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Without me? Well that’s just rude.

I more so meant tag an entire member group like @commisioner but yes, that as well. I'll look into it a bit.

This. It isn't hard to tag individual members (although a cool feature would be to tag a whole group, I wonder if that's possible) so that should be done instead of reporting. Reports make us assume something is wrong. It's like pulling a fire alarm to get your boss' attention instead of just writing an email.

Please return your goon card, you clearly don't deserve it.

Copying the CoDCast much Also, I'm drunk, feel free to ignore me. I'll try and come up with questions though.

My wife knows about it, thoughnot too many details. A couple of friends that I tried to recruit over the years do as well. That's about it though.

It's a little more complicated than it seems on the surface but I assure you we are hard at work implementing a [rather pricey] plan to get Chat back.

The main latency issue isn't so much jumping around the screen (usually) but more of my clicks not registering as attacks when they are supposed to. So shit can hit me but I can't hit back. Also, you are aware that reviewing for everyone hasn't started yet, right?

Sorry the video is still processing, shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. I decided to play something other than CoD this week so enjoy me lagging all over the screen in Diablo 3. While lagging I answer questions from @Devise, @der meister, @Beaviss, @punkhippie, and @JardyB10

The joys of being blue now and being able to see emails now. How are you?

Ask and ye shall receive. Just not from @Will.

That's sepia, learn the difference

Yes, the grader logs subforum will be moved and used exactly the same way as before. I just didn't want to pre-maturely move it and confuse people.

@Higgins is handling the new BOG appointments, not me.

That would still only get you 1 TPE at most. As I laid out in the OP it's 4 points for 1 TPE. MS, GFX and RP are worth 1 point. Podcasts and Bios are worth 2.

You'd have to review more than 2 things. The fewest amount of things for 2 TPE would be 4 podcasts or bios. But yes, you can use reviews in conjunction with pension if you wish to do so.

@DollarAndADream will be keeping an eye on things. If people are phoning it in for the free TPE he'll make sure they don't get paid for it.

Yes, that makes more sense. Like I said, the distinction between choosing a roster (regardless of position) vs. Choosing s line as we've been doing is important. I think this could work fine so long as the groups are balanced. I still like having hits and PIM factored in to keep it more interesting but aside from that I think the concept is cool.

Yeah, that's somewhat becoming clear. I guess I'm just not understanding the main root of what's being built from these groups. Is it just best overall team regardless of position or is it still trying to build 1 line but your choices are limited to particular groups?

I’m guessing I don’t. Let’s see if I can re-figure this out. Instead of building a straight up best line in the league like we have been doing, you instead choose 1 player per category and try to get the most amount of points possible from your choices? Positions are irrelevant, you just try to get the maximum amount of points. So, for example, Cornerstone may be the highest fantasy point producer but it doesn’t matter because you aren’t creating a “line” you just have players with different strengths? Does that sound more accurate?

At the end of the day though you are still trying to build the best line. Doesn’t matter what players are in what pools, you are trying to create the best line. It just feels odd to have that entirely weighted towards forwards while defense and goalies earn basically nothing. They make up half the line but would only contribute maybe a quarter of the fantasy points if nothing but points is considered; does that seem reasonable? Chances are I won’t be playing anyway, I don’t tend to. I just don’t see a reason to make the scoring completely bias towards forwards when, IMO, there should be a way to balance it out and have the entire line selection be important. I guess hits are probably the fairest way to do this though since it’s likely something all skaters will get whereas Shots Blocked are pretty much only defensemen.

I can argue that they should have MORE actually. In a balanced system all players will be important. Just because someone is a defenseman doesn’t mean they should be less important because they aren’t scoring. Same with a goalie. The balance is way off right now, I completely agree with that. Shots Blocked dominate everything which is why the SB leader always ends up being the fantasy leader. All I’m saying is balance the points out so that different playstyles than just sniper and playmaker can have an impact. Otherwise you’ll end up with the exact same problem as now except that the top scorer will always be the top fantasy player.

Maybe I don’t understand the system then. Are you not still building a full line from these categories of players? If so then without anything to balance them forwards will be completely dominant over defensemen because only offensive defensemen will be able to gain any fantasy points. I’m not sure how that’s any better than having defense dominate with shots blocked being weighted too heavily. Again though, I may be completely off the mark in understanding how this this being proposed.

This definitely seems to make things more interesting so I’m all for it. I still think as I did before that there needs to be some balance in regards to defensemen rather than just making it only points get fantasy points. Having hits offer some fantasy points is a nice way of doing that. I still think shots blocked is better (though needs to be weighted FAR LESS than it is now) though because forwards still pile on hits while they don’t tend to block many shots. It adds some balance that makes D actually important.