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Appreciate the well wishes, I just don't think this is for me and I don't want to string anyone along.

Any more questions from anyone? Gotta get them TPEs.

Nah it's going to Red Lite sorry ya'll.

I don't know how I missed this before. Or maybe I just chose not to respond so I could review it later? I don't remember. I appreciate the mention! I also think your "way too early" predictions are turning out to be pretty accurate. Great formatting and poignant info for anyone speculating who to draft. Great job! 10/10 Also, glad you bumped this to claim tpe. Hopefully anyone else who missed it will catch it the second.. third? time around.

Dude this was a blast to read. You can take Mexico I believe in you! Congrats to the team and best of luck in the playoffs. Great formatting to keep it entertaining and visually interesting, good pics. 10/10

1. How do you keep on earning after if you get the job? Frankly I don't know. To that effect I actually declined the opportunity, but mostly because I don't think I'm going to have the necessary free time starting off in 2021. Perhaps a bit later I'll be able to contribute a bit more; but for now I'm keeping my output necessities low enough to actually make sure I can meet them. 2. Thoughts on mississauga this season? I guess we made the playoffs? It's really quiet around here, and cold. Haha. But no, really, if nothing else at least I get a lot of ice time even if our stats really aren't there. We just don't have the player count necessary to really compete this season. 3. Moving onto next season, you think you will do better or worse? Well, I came in on waivers, with no idea what I was doing or what this was all about. I definitely think my player will perform better on the ice if I stay on a team that puts me in the first line. I think I have a realistic shot next season in the minors of being a points leader or at least cracking the top 10. As far as I am concerned as a person, I don't know. I came out of the gate really hard but I think the honeymoon period is waning a bit. I need some inspiration, I guess? 4. Are you satisfied with your time with the Hounds? I don't really have a point of comparison. I guess it's okay. It'd be cool to be on a powerhouse team, though I guess my stats get padded here, at least this season. We'll see how the next round of drafts go and maybe I'll revisit this question. 5. Media or gfx? Graphics don't have nearly the return on investment, so to speak. I can bang out a bunch of useless words that everyone has heard before, or do some analytics and effectively forget about Point Tasks for a month. Graphics take a lot longer when you don't have some fancy pirated photoshop to do all the effects. My last graphic submission literally took days of work and I think I got one reply from that good dude Thad. So Media. 6. Welfare or work?

1. I just learned the concept of someone's "main", and it made me really curious: what's your main sim league? Well, VHL. The only other time I gave any sort of attention to anything like this before was a few years ago regarding football, but it was way too in depth and daunting and I don't think I've ever thought about that again until now. 2. Is your main league the same as your first league? If no, why'd you switch? See above, but sorta. VHL is the first headlong experience I've given any effort into. The concept of running multiple characters between various sites like this baffles me. 3. Do you find it easy or hard to keep up with one or more sim leagues in your life? I don't honestly know why I'd even want to. My attention is split between my wife and kids and the new house and Christmas right now. Being required to run through some bit of mundanity on these forums to make my numbers goes up late into a Sunday into Monday morning, and being available on Discord, is about as much as I can give. Hell, I couldn't even keep up with all the days of Christmas posts. 4. Someone on the playground tells you they heard Benny Graves got traded. You run back home to check the VHL news and you go to.... a) the forum, b) the discord, c) tune the TV to VSN Kind of a trick question. First I go to the website portal to find out who Benny Graves is, then hop into the wall of text that is discord and see if this matters in any way to me, but it probably doesn't. 5. Are you here on a mobile, a laptop on the couch, a desktop computer or something else? How do you physically interact with the league? Split my time between my phone and my laptop. The real writing happens at the laptop, though, I don't have the thumb speed to really write anything out on the phone but I can update briefly from it every once in a while, and I'm usually on it when I'm checking discord. 6. Fill in the blank: I'm really hoping I get a _______ for VHL Christmas! Hat trick? Maybe win one of those raffles? That'd be pretty cool. Maybe Cowboy Prout will hit me up about that podcast? I'd really like to crack the goals leaderboard for the VHLM too so I'm going with Hat Trick, first answer. For Christmas, in real life, I don't even know. A new headset? Hope my sons like it though.

Well, another week comes and goes and we just don't see fit to post a presser. I guess the wind is just out of our sails in Mississauga, I'm unsure, but I am currently leading the monthly TPE charts and I don't want a pesky thing like waiting around bar me from continuing that trend. I've gotten some notice from some few folks, a job offer, and been notified that I am actually on some (Well regarded!) teams' radars. Now, truly, I didn't expect a bit of that, and I definitely didn't expect... Well, any of this, when I downloaded some random sports management simulator game on my phone a month or two ago. Regardless, here we are, and I'd like to answer any questions I can in a public format. Mostly for TPE. But hey, I'm.. Otherwise outside of this community, so don't hesitate.

Last claim 12/27

Ain't missing this one.

The render on the player is real blurry, but the logo placement and distortion is good. The background is fine as a stock picture frame, I suppose, but the post effects, what are they? Skid marks? Ice? Snow? Artifacts? Dirt? I really can't tell, but it's visually interesting nonetheless. I like the ideas presented but the text work is just.. Baffling. What is going on here? Like I'm not trying to step on your artistic stylings but I just really have no firm grasp on what effect you were trying to achieve by splitting the text in teal and white. I understand you rightly assumed the text needs attention to pop or be eye catching but the methods do so in the wrong way. And what exactly is going on with the logo in the top right? Cool idea, though. And I'm not trying to be needlessly critical, I don't know what medium you're using but you can rasterize text and apply all sorts of layer effects to it to make it pop without making it confusing in most photo editors. Like I use pixlr.com. It's free and web based. Hope this helps some. 5.5/10

Thanks for the heads up. What was the purpose of the change for inactivity? That's the heart of the paragraphs, anyway.

Getting out from under the shackles of the norm is literally what being creative is about. I know nothing about this game, but the logo is recognizable in what I assume is a very limiting format. I'm positive you put some time into it as well as I assume this is something like pixel art? Super cool. Good way to branch out. 10/10

You could have padded out those 100 or so words by including the Mississauga Hounds.

The current VHLM maximum Career Length is 3 years. Most highly active players will grow out of the VHLM with their First Gens within the first two seasons, definitely by the end of the second with even a moderate pace for their TPE. Even with no additional TPE the very least a player should be claiming is 6 tpe a week, meaning any given player should max out of the vhlm within the timeframe of three vhlm seasons, or more specifically 41-42 weeks. Of course, that's 250 flat tpe absent the tpe allotted upon player generation, so it will generally take about three quarters of that time. In my case were I to have only generated tpe through the somewhat unintuitive methods we must use, it would have taken me about 30 weeks (Being a Waiver signing I started with I think 62 after claiming Welfare and Practice? ) However, there are also plenty of players who stop by briefly, make a player, and then perhaps never show up back to the site. Or perhaps, they show up seasons later, or weeks later, whatever. Why, in those cases, where a player hasn't surpassed ~120 tpe in their first three seasons in the Minors, couldn't they be given an extension? It's certainly a lot more exciting for coaches to work with players, even 62 TPA players, than Bots, isn't it? It could modify the meta entirely to have full rosters of what are effectively empty faces with various stat spreads compared to the current situation where if you don't manage to fill out your roster you simply have no chance of competing, where player counts are certainly not infinite. Finding the best stat combination for these throwaway players for your lines I think would be an improvement to the flat metrics of the bots. I don't think the current maximum should change much, of course, but I don't think four or five years would be wildly excessive. I think this change would be for the better. It would add some variability to the no-named part of the teams' rosters and it wouldn't really infringe on productive players either. Of course, I do not expect this to change. I am in no way a manager, coach, or expert; nor do I have no stock or drive or understanding of the community's opinion, nor in the simulation beyond reading over the game reports and some spreadsheets. I truly do not expect this even to be read. But if you do, maybe you could respond with how or why you agree or disagree, for whatever it's worth. It might reward the managers who bother to reach out to certain users who accept a team contract and then totally abscond or never in their career do more than claim practice points. I can say for certain how disheartening it is to see bots getting more ice time than players, though, even by accident. Hell, maybe giving the bots fake player names and profiles and varying their stats a little would be enough to assuage this problem, who knows? It certainly would be a change that wouldn't hurt retention.

I don't even know how I missed Day 8. These threads should be on a banner or something at the top of the forums.

Dec 20 claim link

Six Geese a-laying or seven maids a-milking I'm not sure I'll go back and edit these to make them make sense maybe. Or I won't. Realistically I won't. Okay, so, if we start counting down at Day 12 that's Drummers Drumming. 12 = Drum 11 = Pipers 10 = Lords 9 = Ladies 8 = maids 7 = Swans. Which I did yesterday. Tomorrow will be six geese a-laying. Gotta go back and edit all this crap. Seven swan a-swimming. Hahaha you can't even back edit. I failed at this so badly.

Seven swans a swimming

1) Since it's not been too long since you've joined the league, what are thoughts on the league so far as a whole? I feel like the whole "game" of this is being a writer, having the capabilities to do a radio show, or being something of an artist. I think I already hit my peak with the art thing and I haven't latched on to anything to analyze and I'm not very good at it. I think TPA should have hard limits and larger declines to incentivize builds rather than just maximizing TPE and ignoring the site for a week, or complaining to your GM that you haven't gotten a presser this week to finalize your 12 for five days. There's probably a lot more to the game of it all for GMs, in fact. But as a player I think there should be more to it than putting points in. Maybe working toward specific traits, or whatever you'd like to call them, to individualize player profiles. To actually answer the question, I'm ambivalent. The community is healthy, and though I don't know anyone they mostly seem decent in discord. I don't really like the game behind it. 2) Are there any areas in the league that you would like to see a change/improvement? Nah. I think Discord is really the way this thing works though. If there was some way to give a visual representation of the game in a recap, perhaps feeding the full game profile through some app and making a little video out of it would really be awesome to see how the game played out. Perhaps putting big banners on the site like "THE DRAFT WILL HAPPEN AROUND BLAH BLAH BLAH DAY." Also maybe giving people a tutorial for a tpe submission to ease them in? 3) The VHLM Newsletter launched earlier this week, did you read it and was it helpful to you? The what? No. Where are the links? 4) What are your aims this season in the VHLM? I guess to make enough impact to actually land on a decent team. I'm doing as much as I can. I donated. My draft stock is going to sit at a solid #15 or so I think for the sake of being on Mississauga and being a waiver signing screwing up the community's average TPE formula. I'd also like to reverse engineer the sim formulae, but that's probably not going to happen. 5) With the teams starting to take shape, who do you consider to be the favourite for the VHLM Founders Cup? I'm going with a Dark Horse here and saying the San Diego Marlins. 6b) What do you think of your current VHLM team? Our lockerroom is really inactive outside of non-team members dropping by to maybe drop a line of smack talk. Bacon seems to some extent like he's trying but we don't have much going on from anyone, nor much TPE generation or heads up about opportunities. I'm not trying to be negative, but it's getting to that point. Yay. I was so excited when I first signed up, too.

Eight Maids-a-milking To the above you have to count down not up

I was gonna do this whole 12 days of Christmas gimmick from day one to twelve and I totally forgot and didn't post in two and three. I'll probably forget again. So oh well.

I really like articles like this. It really piques interest when you tag other players and give a little review of their player or personal performance; and I think that's a great thing for an AGM to do to keep his locker room interested in the site. Frankly, without this, and not pushing top performance as a team it's easy to get distracted from the site as a new player. Thanks for giving me some inside into an opposing locker room to see how you guys do things different. I'd say you could probably break paragraphs with a line separation since indentation isn't a thing, just to make it a bit more readable. Nice little write up.

Thanks for doing this write up. I'm pretty excited for the upcoming draft, having a player in the same position you did last season. I'm trying to keep up my tpe and I'd like to go high, too. I definitely don't feel like draft position is dictated by much more than TPA and TPE Averages and player position, it's not like we can control the whims of the simulator. Great job with the article, a nice read. The Marlins got a steal though, you're a great community member, and I'm sure you're in their locker room now dishing out what knowledge you've gained yourself. I don't really feel like giving this a letter grade is entirely appropriate, but with a knock for the formatting, I guess, 9/10. The information was more personally useful than anything else.

How is average capped tpe calculated? I did max for week ending 12/6 and 11/29 and did welfare when I made the player. (4+12+12)/3 = 9.33~?