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[hedgehog337 3,483]

I got corona. So here's a lazy article.

 

Nothing much to say though. I do want to tell something, however. Riga was represented so well in rookie award nominees. 3 out of 4 were coming from our team. Guess who won it? John Jameson???? Who the hell is THAT? Delete that player from portal and delete @Frank as well while we're still here. How dare he to take awards from us???!!?? Unacceptable!

 

Anyways, the offseason is about to end. Wednesday is the projected season opener although I feel like for me the offseason may not end that quick. Something is brewing in the air, but for now I will keep it in secret. As for our team, I already did pre season rankings so you know what's up. But I do have a moderate excitement about this. First of all, we should get more than 18 wins. That was our result last season. Our forwards are gonna frow pretty quickly so I think we will have something going on towards the end of the season. Is it gonna be enough for the playoffs? Probably not, but I think writing us off immediately isn't an option either. And you know, trade deadline deals are always a possible scenario too, though I don't wanna sell my farm for that. So we shall see.

 

By the way, clicker finally got the chance to be signed. One of last year rookie nominees Gus Bentley signed with Davos to replace inactive Marconi. Less TPE, but pretty fine build for a 5th or 6th forward. By the way, he was Davos prospect before getting sent to Riga. Now it comes full circle. Now onto another players who could be signed. Would Toronto or Helsinki take the advantage of the temporary rule by the commishes? In fact, I do have one inactive to cut as well. But for now I'm waiting. I messaged two of them so waiting for responses. We shall see how it goes. I do wonder where is Freddy Freeze is gonna sign though. Most of teams do have a backup and the cap situation is still there. Can any team even try? Anyways, we did get a good solution for this season. Now it's onto the higher ups to come up with something more fundamental as the non retirement offseason is going to creep on us in two months. By the way Spartan told it's not an expansion not the cap space raise. Okaaaay?....

 

I did listen some part of Ahma cast today just cause I was mentioned there. Basically they said I'm loyal cause of my 30 something plus season tenure in Riga. Well, that's an interesting fact. Though I have to say I'm indeed not testing FA very often with my players. Matter of fact, I don't even remember when did I go to free agency here. I think...with Zeptenbergs when I re-signed with Toronto in FA? Slam dunk decision by the way. Neither I'm going to FA much in other leagues. My last ever player in sim leagues I went to FA was Lupatlasis in SBA and that was years ago. So yeah, I guess I do have some reputation as a rather loyal member. @Spartan 's anxiety has lessened after reading this paragraph as we speak.

 

I think that's enough for today.

 

That's it and I'm out.

[Spartan 4,531]

6 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

In fact, I do have one inactive to cut as well. But for now I'm waiting. I messaged two of them so waiting for responses. We shall see how it goes.

Alex just posted it in the announcement thread, signed the FA and then released the IA. I went in and made the penalty 0 after that, so you can do the same.

 

7 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

By the way Spartan told it's not an expansion not the cap space raise. Okaaaay?....

Partly will be mitigated by depreciation change kicking in and slapping some folks fairly hard. Mainly looking at S80/S81 players who will be eating 8/12% depreciation on their super bloated builds. But yes there's other stuff in the works that don't involve cap raising or expanding to address the issue, we'll see how it goes. 

 

8 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

@Spartan 's anxiety has lessened after reading this paragraph as we speak.

Maybe I'm a bit of an oddity, but I don't really mind if you end up testing FA or not. I think loyalty is earned, I don't just need to demand it. You gave me expectations when we drafted you and when we re-signed you, I said we'd meet them. I don't think it's absurd if you end up going "hey yeah I don't think this is working and I want to look elsewhere," because that's just me not meeting your expectations. I'd obviously want a head's up and a chance to resolve the frustration mid/post-season first, but I get going to FA. Either way though, we'll have a fun season this year