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There was an option on the table that would have used the farm system in STHS as a place for people to start until they hit 200 TPE at which point they could be called up mid season to the M to sit until 400; so basically the VHLE but without jumping leagues and teams and a third draft and everything. It was debated a lot but ultimately we decided that it just wasn’t worth the investment needed right now as the numbers just don’t really support it any more than 10 teams and in our testing the performance of 400 TPE players against new players isn’t as insane as one might think. That’s hard to say. It was both performance and space realistically. With the amount of players we had at the time we would have needed large expansions in both the VHL and the VHLM regardless of performance level just to house everyone. Personally I don’t agree with going to more than 16 teams in the VHL so that was always going to be a tough sell.

Proofreading, a way to not get ridiculed keep it to actual applications now please.

Correct, the original VHLM used the farm system. It was abandoned relatively early so that the M could have their own GM’s with their own control rather than having their lines tacked onto the VHL ones and such.

Nothing is impossible. The system did work as intended (despite the feelings some have about it) but just doesn’t make current sense anymore. I wouldn’t call it likely but you never know.

That was pretty much just my wording based on what was easiest. I did post the announcement in the BOG in advance and requested feedback if people had any and didn’t receive any notes on that wording but it also wasn’t in there for long. Nothing in this regard is exactly set in stone as of yet.

@Spartan pulled the numbers for us. What he got (plus a few fringe players not counted here) was: Halifax +5 Houston +3 Las Vegas +4 Mexico +3 Miami +2 Mississauga +3 Ottawa +6 Philadelphia +0 San Diego +1 Saskatoon +2 There are also 4 players who skipped the M draft an went straight to the E which would need to be placed. Edit: Not sure if these are the exact same numbers you have or not, I realize now that I'm talking amount of players and you are talking TPE / "power ranking" not just straight how many players are added.

By our internal counts (because yes we did run the numbers) Ottawa actually gets the biggest benefit with 6.

I agree, I think Seattle is gonna take down Toronto in like 5 games and then be beaten by Vancouver in a close series.

Essentially. Was announced May of 2021, its first official season index was October 26 of that year.

Whoever wins the Renaissance cup this season gets to keep it. I mean I’ve seen the VHLM post so they’re in the clear; unless Eno lied to us then there’s really no point in trying to pull this.

Hello @Members I won't lie, some of you are probably thrilled to be reading this, but for me it's bitter sweet. 15 seasons and over 3 real life years ago we officially announced the VHLE, the league's third official league. It was a culmination of a lot of behind the scenes work to make what ultimately was necessary at that time and I was proud to get such a large project off the ground. For many reasons it’s great that it’s no longer 2021, the world isn’t locked down anymore for instance; but one cannot deny those lockdowns brought us a lot of members and now league recruitment has returned to what we would call normal levels vs. the insanity that I think most members became accustomed to. Realistically with that comes the fact that the league is simply not overfilled to the point where a third league is necessary any longer. For that reason, as of S96, we will be removing the VHLE. I can't find any quotes from me on the matter like I would have wanted but I have been saying for years that the VHLE is actually easier to remove than simply expanding the VHLM and then contracting teams later, I stand by that and it is more or less how we are going to handle this. The VHLM for the time being will remain at 10 teams, though we are open to future expansion if needed, and the players from the VHLE will be moved up or down accordingly based on their TPE levels. The VHLM's hard cap will increase to 400 TPE, the VHL's soft cap will remain at 300 TPE. So essentially the same as the VHLE for call ups, if you are over 300 TPE at the cutoff you can play up or down, if you are over 400 TPE you're in the VHL. Exactly how players will be moved down is still up for debate a bit amongst the @VHLM Commissioner team but in all likelihood players will simply revert back to the team that previously owned their rights in most cases and go to a waiver system in a few select ones. If that doesn't prove remotely balanced there could be a draft, again we'll know more details soon. The VHL isn't particularly affected since players who would have been going up still are so no major change on that front. The @VHLM GM and @VHLE GM groups have been notified about this in advance so they already knew as of a few days ago. For the VHLM side nothing much is changing but unfortunately the VHLE crew are all more or less out of a job, luckily we expect a lot of openings this off season so hopefully they can all find new homes. Either way we appreciate all that they did for the VHLE, even if its time was relatively short in the grand scheme of things. Additionally we appreciate @Enorama for his work as VHLE commish, the RGB teams (RIP that acronym) can be thankless jobs and he did it well to the very end. Other minor things of note that this does affect: the "Hello Europe" career task will officially be retired as of now. We may replace it in the future if we feel like another one is needed but thematically nothing really fits and the @BOG feels as if the career tasks don't necessarily need an additional one in that slot. Career length also did go up with the VHLE but we have no plans as of right now to bring it back down. With the expected time to get to the VHL staying the same it seems equally fair that the career length is staying the same; in most cases people will simply spend that extra season in the VHLM instead of jumping around. I do want to make it clear that, at least personally, I do not believe the VHLE was a failure, simply a mark of it's time. Time's change and the league must evolve. if the time comes that it makes more sense Vasteras may yet ride again but as of now the numbers simply aren't supported. I look forward to moving things back to how they traditionally worked and seeing where that takes us as we approach season 100. Of note, and I promise this wall of text is almost done, we don't expect this to cause off-season delays but it's not impossible so please bear with us if things run a little longer than usual. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, I expect there will be some as this is a lot of information. - @Commissioner

PLAYOFF INDEX @VHLE GM Here is your index for the playoffs, we will be starting these tomorrow so please get your lines and such ready in the meantime. The schedule will be the same as always, 1 game per day. As they were during the regular season sims will be live and available here: https://www.twitch.tv/beketov_vhl I will update discord each day when I'm going live. Hope you all had a great regular season and looking forward to some playoff action.

Welcome to the VHL, MondBaum! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Ultimately as the tools get better the detection tools will also get better. I don't see a massive issue with using a grammerly type tool that simply improves on writing without generating it for you; int he same way that I don't mind AI images being used as a base (rather than using a render) for Graphics; that's the same situation to me and totally fine. The problem is that, as you say, it gets flagged by detection tools so being able to accurately prove what is purely AI and what is simply AI assisted is difficult. GFX has it a lot easier in this regard because we can simply get a copy of the PSD file and see what was done at every stage but that's not possible with written content short of maybe a side by side "pre / post AI" pass which is likely to be a lot more complicated than it sounds.

If you want to play around with it and post stuff for people to see and have fun with by all means do so; we obviously have specific sections for that which you know because you used one. The point task sections, however, are not it. The league has not banned AI, the league has banned AI point tasks, there’s a difference.

It sounds strangely counterproductive but I would argue having sims daily actually makes sure they happen in a weird way. Any time I’m away or whatever and have a few days off doing them I get back and nearly forget that I have to. I would imagine if we had weekends off sims on Monday would be missed pretty frequently as we’d just get used to not doing them and forget. Now of course it’s also possible that the routine change would just get burned in so we’d remember anyway but yeah, routine keeps things going in a lot of ways.

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My wife works on UK time and I have to get the kids ready, I don’t get that luxury.

I already wake up at 5:30, I’m not getting up earlier than that on a Monday.

Tbh it’s much less “forgot” and much more “because the league runs off pacific the switch needs to be flipped at 4am for me and I’m asleep”. So like it’s midnight but I can’t flip it until I’m awake and I just have to hope not many people create in that gap.

Monday, same time the PT week flips over.