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@Arce I'm doing some looking into Hall of Fame history, specifically putting together a spreadsheet with the team every Hall of Famer was on during each season of their VHL career, and I completely forgot Bentz was on that S13 Davos team. We had five future Hall of Famers together that season, and Leingod was on the Hall of Fame ballot at one point, for some reason. It's not the most Hall of Famers that have ever been on a team at the same point in time, though. Seattle (no surprise) had six in each of S4 through S6, though they weren't all the same players together that time. In S6, they actually had a total of seven future Hall of Famers on their roster, but one of them was traded away at the beginning of the season, and another was acquired at the deadline. The Hall of Fame trio of Arce/Jenskovic/Devereux spent five seasons together, which could be the longest any Hall of Fame trios have spent together (would be tied with Calgary's Labatte/Slobo/Boulet, but that's quite the company). I'm only through the first 22 HoF classes though, and that's just a quick scan, so maybe there's another trio who spent more time together. I am curious to find out if any two Hall of Famers spent all eight seasons of their career together. I know off the top of my head that Benjamin Glover and Daniel Braxton spent seven seasons together, and I would guess that there might be some other pairs that match that.

14th overall is the latest any of the two-time MVP's were picked in their VHL draft. This is extra impressive (and also extra damning for the GM's at the time) because the drafts were not as deep as they are nowadays. Other than the two most recent players to join the two-time MVP club (Andrew Su, drafted 13th overall in S72; and Tsujimoto, drafted 9th overall in S75), every single one of them was a top three selection (or was not drafted due to the GM Rule of the past).

holy crap Erlantz Jokinen is a beast, he scored a goal against Bubbles

@Gustav I can't imagine there's a more unique trophy cabinet than that of Taro Tsujimoto. Two MVPs and literally nothing else, team or individual. wtf

I'm doing some awards research for a media spot I'm going to write, and here are some things that probably won't make the cut regarding players who have won multiple MVP awards. -15 players have won at least two MVP trophies -5 players have won three MVP trophies -5 players have been MVP with multiple teams Of the fifteen players, 12 of them had their first MVP trophy no later than their fifth season in the league. The three outliers are Grimm Jonsson, Tuomas Tukio, and Taro Tsujimoto. Jonsson spent the first five seasons of his career only picking up Top Leader Trophies as far as individual awards are concerned, then he won MVP three straight times to close out his career. Likewise, Tukio ended his career with back-to-back MVPs after having no individual awards in the seasons prior. Tsujimoto won his two MVP trophies in his sixth and eighth seasons. These were the only two awards (including team awards) he ever won. Five of the 15 multi-MVP winners (including two of the three-time winners) were drafted in the first ten seasons. That means that over the course of the first 17 VHL seasons, there were only ten unique winners. The next 20 drafts did not produce a single player who won multiple times. If you were to look at a list of the MVPs from S17 (Jonsson's last MVP) to S37 (Tukio's first), you would see 21 unique names. This is easily the longest stretch of unique winners. Grimm Jonsson (S15-S17) and Thomas O'Malley (S44-S46) are the only two players to win three consecutive MVP trophies Grimm Jonsson and Franchise Cornerstone are the only two players to win three MVP trophies with the same team. Gabriel McAllister is the only player to win MVP with a team, then a different team, and then again with that first team.

Okay, this time I really am going to send in a bunch of questions. Also, if anyone has questions they think might be interesting but would require research that they don't want to do, hit me up and I'll maybe try to find an answer.

happy bir'day to the league

I like the cap at four because I'll never exceed that but there should also be a minimum of 3 pls it would help me out a lot

Now that looks like a winning team.

lol how do you lose the finals four times in a row

UNVOTE RICER

Well, that's not good. But if we've got Berocka helping us out, we can still get to 5, though I suspect Jericho might have a different agenda based on his not helping us with the vote the last time. He hasn't been particularly active in the game though so maybe that's all it was.

Suspected goods, I think we need to vote to jail Ricer. It's been my mantra all game. Get the killers off the streets. @Adrest245 @Ptyrell @Jericho @Goliathus We have six votes if we are all good, given that Goliathus has three. That's enough to get Ricer jailed. I put another in jail tonight. Then we repeat the process the next day and I think that'll be it. VOTE RICER

Bad news losing those two, but with Gordon still alive we should still have the votes to put Ricer back in jail. I think he is the only killer now, with Bane out of the game. Given that we got exactly enough votes last time and we have two fewer on our side, we probably need every vote we have. @Devise can multiple people be voted into jail or is it whoever gets the most if more than one get enough?

I'm currently playing through Breath of the Wild, but I don't have anything else in mind for when I'm done with that.

Jerome Reinhart's position change will certainly have messed with that data to some degree.

Group 6 is trash. How do you let the same person get Duncan Idaho and Taylor Mourning?

Keep in mind this is players who were selected top three in at least one group; it doesn't necessarily mean that they were common high picks. Guys like Seabasstard, Telker, Trunov, and Tucker were not really common high picks and in the case of Tucker and Seabasstard, were not common picks in drafts altogether (averaging about 20 picks done in each group at the time of data, Tucker was only selected in one and Seabasstard in two).

This is not what I like to see.

I'm not reading all of this, just looking at pictures and reading the nice things you wrote about the games that I like. Timesplitters 2 is the only game I played in that series, and damn was it a fun game. Paper Mario TTYD is an incredible game and I so wish the Paper Mario series didn't become what it did. Granted, I haven't actually played any of the games since then (or the original, for that matter), but TTYD is one of my favorite Gamecube games for sure. Mario Party 7 is the Mario Party game that I have played the most as well, and therefore it is my favorite of the series. Bug Fables definitely helped fill the itch for a new Paper Mario game. I don't believe I ever actually finished it. I probably just got busy or something and forgot about it. Now that I'm reminded of it and can probably find time, maybe I'll give it a shot again.

I feel like this guy fits the color scheme a bit more.

If you were factoring into anyone's predictions, they have no one to blame but themselves.