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12 minutes ago, Will3 said:

 

1. The season starts tomorrow. What are you hoping to see from your player stat wise?

2. Have you started to gel with your teammates or is warming up to your teammates going slower?

3. Which team do you feel like will be the biggest obstacles in our way to the  Renaissance Cup?

4. What is the weirdest food item you every ate?

5. Who is your favorite hockey youtuber or podcaster?

6. What is your choice for Utah's new team's brand?

1. Figured I should shoot for the stars, targeting top point getter, highest hits, blocks, +/- and penalties.

2. Preseason has been a blast, looking forward to building chemistry on the ice

3. They are all just speedbumps for me to run over

4. Pineapple on pizza

5. I don't really watch youtubers or listen to podcasts

6. Just put a question mark on the jersey, nobody knows what is happening with them, or to be amusing you could call the the Salt Lake City Phoenix

As season 94 is about to start lets do a predictive press conference, remember to answer all questions with full sentences

1) Who do you think will score the first goal in season 94 for Mexico City?

2) Which Mexico player will take our first penalty?

3) How many shut outs will Mexico have over the season?

4) Will Mexico make the playoffs?

5) Which player will have the most assists over the season?

6) Which player will have the most blocked shots over the season?

And just for fun

7) Will any of our players win a VHLM award for the season? (Remember to watch the VHLM award presentation on 5/27/24)

On 5/22/2024 at 12:47 PM, Will3 said:

1. The VHLE draft is over and S94 is set to begin. What are you most excited about in this new season?

2. What was the biggest surprise in any of the S94 drafts?

3. What do you hope to accomplish in this season?

4. What is one unique thing about yourself that you want the fans to know?

5. What is one place/activity that you want to experience during your time in Stockholm?

6. What do you want/expect out of Vikings management?

7. Anything else you want to say?

Thought I would answer to have some fun

1) I am excited to throw my weight around and knock some people on their ass.

2) I was surprised when VHLE draft varied in order for top 2

3) I expect to be the top defensive defender in the league

4) There is a hidden reference in my name

5) Maybe I will do some skiing

6) Just be available if there are any questions and do your best to make the team competitive

7) Can we start season 94 please

On 5/23/2024 at 10:19 PM, kirbithan said:

HC Davos Dynamo Press Conference

You ONLY have to answer 6 of the 8 questions
Week Of May 19th 2024 - May 26th 2024

 

1. What are you most looking forward to in S94?

 

2. Nearly a week out from the draft, what are your thoughts on the players we selected? 

 

3. Adding onto this, how do you feel about the Davos roster and prospects going forward into this season?

 

4. What is one thing you would do if you were VHL commissioner for a day?

 

5. What are your goals for your player this season? 

 

6. What do you do to keep yourself busy during the offseason?

 

7. Where was the last place you traveled to?

 

8. If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

 

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 @CowboyinAmerica @sadie @Ahma @Thunder @Crstats23 @Anthique @ShawnGlade 

 

Thought I would answer this for fun

1) Looking forward to having my player do better than Jacob's again

2) I'm happy wit the players you have selected, looking forward to coming up in season 95

3) Everything appears to be falling into place, goalie looks to be the last piece

4) I'd add new options for TPE and eliminate trivia, I hate trivia

5) To be the best defensive VHLE defender in the league

6) Train, Train and more training.  Have to be in top physical condition

7) Stockholm, to join my VHLE team.  Personally, it would have been Collingwood.

8 Cheese, I'd eat lots of cheese (Note why does 8 ) when put together make a  .)

1 hour ago, Spartan said:

We do prevent new creates from being signed by teams if they're at positional thresholds. At least we have the functionality to do so. unless it's been bugged recently, we have been adjusting caps to try to get most of the league to the same ranges before increasing further.

I think the issue is that we need to separate the concept of forward into winger and center.  6 forwards doesn't stop someone from picking a team, if someone had 6 wingers like I do now then it goes red and I don't believe a new winger can join my team.  But if I had 3 centers and 3 wingers then a new player can easily pick my team.

I am going to go back to my comment up above, for me I can accept a system that assigns players.  I also don't care if we stick with our current system, under 1 condition: That being we define the roles of individuals prior to the point a player picks a team.  In my opinion from the point a player enters the league to the point they pick a team they are in the hands of the recruitment staff (noting VHLM GMs should not be allowed to be recruitment staff as it is a conflict of interest). Any work needed to help these people start their journey is part of recruitment.  Once they click that button to say I want to join (pick any team) then they are the responsibility of the GM. As they progress they pass from GM to GM, either through trade, free agency, moving up leagues, etc until the day the player plays their last game.  Meaning every player has a point of contact always, and someone to assist them with anything they need.

The positions should be defined and compensated as such.

7 hours ago, Gustav said:

I don't like the idea of giving teams the chance to pass at all under a priority system. Experience tells me that we'll see people declining players just because they don't feel like taking them or because they want recreates. 

 

Some of the "what-if" scenarios I have in mind that would make me hesitant on a priority system are:

• A first-gen player with a personal connection to someone on/running a specific team
• Recreates in general who might want to have a say in where their player goes, for one reason or another
• Players already on rosters with low player counts who could benefit from more teammates but would have no choice but to wait until the waiver order cycles all the way through again
• GMs who already feel that the current system is lacking in that it's not "personal" enough and takes away too much control over success through skill at recruitment

How would you address these points within a portal system to be fair to each of these? I think all of these cases describe people that can benefit from players maintaining a level of control over where they sign.

 

 

Because it was asked for earlier, the initial discussion of the idea can be found here. It wasn't universally loved, and the main complaint was something similar to my last point above, that some GMs didn't like that it took away a level of control to begin with. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that the proposal we have here would be moving way deeper in that direction.

 

How do you feel about what's given to you currently? Do you think that with what you're able to customize, a new member would be able to get your point enough to make an informed decision on whether to join your team? Is there anything you wish you could do under the current system that isn't available?

Okay I'll address these:

Point one and 2, basically the answer is there is no good option here that allows flexibility.  In my opinion players will get over this (recreates will have the toughest time as they knew something different) but for the most part in real hockey leagues you get drafted and go to the team that picked you (grateful you get to play) with a few small exceptions (Lindros)

Point 3 - if waiver order is set by position deficiency then current standings that resolves this, as technically the same team could be first in waiver selection multiple times

Point 4 - this complaint is due to some GM knowing they can be first contact because they live on discord and the forum.  This creates all the elements of burnout for GM's.  The steps taken to bring us where we are were needed. These people need to stop bitching. If you want to manage a team to be competitive only move to the VHL or VHLE.

So only issue with passing is as we get closer to trade deadline we don't want people to be encourage to pass so they can pick up recreates instead of first gens.

If waivers are done by positional deficiency there should never be a reason to pass.  A defender gets created and you have only 1, there is no valid reason to pass.

Also don't want people passing to avoid picking up a back up goalie and having to split starts when they are on a competitive run.  Take the goalie and deal with it.

I am assuming that the waiver order would reset every season based on the last seasons standings based on your description.  Only grey area for me is that last years standings don't necessarily indicate this seasons needs because the draft resets the overall need.  Could waiver order be established first by # of players in the position and then second by current standings.  I am looking at a waiver order that isn't static but would vary based on the position the new player picked and the current rosters on each team.

If we were using current info I wouldn't even have an issue if players were assigned as they joined.

Is there any way to do a walk through of what new players see now during the new player create into the waiver system.  I don't remember my process and to be honest Jacob railroaded me into joining SDM as he was the AGM at the time.  I think if we could walk through the process it might help. (especially for some of the GM that have been in the VHL for years)

Noting my comment about it being a conflict of interest

yet the message that comes out when someone joins discord specifically says the recruitment staff will come to help

Hey @Tyjirenthegrey23, welcome to Victory Hockey League a member of the recruitment staff shall be along shortly to assist you. Please read the ⁠rules page while you are waiting. If you are a new member, feel free to ask questions in here and learn about the league. For all other discussions, come join us in ⁠general. For a look into our league channels, check out ⁠vhl or ⁠vhlm or ⁠vhle!

Can I ask what the defined role of the recruitment team is.  Where is the expected hand off between brining people into the league and the GM managing their team.

I have no problem being polite to everyone, and welcoming new people into discord.  I also say hi to many people who have been around for a while. But from a GM responsibility I always thought that started with the new player clicking the join team button, at which I would then send offer and work with them through that process and into the player build/joining team  and then hopefully be able to move them to the VHLE.  

But prior to them clicking that join team, other than a polite greeting I always took that as hands off, we have a group that gets paid to do that.  Not my job.

Just now, Spartan said:

Also 0% chance we revert waivers to the old system

That is good to hear

5 minutes ago, Spartan said:

This was an intentional feature, because even under old systems, we'd see people immediately agreeing to join teams and then never returning after that day. Essentially you'd be saddled with a low TPA player on track to going IA that you had to play in case of their return. The system in its current fashion weeds those type of players out, as there's a bit of a time gap between when they send interest to a team, then that GM sends them a waiver offer. They've always existed, this isn't a new phenomenon.

 

I'm not sure about metrics specific to players who never actually send out interest in the first place. Not sure if that's something we have tracked, but you can pretty easily see which users create an account and a player, and then literally never come back to the forums after that.

If that is by design, and I accept your reasoning, I am good.  Just seems like a lot and i wonder if it is because some don't understand and not because they decide to bail on the idea

I actually have little to say about the current structure of waivers from a process perspective.  I think the information provided to new players regarding teams and positioning is very helpful to them picking a team.  I do somewhat struggle with the amount of players who create and then never click to join a team, we may need to address if there is something causing issue here. The second piece is the inability to match the player interest to a team to the offer, last season I saw a lot of players being sent multiple offers from mainly the same couple teams, did this mean the players clicked on them to join or were some teams spamming creates to get signings.

If GM'ing becomes a secondary job where i need to monitor discord and the forum 24 hours a day I will be resigning.

Here is the press conference for this week, wanted to release this after the draft so our new members could participate

Make sure to answer all questions with a full sentence

1) What is your personal goal for TPE per week?

2) Is there anything I can do to assist with that goal?

3) What type of player are you building - please discuss skills not position?

4) What would you like our team goal to be (playoffs, championship, fun locker room, etc)?

5) Have any of you found the link between my first players name and my current players name, if so what is it?

6) Why did you pick you players name? Is it significant?

Transaction ID 5WU60479L09227829

1mil player store

5 TPE

Doubles week

@Bazeus looking forward to having you on the team.