Beketov

I’ve been trying to nail that home to people for years but ultimately people don’t like losing, especially if on paper they should win, so they’ll gladly blame the engine being bad instead of accepting that some random is good.

We’ve been live simming playoffs since at least S67 if not a bit earlier. We’ve tried. We would basically need the source code and he won’t give that to us no matter how much money we offer him. He also won’t do any custom modifications (paid or otherwise) so that it could run server side.

I would love that. Save me the time and effort + make it impossible to say anyone cheated. Sadly it’s a pipe dream with how STHS is built as far as I’m aware.

Shit, I’ve been had.

1. I gave my full reasoning as to why doing it live is a pain for me. 2. I openly said I’ll look into a way to make it easier.

Not saying there isn’t and not saying that it isn’t an option. Just pointing that out that the usual “anyone can do this” argument doesn’t hold a ton of weight as far as trust is concerned.

Of note simming isn’t something we can just hand anyone. Doing it involves having access to every league file from every season in the server AND all the backups. 4 keystrokes could delete the entire league. So yes, we can look at the process but there are reasons I don’t care for the “just hire someone willing” argument because there is a lot of trust involved.

Just a general rundown in case anyone is curious about circumstances outside the raw numbers: 61-64: As mentioned I wasn’t simming yet so really just a good baseline of Thompson’s talent. 65: Devise Simmed so lab ignored this one (a mistake in itself because things happened in odd numbered seasons as well to drop my numbers as much as they happened in even numbered to increase them). In 65 Ironside and I both signed in Seattle intending to make it a super team. This backfired as I learned that if I’m on a line with another 2-way guy we would both suck. Ironside actually played pretty on point but Thompson suffered. 66: I jump ship to an insane Helsinki team. Anyone that looks at the team that season can recognize why my numbers were good. Borwinn and I played lights out together and it went great. 67: Borwinn re-rolled his attributes and basically copied my build. Went okay for him in the long run but as mentioned above Thompson didn’t like other 2-way players with him. Borwinn and Thompson both suffered big time. 68: Intentionally signed with a team so that I could hit 400 goals and had everyone on the team on board with that goal. @Advantage and @OrbitingDeath for sure can confirm. We were a team built entirely for feeding Thompson goals. 69: No player in the VHL so as mentioned, not really relevant. 70-71: Probably my worst seasons with any player I’ve ever had. Went up slightly with Devise simming but I was still miserably awful. These are more uncharacteristic than awful than proof I shouldn’t have been doing better but there you go, horrible years. 72: The peak of that current build of Calgary. Scoring on the whole was down that season and I finished 10th, 16 points out of first place. I did tie for the Brooks which is shocking after my first two seasons but I also had Jubis feeding me like mad all year (he finished third in points and had 55 assists). Playoffs went very similarly (while live) until we were shut down in the finals. It was a strong team to be honest. 73: Scoring in the league went way up, mine didn’t. Jubis stayed hot so I think we were spreading things around a lot. On the whole a 9 point difference between 72 and 73 isn’t some insane red flag. My goals did drop a lot, I’m confused by that. @Jubis was GMing his first full season so we’re lines a little wonky maybe? Unsure. 74: Traded to Moscow and let’s be honest, was the best player on the roster by a pretty wide margin. Not the first time that a good player on an iffy team has been great. The fact that Moscow played way above its skill level is more surprising. 75: Big drop off I can admit. Partially consistent with the league scoring going down on the whole but not fully I can admit. Like I said earlier, I think I wasn’t on the PP lines and on the whole we didn’t mesh amazingly. I actually found in the playoffs (again, live) I did a bit more consistently good than the RS. 76: A bunch of trades led to a super strong lineup, see S66. ————————— So ultimately that’s a lot but just pointing out that there’s a lot of information being left out of the sheer numbers. However @bigAL makes a good point. Should this be about me at all? Probably not. Gorlab made it that way for reasons I’m not really sure of. Perhaps the conversation should be more of “can we remove the question” rather than “is he cheating” as it was presented. As I said, it’s difficult but I’ve got 6 seasons without a conflict of interest to try and figure it out so I’ll see what I can do.

Alright I just woke up and don’t have time to read all this. I skimmed it but I assume the TLDR is: Bek players good so Gorlab mad? I did see that he included S62 and S64 which is funny because I wasn’t simming the VHL yet in these seasons so that’s fun. I only simmed 66 and 68 in Thompson’s career, the rest of that section can be thrown out. I also saw someone, @RedSus I think, mention Lahtinen playing top line all three seasons in the same team. This is true but the team around me changed quite a bit, league scoring in general went down, and I believe (although @Victor can confirm) that I wasn’t as high in the PP lines in 75 so I wasn’t getting as many power play goals. Could be wrong there but there’s definitely a lot of data being thrown out outside of that as well. For example three of those seasons I switched teams, 2 via FA where I could specifically pick my team. S66 I signed with a super strong Helsinki team to win a cup, S68 I specifically signed from a team that had 2 two-way guys together (a build that has always gone bad for me) to a team that was literally set up to feed me goals. S74 I was traded to Moscow so completely different team makeup. Those are being played off as a coincidence as I guess? S68 especially is interesting because 66 and 67 I played with Borwinn both times but he re-rolled his build into basically the same as mine in 67 with the result that we both did worse because two-way guys don’t like working together. Similar thing happened when @DollarAndADream and I signed together in S65. I get that this is a lot of coincidence to believe, that bad things happened on seasons I wasn’t simming and good things on seasons I was but that’s basically what happened. Long and short of it: my method for simming is to take my work computer, sign into teamviewer to get to my home computer to sim. Before anyone asks I work on a Mac so can’t just out STHS in my work machine even if I wanted to. I don’t know if you’ve ever used teamviewer but it’s laggy and in a small window and doesn’t allow you to do quite everything as you normally would. This is why my live sims in the playoffs can’t have any commentary because I don’t have control of the mic. Anyway, the point is, it’s a few extra clicks on paper but with that set up it’s more of a pain than it seems. I do it in the playoffs but every single day is definitely a bit trickier. With that said, the next conflict of interest season for me will be S80 (aim retiring trade deadline next season so do the math) so maybe by then I can work out a better system to make it live every day if people want that. I stand that it shouldn’t be needed but if it’s wanted I can try to work something out over the next couple of seasons. I say this because some of you actually approached things in a reasonable manner instead of shouting about what a filthy cheater I am. Anyway, time to make breakfast.

Moved to off topic since it’s really not a suggestion for this league but would definitely need to be more fleshed out than this. Sim engine being the biggie.

INDEX @VHL GM It's playoff time boys! Get your lines in and get ready for the wild card round. We're going to roll straight into it and get it started tomorrow with Calgary vs. Seattle and Prague vs. Riga in the Best of 5 Wildcard round.

@Da_Berr Was a heck of a fight for the szat between me and you, I'm totally fine splitting it with you, congrats. IMO the Campbell should be yours to lose as well. Moscow just barely edges out Warsaw for the Victory Cup. Hopefully playoffs go better than last time we won it.

Mine don’t but I’ll take the award TPE instead of the prediction TPE.

I didn’t even realize I was tied for it. You can have that one since I’ve basically got the Brooks locked down unless somehow I fail to score in our last 3 games and @Dil averages over a hat trick per game.

EU > NA

Not a game I like seeing us lose, we're cooling off slightly at a bad point in the season. Mind you good to still steal a point and @MexicanCow123 played great, our offence just didn't really turn up. Better but still not as good as we could be playing. Don't like giving up that many powerplays All in all though 3/4 points, still in first place, and still leading in the Szat and Brooks race. Not much to complain about. @Ricer13 and @Josh hit 100 points on the season.

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I will definitely piggyback onto this one. It is not news that I was less than pleased about Lahtinen being drafted to Calgary. The team under old leadership was, shall we say, less than an ideal location. Lots of fighting, lots of drama, not a ton of activity from the top to stem the flow. @Jubis took the reigns of a team in distress and solved a lot of problems very quickly. You won’t go down as a long term GM by any stretch Jubis but you were a good one and exactly what a team like Calgary needed.

Can't say I like that very much... This on the other hand is much nicer; especially @Dil getting himself ejected

It takes time, everyone starts somewhere. Trust me, @gorlab’s first pieces were no masterpieces, no ones were.

I forgot that’s supposed to be your job.

1. We just had a large expansion, it’s unlikely that there will be another one this quickly. 2. There is procedure to being hired as a GM, you don’t just request an expansion and be handed one. 3. Even if the above two points weren’t true no expansion will be called the Steelhawks when we already have a team called the Nighthawks.

Only 1 goal and a loss to Chicago; not the kind of sim I love.