BFGore

I'm still here in full managerial mode. In fact, I just spent $2 Mill on a defender in the SHL as a last ditch effort to take the SHL by force. I'm there with you littleB: got beat down in round two of the last playoffs...so this may be the last go at it. Best luck everyone!

They actually might create free league after all - let's wait for October/November how this turns out.

We are currently working with new logos. Except it to be done in a week or so.
 
//Tobias

Just a thought, but this could add some good depth to the game.
 
Instead of setting up the tactics like we do now, how about hiring a coach who is known to run a specific system.
If you want to run a defence-first trap-style team, hire some kind of fictional Ken Hitchcock. Have fictional bench bosses to represent each of the tactics that exist now.
Imagine re-creating some kind of Broad Street Bullies scenario where your roster is populated with tough players and you have a coach who favours intimidation?
Like you match your players to your systems now, you would sign players to run the system your coach prefers. If you don't, he may not give proper ice time to a certain player, or may even have the authority to sit that player out.
 
And that player would then demand a trade!
 
Like players, you could have upwardly mobile coaches who refuse to re-up their contract after a successful season.
 
You could integrate coaches with the existing 'traits' system. Have coaches who clash with lazy or arrogant players. Coaches who are challenged by the idea of motivating lazy players. Coaches who have a calming influence on nervous or anxious players and coaches who push those same players into mental-breakdown territory.
 
Loving or hating the coach could add another reason for a player to sign or not sign with your team.
 
The coach could also factor into a team's reputation.

1. **Hawkeye Indians (Wills Sk)
OFF: 87,2 DEF: 87,3 SG: 89 OVR: 87,4 (-1,2)
Age: 26,4
Best OVR skater: D Braden Deniau-Destaillis, 20yo, 91 OVR.
 
2. **Cuba City Tomahawks (BEN \)
OFF: 85,7 DEF: 88,0 SG: 89 OVR: 87,0 (-1,6)
Age: 27,3
Best OVR skater: D Einari Kuoppala, 19yo, 93 OVR.
 
3. Oshawa Dynasty Heroes (Kris "Euph" Zenatik)
OFF: 84,8 DEF: 86,8 SG: 88 OVR: 86,0 (+0,4)
Age: 25,1
Best OVR skater: D Dominick Wallace, 22yo, 91 OVR.
 
4. Deferiet Leopards (PAUL "Paul T" T)
OFF: 83,3 DEF: 86,0 SG: 90 OVR: 85,0 (+0,1)
Age: 28,5
Best OVR skater: D Izidor Hocevar, 30yo, 88 OVR.
 
5. Webbwood Victors (Juho "Keskustankeisari" Kainulainen)
OFF: 84,5 DEF: 84,5 SG: 87 OVR: 84,7 (+1,3)
Age: 27,6
Best OVR skater: D  Barnabáš Lojko, 29yo, 87 OVR.
 
6. Natashquan Mohawks (Brutality "BFGore" Fullgore)
OFF: 83,8 DEF: 84,2 SG: 91 OVR: 84,5 (+0,2)
Age: 28,4
Best OVR skater: C Marco Ilan, 21yo, 94 OVR.
 
7. Blakely Black Flag (Xavier "EXXEO" O'Connor)
OFF: 83,8 DEF: 84,3 SG: 86 OVR: 84,2 (+1,6)
Age: 25,0
Best OVR skater: D Harry Petrucci, 26yo, 87 OVR.
 
8. Minnedosa Musketeers (Brent "littleb" Little)
OFF: 84,6 DEF: 83,2 SG: 87 OVR: 84,1 (- 0,3)
Age 30,7
Best OVR skater: F Julien Calce, 32yo, 87 OVR.
 
9. Lake Viking Bulldogs (Max Mol)
OFF: 83,2 DEF: 84,2 SG: 87 OVR: 83,9 (+/- 0)
Age: 28,9
Best OVR skater: D Jeffery Steele, 32yo, 86 OVR.
 
10. Bodmin Bangers (sakari "suomyyra" lindholm)
OFF: 84,0 DEF: 82,8 SG: 89 OVR: 83,9 (+0,7)
Age: 28,2
Best OVR skater: F Kevin Fontaine-Bienvenue, 34yo, 87 OVR.
 
11. Coquitlam Cougars (Tyler Thor)
OFF: 82,3 DEF: 84,5 SG: 88 OVR: 83,7 (+0,6)
Age: 25,4
Best OVR skater: D Oscar Svart, 31yo, 88 OVR.
 
12. Mount Erie Eagles (James Faran)
OFF: 82,9 DEF: 83,7 SG: 86 OVR: 83,5 (+1,2)
Age: 32,1
Best OVR skater: D Gregorio Schroeter, 36yo, 89 OVR.
 
13. *Wildwood Thunder Cats (Torbjörn Johansson)
OFF: 82,6 DEF: 84,2 SG: 85 OVR: 83,5 (+4,2)
Age: 29,9
Best OVR skater: D Andrew Fardon, 26yo, 86 OVR.
 
14. *Tullahoma Tomcats (Wendel Clark)
OFF: 83,0 DEF: 83,2 SG: 88 OVR: 83,5 (+5,3)
Age: 32,1
Best OVR skater: D Pascal Caputo, 33yo, 85 OVR.
 
15. *Pittsboro Plastic Attack (Makate Naekfor)
OFF: 83,3 DEF: 83,2 SG: 86 OVR: 83,4 (+5,1)
Age: 29,5
Best OVR skater: C Bohumir Kovar, 35yo, 87 OVR.
 
16. Kingston Assassins (Cheddar Biscuits)
OFF: 83,7 DEF: 82,7 SG: 82 OVR: 83,1 (+0,1)
Age: 25,9
Best OVR skater: F Faries Jaillet, 24yo, 87 OVR.
 
League AVG team OVR: 84,5
League AVG team age: 28,2
 
**= Team relegated from GHL
*=Team promoted from BHL
 
Change from last season in parenthesis.
 
 
 
Calculated on day 6 of S15, using:
 
Team OVR = (OFF + (DEF x 2) + (SG x 2))/26
 
where
OFF = Combined overall of 12 best centers/forwards
DEF = Combined overall of 6 best defenders
SG = Overall of starting goalie (best overall goalie in team)
 
In case of a tie for team best ovr skater, career performance rating for current league level was used as a tiebreaker. After that games played on current level, and then points.
 
Just applying Erzac's stuff here again.

Let's get this thread going.
 
For starters, I edited a brief video about one particular FA signing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElyPfax4Jt8
 
Guess there are other factors than just money...

What a final match! Congratulations Kim on another GHL championship!

Between Protons and the Vandals, you guys have won 8 of the last 10 GHL titles (6 Protons/2 Vandals) with Vandals trying to repeat.  
 
Trying to root for one of you in this series is like trying to decide which cousin I should try to kiss at the family reunion.  

haha, nope it was the sound of mine and my over helmed defence.
 
I think I will hang out in SHL a little more whit you Paul and Exxo, and with my 2 other relegated hawks friend, it will be the Savage hockey league

Congrat Elite, hope you best luck with next season in GHL and that you find a way to be top scoring team

haha, nope it was the sound of mine and my over helmed defence.
 
I think I will hang out in SHL a little more whit you Paul and Exxo, and with my 2 other relegated hawks friend, it will be the Savage hockey league

I thought it must've been an accident as the message log looked quite interesting. Hope you can get him back!

Thanks for understanding! Yeah, I sent him a PM and let's hope he has some manners want to thank Steven Bennett for taking his offer back after receiving a pm from me!

Makes sense, that's unlucky. I'm not offering him a contract as I would expect the same if it happened to me. Don't do anything you could get back to you, I would say. Unfortunately there is already 1 manager that offered him a contract. I'm not surprised though...

Clearly you didn't need him to beat me last night!  ha!  No worries.  I too thought it was odd, so glad I didn't add to the mistake.  

I want to thank Senet for understanding the situation and immediately withdrawing his offer as well!
 
Also thank you all for being such a great community and keeping it fair and respecting towards others. What a great game world we have!

As pointed out in this topic, a roster limit would either be too limiting, or high enough to be irrelevant. For example, I've 16 assigned players, 14 of which I signed from my prospect pool. That would be a roster of 34 just to have my own prospects in my own affiliates. Not to mention I like to keep 1-2 capable reserve players for each position in case of injuries. That's easily a roster of 40 without any hoarding.
 
However, as those prospects age, not all of them will make the main lineup. And it shouldn't be possible for me to lock them up into affiliates forever. Waivers would be the answer to that.
 
All in all, I'd support an age-based waiver system, along with a high roster limit, say around 50, just for the sake of having one.

I like the idea of a simple waiver system.  As a player can't be on a one way contract to be on an affiliate that makes it open season for them.
 
Rank from IIHL to GHL and let the team that could afford the player grab em.
 
I think that would stop any potential abuse and also help lower league teams potentially gain access to players they might not normally have a shot at.

What about a max contract limit? Should also help cut down on exploiting the computer in trades. Example 4 poor players for 1 good player.
 
A full roster for a team is 20 players. Maybe a max of 25 contracts?

The more i read this post and think about the affiliate system i am also starting to feel that the waivers would solve many issues.  Everything else that i have in my mind i have said it already in my previous messages in this post. 
 
From now i start wait and hope that this discussion would lead to some actions in near future. 

Waivers is a good idea. We should start doing that and see how it goes. I believe this will solve a lot of issues lower leagues have at the moment.

Waivers. Anybody sent to an affiliate above say 25 goes to waivers. Anybody of the same league or below interested sends in a claim. The team highest in the claim order gets the player. Very simple and straightforward.
 
 
 
Therein lies the problem. They have to make an offer. Knowing your trading tendencies your going to want something more than a throwaway contract. Not saying that you wouldn't make a deal like that happen more that others may be doing it to try to force trades for players. You know. Gather enough players to try to force a trade or get all the quality players and then try to work deals with lower teams. It is only a bad thing to have a high league team signing all of the quality players for lower leagues no matter if they try to trade them down or not. There is no reason that a SHL team should not be able to send a waiver claim for Baroni on my team, Sharp on yours or one of the many on Pegasus who seemingly can't offer enough contracts to FAs. Nobody should be able to collect players above a certain age (again say 24 or 25) and then without care send them to their affiliates without them going through waivers.

When i started This game i were in IHL league. By studying the game and trying to understand how the game engine works i was able to raise in GHL fairly quick.
 
Big part why i was able to succeed is because there was good selection of players in FA, and i knew what kind of players i need and want in my team. Don't get me wrong, i have never had a team that was good in player overalls. I have always been underdog by looking only the overalls. But in my opinion this game is much more than player overalls (were). Now the Fa is full off old players and players with super bad traits. If there would be a manager who would be able to climb to higher leagues knowledge wise but he is unable to do so because there is no players left to build even somewhat decent team, why would he bother to continue playing this game? Should he wait 4 seasons to get the players he needs from youth draft? and wait 4 more seasons that they develops enough to get in the team?
 
Managers who have played longer should not be awarded by cost of the lower league teams.
 
It would be great if there would be more leagues in the future, and much more teams in one server. But making that happen we need new players who wants to stick and commit in this game for long term. 
Its hard for me to think that anyone new would like to continue playing this game when they know that most likely they get ass kicked for the first 12 moths. And starting from LIHL climb to GHL looks unreal.
 
I really like the affiliate idea, and the fact that i can hold my drafted prospects and don't need to let them go in FA only because they weren't nearly ready in main team is awesome. But at the same time how the affiliate system works atm favors GHL way too much, i feel like i am winning by cheating now. And the fact that i cant even compete with another same league manager for FA players if he is getting the player in affiliate and i am not is REALLY negative.
 
Like i said this kinda feels like winning with cheats, i don't know about rest of you guys but for me this is not a positive effect.
 
Would be great to have a bigger community and player base for this game but its hard to imagine happening like this.

1. St. Thomas Stray Cats (Erzac "Erzac" Ray)
OFF: 85 DEF: 85 SG: 90 OVR: 85,2
 
2. Collegeville Rhinos (BOT)
OFF: 84 DEF: 85 SG: 91 OVR: 84,9
 
3. Cuba City Tomahawks (Benoit Desvignes)
OFF: 81 DEF: 83 SG:88 OVR: 82,1
 
4. Parkville Guardians (Matthew Henke)
OFF: 81 DEF: 83 SG: 85 OVR: 82,0
 
5. Lake Viking Bulldogs (Max Mol)
OFF: 82 DEF: 81 SG: 83 OVR: 81,8
 
6. Horseheads North Thundering Herd (Bear Doggit)
OFF: 81 DEF: 82 SG: 83 OVR: 81,7
 
7. House Aristocrats (Eetu "Arkko" Arkko)
OFF: 81 DEF: 82 SG: 81 OVR: 81,7
 
8. Sault Ste Marie Admirals (Jacques de Gatinau)
OFF: 81 DEF: 82 SG: 84 OVR: 81,7
 
9. Natashquan Mohawks (Brutality "BFGore" Fullgore)
OFF: 81 DEF: 82 SG: 85 OVR: 81,4
 
10. Blakely Black Flag (Xavier "EXXEO" O'Connor)
OFF: 81 DEF: 82 SG: 82 OVR: 81,3
 
11. Wildwood Thunder Cats (Torbjörn Johansson)
OFF: 81 DEF: 80 SG: 86 OVR: 81,0
 
12. Kingston Senator Kings (Ed "Edm" Matthews)
OFF: 80 DEF: 81 SG: 80 OVR: 80,6
 
13. Webbwood Victors (Juho "Keskustankeisari" Kainulainen)
OFF: 81 DEF: 80 SG: 83 OVR: 80,4
 
14. Bodmin Bangers (Sakari Lindholm)
OFF: 80 DEF: 80 SG: 81 OVR: 79,8
 
15. Fair Play Angels (Matt Atkins)
OFF: 80 DEF: 80 SG: 80 OVR: 79,7
 
16. Wintersville Union (BOT)
OFF: 78 DEF: 77 SG: 78 OVR: 77,7
 
 
Calculated on day 5 of S11, using:
 
Team OVR = (OFF + (DEF x 2) + (SG x 2))/26
 
where
OFF = Combined overall of 12 best centers/forwards
DEF = Combined overall of 6 best defenders
SG = Overall of starting goalie (best overall goalie in team)