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I'm seeing A LOT of new names joining in these past couple days. Clearly something is working with this recruitment drive, and it could make this draft even better than it already looks to be.

No, but I am saying that possibility of something better is out there. Seriously, minus some stuff Victor said, I think the only arguments against considering any change are "Scotty's records" and "this doesn't need to be changed." (None of the stuff that Victor said is being reiterated by anyone else, though; they maintain that the two latter arguments are sufficient enough to treat the idea like it's shit.) I think everyone is WAY overplaying the impact that a change such as the following would make: Beginning in your 9th season, no banked TPE will make it through depreciation (if you have banked TPE when you depreciate, it goes away). 9th season: 13% depreciation; 4% carryover 10th season: 19% depreciation; 2% carryover 11th season: 25% depreciation; no carryover etc. People who are going to recreate wouldn't likely want to suffer these penalties, unless I guess they had a really good shot at some sort of record (though I believe Scotty's goals/points records would still be safe, based on the fact that no player's career average puts him closer than 90 goals/120 points of Scotty, extrapolating to a 10 season career). Maybe some others would extend their careers as well, but I don't really see what would be so wrong with that. If players who don't plan on recreating wanted to stick around for one or two more seasons, it would add more bodies in the VHL for that time.

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Yeah! And I'm going 4th overall, fuckers!

No, it hasn't. It has shown that forced retirement after 8 seasons works, but nothing about how well it works relative to anything that has been proposed in this thread.

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Like that doesn't already happen already in the sim. My argument isn't the same as Molholt's, though. My concern here isn't realism.

Okay, so we have Devise saying even with 13% regression, players will remain the best in the league, and you're saying 13% would lead to "suddenly turns to shit." Hmm...

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Fine, then return to my first point. It's an easy thing to work around.

He clearly didn't want to lose to Quebec.

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If anyone is curious, I've calculated the average career of a skater in the VHL to be 4.26 seasons. That doesn't include current players, and I didn't count anything less than 20 games to be a season (players who played less than 20 games were not included at all).

1. A rule could easily be made to stop this. 2. Good luck finding a team

You misunderstood what he was saying. When you pointed out that the average NHL career is 5-6 seasons, that's because you have to include guys who only play a couple. When calculating the average VHL career, you would also have to include guys who only play one or two seasons.

Is it fair that Scotty started his rookie year on equal ground with the rest of the league?

My initial suggestion was 13% depreciation in 9th season, increasing by 6% thereafter. The decreased carryover was something I had also thought about. But that's the idea. Make a longer career rather undesirable, but give people the option. Perhaps also make an extra season be something that you have to purchase from the store. Also, since you're so concerned with the records, even with ten seasons of his average, Phil Rafter would have been 91 goals and 124 points short of Scotty. That's the closest anyone (aside from those who played in the old times) would have been.

I talked to Higgins about it at some point but he never confirmed anything. I didn't really care too much because it would have been going on to the retiring Keiji Toriyama (at least, a few season's worth of it), so I didn't press him into giving me compensation.

And if people are so concerned about maintaining the history of the league, I feel like whoever updates career stats should be paid a hefty sum of TPE.