Goalie Experience Rating: Start at 40

[CoachReilly 688]

Why not? Same update scale as the rest of the players.

[Victor 10,940]

Omg this is why goalies suck.

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

no Moher you just suck. experience doesnt change a thing jk it doesnt start at 40? 

[Victor 10,940]

It starts at 35 like all goalie attributes. But he makes a fair point since goalies can't add any TPE of their own to it.

[CoachReilly 688]

obviously a small issue just throwing it out there

[Toast 887]

All hail Coach! Good idea since we can't add TPE to it.

[8Ovechkin8 262]

I think for experimental reasons we would let one entire draft class have 99 experience and see what the trend is. It'll be interesting and we'll finally get an answer to this question.

[CoachReilly 688]

i guess my question is, why would it be hard to adjust this? all it involves is a switch of the template? why do we need to experiment? seems pretty cut & dry

[8Ovechkin8 262]

i guess my question is, why would it be hard to adjust this? all it involves is a switch of the template? why do we need to experiment? seems pretty cut & dry

I'm not talking just for goalies. I'm talking all players just to see if there actually is an effect.

[Guest]

Well the disadvantage you guys would have (if there is) with this is the 5 point difference, but at the same time their is less attribute things you guys need to hit 99 in every category so thats where it makes up for it.

[Mike 708]

The real thing is as long as every goalie starts at 35 it doesn't matter.  You could make all goalies start at 50 but as long as its consistent theres no advantage or disadvantage to any other goalie.  The relation of a goalies play to a skater isn't exactly something you can compare so it doesn't matter.  

[Victor 10,940]

Well the disadvantage you guys would have (if there is) with this is the 5 point difference, but at the same time their is less attribute things you guys need to hit 99 in every category so thats where it makes up for it.

That is why their attributes start at 35, so that they have somewhere to use 30ish TPE (come to think of it, that's really insignificant), but in the case of experience they can't add TPE there anyway.

[Guest]

That is why their attributes start at 35, so that they have somewhere to use 30ish TPE (come to think of it, that's really insignificant), but in the case of experience they can't add TPE there anyway.

Yeah I know that haha. Like I said, the disadvantage of them being 5 TPE lower in Experience that can't be added to is made up when they have less categories to add too.

[Victor 10,940]

Yeah I know that haha. Like I said, the disadvantage of them being 5 TPE lower in Experience that can't be added to is made up when they have less categories to add too.

How? The two aren't related.

 

Actually, no, I see your logic. Though I can't agree with it. In any case, it's 5 TPE in an attribute which has not been proven to do anything.

[JardyB10 4,865]

I think for experimental reasons we would let one entire draft class have 99 experience and see what the trend is. It'll be interesting and we'll finally get an answer to this question.

I don't think it would provide any solid answers.  A better experiment would be to do a full season test sim with a player who has 1 Leadership and/or Experience, and then another test sim with 99 in one or both.  And even then it might not tell us a lot because it affects morale, as does winning/losing and possibly ice time and other intangibles like that that you can't control in a test sim.  So then a better experiment yet would be to do that same test sim thing, but with an entire team's Experience/Leadership/Morale maxed on one and minned in another.  Or all of the above.