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also necropost to the max!

On 1/25/2015 at 7:33 PM, Mr. Hickey said:

Why is the whole league a clusterfuck? 

 

16 teams?

 

4th year players with 1000TPE?

current VHL 

good change

11 minutes ago, Spartan said:

No one should have to feel like they're being watched 24/7, including within any private channels that may have strategic or unique discussions.

that is incredibly important, but I do find it a bit disappointing when we lose a server. I think the burner account that isn't used would be a great choice.

Wait a minute... I said no scouting so stop reading this!

Pope Francis is a defensively minded defenseman who will most likely make a huge impact in the own end of any VHL team. The old stud from Argentina had a league leading 238 SBs 55 SBs above 2nd place. The Pope doesn't suffer on the offensive end where he was successful being 2nd place in defenseman points in the M last season with 95 points only 6 points behind the leader. While awards haven't been announced yet, it would hard to see a world where Pope Francis doesn't at least get a deep look for the Ryan Sullivan Trophy. Interestingly, Pope Francis led the league in PP goals with 16 with only 25 goals on the season the system that Halifax ran on the PP obviously allowed the Pope to use his strength to power in some hard clappers from the point to either get a goal or a quick rebound goal from a teammate because the Pope had a point in 73% of all PP goals during the regular seasons for the Halifax 21st.

Unfortunately, there are a few downsides to the Popes way of playing the game. While using his body as a tool, he led the league in PIMs which led to his Halifax 21st struggling on the PK without their top and for a long time only defenseman.  This is especially evident when you consider that the Pope put his team down a man 64 times and without him their bad PK dropped to worst in the league. If the Pope wants to live a successful career in the VHL he will certainly need to figure out how to reduce his time sitting in the no-no box. Also while he led the league in SBs and had a very successful offensive season he still had a poor +/- with only +5. While it is true that +/- relies heavily on teammates, it does still depend on your ability to stop chances. The Pope uses his body and gets a lot of hits, but in a league where hits don't necessarily lead to turnovers it doesn't really help your team when you look at what it does to inflating your PIMs. Discipline is definitely the biggest problem for the Pope and it will be looked at closely by teams as they look to draft this player.

The reality is the Pope isn't a perfect player, but the upside can be great when you get such a strong defensive player. 

Being part of a league that is *checks notes* more than 15 years old means we are surrounded by history in the league. While the history is unimportant in reality it is nice to know that the league most likely won't be disappearing in the near future. That does mean that I believe we as people well into the leagues history have a sort of responsibility to archive history to some degree. Discord server are hard to archive, but if you wanted to you could search a discord server and find what members of a team were saying when they won that cup 23 seasons ago. That is if the server still exists. We have recently run into a situation where a few locker rooms have either had a few issues with transferring or they were completely lost. This isn't the biggest problem but it is a bit sad. I think it would be nice to have a group do like 10 people who are very high ranking in the league to have ownership of servers specifically VHLM servers that way no one person has to deal with all the servers, but we also never have to lose a server in the future.

36 minutes ago, Dom said:

You misspelled upcoming Kanou’s winner Jesse Teno

best regular season goalie*

Teno has that dog in em though

I've been looking through this like wow @UnknownMinionreally was good at the start of the league until I realized I was an idiot

12 hours ago, Pifferfish said:

Respect opera

Opera MVP

Just now, samx said:

Complaining about gen chat being dead... also the three people talking about it arent really that active in gen chat lol

blame moon for that it was his rant

1 minute ago, Spartan said:

Yeah I need a timestamp for the mention as well  

few times in the news and stat draft

Just now, samx said:

what section am I mentioned in 

believe the rant wheel

As per usual @Pifferfish gets to claim and so does @Moon

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nurx5/episodes/VSN-Presents-Victory-Lap-Misery-in-Toronto-e24v1cs

In today's episode, we...
 

• talk about all the league news from draft updates, championship teams, new signings, and off-season tourneys. 0:01:00-0:34:14
• play Hot Takes with Moon 0:37:13-0:54:20
• talk to Moon about his experience in the league 0:54:28-1:08:53
• play Stat Draft 1:11:42-1:30:46
• and go to the rant wheel 1:32:16-End

Mentions:

Just now, Beketov said:

Hey, my plan to predict the team I wanted to see lose worked!

 

Then again now I need to make a new cup banner, damnit.

just move and rename the team to Helsinki Titan or something like that easy

bro i retire and this happens...

57 minutes ago, RJMW said:

EL CHUPACABRA - WINSTON DIXON JR

don't they speak English in Belize?

8 hours ago, FrostBeard said:

 D.C. DRAGONS PRESS CONFERENCE 
VHL Finals are soon and so is Off-season!

Answer 3 for 1 TPE, Answer 6 for 2
 

1. How do you plan to spend your off-season, going to focus on your skills or just enjoy some time off?
2. When it comes to DC Dragons Draft - we have 5 picks in the first 2 rounds, how important for our rebuild this draft is going to be?
3. GM John Frostbeard recently said that he feels that last season and trades put DC Dragons in a really good spot for the future. Do you believe that or do you think some things could have been done better?
4. Our star goaltender Bubbles Utonium has decided to resign with DC Dragons, how important it is for our team to have a strong player in the net with so many new players coming into the team?
5. Mark Calaway, our last season's 1st Overall pick had a great season in VHLE, how much do you think that experience is going to help him on his journey to be one of the future VHL greats?
6. It was leaked by a member of DC Dragons Coaching staff that there has been some problems in the LR between Magomedov and Coiner that even resulted in a full blown fight - is there any truth to that and is it something DC Dragons fans should be worried about?

1. The Pope is just going to get better as time goes on. This off-season is going to be a huge growing season.

2. A lot of solid picks in what was expected to be a weaker than average draft. I think that if DC Drafts well we should expect to see them atop the league very soon.

3. I don't really pay much attention to trades in the bigs, but looking at the picks and the future available to DC it is hard to say they won't be a contender soon.

4. I think Bubbles will be important in the short-term, but I do think there is something to be said that a replacement needs to be found quickly. Only 3 seasons of Bubbles left and when they retire I expect D.C. to be in the middle of their cup window.

5. Well the VHLE isn't really applicable to the bigs, but it is exciting to see a prospect eat it up in the M or the E.

6. I hope so! I'm always in for some fisticuffs. Especially as a possible prospect for the team I would love to be part of a team already fighting each other!

what next drafts under teams???

https://open.spotify.com/show/4N5CUZueW4mF7HAV3GiArr

View discretion is advised!

In today's episode we talk about the latest news in the league while making fun of the saddest franchises. We meet up with jacob and talk blind rankings, talk about his year in the VHL as a GM, and we do the rant wheel.

Time stamps:

00:00 News

Blind Rankings with Jacob: 16:55

Talking about being a GM in the VHL: 27:20

The Rant Wheel: 49:55

Mentions: @twists @Advantage @JCarson @aimkin @jacobcarson877 @ShawnGlade @Beketov @Beaviss @LastOneUp 

So Halifax's season ended in the first round after getting stomped by a team that should have been much closer. I really haven't paid much attention to the M all season this year besides Chiang, but I do know that Halifax probably should have gone to 6 games. However, because of how certain things in the league have turned out two players that could have been big game-changers were not playing for Halifax and I do believe that put a huge damper on the possibility of a deep run. This isn't about Halifax getting curb stomped, but about what I see as a promising future for Pope Francis. The Pope had a good shooting percentage for a defenseman where he scored 25 goals. He also did great with assists with 70 with a combined point total of 95. Where the Pope excels though is defensively where he had a very wide margin between him and second place for SBs with more than 50 SBs making the difference. This is for sure the type of player I want to be building who does great defensively but is capable of collecting some apples on the opposite side of the ice. I believe this is good hope for the Pope the question is where does he get drafted?

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Over the last season especially I have slowly become incredibly apathetic about not just the Miami Marauders, but the VHLM just as a whole. I don't know exactly where this grew from, but I am going to share some of the things that have grown to cause that and what could possibly have fixed the issue.

I'm going, to be honest with you I looked at the standings maybe once a week this season and didn't even know if it was possible for Miami to make playoffs or who we would play in the first round if we did. This is coming off of a multiple-season stretch where I was running a spreadsheet that kept track of every team's winning and losing numbers. I had a very good defenseman in the league and I had multiple double-digit SB games, but I never got excited about them as I would have with Chiang. Is it possible that I am not as attached to Pope Francis as I was attached to Chiang yet? Yes, but I think the main problem is how distant other teams can seem in the VHLM. This brings up my first minor wish for the league which is a better centralized chat area. Whether that is simply making it so people are pushed into chatting in the VHLM discord channel more or an actual forum thread every season where people are asked and pushed into talking about what is going on during the season, their takes on who is overperforming, or even just what they wish to see in the future in the league. I think a great place for this would just be a thread right where the sims are happening. I believe that when teams don't have as active of a locker room as other teams it really hurts teams more than most people realize. It becomes harder to get players excited to be a part of a team and even excited about how the team is doing. I experienced this in both locker rooms I really cared about which were Miami and Halifax. I don't think this is a mistake from the GM as much as it is just a fault of how teams end up. I do really believe that if people were out and just simply talking to other people in the league it would allow both some light banter and people to actually get to know people that aren't on your team. (This is a problem I have talked about at length in my VSN article about the transition to the E and how hard it can be)

Secondly, I simply had an awful draft. I drafted 3 players in the first round. One of them got moved up to the E the day before sims (then didn't play in the E due to a failure of communication between the leagues) and the other two simply went IA. This really fucked my draft and pushed me really toward my ultimate decision to step down from the M. It is simply really hard to get excited about your job when stuff out of your control destroys your entire season. Then I went on to get a total of 2 waiver signings all season. I had one active person in the locker room all season and I had so much apathy towards the league that I didn't even really care. The reality is that it is very easy for a season to get fucked over in the M and that even further leads to the strengthening of the first problem. I don't know if there is a realistic solution to allow waivers to be more evenly spread out or if that would even be a good thing, but I am happy that I no longer even have to deal with it because it was one of the few things in this league that I truly hate.

Anyways this was a short informational about the things that caused my apathy about the VHLM and why Pope Francis has continuously gotten worse at updating. I believe now that I don't feel pressured by the M to actually do things I likely will be more active in the league paradoxically, but I think the majority of my activity will be involved with the VSN. 

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1 minute ago, Lemorse7 said:

ooking at the most recent one new gens usually just join the 1st contract they received

they shouldn't be getting contracts until after they press join team

During the last season or so I have begun to dislike logging onto the forum itself. It feels like a job that I am forced to do compared to the fun thing it once was. I no longer enjoy the league but have grown to dread having to be available. I also am going through a major shift as the warmer months begin and I will no longer be available as much as I once was. Therefore, I will be stepping down as GM of the Miami Marauders effective at the end of Miami's season. I hope that the replacement for the team would be kind enough to keep me on the team as I do continue to want to be part of the team, but realistically if I continue as I have I will burn out and never want to log into the forum again. Thank you.

@Spartan  @Gustav

14 minutes ago, Otis Boudreaux Jr said:

I guess I might have a unique experience in that I started last year, got signed as a waiver pick by a very active GM in the M, but had to step away from the league due to a family issue so I was never able to follow any of my career past that initial season. During that 1st season I agreed to be traded to a contender where I, honestly felt like an outsider, and I saw my production drop as I moved from 1st line to 4th. Like I said, I didnt see anything past that first season so I cant speak to anything beyond the M.

I returned this year before the M draft, talked to some of the GMs and ended up being drafted by Saskatoon. I am happy with my career there and am excited to see what comes next. But even with this tough season we are having, the conversation turned to the possibility of trading some of us to contenders. What I see, from this side and my experience, is the better players from "not-so good" teams are traded to the contenders so they keep being contenders. Even if some of us "TPE" out of the M, it is not normally all of the players. 

 

So the contenders of this season start next season with a cadre of veteran players. While the team with the most draft picks last season, start the next with another huge haul of draft picks they were able to get from trading their top players. 

 

The cycle continues. So the challenge becomes trying to break that cycle. Is it possible? I dont know. I will agree that my sample size is VERY small...but Saskatoon had a shit-load of draft picks when I was selected...and if they had traded any of us (which in all fairness didnt happen) what would they have next season? A shit-load of draft picks. But now, they are going to see the majority of the team TPE out of the M and they will start from scratch again.

 

I get the desire to win, who doesnt want to win? But how does the trading of draft picks foster that? Does it allow for different teams to experience the thrill of winning the cup? What is the history of which teams have won? Are there teams who seem to own the M? I cant answer these questions and in all fairness, if the facts contradict what I have said, then I will fully admit I am wrong. But I do think it is something that bears checking out.

Lastly, activity does matter. Who wants to join a team that is super-quiet? If we wanted to play a solo game, we wouldnt join a sim league. Recruiting isnt easy, but in this world if free-for-all waiver signings, being active and more importantly, active at the right time, is vital.

And that my friends...is my 2 cents...

I find it interesting how you are explaining a similar situation to the boom-bust cycle of yesteryear. I think the final part is new members don't know what teams are active or what GMs are active. Instead that are forced to pick between the 3 archetypes I originally noted.