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Just wanted to bump this suggestion as I think it would be a great addition to the game for many reasons.
 
In looking at stats from Biscuit, 23 BHL games have gone to a shootout this year.  Checked GHL as well and the number of SO games was 21.  We are 22 games in, so that is 1 per week per league.  For the higher leagues, the point differential is always very tight, so shootout wins/losses can have a huge impact in the final standings, which could be the difference between making/missing the playoffs, top 2/bottom 2 promotion/relegation, etc.
 
Suggestion #1:  the ability to edit your shootout lineup.
Suggestion #2:  tracking shootout goals, attempts & percentages (much like face-offs) on the player stats screen to see success rates... for both players and goalies would be amazing.

Why not just take it back urself? That GM's lost a bit of rep anyways ri....u definitely won't be contacting him/her in the near future for a trade

Good idea Exxeo.
 
   Perhaps there should be some restrictions, to prevent new managers from trading-away the future?
Example: Only after managing the same team for 4 seasons, would the manager be able to trade-away their 2-year-out future picks; and perhaps an 8-year manager, could trade away the 3-year-out picks?
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   The worry is that some managers in desperate situations, will give the house away. 

I wanted to wait until a few things got worked out with the trade system but now that CPU trades are more stringent I think this may be a good time to suggest it. I like the idea of being able to offer up two seasons worth of draft picks. I think that opens the floor up for a lot of different trade options and could make manager interactions more in depth. For instance; player loans would be easier to negotiate having the option to offer up a next season 3rd round pick etc. Let me know what you guys think.

There has been some discussion about this topic in the chat box here and figured it may be a good subject to hash out a bit more. The idea is to try and better engage the community. I really enjoy the chat box in top of the page here and think it would be great to see it in a similar format that sits on top of the browser rather than in the manager tabs. I know there were other ideas discussed as well so please throw those in here too.

Hi canucks, nice to see you here

Hey guys,
 
Giving it a shot in a slower World. Took over the last team in the World I believe. Can't wait to build some close relationships in this World and make it to the top! Let's see how we do in our first season 
 
I'm just getting the feel of my team (Kingston Assassins in SHL) atm, so feel free to send in any offers, suggestions, etc. I'm willing to listen to anything right now 

Hey guys,
 
Giving it a shot in a slower World. Took over the last team in the World I believe. Can't wait to build some close relationships in this World and make it to the top! Let's see how we do in our first season 
 
I'm just getting the feel of my team (Kingston Assassins in SHL) atm, so feel free to send in any offers, suggestions, etc. I'm willing to listen to anything right now 

Cool, welcome canucks!

Hey guys,
 
Giving it a shot in a slower World. Took over the last team in the World I believe. Can't wait to build some close relationships in this World and make it to the top! Let's see how we do in our first season 
 
I'm just getting the feel of my team (Kingston Assassins in SHL) atm, so feel free to send in any offers, suggestions, etc. I'm willing to listen to anything right now 

Hey guys,
 
Giving it a shot in a slower World. Took over the last team in the World I believe. Can't wait to build some close relationships in this World and make it to the top! Let's see how we do in our first season 
 
I'm just getting the feel of my team (Kingston Assassins in SHL) atm, so feel free to send in any offers, suggestions, etc. I'm willing to listen to anything right now 

A live feed has been on the back burner for awhile now. I imagine it would be a gigantic task to try and implement. A stop gap that would satisfy a lot of managers would be an expanded play by play. I'd like to know exactly who is on the ice for every event. That would allow for managers who are interested to track more details of how their players are performing (zone starts, shots for and against while on the ice). Would open up a broader spectrum to evaluate how your players are performing. 

Great post guys! And yes, national teams is on my todo list! =) Will probably an off season tournament during Silly season and Pre season days.

How many people play on Mitts? You need a pretty full World if we want to try no computer trading.

I think people have mentioned this idea slightly in other threads, but would it possible to get some sort of roster limit? My idea would be 50 players to match the NHL.
 
The main reason for it is that it would reduce the amount of player hoarding that a team could by hiding salary on affiliates to an amount of players that would contain regular roster players, a backup player or two for each position and some prospects.

Hiya guys,
 
Just a thought that came to some of our minds as we were discussing in the chat. What if we could disable computer trading completely? Instead of the Day 20 deadline, how about just getting rid of computer trading totally?
 
Any thoughts?
 
I feel like we could definitely try this, especially with the new Worlds. I'm sure it'll fill up pretty quickly, and we could keep it really competitive between human managers.
 
@Anders, could we please consider this before the Day 20 deadline hits?

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.

This is really cool!

+1
 
I usually just end up skimming the Scorecard. It'd be great to have some version of this up asap, atleast until Live Games are implemented.

+1!

I now have both my affiliates stocked with drafted prospects. I've created a system for myself to try and maximize how they get ice time, but I am worried that their development will be shorted because of how the affiliate teams utilise players. I have my top two center prospects on my AAHL team, but only one is being used as a center and the other is a forward. I imagine it is like this because they are the top two players on the team so the affiliate is loading up the top line. But when a player isn't taking faceoffs they won't develop their faceoff skill. This also throws my other assigned players out of whack because I now have a forward player filling in for the second line player. It just creates sloppy and unrealistic development.

If we could assign them to a position we would have more control over their development and it would be more like a real life affiliate system where to top team sends down a player and they want them to develop in a certain role or position. We still wouldn't be able to allocate where they are in the lineup, that would be on the affiliate but we would be able to make sure that they are training in their position nonetheless.  

I guess I'm making a parallel between us putting effort into searching for certain players and RL scouts finding players to draft, sign, etc. I suppose there's gotta be a balance between making the game like RL and comfortable for GMs as well.

@Erzac, I see what you mean. However, that's not how it works in RL right....yeah, you can sort through databases of players' stats, etc. But you can't really do that with personality types (in GPH - Profiles). That would be something even scouting would reveal little about (off-ice stuff involved as well). So, it kinda makes sense that we sorta need to manually sift through those things, but pairing those filters with your team personnel efficiency might be an idea worth looking at. Just something that came to mind as I was reading through the above posts, didn't really put much thought into how it would actually work.
 
Come to think of it, I suppose you could make a case that even in RL, you would be able to get an idea of a player's Profile via their contract history, performance in big games, etc. For example, if you want to search for Big Game players, you'd look into player history in Elimination games, Tournaments, Playoffs, Game 7's, etc.
 
Hope that kinda makes sense. Sorry for the rambling

Maybe somehow link the available filters to how good your scouts are (when team personnel are added)? Not sure how that might work tho.

Bruh, jabs coming from everywhere now ;P
 
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