Spartan

Well hello, it's me again. Usually I'd scale down the giant grumpy Menace man but I'm doing this on my phone so you get the giant face today. It's always a thrill to announce our leadership group, especially after a season when some of our team leaders stepped up their game to a new level and won multiple VHL awards. @BOOM snapped out of his award drought and collected the top Offensive and Overall defenseman awards. Team AGM @Brandon secured the Goal Leader and Most Improved awards. And our captain @Arce locked down the Points Leader and Most Outstanding Player award. We're extremely proud of our leaders, and look forward to seeing what this next season's leaders can accomplish on the ice. First Alternate - Hammar Voss - @BOOM Three seasons with the "A" was all Voss needed to secure his recognition, so he's certainly earned his fourth consecutive season. The votes in S87 were close, and Voss fell just short of some covered hardware. In S88, the superstar eliminated any doubt that he is the best defenseman in the VHL. His constant desire to exceed and be a fantastic LR member makes our team a better place for competition and good times. We're very excited to have Voss finish out his career here in Moscow and hope to make this season the best one yet. Second Alternate - Tomas Sogaard - @Brandon Typically I decline to name the team's AGM as a formal member of leadership group, but after a tremendous individual season and a lot of roster turnover this offseason, it's simply a no-brainer to have the currently longest tenured Moscow player be named as an alternate captain. Since he was drafted in S83, Sogaard has been a flexible player who complements anyone on the team. His leadership and experience is extremely appreciated. Captain - Ronan Lavelle - @Arce I truly wonder how many players have been named as captain on different VHL teams. A former captain for D.C.'s cup run a few seasons ago, Lavelle is simply the best choice to be our captain this season. His energy is infectious and he's one of the most vocal leaders on the team. After a massive MOP and Points Leader season in S88, Arce still only talks about getting Moscow that elusive Continental Cup. We're very fortunate to have him on our team, and I'm looking forward to the season ahead! Congrats to all named to the leadership team! MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW

I'm at the point of this conference where a nap would be needed. This wall of text didn't help. Also that your title had minimal relation to your content smh. Thanks for the bedtime reading later at least.

Gonna thoroughly reply to this later, but is your counting of FA's inclusive of active status? Sure, competitiveness is great, and I love competing. But this is a sim league, not a real business with tangible awards. I don't really see any correlation between how many seasons you play in the VHL and whether you get left in FA or not. Seems like it's just whether you stay active enough to find a home no? Dunno why anyone would want Nico's corpse if I went IA like 4 seasons in and depreciated into hell

TOR signed Weenuk Warrior to replace CDS Leb

CGY has opted to release Zaza Colors to sign Halvar Torbjorn

@VHL GM continuing for S89

K what do you have? Edit: Added Glendenning (Cole came back after 6 months for 1 update huh), Williams and Hickman. Thought they were long IA ngl.

I've done the M and E so far, still thinking some things through. I guess this will update whenever I add the VHL counts too.

I've got time tonight, appreciate it though

0 chance we take the entire 200-400 bracket. Would not go well with 30-60 TPE first gens. I'd need to do a much granular breakdown with 50 TPE intervals for brackets between 0 and 400.

I mean I did 9 for shits and gigs and for an extra chance at a cup, I maintained my build and will peak over 1200 this season. I would do it the same way if I had to redo Nico's career. It's just about good planning. Next career I'll probably go the more traditional route and experience all three leagues and be a bit less of a diva maybe

Could try and look at active/IA numbers across all leagues, will not be a short-term project though

C - The Board Game Clue on Skates is now a Defenseman. Fortunately only one team had selected him. @ctots will need you to reselect your team. The team builder and form have been updated.

Holy Moscow winners, you guys the best @Arce, @Brandon, @BOOM

Lol no

Yeah we're intentionally trying to lower the burden to GM in the M so that our GM's can do their jobs to the best of their ability without burning out due to overexertion. I'm the first to tell anyone in the league, especially my own players, to slow down their earning if they can't maintain it. I'm fine with weeks off too if it means they don't associate the VHL with a chore.

Overruled, just for myself. Oh no I've failed, 1 uncapped for myself

Free cap dump, wow

I'm not sure the point you're making. Teach more people how to make the graphics so it doesn't take 10 seasons to make them? There is a portal HOF slot for the E already.... https://vhlportal.com/hof/awards/vhle

Tbf the E commies just finished the images for the portal slots this past season/offseason. It took 10 seasons to make the graphics for their awards, idk if I'd put it on Josh. And I love yelling at Josh to do portal things

Giving the goalie a bonus doesn't take away from the rest of the team going over 42 million, correct.

I'll counteract that by publicly stating I'm looking forward to playing in the E with my recreate and not skipping it this time. I think the team brandings are neat outside Yukon and I'd be happy to play for really any of the GMs there

Yeah I'm not that good with it lol. I reach out to those I'm realistically interested in, but I haven't sent those generic copy paste questions in a while now. I try to have a chat instead which is much more satisfying and personal. Props to you for talking to everyone tho

I had to make sure ours stayed nice and safe

Obviously this is going to be a contentious topic. @jacobcarson877 just wrote an article about his issues with it, or its shortcomings at least. The E had a stated purpose, but is it really meeting that purpose anymore as of S88 going into S89? I have some massive issues with the E here and some of it stems from today. Anyways, the title and preview is just a bit of bait for some clicks. I don't actually have it out for the E. What I do have it out for are GMs who don't do their jobs. I'll be straight up and say there are plenty of things I don't do well myself. I forget to give bonuses to prospects, my check-ins are sporadic at best, if they even happen at all, and I simply can't win a cup. So I know I have my own issues and shortfalls as a GM and person. But holy FUCK do some of you need to put in some more effort in scouting. How are we a sim league and I hear that only 3-4 VHLE and VHL GMs COMBINED reached out to first/second round prospects, if they even reached out at all. This league exists for the experience of our members, and most people I spoke to this pre-draft process said only 2-3 teams including Moscow spoke to them between the E and the VHL. And I reached out over the weekend to most! I really don't know what's going on with some of our GM's but it's pretty embarrassing that some folks draft people well within their projected range without speaking to them. I selected a guy who wasn't spoken to by a single VHLE GM. If we don't step up our efforts, I don't know what some of us are getting out of this role. Dunno what competition there'll be in the VHL if prospects lose interest by the time they're drafted since no one's communicating with them. Anyways I put this in the Thunderdome since I know I don't have the complete picture and am not offering 100% factual info. But the trend points towards the majority of VHL and E GMs not putting in the effort to get to know prospects, and the lack of effort is noticed by those eager prospects.