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I’ll take 5. Not my best year ever but any stretch but definitely solid.

I don’t know what they’ve changed but historically the SBA and EFL had a split cap. IE if you have a job your cap is 12, if you don’t your cap is 9. Had nothing strictly speaking to do with welfare. Personally I’ve never cared for it. The argument is that it keeps people in jobs because they get an extra benefit but we e never had a problem filling jobs really and I prefer the idea that everyone can earn the same amount, just in different ways.

Bigger night than I could have hoped for. Congrats to all the winners!

Who is having these talks? I must destroy them.

The old (and old-ish) guard I can immediately think of are: - Scotty - Brooks - Knight (should be easy to track down eh @Phil?) - Slobo - Jardy - Mike - Julian - McNeil (I actually still have him on Facebook, Scotty as well) - Tank (I doubt many remember him) - Sandro (was just chatting with him on Twitter)

Which is ultimately meaningless FWIW

Of note, I’m leading the S70 class right now and have never donated during Lahtinen’s career.

This is true. I guess what I really meant was Kendrick and I are the only ones without significant periods of being gone. @Quik is also part of the day 1 gang

A lot of time super active guys may want to nerf welfare but tbh it’s not something the league is too interested in. We recognize we have a lot of members and everyone has different levels of free time. Welfare n the whole helps the community.

By that logic there is a hell of a large group. Pretty sure @Kendrick and I are the only day 1 gents left.

“Partly”

I will fucking ban you.

City wise my vote would be for Boston or Montreal in NY. Not sure in Europe but Berlin would be up there. Team names we tend to decide based off the place so hard to say for sure on that front.

@Acydburn posting the topic to get all the credit, I see how it is

Because it’s using the farm system in STHS which GM’s have control over they can actually swap them around easily. The rules will obviously need to exist to make sure that this doesn’t get abused but it’s not a whole other league really. Its also possible it won’t even be necessary at which case we won’t see any games from it at all, which is fine. Like I said before, it’s more of an overflow than it is another league. Players will still be engaged by the VHLM GM’s and such and still be a part of the team they sign with but it opens up a lot more roster space.

12 teams in the time required wouldnt happen, certainly not to the quality we’d want. Personally I like them keeping the identity of the M team that owns them in case someone signs for that identity but we might try to expand the Junior “brands” over time. Also Montreal is a major hockey city, I’d expect it will someday be a VHL team, VHLM at least. I can’t see us using it on a Junior team.

See above. Also this isn’t a guaranteed replacement for future expansion. It’s simply a gap measure to ensure that if we end up in a situation where expansion does make the most sense we have time to implement it without teams all being full.

Expansion requires consistent filling. Let’s say you add 2 teams, that’s 40 roster spots. At the end of a good recruiting season we could likely have 40 extra spots filled but what if it’s a bad recruiting season? Or he’ll what if a lot of guys just graduated to the VHL? Expansion opens up the major possibility, as it always has, to end up with teams running next to no players because they are permanently present and need players. Using the farm system as an overflow doesn’t have that problem. When it isn’t needed we can just not post the games from it but when it is needed it’s there.

In all likelihood we won’t save juniors as a full “league” on the portal unless it becomes something that’s relatively full every season. So chances are stats from it will appear on player pages but that’s it for a portal presence.

The ease of it comes from using the STHS farm system, IE when a pro game is Simmed the equivalent farm game is simmed. This means not needing an extra simmer, more GM’s, etc. Unfortunately every team needs to have a farm team, you can’t just say there are 12 pro teams and 4 farm teams. It’s best to think of it not like another league or like an expansion but just overflow. I also should have pushed for this next season when I could have thrown the work of making all the bots and stuff at @Devise like usual haha. Gonna be a lot of setup for me this year.

It’s a lot tougher than people think. I didn’t get it until Thompson who was my 10th player. I think @Victor took awhile as well.

Money wise I don’t believe it was much, if any. Just a tiny bit of extra hosting and another domain. Man power was also very limited, basically just Will after my initial mock-up design. Man hours would be the biggie. @Will can attest to how many hours they original portal took him to code but I’m guessing it’s a lot. Mind you he was also self taught so that probably made things take a bit more.

I can’t see Russia being able to write a law that covers any president aside from their own. Putin is just doing that to protect himself.

To be fair at the time they hadn’t called it. Also what would Russian law have anything to do with the US? Or do you mean figuring out some way to enact a version of it himself?

I mean I'd rather it be removed tbh. I was the one who proposed separating GM's from their players and never remotely wanted the auto-claim system in the first place. Certain past GM's (who shall remain nameless) complained until I conceded the auto-pick rule but I've never liked it. Honestly the fairest solution is the simplest one: You want your player then draft him or trade for him like any other player. If you don't have a pick you think will be high enough to do that then trade up, like you would any other player. In any case, this is being discussed with the BOG, has been for a bit now. It won't be implemented for this draft because that's not remotely fair for the GM's that already made their plans around it months ago but hopefully in time for S76.