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Yes and no. Yes in that all the settings are the same. No in that the big difference between these pre-season games and the regular season games is I made these games intense rivalries. All these teams used to have in-sim rivalries against each other, but we sadly eventually got rid of them because they make the games quite chaotic and unpredictable. I miss them though, so I turn them on for pre-season exhibition games.

And we voted rivalries out!

I'm sad too, two of my guys got shit ice time!

Looks mostly good, I just need Takashi Fujimoto added please, as per THIS signing. Thank you @Higgins! Don't kill yourself please!

Also I don't know if he can actually do that. Also I'm not entirely sure if he needs permissions!

I am sorry.

I'm going to gag him and flog him until he calls me daddy.

I'm going to lose my D&D virginity in about an hour. There's a joke in that sentence somewhere. I don't know how long it'll take, but when I get back, if @Velevra has everyone updated in the sim, I'll start the VHL season as soon as I get back. If not, I may or may not do it myself and sim at like 2:00 AM or something terrible like that. As for the VHLM, I don't know anything. Ask @Higgins, but hopefully he's in the same boat! And if Velevra only has time to do one sim update tonight, I'd prefer it be the VHLM one. Thanks bye, I need to shower and shave my neck beard now.

I'm going to tie Joel Jarvi up and make him my bitch. @jRuutu

I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT THAT PIECE OF SHIT LOOKED LIKE. But I'm sure it was nice. :] And I actually do like this sig, particularly that netting looking background stuff. I'm completely inept at this sort of thing myself, so I can't really give you any tips like maybe @boubabi or someone who isn't a scrub could, but if there was a way to make the colours kind of flow together better it'd be minty. Or maybe some kind of light source to draw the eye or something, because it seems almost too bright kind of? I have no idea. Great work!

Great! Can I use this for next week instead though? I'll be on an alcoholic bender vacation.

Actually you do raise a good point on those skills boosting Overall. I didn't realize until now that LD and EX raised overall more for goalies than everyone else. So I adjusted that just now, thank you. Also PS shouldn't have been boosted for backups. I think before we got the stupid idea of adding PS as updateable I was arbitrarily setting goalies' PS stats to 65, and I just never went back and changed it. Which I also did now, so thank you. With those changes, Auto-Lines now thinks you're marginally better than NYA G! Ditto for mist4ke and DAV G. Not so for Rubber Moon and HSK G, but I'm assuming that will change after the update. ANYWAY, as to actually answer your question now, I maxed out EX and LD on CPUs as a sort of experiment (which I talk a bit about on my podcasts). Those attributes have always been dubious to update because we don't really understand how they affect the sim/our players. According to STHS they affect Morale, which is allegedly supposed to give teams/players a boost or something. And we've never had Morale turned off, at least not since I've been here/took over simming. So it's a floating attribute in the sim that's always been on, and is allegedly affected by LD and EX, and apparently on each team's winning habits. Now, if you look at everyone's Morale from S49 Rosters, you'll notice that for each team, everyone's individual Morale is the same, regardless of their individual EX and LD, which is kind of odd/dumb. You'll also notice that individual player MO barely moves from the 40 it begins every season with. Quebec players (who were first in the league) have a Morale of 48. New York player's inexplicably have the highest, at 50. I'm assuming they had a higher overall EX and LD stats. They also apparently randomly had one CPU with 99 LD and EX, so that may have helped. On the other end of the spectrum, Stockholm was a terrible team and their Morale sank to 34 for individual players, so still not much. Calgary is a bit of a strange anomaly because they were even worse and yet everyone is still at 40. I'm assuming this is because they're stoic robots, idk. Team morale is a different story, as it always floated pretty well. Quebec and other top teams in the league have a team Morale of 82-84, while Stockholm has a team morale of 7, and Calgary 1. ANYWAY, so while I would assume EX and LD would affect a player's individual morale (and perhaps some overall team morale) this doesn't appear to be the case, since every player on a team's individual MO seems to be connected. But how come it doesn't float as fluidly as Team Morale, even on very experienced and high TPE teams? Well, my theory was that the CPUs (i.e. half the actual roster) were dragging it down with their base 40 EX and LD. So this season I decided to do the opposite. So if you look at the Team Rosters for S52 (this file is from a day before the season ended. The index seems to show a version that was reset for playoffs), you'll see quite a different story that sort of lines up with my theory. Team Morale floats EVEN MORE now (New York has 96, Seattle has 97, Helsinki still has 2), but more importantly, the individual player MO floats quite a bit more! Seattle, the best team, has players with 72 morale. New York has 65. Riga has 69 (hehehe). You'd think EX and LD would help MO go up and prevent it from going down. But unexpectedly, it actually just helps it float more, as evidenced by Helsinki's players being at 16. So basically this experiment was to see if we could make updating LD and EX more feasible. And I think we could! Although I should make a few changes to it though, such as making it so that there's a limited amount of CPUs per team with the 99s, so that it isn't more beneficial for competing teams to have a CPU instead of a less good player. Alternatively, I could scrap the CPUs having 99s altogether, and make Morale boosts a Player Store option. I don't know how much individual player morale boosts player performance, but I'm assuming it does! I also don't know what would happen if I made an outlier mid-season. Would the player I gave a 10 point Morale boost to normalize to the rest of his team after a time? Would they normalize to him? Would they just keep the same Morale increase/decrease rate and he would stay 10 above his team for the rest of the season? Perhaps these are things I can play with this season.

It seems as though I missed the word "TEAM" BUT I STAND BY GRAMMATICALLY TERRIBLE STATEMENT

Beketov is correct. I meant to Farm Scratch all the players before uploading this, but I must have missed Toronto (since Sharpe and others aren't on the rosters). So good catch all the same!

This is correct, players aren't updated in the sim yet, so just ignore the attributes for now. I just re-uploaded with all the position changes and added Aksel Syndergaard who I also forgot.

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OH YEAH AIN'T SO TOUGH ARE YA NEW YORK!? NYA G WAS AUTO'D IN HE'S SO GOOD

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INDEX You know the drill. Check your rosters, give me lines. Calgary needs to get their cap shit together by tomorrow or we'll have to force up all their draftees WHICH I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO. @Pablo @Mr. Power @Advantage @gregreg @Higgins @Banackock @Molholt @Frank @Toast @Gooningitup

Yeah, you'll player will be in the draft, and technically anyone could get him. But YOUR PATHETIC IS AWFUL RIGHT NOW so it seems reasonable you'll have a high pick, which you'll probably be. Though even if he does end up on another team, it's only for one season and then you'll likely be in the VHL after that.

I'm keeping you! :humph:

I'm going to take @BMaxym Barnyashev on a nice date.