Beketov

Welcome back! Now don’t mind me while I casually vomit from memories of bad Jagger based decisions.

Welcome to the VHL, Jaggerbomb88! 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'm blind, my bad. D - Tommy Sleeves F - Ronald Johnson MacWallace III @Gaikoku-hito

Of note to the actual content of this: I assume everywhere you say TPE you mean TPA since there's a lot more players than this north of 1K TPE.

Dark mode discord, dark mode portal, light mode forum. The forum just doesn’t look good dark. I do find it funny though, when I used to make skins for the league back in the day people would always complain if I made a dark one. Now people don’t want to use light ones.

RIP light mode users; I was sitting here going "why the hell can't I see his post"

D - Callum Gary Yannick Janser @Rhynex Entertainment

D - YaBoi Oven @Gaikoku-hito

F - Thor Reingaard @Rhynex Entertainment

F - Severus Targaryen @Oddpurplefly

INDEX @VHLM 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. 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 6:45pm 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!

Welcome to the VHL, Alberto! 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!

Assuming it’s an image that’s not working just upload to imgur and post the link here.

100% full: No; you'll basically never get GM's to do that when it just means their higher TPE players sitting on the bench more. Gus covered the option in here: I can't fully recall on the brackets side of things but I do believe we had recently changed them; I know we had also allowed like a buffer cap of extra room teams could be over if they took on extra players but it didn't help much. It wasn't so much a pure salary thing, just GM's wanting to min/max their rosters which I can understand. Why pay the 450 TPE player to put him on your third line when you can just tun your first line 1200 TPE guys there?

If I recall, and it's been so long that I could DEFINITELY be wrong, the bigger issue wasn't so much the clickers that you describe as literally being unreachable as they never come onto the forum or discord; they were kinda a whole separate thing. The problem was the people who were mostly just clicking PC and welfare but were still active and engaged in the league. These were people that were active by every metric but had absolutely nowhere to go because of a lack of space and GM's not wanting them. That was the bigger concern, especially with the "leave them to rot" idea because it would basically be saying "hey so we built these systems to be used in the way you are using them but we deem you as being disposable and not worth having around so like, get more TPE or go die". Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit but you get the point. It's a lot easier to have the mindset of "they'll sort themselves out" when they are users you never interact with but it's certainly a lot harder when it's people that are actively messaging us because no GM will even give them a 4th line offer and they have nowhere at all to go. Hell some of them as I recall were doing other tasks, just maybe not max earning every week and that wasn't good enough. I will never say that the VHLE was going to last forever because frankly we were never going to have the kind of recruitment that would keep it necessary forever but I will say that my experience with it (and I know that's anecdotal and can't be taken as the experience of everyone) was perfectly fine and felt honestly like a lot of complaints were being waged by people who never tried to experience it themselves and just wanted to pile on the hate train. Either way it's done now because it needed to be done; sadly this entry in your series wasn't as enjoyable as the other ones since it seemed to just re-iterate points you've long made but hey, it's out of the way so maybe we get into more interesting ones again now

You say that as if I would think Calaway belongs on the ballot haha.

I’ll gladly trade Calaway’s eligibility to get Papa in. Sure Calaway won’t even likely make the ballot but that’s beyond the point.

Welcome to the VHL, Queco Jones! 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, flyersfan345! 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, GamblingDie! 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!

Quick Answer: it won’t matter. People pushed for archetypes instead of the hybrids at the time and the general argument against them is the same as it is here: People will always just find the most optimal path back to meta and take it. Splitting it up into more options basically just makes extra work for the sake of creating something that won’t really be used (except whatever is optimal) and won’t really do much (because a lot of stats just have barely any effect.) We could basically double the amount of attributes we have and it would t really change anything, you might get A BIT more build diversity but long term people are going to find their way back to what they know.

The simming team for S96 is: VHL: @Josh VHLM: @Beketov Backup: @N0HBDY @VHL GM @VHLM GM

Welcome to the VHL, BIG MOOSE! 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!

Man, I miss the days of VHL MSN chats

Welcome to the VHL, Jason 2.0! 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!