Beketov

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They don’t break V1 and V2 has never been proven to be worth its few advantages for the amount of required changes to make it function.

Kinda have to wonder what the point is then? If you make it harder to get attributes up but then make them not come down nearly as far what have you changed? It’s change for the sake of it.

See my response to DT from this morning.

The battle of the goalies in the worst way imaginable.

2 goals, first star, and a guaranteed medal. I’m happy with that.

Go back a few weeks, to the actual season, and you won’t see fantasy zone stuff. My regular weeks are 13 TPE. I barely ever do anything else. Maybe I’m out of touch though, it’s very possible. I’m not of the mindset that things haven’t changed from the old days; I just know I haven’t. So maybe what used to be average at best is pure TPE whore now? If so that’s fine, I’ll continue to not be depreciated. It’s just gonna be harder on those 9-10 a week guys to make an impact when depreciation isn’t really working against top people.

I’m not taking it offensively at all, it’s the word we’ve always used. I’m just curious if the definition has changed over the years. The fact that I’m at the top to me just showcases that the draft before me didn’t have people earning the cap quite as often and the guys younger than me haven’t had enough years yet. I honestly don’t recall a time in league history where hitting the cap alone would make you a top earner of the league. I’ve done nothing more than I ever did which is far less than guys like @Enorama or @Beaviss tend to do. So yeah, maybe I just didn’t notice the definition change? I’m not sure but I definitely earn far slower than a lot of people on this site. That’s where my concern arises. I don’t feel like I’m going above and beyond and yet depreciation doesn’t touch me. Maybe I’m just more prepared for it than most? I don’t know. I don’t think it’s because I whore more than most though, that’s for sure.

Again, snake draft. So it goes down and then back up, not immediately back to the top. So you’ll always get two picks and then Datools will go, then Sid, then Hogan, etc.

Creating more space doesn’t exactly solve the issues of the top players never getting worse, it just waters down the overall ability for teams to succeed. I’ve also never said teams can’t have 3 lines, they are more than capable of it. However I have no interest in telling GM’s that they HAVE to have a certain amount of players.

I added this as a bug report over a week ago, no idea what bugged out to give me that. Haven’t had a chance yet to calculate up what it’s supposed to be at.

The point of this was 100% to be a discussion about TPE in relation to our current engine, not pushing for V2. V2 IMO has far too many issues to be worth using. It’s a huge pile of changes that haven’t been proven to be effective at getting normal results all for the sake of having 2 extra stat lines; that’s basically all it adds. There’s no real point. I don’t deem myself a TPE whore at all. Maybe I am and I just don’t realize it but I haven’t donated with my last 3 players, I haven’t written a single HoF article, I basically never win the lottery, and the only uncapped stuff I ever get is the ridiculously easy stuff everyone gets. Personally I don’t find that’s a TPE whore, that’s just using the cap basically. I say all this because my build is definitely affective while only needing 990 TPA and I earn enough TPE to 100% fight depreciation. It didn’t touch me in S6 or s S7 and considering I’m already over 1/4 of the way done what I’ll need for S8 it isn’t likely to hit me there either. That’s kinda the bigger issue for me. Depreciation was never designed to be 100% fought. It’s supposed to hit people, that’s the point of it. It’s our way of artificially aging players so the younger guys can come in and replace them. With the inflation this high I feel like that is too easy to dodge but maybe I’m just more of a whore than I thought? Not in practice for V1 though. We’ve always had good success and our attributes have always been high. V2 is only where things go completely off the rails. I’ve always responded the same way and I will continue to do so: archetypes add nothing. Any diversity they create is artificial and temporary. They just add BS limitations for no reason. I have even assists to goals basically despite not touching passing until last season and it only being at 70 compared to 99 scoring. Therefore why would anyone who wants a playmaker be incentivized to go for that over a 2 way when they’ll get a bunch of assists and goals to boot? People will figure out which one works the best and we’ll have a meta anyway just with more extra limits for no reason. Archetypes don’t make sense with how STHS is, period.

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Nope, haven’t donated since Miller.

FWIW I don’t think people who hit the cap should really be considered TPE whores. I basically just hit the cap + practice facility every week without anything else major and have 1350 TPE in 6 seasons plus a VHLM season. That seems like a lot from basically just hitting the cap plus the extra free stuff everyone gets.

It was off-season which adds extra for sure with training camp and stuff but still.

These drafts are snake drafts (unless something changed) so you actually pick again and then it starts going back up.

TPE inflation; It’s the boogeyman that the league tries to ignore every few seasons until it becomes too much of an issue and we inevitably need to deal with it. Arguably that boogeyman has gotten bigger than ever before right now so this old grumpy man of the VHL is here to talk about it; mainly since I don’t have that sweet sweet simmer pay this week. Anywho, back in the day hitting 1000 TPE was a major milestone. Hitting 1500 was basically unheard of. Nowadays you’ll recognize that those numbers aren’t particularly difficult. I’ve got 2 seasons left and currently lead active players with 1350 TPE (a lead I expect @Victor to take back soon). Then you’ve got guys like @Beaviss with HHH being at 628 going into only their second season. It’s undeniable that TPE numbers have gotten a bit out out hand when you look at this in contrast to the futures I posted at the start. So what can be done about it? Realistically we have two options. The first is to lower the amount of TPE we’re giving out on a regular basis but realistically no one wants to receive less of something when they’ve gotten used to it. Governments don’t fight inflation by giving out less money right? The other option is to increase the update scale to make it harsher and thus make the TPE -> TPA conversion a bit rougher. It might make it seem harsh but at least then people would get the numbers they are used to without us having players that are finished their build and ready to fight depreciation in their 4th season like I was. Which is the answer? Hard to say. I lean towards the update scale but obviously both mean harder to update which people are going to complain about. As always though I leave it up for discussion, what do you guys think about our TPE inflation issue?

2 goals and the game winner in the SO, I’ll take that.

F - Matt Thompson @HulkHogan

Tag the member who needs to draft after you so they know they’re up. Also please don’t tag the member that you’re drafting, it’s just going to confuse them.