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Amazing season from the underdog Phoenix. Awesome work put in by every member. Congrats to DC moving on and good luck to both DC & Malmo in the Finals!

Anyone but Mexico City

7 hours ago, DiddlemethisBatman said:

I think it's safe to assume that DC is the most hated team in the league.

Actually at this point I'm rooting for DC to win it all.

“I’ve spent a lot of late 2020 discussing and “shooting” on the things that have bothered me for a while and even though I do feel I have some valid points I’d like to address something I may have judged too quickly. Game sims… Now, I’m only doing a short thing on this because it’s mostly things we know but it’s still food for thought and a rare opportunity for me to say hey, I misjudged this one.

When the league first announced the shift from the bot feeding results to instead feeding out the page for the sims, I was very against not only the change but how it was presented. I spoke about it in a podcast when it was first addressed and honestly, those comments made sense at the time. What I missed was where it would go next.

Next from the single game whatever that was first came this new system of bundling sims into a group and posting it as one thread. Again, at first, I didn’t see the appeal and I didn’t see where it would last. I figured it would be muddled, confusing, and congested with no real focus of conversation on the season’s matchups. That isn’t what happened though. Instead, we’ve seen complex conversations, rivals explode, a few short tempers, and overall, the community experience within the forum setting the league’s blues were looking for.

After a full season of this successful format, I can honestly say I’m behind it in its current form. I wouldn’t mind seeing like a GOTW type deal but I don’t think it’s necessary. I will take my humble pie on this one, I believe the league got it right here.”

1) It's the playoffs!! We currently have a 3-2 series lead against Saskatoon. Will we finish them off or will they force a game 7?

THE INVASION IS HERE! FEAR ME FOR I AM MOOSE!!! You guys really eeked one out versus Saksatoon and I had high hopws for you taking down Mexico City but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. You took a game but time to come play golf with your Marlins friends.

2) Since Christmas is now over, what did you get this year? Or if you didn't get anything for Christmas, what was a gift you gave to someone else?

I don't really get gifts but I bought my nephews some stuff for it. They're still young so I got some nerf guns for them to shoot each other with. Hours of entertainment lol

3) With the new year on the horizon, is there any resolutions you plan on making? If not, what do you hope for 2021? (Also you can't use no more COVID as an answer because we all want that)

I'm kinda porting my 2020 goals to 2021. Last year was very stop and nothing really happened but I want to take the good vibes and solid plan I had for 2020 and make that my 2021 because I believe in that plan. On a more league level I want to get back to the more analytic side of my presentation and do something to separate that "Heel Moose" stuff that's gotten taxing on me and many of the members of this community. It was something I wanted to try for an edge but it hasn't yielded the right results.

 4) It's time for the World Juniors again! Which team are you rooting for? Do you think you'll be make it to a roster this season?

Meh. Sweden IRL but for the league, USA! USA! USA! I should with 94 points but I've been FISTED ANALLY BY A CIRCUS MONKEY before and expect to be FISTED ANALLY BY A CIRCUS MONKEY again.

5) Do you think we'll make it to the finals? If so, which team do you think will be our opponents?

Unfortunately not. Was hoping for Marlins/Aces but instead we got Reapers/Kings, the Bills/Cowboys of Finals matchups.

6) Would you like to see a pair of great tits? (Please click the link embedded in the text before you answer)

Uhmm... Is this a trap? I feel like this is a Rick Roll. *Checks Video* Nevermind. The tits are beautiful. 

Love the work here. For a Marlins graphic it's top quality as I find the Marlins' logo to be the most difficult to make work on a logo swap. Background is simple for me but the font and color is solid. I like the detail that went into blending the image together between the background stuff and the player. 8/10 for me, super quality.

Amazing work for a legend. Logo swap is super quality and the render work is perfect. Background scratch is a good touch and honestly this is one of my favorite pieces as of late. Only wish Rice had got a chance to win a championship for his player. This is a great graphic though, 10/10.

Congrats to the nominees!

Adding my name in

Hope you have a great 2021 too 

2 minutes ago, Jubis said:

Chicago  continues 

Probably should've won Game 1 too. Sim getting behind the expansion squad lol

8 hours ago, bigAL said:

And holy hell Moose, are you okay?

No. I probably haven't been okay since April of 2011.

8 hours ago, bigAL said:

Thumbs down on the changes to Fantasy Zone.

• I think creating boutique fantasy groups with custom rules is something you can totally do on your own, but the Fantasy Zone Manager does not have to create 10 different games and manage them all. Weekly predictions are a great time to "pick the rookie with the most points this week" or "which defenseman will block the most shots on Friday's sims".
•  The Champ's League would be a good way to give some breathing room to the first-timers in the other groups without having an expert in every group who just cleans up. That could be done easier with the Top 2 in each group moving up, so there's always an even number. Maybe even a x1.5 or x2 to points payouts in Champs League to make it worth moving up.
• The stats are just fine the way they are - fishy's right, if you nerf all the stats you're left with literally zero. The weighting of the stats makes you pick all sorts of players, not just the highest scoring forwards. We don't need change just for change's sake.

I was really just trying to spitball some ideas. I do like the idea of custom group rules but that's probably the one I'd hang my hat on to do but I can understand the hesitation to it.

8 hours ago, bigAL said:

cow milk is best milk

Yes.

8 hours ago, bigAL said:

And holy hell Moose, are you okay? Do you even have fun being here? If all you do is complain that the league hasn't drastically changed to bend to your will, and rail on and belittle all the other members, and get angry at the sims, and talk over and get aggressive towards people that don't 'get' your ideas, why are you here? Get off your high horse and treat the people of the VHL with some respect. Just because you want to see some specific things changed doesn't mean you're smarter or better than everyone else here in every single way. When things don't go your way, there's not a league-wide conspiracy to piss in your corn flakes. I get the "entitled and whiny" vibe from you literally everywhere I see you, and I don't like it. Be a heel, be proud to be an asshole or whatever, but I don't get it. Your written work, your research, your articles are great, and as soon as you delve into commentary or opinion your attitude and mannerisms totally obscure your valid points. People would take you more seriously if you put in effort to listen to others, or try to find out why things are the way they are, instead of just calling things you don't like stupid. Just my constructive criticism to try to improve your experience here and the experience of everyone who you interact with on the forums.

Also damn dude, I didn't know we had an issue. I'm just giving my opinion, I say something I get called out for not giving suggestions, I give suggestions I'm told I'm just complaining that the league isn't run the way i want it (to paraphrase what the Moose slander has been recently). I'm not sure who I rail on and belittle in this league (probably should've gone back and listened to the whole podcast again, oh well). Fishy and I were having a debate and sure I get loud but I would expect that if Fishy had an issue Fishy would tell me to chill the fuck out and I respect them enough to do so.

The money rework thing? Yes, I am a genius and I should be showered with gifts from my adoring public, you're welcome. It is a grand conspiracy that it has not gone further. It's a secret working between myself to be lazy and pursue it further than a passing bitch and the higher ups to ignore the nonexistent additional work to pursue it. Pure evil from all involved. As for other conspiracies,  who bought the corn flakes? How did they get in my house? Wait a minute... I don't even ear corn flakes *squints eyes suspiciously*

As for the rest of it, you really want to discuss it message me, I'm more than happy to iron it out as I have no issue with you. Little bummed you chose to ignore the good times in Miami while you were AGM in favor of the playoff nonsense but again, I got no beef with you. You were always cool in Miami.

On 12/25/2020 at 12:54 AM, RedSus said:

moose's family sounds fun

 

Small doses 

3 minutes ago, Beketov said:

My initial response was basically that?

 

“With how STHS functions there is literally no way around it. Backups just go back to the last save so every game done between those saves needs to be re-done. If we could avoid it we would but unfortunately we can't.”

 

I didn’t say the words “it sucks” but is it that different?

It just sucks. Nothing more to really say at this point. It just sucks. Tomorrow I'll move on.

If I wanted anything for this article it's for anyone who is upset with it to vent here, get it off your chest, then we all move on.

1 minute ago, Devise said:

It kind of sounds like you have no grounds to complain so are half and half to simply get this off your chest. You do you. 

You got it. Just needed to vent. Felt this was better than nothing and carrying it. I'm not mad at you, I maybe wish a blue would've just said hey that sucks man, but regardless it is what it is. There was nothing to be done. I hate the sim engine a little more today than at the start of the season but that should be expected. Again, I'm just blowing off steam.

2 minutes ago, Victor said:

The only feasible way to have made this more fair would have been to take the resim results for the other 3 series and then keep resimming until there was output which matched those AND the original DC/VAN results. I'm no expert on probability but it feels like that could have taken a while.

Honestly there was nothing. The sim does let games go individually so it was never gonna not mess with something. I mostly wanted to vent my frustrations for some points and so I wouldn't continuing the argument in the game thread. Congrats on moving on by the way.

38 minutes ago, Beketov said:

Literally no one said it was fair, that doesn't mean we had a choice. I get being annoyed but taking your frustration out on us doesn't make anything better. If you want to be mad at someone go be mad at Simon for coding the engine the way he did. We physically can't do re-sims any other way which is why we try to avoid them as best we can. I'm sorry you got screwed by it but what exactly would you propose we do any different because I'd love to hear how it could have been more fair.

 

That rhetoric is woefully unnecessary and unhelpful. As is most of this "fuck the blues" mentality but whatever.

 

We've literally been fighting that fight for 13 years now. If there was a way we would.

As for your comments man. I'm just frustrated. I've been frustrated and as it's been pointed out by others, I'm obviously not enjoying myself right now. I don't have the answers for the sim, as I said in the article, there's not much to be done under the current format, I get that. So I apologize for the fuck the blues stuff. Quite frankly, I'm just frustrated because I thought things were gonna be handled differently based on my expectations.

Just now, Gooningitup said:

 

You litterly made an article attacking people, you whined as if the entire series was over AFTER 2 GAMES. You act like the league went out of its way to bend you over. 

 

Yet im the one looking for a fight? You litterly are attacking not 1 but 2 leagues. Of people who earn 0 real world dollars, well putting in real world time to make a fun league.

 

In my opinion if i was a blue id perma ban you. As your clearly very toxic. Crying about a fake league with results that dont effect anyones life. Made by people here for pure enjoyment

 

Actually, I cranked out a Media Spots venting my frustrations in a way where I could not only earn 6 TPE but also keep it out of the game thread. 

I wrote an article about my frustrations and how those frustrations with the results has made me feel. What I also said in this article you clearly DID NOT FUCKING READ is: 

"I know for those 3/4 of series there needed to be one and for the way that STHS works and the way sim results come back they couldn't do anything differently."

I've also discussed that yeah, I'm frustrated and disappointed and you know what, THAT'S OKAY. I'm sure I'll get over it and move on soon but when people like yourself actively follow me around to different threads to pick a fight it keeps that frustration and "whining" going. You want to throw a tantrum cause I'm pissed off fine, but do not ignore the irony of you continuing to follow me around whining and crying about my article of your perceived whine and crying. At least when @Beketov comes at me for my outburst he does it with some sense.

Get over yourself Goon.

4 minutes ago, Gooningitup said:

If you dont like it, go make a league yourself. Build your own sim engine that allows you to sim, well correcting errors for any game if they occur. Then come back to us almighty god, and your perfect non error ways we bow before you.

 

We are not worthy if such a perfect human 

You're just looking for a fight dude. You don't read, you pay attention, clearly evidence by the fact you were looking for a fight in the game thread till you realized I wasn'tsaying much in there beyond congrats to the advancing teams. So, I'm gonna pass on this bai my dude, go elsewhere with it.

2 hours ago, Jubis said:

According to @IamMOOSE Calgary completely traded away its future but has the most 1st round picks this draft 

 

I love haters 

I realized that after the podcast lol

Kevin King Official Statement on the Postseason:

“I want to say so many things right now. Talk about how some very high up people in this league are willing to die on the mountain that what's gone on this postseason is completely fair. That it really feels like the league went ahead and said fuck that other 1/4 of series who weren't affected by the first sims before the reset. I know it doesn't matter. I know for those 3/4 of series there needed to be one and for the way that STHS works and the way sim results come back they couldn't do anything differently. I want to say I understand and that yeah, it’s completely justified because it is. There’s also a part of me that feels like I should be this angry about it. That the response from the league has kinda warranted my response to it in the first place.

My camp has been through this before. I’ve been pretty vocal about my thoughts on the resim and how it’s been handled. I’m angry. I’m hurt. After the way the EFL went for my group I wanted to believe that if the same had ever occurred in the VHL that it’d be okay because it was a better league ran by better people, and they would find a way to make it work. Unfortunately, it just didn’t happen. And I’m left so disappointed. My faith in this league has been broken, my trust for those running it has been shattered. And for the most part it’s because of the response the higher ups have come back with for it. To take the route that it’s just a fair distribution of events feels like a spit in the face to those who were just eliminated by it. I expected more and I suppose that’s on me. I believed this league was better, they would do better. They didn’t.

I'm mad, I'm frustrated, I’m so extremely disappointed. I realize it means nothing to the people running this league. I know now to expect a hostile response from those in charge, but much like they’ve shown in response to this glaring crack in the foundation of how sims run, ‘it is what it is, can’t change it’. I realize I’m not gonna reinvent the wheel. I realize this league only listens to the ideas and commentary from those within that inner circle.

So, this will just be my outlet. Where I can get even 5% of my frustration out and collect all the wonderful comments, I expect to from those who either benefitted from this postseason or just skimmed through it so they can comment about complaining with no context or awareness of anything I’ve said. That’s what I’ll expect now. From this league. From Management, from Commissioners, from people who I thought were gonna figure it out. From a league I trusted to figure it out. So that we can keep the game thread clear for the series head of us in DC/Chicago & Malmo/Moscow.

Congratulations to Chicago, Malmo, DC, & Moscow for moving on. I hope the Conference & Finals series go on without controversy. May the best of you win. And congrats to those players who are getting a chance to potentially win a Continental Cup this season. It’s a great feeling. That’s all for now.”

45 minutes ago, GRZ said:

GG's Vancouver, really unfortunate with the re-sim, but it was an honor playing these 7 games vs you.      

Good series man. Unfortunate turn of events but it is what it is. Good luck in the Chicago series.