Blah Blah Scoring Up Blah Blah Rant

[Da_Berr 219]

I think it is safe to assume that the dead puck era and low scoring of previous seasons are fully gone now. Ever since the addition of 4 new expansion teams in S73, league scoring has consistently shot up. In season 72, we had the leading point-getter, Condor Adrienne, with 100 points. No one else broke the 100 point mark, and altogether 14 players broke 80 points. In S73, the season after the expansion, we had 8 players break 100 points! The top being Sigard Gunnar, with 119. With that, we also had over 30 players break 80 points that season. Almost double the number of players that had done so in S72. As of S74, this current season, we have 40 players on pace to break 80 points. The top 10 of them, all on pace to reach the 130-160 point mark, which is insane. Of course, the pace they are on currently is unsustainable, but it does make me wonder, at what point will the increase in scoring come to a standstill. I'd say we have only 2 seasons worth of extremely high scoring left as the expansion teams that everyone is beating on will start to have their prospects develop. Of course, new teams will take their place, but I don't think any team could make a roster worse than most of the 1st and 2nd year expansion rosters on paper. There is the argument that the number of solid prospects available at lower in the draft will be lowered due to said expansion teams, but I believe that the VHL is still growing at a decent pace. Enough to upset the four additional picks per round. After the scoring starts to plateau, I believe the top scorers at most will get 120 points, with maybe 5-8 other players in the 100 points marker. Another question that this period of high scoring leads me to ask is how will HOF nominations be affected? We all know that HOF nominations consider what era they played in, but the gap difference in points for some players may cause them to lose their one chance at being inducted. As HOF nominations also don't necessarily mean you'll be competing against other payers in your same generation, I can see some players who didn't get inducted the first ballot, get shafted for multiple seasons in a row. As players who retire after them will have played in one of the highest-scoring eras in recent VHL memory. This has also become a rant from me saying once again, S72 draftees got shafted. Not only did we not get the late joiners TPE bonus, but we also joined in a time where TPE inflation was being looked at and clamped down on. Furthermore, whoever in the S72 draft class and decided to play in the bigs for their first-year point totals are not where they should be. SS-Hornet who only put up 47 points, and led rookies that year would have broken at lead 60