Beketov

3 points and we lose, 0 points and we win...I see it's going to be that kind of playoffs.

Setting up the live sim now at the above link.

@Frank is old school man.

Sssshhhhhh

Proper playoffs start tomorrow so get your lines in @JeffD, @Beaviss, @Enorama, @Banackock, @Victor, @.sniffuM, @Jubo07, @diamond_ace

That's a bold take. Wrong; but bold.

Prague finally wins a playoff series! I will almost feel bad about destroying them. Almost.

Setting up day 2 now at the above link.

Oh you sweet summer child, don’t you know? All as exec notes are bullshit and what they want is terrible. You still have to grit your teeth and do it of course, but it will be terrible. I expect the cut by end of day even though you haven’t shot it yet.

I will provide usual client notes on said ad. Let’s just get a few out of the way early: 1. The logo needs to be bigger. 2. I don’t like the music but demand all the cuts be to beat. 3. Could we make this transition snappier? 4. Our budget only allows for 29 seconds actually so we’ll need to cut 40 out.

Ah to have the free time to do that anymore.

That too. Essentially it’s more cherry picked stats. I don’t think @Tagger means anything by it but the point is that there are a lot of variables and even in seasons where I had a good shoot% so did other players. In addition years I scored plenty I had a shit shoot%.

Just curious, why have have the top 50 thing in there? Doesn’t that just skew it? If I recall in S68 the record was actually beaten twice since Van Lagen had a 17.69. It was a weird season in General for shoot percentages and I wish I could explain it. Hell I wish I could replicate it. Of note just skimming through as well, top in the league in S70 was a 16.50 and 2nd in S72 was 16.67. Point is I wonder if some seasons the percentages were just been a bit elevated from expansion maybe? Not sure.

Because it’s not something that should be happening nearly as often as it has been. Teams should need to work with the players at the positions they have rather than just getting their guys to swap to whatever makes the most sense for the team because it’s so painfully cheap. A position switch should be a major decision and not one that can happen often.

How did I know you’d be the first to see this?

A lot of people would complain actually. Because unless I know the intention of 16 GM’s simultaneously I have no way of knowing if things are wrong in their lines. This means the aim goes through and we only find out about it afterward which would mean re-sims. Those are a pain in STHS, you can’t just do certain games, you have to do them all. So now 15 other teams have their perfectly fine sim screwed up because 1 GM didn’t do their job correctly. This is why it’s a GM’s job to do things correctly and on them if they don’t, because it doesn’t just affect them.

Sure but within reason. In a GM messes up are we expected to delay the entire sim by a day while they fix their mistake and make everyone else suffer because they screwed up? There's a certain degree of responsibility from all sides and GM's know this.

Stupid game poster not working. NA Wild Card, GM 1: Calgary Wranglers vs. Seattle Bears NA Wild Card, GM 2: Calgary Wranglers vs. Seattle Bears EU Wild Card, GM 1: Riga Reign vs. Prague Phantoms EU Wild Card, GM 2: Riga Reign vs. Prague Phantoms

Just getting the live sim set up, will be live here in a moment:

Simmers have enough responsibilities without having to hold the hand of every GM to be honest. GM’s focus on one team, we have to keep track of 16. If someone misses up their lines that’s on them. Obviously yeah if I forget to use them or I screw them up that’s a fair complaint but a GM doing something wrong isn’t the fault of the simmer.

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.