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Setting up day 6 right now.

That was @McKelvie's beautiful NHL '94 inspired piece.

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Yukon officially the only team remaining undefeated in regulation!

So more work for the portal team and the simming team just to have the team names change? That’s all that would occur. The work isn’t worth the pay off.

That’s the major issue with the concept of relegation. Outside of it just being an insane amount of work in the sim and on the portal, each league has different TPE brackets so you can’t just shift them around freely.

Day 5 going live momentarily.

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I think so, or at least it had a lot of traction TO be a thing. Never officially was. I think Nagger was just the GM so it was more of a nickname than anything but it wasn’t official.

That was the other option, it didn’t receive any votes. The name was actually the last thing I think we decided. We’ve been calling it the E League for 6 months.

It was 100% an option, and voted on. A few people preferred it but the vast majority voted against it. Last I saw the vote was I think 13-3. Personally I agree that EVL sounds better (and funnily sounds like it should be Evil) but we wanted the follow the naming convention that we already had in place.

Sadly I let us down big time against Mexico but the team played amazing in all three games and we are still let to lose in regulation at least.

Yeah I think Davos right now is more bad luck combined with more teams which means less chance to win. @GustavMattias hasn’t really been managing the team badly, they are just having rotten luck.

Losing a couple of players every season and re-drafting the entire league every season are very different. I’d wager you underestimate how long some people take between 200 and 400 TPE. Teams won’t be losing all their players every year. Re-drafting every season, in my opinion, is a logistical mess with very little benefit.

1. Changing the amount of teams every season sounds like hell on the simmer. 2. The whole ideology is to make it a competitive environment vs. the M’s job being about retention. Having to build exclusively off a single draft and nothing else completely kills that concept.

Setting up day 4 right now.

There’s no “choosing” to pass it though. The portal will be set up the same way it is now, once 200 TPA is hit if you are on a VHLM roster you cannot apply more TPE, you can only bank it. Again, the exact specifics of a VHLM player hitting 200 before their M draft is still being discussed.

Also of note, I have made a new group for the @VHLE Commissioner team (which also resulted in the mod colour changing). They’ll need one of our handy little group icons but that can be sorted. To be honest I made those literally years ago so it might be time for an update anyway.

Live sims will follow the same as they do in the other two. As I said before, it’s a transparency thing which isn’t related to a specific league. As for who’s simming / the rotation: it’s likely @Quik or @Josh will move to full time simmer but it’s not confirmed yet. Rotation wise, in all likelihood, they will sims exclusively the VHLE and @Devise and I will continue to rotate between the M and the VHL. Again though, this is all subject to change.

I think everyone is assuming this is automatically going to be a bigger overarching change than it is. The fundamentals of how the league operates won’t change so how the M cap works is no different. As per your question, that’s currently being discussed.

Hard TPA cap but soft TPE cap, same as now. So you can earn past 200 but you can’t apply past 200 and anyone who’s at the cap at the cutoff is sent up.

The question thread isn’t supposed to be for people who don’t want to bother reading the actual announcement…. But yes. The floor of the VHL will be 350 TPE but if you get to that before the cutoff in your draft season you can skip the VHLE and go straight to the VHL.

Putting them in the draft should be fine. The mostly likely course of action will be players declaring their intention before the draft if they fit into bracket, allowing them to be picked up in the draft.

You’re both saying the same thing I think, just referring to the off-season differently. The next draft is S79 which will be only the M and the VHL. The draft after is S80 which will be the VHLE’s first season. So we have at least 3-4 months to finalize things.

Yeah, we’re talking about usually like a week between the draft and the cutoff date so even with off season bonus stuff you’re looking at people who are above ~325 at the draft and even then it’s an option for them, not a guarantee. It will be very rare to have any draftees being guaranteed to go straight to the VHL.