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Honestly with the VHLM teams are basically new every season anyway so I find getting the few extra pieces that they do tends to give expansion teams an edge if they are going for it. Philly never really went for it so they ranked obviously but Halifax was amazing their first season, as was Houston.

I think that one was run through yahoo or something wasn’t it? Works different than the way our bracket challenge normally does.

If you did submit it you will get 1 uncapped for the question when he posts the results.

Didn’t quite get 50 goals and 50 assists like I wanted but did surpass 100 points at least and secured another Victory Cup so I’ll take it. Now let’s see if the playoffs screw me as usual.

@Bushito I believe this falls under your banner?

Given the situation a lack of punishment for only 1 game over (when @Devise has admitted he missed the lines, not that you didn’t send them) is possible; I just can’t guarantee it without looking over everything. However I’ll say flat out that 3 games over there won’t be a chance you aren’t punished and even if we decide on punishment in both cases it’ll only be made worse if you play your starter extra. Realistically this is why we always suggest just getting them out of the way, so that if something happens with the sim it doesn’t completely screw you.

I have a hunch all the Storm noticed is that they clinched the Regular season title...

Yes.

There's a cap in the minors but not in the VHL. You never made it clear the suggestion would purely be for the VHLM. In any case people still don't create above 80 TPE so that leaves 120 TPE for them to gain before the cap. Players with full carryover are likely to play the best to start so they'd just cap faster: rich get richer. Most players spend at most 2 seasons in the VHLM; 1 pre-draft and 1 post-draft. Chances are in that time they wouldn't hit many of these milestones so the difference would be minimal at best. In practice, as I mentioned above, it would just take the best players and get them to the cap faster. If anything the fantasy stuff is less random than the sim TBH. The sim is at least 75% luck with the other 25% coming from knowing what attributes to add to. At least the fantasy stuff you can choose teams likely to win. The achievement tracker and pay for awards reward you for getting better; I don't see a reason to add extra TPE for that. Becoming a better player is a sufficient reward IMO without having TPE attached to it. I'm not sure I understand your complaint. Players made earlier are in a different draft and should have plenty of TPE by the time the deadline comes around and any recreates get made. In addition, something like this, as I mentioned, wouldn't really be an alternative. For one, it would still count toward those vets so the bar just slides. Second, it wouldn't come up that often unless we make it far too easy in order to make up the difference. I'm not trying to be argumentative; I just don't see how any of these points counter the rich getting richer. Rewarding sim performance will only make the better players stronger and give them more advantages. It's like giving tax breaks to the rich; it doesn't help the poor any.

Really easy questions this week. Of 88 responses only 1 person got a question wrong so let's not spend much time on this and get tho the insane tagging I need to do. Answers: 1. How many Jack Reilly trophies did Jack Reilly win? (1 uncapped TPE to @diamond_ace) The Portal's VHLM award section is your friend for this one. Just navigate over to the Jack Reilly trophy page for top VHLM GM and perform a quick CTRL+F of "Reilly" to reveal it's on the page 9 times. Discount the 5 that are right at the top in the award name and description and you've got the correct answer of 4 times. 2. Which position has the most Hall of Famers? (1 uncapped TPE to Me since I asked this question before I took over) I actually hadn't counted this up when I asked the question so I had to go in and do it myself. Not hard though; just open the Inducted Players section, sort by position (optional but nice) and start counting. In case you're curious (though you all got this right so I'm sure you aren't) the full tallies are: C - 30 D - 27 LW - 20 G - 19 RW - 17 2 capped TPE goes to: @Enorama @oilmandan @Bucky___lastard @Poptart @TheLastOlympian07 @Anthony Matthews @xsjack @Jubo07 @GRZ @SidTheKid87 @TriaL Exotic @DMaximus @zepheter @Patpou22 @Sonnet @Birdman @aleks @MexicanCow @Sharkstrong @Esso2264 @Sogarn @bluesfan55 @O4L @SlapshotDragon @jblock3 @ItsMcLovin @Jtv123 @Velevra @Matmenzinger @Infernal @Sunburst @DollarAndADream @okocha5 @gorlab @Ahma @nethi99 @K1NG LINUS @TheFlash @Renomitsu @RunnerBert11 @omgitshim @Victor (Who can have his job back) @Jus @gregreg @Snussu @FacebookFighter @Hybrid1486 @Smarch @Kylrad @BOOM™ @solas @Thranduil @Toasty @Bushito @Gabella19 @Oost @DilIsPickle @Quik @Grape @rjfryman @littleboi @StamkosFan @FacePuncher @Tagger @GustavMattias @11 Eleven @Philliefan @BladeMaiden @jRuutu @Spade18 @Eudaldkp @Radcow @xDParK @leafsman @leafssteen @SirRupertBarnes @kithoo @hedgehog337 @flyersfan1453 @Inf1d3l @monkeywrench15 @joeyboucher1 @MexicanCow123 @GlowyGoat @Josh. @Rocketman04 @eaglesfan036 1 capped TPE goes to: @Dangles13

Historically Devise has made goalies that shouldn’t perform well in the playoffs but win as rookies anyway so I wouldn’t want to chance that haha

Fun fact: only 1 person of 88 got a question wrong this week and only one of the two. Full list will be up likely in a few hours when i get a chance to tag everyone.

Punishment (or lack of) whether he decides to miss 1 game or 3 will be decided at the end of the season as it always is when we have the full information. @ShawnGlade Can decide how he wants to proceed but I’m not gonna confirm or deny a punishment beforehand.

50 goals on the season. While I don’t have time to catch Areoyo on anything at least I hit that goal.

The problem we’ve historically had with doing this is that it makes the rich richer in a sense. The better players will get those things more which will get them more TPE which we’ll get them those things more; it’s an endless circle.

Welcome to the VHL, deadshot! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Which is why Will and I wanted it gone because the point of it isn’t really to give GM’s 2 players easily. I thought we made some slight regulations against that but maybe I’m wrong and we just discussed them, I can’t recall.

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FWIW @Will and I tried to eliminate them when we eliminated PP2 altogether but ultimately they make GM transitions a million times easier. It does make a problem like this slightly worse (though at the end of the day we’re talking 1 player per team) but not significantly. I still don’t love them and they do complicate other matters but they offer GM’s more freedom to enjoy their careers without being necessarily on their own team and they make changes easier. Of the solutions suggested it was the one most people agreed with.

STHS doesn’t seem to like giving us both points haha

No but when your players don’t get tired which one is more likely to win: 100% ice time split between your 10 best players evenly or 100% ice time split 3 ways between your 10 best players and 5 rookies. It’s simply logic; having your top players play less will have negative results. Its possible using endurance could fix this mind you, we would need to test that.

Hey look, we can win when I actually show up.

While I agree that the micromanaging of rosters is super dumb it’s not as easy as just raising the cap. Teams have proven for 64 seasons that 2 lines can win effectively so why would they run a depth line with extra cap when they could just get higher paid players to make their two lines better? I guarantee if we raised the cap significantly enough to achieve fuller teams without any kind of roster minimum (which I do hate) we would see teams just using that money for better players instead of more players. One solution that’s been discussed would be to tier the cap so that it increases but only say half of it can be used on prime contracts. So teams get more money but they have to spend a certain portion on rookies or they’ll run out of money faster than they already do. Not sure that would fix all the problems but it is an option.

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