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Arguably the addition of season 9 opens it up for having more ways to potentially earn it. For example I know @Quik always pushed for having it be purchasable. I’m not guaranteeing that would happen or what it would look like but the framework now exists if we wanted to make it more accessible or if we wanted to make the line to get it easier. I get the argument though. If you are truly one who can’t stand the idea of someone having more time than you (which we are planning to factor GP into decisions like HoF by the way) it would be problematic to know that there are 1-2 people per draft class that have more than you. Mind you, you come in at a higher TPE threshold and don’t get hit by regression as hard so it could very well balance out but we don’t have data on that yet.

Perhaps because established members keep telling them it's dumb and they wouldn't care about it? I'd argue being stuck on a third line getting 8 minutes a game would drive them away just as much (it does, we've seen it). Additionally even if it was affiliated it would still exist so if the argument is "VHLE = people leaving" then how exactly does that change anything. To answer your question though because it was also brought up in initial discussions: Sharing creates even more complications for the VHLE GM's because now they are being told "hey, you aren't a developmental league, go compete" but have 2 different VHL teams that can steal their players. Alternatively maybe they wouldn't, historically call ups from the VHLM were very low. But in that case it's affiliated by name only and absolutely nothing changes compared to what we have now. Basically it adds a lot of complication but IMO doesn't change or fix anything.

The M cap was higher and the league was full. Go higher than that and it remains far too full to bring in anyone new without massive expansion. Problem there is that it isn't sustainable because if we have a bad recruiting run then we have way more teams to fill and no players. As for affiliation, it was discussed but there's a few main problems: First that we would need to run the same amount of teams as the VHL and frankly there aren't nearly enough players in that TPE bracket to remotely fill 16 teams. On top of that the idea that it's supposed to be competitive is completely killed if a VHL team just decides to up and steal half your roster. We used to run the VHLM as affiliated and I can tell you that it turns into an absolute nightmare that isn't worth it even if we could have the amount of teams we need. Also neither of those would fix the VHL being over-crowded. I guess maybe affiliation could in theory but only if your goal of retention involves getting people "to the VHL" only to have them immediately sent back down anyway. I'm not trying to be rude, I just don't see how either of those scenarios works out better.

Oh yeah, I also forgot to do those.

Jardy coming in with basically the exact same answer as me but quicker haha

That was 100% the intention of the extension. The expectation is that 95% of players will need a season in the VHLE and therefore to keep 8 season VHL careers we added the 9th season. This means if you are part of that 5% group that can skip you get the bonus season, though also will have some very tough depreciation. The reason we have never wanted to do this is very simple: as we have seen in other leagues if you don’t have a set time to start the career clock people will intentionally stop right at the cutoff and stop warning so that they can get the biggest TPE bump possible before going up. This could mean people spending 90% of a season at 199 not earning so that they get a full “uncapping” year. This is not something we are interested in seeing. It is, however, why we adjusted depreciation to only run based off VHL seasons. So if you are in the VHL only 6 seasons instead of 9 you’ll only get hit with that first stage of depreciation and therefore won’t be reduced as much as a higher earner who has been in the VHL longer.

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12 a day, who’s allowing this madness But yeah, the discord can be a lot and isn’t for everyone, it’s not a requirement to be in the league at all.

Then I would love to see either how you would fix it or replace it. If the answer is just “go back to what we had” then every VHL and VHLM team is full and we have active players who have literally nowhere to sign, I would argue that’s worse for retention. I’m not saying the VHLE can’t be improved but the mindset that it’s just garbage with no concrete proof (keep in mind how new members are the league is very different than recreates) and with nothing presented as an option to fix the issues then it’s obviously a bit tough to go anywhere.

.861 and a .662; that's officially my worst sim to date.

Mushrooms are absolutely delicious, one of the best things to cook. Yes, raw they taste very earthy so that rarely works but cooking brings out the best of pretty much every vegetable, mushrooms included.

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Yes and no. His stuff basically parses the full PbP that STHS analyzes and it looks for key things and then kinda translates them to usable stats. I think in theory we might be able to have those on the portal but I’m not sure as the portal pulls it’s data directly from the database. There’s also a risk that those stats aren’t the most accurate because the PbP may list something in a way that we assume means stat X but it might not actually be. I do suppose this would be even across the league but still.

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The engine doesn’t* Or rather if it does then it doesn’t output it in any useful manner. We can really only track what it spits out for us.

Keep in mind everyone as well that we aren’t saying you HAVE to put something up for auction, it’s not a requirement by any stretch and we won’t be using everything anyway as it would create too many items to choose from. I’m not sure if that has been confusing people but just wanted to be clear that no part of this, be it putting up an auction or bidding on one, is required at all.

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Boiling is a great first step before grilling, keeps it nice and juicy and makes it harder to overlook which can happen very easily with chicken. On its own though? Fuck that noise.

But what about “boneless wings” which are really just chicken nuggets with sauce?

That’s fine. Like @Josh said even a rough idea of where it is is fine. It’s just that if it’s an important topic but it’s buried in 5 minutes of an hour and a half I don’t have time to go fishing in the dark to find it.

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