badcolethetitan

No clue, but I'm doing it just to larp with my next player. I don't really care if my player is good or not, I already know it's going to be subpar and I'll probably end up getting bounced around to multiple teams.

99 passing on my next player boutta nuclear bomb a team

If you haven't seen it, I made a media spot about a week ago highlighting the Prague Phantom's struggles this season. It ended up blowing up and having 60+ replies and a great discussion. This time around, I'd like to look at a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a bit and highlight why this team hasn't and potentially what they're looking like for the future. The options will be: Los Angeles Stars (6 seasons and counting) D.C. Dragons (5 seasons and counting) London United (3 seasons and potentially counting) Warsaw Predators (2 seasons and counting) If you don't like any of these options, you can comment "OTHER" and post what team you'd like to be talked about. The highest team voted will get a media spot and a deep dive into by yours truly.

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Basically. I wish I could do more to help this team win. Maybe my build isn't the best or something, it was doing fine in Moscow and was fine for the most part in NYA except this season. I just want to help STZ win cause he traded for me, kind of sucks if we never win and he wasted assets to pick me up. It's all RNG at the end of the day though. Who knows, maybe we get lucky and go on a run? Cope?

Feels like we just cannot win when it matters. We can keep games close but when we need to show up, we basically become ghosts. My player has fallen off the face of the earth being a 100+ point scorer to now just being slightly over a PPG. I think I've taken more of a TWF role at this point, but when a team this season that hasn't really scored a fair amount, it doesn't help at all. It's like I'm trying to be a two-way while also leading the team in goals. Doesn't make a lot of sense. We all know come playoffs we'll probably bounce out in WC/R1 which sucks. I want NYA to win, but seems we're plagued by super high checking and penalties which, our two defenseman are in the box half the game.

I'm always willing to write some good media. Issue is now I have like 5+ weeks where I don't have to essentially write anything cause media spots. Don't know what team or issue I'll write about next. Appreciate the call out!

Answers 1. For the VHL, no Chicago won't make it. For my player, New York should make it in. For NHL the Sabres are already eliminated sadly. 2. Personally for me, yes. I value loyalty to a single organization if it's possible. However, most times it doesn't work out like that. 3. I would've liked to retire my player, but with two seasons left, feels like it's too early. I would change so he could not be a bust. He's been bad this season. Questions 1. Which VHL team do you think is overrated and why? 2. If you recreated right now, what position would you pick and why? 3. Which team in the NHL do you think will get upset in the first round?

We should delete this one I think

Chicago playing their last backup game whenever the next sim is

Oh nah it's KYLRAD.

Who will it be in the next week(s) who knows!

Regardless, looks like I did my job. Forum content was created. Don’t think anyone got so heated to scream at each other and personally attack them. Glad people chimes in and gave their opinions and it was chill I believe. My goal was to create content and unfortunately Prague was the target. I’m sure I’ll create some more to cause some uproar in the future.

and essentially a big reason why PRG is struggling. Give them high end scorers with their passers and I think it works much, much better. Not saying it’s the only reason but it’s one.

this was essentially my whole point. Too many passing builds with lack of scoring builds will nuke your team.

Idk if Stefano has much help offensively, but there’s players who can help defensively (Tetricide) and or pass to set him up. Seems like he’s the only one scoring. The rest of the Shooting % (for the most part) seem low. Also on another note: Isn’t swapping lines a lot usually not a good idea? Or is that just what GMs who are IA say?

Also (last one) but if you’re arguing the “depth DF” sucks isn’t that just the same thing as me saying “and the builds suck”? Feel like that’s the same thing as I assume you’re saying the depth DF (defense attribute) is bad. Maybe I’m wrong though. @LucyXpher

don’t worry you can’t be fired for being bad, or lots of GMs would’ve been canned. You’re not bad anyway, there’s worse (MEEEEE).

I can’t quote everything because I’m on mobile but Jokinegg playing on a line with Codoller and Daffleck (2nd line/2nd pairing) I’d assume they’re going to have the worst plus minus as one/two bad builds can’t really save someone with a good build. Also most second lines have bad +/-. Pretty sure almost every L2 has worse +/- than L1 on any team. @LucyXpher

Congrats @Ricer13

THE MORE THE MERRIER

Idk, I was going to post something about calling out GMs a while back but I was told not to post it because I could get in trouble for it.

Trust me I have strong thoughts about lots on the league, but if I were to voice my true opinion I think I'd become public enemy #1 and probably eat a suspension/ban.

also like around 1700 words or something

Why are the Prague Phantoms struggling? Disclaimer: I will be looking at builds and moves in the off-season. I want to start this by saying I am not trying to trigger people and piss them off. I already know this is going to probably cause an absolute banger thread, as people will come to defend Prague. I'm just going to be stating why they are bad while also showing some specific areas on the team. This is all in good fun and forum content and I'm not trying to hate on anyone. Thanks. Forwards First up, we have the forward core. Realistically, this core isn't anything amazing, but it isn't terrible to begin with. On paper, they've got two game changers in Stefano and Thorvaldsson who should be able to carry the offense, but the rest of the forward core is basically mid. However, that's not the biggest issue. It's the builds. First off, Jussi Jokinenegg has a brutal build with points in basically everything and also being a pass first type of player. I think pass first players can actually work on teams if there's only like one of them, as linking up your best scorer with a pass first player is not a bad idea, however, this is false for this team. They've got multiple pass first players, including Jokinenegg. I don't really want to rip into this guy too much as I'd feel bad, but he needs to get a re-roll and Tetricide needs to help him with his build. He's got so many points in useless categories that just waste his TPE. Shocker that this player hasn't really done too much offensively and is underperforming. As for the rest of the offense, there are some questionable build decision making but I'm not going to call out builds that could be slightly better. Tetricide's player needs more scoring so he can help offensively as his team is essentially pass first demons. He would have a legacy season if he did so. The shining light on this team is Matteo Stefano who is a first gen that has been exceptional for this team. He's got 34 goals already and could possibly get 40 by the season end, but it's just crazy that a first gen who is new is essentially carrying this team on offense. The rest of the team is too low TPE to really matter and sure their builds could be optimized, but it doesn't really matter too much. The main takeaway is the top players need to be the ones generating offense and when you've got subpar builds, it's going to trickle down all the way to the bottom of the lineup. In reference, here is Jokinenegg's build so you can see what I was talking about earlier: Just get him his re-roll when you can and it'll fix that issue right away! Defenseman Alright, this is the part of the roster that needs saving. The goaltending is not good, the offense has questionable builds but at least they have Matteo Stefano popping off, however, the defense is basically abysmal. I'm not going to talk about OD or Acyd as their builds are good for their TPE and they aren't the issues. I'll start with Petit Hughie who decided to have a pass first build on defense. Again, not the worst, but now that's two players with pass first builds and that's already a fair amount for a team to have, especially since your offense doesn't really have a pure goal scorer besides Matteo Stefano (shocker he's having a career year basically). We basically have chefs who are willing to cook up the food, but no customers as the goal scorers are MIA. Hughie has 86 PAS 70 SC which basically makes him pure passing. Again, alone not bad, but in numbers very bad. So alright, we've got two pass first players and no real scorer, surely it's not too bad right? Two pass first players can't be awful, I'm sure teams have done it before? How about 3. Now we go to Leitner and this is where things are going to be spicy. So Leitner ended up trading her own player from Malmo (the team she owns) to Prague. I'm sure there friends so all is good, here is the trade below and take note of the date: All seems good, we're not judging the value on the trade or anything, just showing you Lucy Leitner went from Malmo to Prague. It seems Lucy bought the re-roll on Feb 10, 2025, don't know when specifically it was approved then or later on, but it says approved so I guess it might've been that date. 9 days later, she's traded which is fine, but the build wasn't set up yet, so she was sitting at 0 TPA for her player. Then about a week after getting traded, she finally rolls her build and it seems decent at first (February 25). I understand why she re-rolled, she had too many points in leadership (I assume this is why) and wanted to spend it elsewhere, alright, makes sense. However, then about 2-3 weeks later, she randomly tosses like 70 TPE into passing and nuclear bombs her build with already two pass first players on the team, with one of them already on defense. Why would you do this? You just basically screwed your entire build and your team by giving them now three pass first players, while also having your best player be AGAIN PASSING. Sorry for my language, but who the hell is going to score goals for this team!? We have a million passers but nobody wants to put the puck in the net. Our best player(s) are legit passing demons and refuse to put the puck in the net. Why would Lucy decide to take her build from scoring at the time where she was having a great career to then just 180 flip it to passing. It's not like she's going to gain anything out of this either, I mean Malmo has Pragues S99 2nd, but there's really no use in trying to bomb a team for a 2nd round pick. I am just very confused at this, maybe she didn't look at the team and their builds, or maybe she just wanted to go full passing and try something different? However, why would you do this after getting traded to a different team, while (hopefully) realizing you already have pass first players and you need shooters on this team. Regardless, I'm sure we'll hear about it down below as I'm curious to see from her point of view why she did this. It's very interesting that after getting traded and a month we randomly decide to pass first and screw our build and the team either further. Who knows why? Also if you're wondering how I know dates, I have an unknown source allegedly. Goalies Last up, we have goaltending. Prague has some pretty subpar goaltending to be honest. They've got a 671 TPA started and a 470 TPA backup, which the backup is basically irrelevant as it's only going to play the minimum amount of games. I won't be focusing on the backup, instead on the starter. They have the fourth worst starting goalie based off of TPA in the league. The only teams that are worse are London, Malmo, and Warsaw, where two of these teams are legit trying to be bad, while London with a lower TPA goaltender is ahead of them. Looking at sv%, they rank 25th out of 33 goalies who have played in the VHL this season (this includes bots and backups). Not the place you really want to be as some backups and bots literally have better stats. Their GAA is fairly decent, with right being around the average (slightly above it), but still, not the worst I guess. Also, Redzic (who is Tetricide's friend in his defense) has already played more than the minimum amount of backup starts with 10 games started. If you're chasing a playoff spot and wanting to make it in, what's the point of playing your worse goalie extra games and screwing yourself over. I could understand if he accidently left Redzic in and the file just carried over the starter (in this case Redzic), but if you're chasing the playoffs while already being behind, you should be looking out for these things. Like I said, in Tet's defense, it is his friend so he might just be wanting to give his friend an extra couple starts as it is his last season anyway. Regardless, it's very clear that Prague's goaltending is NOT good. It probably just needs to be average and it can't really do that and that really hinders this team. On paper, Prague is much better than London and London's goalie is worse TPA wise, but they're ahead, which is not a good sign. Prague can still make it into the post-season, but they're gonna need some miracle streak and Simon to bless them for that to happen, which seems very unlikely at this point. The good news is that Prague has an off-season to fix all this, but they've got to get something going. I guess this is payback for making the playoffs last season with 20 wins! Conclusion In conclusion, this team is underperforming for a multitude of reasons. Their goalies are subpar and can't hang around the league average, they lack multiple goal scorers, with their only being Stefano, and half this team is pass first basically, with bad builds. Their best players aren't goal scorers (Lucy + Tet's player) as one is pass first and the other looks like a two way forward type of build. They literally have no one who can score goals and couple that with bad goaltending, this team was doomed to fail. I'd love to hear the thought process behind this and I can't wait for @LucyXpher and @Tetricide to chime in as I'm sure they will. I hope this will create some forum content because with all the new people coming in, I'm sure they'd love to see some! Guess I'm the villain this time around, huh? Btw here's the team's builds with the pass first player's circled: