Steve

Yes, I remember having a Susan and a Jessica on my team!  It was even more fun to say them with Russian accents.  I pretended that due to translation error, they filled out the visa form incorrectly.  

Cool, Paul! I guess we need a nationality filter... NOW!
 
Btw. the names for Czech and Slovak are mixed up - many Slovaks in the game sound Czech and vice versa (Kantárik is very good example of that). But I don't mind and I guess most of people wouldn't see the difference Back in the prototype all Russians had ladies names, that was hilarious

Amazing idea for a post!  Love this type of stuff. 
 
Although I am from the United States, I am of 100% Italian descent.  Therefore I have put a team full of Italians together.  Forza Azzurri!  And even though we would probably get relegated to IHL by mid-season, we have the most beautifully sounding team.
 
CENTER
 
Federico Lavezzi - 33 yo - 83 OVR - L (Vandals GHL)
Salvatore Zanetti - 24 yo - 79 OVR - L (Grizzlies GHL)
Alberto Edu - 24 yo - 78 OVR - L (Guardians SHL)
Laurent Diego Alves - 27 yo - 77 OVR - R (Broncos BHL)
 
FORWARD
 
Cesare Scoppa - 36 yo - 83 OVR - R (Wolf Pack GHL)
Giampaolo Mingazzini - 32 yo - 81 OVR - L (RUHL)
Ivan Caggiano - 27 yo - 78 OVR - R (Eagles BHL)
Fabio Chris - 24 yo - 78 OVR - L (Union SHL)
Moussa Gastaldello - 36 yo - 77 OVR - L (Mohawks SHL)
Trevor Trotta - 24 yo - 77 OVR - R (Thunder Cats SHL)
Marco Bellusci - 21 yo - 76 OVR - L (Minutemen GHL)
Felice Curci - 27 yo - 75 OVR - L (CHHL)
 
DEFENSE
 
Davis Bonanni - 35 yo - 87 OVR - R (Breakouts GHL)
Federico Pozzi - 23 yo - 81 OVR - L (Thunder Cats SHL)
Simone Stefanutto - 30 yo - 79 OVR - L (CHHL)
Leandro Gi Gennaro - 23 yo - 77 OVR - R (Union SHL)
Mathieu Lorenzetti - 27 yo - 73 OVR - R (CZHL)
Daniele Ustari - 20 yo - 72 OVR - L (Battlin Bears IHL)
 
GOALIE
 
Alessio Floccari - 32 yo - 86 OVR - L (Mohawks SHL)
Maximiliano Riso - 37 yo - 80 OVR - L (CHHL)
Leandro De Muner - 28 yo - 80 OVR - L (Eagles BHL)
 
 
 
* I realize I did not follow the 6-10-8-3 roster format, but I could only click through so many pages to field a full team.  Ha!

Great goalies, really shitty defense, Erzac    But it is actually slightly better than what I was excepting from single European country. Maybe one can make at least Sweden, Finland and Russia + the rest of the Europe teams. 

Hi everyone,
 
I thought it would be cool to create national teams. I started off with Canada and USA as they have the biggest pool of players to select from. Please note that this is just a shortlist I created and what I thought are the best OVR players in Biscuit. I changed some centers to forward as they would be better in that position ofcourse.
 
Please feel free to change or discuss the teams. And if you want to create one of your own or from another country, that would be nice as well. So I always selected 6 centers, 10 forwards, 8 defenders and 3 goalies.
 
 
I wonder how these teams would end up in a best of seven :-)
 
CANADA
 
CENTER Collin McCarthy - 28 yrs old - 89 OVR (Protons) LAbbas Gelinas - 30 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) RNolan Daugherty - 36 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) LCurtis Luck - 30 yrs old - 89 OVR (Wolf Pack) RAndres Forest-Marin - 31 yrs old - 89 OVR (Sabercats) LZack Kite - 30 yrs old - 89 OVR (Trojans) L FORWARD Noah Arbour - 28 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) RSimon-Pier Byers - 20 yrs old - 91 OVR (Volcano) LMarc Bozanic - 27 yrs old - 91 OVR (Grizzies) LAlex Howie - 33 yrs old - 90 OVR (Pegasus) LJulien Inukpuk - 30 yrs old - 93 OVR (Rebels) RJoseph Hatfield - 22 yrs old - 90 OVR (Sabercats) LIzaak Letemplier - 27 yrs old - 92 OVR (Sabercats) REloi McCoshen - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Elite) LSebastian Guyard - 32 yrs old - 91 OVR (Trojans) LJulian Lisi - 33 yrs old - 91 OVR (Trojans) R DEFENSE Adrien Berrouard - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Protons) LCarmelo Pregent - 36 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) LFelix Kiolet - 22 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) LLoick Bulloch - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Minutemen) LGhali Tadros - 34 yrs old - 96 OVR (Volcano) RTomas Francois - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Grizzlies) LRichard Fahy - 34 yrs old - 94 OVR (Marauders) LJesse Fiore - 27 yrs old - 94 OVR (Wolf Pack) LElliot Holden - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Rebels) LNathaniel Poirier-Ladouceur - 19 yrs old - 94 OVR (Rebels) R  GOALIE Justin Yu - 21 yrs old - 95 OVR (Vandals) LElliot Birch - 35 yrs old - 93 OVR (Elite) LAdem Malette - 18 yrs old - 94 OVR (Miners) L __________ USA CENTER Alan Council - 23 yrs old - 90 OVR (Protons) RNicholaus Pearl - 32 yrs old - 89 OVR (Vandals) RDuran Doerr - 31 yrs old - 90 OVR (Marauders) LCruz Lopez - 25 yrs old - 90 OVR (Pegasus) LJoshua Eldred - 34 yrs old - 90 OVR (Elite) LEugene Villasenor - 32 years old - 90 OVR (Stray Cats) L FORWARD Bob Honda - 33 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) LCarson Corn - 28 yrs old - 90 OVR (Vandals) LJonathan Crossett - 32 yrs old - 88 OVR (Volcano) LAngelo Sledge - 28 yrs old - 92 OVR (Grizzlies) LRickey Mulhern - 31 yrs old - 92 OVR (Grizzlies) LAron Welcome - 28 yrs old - 88 OVR (Marauders) LBrett Arrieta - 24 yrs old - 90 OVR (Marauders) LNorman Mohan - 34 yrs old - 90 OVR (White Ice) RDougie Furman - 26 yrs old - 88 OVR (Sabercats) RMatthew Sontag - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Sabercats) R DEFENSE Ashton Lindsay - 27 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) LJeremy Hawks - 32 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) RGerald Cale - 29 yrs old - 89 OVR (Vandals) LNoah Bramble - 29 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) LShane Helms - 19 yrs old - 90 OVR (Minutemen) LLeonardo Adame - 27 yrs old - 93 OVR (Minutemen) RSone Friedel - 21 yrs old - 91 OVR (Marauders) RLamont Teed - 28 yrs old - 90 OVR (Rebels) LZavon Mellor - 29 yrs old - 94 OVR (Elite) LZachary Rish - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Trojans) L GOALIE Jonathan Ormsby - 22 yrs old - 93 OVR (Minutemen) LJeffrey Hanrahan - 26 yrs old - 92 OVR (Marauders) LLenell Wax - 27 yrs old - 92 OVR (White Ice) L    * EDIT: Added Eugene Villasenor from Stray Cats in Team USA (replaced Boller from Sabercats)

Managed to squeeze out a new SHL record with 149 points. Hopefully the form carries over into GHL.

The past few weeks I have made a numerous releases to the UAT, since there have been mostly bug fixes and behind the scenes improvements I haven't released any info regarding its contents. But in today's release there has been a small UI change of the world info worth mentioning. So here's the complete change log so far.
 
World info and countdown is now clickable to reveal more detailed info regarding upcoming events When world is simulating (flashing SIMULATING) more info regarding estimated finish is available when clicked More detailed team finances/salary cap info Player development will slow down if assigned to too low affiliate level Player may be unhappy if assigned to affiliate even if on two way contract Improved and more individualistic player regression Fixed bug where team standings could be become unsync Fixed bug where manager name was displayed as Computer on team history Fixed bug where salary cap wasn't updated correctly when trading for affiliate assigned players Fixed bug where goalie stats wasn't correctly updated when assigned to affiliate Fixed bug where injured players still could be auto assigned to lineup in games Fixed bug where players could play games for more than one team at once Fixed bug where player stats could not be sorted on BKS (Blocked shots) Fixed bug where a player wasn't rewarded a league achievement if released before season end  Fixed small typo Note. This is not the complete list for the upcoming v1.3.2. There's still a few more things planned. I'm aiming for a release to the official game worlds in early October.

I'm sure it is already common knowledge that teams get a boost when playing at home.  I decided to do some quick research into how much of an advantage the home crowd gives their team. I know there are many variables that could affect this such as injuries, starting goalies, etc - but my results seemed directionally consistent.
 
First, I took a look at home winning percentages for all GHL, SHL & BHL teams.  For the purpose of a percentage, I considered OT/SO win a win and OT/SO loss a loss.  The average home record and win percentages are below.
 
GHL:  11 - 2 - 2 - 8 = 56%
SHL:  12 - 2 - 1 - 7 = 63%
BHL:  12 - 1 - 1 - 9 = 56%
 
Second, I took a look at my own team's history to determine how my home record compared to my overall record.  For example, my Win % this year is 80%.  My home Win & is 83%.  An advantage of 3%.  Last year, my Win % was 72% and my home Win % was 83%.  An advantage of 11%.  When averaged out from Season 1 - 11, my average home ice advantage was 6%.  This falls in line with the GHL/BHL results above where home ice seems to add a 6% advantage.  SHL seems to be the outlier.
 
Finally, I tallied all goals scored in BHL this year (I did BHL since that's the league I'm in).  On average, the home team is scoring 3.8 goals per game, while the visiting team is scoring 3.3 goals per game.  The home team is scoring 53% of the goals.  I did the same for GHL and the results were 2.66 Home for 2.27 Away.  The home team is scoring 54% of the goals.  These numbers seem a bit lower than the first two sets of results. 
 
For now, until I have a chance to do more research and understanding that there are many variables that could sway these numbers, I will conclude that the home team gains a roughly 5% advantage.
 

So there is a team in GHL Howitzer that has just shifted to being run by a computer. The team has a stud centerman that every team would be interested in acquiring. Full disclosure, I have submitted an offer as well, I'm not trying to yell to the masses on my high horse, I'm just as tainted as every other manager that is trying to acquire this player. 
 
The way I view this situation is that it is possible right now to acquire this player. I don't think any manager is submitting an offer with the intent of circumvent the rules of this game or cheat the game, myself included. It's purely that this player is going to be moved and in a competitive sense everyone would like to be on the receiving end of this transaction as opposed to seeing him go to someone they are competing with.
 
Now that being said I had conversations with the previous manager about what it would take to create a deal for this player and he flat out said he would never move him. So in that respect you could put this player's true value as immovable, so really we are all cheating by trying to acquiring because we feel we could make this deal go through because it is with a computer instead of an actual person managing this team.
 
I am fully aware that everything written above is a transparent attempt to try and validate myself making a deal for a player that would never be moved. I would sell my soul for a 20 year old franchise centerman. With that being the case, I don't like what this situation has created in terms of a bunch of managers whom we all communicate amongst each other, I haven't seen any of the other managers cheat the game, nor have I intentionally tried to. But we are all human and at our core we will cut down a neighbor's tree if we can get some more sunlight in our own yard. 
 
So my idea is for some form of a trade lock on computer GHL teams. These are teams that generally have a strong core, maybe a few prospects and those holy grail esque GHL draft picks. If there was a trade lock on GHL teams it would leave them open for experienced managers, maybe from a different game world, maybe managers looking for a new job or challenge, to come in and take control. At the very least maybe give a team like a twenty day (game world day) trade lock buffer after becoming a CPU so maybe a new manager can step in to acquire a team that is a true GHL team and not the carcass of what it once was.
 
 
 
 
**Few side notes, if you made it the whole way through, I'm sorry for my rambling. I didn't want my point or purpose to be misconstrued. Also I know the topic of computer trades is a hot debate, I am not trying to spark up another pissing match, I just thought that this particular situation should be addressed.**
 
ncik
 
 
 

Hello all,
 
Just tossing my two cents here regarding the transfer market search functions.  We can look as this as a complete overhaul/update OR make it a Supporter/All-Star function and that could help drive some players to support as well.
 
Categories:
Filter by League Level Filter by Character Trait Filter by Height Filter by Weight Filter by classification (Powerforward, Sniper, Twoway) Search by Name League Level - This could be to look up prospects that are within your tier or above for trading purposes.
Character Trait - Helps narrow down the type of player you want
Height - Definitely helps narrow down your size range
Weight - Same as above
Classification - Looking for a Two-Way Forward?  Here's your candidates.  BUT the catch here is that some players may have a primary and be able to fill some secondary roles.  Your responsibility to dig here.
Search by Name - Good way to find a player you're looking for specifically.  
 
 
Just my two cents

Are any teams actually getting any streaks (besides cold) this season?  I'm wondering if it is because GHL teams, with only a couple exceptions on both ends, are fairly equal.  I also feel like no matter what I do at this point, I'm going to get the same results.  

That's really great to see, thanks for the effort! I guess this explains some of the weird outcomes of the games when you need to travel across the continent in less than 24 hours. Would make anyone tired!

This map is awesome!  Although I'm a little biased since I'm a Geography major.
 
And yes, Deferiet is a tiny...and I mean *tiny*...town in Upstate New York, not far from the Thousand Islands and the Canadian Border.

Yes, this is purely based on the team's selected city, not where the actual manager is located.  That's what got me thinking about it - I had no idea where Deferiet was.  Turns out it is in NY.  I figured I'd do the GHL first since most managers remain with their teams and the city isn't changed too often.  With all the managers on holiday in BHL, who will probably get fired soon, it would have to be updated multiple times per season.  Maybe I'll just keep the GHL updated year over year... that will give me some incentive to promote!

I started looking into team/city locations out of curiosity.  Being a visual guy who digs graphics, I decided to pull a map together.  Below is a map of all GHL teams.    If I get more free time I may do SHL/BHL.  Enjoy.
 

Ladies and germs, and most specifically,
 all of the GHL managers who were boasting how great they are in these forums a few months ago. 
 
    We will be abandoning our Cursed franchise: Culdesac Valkyries (SHL).
After 21 years of failure to promote from the SHL to GHL; we give up. 
 
    Muscled-out of 2nd place with 2 games left, by a franchise with 9 lvl90+ players, 
then drop-kicked in the playoffs by a team with lvl 78 and 80 centres,low yellow team winner-instinct, 
and their best two D-men injured.  Oh you say: just a stroke of bad luck. Wrong.  
It's been similar uncanny, unbelievable bad luck for 21 frigging seasons.  
Including another one after being in 2nd all season, losing game 60 to the 16th place team to fall into 3rd, then again bounced by the 6th place team in the playoffs.  
Also multiple other playoff debacles, untimely injuries, monkeys in the dressing-room, you name it.  
 
    So: we give-up.  We will abandon the team, and try to get the 16th place team in the LIHL to start-over again. 
 Here is your challenge: take-over this Cursed franchise, and prove without any doubt, 
and for all to behold, that you are indeed the best GPHM manager in all of Lumber. 
You will have to abandon your GHL team, and no: we don't want it.
 
Send us an in-game message, to express your interest, or ask any questions.

Hoping to build a line like NES Ice Hockey; two skinny guys, one fatty, and a medium!  

Amazing, first day without any injury in 30 days. Let's hope I just didn't jinx it.

This one is not really a single new suggestion, but an amalgamation of a bunch of previous trading suggestions that I think would vastly improve trading and is somewhat needed. I just happen to be doing this because I've gotten a few trade offers recently with random picks thrown in exchange for a bunch of extra minor league players who don't look like they'll ever compete on my team but then am unable to remove the picks from the trade which annoys me to no end. 
 
Suggestion #1: Let draft picks be removed from trades. I think I've typed it before, but I can't find it in suggestions so it's probably somewhere hidden in bugs. This is the straw that broke the camels back and I don't think much else needs to be said.
 
Suggestion #2: Track previous trade offers. It's been suggested in the past here http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7261-track-trade-offers/ and here http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/5260-trade-partnershistory/  by Wingedbeaver and themattinthehat. Trade offers/negotiations can sometimes take days or even weeks. People forget what has previously been offered and sometimes accidentally send the same offer a second time. Sure people can right stuff down, but most people don't and notes can accidentally be thrown away or deleted after a little while. Another current option is to pm the person and negotiate through private messages before committing a trade, but that can take a long time and it's easier to have trade talks alongside a screen where I can quickly scan every player in a trade versus having to look and find each player on a team.
 
An addition to this suggestions would be to let people add notes to their trades and counteroffers. Let people quickly explain why they made/like/dislike a certain part of a trade and let managers see these notes along with the previous negotiations.
 
Suggestion #3: Transfer/trade needs. 
http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/5152-transfer-needs/ - canucks
http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/4421-trade-section/ - Victoria Royals
 
Essentially these suggestions just want to expand the current Trade Wants/Needs for teams. Let teams specify that there looking for that defensive forward with 85 defense and 80 spirit rather than the broad "two-way forward" suggestions right now. Also, it should be possible for teams to specify that they're looking to rebuild and acquire draft picks rather than limiting it wants to prospects. Personally, I consider a team looking specifically for draft picks to be just starting a rebuild and looking for star players while teams that just want prospects are finishing their rebuild and just wanting that extra good guy or two that they can lock up for a long time.
 
Suggestion #4: Grand trade want/need page. I wish that there to be a page with all teams that we can trade with so that we can easily see who would be good trading partners. Baden's suggestions here http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/8076-trade-needs/ is similar and gets a little more specific. I'm pretty sure his idea is if he has a player he wants to trade away (say a goalie) for something more need, he can filter away to all teams that would definitely want to acquire that certain goalie and/or would be already willing to give him the type of player that he is after.
 
Suggestion #5: Let us set certain picks & prospects as unavailable.
http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7443-let-picks-and-prospects-be-untouchable-or-on-trade-block/ - ineffableleafs
We have all most of us have all had that pick or prospect that everybody wants but we are completely unwilling to trade it away for whatever reason. Let us just lock it/him away so that we don't get pointless offers and don't accidentally waste other people's time. Besides a locked pick/guy can always be unlocked through a PM.
 
Suggestion #6: Retained salary. 
http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7288-trading-retain-salary/ - ineffableleafs
It just adds an extra element to trades as well as open up more realistic possiblities for those guys that are signed for just a little bit too much.
 
In my opinion, implementing some/all of these suggestions are important enough that they should get added in v1.3X. Of course I'd love to hear everybody else's opinion on the matter.

The hotfix have been temporarily removed since it caused a couple of new problems with the simulator. I will make a new hotfix soon.

Bug confirmed and fixed. Hotfix have just been installed. Thanks for the report.

Yeah, I haven't had a goalie injury in a long time. I did get a guy that had a concussion down in the affiliate team this season though. I haven't been monitoring my affiliate team fitness well though so for all I know that Goalie could have passed out from exhaustion mid-game and hit his head on the crossbar!

A week later and I happen to get a screenshot to show you with an injured goaltender.

A link to the player or even team might help.
 
 
IDK, this guy traded me a draft pick. I am not sure any alter ego of mine would do such a thing for anything less than a fortune. 

I would recommend not making a habit of unbalanced trades as it will effect your trade "reputation" in the game and it could potentially flag you after repeated occasions. But like I said, person to person interactions I wouldn't worry about...unless your "friend" is really just your own alter ego