Sterling is being polite in saying "it's not feasible." That is extremely true. Less politely, it's a REALLY bad idea. Like, potentially league-killing. I don't mean to be rude. You're newer, so there's no reason that you could know that, so I'll just explain.
1. As has been said, the VHL and VHLM are linked in the sim engine. There's no way to expand one without the other. The reason for this is because the sim engine is designed for the minor league teams to be FARM teams like the NHL-AHL, rather than the more Junior league type system we implemented ~S20. The only reason our system works is because the simmers have been willing to do a lot of extra transactions (especially in the off-season) in order to make the VHLM less restricting to manage for the GMs.
Separating the two would require two different league files, and essentially two different leagues. This wouldn't necessarily be reliable, or convenient, or easy, or good. So that's out.
2. If we DID expand (again), that is also doing it backwards. You're argument is that having more teams would spread the talent out more. MY argument is that there already IS more than enough teams to spread the talent out to, but the cyclical nature of the league and the freedom GMs get to create super teams is concentrating all the talent onto 2 or 3 teams. Adding more teams would just be adding more shitty teams. And the VHL would suffer for it too, because suddenly they would also have more shitty teams. Unless we coincided that expansion with a cap decrease, in which case most teams wouldn't be able to afford to ice a full two lines, so then we'd have to look at overhauling cap brackets as well. That is a lot of things. And for what? Speculation that it MIGHT resolve VHLM issues.
3. We don't have a big enough active member base to expand (again) yet. The VHL is decently even as far as talent (future and present) and activity goes, but there's still a ghost team or two (Helsinki and Calgary). The day there's not a single ghost team in the league is the day we TALK about expanding. And that's just the VHL. The VHLM, by nature, can never match up to the VHL as far as the amount of active members playing in it. Expanding it to 10 wasn't super feasible, but Jason as VHLM Commish did a good job with managing it, and it's not shitty, which is more than I could have hoped at that time.
So yeah, no expansion, lol.
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