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Got the following message: "Your assistant reminds you that center Anton Tabakov will be placed on waivers in just 2 days. If you want to keep the player you better activate him from the injured reserve list as soon as possible." Only that the player is already on waivers, and has never been on IR.

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Happened to all my goalies too, blue fitness, no matter if they had played or not. Happened last season as well if I recall correctly.

I agree, it's something to be expected. It's just interesting to see that the improvement is still basically league-wide even with the training changes. But Biscuit moves slowly anyways, so we probably just haven't seen the full effects of those changes yet. Also looking at the S11-S12 team improvement, it's very evident there as well, but now it's even more visible.

I thought I had improved my team significantly (in relation to other teams) since last season, but I'm actually at the same position as before. Of course overall doesn't tell the whole story, but interesting nonetheless. Many teams have improved ~1 point of overall since last season.

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)

It's not fully predictable if they'll want a clause or not. Likely if they wanted it for their previous contract they'll ask for it again, unless the player has grown significantly older or regressed skill-wise. You can basically get any player to sign a 2w contract, but you might have to overpay them significantly, which may be hard to pull off when relegating.

The clauses on the new contract will be applied, so players with a 1w-clause in their new contract will get released.

These are indeed quite puzzling. From what I've observed(merely observations, not based on actual raw fact), Teamwork: Solely based on traits, doesn't fluctuate without roster moves. Confidence: A mix of individual players' confidences as well as team record. The only time I've seen better than OK confidence was last season in SHL where I had multiple long winning streaks. Even then it didn't rise above "good", so there must be some other factors involved as well. Perhaps some traits factor in? Winner instinct: Largely based on "big games" - trait, goalies seem to factor in more than your average skater. There are also some unknown factors involved that make it fluctuate a little. Possibly season record or recent games affect it somehow. I've witnessed a drop from heroic to strong, and from strong to ok while absolutely nothing else changed. No roster, lineup, confidence or training change. Just time passing, I.E. games being played/training happening(with no modifications to intensity). I also have a wild, possibly completely misplaced hunch, that your whole roster factors into these, including players in the minors. That could explain some of the weird fluctuations as well as the confidence bar seemingly lagging behind the main roster's overall confidence. But I've zero tangible facts on this. As to whether these have any actual effect on team performance, I haven't figured out. If there's an effect, it would seem to be quite small. Any big movements in the team spirits are (almost) always associated with trades, thus making it hard to judge whether the differences in team performance are a result from the different players or the team spirits changing.

I used to think tough or agitator would boost physical play, but I'm becoming more and more certain they just draw more penalties with little correlation to actual physical play. Gentle and respectful players seem to generate the same amount of hits as somewhat equal tough/agitator counterparts.

Getting the same report with Avast.

"Make trade lock period prevent affiliate assignment & remove trade lock from entry level contracts." Why? To prevent handing FA's big two-way contracts and immediately hiding them into affiliates, making it possible to keep offering such contracts in great numbers. One could still assign these player into affiliates after the 20-day period, but it would prevent, or at least hinder, "hoarding" players at the beginning of a season. The second part would allow you to still assign your own prospects to affiliates as soon as they're signed. (And entry level contracts don't really need a trade lock anyways.) This would be a partial, temporary solution using existing mechanics (thus would hopefully be easier to implement). A better solution would of course be something like a waiver system, as discussed here http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7945-waiver-system/

I sum up and enter the player overalls into an excel sheet by hand, the sheet handles the overall calculation. Then just copy+paste those results into a word document. Takes ~45 minutes to do a league.

1. West Chicago Protons (Richard "bouncer" Feynman) OFF: 89 DEF: 93 SG: 96 OVR: 91,3 2. Deadwood Vandals (Kim "koekefix" Vandaele) OFF: 89 DEF: 90 SG: 95 OVR: 89,8 3. Canmore Grizzlies (Matt "themattinthehat" Muffett) OFF: 88 DEF: 91 SG: 92 OVR: 89,7 4. Portland Marauders (Xavier "xZhou" Zhou) OFF: 89 DEF: 90 SG: 92 OVR: 89,7 5. Harrisonville Sabercats (Hurja "HurjaHerra" Herra) OFF: 89 DEF: 89 SG: 95 OVR: 89,5 6. Richford Rebels (Jusu "Jusu5" Manager) OFF: 87 DEF: 91 SG: 90 OVR: 89,4 7. Cedar Rapids Minutemen (Richard "rainsilent" Armour) OFF: 87 DEF: 90 SG: 93 OVR: 88,7 8. Eldred Elite (Steven "sbb11578" Bennett) OFF: 87 DEF: 90 SG: 93 OVR: 88,7 9. St. Thomas Stray Cats (Erzac "Erzac" Ray) OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 91 OVR: 88,7 10. Pascoag White Ice (Computer) OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 92 OVR: 88,3 11. Violet Volcano (Soupy Salez) OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 88,3 12. Thetford Mines Pegasus (Anthony "Pingu" Grauwels) OFF: 88 DEF: 87 SG: 95 OVR: 88,2 13. York Wolf Pack (Jiri "jiihee" Heikkala) OFF: 88 DEF: 88 SG: 92 OVR: 87,8 14. Pinehurst Miners (Phoenix "phoenixtf" TF) OFF: 86 DEF: 87 SG: 94 OVR: 86,9 15. Cuba City Tomahawks (Benoit Desvignes) OFF: 84 DEF: 88 SG: 90 OVR: 86,5 16. Natashquan Mohawks (Brutality "BFGore" Fullgore) OFF: 85 DEF: 87 SG: 94 OVR: 86,2 Calculated on day 3 of S12, 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)

RUSSIA CENTER Vitaly Karnaukhov - 34 yo - 90 OVR - L (Pegasus) Andrey Lyubov - 32 yo - 86 OVR - L (Rebels) Nikolay Markin - 33 yo - 85 OVR - L (Minutemen) Dmitri Aleyev - 19 yo - 84 OVR - L (Protons) Manolis Torchinovich - 18 yo - 84 OVR - L (Dynasty Heroes) Rushan Lapunov - 28 yo - 83 OVR - L (Volcano) FORWARD Alexander Ryzhanov - 29 yo - 93 OVR - L (White Ice) Sergey Vetrov - 29 yo - 87 OVR - R (Stray Cats) Yegor Savvin - 22 yo - 86 OVR - R (Bulldogs) Alexey Grinin - 22 yo - 85 OVR - L (Victors) Dmitry Sayansky - 29 yo - 85 OVR - R (Dynasty Heroes) Michael Norin - 32 yo - 85 OVR - L (Trojans) Roman Kholodov - 31 yo - 83 OVR - L (Pegasus) Edgar Alexandrov - 26 yo - 82 OVR - R (Mohawks) Dmitry Reshetnikov - 21 yo - 82 OVR - R (Panthers) Yegor Torchinovich - 19 yo - 82 OVR - L (Aristocrats) DEFENSE Nikolay Mandrykin - 27 yo - 93 OVR - L (Sabercats) Sergey Maksudov - 29 yo - 92 OVR - L (Rebels) Denis Dubov - 33 yo - 92 OVR - L (Volcano) Alexey Filchenkov - 35 yo - 89 OVR - R (Rebels) Artem Sultanov - 24 yo - 86 OVR - R (Admirals) Anton Bortsov - 24 yo - 86 OVR - L (Breakouts) GOALIE Olexandr Duranichev - 37 yo - 87 OVR - L (Thunder Cats) Ivan Kopsov - 24 yo - 86 OVR - L (Admirals) Andreas Zhutov - 21 yo - 85 OVR - L (Stray Cats)

SWEDEN CENTER Liam Sundén - 30 yo - 90 OVR - L (Wolf Pack) Marcel Holmer - 26 yo - 89 OVR - L (Miners) Douglas Hansson - 30 yo - 89 OVR - R (Sabercats) Manne Sjöström - 25 yo - 87 OVR - L (Pegasus) Gustav Löfström - 27 yo - 83 OVR - L (Tomahawks) Aaron Sundqvist - 31 yo - 83 OVR - R (Thundering Herd) FORWARD Christoffer Aurelius - 25 yo - 93 OVR - L (White Ice) Arthur Bratt - 23 yo - 89 OVR - R (Grizzlies) Gudmund Lundqvist - 33 yo - 89 OVR - L (Pegasus) Germund Stendlund - 31 yo - 88 OVR - L (Sabercats) Adolf Ekström - 31 yo - 87 OVR - R (White Ice) Erik Hodell - 29 yo - 85 OVR - L (Thunder Cats) Valfrid Heurlin - 23 yo - 85 OVR - L (Admirals) Tomas Blomqvist - 30 yo - 84 OVR - L (Tomahawks) Leopold Sahlberg - 29 yo - 83 OVR - L (Senator Kings) Robin Appelman - 22 yo - 82 OVR - L (Pegasus) DEFENSE Stefan Söderström - 34 yo - 94 OVR - L (Protons) Bengt Bergström - 34 yo - 93 OVR - L (Stray Cats) Karl Bengtsson - 37 yo - 90 OVR - R (Mohawks) Eddie Cederborg - 27 yo - 89 OVR - L (Tomahawks) Oscar Svart - 28 yo - 88 OVR - L (White Ice) Adam Sommelius - 31 yo - 88 OVR - R (Vandals) GOALIE Valle Carleman - 22 yo - 84 OVR - R (Elite) Jonathan Södergren - 24 yo - 84 OVR - L (Volcano) Malte Björkgren - 21 yo - 77 OVR - L (Panthers)

It's running now. Interestingly the game world clock shows "Youth draft" coming up in ~30 minutes. What's that about? E: The youth draft part vanished, everything seems to be in order.

He will play out the old contract and whatever he agrees to will be an extension to that.

We simply don't know what nervous etc. actually do and how those traits affect gameplay/match engine. Maybe they already have a bigger impact during playoffs, but all the mistakes and whatnot might not reflect directly to the scoreboard. Even if we did know exactly how everything was supposed to work, the sample size we have, especially in Biscuit, would be way too small to conclusively determine whether everything is working the way it should.

I think the short playoff series make the RNG look much worse than it actually is. Basically any team on the same league level can pull off two wins against any other team. If we had best of 5 or 7 - series, we would see better teams come out on top more often.

Amazing players ARE indeed amazing players, whatever their traits might be. And they should, most often, perform like amazing players. After all, we're talking about traits, not skills or attributes. Basically, if you have two guys with the exact same skill ratings, one with the worst traits, and the other with the best possible, they can still both perform according to their skill ratings, i.e. at an equal level. Yes, over a long period of time, say 10+ seasons, the one with the better traits should end up with slightly better stats. (Assuming there's a totally equal environment for both players, which is never the case). In my opinion, the one with the worse traits should still be able to regularly match, and occasionally exceed the "better" player's performance. And this is pretty much how it feels to be right now.

Great post! Quickly scraped together a Finnish team, had to go down to SHL to fill some spots. If I missed any players, just point that out and I'll edit the team. FINLAND CENTER Kaapro Olli - 25 yo - 91 OVR - R (Vandals) Esko Lehto - 23 yo - 89 OVR - R (Minutemen) Aato Lahti - 28 yo - 88 OVR - L (White Ice) Asser Uotila - 34 yo - 87 OVR - R (Rebels) Aato Oivio - 22 yo - 86 OVR - L (Marauders) Aleksi Ilves - 33 yo - 86 OVR - R (White Ice) FORWARD Toimi Makkonen - 35 yo - 90 OVR - L (Minutemen) Seem Immonen - 26 yo - 89 OVR - R (Wolf Pack) Jooseppi Olli - 30 yo - 87 OVR - R (Minutemen) Eino Järvelä - 23 yo - 86 OVR - R (Breakouts) Hemmo Nieminen - 20 yo - 86 OVR - L (Vandals) Tommi Tapio - 29 yo - 86 OVR - L (Bulldogs) Topi Kuusela - 23 yo - 85 OVR - L (Admirals) Tomi Junttila - 34 yo - 84 OVR - L (Breakouts) Kosti Laakso - 22 yo - 84 OVR - L (Black Flag) Aarre Kivi - 20 yo - 83 OVR - R (Stray Cats) DEFENSE Veli Kotilainen - 35 yo - 90 OVR - L (White Ice) Heikki Jokinen - 31 yo - 90 OVR - L (White Ice) Simo Maunu - 35 yo - 87 OVR - R (Volcano) Atro Kinnunen - 35 yo - 87 OVR - R (Pegasus) Ilkka Timonen - 21 yo - 83 OVR - L (Bangers) Edvard Nevalainen - 28 yo - 82 OVR - R (Mohawks) GOALIE Arttur Kaila - 34 yo - 96 OVR - L (Vandals) Jyrki Koivula - 20 yo - 93 OVR - L (Pegasus) Aake Pekkala - 36 yo - 91 OVR - L (Marauders)

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

The current free space in the ongoing and next season assumes the roster and assignments remain the same. Buyout is however calculated from the full contract value, and as stated, leaves you actually paying more than when keeping the player assigned. In this case the numbers: Full contract cap charge $29,000 Assigned cap charge $2,900 Buyout cap charge $14,500 So you released an assigned player, who was counting $2,900 against the cap. After releasing, the buyout counts as $14,500 against the cap. Thus, after releasing, you've $11,600 less to spend next season, compared to when he was assigned. E: Yes, the process is a bit confusing. If you want to see the real cap situation for buyout, you've to bring the player up first.