Spartan

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I am in both the SHL and the VHL, and I can easily say I much prefer writing here in the SHL. I had to write 3k words or so to get $3 million or so in the SHL. Maybe that's not the exact number, but I definitely wrote over 2k words. That $3 million got me three weeks of training at 5 tpe each. Significantly less bang for my sim league buck. In the VHL, I know my 2K words will get me 24 tpe total. It got me 15 in the SHL. As for word vomiting, I definitely word vomited more in the SHL than I do here. Part of it can definitely be attributed to the fact I am much more involved and active here, but even in the SHL, I've resorted to word vomiting season recaps to try and cough up the money for training. At the end of the day, people will find it easier to write in a league they are more involved in. If you just do your tasks for the sake of doing tasks in either league, you will find them more difficult to complete. I word vomit in the SHL, I'm sure an SHLer will word vomit here. Extra edit: In August, I wrote 3.1k words recapping my junior career in the SHL. I was paid out 3.4 million. To me, writing 500 words for 6 tpe is easier than getting 5 tpe for three weeks from that 3.1k word article.

I did "bigal Halloween"

@Beketov

the best n0hbdy podcast yet

Claim 2/4, Week Ending 11/7

You know who I am 1. I'm generally on Discord, or have quick access to it for this time. I'm in EST so active hours are normal people EST hours I suppose. I check forums quite often as well. 2. I have 2FA and respond to pings relatively quickly. Depends who's pinging me 3. 21 4. I am a GM, but consider myself able to handle conflicts of interest. It is part of the requirement to be an updater as well, to treat all teams and players fairly. Additional things: 1. I'm not very active during this time range at this time, but my schedule is pretty variable based on the day of the week. 2. Yeah, modded various servers in the past. 3. Worked a quasi-HR job in college which also provided sensitivity classes/trainings. 4. Pretty objective in disputes outside when I make it obvious I will abandon rational thought for the sake of (lighthearted) humor. High tolerance to BS and the ability to de-escalate situations well. 5. I think I handle all situations well. I escalate situations to the appropriate personnel when necessary, or when I feel that I could not adequately or impartially handle a situation.

Same, just realized as well. @youloser1337

@Hogan

Only roadblock in that department is Free Agency. It opens up just a few days before the season starts, so there is a risk of starting too soon. However, I plan to start all VHFL drafts on the day FA opens, or the night before at least. Definitely don't want to start as late as last offseason!

I apply, I am Saturn as Beav can confirm

Because the first few rounds are generally selected before the season starts. The longer you wait, as people have tried to do for a while (extending pick lengths, holding off as long as possible to select), the more you get to see of how the season shapes up. No one was picking Henry Tucker last season until the season started. Allowing people to intentionally wait for longer into the season to make picks is unfair, and I will definitely not allow for a loophole to exist where people can wait to get a clearer picture over the rest of their group. Yep, would have to be very attentive to time zones for a Discord draft. I'm still not convinced of this idea over adding a 3rd skip before disqualification, or extending pick lengths. Running Discord drafts feel like there could be too many loose ends, and logistical struggles than just having everything done in a single subforum. I'll keep an eye on this thread to see how other folks respond to the ideas as well, and keep thinking about how I'd like to prevent skips without incentivizing taking too long.

That's why I added a 6 hour window, to wrap up all pending picks. But that is capped out to 1 pick, or 2 with an appeal. We do need to keep groups moving and allowing a team to stash up 4 picks and make them all in the final 6/12 hour window would be unfair to the rest of the group.

Yeah a little burnt out haha, but I will do what I signed up to do . Please no Keillinger, 3 names that are almost the same will surely ruin me. Voting Killinger into HOF would be fine

Kellinger is mine I did not write the completely wrong HOF article to lose out on the one I was supposed to do too

Right, and I think this is the main issue rather than time zones itself. I would only really have a window from 7 PM - midnight EST to make informed picks on weekdays. I have to monitor groups from my phone when at work. I don't think timezones would be the issue, which makes me circle back to the idea of a live, discord draft that would take like 30 minutes to complete. But that opens the whole different can of worms as to how to schedule those drafts, and how to get a group of 6 together. At the least, I could consider extending the window of time from 12 hours to 16 hours, or leaving it at 12 hours and making it 3 strikes for a DQ instead of 2.

Yeah I was thinking about signing up with time zones, but I feel like it makes more sense to have more variability in time zones than to make each group's timezone homogeneous. Like a group of all east coasters will have school/work at the same time, will sleep at the same time. While aussies in a group with a euro lass and a east coaster would all be awake at different time. Someone want to do the research?

You asked how player trades would work and I responded with a suggestion. I don't have any power to make changes. If Mexico City sucks and a 200 TPE player asks to leave, they could be traded for a 100 TPE player on Yukon who'd be coming back next season.

It counted players on rosters currently, not players eligible to be in the M. Just to see if we redistributed teams today.

high tpe for low tpe player for the future. 1 for 1 to make sure rosters aren't imbalanced in #

Not contesting, providing numbers because I was curious about how teams would look this season if players were evenly distributed by position. 2.25 C 6.25 W 3.5 D 1.6 G All on a per team basis, so about 8 forwards, 3 or 4 defensemen, 1 goalie. Obviously TPE makes it look a lot different, but the roster sizes are pretty decent. 12-13 players per team.

There have been penalties levvied before for teams not properly pitching waivers. I fully hope, and expect to see punishments this offseason as well.

No worries, I see what you mean as well now. There have been a lot of discussions on how to fix the issue with draft picks. Some teams have like 2 picks in the 4th and 5th round, while other teams have like 6 picks in the first 2 rounds. There's even been some circumventing of 1st and 2nd round pick limits that commissioners need to fix. Yukon and Houston are two teams that have taken advantage of the loophole brilliantly in the past few seasons. It does need to get fixed. To prevent teams from being so disproportionately loaded, draft pick trading needs to be severely limited. I don't have a proposed solution, but I know any solution will have to involve limiting how many picks can be traded. If they're online, yes, hopefully they get some time to respond. I think it's more of a concern if there are days between responses without any heads up. If they're online and active on discord, then it's expected they answer. I hope that no one gets ignored, and if there is intentional avoidance of a player, it's another situation to alert commies of. I don't think any M GM or AGM would do it intentionally though (hopefully)!

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1,062 words, will be claiming it as a review for 1 tpe.