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I'm probably getting annoying about this, but I never got a response as to why this *can't* be the recruitment team themselves. You said you and Subject are grinding Instagram daily, and maybe this is the disconnect, but does Instagram/Twitter really take so much time in a day/week that it 1. merits 6 TPE weekly pay and 2. prevents you from doing the requirements of the mentor job you state here? The only real concern if implemented would be the overlap of M jobs with mentor jobs, we wouldn't want that to occur. Beyond that, I still don't see why the Recruitment team can't be the ones responsible for this within their 6 TPE pay.

And you get more as a bonus! So Mubbles' stuff I get since I think it's manual. I could probably work with him to not make it manual if he's interested. RJ had portal API access which made it a script he just ran weekly, afaik Mubbles was doing his draft class stuff manually which I don't think is optimal, even without API access. The rest of y'all though, just echoing the sentiment of I don't think Insta/Twitter have as much of a reach as we expect for replenishing draft classes on a seasonal basis. Do you guys have set internal metrics that you aim to reach, or grow over time? Twitter/Insta give you guys metrics like views, engagements, profile visits, I'd probably set goals for those and re-evaluate over time if those are being met and improved upon - otherwise it's just doing something to be busy without really focusing on the results coming out of it. Which I know you guys aren't doing, just wanted to highlight the metrics/improvement portion as something to guide your work. I don't think anyone wants to babysit players all season to earn. I sure don't, but I still send out weekly check-ins to my players who haven't updated (or try to bc sometimes I burn out and forget) because it's just the nature of a GM role. Especially at the M level where the job is explicitly to mentor, engage and retain newbies. If handholding for a season or two is what's needed to make people really understand how the league works, I would expect that to be done. We made changes to waivers and increased pay specifically to incentivize that type of commitment and effort. Yeah DM me about this since I'm curious how many non-job holders right now are actively looking for jobs beyond GM'ing. I can already see AGM/GM applicant pools first-hand, the other stuff I don't pay as much attention to. AFAIK this is a pretty open thing. Just ask Alex to be part of VSN and then meet the requirements, don't think it's anything too formal. Maybe @Alex could bump VSN openings to the site to let everyone know they are always happy to have more writers. Personally though, I think VSN is better as a one-off or once a season job since on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, it ends up being one of the most burnout inducing jobs on the site. I've seen too many people fall victim to VSN. Someone should eventually start getting trained to replace @Victor in the HoF department since I doubt he will do the sheer amount of seasonal background legwork with updating the HoF subforum forever. I'd support that being a job or two.

That's fantastic! Glad things are starting to get going, and I'd love if all those avenues become more consistent and get a wider reach over time. But that still means we need the stuff that works, aka Reddit/YouTube, to continue on a seasonal basis. Just not ready to put all the eggs into those other, unproven baskets yet. But I give you guys a pass for this season since the recruitment team basically completely turned over.

Yeah Gus and I have been pretty decent with making sure rules are useful, clear, and also easy to regulate. Part of the VHLM activity definition change was reliant on that, we can't do weekly IA checks (which I should do this week) looking through every VHLM player's update history, and also go through their forum history. It's just not sustainable.

I'm replying to this one because there's a lot of suggestions in here and I have some strong opinions on a few of these. Buckle up. I'll preface my thoughts by saying I think the recruitment team has generally been fine over the past few seasons. There's been a push to be a bit more organized and delegate tasks fairly across members. However, from my personal understanding and semi-outsider perspective, I have no idea what the recruitment team does on a weekly basis to be earning more TPE than our VHLM GM's. In theory, the recruitment team is constantly working to engage people outside the VHL to convince folks to join. Maintaining Twitter is great, but I don't think we've had a single new person join from social media in the time I've been in the VHL - so like 3 years now. No other social media platform comes to mind as being successful (outside of the old Reddit posts). A recruitment drive on someone's YouTube channel might be the most in depth I think recruitment gets, but that didn't happen for this season and I reaaaalllly doubt is such an intensive task to plan that the entire team is spending their full weekly "recruitment team work time" on coordinating those ads. If Recruitment is getting paid more than VHLM GM's, then I'd fully expect them to be the welcome committee and the pseudo-mentors that you're referring to. You guys already have the unique Discord role to identify yourselves, why have it if not to be a resource? So I'd put this responsibility fully on the recruitment team, not expect a new group to pop up beyond Recruitment and our VHLM team to work with new members. There's only so many people interested in teaching new players (VHLM GM's and AGM's), our pool to hire from is limited already. Cool idea that I enjoy in the SHL. However, I like it there because I'm not that active in their LR's since I'm on my second player already and am fairly hands off. For a new player, I think that being hands off is not optimal. We automated waivers to shift the VHLM GM role to be able to invest more time into following up with their players and babying them when needed, push more personal touch into the day to day life. Everyone is capable of reading a screen sure, but I don't know how many new players are going to spend the time to research and self-teach themselves the site. If we can get a checklist it's great, but the onus to me is still on our M staff to not only teach new users, but push them to improve over time as well. That will require handholding. This is going to be more GM oriented, but the pool to hire from has substantially shrunk from pre-VHLE days. We basically removed 16 people on average from the VHL and VHLM pools since they're running the 8 E teams. People want jobs sure, but the league wants to hire quality and capable people for those jobs otherwise we just create more of a mess to clean up if/when things go wrong. Bek seems to be covering it as I write this ffs. VSN already has literally no bar to be above to join. All you have to do is follow the slightly higher requirements for their product, and actually do something weekly/bi-weekly in order to claim pay. So if people already aren't doing weekly VSN content, then hiring more people doesn't change anything. And no, I wouldn't raise VSN job pay at all. It's just writing an extra vhl.com within a Media Spot for the extra 2 TPE. What stats/data does STHS offer that isn't already tracked in its output? The only thing that comes to mind is GA/TA but people have scraped the PBP's in the past and the numbers are nonsensical, or at least absurd to analyze. Probably the #1 job in my priority list if I could control job applications and hirings. We should have at least 2 more folks in this role yesterday. While this is a neat concept, there's 2 issues. One, it is only for one subgroup of VHL PT creators - excluding anyone who writes or podcasts. Big no no. Two, even with the banner contests for cup winners, it usually ended up becoming a bit of a popularity contest since folks would just plug their teammates' and friends'. If we decided to start denying bonus TPE to any winner found to solicit votes or have friends assist in soliciting votes, then I'd be ok with cup banner contests only. Nope nonope nope noipe enope nopenopenopeope. Hard pass on undoing seasons of work on making the M more balanced and less of a competitive hellhole while also curbstomping the new player experience. Sure, they can get stomped when they get to the VHL at 450 TPE right now, but they will at least experience being a solid player in the M, then struggling a bit with their role in the E, before learning they aren't the best and to grow into a larger role in the VHL. Or just be quality depth, whatever it is. I think it's a fairly accurate path right now in comparison to the typical NHL draft prospect's tbh. I would consider a smaller M cap increase to 250 or 300 if we genuinely abolished the E, but definitely not to 400. The current M system works as well as it does because under hybrid attributes, the 50-200 TPE range can perform very similarly under the right conditions. --- Overall though I like the creativity and thought provoking content. Good avenues to pursue for sure, I just don't agree with some of the ways you've proposed. 6.9/10

@JCarson I saw this a few days ago and briefly skimmed a bit at the top before moving on, not wanting to read much about the pain of loss. Didn't even read down to see your core topic was about Alzheimer's. Your article popped back into my mind this morning, this time a bit more heavy hitting after I found out my grandfather with Alzheimer's passed this morning. You're absolutely right with the general sentiment here. I've seen two great grandmothers suffer for 10+ years each with the same disease. It doesn't get much easier seeing those you love and the ones closest to them deal with this horrible burden 24 hours a day. Obviously you wish you had the ones you love but to go as quickly as possible at that point is just the most you can hope for. Our family has walked on pins and needles for the past year as my grandfather's condition worsened, never knowing when an emergency trip would be needed. Just a few months ago, my father had to travel overseas on a couple day's notice to support my grandparents who were just overwhelmed with the care needed. We canceled vacations, family time, missed special events just because we were scared and just in the dark for what could happen the next day. It's still a lot to process but I'm just glad he's not going to suffer like others I know. Thank you for this piece, truly. The timing of your post was right when I needed it.

I broke the record and I'm retiring, you have no leverage over me!

Alright, so I'm gonna use this text to speech thing and then edit it later. Or maybe not. Maybe I just won't edit it. But either way, I'm already a commissioner, though I guess it's just at the VH LM level. I guess I can look at this from as if I was a VHL Commissioner and everything that I would do from that regard. First, I would probably delete the VHDE. I think that's a pretty common thing that everyone's going to be saying at this theme week. And it's definitely an extreme one, but something that I could get behind just for the sake of putting Thad and Eno out of a job. I think both of them should really focus on the VHL GM in life, especially Eno, who just quit being a GM. I think he should go back to being a GM, so if he's not being a commissioner anymore, then he would have plenty of time to GM again. And then Thad, of course, could just focus on New York. NY needs the help. So yeah, so goodbye VHLE. And it's all their fault because we want them to be GM'S first and foremost. Secondly, I would raise Commissioner pay to 12. While we already do plenty of real life money siphoning, we don't do enough when it comes to TPE. So effectively immediately all commissioners will be paid 12 and every other job except for M GM's will be paid 2. I guess developers could have four as well. Oh, we should probably also hire some developers to someone to replace Dil and maybe do just as bad a job. But hey, you'll become a builder within a few seasons once you decide to quit. And also maybe VHL GM's can get six TPE just because it's a hard job to talk to player. Third, I would just give Moscow all of the continental cups from the season 80 through 83. I think it's clear, given we restructured the way the league works and attributes work, that they were robbed out of cups during that time. So it's really only right to just give Moscow all of the Continental Cups and make it all fair. I guess that's the VHL reparations. And that means that we also take all of the Vancouver players who made the Hall of Fame from that time and remove them from the hall. We should probably also scratch them all out of the record books. And as long as I'm here being selfish, I might as well say to just remove depreciation from the league. Let people be 2000 TPA if they'd like. Lastly, I'd delete the moderation team. You know, it's 2023. Society has evolved to the point where we no longer need moderators. Clearly, they're just here to push their own agenda. Everyone in the VHL community is a pristine person, so we don't need those mods and really we can just fire them all. Everyone can have whatever name they want without any issues. We can delete all the weird auto mod stuff on Discord that doesn't let you say some bodily functions. And we can just let everyone have multiple accounts and then we're gonna have a much larger player base. I think it's just a win, win.

Visney Hockey League could be a cool rebrand

No we just all like dog piling on ScottyP

I'll try to get it up this week, but it might also just be an end of season payout solely considering how deep we are into the season.

Imagine being at 999 rep, not even at 1k nerd

Ok whipping something up real quick 1. Who would you say has been our team MVP so far this season? 2. Are you playing up to your expectations? Is there still room to improve? 3. If your player didn't play a sport for a living, what career would you work? 4. If the trade deadline hasn't passed yet, do you think we should try to acquire anyone with just 500k in cap space? If it has passed, what did you think of it? 5. Should I retire and recreate at the TDL having broken the TPE record, or do I play out the season and set the bar as high as I can? 6. Who on the team is most likely to ask for and pay for feet pics?

If there's anything you might want to collaborate on/get bodies to help with, hit me up. I don't have much data analysis skills outside anything you can do in Excel/Sheets with some R/SQL, but it'd be nice to learn if you are doing something more script heavy outside one of those mediums.

Sounds like future Menace player to me

Good to see you back! Welcome!

I hear other neat people may be recreating too

I actually sent the version of this song without Will Ramos to Fishy since it reminded me quite a bit of the 1975. Apparently Bilmuri is a solo act by the former frontman of Attack Attack! Interesting one-man band with some pop alt metal? Dunno, weird ass genre but the music is cool. Honestly there's not much to talk about in the VHL. Offseason was exhausting for some reason, probably because of how much sort of got rushed at the last minute, plus traveling around the same time. I still have to create the scoring sheets and update the tracking threads for Super Coach and VHFL. I dunno if I'll get the motivation to do it this season though, it just might end up being an end of season payout. In terms of sims, things are kind of just how I expect it really. The people I thought would suck, are sucking. The ones who I thought would be contending are contending. Not much else to really cover there, pretty predictable season so far. The next time I post a VHL.com, I'll have broken the all-time TPE record. After I claim my affiliate checks and the 4x5 from this post, I'll be at 2100 TPE exactly, just 4 behind @CowboyinAmerica's record. Maybe I'll still retire at the TDL then if I have the record, or maybe I'll stick it out for the rest of the season to see how much higher I can set the bar. I heard @Renomitsu was recreating in this upcoming class so I'd love to be in it. But I really don't want to intentionally set myself behind in a draft class when I know I can top the draft class yet again. So that's a decision to be made, we shall see!

Am I being dumb or was I not tagged anywhere near here, they're picking players here lol

Timestamp lol

Make your pick, this group is the furthest behind. Then will start the 6 hour clock for Dylan to finish up. Groups will be done today, not going to keep delaying.

There is no TPE being awarded for this puzzle smh

Snubbe.d Analfist, I'll fix it in the spreadsheet

@Steve Could we also get this posted with just the text for word count requirement checking please? We can't verify the word counts for images. Posting it as a spoiler in your original post, or in the thread is fine. Thank you!