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It's sad if they don't know where Helsinki is. I could see the other two though

Not referring to here specifically. He mentioned Brady and Wentz, pretty sure those aren't VHL players. Here, we can't accurately have an MVP. We try to have one, but we end up with some weird combo of MOP and who didn't have someone else on their team

For me, it's the guy who there's the biggest difference between what the team is with him and what it would be without him. Yes, that sometimes ends up falling in favor of the goalie in a close race, but the race isn't always that close

Except we'e not fighting for the same users. Our user base has very little overlap with theirs. To become a clone of them fills a niche in the market that is already filled. Supply and demand, simple economics. The demand for their type of league is satisfied by them as a league. It doesn't need a second.

There are people who prefer our setup, and there are people who prefer their setup. The people who prefer our setup come here and the people who prefer their setup go there. If we do exactly as they do, then the people who prefer our setup have no league to go to. The people who prefer their setup already have a league, they don't need two clones, and you're taking the option away from the people who prefer our setup.

Firefox at home, Chrome on phone, unfortunately IE at work (we're not supposed to download things, including browsers)

So yeah... one of the late all-regen drafts in NHL 18 decided to throw these beauties at me: Tyrone Sexsmith and Theo Jaqueezy.

532 words, doubles from the giveaway. 12/25-12/31.

So people constantly make fun of ESPN for some of the stats they give, and to be fair the reaction is pretty justified. They'll pull things out like "who has the most points in the second period of afternoon games away, on days where it's raining outside the stadium and the home crowd filled less than 85% of the stadium" and things like that where it's clearly not a stat anyone cares about or wants to know. They do it to prove a point about a particular player usually, but the only point it ends up making is that they had to stretch to come up with a reason to justify their opinion on said player. I'm about to drop an ESPN style stat on this league to put a positive spin on a guy who I want to think highly of, because he's my own player. The current league leader in points per minutes played, excluding bots, is Vaclav Hrdina. Shocking, I know. You'd expect someone like Fujimoto or so to be winning it. Nope, it's Hrdina, with exactly one point every 15.5 minutes of ice time. Granted, there's a clear bit of bias involved when I'm taking into consideration a guy who has only played 31 minutes, but he's scored two assists nonetheless, so it's still a point per 15.5 minutes. Even the league leader in points, Shawn Gretzky, doesn't quite live up to Hrdina's standards here. 29 points in 458 minutes averages out to a point every 15.79 minutes. Still very impressive, objectively a bigger deal than 2 in 31, but it's not good enough for the points per minutes award. Let's look at other big scorers just to see where they fall as well. Gabriel McAllister averages a point every 18.78 minutes. Lee King Snatch, despite my best efforts at only ever writing articles that don't use that player name for its ridiculousness, earns a spot on the article with a point every 16.26 minutes. John Locke averages a point every 17.75 minutes. Franchise Cornerstone, the only remaining player with 24 or more points, has a point per a relatively paltry 19.25 minutes. Considering that every non-bot player in the league outside of Hrdina has played at least into the mid-300s in terms of minutes except three (and the point totals of these three, Alexander Thrower, Jake Scheel, and Jabby McFullO'Schmidt, aren't going to balance out minutes that are still 200+ in all cases) that's all the farther we really have to look. No one else is even in the ballpark. There's a stat in the sim called P/20, or points per 20 minutes. Hrdina's P/20 is 1.29, which is the best in the league and validates the math I just did for the rest of this without noticing P/20 was a thing. The other players with over a 1 P/20 are Shawn Gretzky (1.27), Gabriel McAllister (1.06), Fook Yu (1.00), Lee King Snatch (1.23), John Locke (1.13), Fredinamijs Krigars (1.06), Lukas Muller (1.00) and Franchise Cornerstone (1.04). That is the entire list. Only 9 total players with a 1.00 or better P/20, and topping them all is Vaclav Hrdina, the most efficient point earner in the league.

Yep. Basically, we each came to them separately wanting to do it on an interim basis. Bora hasn't GMed in the VHLM before but has in the VHL, so I'm kind of here to help out although I don't think he'll need it. From there, if he decides he wants it long term, I step down at the end of the season and hand it over. In the meantime, we're both doing it, but he's the official one since I'm already bog. Oslo is in good hands with either one of us, so with both it should certainly work out well, and hopefully this keeps Bora back in the league for good

3 assists, 1 win

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35 - Yukon 36 - Ottawa 37 - Las Vegas 38 - Yukon

Ottawa 4 Oslo 2

Setting me up left and right

reign 5-4

51 Bears 52 Americans 53 Americans 54 HC Dynamo

Player Name: Evan R. Lawson, no longer CFO of Hank Med Gift #: 4 Favorite gift received: Fifa 18

For a player who has never played hockey before in his life, you wouldn't know it from seeing Evan R. Lawson play his first career game with the Las Vegas Aces. His career began against the Oslo Storm, last year's defending champions, and the Aces would go on to win the game, 5-4. The second goal for Las Vegas, and the second goal total in the game, was a power play goal scored by Lawson, the first of his career - not only first power play goal, but first goal entirely. It was assisted by the defensive pairing of Charles Cote and Joona Makela. The game had no particular relevance to the total, it was an early score builder, not the game winner or anything like that, but for a guy who hasn't played, it's still nice to see his name pop up on the score sheet. We should be seeing many more goals by Lawson in his career, if his development continues as it has been.

Thoughts on the first VHL player without a line assignment, other than a bot? (Hrdina - STZ and I discussed the idea where I'd come up to the VHL, but I'd float around for extra minutes like a bot, but with more TPE than a bot. He was never going to become anything long term, and basically wasn't auto-retired just so I could prove to myself I was actually back)

Player Name: Evan R. Lawson, no longer CFO of Hank Med Gift #: 3 Favorite gift received: Fifa 18

If there's anyone here who would be Ferguson, it's you. Drove me up a wall sometimes (him with his winning with a team I hate, you with the history stuff) but undeniably one of the most successful in the sport/sim league and made everyone around him/you better.

I actually really like this, regens still get the extra for the rest of their careers, just not in the VHLM against the noobs.

Also, for what it's worth, I'd probably follow curling if it was ever actually televised outside of the olympics