Bobandy Stuff

[AJW 2,196]

I have not done a Media Spot or actually done decent work for my TPE, so I will attempt to get back in the groove here and give you lovely VHL members an update on my new player, Randy Bobandy.

 

So at the S85 TDL I decided that my first player AJ Williams was in need of retirement. He had a great career with 231 goals and 484 points in 432 games played. I had one more season of playing to do before official retirement, but I lost all motivation to earn with that player and just needed a fresh start. Williams did win a cup with Seattle in S83 after being traded that pre season from Los Angeles, but since then I didn't really have the spark and love for that player anymore. Williams was my first generation player, so I am happy with what I did over the year I had him. It was an awesome first experience, but now it is Bobandy time.

 

Being the GM of the Houston Bulls, you would think I would recreate and join the team I run. WRONG. I want to be a winner, and the Mexico City Kings was the team I chose to go with. Mexico wasn't statistically the best team this season, heck they were 9th in the league for the whole first half of the season. The reason I chose Mexico is for one, Houston was not in a playoff spot and I sold our top players to build for next season, so a cup this season with our underdeveloped depth was out of reach. Second reason I chose Mexico is because Alex messaged me asking where I want to go with my new player, saying that himself and some other recreates wanted to head to Mexico to build an underdog story heading into the playoffs. I am an easy going guy and I like winning, so combine those two things together and I agreed to join Alex in Mexico along with the other recreates. The third reason I chose Mexico is because of their GM, Cole. Cole is all around a great person for this league and the team. I swear he does not sleep, so he is always on discord and in that locker room which is super nice for us players. I have not really talked much in that locker room since I have others to pay more attention to, but from the short times I have been in there it was a good place to be, so I am happy I chose the Kings.

 

Bobandy is a center, which is a bit of a different direction from my previous player who was a winger. I was debating making another winger but I wanted to spice it up a bit. I love forwards too much so I knew I was not making a defenseman, and there is a lot of goalies being made, so I knew that was pointless. I also really like the centreman position since it almost forces you to max earn. You have to worry about faceoff and strength attributes, which requires a decent amount of TPE. I hope to eventually get my faceoff and strength attributes to the 85-90 range, but we will see as time goes on. I also want my centreman to be defense heavy, meaning I want a two way build. High defense is just good for STHS anyways, and then the scoring will come with it too. I am really excited to build this player and I hope down the line in the VHL I can be paired up with some fast skating, sharpshooting wingers. Taking a look at my former teammate Jonathan Ori's build, he is a high passing centremen with lower defense than I want. He is an apple wizard with 300 assists in 500 games played. I think I could possibly build my center to be pass heavy too but with higher defense for more takeaways, defensive coverage, and just better center attributes. Going back to being paired with good wingers, I feel like my player can make a dent in the league with some good line mates.

 

Talking about making a dent in the league, Bobandy played 20 games to finish S85 for Mexico and had 5 goals for 15 points. I guess that is not really making a dent, but if you think about it, my player was around the 100 TPE mark for all of those games while playing against teams that pretty well all had capped out goalies and players too. I would say almost getting a point per game against those tendys is good. I do also LOVE how my +/- was +21. My team plays good, I play good, we get good +/-.

 

Skipping forward to playoffs, Mexico had the 4th seed this season and matched up against Saskatoon in the first round. I was not sure how things would play out since we had this brand new team with all the recreates, playoffs are a whole different story than the regular season, and Saskatoon has Minion in net. Minion's goalie was arguably the best in the VHLM this season, leading the league in SV% with a 0.921 rating. That is a bit scary heading into playoffs and having to play against him every game. But things really swung Mexico's way and we brought the brooms out for a beautiful sweep. Swayman was easily our MVP this round with 2 shutouts, 0.961 SV%, a 0.75 GAA. That is insane and the man was literally standing on his head. Bobandy was a bit quiet with only 2 assists in those 4 games, but who cares when you win every game right. I joined this team to win, which we are clearly doing, so there is nothing to be disappointed about here. I think that next round we match up against either Vegas or San Diego. Personally I would want to play San Diego since Vegas won the last two seasons and are the favorites again to win. Shindigs is also the GM and I know that guy knows everything about STHS and how to win on it, so that also scares me for next round. Looking at both teams too, Vegas is by far more depth heavy and their defense are all super strong. San Diego has two defensemen that are under 100 TPE, so you can probably understand what I am saying.

 

To end this media spot I just want to say how happy I am to have a new player and a new start. I hope this player can have a great career with whatever team drafts me. I really do not care where I go since I think I can be part of something great with any team. Randy Bobandy is about to be a VHL god.

[AJW 2,196]

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Edited October 17, 2022 by AJW