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FWIW if a GM sent me a list literally just in TPE order (so what they’d get BPA anyway) without the TPE numbers, just the names, I wouldn’t even second guess it and would be totally happy with that list. If said GM truly thinks BPA is fine this would get them the same results while also making them look better.

More of a question for @Will or @Josh. For the most part I’m better at breaking the portal than using it.

Yeah, I also completely forgot.

The problem you keep ignoring is that you have “welfare players” as if it’s a thing that someone just is or isn’t. Not everyone who pulls welfare does so every single week. Let’s say you normally have tons of time and do your PT’s, great, you take league minimum to help your team. Suddenly work picks up and you have a month of craziness where you can’t be as active. You have no free welfare to fall back on so now you either get no TPE or you use your limited funds to buy welfare. Its not the kind of thing where you can just say “X player is a welfare player and Y player isn’t”. It changes completely on a week by week basis.

Need to change my signature too but I’m usually on mobile and don’t think to do it. I’ll get around to it eventually... or just keep living in the glory days. In any case I find it interesting that people want to buy straight TPE. As I think flyers pointed out, the store was more or less set up that way years ago and people got annoyed that it was designed so simply, they wanted more to it than just “buy the most TPE you can”. It’s funny how cyclical things become. I agree with you though, I don’t like buying straight TPE. I don’t mind the uncapped packages because you at least need to put the work in for those. That creates the exact same problem as above but on an even larger scale. Also, +3 is definitely not a minor buff in some instances. For stats above 95 that’s equivalent to 30 TPE. I also don’t like adding more randomness. The lotto is bad enough for this. People doing the same thing should get the same reward IMO.

That would potentially be interesting though not exactly what I meant. I meant that the depreciation fighters for example aren’t cheaper if you have less TPE and thus less benefit from them. I’m torn on whether or not something like that would be beneficial.

As I mentioned in here before temporary boosts are something I’ve always been against because of the amount of manual work required to process and maintain them correctly across hundreds of players. The portal likely helps a bit but ultimately it’s still a complex procedure to make sure that everyone who should have the boosts does and that they come off when they are supposed to which is not necessarily something that can be automated. I’ve always thought and I still think that temporary boosts aren’t worth the headaches they’ll cause.

I paid no attention to VHL stats last season so I’m gonna do something I’ve never done and go D first. D - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen @DollarAndADream

For proof of this in both good and bad varieties see the Seattle Bears.

And if he can’t negotiate that higher contract or the team doesn’t want to pay it then he’s just SoL and basically forced out of the league for not having enough free time to devote to PT’s. Also not everyone who uses welfare uses it exclusively. Some people just have busy weeks or months. Welfare is basically required in a modern sim league. People are just too busy otherwise. We aren’t all 16 anymore like we were when the league was young and things were easy.

It’s actually kinda a massive annoyance simming wise. The portal creates our players for us but STHS doesn’t know to read a changed name as the same player so it makes a new player with the new name. We need to manually change over the name or else no updates will apply correctly. It’s a mess.

Uh oh, what have I released.

The issue with cap raises, especially insanely drastic ones like that, is that it doesn’t necessarily do what you think it does. Teams having $80mill in cap aren’t going to automatically go hand everyone $10mill contracts. They are just going to sign all the top talent to one major super team and have the cap space to do it. The cap is incredibly tricky in that manner.

Not gonna delete this because I think it’s funny but I am just gonna go ahead and move it to spam.

Oh damn

Keep in mind a lot (though not all) of our classic logos we don’t own. Early logos were straight up stolen and just had some text changed. For example the current Bears logo is the only one we’ve ever owned for the franchise with the OG (Seattle Everblades) being stolen from the Florida Everblades (a name that makes WAY more sense) and the follow up (original bears logo) being stolen from the Hershey Bears. Some of our old logos are custom of course but this is often moreso defunct teams (Stockholm Vikings, Cologne Express, etc) rather than teams that have changed logos.

This is a tad confusing for mine because it lists simmer which I didn’t start doing until like last year and only after commish which isn’t listed? There are DEFINITELY a lot of builder updates that are needed though when people were inducted and then stuck around.

As @GustavMattias (I think) pointed out this is a dangerous protocol though. The store doesn’t scale in price so the more TPE whore players, who also have the bigger contracts, will get the same benefits of the cheaper store. This means reducing costs equates to even more insane inflation and an even easier time for TPE whores. I know we can’t base everything off just the whores or just the low earners but the point is that to many the store is actually not remotely expensive. With Thompson I bought all the depreciation fighters and still had money leftover for at least 1 uncapped package (maybe 2) and some left to drop an attribute I shouldn’t have updated. Easily I bought several hundred TPE if you think of things that way.

On the one hand it increases inflation, on the other it removes the abilities to fight its removal so it’s an option yeah. Unrelated to this response but because @Peace mentioned it: I never actually said what season I would want to have the cutoff for a record book seal. Could be whenever new rules go in, could be the portal seasons, etc. So not saying it has to be S70 onward necessarily just that I’ve always been okay with closing the old records and saying we have new ones; that’s not an issue for me personally.

I’ve always been against anything temporary like this. Even with the portal making it easier temporary attribute changes are inevitably messy as hell. There’s a lot more in this thread for me to dig through later but just to point at this quickly. $500k for 1 uncapped is still pathetically low reward compared to something like the depreciation fighters. The Jagr on a 99 attribute and max depreciation is akin to 40 TPE or something for $7mill. For the same price at that point you’d only be getting 14 TPE. Yes it’s new TPE not TPE saves but still. Might be an argument against the cost of depreciation fighters more than anything else but still. That’s the main problem with straight TPE purchases. They are either too much for too little which causes huge inflation or too little TPE to be worth it. We also had straight buying attributes before and they were okay but were generally still less worth it than depreciation fighters.

Store is all on the portal now, just scroll through.

FWIW I basically just meant what’s available to purchase. It would work the same so the main code wouldn’t change, just the items available.

My streak of winning these on pure luck finally ends.

@Peace clearly following @Devise draft strategy.

Given that he has informed us he’s stepping away and how tight it is I’m fine with this ruling.