikoku-hito 1407.8 83 6 @Minion 1405.2 84 6 @TheNeonShaman 1397.4 85 6 @youloser1337 1395.9 86 5 @Enorama 1393.7 87 4 @BOOM 1389.5 88 5 @Peace 1388.1 89 4 @Ente2997 1385 90 6 @Berocka 1376.6 91 5 @zepheter 1375.4 92 6 @KnightRiley 1371 93 5 @Seabass 1370.6 94 5 @FireballSalad 1365.1 95 6 @ajwllmsn 1363.2 96 6 @Moon 1328.5 97 6 @Webberj 1319.7 98 6 @MMFLEX 1316.9 99 6 @16z 1306.8 100 6 @tinafrombobsburgers 1280.4 101 6 @DQ 1195.7 102 6 @Vkobe-v 1163.6

Below are the S81 VHFL Payouts. Please DM me on forums or on Discord (uɐʇɹɐdS#3393) if you have any questions or concerns. Please don't have questions or concerns. However, I would love to hear any feedback you have for VHFL, so send all of that my way. Complaining about not winning is not considered feedback. You're just bad. Get good! Rankings Lists (Will be edited in later once I put them up): S81 VHFL Top Users To claim VHFL on the portal: Player Management tab -> Claim uncapped -> Fantasy -> VHFL Rank Group 1 TPE 1 @fishy (GM) 1631.3 6+1 2 @DQ 1618.8 5 3 @rjfryman 1586 4 4 @Jubis 1524.5 3 5 @Viper 1463.5 2 6 @Vice 1409.3 1 Rank Group 2 TPE 1 @DMaximus 1808.4 6 2 @Beaviss 1613 5 3 @WranglersSuck (GM) 1610.1 4+1 4 @Baby Boomer 1579.4 3 5 @hylands 1549.2 2 6 @NSG88 1508.9 1 Rank Group 3 TPE 1 @kelvi (GM) 1755.7 6+1 2 @CowboyinAmerica 1711.8 5 3 @Renomitsu 1660.6 4 4 @Ente2997 1385 3 5 @zepheter 1375.4 2 6 @Zack 1306.8 1 Rank Group 4 TPE 1 @JB123 1729.5 6 2 @dasboot 1659.2 5 3 @rory (GM) 1576.5 4+1 4 @bukss_a 1460.7 3 5 @Agito 1433.1 2 6 @youloser1337 1395.9 1 Rank Group 5 TPE 1 @Alex 1724.4 6 2 @RomanesEuntDomus 1678.4 5 3 @Crstats23 1537.1 4 4 @DQ 1533.5 3 5 @MexicanCow123 (GM) 1524.7 2+1 6 @Moon 1328.5 1 Rank Group 6 TPE 1 @Daniel Janser 1739.1 6 2 @Spartan (GM) 1672 5+1 3 @animal74 1536 4 4 @BOOM 1389.5 3 5 @nurx 1365.1 2 6 @Webberj 1319.7 1 Rank Group 7 TPE 1 @v.2 1617.9 6 2 @BrutalBoost 1559.2 5 3 @GustavMattias (GM) 1501.1 4+1 4 @Acydburn 1475.8 3 5 @UnkemptCL4PTP 1439.9 2 6 @ajwllmsn 1363.2 1 Rank Group 8 TPE 1 @DollarAndADream 1652.5 6 2 @diamond_ace 1599.1 5 3 @MubbleFubbles 1587.8 4 4 @Telkster - 50% 1511.1 3->2 5 @leafsman (GM) 1495.7 2+1 6 @Bulduray_1 1485.6 1 Rank Group 9 TPE 1 @Doomsday 1601.2 6 2 @qripll 1595.9 5 3 @teknonym 1581.8 4 4 @KaleebtheMighty 1516.2 3 5 @OrbitingDeath (GM) 1482.2 2+1 6 @MMFLEX 1316.9 1 Rank Group 10 TPE 1 @Nykonax 1662.1 6 2 @Esso2264 1635.5 5 3 @a_Ferk 1620.5 4 4 @samx (GM) 1492.4 3+1 5 @Seabass 1370.6 2 6 @Vkobe-v 1163.6 1 Rank Group 11 TPE 1 @dlamb (GM) 1743.9 6+1 2 @Phil 1620 5 3 @fromtheinside 1590 4 4 @Josh 1551.6 3 5 @Blazzer 1456.4 2 6 @TheNeonShaman 1397.4 1 Rank Group 12 TPE 1 @Will3 1754.2 6 2 @Beketov(GM) 1497.9 5+1 3 @GreenGato 1484 4 4 @wcats 1474.1 3 5 @DQ 1441.8 2 6 @Kisslinger 1423.9 1 Rank Group 13 TPE 1 @McWolf 1703.2 6 2 @BarzalGoat (GM) 1670.8 5+1 3 @Underclass_Hero 1575.6 4 4 @jRuutu 1538.3 3 5 @JardyB10 1503.8 2 6 @KnightRiley 1371 1 Rank Group 14 TPE 1 @Mr_Hatter 1712.8 6 2 @chikn (GM) 1644.4 5+1 3 @Frank 1638.9 4 4 @Advantage 1557.4 3 5 @FrostBeard 1426.5 2 6 @Minion 1405.2 1 Rank Group 15 TPE 1 @Lemorse7 1685.6 6 2 @Dom 1551.7 5 3 @Jamomayo 1436.9 4 4 @KC15 (GM) 1425.3 3+1 5 @Gaikoku-hito 1407.8 2 6 @Berocka 1376.6 1 Rank Group 16 TPE 1 @FonziGG (GM) 1777.4 6+1 2 @Juice 1609.6 5 3 @Johnny_HX 1588.5 4 4 @Ledge 1553 3 5 @Peace 1388.1 2 6 @DQ 1195.7 1 Rank Group 17 TPE 1 @N0HBDY (GM) 1679.8 6+1 2 @bigAL 1617 5 3 @Ahma 1571.2 4 4 @DQ 1457.1 3 5 @Enorama 1393.7 2 6 @tinafrombobsburgers 1280.4 1

2021 was a pretty chaotic year to start with, and then just sort of kept going that way. I'm sure we'll all be happy to put 2021 out of our memories, but there are some things I really enjoyed in 2021 especially in regards to the VHL. 1. Getting the Moscow GM position I had to go and double check the job interviews section to make sure this was even a 2021 occurrence because I feel like I've been in the position for longer than just a mere year. But no, the job opened up on March 6th, and it's been a great year at the helm of the organization that drafted me in 2020. I had the privilege to meet and interact with so many phenomenal people, listen to such diverse experiences, and build a small community of good people. I think my new year's resolution for the VHL would be to draft more first-gens, I feel like I've only been drafting recreates and missing out on the potential to meet newer faces, so I'll try to do that a bit more in the future so that Hatter isn't trapped on Moscow for the rest of his sim league life. 2. Getting to "officially" run VHFL I'm a spreadsheet nerd and VHFL is like.....the digital version of Valkyrae. I simp for both. I'd been involved in VHFL since Twists left in S73, but always from behind the scenes and exclusively on the calculation and results portion of it. I'd suggest some improvements, but it was up to the manager to implement. Now as the manager, I enjoy being able to feel like I'm not stepping on toes, and that I can easily implement solutions to issues people have mentioned for a while. Nerd shit, but it's nice. 3. The people Some of you are cool, some of you are the opposite of cool. Regardless, I'm grateful to everyone in the community for the role they play, it's a nice league to be in and I'm always excited to see how the community shapes the league moving forward into the future.

There used to be some sort of mutual understanding of trade value of capped players back when I was an M GM. Apparently that's gone away, and capped players are simply worth pennies. You can't want to be competitive and want capped players, while in the same breath saying capped players have no value because they'll be gone after the season. Someone needs to step in and figure this shit out because it looks horrendous. I also can't believe certain people have the gall to go onto a podcast and explicitly shit talk their co-workers. And that's what you are in the VHLM, co-workers, because your win-loss record as a GM doesn't mean jack shit. You're all working together to give the players in the league the best experience possible, but it seems like all anyone cares about now is their own success. I would have thought the people who recorded that podcast would have known a bit better than to straight up flame VHLM GM's. Did you really think that was a good idea?

hey that's me!

I'll admit I'm a little disappointed in the outcome, and that I feel the punishment was levied based on the rule that was broken and not the severity of the infraction. I understand that being in a GM job means you're getting to a higher standard though, so I'll accept it as fair and hope this is the precedent moving forward. Congrats to Bubbles for getting bumped up to GM! He definitely would have been my top choice to move into the role and I'm glad AJ gets to stick around as the team's AGM. Both of them have created a great environment in LVA and I'm thrilled they get to keep it going together, albeit in different roles. AJ better get Vegas when he's back to being the top candidate for an M job in the future

I've mentioned in the past that a lot of these "VHL has a problem" articles feel like knee-jerk reactions to isolated incidents and are then made out to be larger issues than they really are. Maybe for the multi account thing, I can agree that it is actually a decently large issue if we have 3 or 4 infractions caught at the same time after a decent period of the activity going on. I was more concerned in those situations about how often the moderation team checks for IPs if that is part of their job description, and how we can try and make an account level rule more prominent. It's not asking for a gigantic shift in cheating policies, a complete lack of toleration, or on the flip side - no punishments at all. But for some reason that's what the community "knee-jerk" reaction has been. A decent amount of people are either trying to move on as quickly as possible from a serious infraction, or calling for heads to roll and permanent bans from the league. The locker room ownership/staff presence discussion might be another one to add to your list, as it was also a knee-jerk reaction to the Matty situation. I thought Dil was involved in another instance of rage-quitting and not handing off an LR, but turns out it wasn't the case. So we only have the one instance of an LR getting nuked (after already getting punished btw) and there was a long discussion around the community (and yes, I know it was not a "we're going to be doing this" for when a staff member interjects) about either having moderators own locker rooms and/or having moderators or some level of staff with moderation powers with full view access over all LR's. Sometimes I feel like activity and the "reputation" we hold in the league revolves around how many rules or precedents we can get our fingerprints on. That being an active, contributing member is no longer defined as a person who earns TPE and posts on the forums and is active on Discord to be part of the community, but someone who actively tries to spark change in the league. Like constant activism, and frankly, it's getting dull. Even when thinking about my own activity, I feel like I've spent more time participating in these "how can we make ___ better" or "is ____ an issue" discussions over the past month or two, and haven't spent as much time enjoying the actual purpose of this league which is the spreadsheet hockey and to have a good time with people who share an interest in that spreadsheet hockey. There's been more discussion around the league about a rulebook called the CoC than addressing competitive issues in the league. We added the VHLE in the middle of the M and VHL, but we didn't tweak ELC's to factor in that most players will lose a season of rookie salary tier eligibility to the VHLE. We didn't tweak salary brackets or the VHL salary cap either even though the average TPA has gone up, and I'm sure I can run the math if someone wants to question that. But players used to come in at a 200-250 floor, now they have to be at least 350 TPA, there's a clear increase at the bottom level of the salary bracket tier that hasn't been addressed or fixed. Why? Because we're too busy trying to overcomplicate what it means to be a decent person. It'll be two seasons now after the emergence of the fully exploitive meta and I haven't heard any rumblings of potential tweaks to attempt to resolve the problem, even just a step to alleviate the issue. I've been yelling about all of this competitive stuff and salary stuff for a bit and it feels like it doesn't matter because we're collectively too concerned about moderation and punishments. I've got my own issues with them but fuck, people. Is this all our league is about now?

I know it definitely must have looked odd when we signed Rara, but we made sure to have Bek's blessing before doing it. If he wanted to be the starter and felt ready to lead us to the playoffs, we wouldn't have signed Rara at all and would have just rolled with Papa. But Bek agreed and we made the finals, think we even tried to squeeze in some extra starts for Papa to get some stat padding going on. Good article, glad Moscow has a decent goalie future ahead of us unlike some other teams

I expect to see Kovalchuk off Seattle by the end of his ELC then

I think I got a Tier 2 in the VHL birthday one, but this nhl 22 thing is definitely the highest value raffle I've ever won lol. Thanks for the opportunity and glad it came from doing good things for the world.

goal was to 30 tpe from draft to HOF challenge but accidentally got too involved and ended up max earning from the start lol

unretired

I feel like we have a shared IP thread for people in the same household to declare it when they create but I can't find it, so maybe I saw it in some other league. Maybe we need one of those now. So yeah, hence why the stuff relating to at the least, account creation, should be at the top of a rulebook that gets sent to a user at creation. Making an account is the first thing someone does when joining the league, seems only natural they learn the restrictions when it comes to what all you can do with accounts. Yeah, think we can all agree Kachur was a fucked up dude and leave it at that.

Maybe part of what I should have also conveyed is the diversity of punishments used. Probation for league positions, PT bans, removal of job pay, temporary hiring ban from league jobs - instead of using weeks of TPE bans and/or a forum/discord suspension. From my perspective, the severity of what AJ and Alexandre did were vastly different, but both got 3 weeks TPE ban and AJ may lose his job. That's more of my concern, keep suspending conduct offenders from the league, no issues with that. Not advocating for it to not be its own post, but I think we need to make it more aware because I've seen a decent amount of "I didn't read the CoC because I'm not a dick" or versions of that. And I still question if cheating rules should be in CoC. absolutely, and same, idk what is in that welcome message and if its been updated at all recently - it should be though not ominous at all, can we get a 3rd person to moderate?

ftfy, agreed with everything else you said

Also as a disclaimer so it doesn't get interpreted that way, not advocating for or claiming that conduct issues are more or less severe than cheating. Both are wrong. Both are unacceptable. We do need to maybe look at whether the solution to any issue, whether it's harassment, or making multis, is simply "you can't claim tpe for 3 or 4 weeks" with some sprinkles on top of either job loss if the offending person has a job or a temporary ban. There should be a more representative punishment to the severity of the infraction, and vastly different infractions shouldn't receive the same punishment. Idk if I was clear in what I meant in the podcast (highly doubt it) but that's what I basically wanted to convey with more thought to the actual infraction. And also who is responsible for different aspects of the league's rules.

Hey it's a fun Dr. Strange reference! Enjoy the shitty intro attempt using his theme, and I spent like 20 seconds editing it in so appreciate my effort. I will not entertain criticism. Small warning that shit can get dark, I reference dark stuff that came up in conversations with Kachur/Horcrux Mentions: @Shindigs (piggybacked on a rulebook related post of yours), @samx (briefly), @N0HBDY (decent amount), @fishy (really briefly but mod related stuff so figured you may want to listen) and Fong but he won't listen so won't tag. Topics: Multis Moderation Kachur/Horcrux Rule visibility and enforcement domain (confusing, but hard to summarize into a topic list) One week of claim if I even claim it. Edit: I also sniffle a lot, it's cold, leave me alone

I don't waste my precious typed words on podcast related content.

I'm not giving this a media spot response, but I would imagine someone who consistently posts podcasts with years of vhl experience and a wide perspective of the league would receive more engagement than those who post inconsistently and don't really rock the boat in their content as Jardy does. He does it well, and he's passionate about podcasting. That's all you need to get listeners imo.

Don't think anyone is necessarily against the fact that there was a punishment, I'm just more confused how making 6 multis has the same punishment as updating a couple players for a month. Maybe the mods can see or determine at what point AJ started updating for the other accounts, but I'd think that if it was more recent as he claims, it isn't *as bad* as what Alexandre did. The family members are free to use their players once their ban ends but the Alexandre multis are getting yeeted from the league. Much more of a wide ranging impact to the community than AJ's recently turned IA family members getting a tpe ban. If they're IA, most of them will still be useful players for some E teams, but their teams still keep those players. Add on top that AJ is temporarily suspended from his GM job and at risk of losing his job completely while Alexandre has been kept on as AGM and has the avenue to redemption as stated by mods. It seems a bit hypocritical. Yes, AGM's have no pay and aren't a league appointed job, but to a team, they are the #2 in command, have portal powers, and exert a similar level of influence as the GM on the players on the team. It just seems like AJ was slapped harder for a less severe infraction, which is what some folks disagree with. Not advocating for AJ to not get punished.

Regardless of whether you choose to max earn again or not, I enjoyed the couple of seasons of casually/informally competing against you for most TPE in our draft class . Do what you gotta do to make sure the league doesn't become a chore, hope you don't fade away. Send music recs pls and ty.

This is actually a pretty interesting point that I called out from a different perspective - moreso the timing of recruitment and how it puts strain on our existing structure. As M GM's, we'd complain when there'd be a recruitment push that was between the end of the regular season and the M draft. I don't think it's been as large an issue recently, but I feel like there was a recruitment event a couple seasons ago that brought in players when playoffs were starting up. The issue we had this past season was that we had another large and successful recruitment ad on youtube right as we decided to contract the VHLM. It didn't make sense to me that we were going to try and get an influx of new players right after contracting the M, especially on a large channel. I don't know if I'd say that the goal is to keep the league size constant, sustainable growth is good for the league. I just think that maybe we need to be coordinating recruitment and league structure changes together instead of as two separate entities. As long as we aren't running the recruitment well dry, and we have the capacity to make room for everyone (which we have in the form of 3 leagues), I have no issue with growing the league size. As always though, we can't kneejerk react with EXPANSION every time we have a surge of new members, hence the need for more intentional and cautious recruiting.

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