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Just. Heads up @diamond_ace I had released those 4 for you but then my sim didn’t want to output so I had to redo everything and I believe I forgot to re-release them. You should be able to scratch them in your lines but I’ll make sure to get it done.

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Why. Do. I. Suck. So. Much.

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G - Alexander Pepper @Ty343

Forgot I can’t group mention in an edit @VHLM GM if anyone is missing from your rosters let me know now. Players added after the index dropped are likely not in your lines but they should be on your roster. If not let me know immediately. There’s a lot of roster changes early on so some may have been missed.

I’ll take a look at it. I think I missed your post above. I’ll get it fixed for next sim.

Most likely you were added to the roster after the index was released and therefore you need to be added to the lines.

Oh it most definitely hates me. Any time I have a good player it has to screw me some way (such as Holik being worthless in the playoffs) or it just decides to randomly give me giant chunks where I’m worthless such as my 15 game pointless streak last season.

I guess then the argument becomes what’s the point of making them an option? If everyone can have something they could just have it. Plus there’s @Victor‘a argument. Anyway, my point is I remain on the fence. I always like it in theory but like it less the more I think about it. If we continue to have big first gen drafts consistently I feel less scared mind you.

I don’t think different eras would matter for something like this to go through. More so just that it could be an interesting project to look at if someone felt inclined. Once the books are sealed it wouldn’t have to be updated post creation so it might be interesting to see on say a 2-3 career length (so every 16-24 seasons). 1-17 would be the only tough ones but the current record books would probably offer enough incite for those.

That’s fine to say (though I’m confused by the 80% figure, do you mean over a full career?) with a CPU backup but more and more teams have human backups. So those backups without this rule could theoretically be playing 0 games. How’s that fair or reasonable?

Honestly I don’t even hate them I’m just torn on the idea that not everyone gets them. Can’t decide precisely where I sit on the fence.

I never said we don’t like the records. That’s our history. For some of us it’s nearly 12 years of history. I’m not in favour of destroying that. However to say it will never happen because of the records is being a little ridiculous. I don’t think anyone would be opposed to sealing off the old record books (or even creating fresh ones for different generations which would be interesting) and starting new ones with a change this major.

You constantly bring that up and yet those of us that have been around for long enough to care constantly say we’re fine with sealing off the record books and just having 2 sets. No one is turning something like this down purely because of records.

You and your bloody longer careers

I don’t remember the exact season but it definitely happened. Was one of my seasons with Holik in Seattle. Went down 3-0 and pushed it to a game 7 but lost. Considering that would involve a 3-1 at some point it would show up in your spreadsheet so my guess is S53 but I don’t care enough to go check and don’t want to re-live that heartbreak.

My question is whether or not anyone has ever successfully managed a reverse sweep which I believe the answer is no.

Oh I don’t mind you having some fun with it. Just wanted to make sure you understood the likely reasoning.

Another week, another article in order to get my sweet uncapped TPE. Could totally hit the cap without this by just using trivia but that wouldn’t be as lucrative now would it? Anyway, this week I wanted to chat about our backup rule. You know, that thing that makes it so that goalies shouldn’t start more than 64 games in a season because the backup is supposed to start 8. I bring this up because there hasn’t been some discussion in the BOG about it and I want to see some member’s opinions. We discussed removing the rule (with the logic that a decent GM will give a human backup some starts anyway) but I don’t love that idea as it kinda gives advantage to not having a human backup. We also discussed increasing the amount of games required (or rather putting a minimum starts instead of a maximum) but I don’t really love that either because those teams without a backup end up getting screwed extra hard by the CPU’s. Personally I think we need to leave it at 8 but have proper punishment (which hasn’t really been happening) for going over. Anyway, I don’t remember why the rule was brought in but it usually just meant CPU goalies getting some games since we never really had backups. Now, however, there is such a goalie surge that backups are a very real possibility so things may need to change on this front. Do you think the rule is dumb or just ill-enforced? Should it be changed / amended? Removed? I’m interested in the conversation, especially from some of our young goalies.

Pretty sure no lines have been put in. STHS will default to the higher OV goalie.

Riga Seattle NY Quebec

Riga 3-1

Yeah, that I’m not sure on. @Devise did you forget to upload the index? Actually, now that I think about it, it wouldn’t be fucked up unless he uploaded the index so I have no clue how it’s not up to date.