I like the concept of making up donations for those that don't have the funds to donate but I don't like the logic of simply posting to do it. The concept is good in theory but just encourages too much random spam which doesn't help anything.
I could go into the locker room and post the entirety of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1 word at a time to get 76 944 posts which would be worth quite a hefty amount of free stuff I would imagine but not contribute to the league in any way.
In a more realistic example, it would basically be free stuff for updaters (and review staff in a way) who post easily hundreds of times just doing their job every week.
I think at one point we had a locker room for all the VHLM guys at once but I could be wrong. We probably removed it to try and promote them being more active on the actual board but it's definitely Italy something that would be relatively easy to add I would think.
I get by.
to be fair I was never banned from the site for a season and I was never AWARDED a season without PT's, rather punished with it, so I wouldn't say I got both in one go.
I'd be okay with this. Could have potentially saved us members like you or Dwyer so I think it's something worth looking into.
Obviously no TPE earning (or banking) but you don't lose any career length and making it only available to FA's means that it doesn't complicate rosters.
Maybe because of the "vacation" you lose half your banked money (coke and hookers don't come cheap) and maybe like a minor version of depreciation (say 2-3% maybe?) just for the time away from the rink making you a little out of shape.
Obvjously consistency should be rewarded but if we can save even a few members by letting them take a break then I don't see the harm.
Personally I'm fine with the "punishment" just being that the GM loses the choice over what games the backup plays. If they really need to win their last 3 or something but don't do their lines earlier then guess who's in for those games?
I don't think punishing them any further would be necessary and @Devise nailed down exactly why.
I wasn't even bringing this up because I wanted to see them punished, I just want things to be fair. If it was all non-playoff teams or something that doesn't matter then whatever. But when you have a team like Stockholm involved that are in a race for the victory cup and the first round bye it can make a difference to have that backup playing or not.
I think that normally Jardy would auto-do it and that's fine. It was just bad luck that he happened to be going away right at game 64.
I wouldn't suggest it. Breaking the rules out of protest fixes nothing.
It does seem like the kind of thing we should establish specific punishments for though.
We actually did lose one of the games because of the re-sim.
In one way it does kinda hurt the people who did it properly but on the other hand what kind of punishment would we have been able to use that would actually be worse than having their backup in? I think normally it would be forcing their backup in during the playoffs but there was so many of them that it could really fuck the playoffs up.
With all the potential backup goalies in the draft I would argue that this rule is going to be more important moving forward if anything. It was created so that backups didn’t sit on the bench all season; just so happens that 99% of the time teams only have 1 goalie.
Hmm, never actually noticed that.
So Stockholm, Quebec, Cologne, Davos, and Riga have all started their starter too many times...
Technically Toronto has too but it’s already TOR G so it really makes no difference haha
If you started him and he played like shit Dadonov would have gone in and gotten a GP. In recognize that could be happening for a few here but I doubt it’s all of them.
Hey look, it’s not CoD! It is a game I’m FAR worse at though. So if you wanna see me suffer for awhile while talking about random junk then come watch.
*For Sokolov
Nothing screams hockey but all the letters of VHL are present. I kinda like that they aren't immediately obvious, makes things a little more interesting.
Seriously though, you should post a high res (preferably png) version of this so we can all use it in new designs. It only makes sense since this should definitely be the new league logo.