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I'd like to see us competing at even strength, too!

A wise strategist would just make a 2000 word PT a four-part series. But it's nice to have the flexibility official

Gird your loins, ladies and gentlemen. Live riggery is coming.

You're "What does it all mean?" heading is in white and therefore completely invisible. :]

To play my own devil's advocate here though, this may as well just be a convoluted way of effectively removing carryover altogether. Especially if this is combined with "8 season clock doesn't start until VHL." Because if that was the case, who the hell would accept carryover? A fresh player gets: - 30 TPE to start - 1-3 seasons in the VHLM, which provide - Up to 20 TPE/season for achievement tracker - Up to 8/9 TPE/season for VHLM Practice - Extra opportunity TPE at VHLM Fantasy - Small opportunity of winning individual VHLM awards - A rookie season in the VHL at 175+ TPE. A re-create gets: - 1-45 extra TPE than a fresh player - Mercilessly shit-kicked in the VHL for 1-2 seasons There would need to be some balancing tweaks for sure if we were to go that strict a route. Removing the carryover cap immediately springs to mind, perhaps even increasing carryover percentage. Also @Fire Hakstol isn't wrong that it might ultimately not be that much of a difference. If I'm a new member, do I even know the difference between a re-create who started the season kind of at the same time as me going HAM in the VHLM, and a new member who joined and was drafted the previous season, and this season is going HAM in the VHLM? You'd think it would feel daunting either way. Though the number of OP players would be down for sure. Speaking of Jimmy G, I think you might be overvaluing a waiver claim re-create, if the proposal stays exactly as it is. Even if someone re-created within the first few days of the season with maximum 75 TPE carryover, there's about 6-7 weeks of regular season. If he/she earns max TPE a week, plus let's say a random 20 TPE of uncapped shit, they're sitting at 158 TPE by playoffs. There is two players that participated in playoffs with those kinds of numbers; inactive Jakub Pastrnak on Riga at 187 TPE, and Jean-Claude Girard on Toronto at 101 TPE. The latter got 1 assist before being ousted by Calgary, and Pastrnak admittedly did fairly well and was one of Riga's top scorers. Which is probably why they lost. All the same, we will in fact need some kind of fair system in place. The main thing to figure out is how to deal with trade deadline re-creates. Do they stay on their waiver team until the draft? Or do we add a supplementary draft every season?

DAMMIT BANANA, when did I say themed point tasks were a bad idea? Or that you're dumb? AND WHAT PART OF "This is the only thread I've had a chance to read through," DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND! I literally don't even know what you're talking about ! Yes, themed point tasks sound fun, and apparently they exist in the SHL. It's a good idea. I suppose I should rephrase: There's nothing wrong with adopting other good, non-QoL changes as well. I'm just saying in general, if we want to eventually thrive we will want to come up with ideas that make us UNIQUE, otherwise we risk becoming a second-rate version of other leagues, which is especially criminal since literally every new league that pops up should be a second-rate version of us! I know you don't disagree with that, and I don't disagree with you either, so I didn't mean to offend you!

Maybe you should suck less then!

Sorry, this is really the only thread I've had a chance to read thoroughly. I thought I saw activity check brought up somewhere, and I seethed with rage. Also therefore I'm not familiar with the player agent idea off hand. And which of these ideas have been done already!? A noob-only league?? I literally don't know a single thing about any other sim league, including the SHL, considering I haven't been there in years and years.

And all is right in the world. Hell of a game for @Symmetrik!

Oh, I should also mention, unrelated to my last post, that more career PTs is indeed a good idea, and I think that's something that should be frontlined to development. I also really like the unique ideas. Anything that's like, "The XXL does this-and-that which is really cool and people like it," I immediately don't think is a very good idea (unless it's just a general quality of life thing, like customizable buttons or something like that). Lots of ideas like that I don't find useful if another league that's more established in utilizing those ideas are already doing it. This might be an unpopular opinion (given how many people you'll find defending welfare and such), but I think us making changes to be more accommodating to members used to non/half-PT leagues ended up hurting our activity more than it helped it (i.e. Welfare, non-graded PTs). Because rather than just making us a stronger PT-league, it made us a weaker semi-PT league. SHL was already an established non/semi-PT league, so why were we trying to be MORE like them? What's the point? So no, Banananack (or whoever posed the idea), I don't think we should implement a bloody SEASONLY ACTIVITY CHECK, THE CONCEPT THE SHL WAS LITERALLY FOUNDED OFF OF. I think at this point any new ideas should be trying to (once again) separate us from other sim leagues, not trying to accommodate them. AND THE FIRST STEP TO THAT IS LOCKER ROOMS TO THE BOTTOM, WHO'S WITH ME!?!

A very well deserved second star behind the goaltender with the shutout, I'd say!

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Fun fact: The voice of the narrator and the voice of Spongebob are done by the same person. (Live now)

While I have some counterpoints to this, the idea this gave me is unrelated so I won't bother with it. In the fairly recent past, a number of members have suggested/got on board with merging the VHLM and VHL. As I said in my latest podcast, I think that's fucking dumb because, as you said, the VHLM as a concept is great, and isn't something we should scrap on a whim. People also love to throw around the idea of contraction, for both leagues. This is also fucking dumb because it's the one thing we've proven to be completely ineffective, yet people keep circling back to it like it will suddenly fix parity issues THIS time around. - However, you just gave me an idea that potentially presents an opportunity to potentially utilize all these ideas in a manner that isn't necessarily fucking dumb: What if we made the VHLM exclusive to first-generation members? And re-creates would have to either go straight to the VHL, or maybe have their own league yet. - Admittedly there's a shit ton of reasons why this idea is shaky, particuarly that it thins out the VHLM (hence why contraction could actually be necessary/useful for once). But I like the idea of a space/league that is JUST for noobs like yourself, to test out their shit against each other and kind of immediately foster rivalries/camaraderie amongst each other. We could unlock most the restrictions on inactives to fill out the rosters (I'd say only 30-50 TPE guys would be allowed, but no limit to how many). That way there's actual players to play against, but none that are dauntingly better than new members all season. - As for re-creates, there's many good arguments to be made of how they shouldn't go straight to the VHL, especially pre-draft. If you cared not for any of these arguments, they could be added to VHL via waivers in the same manner they go to VHLM teams now. Their pre-draft season wouldn't count as their rookie season, and they'd become rookies when they're drafted the next season. This may not be the best solution, but I think it's the best version of a "re-creates should go straight to the VHL" solution. Also this isn't unlike the "VHLM and VHL should merge" idea, which is something that gets traction, so I think this is at least better than that. - Alternatively, they can have their own small league that contains themselves and the rest of the inactives (50+ TPE). A re-create shouldn't feel intimidated by a well-performing inactive. I don't know the numbers of re-creates and noobs and inactives available in the VHLM to make two separate leagues feasible however, which brings me to my third alternative: - Keep the re-creates and noobs in the same VHLM together, but separate them by conference, and give them separate Cup finals (this would be logistically possible by creating two separate league files before playoff starts, and manually entering which teams make it). The two conferences would, for the most part, play regular season games amongst themselves, but there could be a small handful of crossover games as well. While I like this idea in theory, the downside is that there's no way to separate league leaders by conference I don't believe, and therefore, for a new member, it might still feel like they're getting pwnd by veterans in every possible way. Anyway, that's all the senile nonsensical rambling I came up with. Probably not very feasible for the most part, but maybe fun to discuss if people want. At the very least, I definitely like it better than just straight up merging the VHLM and VHL.

GOING LIVE IN A FEW MINUTES HERE BOI LESS GOOO!

If you had to ban one member who would it be and why?

Arkander didn't shit the bed, secondary scoring coming in hot. That's what I like to see!

lol oops. Got a little ahead of myself there!

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The newest episode wasn't out yet when I was recording this! Episode 7 will definitely feature it.

F that, retire the bitch! #FuckTylerandhisstupidjakejonesalsofucknaggertoo