Erzac

CPU teams can offer contracts to prospects. You still hold the rights until 21. You can offer a contract to your prospect that is signed with a cpu team at any time, and he'll join your team at the start of the next season. Human managers can't offer contracts to prospects they don't have rights to. Edit: It appears that gators type faster than cats.

Oh snap, good catch There might've been a slight error there. It's fixed now.

I would recommend playing the full three preseason games to build confidence, but reduce training or ice-time for the fatiguing players if necessary.

Fatigue doesn't reset.

Marauders are indeed a strong team set for a long time. I figure Stray Cats have 2 seasons of cup chasing before turning into a retirement home. Even so, there's a solid young core to build around.

Small edit: OVR change from last season now visible. Marked promoted teams.

1. Deadwood Vandals (Kim "koekefix" Vandaele) OFF: 91 DEF: 93 SG: 96 OVR: 92,3 (+0,9) Age: 29,1 Best OVR skater: D Loick Bulloch, 32yo, 97 OVR. 2. West Chicago Protons (Richard "bouncer" Feynman) OFF: 90 DEF: 94 SG: 97 OVR: 92,2 (+0,2) Age: 30,7 Best OVR skater: D Adrien Berrouard, 32yo, 96 OVR. 3. St. Thomas Stray Cats (Erzac "Erzac" Ray) OFF: 91 DEF: 93 SG: 93 OVR: 92,1 (+1,9) Age: 29,2 Best OVR skater: F Valdemar Chovanec, 32yo, 96 OVR. 4. Portland Marauders (Xavier "xZhou" Zhou) OFF: 90 DEF: 93 SG: 94 OVR: 91,9 (+0,8) Age: 25,4 Best OVR skater: D Ghali Tadros, 38yo, 96 OVR. 5. Richford Rebels (Jusu "Jusu5" Manager) OFF: 90 DEF: 92 SG: 95 OVR: 91,1 (+0,2) Age: 28,6 Best OVR skater: D Nathaniel Poirier-Ladouceur, 23yo, 96 OVR. 6. Canmore Grizzlies (Matt "themattinthehat" Muffett) OFF: 90 DEF: 92 SG: 92 OVR: 90,9 (+0,3) Age: 28,9 Best OVR skater: D Oldřich Brož, 33yo, 95 OVR. 7. Thetford Mines Pegasus (Anthony "Pingu" Grauwels) OFF: 90 DEF: 91 SG: 95 OVR: 90,9 (+1,1) Age: 28,4 Best OVR skater: D Yan Palos-Sanschagrin, 23yo, 94 OVR. 8. Harrisonville Sabercats (Hurja "HurjaHerra" Herra) OFF: 90 DEF: 90 SG: 96 OVR: 90,7 (+0,2) Age: 29,0 Best OVR skater: D Nikolay Mandrykin, 30yo, 95 OVR. 9. Eldred Elite (Steven "Steve" Bennett) OFF: 89 DEF: 92 SG: 91 OVR: 90,5 (+0,4) Age: 28,4 Best OVR skater: D Zavon Mellor, 33yo, 95 OVR. 10. York Wolf Pack (Jiri "jiihee" Heikkala) OFF: 89 DEF: 91 SG: 93 OVR: 90,4 (+0,7) Age 31,0 Best OVR skater: D Jesse Fiore, 31yo, 95 OVR. 11. Buckingham Breakouts (Jussi "jusatin" Ahonen) OFF: 89 DEF: 91 SG: 92 OVR: 90,3 (+1,1) Age: 27,8 Best OVR skater: C Tjaž Avsenik, 21yo, 93 OVR. 12. Cedar Rapids Minutemen (Richard "rainsilent" Armour) OFF: 89 DEF: 91 SG: 95 OVR: 90,2 (+0,2) Age: 27,2 Best OVR skater: D Shane Helms, 23yo, 94 OVR. 13. Violet Volcano (Soupy Salez) OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 89,2 (+0,1) Age: 29,8 Best OVR skater: F Simon-Pier Byers, 24yo, 95 OVR. 14. Pinehurst Miners (Phoenix "phoenixtf" TF) OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 88,3 (-0,2) Age: 28,4 Best OVR skater: D Eliam Larochel, 21yo, 93 OVR. 15. *Sault Ste Marie Admirals (Jacques de Gatineau) OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 93 OVR: 87,9 (+2,6) Age: 27,2 Best OVR skater: D Jakob Olsen, 20yo, 93 OVR. 16. *Horseheads North Thundering Herd (Bear Doggit) OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 88 OVR: 87,5 (+3,3) Age: 31,9 Best OVR skater: D Alexey Filchenkov, 38yo, 91 OVR. League AVG team OVR: 90,4 (Last season 90,0) League AVG team age: 28,2 (Last season 28,6) *=Team promoted from SHL Edit: Change from last season in parenthesis. Calculated on day 5 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.

Personally, I haven't given much thought to reputation when drafting. Mostly I pay attention to how players have progressed in their past season(s), as well as their performance and stats. There are sometimes prospects that look lucrative on draft day because of overall etc, but might have very slow development, and in the worst case never be ready for a roster spot.

Failure to lure the most sought-after FA Tadros to St.Thomas was followed by the busiest offseason to date, bringing significant amounts of talent and veteran presence to the Cats. Arriving Wildersinn, C, 38yo, 93ovr Lehto, C, 27yo, 92ovr Lisi, F, 38yo, 92ovr Maksudov, D, 32yo, 93ovr 2x GHL 3rd Departing Randell, C, 28yo, 90ovr Gunther, D, 38yo, 90ovr Huart, D, 22yo, 87ovr GHL 1st GHL 2nd 2x GHL 3rd

Just to comment on this point here - multiple teams working together for the benefit of a single team is not fair competition, separate managers or not. If there is a closer bond between managers, like family, it can't be a factor in trades. While probably everyone agrees helping out family members is a great thing, in competitive online sports manager games that help should be limited to giving advice etc. instead of direct aid, for example biased trades. tldr: For reasons of fairness towards other managers, "family" is not a valid reason to base transactions on in a game such as this.

There's probably always at least a small chance for any team to get a player signed, no matter the rep or amount offered. So when there are 10+ teams offering a contract, it's likely a rather small % to end up in any particular team.

I actually think 6,5 is a very reasonable contract for a player of that caliber (10M is pushing it of course). For what it's worth, I think all top players should make 6+ million as a rule of thumb. Of course we're very far from that atm.

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...

Playoffs are here and contract extensions are happening again, so I'll keep at this. Today in Biscuit GHL 9 players signed an extension - 7 of them took a pay cut. A highlight from that bunch: 22yo, 96ovr d-man, on an already cheap contract, is fine with an extension that lowers his salary by ~16%. Why would a young superstar coming off a good season ever agree to something like that?

Depending on some game results tonight, the last playoff spot(s) may be decided by the last game of the season between Cats and Grizzlies, with the possibility of a spot being on the line for both teams. Another magic number: Of all the current GHL teams (that have been in playoffs in the past), Stray Cats hold the enviable record of the longest playoff drought, with the latest (and only) appearance in S7.

Near-deadline acquisition adds veteran Richard Fahy to the Cats blue line. Fahy should provide a boost to the already clicking special teams, as well as bring more shutdown ability to the d-core.

A regulation win in the catfight tonight would be big for either team. I still have the upcoming 4 game streak of Marauders(5th), Rebels(4th), Vandals(2nd) and Protons(1st). Can't really expect to gain too many points there.

Indeed they are.

The progress turned around at 17th game from changing, now it's going back in the right direction.

Still ongoing. The tactic that I've used for the past 16 games has continued to drop, and just now dropped to yellow familiarity. Started at very high blue.

As Crosby was mentioned, another interesting example is Malkin. Obviously a very talented center as well as successful statistically. However his career FO% is 43,6. Not every center needs to reach a high faceoff rating. Agree on the fact that some centers would be better listed as forwards.