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We have run them before. You can really pinpoint demographics which is nice but we spent hundreds and got exactly 0 registered members from it so it didn’t really seem worth the investment.

The thing even with that one is it got us a huge spike in registered users but a relatively tiny spike in active users. Like I think we retained 5 people out of 300 or something. The content of the ad matters a lot and since the content isn’t usually super clear when we are focussing on those franchise mode type of audiences we get users thinking the league is either a GM league or some type of EASHL thing or something of the sort. They don’t understand quite what they are signing up for. I would honestly, even for the same price, take an add that gets us half the registrations if it means that the read or the audience is better and we can retain twice as much. The bump in users matters a lot less than the bump in people that stick around.

As @samx pointed out YouTube is kinda a return on investment problem. It’s always been a bit of an expensive gamble that costs more than anything else for the site and brings in hundreds that get dwindled down to a half dozen so the return was never great but it was present and we were willing to do it. Problem is that a lot of the ad reads (which also usually fail to adequately represent the league) have over doubled in price so that return, that was already small, has gotten proportionally smaller essentially. I have voiced an opinion that I wonder if we should push into a space that ISN’T hockey dominated videos, into other gaming and media content, but I don’t know if it’s been explored and found to be super expensive or what. In theory it makes more sense to stick with NHL content since you know you’re getting hockey nerds BUT if that’s our only market it’s a small one and viewers tend to think they are getting something they aren’t. That’s why I want to lean on the “gaming” side of it more than the hockey side and see what happens but again, maybe it has been looked at and was just far too expensive to be reasonable. I know we approve any ad amount before we send off the go ahead and I haven’t seen any proposals for non-hockey channels but that could easily just be “yeah they want like 5x our normal amount so we didn’t even mention it.” TLDR this time: YouTube is expensive as hell and doesn’t usually work to do much but flood the market with members that will be inactive in 2 weeks. Sometimes that flood is worth the price, sometimes it’s not.

Obviously things in here got a bit off the rails after this but just to be clear: that’s not up to us. The recruitment team I know would LOVE to use Reddit again, it was by far our biggest recruitment tool back in the day and brought people in by the hundreds. Unfortunately a member of another community decided to basically shutter that method for every league (except somehow the SHL, they have friends in high places) by saying we violated the Reddit TOS so the subreddit mods for the most part don’t let ads get posted anymore. We also had a former member decide to run unsanctioned ads for their league that basically mimicked us completely (IYKYK) and some mods have essentially black listed us because they equate his [failed for obvious reasons] league with ours. So yeah, TLDR, Reddit is essentially out the window. We try every once in awhile, or we were anyway I can’t confirm if we still are, to rekindle old relationships there but haven’t made any major headway.

@v.2 Will officially be joining our staff as head of Point tasks. Thank you to everyone who applied.

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Welcome to the VHL, Windows! 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!

FWIW I would like to have the position have a bit more authority to put forth thoughts on them when warranted. The mods have enough on their plates.

We’re more than fine with a current updated taking the job in addition to keeping their updating duties, it doesn’t necessarily need to be an “outside hire” so to speak.

It's been so long since @DollarAndADream took the job that I don't think I've ever even had to write a job posting for this one but alas, he has stepped down and it's not a job that's needed every day but important when it comes up. The Head of PT position basically works alongside the Updaters and RGB teams to make sure PT's are running smoothly. This means mostly handling complaints about plagiarism and lack of effort being put into things but also judging whether certain things count as league related and that sort of thing. They are given a lot of freedom to make decisions for themselves without really needing the oversight of the staff in most cases. Pay for the job is 2 TPE/week. If you are interested in the opening, please post in this thread. Please do not contact the Commissioners outside of this thread, we will reach out to the chosen candidate privately. ***Please refrain from making comments regarding any candidates and their "worthiness" of being hired for this job, positive or negative. Any comment that is not an application will be removed to maintain a clean list of actual candidates, and (I hate that this actually needs to be said, but...) any member bashing will not be tolerated.***

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Welcome to the VHL, JartY! 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!

Welcome to the VHL, Dunzapp! 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!

Welcome to the VHL, Maxx! 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!

Double sim today, I'm away from my computer tomorrow night and didn't seem worth it to pass things off to @N0HBDY for a single sim. I'll resume sims on Sunday.

G - Matt Murdock F - The Frenchman @Zetterberg

Just a heads up @Gustav in case people get confused, Calaway is a D

If it makes you feel better you just took the three players I had my eye on haha. F - AK92 Wit da Hoodie D - Brian Kowalski @Zetterberg

INDEX @VHLE GM You know the drill by now, GM's are required to submit lines using the Team Management section of the portal. If you have manual requests due to roster changes please PM me your notes. Either discord or forum PM is fine. I have made sure your lines can all be made for this first set (IE no bots missing to make rosters incomplete) but please look over your rosters carefully to make sure everyone is present that should be, no one is present that shouldn't be, and everyone's position is correct. If you see any issues please notify me ASAP so it can be corrected for the first sim on Wednesday. As has been the case for a few seasons now all sims will be done live. I cannot promise you a specific time for these (though around 6:30pm EST is most likely) and, likewise, I can't promise you they will be very entertaining; in fact I can almost guarantee that they won't be. However in an effort to be more transparent with our simming you will all be able to watch me click buttons in all it's glory. I will do my best to put a message on discord whenever I go live but may forget some days. If you wish to be notified please make sure to check out the #roles channel for information on how. In any case the live sims will always be in the same place which is embedded below: Good luck to everyone this season and let's have another good one!

The simming team for S91 is: VHL: @Josh VHLE: @Beketov VHLM: @MexicanCow123 Backup: @N0HBDY @VHL GM @VHLM GM @VHLE GM

F - Vincent Laroche-Gagnier D - Ryuji Sakamoto @Syzygy