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This is in the sim? Where’s he supposed to be?

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As I added to the edit, I’m second in shutout total and single season so my brain must just be seeing Clegane on the totals and assuming both are the same person. Stumped by both Cleganes I suppose.

No? Greg Clegane as the GAA record. Sandro has the shutout Record. Edit: Maybe Im wrong though, maybe I’m just thinking of in 1 season? I know Jardy has that. I know the overall one isn’t updated fully for sure. It’s possible that I just know I’m second in both total and single season shutouts so I slapped the same Clegane into both firsts.

We must be almost done all our games against NY right? In any case I’ll take another 2 goals.

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I mean 6 sure but I’m just saying you had an amazing opportunity to stick with one and have a record-setting career and you still retired early. So just don’t expect people will be surprised if it happens again.

@Bushito‘s post this week, whether serious or not, has brought up an interesting discussion that I’d like to touch on today for my “old man of the VHL ranting” article: have we automated too much? As usual, a bit of historical context. Our newer members won’t know this but not long ago everything we did was done by hand and on the forum. Creating a player involved copy and pasting the entire template and then filling it out. Updating involved posting an update thread, formatting it correctly with all your links, doing the math, and then waiting a week for an updater to come confirm it and another week or more (usually only twice a season or so in the VHLM) for it to end up in the sim. On top of that all career stats, records, awards, etc were all maintained by hand with manual calculation. We operated this way for over 10 years before all of it started to change with the portal. Now we no longer have to manually do anything and things like rating updates in the sim can be done daily if we wanted to. Everything is done for us with very little manual oversight. The topic for discussion of course: has this gone too far? Has automating the process, and continuing to automate it, made the VHL lose its heart and soul? Did somehow things feel more robust when they were done by hand instead of by a few lines of code? In my opinion it goes a bit both ways. It’s true that there was a little more heart in the VHL of old, knowing people were putting piles of time and effort into things to keep the league running. On the other hand, it also lenses itself more easily to mistakes or things being missed. The concept of knowing for example that half a season of updates in the VHLM simply wouldn’t show up until around playoff time seems horrible now but that was a reality we lived with. I feel like we got used to the shortcomings in a lot of ways and just accepted them for what they were without considering that we could do better. Obviously we still have a lot of people doing a lot of tasks to keep the VHL wheels greased, we haven’t fully been taken over by our robot overlords, and I will say that’s probably a good thing. I love the automation because it makes the VHL run smoother but I’ll admit that it could one day go to far. If we hit the point where it basically becomes a clone of EA’s Be a Pro mode without any actual gameplay than what’s the point? Ultimately community is the most important thing in the VHL. So long as we can keep the community aspect though, I personally welcome automation. What are your thoughts?

This. Moon was honestly on HoF path if you had stuck with him for the long haul. Might have been able to pass Jardy for the shutout record.

I’ve been doing this for 11 years. I’ve seen a lot of people need to take momentary steps back. You aren’t the first, you won’t be the last, so don’t worry yourself over it too much. Welfare can be very helpful in times like this to keep some points flowing but if you need to step back fully for a time no one blames you.

You aren’t gonna be pleased with the most recent sim...

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How heavily are you over? I know last season they let @DollarAndADream drop a few TPE off his WJC player to get under 350 and compete since he was close.

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Honestly I find mobile better on the site than Discord... There’s not honestly much we can do about the mobile site short of switching platforms again. We’re at the will of IPB

It’s not like I’m opposed to Discord. I just don’t like it replacing the forum for the sake of discussion. It’s my main problem with chat boxes in general, everything is in the moment. So if anything important is in there it’s VERY easy to miss.

Chat boxes kill league activity and we never should have one! /s I’m obviously joking. I’m also one of few who have been around long enough to remember when that argument was actually raging in the community. Though I will say as convenient as Discord is I still don’t love that it takes away from board discussion. However our discussions has been waivering for a few years now so it moving to Discord could be worse.

It’s not so much that it’s unreasonable per say, it’s that the suggestions forum on his official forums specify “don’t suggest things specifically for your league” so he does t sound like the kind of guy who loves doing custom work. For the right price though, who knows. Would depend how extreme the re-writes would have to be. I’m not opposed to trying, Im just not getting my hopes up that he’ll be willing to do anything major for us.

I’ll take a look. If he was there last season he should be there now. I haven’t released anyone from the roster but maybe something glitched him out when @Will set the rosters initially.

When was he added? I might have just missed slapping him into the roster.

I mean that’s the official story haha

If you want to try then have at it.

I mean you can go to the Simon forums and suggest it. I can’t imagine he’ll be too interested in making a whole version for 1 league but who knows. It also won’t change the randomness of STHS much, might just make our attributes work better with the new stats.

Man, you would have liked the olden days. We used to sim on EA NHL games haha. Ultimately it’s not worth the effort though. You can’t have daily sims without way too much effort, and even then it’s usually only 1 game. Plus making and updating the players is a major pain. Think how how annoying the ASGwas for you. Now times that by over 200 games per season and add in updates... As for making our own, more money and expertise than we have by far. And there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t be buggy either. Honestly STHS isn’t perfect but it has been solid for us for over 11 years. It can do some wonky things in the playoffs but more often than not the better team does win. You do want shut of randomness, as annoying as it can be. Otherwise it would be really boring knowing from the off-season who’s gonna win the cup.

At this rate all your career firsts are gonna happen against Seattle haha