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Welcome to the VHL, Escott! 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!

Is it though? Or does that push us too far the other way and offer too much advantage to re-creates?

We’re back for more old man bitching! After looking over the insane amount of TPE that some of our new guys have during my last podcast I came to the conclusion that what I wanted to talk about this week is the difference between first gen and re-creates and if we have pushed things too far in either direction. Obviously re-creates get carryover TPE and new guys don’t, this isn’t anything new and it also isn’t going away any time soon. It would suck mightily to go 8 seasons with a player and then have to start completely from scratch. In fact I know it does because of our failed little player 2 experiment. Anyway, back in the day this re-creation TPE capped out at 75 while new players started at 0. Nowadays the cap is still 75 BUT that counts the 30 starting TPE so effectively the cap is only 45 on top of that there’s no point taking carryover if you get under 30 TPE. I don’t remember exactly what’s needed to hit that point but it’s not nothing. We’ve discussed having the starting 30 not count but haven’t reached an agreement. In any case, why do I bring this all up? Well, because it’s the main difference between re-creates and first gens which creates a potential problem when carryover TPE doesn’t hit 30, or even when it’s a low amount. See, there are bonuses that first gens get that no one else does. Extra lottery chances, some bonus player store stuff, free TPE for hitting 100, etc. These all exist to kind of balance things out so that first gens don’t get stomped. Problem is, are they too much? Considering we’ve made the carryover “cap” lower and have made a level where you effectively get none if someone creates, goes inactive, and then retires to come back they’ll actually be in a worse off position than a first gen player. Is this fair? I don’t know. Have we pushed things too far? Beats me. I don’t have answers, I just make discussion topics. I just know we didn’t spoon feed first gens back in my day. Mind you retention sucked back then so what do I know. Care to discuss?

Welcome to the VHL, NightHawk_787! 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!

Sorry it’s still processing, don’t have time to wait around for it. A month in the making on some of these questions but I finally answered them haha. Questions provided by @diamond_ace, @Beaviss, @jacobaa19, @der meister, and @Quik

Sometimes these things take time Also Will is out of town on business so simming is trickier than usual. I offered to sim this one if he wasn’t capable but he got it done. Things should be back to normal for a bit now.

3-1 curse, eh @Green

All offence all day!

Welcome to the VHL, ATaylor27_! 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!

You aren’t wrong. I will never say we deserved to win against Calgary. He’ll we barely deserved the win against Riga. It’s just crazy to see the top 4 scorers all be players who aren’t in the final.

I’m still kinda find it hilarious if the playoff MVP ends up 5th in playoff points since all us Seattle guys scored like mad.

You aren’t the one who has to set up the draft board

Correct

I already told him it’s fine for VHL.com purposes. So long as he does at least 4 it’s fine. Not for an actual PT though.

Yeah, that’s fine. It’s not a ton of work but 4 for 2 should be fine for a VHL.com. Just don’t try to use them for an actual PT.

I don’t mind the memes, it’s a different take on things (though try to post a few since they are pretty simple). Just keep ‘em related.

You’re taking my comments way too seriously haha

Oh I don’t deny it, I’d rather be in your shoes. I just find it funny the top 4 scorers aren’t in the final haha

Let’s see if you can pass all us Seattle guys who didn’t even make the finals for playoff points

Even stranger but thanks for the note. Maybe the posting tool works for the VHL but not for the M?

I think @Higgins is trying to use theposting tool in the playoffs which doesn’t work. That’s why they are formatted as regular season titles. I’ll try to fix them.

Hey that was my reaction too! Literally, like watch the video if you haven’t haha. I couldn’t contain myself. At least Quebec wasn’t involved, @Beaviss would have been pissed. Plus it’s a deep draft so first overall doesn’t mean a huge advantage. Still though.

S63 VHL Draft Lottery Saturday, September 29th, 8PM EST Before we get to the big show, I would like to formally announce that the lottery is changing as of next season (does not affect this lottery and was decided before this lottery). Since we feel it’s not entirely fair to have a team that made the playoffs having the same odds as teams that didn’t towards getting the first overall pick, the odds starting next season will be as follows: 8th: 30% 7th: 30% 6th: 30% WC: 10% This way the non-playoff teams will retain even odds at first overall but the team who lost in the WC round, while still having a shot, will have decreased odds. Assuming a 2nd random number is required (for example if the 8th place team takes the first drawing) odds will return to even for all teams with the subsequent draws. With that out of the way, let’s get to the Draft lottery for Season 63! Results VHL DRAFT ORDER 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chance to Win the 1st Overall Pick - 25% - 25% - 25% - 25% Chance to Win the 2nd Overall Pick - 75% - 8.33% - 8.33% - 8.33% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Managers - @Quik - @Spade18 - @DollarAndADream - @hedgehog337