Moderator MubbleFubbles 1,292 Posted December 11, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 11, 2022 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 John Smith Danny dimes Evgeni Shevkov Titomir Pukshuuter Laser Brewer George Patton Calix Pearce Current Leaderboard 1: Matthew Kai 2: Calix Pearce 3: Evgeni Shevkov 4: George Patton 5: barry bigman 6: Greg Santos 7: Elfon Ashelf 8: Kiefer Leclerc 9: Chet Foreals 10: Dirty Caufield 11: John Smith 12: Majestic Buffalo 13: Jack Todaro 14: Titomir Pukshuuter 15: Ches Morrison 16: Ian Smith 17: Danny dimes 18: Dawson Thibert 19. Haydyn 20. Laser Brewer Oh god, people are going to start thinking this is rigged now as I find myself writing about a player currently playing in the VHL for the second straight article, despite the fact that this was very unlikely to happen given the numbers. So let’s talk Cameron Elsby, the user Spence King’s second player created off the back of the retirement of Spencer Elsby, a player that recorded 1178 TPE, however I’ll save talking about them until episode 942. Through the first half of their build-up to their Season 81 VHL Draft, Elsby was looking like one of the top prospects in the draft and for a good chunk of the lead-up was the fourth highest draftee in TPE. However in the latter half of the period leading up to the draft, their earning fell off a cliff and, prior to the draft fell down to having the 19th highest TPE of the prospects in their draft, so despite the success of their previous player, it wasn’t really a surprise to see Elsby taken with the 25th pick in the VHL Draft. Elsby would spend their first season in the VHLM (after vehemently arguing about being in the VHLE) and had a very good season with the Houston Bulls, winning the top defenseman trophy, before spending the next two seasons in the VHLE and averaging close to a point per game with the Vasteras Iron Eagles. They then got promoted to the VHL to play for the Los Angeles Stars team that had traded for them back in Elsby’s third post-draft season and got about as much return as you’d expect from a player who just about made it over the VHLE 400 TPE cap with 55 points across two seasons along with a solid number of hits and shot blocks. However, not long after their rookie season, Elsby stopped updating their player and, save for a lone practice facility submission in October, has not updated since the start of July, thus putting any hopes that LA may have had of Elsby progressing into a 700+ TPE defenseman to an end. Leading up to Season 86, they were traded twice in the off-season, being a part of the Davos Dynamo for just two hours before being traded to a Chicago Phoenix team that badly needed defenseman depth. Through 55 games, it looks like Elsby is going to set their personal best for assists in a season and may yet break their best point total in a season, but the latter will likely be just barely broken as they have 23 points in 55 games and would have to get 7 points in 17 games to tie their previous record. However, they do have a positive +/- on a Phoenix team that is sitting very high in the standings as of writing. So where does Elsby rank in regards to best players in the VHL Portal? Well, I can’t rank them first or second. While their stats aren’t that much worse than either Matthew Kai or Calix Pearce, Elsby did go inactive earlier on in their career than Kai did and Pearce is still active, so someone who has had one update in the last five months can’t really displace them. However their stats are comfortably better than that of Evgeni Shevkov, therefore I place Cameron Elsby as the third best player in the VHL Portal New Leaderboard 1: Matthew Kai 2: Calix Pearce 3: Cameron Elsby 4: Evgeni Shevkov 5: George Patton 6: barry bigman 7: Greg Santos 8: Elfon Ashelf 9: Kiefer Leclerc 10: Chet Foreals 11: Dirty Caufield 12: John Smith 13: Majestic Buffalo 14: Jack Todaro 15: Titomir Pukshuuter 16: Ches Morrison 17: Ian Smith 18: Danny dimes 19: Dawson Thibert 20. Haydyn 21. Laser Brewer Garsh, kirbithan and Shindigs 1 2 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/130771-is-cameron-elsby-the-best-player-in-the-vhl-portal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindigs 1,771 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Rigged! Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/130771-is-cameron-elsby-the-best-player-in-the-vhl-portal/#findComment-962960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Janser 2,216 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Shindigs said: Rigged! next player in that serious: Vinny Detroit Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/130771-is-cameron-elsby-the-best-player-in-the-vhl-portal/#findComment-962964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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