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FWIW @Spartan and I ran the numbers and you can get to 75 Checking without a single point into fighting if you so choose. To get above that you need a bit of fighting but it’s a minor amount. For example you can get checking to 90 without needing to max any hybrid attribute (nothing above 90) and your fighting would only be 62. To me that’s not unreasonable for having such a high checking stat. This is ultimately the balance: so you spend a lot of TPE to avoid fighting or do you spend less and get more checking out of it BUT you have the trade off of having a bit of fighting. The system is designed around these trade offs because it allows for different choices and builds instead of just dumping exactly the amount you want into X and completely ignoring Y. You wanna be a goon, sometimes that means dropping the gloves.

I hate to sound harsh but tbh that’s not actually steep at all. For example I tested Lahtinen’s build and it took over 1400 TPA compared to like 980. You’ve got probably one of the cheaper changes You did touch on the reasoning at the end here though, everyone will drop. If everyone gets worse, no one gets worse. Yes, TPE is worth less than it used to be, that’s inevitable. When you consider that most people could have a complete and top line ready build by 400 and a completely dominant build by 800 there needed to be a change. I implore you to not consider what was but rather what is. That you used to be able to max out every important stat in 900 TPE is meaningless because that not only broke the engine hard but was also way too easy to achieve. We aren’t punishing people for builds of others, we are eliminating the broken build while offering tools to vary builds up. Arguably something crazy like yours is getting easier. Yes, it’s more TPE but the increase is significantly less than what many builds would need so in relation to everyone else it’s no more difficult if that makes sense. Everything is relative. As for the fighting thing: the idea behind putting fighting in with checking was that a heavy hitting goon type player is likely also going to be one that gets into fights. You can get it into a totally reasonable amount without touching fighting and ultimately we can’t give every attribute it’s own or else we remove all the benefit of the hybrids. Fighting is, however, a very specific sub-attribute so a solution that we could go for Would be fighting on its own (.36 maybe like passing) and then lower the fighting ratio on grit. I do like it being there because there should always be balance like I said, you can’t just have every attribute on its own and specifically a player aiming for 90+ checking probably would fight on occasion. However the ratio of how much fighting you end up with from that might be too high and could be adjusted.

Well game 2 definitely could have gone better but I won’t complain about 1-1 against the conference champions.

One side of the playoff tree is decided but the other is still up in the air. Will Philly and Saskatoon finish things off tonight or will Vegas and Miami push things to game 7? Let's fine oud.

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Always a great series Malmo, I can honestly say you guys deserved better than to go down like this every time. I mean I’m not upset about it but you deserved better. Bring it on London!

1 Series is already done by 3 more still need resolutions. Will we get one of those resolutions tonight? Let's find out.

One of these days maybe I’ll get 2 nominations instead of 1. Or I’ll just get 0 haha.

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The battle continues! Game 5 just makes sense between these two.

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2 Series at 2-0; the other 2 at 1-1. How will things shift tonight?

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I wonder if it’s just based off the spread in number of people who thought it would go each way. Like 11-0 = sweep but 6-5 = game 7 sorta deal.

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Awful game 1 but at least we recovered well in game 2.

Of note the game poster isn't working correctly at the moment, I am fixing the post to display the proper games and links. Standby. Should be good to go now.

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Are we all ready for some playoff action? Round 1 is ready to start

PLAYOFF INDEX @VHLM 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. Games 1 and 2 simmed day 1; 3 and 4 simmed day 2, and any subsequently required games simmed 1 per day. Also as per the rules adding any new players is unfortunately now closed, this is a physical limitation of STHS. However all the new ones added in the last couple of days have been added to your rosters so you can put them in your lines. As they were during the regular season sims will be live and available here: I will update this thread and the discord each day when I'm going live. Hope you all had a great regular season and looking forward to some playoff action.

Papa been saving it for the playoffs, you just wait.

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