1st Season as a GM

[Daniel Janser 2,184]

As many of may know, I took over the Mississauga Hounds after @N0HBDY followed @Alex' sirene call to the VHL. A quick glance at the roll call and the picks available for S82 told me that we were not going to be competitive, regardless who would get the job as a GM. 

Deducing that we would need to heavily rely on waivers to fill the roster, I asked @Ricer13 to make a catching graphic for our waiver pitch (I suck on graphics). The ones who know Ricer, will not be surprised that he jumped at the opportunity to help a fellow man. This is what he created:

 

 

So I was ready to throw pitches at every new creates that came our way and try to get as many as humanly possible. Later the same week I was advised that my application for Mississauga GM had been accepted. So I had the next challenge at my hands: to find an AGM. After thorough thoughts I opted for @Ente2997 and the deciders were soft skills, chief amongst them a common mother tongue and living in the same time zone, which certainly helps with communication.

Once I was appointed GM, I decided to tear everything down and trade what little (and late) picks the Hounds had in S82 for S83 picks in order to make a new start in the next season. During the season, I decided to 'sell' five of my more active and promising talents in order to acquire even more picks as the S83 promised to be a deep draft class (courtesy of Rob talks Hockey). These five players were Mean Machine, Adison Bond, Leandro Gonçalves, Hunor Solyom and Jesse Markov. And I could bring back Big Bob, whose rights were still with the Hounds, but he was released due to RL time constraints and consequential inactivity.

We did try to compete and the Hounds are the team which was most successful in regards of picking up new waivers (at least last I checked). Probably due to a combination of me being able to promise top ice time and the fancy graphic displayed above. Alas, my inexperience, STHS/RNJesus and an almost all rookie core made it difficult to be consistent and competitive against teams who had a more mixed (or even stacked) roster composition. I think we did not too bad, considering the circumstances and had the odd upsets against nominally way stronger teams. The spirit of the players were unbroken as far as I could tell.

So not unexpectedly, we ended up at the bottom of the league, which helps us with the draft of course (unfortunately no first round pick) in S83 and I hope to bring back as many of S82 Hounds as possible/available.

 

This was my short summary of my first season as a GM. 

 

Have I made questionable decisions? Of course, I am still learning.

Could I have done better in terms of player retention? Probably, yes and I will endeavour to do so.

 

Spoiler

@stevo, @leandrofg, @adison @solyom @JetsFan81, @M0XI

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Daniel Janser

[leandrofg 1,162]

4 hours ago, Daniel Janser said:

As many of may know, I took over the Mississauga Hounds after @N0HBDY followed @Alex' sirene call to the VHL. A quick glance at the roll call and the picks available for S82 told me that we were not going to be competitive, regardless who would get the job as a GM. 

Deducing that we would need to heavily rely on waivers to fill the roster, I asked @Ricer13 to make a catching graphic for our waiver pitch (I suck on graphics). The ones who know Ricer, will not be surprised that he jumped at the opportunity to help a fellow man. This is what he created:

 

 

So I was ready to throw pitches at every new creates that came our way and try to get as many as humanly possible. Later the same week I was advised that my application for Mississauga GM had been accepted. So I had the next challenge at my hands: to find an AGM. After thorough thoughts I opted for @Ente2997 and the deciders were soft skills, chief amongst them a common mother tongue and living in the same time zone, which certainly helps with communication.

Once I was appointed GM, I decided to tear everything down and trade what little (and late) picks the Hounds had in S82 for S83 picks in order to make a new start in the next season. During the season, I decided to 'sell' five of my more active and promising talents in order to acquire even more picks as the S83 promised to be a deep draft class (courtesy of Rob talks Hockey). These five players were Mean Machine, Adison Bond, Leandro Gonçalves, Hunor Solyom and Jesse Markov. And I could bring back Big Bob, whose rights were still with the Hounds, but he was released due to RL time constraints and consequential inactivity.

We did try to compete and the Hounds are the team which was most successful in regards of picking up new waivers (at least last I checked). Probably due to a combination of me being able to promise top ice time and the fancy graphic displayed above. Alas, my inexperience, STHS/RNJesus and an almost all rookie core made it difficult to be consistent and competitive against teams who had a more mixed (or even stacked) roster composition. I think we did not too bad, considering the circumstances and had the odd upsets against nominally way stronger teams. The spirit of the players were unbroken as far as I could tell.

So not unexpectedly, we ended up at the bottom of the league, which helps us with the draft of course (unfortunately no first round pick) in S83 and I hope to bring back as many of S82 Hounds as possible/available.

 

This was my short summary of my first season as a GM. 

 

Have I made questionable decisions? Of course, I am still learning.

Could I have done better in terms of player retention? Probably, yes and I will endeavour to do so.

 

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@stevo, @leandrofg, @adison @solyom @JetsFan81, @M0XI

 

Truly a pleasure to have been part of your first season as the Hounds GM.

Edited March 19, 2022 by leandrofg
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