fishy

Concerns brought to the table
There were empty or near-empty VHLM rosters that aren’t conducive to activity or snagging the interest of newcomers. Rule evasion: GMs colluding to flip players/picks Solutions offered
Get rid of draft pick trading Con: We lose elements of realism Con: limits experience of new members + recreates Get rid of FA waiver signing Restrict draft pick trading Gus’s idea: limit amount of picks per round by assigning point values to picks, set a point cap Nyko’s simplified version of Gus’ idea Require X amount (either min or max) of picks/team(/round) on draft day Con: Doesn’t address the rule evasion issue Limit pick trading to the same season (at least before specified date) Pro: reduces opportunity for teams to go all-in, reduces pick hoarding Randomize VHLM draft order No trading first round picks Disallow trading a VHLM-drafted player in the season they were drafted/No team can have more than 3 players selected in the first round in the same season they were selected Roster minimums Con: sucks for people who are on a team with the minimum Con: would be extremely difficult without allowing inactives Reduce waiver limit Create a trade window No double-shifting except playoffs (pretty sure this was implemented) Implement a waiting period during which a player can’t move Con: easy to lose members during this period Con: users likely to still sign with the first person they talked to\ Con (from the future): if we move waivers to the portal, it’s useless Concerns not directly linked to solutions
VHLM is a developmental league: what does that mean, how do we balance development and healthy amount of competition to keep players engaged VHLM GMing quality: restricting options for VHLM GMs will affect their experience as a GM  

there's an archive now

Nah - not enough substance in the vast majority of these 590s to be worth a review.
 
Plus with trivia coming back and the new game thread commenting, I doubt reviewing will be as popular as it is right now, so there should be more media spots available with zero or one reviews again.

^

It would be quite ironic if we let this discussion die out

I’m fine with it

slight update:
 
As a secondary point task, members may complete a Game Recap in the appropriate sim thread. This recap must be at least 75 words, is worth 1 TPE, and may be claimed up to two times per week. The recap should cover topics relevant to the chosen game.
 
This includes, but is not limited to:
1) A recap of the game
2) Shouting out a great performance
3) Presenting an opinion/observation from the game
 
A member CANNOT recap a game if:
1) Their player played in the game
2) They GM one of the teams in the game
 
Prospects of a VHL and/or VHLE team are allowed to do recaps of those teams before they make that team's roster. ALL VHL-sanctioned sims are eligible for recaps, including the World Cup and WJC.

slight update:
 
As a secondary point task, members may complete a Game Recap in the appropriate sim thread. This recap must be at least 75 words, is worth 1 TPE, and may be claimed up to two times per week. The recap should cover topics relevant to the chosen game.
 
This includes, but is not limited to:
1) A recap of the game
2) Shouting out a great performance
3) Presenting an opinion/observation from the game
 
A member CANNOT recap a game if:
1) Their player played in the game
2) They GM one of the teams in the game
 
Prospects of a VHL and/or VHLE team are allowed to do recaps of those teams before they make that team's roster. ALL VHL-sanctioned sims are eligible for recaps, including the World Cup and WJC.

So this is the rule as last stated. The change we've made is now the cutoff doesn't play in to their eligibility to go up.
 
At Finance Cut-off:
 
Players at 201+ TPE are no longer eligible to play in the VHLM and will be bumped up to the VHLE/VHL.
Players at 401+ TPE are no longer eligible to play in the VHLE and will be bumped up to the VHL.
 
At anytime prior to the index creation for the upcoming season:
 
Players in the VHLM that now fall in VHLE eligibility may be "called up" but this is decided by the PLAYER.
Players in the VHLE that now fall in VHL eligibility may be "called up" but this is decided by the VHL GM.
Players that have TPE applied in this time resulting in them being taken out of the eligibility range of a lower league will be forced up.
 
Training Camp: 
 
May be claimed by anyone that have been drafted to a VHL team and doesn't effect eligibility to play in a lower league.

I haven’t had any time really, @Josh are you free for any?
 
Honestly I can run a couple of Nyko’s to confirm but I don’t think we need all of them by any stretch to prove the point, they seem to follow the direction Dil’s did.
 
I think, personally, the way forward here is to concentrate our efforts on the hybrid attribute method and try to nail down what attributes we want and what we want them to do. That offers better optics than just “you need a smaller gap than that” and more ability to properly fine tune things. I think it’s a shake up worth investigation.

damn @fishy takin' shots

Thats fair 

Fixed
 

Secondary Point Task -> Game Recaps
 
As a secondary point task, members may complete a Game Recap in the appropriate sim thread. This recap must be at least 75 words, is worth 1 TPE, and should cover topics relevant to the chosen game.
 
This includes, but is not limited to:
1) A recap of the game
2) Shouting out a great performance
3) Presenting an opinion/observation from the game
 
A member CANNOT recap a game if:
1) Their player played in the game
2) They GM one of the teams in the game
 
Prospects of a VHL and/or VHLE team are allowed to do recaps of those teams before they make that team's roster.
 
ALL VHL-sanctioned sims are eligible for recaps, including the World Cup and WJC. No member may do more than two Game Recaps in an updating week.
 
Revisions for @fishy

Secondary Point Task -> Game Recaps
 
As a secondary point task, members may complete a Game Recap in the appropriate sim thread. This recap must be at least 75 words, is worth 1 TPE, and should cover topics relevant to the chosen game. This includes, but is not limited to a recap of the game, shouting out a great performance, or presenting an opinion/observation from the game. However, you CANNOT recap a game that your player plays in, or that a team you GM is in. Prospects of a VHL and/or VHLE team are allowed to do recaps of those teams before they make that team's roster. ALL VHL-sanctioned sims are eligible for recaps, including the World Cup and WJC. No member may do more than two Game Recaps in an updating week.

i dont know whos joking and im scared to ask

You use the “sharp” side, your roommate and probably Dil are fucked in the head.

what the fuck who uses the flat side

...dont you use the flat part??

also not a fan of task tpe going toward the next player. recreates already get a bonus for being a recreate with carryover, i don't see a great reason to allow tasks to carry to the next player.
 
i'm sad to hear that nobody likes the veteran presence bc that was my favorite career task to write with socks. i think it's fun, and you actually have an opportunity to diversify the type of things that you're writing based on how you do or don't move your player. if i had to get rid of a career task, it'd be the prospect scouting report. i hate that one.
 
i say just eliminate it unless we're changing word count requirements for the other tasks

Busy week over in the VHLM. We were informed earlier this season that @JB123 was stepping down from his role as GM of the San Diego Marlins at the end of the season. Then, over the last couple of days, @Alex was named as the new GM of the HC Davos Dynamo in the VHL, and he decided to turn this GM poach into a double GM poach, bringing @N0HBDY along with him to act as his AGM, vacating the GM roles in Philadelphia and Mississauga, respectively. @diamond_ace and I would like to thank the three of them for their runs as GMs with us. You were all fun to work with, and you will all truly be missed. However, we're excited to see how you do in your future projects.
 
In the end, this all means we opened the application for one spot, but we need to hire three different people to fill all these roles. It's a good thing that we haven't ran out of great candidates yet! So, our three new General Managers are going to be:
 
 
 
 
Congrats to the three of you, and good luck this upcoming season!

Imagine this: you’re talking about me, a very hot topic, in gen chat. You type, “oh yeah, fishy is the actual fucking coolest! She’s awesome and I’ve never encountered anyone so great.”
 
You send the message.
 
Someone corrects you a moment later, reminding you that this cool motherfucker uses they/them pronouns, not she/her pronouns. What do you do?
 
Your first option is to be a dick. This option sucks. Here’s what that option looks like:
 
“Whatever”
“I don’t care”
“lol but fishy is only one person! ha ha ha ha”
“It doesn’t really matter, you know who I’m talking about”
 
Saying those things makes you look like a jerk. Don’t do those things. Those things are hurtful because you’re effectively saying “you don’t mean enough to me to be respectful.”
 
Your second option is to not be a dick. This option is great. We love that option. Here’s what that option looks like:
 
Editing the message to use the correct word
And then, maybe after that:  
Reacting nicely to the message calling it out
“Ah shit my bad”
“Oh sorry fishy”
“Thanks for the reminder”

The best analogy I can think of is when you use the wrong name for someone. Here’s another imaginary scenario:
 
You’re sitting around a table with your friends, maybe having some lunch or something, and you’re like “oh yeah Daniel and I went hiking last weekend.” your friend Timmy, who you went hiking with last weekend, looks at you and is like “you mean me?”
 
You know what you’re not going to say? “Whatever.” “I don’t care.” “Your name doesn’t matter, I get to choose your name based on how you look or sound.” “Names don’t matter.”
 
It sounds silly, right? You’d just say, “oh haha yeah my bad”
 
 
Being wrong can feel awkward, but it doesn’t have to be. I can’t speak for everyone, but I am quite understanding of people using the wrong words. Society has trained us so that when you hear a voice like mine, your brain goes THAT IS A WOMAN. I understand that, and I try to be very forgiving. For some people, you may have never met someone who identifies like me or my non-binary comrades, and it’s a really weird concept to process.
 
Most of the people on this site don’t at all intend to be hurtful or harmful with their words in that way. Some of you do, and, disrespectfully, fuck you, but the rest of you are just uncomfy when you’re wrong. Making mistakes can make you feel so silly, and I know that because I make mistakes all the time.
 
We hear a lot of things like, “respect people’s pronouns!” and, like, yeah, do that… but we don’t hear a lot of discourse about what that looks like. Respecting people is about more than getting right on the first try every time.
 
tl;dr: Being disrespectful of pronoun preferences is a dick move. Fix the error and move on.

the survey is not well made but a vhl census could be kinda interesting tbh

It’s been quite a while since the Board of Governors has issued an official update on what we’re doing. Please note that these updates are for the purpose of the general VHL member to know what we are and aren't working on. Some topics that move on and off this list may not come to fruition–we may decide that, after careful examination, the idea isn't practical or has too many inevitable opportunities for failure. These updates are not intended to signal that we have everything about it figured out.
 
Frequency of these updates is to be determined. There's no point in posting weekly updates stating that concepts are still in progress, but the goal is to reduce the amount of unknowns with relation to what people are and aren't paying attention to. Anyway, without further ado...
 
The Meta
 
We have been in the process of discussing how to resolve the meta issue in the league since late October. Our goals for the project include creating a more well-rounded competition among teams, rather than a select few teams dominating the entire league because of specific player builds.
 
A challenge we’ve faced in our search for a good solution has been a resistance to infringing upon user freedoms in building their player. We’re narrowing potential solutions so that users still have control over how they build without allowing for the current issue to persist. We’ve advanced from the initial discussion phase and are currently looking at test sims that have been run by fellow board members.
 
VHLM Waiver Improvement
 
We are currently working through a proposal to update how the VHLM Waiver System works. Right now, VHLM GMs are required to manually post in player creation threads, which takes time, effort, and availability. The proposal for improvement consists of moving the VHLM waiver to the portal. This concept was proposed in response to a deep dive into retention.
 
We reached a point where BOG members had said their piece, and we are collecting information and opinions from VHLM GMs, as they would be the primary population affected by the changes.
 
VHL Finance Transparency
 

 
All amounts listed are in CAD. The makeup of each expense category in this quarter is as follows:
Advertising, costs related to recruitment drives. Branding, costs related to purchasing team logos. Charity, the total of funds donated to the league earmarked for charity and the league contribution from the holiday drive. (Does not include holiday raffle winners) Hosting, costs related to hosting the portal and forums. Licensing, costs related to STHS licenses.  
Career Point Task Revisit
 
There have been complaints (both old and new) about the career point tasks. This proposal just came forward a couple days ago, so not much has been done on this front.
 
We’re evaluating the career point tasks as they currently stand to determine whether they should be updated/returned to how they previously were. More to come on this front.
 
Additional Secondary Task
 
We received a proposal about adding a new secondary point task since trivia wasn’t running. Right now, secondary point task options include reviewing, VHL.com tasks (article, radio, and graphic), and press conferences. Although there are ways to reach cap each week the the current options, without trivia, these options may require people to complete tasks in formats that they’re not comfortable with. The goal outlined in the proposal is to offer more opportunities for forum engagement and connecting with people outside of your own team’s locker room/immediate vicinity. We are currently in the process of determining whether we should implement the proposed task, especially given the return of trivia.
 
Award Voting
Award voting is currently live! Woohoo! Offseason!
 
New Member
Spartan is ONE OF US
 
@BOG