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The Breakouts are for the first time in franchise history officially in the GHL playoffs! After my last post the team decided to drop the ball big time in the next 3 games losing all of them in regulation. Last game of the season and we really needed a W, against the tough Vandals. Great effort from my top 4 defenders and we managed to beat the 3rd place Vandals 7-4.
 
Management had set the goal for the season to stay in the GHL, trading away all of the draft picks for this years draft and it really seems to have paid off. Exceeding all expectations we're fighting for the ultimate price. Now the real struggle begins though as we have to face the league leading Mines Pegasus, team we only managed to beat once during regular season. Let's see what the young group is made of and best of luck to all teams in the playoffs - in every level of the world!

Once more it's down to the last game of the season to decide whether our team has to fight to stay or sits nice and cozy in 12th...Here we go Canucks!

Don't worry, the other 5 teams battling with you for that last playoff spot will all be rooting against you!  Go Elite!  haha.

So suddenly when the season seemed to be lost and my team dropping all the way to 14th place after a 5 game losing streak we have taken a turn and gone 6-1 during the last 7 games. And the last three games have all been shutouts with both goalies taking turns in the net, goal difference being 15-0. Seems like my guys really want to make the playoffs first season back to GHL. Hope we can keep this trend going when facing Protons next game!

So suddenly when the season seemed to be lost and my team dropping all the way to 14th place after a 5 game losing streak we have taken a turn and gone 6-1 during the last 7 games. And the last three games have all been shutouts with both goalies taking turns in the net, goal difference being 15-0. Seems like my guys really want to make the playoffs first season back to GHL. Hope we can keep this trend going when facing Protons next game!

Updated the team roster below! I used the rule of thumb for those with ambiguous last names like Lang that I assumed they were of Asian descent if they were of American/Canadian nationality - which doesn't completely resolve the discrepancy but helps alleviate some of the more obvious problems. Also realized I somehow missed Bob Honda, who would undoubtedly be the most decorated player on this team as not only a six-time GHL champion but also leading the GHL in scoring in Season 8.
 

 
 
Some other observations when I took a deeper dive into the players' backgrounds: 
There were 18 Americans and 12 Canadians out of all the players I found of Asian background (not all of them made the final roster since I only took the highest rated). 17 Chinese-Americans/Canadians which was by far the highest number, although again some surnames were difficult to assign to a single nationality Of these 17, there seemed to be a disproportionately high number from southern Cantonese-speaking parts of China with surnames such as Chan, Ly, Chow, etc.  6 Vietnamese-Americans/Canadians, which again was higher than I expected Only 7 total of Japanese or Korean descent, which was lower than I anticipated. Although this may be due to the ambiguity of some surnames, I was still surprised not to see many given their relative prevalence in real life Not a lot of common surnames - for example, it was surprising not to find a Li, Kim, or Chen to name just a few while we had much rarer surnames appear. However, I have seen more common surnames such as Xu and Zhang in other game worlds (UAT Mitts, Dangles) Also put together a quick mock lineup based on rating/handedness:
 
Forwards
Honda - Yao - S. Do
Sin - Bui - Wan
Pon - C. Do - Jung
Ly - Yi - Chan
Loy
 
Defensemen
Vu - Lao
Chow - Osano
Lang - Noda
Noto
 
Goalies
Yu
Chin
Le
 
Not a typical-sounding lineup at all!

There's much more to a players value than just his overall rating. Thus I don't think the suggestion would work as is, but I like the idea of somehow limiting the trades with computers when it comes to having it be a win-win both ways of the deal.

There's much more to a players value than just his overall rating. Thus I don't think the suggestion would work as is, but I like the idea of somehow limiting the trades with computers when it comes to having it be a win-win both ways of the deal.

1. West Chicago Protons (Richard "bouncer" Feynman)
OFF: 89 DEF: 93 SG: 96 OVR: 91,6
 
2. Portland Marauders (Xavier "xZhou" Zhou)
OFF: 89 DEF: 92 SG: 92 OVR: 90,8
 
3. Deadwood Vandals (Kim "koekefix" Vandaele)
OFF: 89 DEF: 91: SG: 95 OVR: 90,5
 
4. Harrisonville Sabercats (Hurja "HurjaHerra" Herra)
OFF: 90 DEF: 90 SG: 95 OVR: 90,3
 
5. Canmore Grizzlies (Matt "themattinthehat" Muffett)
OFF: 88 DEF: 91 SG: 92 OVR: 90,0
 
6. Richford Rebels (Jusu "Jusu5" Manager)
OFF: 88 DEF: 92 SG: 90 OVR: 89,8
 
7. Cedar Rapids Minutemen (Richard "rainsilent" Armour)
OFF: 88 DEF: 91 SG: 93 OVR: 89,6
 
8. Eldred Elite (Steven "sbb11578" Bennett)
OFF: 88 DEF: 90 SG: 93 OVR: 89,6
 
9. St. Thomas Stray Cats (Erzac "Erzac" Ray)
OFF: 89 DEF: 90 SG: 92 OVR: 89,6
 
10. Thetford Mines Pegasus (Anthony "Pingu" Grauwels)
OFF: 89 DEF: 89 SG: 94 OVR: 89,3
 
11. Buckingham Breakouts (Jussi "jusatin" Ahonen)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 95 OVR: 88,8
 
12. Violet Volcano (Soupy Salez)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 88,8
 
13. York Wolf Pack (Jiri "jiihee" Heikkala)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 92 OVR: 88,5
 
14. Natashquan Mohawks (Brutality "BFGore" Fullgore)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 94 OVR: 88,2
 
15. Sault Ste Marie Admirals (Jacques de Gatineau)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 90 OVR: 87,3
 
16. Pinehurst Miners (Phoenix "phoenixtf" TF)
OFF: 86 DEF: 87 SG: 95 OVR: 87,2
 
Calculated on day 5 of S13, 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)

There was an old NES sports game that ran a headline after each game that was sort of related to how well you are performing.  With Anders' much more sophisticated system here, it would be a fun little addition:  "Elite lose 6th straight, fans want the manager fired!"  
 
It'd be even better if it was customized some how about how so and so had a great game, Player X was booed loudly, and The Goalie had the best game of the season!  It'd add more fun than the Asst Reports, I think, but maybe that is what I am doing wrong!  haha.

My team is very generous and full of thoughtful players...glad we could assist by getting the snot beat out of us today

After another incredible season in SHL The Breakouts have made sure to get promoted back to GHL. Winning 28 of 31 games (28-1-2) with 4 games remaining on the season and a secure 24 points lead to the 3rd team in the SHL the management can be happy. Now it's time to start the Christmas sale.

After another incredible season in SHL The Breakouts have made sure to get promoted back to GHL. Winning 28 of 31 games (28-1-2) with 4 games remaining on the season and a secure 24 points lead to the 3rd team in the SHL the management can be happy. Now it's time to start the Christmas sale.
 
Everyone who is not untouchable is up for grabs and basically goes away for free. Don't want to take dead weight with me to the GHL. Just send me an offer and I'll see the deal go through.

After another incredible season in SHL The Breakouts have made sure to get promoted back to GHL. Winning 28 of 31 games (28-1-2) with 4 games remaining on the season and a secure 24 points lead to the 3rd team in the SHL the management can be happy. Now it's time to start the Christmas sale.
 
Everyone who is not untouchable is up for grabs and basically goes away for free. Don't want to take dead weight with me to the GHL. Just send me an offer and I'll see the deal go through.

^^^^ Tho you could get lucky with a undrafted prospect, thought it gets more rare the higher you are. I personally miss the times when I could go to LIHL get some 47ovr young guns that no one wanted and ride with them till GHL.

I think we're in the clear, I performed an upgrade.

I echo TheWeekKnights' statements.
 
Since the mud slinging continues, this thread is now locked.

I understand that it’s not very obvious what impact the player profile has, but that’s also by design. It’s not supposed to be too obvious - but at the same time obvious enough so that you can use your common hockey sense to figure things out. And as I can see in this topic so far, you’re already on the right track. However, I have been asked to give a comment on this matter and I’d be happy to. I won’t reveal any secrets but hopefully I can shed some light on this.
 First, it’s important to understand that the player profile is not only used to impact the player’s game performance. It will also influence things like team culture, happiness/unhappiness triggers, retirement age, contract negotiations and demands (including choice of team). When it comes to game performance the player profile will play an important role (it can be the difference between a win and a loss) but it will only act as an addition to the player’s original skill level. That means that if your player’s skill level is high enough it can compensate for his bad profile. But as mentioned above the profile will influence other parts of the game (culture, happiness, etc.) which in its own turn can lead to a bad game performance. Also, both high and low values can be of benefit in different situations. It’s a complex system, just like it should be. And now to RNG. As Rainsilent pointed out I don’t believe there is any good way to exclude random numbers from any game. Depending on what meaning you put into the word random I believe there’s a random factor present even in real life. A top sniper wont score 1 million goals on a 1 million shots even with an empty net. He would probably miss at least one . But I promise you this, there are NO complete random numbers in this game. All actions will be based on skill, trait or other ratings to decide if an action is a success or failure.

I understand your point, jusatin. I also thought about the NTs being completely independent with no effect on player and that might be easier to implement. On the other hand the NT games might be played only in silly/pre-season, where no team games are played and thus the player will not miss any time in your team and experience/confidence boost might over-weight the injury chance. 

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!

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!

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.
 

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!

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!

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!