Beketov

Welcome to the VHL, McGriddy10! 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, gosae6442jones! 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!

Would it though? It’s not as if their caps are any lower; all it does is move the bar for everyone. Max earning players still get to the VHL quicker than welfare players and still fill up the rosters while welfare players are still earning to make it up. It would take n theory help M and E activity levels but I fail to see how moving the bar for everyone would do anything but slide the problem down later.

They could not. That’s basically just reading the rulebook with the intention of finding a loophole rather than following the intention of the rule.

Correct, if someone is drawn twice I give them the higher of the two prizes and re-draw the lower one.

I did consider the option both ways. Honestly I just hit 200 so it's not like I would have been starting the season super low or something. I mostly decided to stay down because I didn't get a Founder's Cup in my Waiver season and I expect I'll have at least 1 season to try out the VHLE anyway so I want to see if I can get a cup at each level.

I feel like that’s probably all I did as well which is why I was curious. I know I added more options but they tended to get votes split up in a similar manner.

Just go to the donation index and link to this then claim the rewards as you normally would. As I said, we’ll be in contact. Yours is a tangible thing so it’s a bit more involved.

You and me both. Meanwhile both Kobe and wcats got picked in two different tiers. Sometimes I swear RNG isn’t as random as it implies.

A bit of unnecessary dramatics as I started off using the sheet from last year but we got there in the end! So here are your winners for the annual Donation Drive Raffle: Tier 1 - 5 Winners: 5 uncapped TPE @AJW @JetsGoalie101 @leafsman @STZ @PhoebeIsQueen Tier 2 - 5 Winners: $15 donation equivalent @Elman Diablo @fishy @Hogan @Nykonax @Vkobe-v Tier 3 - 3 Winners: Video Game of your choice (up to a max of $90 CAD, on any system) @Dom @GoodLeftUndone @Mongoose87 Tier 4 - 1 Winner: Nintendo Switch (OLED) console OR an NHL Jersey of the winner's choice. @wcats Congrats to all the winners, we will be in touch shortly

@Members A bit late on posting this but the draw will be taking place tonight at 6:30pm EST; so in 15 minutes or so. As previously mentioned the prize pool consists of 14 prizes spread over 4 tiers. Tier 1 - 5 Winners 5 uncapped TPE Tier 2 - 5 Winners $15 donation equivalent (IE you get the reward choice of a $15 donation without donating, can be claimed even if you have donated this season.) Tier 3 - 3 Winners Video Game of your choice (up to a max of $90 CAD, on any system) Tier 4 - 1 Winner Nintendo Switch (OLED) console OR an NHL Jersey of the winner's choice. The draw will be streamed to my twitch channel which can be found here: https://twitch.tv/beketov_vhl The draw will be at random and the number of entries you have is based on the number of 12 days of Christmas threads you responded to. Everyone who responded to at least 1 day has at least 1 entry and everyone, staff included, are allowed to win. As usual if you win something and would prefer to receive the prize from the tier below you can do that. Additionally we will not exchange any prize for cash value but a difference in prize that costs the same or less can be negotiated under certain circumstances. Good luck to everyone and I’ll see you all for the draw shortly!

I mean only like 2013 onward is even counting. Previous to that would have been a different forum and rep system.

Should be in a little under 3 hours if all goes to plan.

Welcome to the VHL, Puddles! 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!

Expansion is not on the table as far as I’m concerned. I would argue even 16 teams is barely sustainable as is. This isn’t the covid era that needed expansion every 2 seasons; recruitment has slowed (logically, we knew it would) and some teams are already barely icing a full team as is. Cap discussion is cap discussion. We’ll look at it but it’s tough because GM’s will always want more, why wouldn’t they? They put a strong team together and they want to keep it that way but teams age and age is expensive. It’s not the league’s job to make sure your dynasty is safe. Hell one of the last times I saw this argument half the teams making it and spent around 1/4 of their cap on bonuses. I’m probably remembering the exact figures wrong but you get my point; let alone the fact that rebuilding teams remain empty with loads of cap space (or they fill up on bonuses and then complain themselves). So yeah, we’ll look at it. I expect I’ll have my annual chat with @Spartan about how the league cap looks (As I have with the financiers that came before him) but expansion is not the solution. Contraction is hell, I’ve been there and don’t intend to be there again, so expansion isn’t gonna be on the table until it’s clear that it can be stable.

Ultimately you touched on but skated around both points that I assume will keep him out: Playoffs and Competition. I’ll admit I knew my rookie year was awful but didn’t realize it messed with things THAT much. What I did fully recognize from the start is that Holik was Swiss cheese in the playoffs despite being on strong teams. This is, I think, what held him back in those massively important first 5 ballots where most players who will go in are inducted. After that point the playoff argument obviously still stood but the second one cropped up; there is a prevailing ideology (and Vic is especially fond of it) that being say third or fourth best goalie in a generation should not get you in the HoF even if your numbers are far superior to others from different generations that make it in. It’s a valid enough point since generations have a huge effect especially on goalie stats but it doesn’t make it sting less when the likes of Stopko go in (first ballot I believe) with fewer wins, a worse GAA, the same S%, and fewer shutouts. So what was the difference: Stopko’s generation of goalies sucked and he was by far the best one. Playoffs keeping Holik out has always been totally valid in my book, he couldn’t stop a beach ball in the post season. The competition one irks me a bit more because it basically means if you play at a time with strong competition you’ll get passed over for worse players who got lucky on when they created. Vic and I have long argued over this. Fun read either way, I expect Papa could join Holik on the “dies on the ballot” list soon but we’ll see. Possible he doesn’t even make it on. My goalies have this great tendency of having no consistency whatsoever.

Welcome to the VHL, Oaks20081! 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!

Hoping to stream the prize raffle tomorrow. Prizes will be more or less the standard affair: Tier 1 - 5 Winners 5 uncapped TPE Tier 2 - 5 Winners $15 donation equivalent (IE you get the reward choice of a $15 donation without donating, can be claimed even if you have donated this season.) Tier 3 - 3 Winners Video Game of your choice (up to a max of $90 CAD, on any system) Tier 4 - 1 Winner Nintendo Switch (OLED) console OR an NHL jersey of your choice

Welcome to the VHL, ScottyP! 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!

Ontario is in fact the worst case.

Problem being throwing too much uncapped at one specific thing that not everyone can do because unfair, that’s why it was low. I mean it also counted as your PT for the week at least so consider the hours saved on that as well. Just add it to my reasons to not bring it back though.

It wasn’t remotely the work load that was the issue, it didn’t take us much time. It’s simply that there was very few options by the end, a lot of manipulation with the vote, and in general a solid amount of complaining that eventually just made it not worth the hassle. Some of that was of course made worse by the MetaWolves winning 3 straight. I’m not saying it can never come back but it certainly outlived it’s welcome the last time as far as I’m concerned.

That is correct. It used to be that depreciation would hit in season 6-8 post draft regardless but we found there were people spending 3-4 extra seasons down sometimes so they’d end up basically getting depreciated immediately which didn’t seem fair so now it’s based on VHL seasons exclusively.

Depreciation is based on the number of seasons you have played at the VHL level, not just your draft season. So because you spent S80 and S81 in the VHLE you are currently entering your 6th VHL season. This means you were depreciated at that level. Still Kicking is, of course, for 7th season depreciation which is why it was denied. You are able to use it next season.