The Worst Person in the VHL

[Spartan 4,552]

....is Simon T. Now that I have your attention with some clickbait, join me in offering my condolences to the S77 Riga Reign for getting the most ridiculous sim shaft I have seen in my time in the VHL. It isn't much (just S71), but I do feel for Hedge and the folks on the team. I joked before the season started to Hedge that we'd be seeing them in the lottery tournament which was funny at the time, now I feel pretty bad for potentially cursing their team this season. Sorry lads  

 

Anyways, the point of this was basically to be a casual season recap as Moscow's season looks to draw to a close tomorrow with the final regular season sim of S77. It's been a very different season than most, particularly because of the obvious change in my sim league life of becoming a pro league GM for the first time. It's required a significantly different mindset than I've had in my managerial career which has solely been at the minors/collegiate levels, with different intents and purposes. But changing my perspective to focus more on team building wasn't as difficult as I thought it'd be, perhaps because of my penchant of making aggressive moves with Vegas to try to contend every single season to mixed results. This season was basically the opposite though, trading for picks and younger players while trading away friends and VHL stars instead of trying to force a team into being something it just isn't ready for. Learning from experience, you love to see it.

 

Luckily, I haven't made a move that I've disliked or regretted, all the way back to last offseason. Moving Davis, Lahtinen and Tonn while also requesting the Letang trade truly helped Moscow escape from the perilous middle ground of mediocrity and retreat to the safety of the basement of the VHL, albeit with a clear vision of what the future looks like. Atreides and Idaho were easy picks in the draft, and franchise cornerstones that I expected to feature quite a bit over the span of the season. The biggest and most pleasant surprise however was the development and performance of Phillip Stein, a rookie we traded for from London in the Lahtinen/Tonn trade. At the time of writing this, all 3 rookies are in the top 3 of rookie scoring. In a perfect world, I would love to see all three jointly win RotY, as they've truly been a very strong line despite just being rookies. I've really enjoyed the other active acquisitions in both trades and draft selections, as all of our draft selections have remained active and project to come up to the VHL within a season or two, which is awesome to see. We re-signed Malone to be our goalie of the future, or well, for the next season, but eagles is a lovely lad who has great history with Moscow, so it's just been very nice to have another familiar face on the squad from when I first got into the LR. 

 

At the risk of writing too much for a VHL.com, I'll wrap it up with our midseason trade, specifically our trade with DC. As of right now, DC has the 2nd worst record in the league, losing the tiebreaker for last against Riga, which at a glance appears wrong since DC has more wins, but there's still 3/4 games left for each team to determine their final standings. We gave up Schwarz, Jones and DC's S77 2nd for Magnum, Foles and DC's S77 1st. Schwarz will be hitting FA, Jones is a S72 player so depreciation is going to be a bitch, but it was to try to boost DC a bit more up the standings to contend for the cup, or at least make the playoffs. Magnum and Foles were just cap casualties, and won't be on Moscow's roster next season anyways. But as a user with a player on DC, this shit just backfired at a level I couldn't imagine. Not only did DC not make the playoff, but that first is looking like a top 3 pick. As a player, it sucks to miss out on the playoffs with decently high hopes for this season, but as a GM.....man am I thrilled. Our own 1st and DC's 1st this upcoming draft could both be top 3???? Sim gods gotta be looking over me to make trades to supposed contenders work out like this 2 seasons in a row. I expect some horrible luck is incoming in a few seasons, as balance must be restored. But I'm pretty psyched to have some really good looking picks in this draft to potentially finish out our roster, or at the least complete our core for the next few seasons. There are some really strong players in this next draft and it's really exciting to not only have a shot at one of them, but two of them. 

 

Doing a quick word count at this point, I've written way too much so might as well just find something else to blab about until I hit 1k words. Maybe I should actually explore the topic that I pretended to breach with the title? Put a bet on how many people will angry react this after getting clickbaited? I'll set the line at 3.5, which is rather generous since I feel like 2.5 people read these things, the half going to Cow who probably just opens it to approve and then doesn't bother reading it. Speaking of Cow, maybe he's a candidate for the horniest person in the VHL. He's come dangerously close to rivaling Fong recently, with pure, unbridled horniness in both gen chat and Moscow's LR. I'm honestly a bit scared for him, who knows what happens if he gets desperate while on his cow farm. Perhaps the horny police will need to go conduct a wellness check on him out in buttfuck, nowhere.

 

I have now hit 1,001 words, goodbye.

 

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[Blazzer 759]

can't believe I fell for this clickbait 

[Mr_Hatter 1,608]

Hah jokes on you I read this from your post in the LR not the ping

[Toast 887]

Hi Spartan, thanks for the clickbait title. 8/10 based off that alone. Good write up though, appreciate seeing a review of the season for your team. Looks like the Draft will be a lot of fun for you. A little bit long for what was meant to be a .com? 

[Spartan 4,552]

3 hours ago, Toast said:

Hi Spartan, thanks for the clickbait title. 8/10 based off that alone. Good write up though, appreciate seeing a review of the season for your team. Looks like the Draft will be a lot of fun for you. A little bit long for what was meant to be a .com? 

Everything starts with the intent to be a vhl.com, how much pops into my head determines what I end up claiming it as lol

Edited April 25, 2021 by Spartan

[Vkobe-v 169]

Bad clickbait  and inaccurate the worst person is not Simon t  

Edited April 26, 2021 by Vkobe-v

[KC15 340]

Review:  I was drawn in half by the click bait and half by seeing the author was Spartan.  Was glad I did as I enjoyed the analysis of the season and the highlighted trade with DC.  I find it interesting to see how different GMs look at building their team.  And then it was well-written as well.  And a special nod for the padding at the end to get to 1,000 words.  Just enough about the VHL that it clearly counts.  8/10

[OrbitingDeath 3,233]

Lets split the roty title three way. Rookie line of the year wins it

[Spartan 4,552]

Claim 2/2