Beketov

Welcome to the VHL, Nasabulkk! 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!

Paging Mr. Financier @Spartan and Mr. Dev @Josh

Hey now, my player is getting screwed as much as anyone.

Normally we wouldn't really bother with a full announcement just for cap stuff but a lot is changing here as we continue to make required changes on account of hybrid attributes and the VHLE; so I figured it might be worth the visibility, especially for the @VHL GM's. Let's get straight into it shall we? Rookie Contract Structure Change First up, the @BOG has noticed that because people are getting to the VHL generally later in their careers, by design, that also means that players who would normally be on cheap "rookie" deals are occasionally starting their VHL careers already into the "prime" seasons of their career. This obviously makes it much less enticing to bring up older VHLE players as opposed to new draftees since prime contracts cost more at the same TPE levels. We are alleviating this burden slightly by making every player's first season a guaranteed "rookie" season. This means that even if someone comes up to the VHL in their 5th season, when they would normally be on a prime contract, they will receive a rookie contract for their first season. After that first season they will return to prime contracts. Backup Exemption Increase Minor and quick but as TPE levels have increased so have the amount of TPE backup goaltenders have. Therefore we are slightly increasing the cap exemption of backup goaltenders from $2M to $2.5M. Salary Bracket Adjustments In a similar vein to the above 2 we have decided to slightly modify the salary brackets, mainly so that prime cap hits are a bit less of a heavy hit than they previously were. the Salary brackets going forward will be: This obviously does a few things but as mentioned the key is making prime contracts a bit cheaper as well as making rookie contracts a bit more expensive at the higher levels. Temporary Cap Adjustment All of the above should help alleviate cap pressure a bit but to be sure we are temporarily increasing the salary cap from $42M to $44M. This increase is not expected to last as the above re-structuring takes place but should help things go through a little more smoothly.

It's true, I would.

No TPE no interest, it’s like you don’t even know how this works.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes…. Shit.

Welcome to the VHL, ajkwhfnsd01! 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, AnnaConways! 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, LorenVags! 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!

I would assume the calculators I used for "days between X date and Y date" accounted for them, yes.

Fixed that for you.

Huh, never even figured those were kept up to date. I guess it makes sense mind you.

I’m really not at all, I just ran the math on it awhile ago because I figured I was getting close.

Where do you even get your data from haha. I know I had an MS back in Sokolov’s time that I had listed all my TPE on but that obviously ended at Sokolov who wasn’t on the portal so no way of confirming what he finished at. Obviously you have better methods of pulling the data than I did though. In any case I was right, it is over 10k.

Yeah without access to the old players I don’t think there’s much of a way.

I figured I’d spook you a bit. Can’t get rid of me that easily.

Yeah nowhere close to that, and at least there isn’t a million fires to put out when I wake up every morning.

Couldn’t have done it with me last season? Smh

Hello everyone, Not gonna bother with a members tag on this, if you see it then great, you will be rewarded for that. If you don’t then…. Well why am I writing this because if you don’t see it how can you read this part? Anyway, today marks 5717 days (that’s 15 years, 7 months, and 26 days if you’re curious) since the VHL opened its doors. What a random number you might say, why does that matter? Well if I do the math, and I have, I was born 5717 days before the start of the VHL. Given that I joined on day one and have been here ever since that means today marks the official day that I have been in the VHL just as long as I was outside of it. Is that a stupid thing to celebrate? Probably but that won’t stop me; so please let me indulge in a bit of sentimentality for a moment. When the VHL started I had not yet completed high school, I had never had a girlfriend, hell I had never kissed a girl. I was a lonely nerd turning to the internet to find something to do; and I found it. The VHL was not my first sim league, wasn’t even the first one I joined ran by the people who ran it, but it was the first that felt different and felt like it had a good chance of surviving which so few at that point had done. I found a community here. I cannot honestly say that everything went perfectly or that my start in the VHL was without fault; I very nearly left for good within 2 months, but I stayed. I have now not only finished high school but university and going on 10 years working post-schooling. I have now not only had a steady relationship but a wife and two children, a life. All the while the VHL has been there, constantly evolving with the times sure but present. Over 5 years ago I took up the mantel of commissioner. I did it not because I thought I was necessarily the best person for the job but because I thought the league needed something, it was in trouble and I didn’t want to see it fail. I like to think that in these 5 years of growth I have at least stalled that failure. 5717 days likely means nothing to any of you, just as that paragraph likely means nothing to any of you, but it means something to me. This league, this place, this community has been a standard in my life for longer than most anything else. I’m not going anywhere right now, that’s not what this is, but I did want to mark the occasion because this league does mean a lot to me. So if you’ve made it this far feel free to take 5 uncapped TPE for your troubles, on me. I’m not sure the insane total I’ve had over the years (probably over 10k by now) so 5 for everyone that I bored with this story should suffice as a thank you for being my weird extended internet family.

Should have been 3 straight first's tbh but Bush decided to draft me 2nd when he had first and second overall anyway just for fun. By the odds of this that would put me first which I believe I woefully don't deserve this time around. Like my TPE is fine but I have no sweet clue what I'm doing on D or with hybrid attributes.

People leave and return for any number of reasons, we aren’t here to judge, just always glad to see people make their way back.

@Dil it’s you turn to pass the buck I guess haha

This is also made, @Victor just be slacking