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I am now also curious as to which team it thinks it is? Based on the spreadsheet on VHLM Playoff History you're absolutely correct.

Hey! Just so you know, you can join a team from this link any time! Just pick a team that is open for your position and it will make a chat with you and the GMs, and they'll send you a contract! https://vhlportal.com/teams/waivers

Instead of listing off a bunch of people who I think are my rivals, which spoiler alert, is mostly just a list of people I’ve competed against that inspire me, which is nearly the same list as the list of people I wrote about for that other Theme Week where we talked about who we appreciate. Instead I want to talk about the value of rivalries in a sim league. With sims coming daily, and roughly 2 games a sim, we pump out games quite quickly. A quick check of the boxscores and boom, you can have seen everything you needed to see in a couple minutes. It can be pretty easy to fall into that trap, and begin to lose interest in the details, and just focus on the goals and assists. But what makes sims interesting, and what makes the league structure as a whole interesting, is seeing how each individual action shapes the events that lead to the outcomes we get. At some point the switch turns on and we all start watching other people’s results to try to see how they affect ours. But something I try to do, as I continue to get to know more members, even if it is from just seeing their PTs, or seeing messages on Discord, or hearing about them from their GMs, is try to begin to pinpoint the people involved in each game. At least a few of them, to keep things interesting. I try to form a little rivalry, sometimes it only lasts for a game, sometimes for a long time, just to bring some narrative element to the sims. We need someone to compete against, and feel like it isn’t our AI vs their AI. We need metaphorical faces for the names we see. When I see someone on the other team score multiple goals, that should stick. We are our own commentators in these games, we make the stories and tell them through our content. How boring would sports be if no one found and reported the stories? Who would make those cool intros for Hockey Night in Canada? Even when 2 completely unrelated teams play each other, there is always some story, and for us to enjoy the VHL those are the stories we need to tell. We need to pit ourselves against each other, not in anger, but in cooperative narrative enjoyment. We need to build ourselves a series of bits, that every day we can foster and check in on. The best rivalries are mutual ones. When both people commit to making each other’s experience more interesting, and wanting to beat each other out in fair competition, it inspires both people to work harder and be better members in the league. When whole teams form rivalries, it can be fun to watch people come out of their shells to earn a little more TPE for the contest. Thinking of past playoff matchups or blowout games, or teams that have eliminated you from the playoffs, and maybe even won the draft lottery. Those make up quite a large list, and I encourage everyone to find something or someone on every team that they can be a rival against, even just for a game.

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Depending on what the "it" is then yes. - Everyone has had 9 season careers since S80, and will so long as the VHLE exists. - There will be a 1 season season gap in retirees, and therefore general strength of draft classes (between the 8 season 79s and 9 season 80+s), which is this upcoming S88 draft. - There will be a general overpopulation in the VHL this season, and next season as we wait for the 80s to retire.

when the E was added they wanted to make sure that players didn't lose a VHL season, so they added an extra season onto careers to account for a VHLE season. Most people still play 8 VHL seasons, but 9 after their draft. That's why the VHL is stuffed with players this season, and there's no real retiring class this season.

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VLG for Updater!

That's incredible!

Were you always that high?? I swear you've done a whole heck of a lot of catching up since your draft at least.

Oh yeah you've got plenty of time to work that out. earning really becomes about sustainability after a while, and really whatever you can do the easiest becomes the best. There's so much excitement and change at the beginning of a career, so there's plenty of content, but as you go along, those management positions and league jobs and whatever PTs you find easiest really help to avoid burnout. Knowing I have to put out 500 words a week (I actually only do .com articles for affiliate leagues), makes it pretty easy to continue to max earn and keep my TPA high. Any other content that I put out is stuff I want to do, which has really invigorated me to do weird and wacky things knowing that the TPE is handled. It's crazy how much the focus has shifted over the last few months, and I'm excited to see what my brain, and yours, come up with down the road.

I know I'm sitting here complaining about it as usual, and I have many times, but depreciation is meant to be a challenge, a testament to the dedication and hard work you put in to reach your peak. It will be fun to be in my final season, walking in again with a whole ton of TPA, ready to show the league that I worked hard and I get to have another opportunity to prove that I can win. The way I've started to think about it now is that a VHL career is 5 seasons, and for each season afterwards you have to be prepared to pay up. And that's not really how it gets portrayed these days, but it has been helpful keeping me focused on buying those last 3 seasons.

Absolutely, and about half the time, the Janser Wolanin duo seems unstoppable and then for like a week we have absolutely nothing to show for it. Thank god for Leandro who has manages to put in the work solo and fills the void when we're not going or Calgary wouldn't be where we are today.

I love that I'm trying to figure out how to catch up to you, and even still you're trying to see how you can catch up to the people ahead of you, it's a never ending cycle

It has been about 2 weeks since I applied my last TPE and I am already going insane. I have no idea what to do with myself now that I have nothing to push forward with Landon Wolanin. It isn’t like my workload is different here, I still GM and I still do my point tasks. I still spy on the updater queue and read through the new forum content. I still stalk my players and teammates and try to give them the best advice I can. I still participate in league discussion and attempt to find meaning in general chat. I still dream of league changes and a new shiny sim engine that makes any sense at all. I still try to piece together what it is that separates Landon Wolanin from the HOF-calibre greats. And yet here I am trying to figure out what the heck to write about these days, and desperately hold myself back from applying my future depreciation-countering TPE.

There used to be affiliate like there are between the NHL and AHL, where prospects of one team would move up to the big leagues, as far as I'm aware. This was WAY before my time though. Although I assume the answer you were looking for was at the bottom of this post in case you're curious!

Glad to hear some good things! Congratulations to you!

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You've really hit the fun part of the VHL now! Keep up the awesome work!

haha hehe hoohooo hehe haha Moscow has a PP Problem

you actually don't even have to post it to imgur, if you upload it to discord and copy and paste it from there it just kinda works?

Just got around to listening to this today (thanks Gustav for the reminder) Awesome podcast, great to hear about all of the things!