Beketov

We’ll figure something out. My wife is taking the kids out of town for a few days either the end of July or beginning of August, I don’t recall the exact dates right now, so that would probably work best.

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F - Nico Pearce @dylanjj37

@Ahma @FrostBeard To be fair I wouldn't mind coming on with you guys but I have a hunch you two record at times that would be less than ideal for me haha

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He’s retired.

And here I was trying to make sure it got in last night haha

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They have been unaffected yes but not because of favouritism; because they weren’t broken and have been getting the shot end of the stick for years as broken skater builds have dominated. If goalies become too dominant we’ll look at it but scoring hasn’t been completely crippled by the changes by any stretch and throwing them onto goalies will just force things make to the Meta-age of goalies not standing a chance. This is fair, especially since I don’t even recall the number. I’m not gonna pretend we’re amazing at updating the rule book and this specifically wasn’t even announced it was just decided. If I recall the answer is 16 games is the line but I could be wrong. I was just stating that eligibility shouldn’t be lost after 1 season IMO when most first seasons are 8 games.

We haven’t been heavily favouring goalies, they have just needed less tweaking. As for the actual suggestion, in my opinion since most goalies start as backups these days it doesn’t really seem fair to strip them of rookie status based off 8 games.

F - Ronan Lavelle @Enorama

I didn’t even sim it haha

2 assists and an unbeaten first VHL sim. Can’t ask for much more than that.

Nah it’s probably fine honestly.

I think you misunderstand what the settings are though. The sliders aren’t like “Scoring has X weight, passing has Y weight” sorta thing. If they were then we wouldn’t have needed the hybrid attributes because we just could have tuned things. All the sliders do is affect how much of a given thing (goals, hits, penalties, that sort of thing) happen in a given game. Knowing them wouldn’t really be able to influence builds at all because they are just arbitrary figures and affect everyone universally. Also this. Leagues that get way too in depth with their settings in public inevitably lead to way too much test simming which not only increases the likelihood that exploits are found but also means, in theory, to succeed a GM requires both a ton of time to test and the money to buy a copy of the engine, not that it’s really expensive.

We changed absolutely no settings in the engine when we switched over to hybrid so nothing is tuned differently. There's also no tuning for experience as far as I can see so we couldn't have tuned it if we wanted to. As for being more transparent, all we could really do is give the sliders which wouldn't really indicate anything of value.

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INDEX @VHLM GM To send in your lines please use the Team Management section of the portal, if you have manual requests due to waiver pick ups or other roster changes please PM me your notes. For this first set if there any any issues in your rosters please let me know as soon as possible so I can correct them before the first sim Friday. I made sure all rosters can be at least valid so we should have no problems there but if you're missing any players, if any players are the wrong position, or anything else I need to know. A reminder that the portal and the sim are different entities so having someone on your roster portal wise does not guarantee they will be in your roster sim wise. I have to add them manually so please be as clear as possible with any requests. Last bit of house keeping is a reminder that your lines should not be renamed in any way from the default. Changing the name at all will make the auto-load lines function skip your lines and I'm not likely to notice so please be sure they are simply named after your team as is the default. Also like the last few seasons the farm system is on since it needs to be on all season or not at all. While the Junior system is not in use games will still be simmed (they are done at the same time) but they won't be posted. If we click Juniors over to being active (which has yet to happen) we'll get games posted for it as well. You guys will be in charge of your junior lines as well as your pro lines when the time comes to turn it on so make sure you remember that. I cannot promise you a specific time for games, although 6:45PM EST is most likely; whenever games do run they will be live at the link below. 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 and you can use the #roles channel to subscribe to the notifications so you won't miss when sims are going live. I also suggest downloading the VHL App which will allow you to receive push notifications when games are posted. Good luck to everyone this season and let's have another good one!

The Knight has never involved the playoffs so the playoff success would t have been a judging factor.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: expanding the M is a dangerous game. You’re thinking with how it is right now where there’s a good amount of parity and competition but we’ve seen before that expanding the M kills that, you get over half the league that just has empty rosters if recruitment has so much as a down season. Plus if you want people in the M as long as they are in the M + E right now (since going up to the VHL straight from the M cutoff you’ll get destroyed) you run into the old problem of new players getting completely ignored in favour of players that are going to stick around for 3-4 seasons. In short you move people’s complaints about the VHLE down to the VHLM.

Fair enough, I was just pointing out the why of it.

The simming team for S89 is: VHL: @MexicanCow123 VHLM: @Beketov VHLE: @Josh Backup: @N0HBDY Obviously this does mean that Devise has been removed as a member of the simming team. There’s nothing personal here, we just felt it was time for him to step back from the role. N0H has graciously agreed to sign on as the backup for this season and will be involved in the usual rotation starting next season. @VHL GM @VHLM GM @VHLE GM

Those straight up aren’t even possible in the sim, the choice is take out of our hands on that matter aside from doing it all manually as exhibition games and not keeping any stats. Moving teams between leagues is a nightmare with the way the portal is coded to keep track of records and such as far as I know. I was busy all day buying a car haha. Also I gave my more or less impressions on the E in the thread this morning. I enjoyed it and felt like the experience was good but obviously that’s not gonna be the experience for everyone. I do think the ACTUAL sentiment of this thread is accurate though, scouting matters and ideally scouting that isn’t just “send a google link to 30 people so they can answer a generic questionnaire.” TBF while it was a fucked up situation it was a mess of a few things. First it took a bit to track down the original graphics so we could match them, then we had to find trophy images we haven’t already used between the M and the L, then one of our lead devs left who was working on stuff, then the images got finished but there was a miscommunication so we didn’t know they were done, etc. Point is that yes, that section should have existed earlier but a lot of things went wrong to contribute to it being later than expected. Outside of the above clusterfuck how would you say we’ve given no effort to it? It’s been fighting a battle against apathy or disdain from day 1 and has continued to grow. Yes, it’s history hasn’t been maintained ideally (which is getting fixed) but we haven’t been ignoring it.

Never officially. There were consistent people who tended to do them and we’d pay them for it but it’s not an official job. As for the actual main point of this: Papa was a S79 draftee so I had to wait a full 9 seasons to play in the league I helped introduce. Calaway could have skipped, I had the TPE, but I wanted that first hand experience. Maybe it’s different for other teams, in fact I’m sure it is, but my experience was great. Locker Rooms were active, GM’s were engaging, sims were intense (even if I did arrive in Rome to immediately lose 18 games or whatever it was). Obviously the VHLE has issues, anything we could have made would have, but I stand by the belief that it’s still the best solution we have right now and if it becomes not the best solution we’ll deal with it. Acting like it has ruined everything in the league when it hasn’t though certainly doesn’t help anything.