Spartan

Josh thing which I pinged him on, but I'm honored that you think I have the power to fix this

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I am down horrendous for Valkyrae

fare thee well, old pal

fantastic post script On a more serious note, I hope your efforts are noticed and are rewarded with more ice time. Talk to your GM and let them know your thoughts, they can always provide more input or feedback on how to improve if they think you're not ready for the big minutes yet. If that doesn't satisfy you, well, today is the trade deadline!

I think that as a community, we've somehow managed to convince ourselves that "creating change" is the standard of a high quality member. Change for the sake of change, to have your name associated with that change, or to create some sort of league activity reputation by constantly advocating for change seems stupid to me. People can be quality members without trying to blow up the site. At the least, I'm glad you're still around and doing what you please. I think Reno used to say something like "I'll stay in sim leagues until it becomes a chore," which is a pretty good expression for what we should all follow. It's not the duty of the average member to try and start revolutions, it's just an option available to people that some have seemingly pursued. You're the gold standard Frosty, don't let anything else tell you differently!

Y'know, I'm not sure if this is necessarily "not caring." Perhaps it's not setting expectations for yourself and just going with the flow. Maybe it's just not setting yourself up for disappointment, or maybe you've lost that "novelty" aspect of the VHL. I've started to feel some of those things recently, but I don't think that I don't care anymore. I certainly care about Moscow, that Pearce at least isn't utter shit, and that we have a fun and engaging league that continues to grow and welcome new faces. You don't strike me as someone who doesn't care, but rather one who has experience and wisdom, especially within the community. You're a steady presence to the league and a friendly face to all, with a solid legacy in the league's history. I'm happy to see you around every so often and enjoy our brief chats in the Bratislava LR. Hope you stick around for as long as I do

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No, I created on a Monday and used to have the perfect 12. Not sure when the script is getting run vs when it posts, because I'm definitely at a 12.

Press conference for THE @Frank, and Frank alone: 1. You've exploded out of the gates, well on pace for a career year. What have you changed from last season to this season to merit this improvement? 2. As of today, you're the top defenseman in points scored, with a 7 point lead, but the #2 has 2 games in hand. Do you think you'll continue to be the top scoring defenseman by the end of the season? 3. Pundits are mentioning you a lot for an end of the season award win, maybe even a few. Any thoughts on that? 4. Since the trade from Toronto, you've been the oldest defenseman in the Moscow locker room with the exception of Tyler Walker last season. What's it been like, being the veteran leader in the room? 5. If you had to plan a team bonding event, what would you plan and why? 6. If you could change any VHL rule, what would you change and how?

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Hello all! In case you haven't seen it yet, I will be writing an article covering contract money/the salary cap in the VHL, as well as any overarching pain points the community has identified with anything contract-money related. If you haven't already already filled it out but would like to, take a few minutes to do so here. In the meantime, I have 25 responses from a wide array of members on the site, including VHL GM's, VHLE GM's, VHLM GM's, BOG members, AGM's, and regular veteran members along with new first gens with no league experience. I'm actually quite pleased about the breadth of diverse experience levels the survey was able to reach. Below are the graphs of responses of of the major questions I asked, which will be providing a bit of an insight as to what my article(s) will cover, and to what extent and depth. This question received the most overwhelming "I understand everything about this" responses out of the five questions I posed. 20 out of 25 people feel confident in their ability to understand the individual items in the store, what each one did, and how to claim things from it. I generally agree with this sentiment as well, that the options are clearly presented and are easy to purchase and evaluate for what they offer. Prominent questions/comments: - Why it has never been updated in a while? - Do you receive your contract money for the next season before the last date for dep. fighters for the previous season? - Why doesn’t my balance show my true balance? Another question generally up there in user familiarity, but a bit more shaky for sure. Only 15 out of 25 are in the "confident" bracket (7-10 range), but with the average centered closer to around 8, there is still uncertainty from just about every user spare about 4, in their ability to properly manage regression. Some of this extends out to Jagr's vs % fighters, how to balance purchasing the non-regression related store purchases, and how to identify what plan is the best for each specific user. Prominent questions/comments: - When is the right time to buy non-regression purchases? Is it ok to bite the full 3% in your first regression? - It would be fantastic if someone were to make a dep. fighter guide - If I’m not a top earner, which depreciation fighters are the best for me? - Will there (or should there) be an added depreciation fighter option now that there's potential for some to depreciate 4 times? (Spoiler alert - NO!) This is one of the weirdest set of responses that I got, like a quasi-inverted normal distribution curve? Focused primarily on the extreme ends than in the center, which makes sense. You either know the salary brackets - what TPA+Banked amount makes what amount of money - or you don't. If someone isn't familiar with the rulebook in terms of contracts, obviously they wouldn't be familiar with structures or brackets. It is a lot of information, and an area that new VHL GM's have struggled with at first, myself included. Prominent questions/comments: - Does the original amount of money a player is signed for matter at all if said player is going to change salary brackets? - Why (are contract amounts/bracket tier amounts) so low? - I still don't fully understand when your TPE kicks in for any given season. The way I understand it is your contract scales based off of what your TPA is. And during the latter half of your career its even more because that is your "prime". I just don't understand how that works in relation to a season-by-season basis and the cap. I'll admit I started running out of money related questions to ask that the general community should know about, so I sort of went a bit niche and the responses reflect that. Stuff like bonuses, options, backup goalie cap deductions are mainly tools and options that really only VHL GM's have to deal with. Players only experience options if they have to opt into something, but not much else about it. Prominent questions/comments: - I get bonuses and options but wtf about everything else? - The VHLE stuff doesn’t make any sense. VHLE rule book says all VHLE contracts are $1.5 M but I see VHLE guys on $3M, so I’m guessing that’s just for players who are VHLE only (no VHL team has their rights)? Also looks like the VHL rule book hasn’t been updated to include the VHLE as there is zero mention of it. - It's all way over my head Another question I bullied folks with lol. Everyone VHL GM's favorite topic, mid-season trades that involve cap reductions/faux-retention, along with releasing players under contract and dealing with the future cap hit/penalty. A pretty niche topic, but I think it's cool and any future VHL GM will have to know how this area with partial cap-hits works. Prominent questions/comments: - Just like how does that work? - Don't even think of trading me Spartan. ( ) - Yeah no clue here, do players get % of their salary as a cap hit for % that’s remaining? - Huh? This exists? - Should midseason releases involve more cap retention? I shouldn't be able to cut someone at the deadline for the same amount as I'd keep in the preseason.

happy birthday to a fellow december baby

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hm, why are the capped averages still messed up despite being well into the update week? I'm definitely not at 11.25, where is that stemming from?

say it publicly weenie

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better see a fat dump into LD

yo I saw this title and panicked so hard lmfao

I just read what I wrote and question if I'd say it to my mom's face

As a first gen, I joined right before the S71 VHLM Draft and was drafted to Vegas. I spent the full season there, and then was drafted to Moscow in the S72 draft. I stayed down in the VHLM in S72 because I had not hit 250 TPE, which is what you're saying. However, as a TDL recreate, I went from 80 TPE at the S79 TDL to 206 TPE at the S80 VHLE draft. But my draft class is S81. So I realistically would have only spent 1 season in the VHLM and then gone to the VHL with Nico Pearce under the old system as well. First gens are just impacted more severely because you join randomly, and it is often not at the optimal creation point. Simply a lack of luck. Guaranteed vs potential TPE. If you go to the E, you will certainly lose out on 8-9 uncapped TPE that you would have gotten in the VHLM. Also you can do all three fantasy zones while in the VHLM as well, which is why if I had gone up and Hylands had stayed down, he surely would have passed me in TPE. When everyone in all three leagues can do all opportunities, the person who skips the M loses out more than someone who skips the E.

1. Which is fine, but also not a pre-existing issue that you had mentioned. I just wanted to know what pre-existing M issues are getting blamed on the VHLE. Perhaps this was a misstatement which is fine, I just hadn't heard of any arguments that met this criteria and was curious to learn more about it. 2. Some types of inactivity is unavoidable yes, like life catching up to people, or folks naturally losing interest. We do need to address when a league has higher inactivity rates than others, and I think there are others who have done research on it that will present it when the time is appropriate. Not going to step on toes, but I agree that the inactivity rates in the VHLE are a little concerning - that we're not putting an appropriate level of focus on retention and engagement on the VHLE that it deserves. 3/5. Not going to argue semantics, that's just how I saw the statements come off as, and I know it comes out of passion. Nothing wrong with it, but there are times when a dissenting opinion just merits a response of "ok cool," instead of a "this isn't a valid opinion." Again, just a point of caution. 4. It is not a misrepresentation of the situation, and I didn't say you disagreed with the revised CoC. I was referring to others asking for more transparency as to how the revised/updated/revamped policies are enforced, and more information on what is considered off limits so that the community can be more informed as to where lines are drawn. There's a difference between "Spartan is banned for cheating" and "Spartan is banned for deleting updates off of other players 3 months after the updates we approved." One is inherently more informative than the other, specifically only addresses the offending party, and does not provide any information about anyone potentially impacted by the offender's actions. That's what people were asking for. Not the juicy details of any and every situation.