diamond_ace

Close though - can't fault you for effort, in any case.

OR I could give it one additional season since the first depreciation isn't really that bad - I just don't want to see the guy whittled down when he barely got built up. Honestly if it wasn't for depreciation I'd be tempted to finish out Hrdina's career just to see what would happen

So there will likely be another player coming from the diamond_ace agency on Monday when preseason retirements happen so I can keep Hrdina for S58. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with this player, not entirely sure at the moment actually, I've made a few kinds of players and had varying degrees of success with each. I've made two defensive defensemen, Lars Intranquilo (who was almost obsessively defensive and ended up being pretty useless) and Kerkko Hyvarinen (who was a little more normally built, still defensive but like a normal person would build who isn't me - he had a moderate degree of success compared to his TPE level which was about half of Intranquilo). I've made two centers, Clark Marcellin (objectively my best player, became defense for the last few seasons of his career, but honestly felt a little weird as during Marcellin was also my prime as GM, so he was always kind of secondary to the team in terms of interest) and Vaclav Hrdina, my current player who obviously can't become much even if I ran him out to the end (a player in the early-mid 100s entering depreciation is never a great idea). I've had a goalie, Martin Brookside (the next best after Marcellin in terms of sim success). I haven't made an offensive defenseman, mostly because I don't really believe they should be a thing, I consider them wingers who lined up wrong... which brings me to the other thing I haven't made, a winger. I've generally felt wingers were the most overfull position because new people tend to want to be the showy scoring guy for the sake of interest, so I've tended to stay away from them for the sake of balance. At this time, however, it seems as though there's actually not an overpopulation of wingers, so if I'm ever going to make one, this would be the time. I could be kind of a combo scoring/physical guy if I want, that might be interesting. I could also go back to my favorite position, defensive defenseman, and try to find some sort of balance between a TPE level higher than Hyvarinen and a sim success higher than Intranquilo. Definitely not doing goalie in the current market, and honestly I'd rather not be at the one position where I have to be the guy.

@bukss_a the draft happened a few hours ago

Yeah this notice actually cost me points - I assumed it was a hint that you were taking one, rather than Lavar Ball

The shit one? I mean in terms of TPE and age. Journeyman might do better in the sim, but you can take the extra TPE in the meantime and throw it at Process, thus making him do better in the sim. You don't have a meantime with Journeyman since he's older. Seriously I can understand being on the fence about Process (it's always disappointing when players don't do well in the sim) but you need to get rid of Journeyman.

Haikus are easy But sometimes they don't make sense Refrigerator

As in, posting "claim X TPE" is unnecessary. Just link the OP.

Players go to teams This is where you think they are Probably right on most ^That is a haiku^

I'm assuming one of them was supposed to be Spade?

Why is Fire Hakstol tagged twice

Yeah I always thought it was weird we get the reputation of being hard to understand for new members. SHL is way the fuck more complicated than we are

@Bushito should pick you up then you would still be in Calgary

I never cared about VHL history, but when Victor was here putting in all that work, I at least felt bad about not caring. He's the only person to ever make me feel bad about it.

Question for the members of the league (I asked this in NY LR a bit ago as well): when have there been instances of people having NTC, being traded, and then NOT waiving the NTC so as to block the trade? I would think that somewhere along the way, there'd be a selfish player who wants the individual stats boost from playing on a shit team. I can't actually remember ever seeing it happen though

Oh nice. I did that in another league, that has the two player thing. I have one guy named after my first line center in one of my GM modes, and the other guy named after my star striker in FIFA Career mode

Well, I'm not bothered by it as I only have the one player, and I in theory agree with them removing the second player, but I definitely think you have a point with the carryover TPE. Up the max from the current 75 to about 110-120 or so until the 2 players thing is fully phased out, and let people add them together

That's why we each have a vote. I value what I value, you value what you value.

We need actual Sandro and Greg to come back

123 points. 224 hits. 81 sb. Best all around player for me is Fujimoto

1. Ivan Morozov 2. Kriztof Mueller 3. Aksel McKnight 4. Dragon McDragon 5. Ryszard Macht 6. Adam Warlock 7. Lavar Ball 8. ? Elias Sobeck 9. Otto Axelsson 10. Vladislav Koradek

guy's name is Knight... @Phil is there something we ought to know?

I messaged a facebook page I'm a member of, to see if I could post something there. Haven't heard back. Not just immediately posting there because I'm actually a regular member of that page and would prefer not to be kicked, but trying to see if they can work with me a little. I'll let you guys know if/when I hear anything