Beketov

Alexander Beketov, first ballot HoFer and the namesake of the assist award, would like a word.

Where do you mean? I assumed you meant player page but hits and SB are shown there?

Of note @Esso2264, @Jubis, @hedgehog337, and @Victor it's incredibly likely the sim tomorrow will be early, like before noon EST, as I'm headed out of town for a couple of days and want to sim before I go. Just wanted to warn you so that you aren't blindsided by an early sim when you wanted to change lines up. @Devise has agreed to cover for me a few days and will be doing the simming on Saturday and Sunday for sure. I should be back in time for a sim Monday.

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Great series Toronto. I was saying from the onset that you guys scared me more than regular season standings implied and you showed why, taking us right to the brink. Hard fought series, GG.

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I’m not remotely set up for that right now. You want live you get what I can give.

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This is in relation to the VHL and not VHLM. While we obviously would always prefer actives get ice time it’s ultimately up to GM’s to decide how to run their lines. This is mostly just to avoid teams intentionally running worse lineups to intentionally tank for better draft picks. Outside of that we aren’t trying to micromanage how GM’s handle their rosters.

The original wording of it was

That is, in essence, the Louth Rule. We're simply clarifying it with the 64 games part because there has been some confusion in regards to playing a starter X number of times and then trading them to a different team. Ultimately the goalie coming in could have more starts but the team has still started their backup Y number of times which is what's needed. So let's take your above example. Say both teams have played 30 games with Funk starting in 24 of them and Ross starting in 22. Davos is therefore done their required backup games and Seattle has 2 left. Ross will end up playing 40 more games for 62 total starts and Funk will end up playing the remaining 42 games and end up with 66 starts. Neither one is a problem because Funk's starts weren't all with one team and both teams have played their required 8 backup starts. Does that make sense?

You ended the quote too soon: So obviously a goalie could have more than 64 starts if they are traded to a team that has completed all their backup games or is simply scheduled behind. However those extra games would be played for a different team. It doesn't affect the backup games at all though. Davos and Seattle (in your example) would both still need to play their backup 8 games each. The starters being traded doesn't change that.

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With Halifax in the VHLM it’s unlikely the VHL is going to get one, just doesn’t make sense for both leagues to have a team in such a small province

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Sim 1 going live now! IN CASE THE ABOVE EMBED DOESN'T WORK Of note, because of working from home my usual mic setup isn't present on the sim box so no commentary or anything, just a straight stream.

INDEX @VHL GM Please get your lines in ASAP; as always send in and confirm your lines to both vhlsim@outlook.com and rpower22@gmail.com. First sim will be tomorrow, likely in the afternoon as I have plans tomorrow night. To the best of my abilities I will be live simming the playoffs and will put up a link each day in this thread to indicate when I'm going live. Good luck to all teams.

Josh said he sorted it???

If my math is right your carryover should be 34 (106-72 which was the starting TPE of that week). So 34 + 30 + 6 = 70 TPE starting. Not hard to adjust for. Though @Josh with starting TPE being calculated separately now is there a different way of adding this or just the usual edit the player’s TPE amount?

Right. Carryover isn’t supposed to kick in until 100 TPE to account for late joiner but he must have passed that because of his old carryover which was max if I recall?

Did you earn anything in the other guy? 40 starting seems.... odd.

Because there is no such thing as a recreate date? Recreates can join at the same time as anyone else, the TDL just sets the season number for their draft. Because of this we tend to line up a recruitment drive for the start of the new draft class to fill it up early. Also just in general it isn't really about first gens vs. recreates, it's more so just about giving people something to do. If you were to stop looking at all games for the next 4 weeks how would you feel about the league, even as an established member? I'd wager you'd be pretty bored. Boredom causes inactivity regardless if someone is new or not. Having 4 weeks with nothing to do right when you first create doesn't exactly make people hyped for their new player.

Off-season is 2 weeks. If they create at the beginning of the playoffs that could easily be another week or more. So you're talking about potentially 3-4 weeks of absolutely nothing to do while waiting around for things to end. I've seen plenty of guys get bored joining in the off-season and waiting 3-4 days for the draft so 3-4 weeks seems like it would be an absolute interest killer.