koekefix

Hi everyone,
 
Just a minor suggestion.
 
How about a cooldown period for managers that want to change teams? For instance manager X taking control over team A, 10 days later when team B is available he/she wants to take control over team B. Maybe because that team is in a higher league or has better players or whatsoever.
 
I have seen this happen a couple of times with the same manager. Don't get me wrong, I like the addition of extra managers but I think it would be better if there is a cooldown period for changing teams. This way we give everyone else the chance to change teams and avoid teams getting badly managed or making it a mess.
 
Cheers,
 
K

Hi everyone,
 
Just a minor suggestion.
 
How about a cooldown period for managers that want to change teams? For instance manager X taking control over team A, 10 days later when team B is available he/she wants to take control over team B. Maybe because that team is in a higher league or has better players or whatsoever.
 
I have seen this happen a couple of times with the same manager. Don't get me wrong, I like the addition of extra managers but I think it would be better if there is a cooldown period for changing teams. This way we give everyone else the chance to change teams and avoid teams getting badly managed or making it a mess.
 
Cheers,
 
K

Hi everyone,
 
Just a minor suggestion.
 
How about a cooldown period for managers that want to change teams? For instance manager X taking control over team A, 10 days later when team B is available he/she wants to take control over team B. Maybe because that team is in a higher league or has better players or whatsoever.
 
I have seen this happen a couple of times with the same manager. Don't get me wrong, I like the addition of extra managers but I think it would be better if there is a cooldown period for changing teams. This way we give everyone else the chance to change teams and avoid teams getting badly managed or making it a mess.
 
Cheers,
 
K

Great to see that some things never change on FA. Overpaying players is the trick.

Great to see that some things never change on FA. Overpaying players is the trick.

A pre release of the affiliate teams feature has been made on the UAT today! Check below for more info. Please report back any bugs to this topic (not the bugs section). Have fun!
 The pre release contains the followingAffiliate leagues AAHL, AAHL 2 and AAHL 3 (new) Create up to two affiliate teams. Affiliate team levels Professional, SemiProfessional or Amateur. (Eligible levels depend on your team level) Affiliate teams will be using the same tactics as your own team. Assign and recall players to your affiliates. Only players with two way contracts (not having the one way contract clause) may be assigned. Salary cap impact. Assigned player’s salary will only count as a tenth against your team’s salary cap when assigned. New user setting on how to display assigned players on your roster. Assignments and recalls generates transaction logs  Other improvements and bug fixesThe previous AMHL and AMHL 2 (American Minor Hockey Leagues) has been renamed to USMHL (United States Minor Hockey League) to not be mixed up with the AAHL leagues. Simulator improvements to fix the delayed simulation problems.  How to get going with affiliate teamsCreate and view affiliate teams by using the Action menu on your team page Assign/Recall players by using the Action menu on that player’s page

Welcome to Biscuit. Best of luck and if you need any help do not hesitate to ask! :-)

Hi everyone,
 
I'm Brian and I'm managing the Okauchee Lake Bears in the IHL.  I was able to get promoted last season due in large part to a well assembled team by the previous manager.  So now into the fire of trying to figure this game out.  Good luck all.
 
 

Hi everybody!
 
I'm Balazs Szabo from Hungary. I have never played any online game, but I like the manager games very much, so I have decided to try this interesting simulation.
 
I'm competing in the Lower Iron Hockey League with the Torrington Thunderbolts, and after the relegation I'm looking forward to a very difficult season, because I need to learn the basics of this game, after the team rebuilding.
 
I wish you the best of luck for the season ahead!

Nice initiative Erzac!

To combat some Monday boredom, I went ahead and calculated some average overall stats from GHL teams. Overall doesn't of course paint the full picture of a player's capabilities, and thus is only a vague approximation of what a team can do, but it's the only easily available number for comparison.
 
Team overalls here are comprised of the average of a team's best 18 skaters (12 centers/forwards, 6 defenders) and the starting goalie. OFF/DEF come from the same players, but are simply rounded up/down to the closest full number for clarity. SG is simply the assumed starting goalie (best overall). Calculations made on day 5 of S10.
 
Here are the numbers - teams are in order starting from best OVR.
 
1.  West Chicago Protons (GM: Richard Feynman - bouncer)
OFF: 89 DEF: 91 SG: 95 OVR: 89,5
 
2.  Deadwood Vandals (GM: Kim Vandaele - koekefix)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 88,4
 
3.  Harrisonville Sabercats (GM: Hurja Herra)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 88 OVR: 87,6
 
4.  Rome Trojans (GM: Yann Rock)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 87,5
 
5.  Cedar Rapids Minutemen (GM: Richard Armour)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 93 OVR: 87,1
 
6.  Eldred Elite (GM: Steven Bennett)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 93 OVR: 87,0
 
7.  Canmore Grizzlies (GM: Matt Muffett - themattinthehat)
OFF: 86 DEF: 87 SG: 91 OVR: 86,9
 
8.  Moapa Valley Gothic Knights (GM: David Chaw - FTW)
OFF: 87 DEF: 87 SG: 90 OVR: 86,9
 
9.  Richford Rebels (GM: Jusu Manager)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 89 OVR: 86,9
 
10. St.Thomas Stray Cats (GM: Erzac Ray - Erzac)
OFF: 87 DEF: 87 SG: 90 OVR: 86,8
 
11. Portland Oilers (GM: Xavier Zhou - xZhou)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 86,6
 
12. York Wolf Pack (GM: Jiri Heikkala)
OFF: 85 DEF: 87 SG: 93 OVR: 86,2
 
13. Violet Volcano (GM: Soupy Salez)
OFF: 85 DEF: 88 SG: 92 OVR: 86,1
 
14. Thetford Mines Pegasus (GM: Anthony Grauwels - Pingu)
OFF: 85 DEF: 86 SG: 89 OVR: 85,5
 
15. Oshawa Dynasty Heroes (GM: Kris Zenatik - Euph)
OFF: 85 DEF: 85 SG: 86 OVR: 84,7
 
16. Collegeville Rhinos (BOT)
OFF: 85 DEF: 82 SG: 90 OVR: 84,4

Haha, you say that now until you play him in a few days!  ;-)  
 
But honestly, a solid team and season he built this year, even if I was not successful in trying to sabotage it with the trade he accepted, haha.  

Congrats to Koekefix and his Vandals!

Amazed by the draft order again. Every year it's the same. My team is always getting the bad RNG in the draft. Luckily I traded with Wolf Pack for a higher pick or I would be getting my annual 16th pick, even though I'm not in first place. Oh the irony, even the pick I got from Wolf pack is 2 places lower than expected... And here I am thinking the draft order is random. Although I see almost the same teams getting higher picks as expected every year.
 
/Stop the salt.

It's going to be hard to fix already affected teams I'm afraid. I'll try to fix this bug as soon as possible to prevent more damage.

FTW: Well, you basically answered your question:
"also because I need to clear some Cap Salary..."
 
This problem is not that you paid much (it was only quantity for quality), but that you got superstar (number 2 forward in this whole game world) for players that are basically useless for you, but nicely lowered your salary (exactly as you needed). I pushed the button and as this was clear to me, I did not wanted to ask you - no answer from you would change what I think about the trade, it would be lost time for both sides. 
Try to get similar trade for Chovanec - you will see the answer from Trojans. Might be laugh, might be polite no, but clearly NO. Unfortunately, the CPU takes quantity for quality if this is better in the trade meter. That is why any trade with CPU, where many players for few, means very suspicious trade.

Because I mentioned names here once and got everything fired back. 
About Yu, I was waiting for someone to mention this trade. When Senet asked me his first round pick back we settled things straight. I even gave him more before I traded for the pick. The trade with Yu (his 1st round pick) was more than fair. I gave up a lot to get Yu and I think in the end with that first trade for the 1st round pick and the trade for Yu, it was an unbalanced trade for me.

Steve, your trade was ok. If trade is between two managers (with no complete newbie), then it is almost all the time ok - the trade meter will take care of bad trades. Obviously there might be small portion of trades where the two know each other (or it is multi-account) and one team aims to boost the other, but that is also easy to recognize (and I don't think somebody like this is in GHL/SHL right now).
 
The more I think about it, the more I am for complete ban of trades with CPU teams. Easy solution (if you are only human in your league level, get a friend or leave for different world - it is boring to be alone anyway). Only CPU-CPU can be allowed. Over 90% of shady business is Human-CPU and report button is also dangerous as it seems to me that one gets message when it is pushed without any human cross-check that it is not just angry click from team that lost to you (why someone wanted to push it for you?).
 
This will make this game so much better and cheating is usually the critical point of such type of manager game - either you can solve it and you have most of the managers happy and clean, or you will fail to deal with it and the game is ruined for many. 
 
Also I wonder - are there any reverted trades? I noticed that Rhinos are now again CPU as the new "manager" got a lot of reports, I assume, but why the hell aren't the trades reverted? If somebody takes over of a team for a week, makes 10 CPU trades and then is banned, those trades should be automatically reverted - no questions asked.

I got reported yesterday (two days ago/Tuesday night EST), which was odd since the only trade I did was with Kim (Vandals, he twisted my arm, haha) which was pretty even up.  Personally, I would rather just have someone message me if they felt I was doing something wrong and hell, maybe offer me a more fair trade, or explain why they feel I am cheating.  
 
I do find that our self policing mostly works, but there are times when it just makes sense to do a "bad trade".  For instance, my goaltending situation has hardly improved in the past 2-3 seasons for despite my best faith in my guys, find myself wanting to find an out.  If I am willing to sweeten the deal to get a deal through, neither I nor the recipient should be blamed.  I realize this is different than some of the matters discussed above by Rich, but perhaps we need to start naming names to give people a chance (both parties and jury members) to explain why they believe it is or isn't an unfair trade.  I have seen that blow up here, most notably with SHL teams and certain team hopping managers, but to get an email from the system accusing me of cheating and/or my account locked for just making an offer, feels a lot like being "guilty until proven innocent."  We're all adults here and if you can't defend your trade, even if lopsided, then we probably don't want you in Biscuit anyways.  

Hi everyone,
 
 
This topic is created to talk about season 9 in GW Biscuit. Post your experiences, predictions, and everything you want to share about this season. 
 
After 2 days in GHL there are 2 teams unbeaten: Scandinavia Skyhawks and Moapa Valley Gothic Knights. CPU team Collegeville Rhinos is currently in 3rd place with 1W and 1OTW. Will the Rhinos stay in the GHL? 
 
Today is the 3rd game of the season and there are some very interesting games coming up. I'm looking forward to these games:
 
Minutemen - Trojans
Grizzlies - Protons
Volcano - Rhinos
 
Minutemen, Trojans, Grizzlies and Protons are all top teams that have been in the playoffs almost every year now. Volcano is currently in a 2 game losing streak and needs those points at home against CPU team Rhinos. To be continued! 

Senet with another user?

Well, Vandals squeaked by GKs in a SO, Oilers handled Trojans, and Rhinos sent Protons packing, so this season is truly wide open!  
Here are tonight's key contests:
 
Oilers 3rd VS Protons 4th -- Another big test for Oilers, but if they pass it, does this represent the changing of the guard in GHL?  Or do Protons still have a few tricks up their sleeves for the upstarts!
 
Two other teams to watch tonight are Grizzlies 14th and Minutemen 10th.  Both are playing teams in the lower half of the standings, which have always been typical easy wins for both.  If one or both continue their slide tonight, how long until we see some big moves?

Couple big GHL games tonight testing some of the new guys!  
 
Gothic Knights 1st VS Vandals 6th -- Are GK for real this season?  Are Vandals just off to a slow start? Trojans 5th VS Oilers 3rd -- Are the Oilers enjoying beginner's luck?  Will the well seasoned Trojans send them back down to earth? Protons 2nd VS Rhinos 4th  -- Is the Rhinos' star fading fast or was last night's lost to Stray Cats a learning moment?

Great thread! I think we need to get more activity in the forum for our game world
 
I know its early days but I think its great to see none of the usual teams in the top 3. Would love to see a really close season 

Hi everyone,
 
 
This topic is created to talk about season 9 in GW Biscuit. Post your experiences, predictions, and everything you want to share about this season. 
 
After 2 days in GHL there are 2 teams unbeaten: Scandinavia Skyhawks and Moapa Valley Gothic Knights. CPU team Collegeville Rhinos is currently in 3rd place with 1W and 1OTW. Will the Rhinos stay in the GHL? 
 
Today is the 3rd game of the season and there are some very interesting games coming up. I'm looking forward to these games:
 
Minutemen - Trojans
Grizzlies - Protons
Volcano - Rhinos
 
Minutemen, Trojans, Grizzlies and Protons are all top teams that have been in the playoffs almost every year now. Volcano is currently in a 2 game losing streak and needs those points at home against CPU team Rhinos. To be continued!