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I don’t think we really need initiative for it, people are more than welcome to do something and if it blows up and deserves pay we’ll gladly pay them. Look at how VSN started. I think it’s mostly making it clear that the expectation shouldn’t be someone else has to do everything for you or that every single thing needs to be paid from day 1. If you want to do something, do it. We’ll let you know if it’s a problem. Jesus we have a hard enough time coming up with 1 haha

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I guess we could have a cutoff of like 2 weeks but the whole point of welfare is being something super quick and easy that you still need to come on to claim. Making it something you can just set up once and automatically get kinda defeats that purpose. The better suggestion would be to have people actually use the Official Away Thread because if we know people aren’t around it’s pretty easy to be lenient on the IA rules. We aren’t heartless, we’ll gladly make exceptions to a lot of things if we are made aware in advance. They’d still have to claim TPE those weeks if they expect to get any but it could save them being removed.

That seems like a good idea on paper but wouldn’t it be massively easy to abuse? Player knows they are going to be going inactive so their GM just says to turn on vacation mode so that it can just auto-claim for them. Or do I missunderstand ?

Day 29 of SIMS!

Worst case we run it old school and just assign the players after.

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Welcome to the VHL, Gus! 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!

@Red / @Ledge and Dairy any update on these?

Damn sexy, though I do wish I had actually won a continental cup…

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Papa is the ultimate backup goalie.

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Day 28 Sim speed run incoming!

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Also of note on this S66 is when Thompson arrived in Helsinki and we had a dominant AF team. If I recall you were feeding me goals left right and center. S67 things got messy between myself and Borwinn so everything got a bit muddied.

It varied heavily based on season. However S66 is when I lost my best shot at the Kanou so I'm inclined to hate that season specifically.

Done my adulting for the night (voted and had investment meeting) so time to sim! Day 27 incoming!

You could have just DMed us instead of making a whole public spectacle. We’ve been busy, we weren’t actively ignoring it. Just slipped past. I believe everything has been accurately moved now.

Conveniently regression is changing alongside the career length change

We’re going to do our best to filter them into different categories and have open discussion topics for each category. Once the discussions run their course we’ll take the best ideas and move them to BOG discussion. It would be since that hasn’t been 175 for years now. We are extending them, though only by 1 season. Newcomer’s help and Draft central respectively.

The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring you, we aren’t trying to. @Quik is the one with access to the form and he’s gone AWOL with work and wedding planning. We physically couldn’t handle it without that access if we wanted to.

TBH even if we held the discussions in public it wouldn’t change anything. Fact is that member never factors into award decision, we don’t consider it in the slightest and I’d wager a lot of the BOG doesn’t even know the member attached to each name because there are so many players now. There was definitely a time where bias was pretty rampant but it certainly has not felt that way in a long time. On the whole the AC also wasn’t a horrible idea on paper but it lacked any kind of consistency because of the way we designed it, it was flawed from the start and we just didn’t realize it. Making it a rotating door of members was nice on paper but meant that every season the definition of what qualified for an award would change. People talk as if that happens now but it’s more so discussion of the weighing of certain things depending how the league overall did with them moreso than changing what qualifies for an award every season. Famously I argued against Beaviss winning the Boulet once because the AC that season decided it loved +/- even though historically hits have been super important (whether people agree or not) so had he won he would have had less than half of the lowest hits ever for a Boulet winner. Consistency was not key. Anyway, rambling aside, my point is that obviously no one will ever believe us about basically anything, and certainly not bias or preferential treatment, but popularity does no weigh into the BOG voting. Slobo voting…. Yeah probably but that’s on the league as a whole, we can’t really fix a public vote without taking it away from the public.