Beketov

Let’s be honest that would be your take on anything g no matter what.

Calaway’s first hat trick so I’ll take that even with a 1-1 sim

Welcome to the VHL, CroatianSensation! 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, Froztyfeet! 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!

Correct. You can play people at any forward position without penalty in STHS (as we have it set up at least) so formally changing it does nothing but showcase the change on the portal. For that reason we don’t really count them as changes, it’s just a visual thing.

Better yet: stop segregating the league by calling them clickers and acting as if they are second class. Welfare and PF have existed for a decade, you know what we used to call them? Members. I get it, from a GM perspective they aren’t going to get as good as quickly as a max earner but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be bothered with. I know this is gonna be a bit “old man yells at cloud” but back in the day welfare earners were looked at as good draft steals, not something to be ignored. You pick one up in a later round knowing their TPE may be lower but if you can teach them the ways of the league you can make a max earner out of someone that other GM’s just overlooked. I’m not sure when that mindset changed and became “they aren’t worth even considering" but I’m guessing sometime in the 70’s when we had expanded enough that depth died in favour of 6-4-1 exclusively again. Ultimately I think the portal is a double edged sword for this, and I’m not exclusively blaming it at all just mentioning it. On the one hand it makes the league easy and accessible to more people and automates repetitive tasks we normally would have had to manually do. On the other hand though it sequesters people away easier, clicking twice and never seeing anyone else. Back in the day when welfare or even updates were on the forum it was much more likely that people would do other things while they were here collecting their welfare and updating their player. They were already here after all so why not chat a bit. In the same vein other people would see their activity, however minimal, and communicate with them. Being able to hide away on the portal and, at best, in a discord LR keeps people from integrating into the larger community. Obviously I’m not suggesting we drop the portal, it’s benefits far outweigh its drawbacks, but we need to do a better job of seeking out those who do not normally join the greater community rather than simply segregating them off as “those clickers we don’t care about”. A member is a member, regardless of how much they earn, and they deserve to receive the same respect as a max earner would.

@Baozi

INDEX @VHL GM You all know the drill by now, GM's are required to lines using 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. 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 Wednesday's 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 6:30pm 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!

I’ll try to remember to update this each season so that I don’t need to always make a new post. The simming team for S87 is: VHL: @Beketov VHLM: @Josh VHLE: @Devise Backup: @MexicanCow123 @VHL GM @VHLM GM @VHLE GM

That was just pasting things backwards haha

@Spartan OP updated

I probably should have updated the rosters haha. Good look for me. F - Leandro Goncalves

Welcome to the VHL, Dylan Dupuis! 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, Tyrese Campbell! 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!

F - Hulk Hogan 2 @Spartan draft is done. I will update the OP in a few hours.

Welcome to the VHL, Zuby! 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!

Guaranteed medal for Papa in his final season at least; let's see if we can make it gold

Before the @VHL GM’s get too excited: no we are not increasing the cap. League leadership has already discussed our reasons for this, top of which is that there’s little proof it would do anything but make the teams continue to stack their top end, as it usually does. ANYWAY, what we’re going to allow is VHL teams to release 1 inactive player (that is to say, per the VHL rules, a player who has not updated in at least 30 days) without a cap hit so long as they sign an active FA first. So, for example, if you have an inactive taking $3M in cap space you can sign an active FA worth $3M (or less) and drop the inactive player for free. We don’t intend this to be permanent and do have more robust systems being discussed but for now it should allow some of our FA’s to find homes rather than simply having inactives sitting in roster spots. - @Commissioner

So whiny I’ll see what I can do but I don’t have time right now

We’re working on longer term things and trying to find a stop gap measure in the meantime. Its tough to say “how dare the league allow this” when teams that literally have the cap space just aren’t bothering to make an offer though.

I’m a bit behind but @MetalTodayits been over 12 hours so that’s skip 1/2 for you; you can make your pick whenever. @Girts you’re up

Team USA really proving the VSN’s predictions of them wrong; I thought they were supposed to be dominant. Anywho, time for Papa to go hard!

D - Biggie Cheese G - Wumbo @MetalToday