diamond_ace

Teams in 4-8, send me offers. Philly can't sign me they have the max number of players already, and with Kefka already being on Minny, I'm not signing with Ottawa who will prob face Minny in the semis. So Halifax already offered (looking like a good option) so I'm looking at Yukon, Houston, San Diego, and Vegas/Saskatoon. Prob not San Diego just bc they've already spent so many waiver spots

Yeah I may have had 24 pings when I woke up...

Player Information Username: diamond_ace Player Name: Dagmar Havlova Recruited From: Coach Reilly and the VFL Age: 66 Position: C Height: 74 in. Weight: 175 lbs. Birthplace: Brno, Czech Republic

Well now that I'll need to do 2 articles, I could make one of them serious and therefore vsn

Depends on if it has to be serious. Skills comp is definitely first ballot of HOF of non serious articles

@FacebookFighter Back in 2011 my dad died and it surprised me just how much it helped talking to a few people on here about it. Jardy, Phil, a few others because of exactly what you said - it's people who didn't actually know me so I felt a bit more free to open up about things, and it made things a little easier, although of course it could never fully be easy. What you're going through is hard, and it will continue to be hard, and it never fully goes away - but even though I've never really talked to you on here, I'd be glad to do so now if you need anything, basically paying forward the help I was given when I needed it.

So obviously there's not a ton to talk about regarding the expansion draft since we don't know what the rules will be or who will be left unprotected, but there is one thing we can absolutely be sure of: there will be teams out there who will be unhappy with the expansion draft and will be forced to leave exposed some players they don't want to. There are teams with a lot of active players on them, teams with a bunch of up and comers and planning on that being their base going forward, as well as teams with vets who are going for the cup in the near future. As an expansion GM myself, I will say one thing to all incumbent teams: I am open to Vegasing the hell out of this draft. Got someone you don't want to lose? Work out a deal with me ahead of time, I'll take the player and ship him back to you, or take a different player from your team in exchange for a pick trade in my favor to offset the loss of not taking said player. I fully anticipate having a William Karlsson type of situation out of this draft, or maybe a Jonathan Marchessault/Reilly Smith deal, within of course the different confines a league such as this provides than that of our non-sim league counterparts. Of course, there's one much bigger caveat in this particular situation than there might have been back in the Vegas expansion, or even than there was back in each of the Moscow and Malmo expansions: @Enorama also gets to pick players and I'll have to work around that. That might have to lead to some creative trades that might be situational based on what's going on at the time, but we'll see how that affects things and who's available when and all of that. Let's say, hypothetically, that 7 players are protected. If your 8th guy is a 250 tpe guy in his 2nd season, not perfectly active but still pretty heavily active and definitely not a guy you want to lose, and your 9th guy is a 500 tpe guy in his 7th season that is depreciated down to only 370 or so of those tpe being used and went inactive 2 seasons ago: I obviously want the first guy - make it worth my while (picks, another decent prospect who's maybe too early in his career to be eligible for selection, if that's a thing) and I'll grab the second guy. I'm perfectly fine with building through mostly picks. I definitely have no intentions of going @Devise on this and taking only players and no picks - that's been proven to be a viable strategy for an existing team, but I don't think it's viable for an expansion team with currently no assets. That's of course not to say I'll take every offer on the table. You give me a 5th rounder, it's not going to be worth enough to make up the difference between the two guys in our hypothetical scenario in the third paragraph. Ultimately, depending on what comes through, I may end up with nothing, or I may end up with several deals, but this offers a chance for things to spruce up a bit if a few dominoes fall in a certain way. It'll be fun. For Kefka, since I'll now have to distinguish that.

Tell el-Muqayyar Temples has a nice ring to it

Team is going to be in Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq, based solely on the fact that it's the "city" that is now located on what was once the peak of civilization: Ur. Given the increase in discussions of Ur in modern society (although it is strange how many people talk about the great city of Ur as though it were the word "your") it's only fitting that we put in a team to represent Ur's rise in popularity in recent times.

This won't be my team (location is pretty near finalized and logo we've been working on) but I appreciate the thought put into this, and the cute rhinos! Especially that first one where he's running down the path, not a care in the world. This is fantastic

I'm using the same GM name. My players are my players, but the GM is me.

Effeminately? I do not think it means what you thinkit means

You got him for 8. Honestly, I'm ok with that anyway - more time to put guys like Zouma in there for this season and get them accustomed to the team

Pittsburgh Riverhounds, internationally Chelsea

I'm aware

I can't play soccer for shit I just like to watch it ? Appreciate this post bud

that defense

I'm a No advocate but I encourage those who don't know to abstain from voting in either direction. Those who know will pretty heavily vote no anyway.

Absolutely not.

I like the reference in the title

@Acydburn you're welcome

I was expecting this to be a bump from the one of these we had several years ago, which knowing my luck was probably on an old site. Also, 44.

Oodaaq-o Glaciers. Also, if you're going Seoul, the Seoul Connection would probably like a non compete clause @AndrewWarren13

Two words for this: Clark Marcellin.

I don't want him hung and lynched irl, that's a bit much, but I don't want him back, and I was around for him.