Is John Smith The Best Player In The VHL Portal?

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Matthew Kai, Elfon Ashelf and Ian Smith

Jack Todaro and Haydyn

Chet Foreals and barry bigman

Dirty Caufield

Greg Santos

Majestic Buffalo

Dawson Thibert

Ches Morrison

Kiefer Leclerc

 

Current Leaderboard:

 

1: Matthew Kai

2: barry bigman

3: Greg Santos

4: Elfon Ashelf

5: Kiefer Leclerc

6: Chet Foreals

7: Dirty Caufield

8: Majestic Buffalo

9: Jack Todaro

10: Ches Morrison

11: Ian Smith

12: Dawson Thibert

13. Haydyn

 

It’s pretty incredible that after just 14 randomly picked players, we’ve already found two players with the same last name but this is the situation we’ve found ourselves in as we ponder if John Smith is the best player in the VHL Portal. John Smith (who is also a British beer), much like the previously ranked Ian Smith, was created as a member of the Season 84 Draft Class and the user behind the player (Ironwolf1912) had joined the league from a sister league, presumably the SBA where they have had other players. Ironwolf1912 wasn’t just a one time poster, as they posted twice that they were going to wait for more offers for John Smith who had created at the trade deadline. However, they ultimately never accepted an offer from a VHLM team and was one of the youngest players in the VHL to fall victim to the Hybrid-Era mass retirements, given they were auto-retired just six weeks after creating. This makes ranking John Smith incredibly difficult as submitting one instance of welfare and practice facility would usually have you considered as one of the top players in the VHL Portal, but the length of career and lack of signing has to have some sort of negative impact on their rankings. I think ultimately, slotting John Smith as the eighth best player in the VHL Portal seems fairest as they neither signed a VHLM contract like Foreals, nor did they have the longevity of Dirty Caufield, but at least they did welfare which is better than Buffalo and Todaro did.

 

Current Leaderboard:

 

1: Matthew Kai

2: barry bigman

3: Greg Santos

4: Elfon Ashelf

5: Kiefer Leclerc

6: Chet Foreals

7: Dirty Caufield

8: John Smith

9: Majestic Buffalo

10: Jack Todaro

11: Ches Morrison

12: Ian Smith

13: Dawson Thibert

14. Haydyn

Edited September 25, 2022 by MubbleFubbles

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16 minutes ago, MubbleFubbles said:

as submitting one instance of welfare and practice facility would usually have you considered as one of the top players in the VHL Portal

I found this a lot funnier than I should have.