eaglesfan036

didn't read

wow so many people posting in this are still here

Chappie sucks

@Kendrick

Did it work?

I love these articles what a blast from the past with some names I haven't thought of in forever

finally trivia answered posted at an appropriate time

Flyersfan is indeed a massive lick, arguably the safest pick in the draft

1) My favorite selection was myself because I was kind of hoping to be drafted to an expansion team. It will be awesome to potentially be London's first cup winning goalie and I hope to really help carry this team in crunch time if ican 2) John Leclair - Flyersfan - He may not have been among the highest tpe wise, but as a longtime member he is one of the most reliable picks you can make and is also my brother so this is completely unbiased 3) B - All the picks seemed to make sense, but nothing I would say is a major steal. I will wait and see how they pan out but I predict good things 4) Real life for this one - finding the right balance of water, peeing, and food. I definitely want to hydrate as much as possible before my game, and I want to time my pee for last second so I can last as long as possible without urinating out there. Food wise I want to have a little something to hold me over, but nothing that will make me be puking out there. Nuts and a banana are my go to 5) Getting a free massage at the trainers expense 6) Finally having a good seasons statistically. Last year I was on a horrible Halifax team, but this year we are legit cup contenders and I have the potential to be the top VHLM goalie

For this study, I am using an econometrics program called eviews. To learn how to interpret my results, please read my original article doing the same thing for skaters here. Data: I am using goalie attributes and statistics from each individual season between seasons 64 and 73. While I ideally would like to use more seasons to get more data, all seasons before season 64 do not have the search function to look for all goalie attributes. Instead, I need to go into each individual team for their goalie stats and this exponentially increases the time I need to collect attributes, and ain't nobody got time for that. If anyone were to kindly provide me this info I could run these results again, otherwise we will go with what we got. VHL Regression Results: The adjusted R^2 for all VHL stats and attributes is not great, as this means that 42% of the variation in the dependent variable, save percentage, is explained by the variation in the independent variables (attributes). Ideally you want the adjusted R^2 to be higher than this. This could mean that perhaps a lot of save percentage does come down to either team performance around the goalie or just sim luck in the sim deciding if it likes your goalie or not. Going off of this, there are two statistically significant attributes of note - reaction time (8.7%) and size (8.7%), as you generally want your statistics to be under 10% probability in order to be significant. Reaction time appears to be the most important one to upgrade, as an increase of reaction time by 1 increases your save percentage by 0.04. This is in line with @GustavMattias's guide to building, as reaction time is one of the four generally accepted goalie attributes to upgrade. According to this, I would prioritize it first. Next up, size is the only other statistically significant attribute, with an increase in size by one increasing your save percentage by 0.016. I would use this info to make size my 5th most prioritized attribute, after the big four. VHLM Regression Results: The adjusted R^2 for the VHLM results is way higher, with 71% of the variation in the dependent variable, save percentage, explained by the variation in the independent variables (attributes). The only statistically significant attribute according to this is handspeed, which also has the highest coefficient. An increase in hand speed by one increases a goalie's save percentage by 0.07, which is quite a lot. The next closest attribute to being statistically significant is size, which has showed up again. Quick Summary: According to the previously agreed upon tiers in Gustav's builder article along with the information here, I would order goalie attributes as such: 1) Hand speed 2) Reaction Time 3/4) Rebound Control 3/4) Style Control 5) Size 6/7) Skating 6/7) Agility

Looking at his VHLM stats, you can't blame many VHL GMs for letting goaltender Malone fall to the 2nd round. Malone only had 3 wins last season, though that mostly wasn't his fault as he was on an absolutely awful Halifax team that provided him no support. Check out those game threads and you will often see Halifax getting outshot something like 60-5, with Malone frequently getting pulled so someone else can be sacrificed to the wolves. This bad start to his career combined with only a mild demand for goalies among VHL teams led to Malone dropping in the 2nd round. However, experts believe that London got themselves a steal, as Malone will start showing his true colors this season on a dominant Halifax team featuring lots of top draft picks. The practice hours are there for Malone, and his hard work will pay off in the end with Founders and Continental Cups

1) Take some time off to go to the beach, hang out with friends, and catch up with the parents 2) Helsinki just because I think it is better for league health if the same team doesn't keep winning 3) Vegas for sure. Vegas immediately being so good as an expansion team is a damning indictment of dinosaur NHL GMs who have no idea how to evaluate talent and play too much of an emphasis on gritty heavy veterans 4) Huge Eagles fan - absolutely embarrassing performance against the WFT today 5) The Office, Family Guy, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad 6) Seinfeld and Eerybody Loves Raymon

I am pretty sure Wylde was a sign and trade and i get him at the deadline to save cap space which accounts for the cheap price.

Thats fair you know more about him then I do, all I did was take a quick glance at his tpe earning. Maybe we will get into a goalie duel in the playoffs at some point

I did have an image at the bottom

https://vhlportal.com/players/playerfocus/2621

goalie is a tough position if you aren't among the highest tpe earners

Vancouver did not have a good draft as they did not select an eaglesfan or a flyersfan. The teams that drafted those 2 players got the steals of the draft

I like this trade for Prague

That's an understatement lol. For some reference, I was the Wranglers GM in the S40s and 50s. Once my drive for GMing passed I was looking to step down, but we had no one in the league who wanted to be the GM. After hanging onto the position two seasons longer than I wanted out of necessity, eventually kesler/brovy took over. He did so horrible in his only season with calgary (he traded the farm for a goalie when project player two made goalies a dime a dozen), that I actually snatched the GM position back from him for a few seasons. After I left I believe we were still desperate for GMs and that is where Bushito came in

surprised gritty didn't make it