Jack Reacher

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    Jack Reacher reacted to Paul T in Bublik Appreciation Thread   
    Legend.
     
    I will always remember him for scoffing at me when I checked to see what he wanted for a salary as a free agent before season 14.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Steve in Bublik Appreciation Thread   
    Ah, finally! 
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    Jack Reacher reacted to jusatin in Bublik Appreciation Thread   
    It is a sad day for all of the hockey community in Biscuit. At the age of 40 - rated 95 overall - Artem Bublik has announced his retirement. He has arguably been the best goalie in the world, having a save percentage of .90 or better every single season since the world started. Bublik broke in to the league at the age of 26 during season 1. He was criticized due to his small size, but right from the start he showed the doubters that his size was actually part of what made him so great. His athleticism was out of this world and his reflexes were some of the best we've seen, even during his old days. He might have been bit of a lone wolf, but aren't all goalies a little twisted, he was still loved by his team mates who will be sad to see him go.
     
    Here are some stats from his career:
     
    Golden Cup Victories: 5
    Regular season best save percentage: 5
    Best Goals Against: 6
    Most Shutouts: 6
     
    *These stats don't include season one.
     
    Here are his stats from during his time in Biscuit:

     
     
    Although some say his age began to show during this last season and he couldn't play more than 1 game in a row, he is still going to be missed by the fans of Breakouts, and for sure the rest of the hockey community here in Biscuit. When asked about his retirement plans he told us he was going back to Ukraine and start his own goalie camp there, who knows if we'll see more Ukrainian superstars in the future!
     
    Thank you Artem Bublik and may the pucks be ever in your glove!
     
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Gator Raid in GHL Tradeblock   
    6th overall pick up for grabs, Looking for prospects 86+ovr and 18-19 years old. Must have blue/green big games trait. I’m willing to package veteran players with the pick to make the deal go through.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to PulmonaryGoose in Draft Preferences   
    Also be aware that your first 11 picks may have been choices for the people drafting in front of you, as well. Highly unlikely, but possible. Depending on team needs, the person drafting 37th, may not want the player that is ranked 37. They may choose player 45, for whatever reasons. Therefore, you might be reacting to an unlucky draft, rather than poorly chosen preferences.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Gardener in Draft Preferences   
    What happens if I've set the first player of my draft preferences on 1st round pick, the second on 2nd round pick and the first player was picked by another team before my 1st round pick? Will take the computer my second player in the 1st round or select the computer the third player of my preferences with option "any pick"?
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Glawing in Trade Deadline earlier in the season   
    Hi Paul T!
     
    I like your suggestion! Will take a look at this!
     
    Thank you for input!
     
    /Tobias
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Paul T in Trade Deadline earlier in the season   
    For possible fall release... I think having a trade deadline earlier in the season would be beneficial for a few reasons.  I will use Days 55 as an example (which falls around Game 50). 
     
    Also to go along with this suggestion, I would also recommend that those players who are "happy with their current contract", be open to re-negotiating or flat our refusing to re-sign around Day 45 (around Game 40).
     
    1) First, I think it would add some excitement to the game mid-season, giving managers another milestone to look forward to.  Preparing for the draft is exciting.  Silly season/free agency is exciting.  The playoff race toward the end of season is exciting + actual playoffs.  Why not add something in the middle for managers to look forward to?
     
    Around Day 45, players are either willing to re-sign with your team or refuse to re-sign.  You then have 10 days to get your trades in before Day 55.  Personally, I think it would be an exciting 10 days of managers trying to wheel and deal before the deadline hits.  Then all managers must live with their decisions for the remaining 10 regular season games and through the playoffs.
     
    2) Second, it would require managers to be proactive and take calculated risks based on their expected finish.  It would eliminate teams from making those final day trades to stack their teams for relegation - and would also not allow managers to trade expiring contracts on the final day of the season, which caused an issue this past season.
     
    3) Finally, this is how professional sports are run - and I know that as a fan, I get really excited around the trade deadline every year in anticipation of what trades will be made.
     
    Thoughts??
     
     
     
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    Jack Reacher got a reaction from Gator Raid in Draft Preferences   
    So Draft preferences help you to order your picks and prospects you want. So basically if you have the first overall pick, if the draft preferences are not selected, the computer will automatically take your #1 pick, but if you do have a preference, select the player you want and then go horizontally across to a drop down bar which is set to any pick. Change that to one of the drop down options, which will be "first round pick", "second round pick", or "third round pick". This ensures that the prospect you want will be chose n with the right pick. But also remember to set draft preferences to "use shortlist over rank", so the computer chooses from the players you want instead of the ranked ones in the draft. Hopefully that helped.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Rideon34 in Draft Preferences   
    Thanks for the tips. I did have it set for the shortlist but didn't change the settings on the right. Live and learn
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Jack Reacher in Playoff Push?   
    There will always be that tough decision between going for the cup or staying low enough to get a top 5 pick. Since Howitzer is a fast paced world, I would risk dropping spots to gain a better prospect, but this year's draft is pretty disappointing to tank for. I would actually try to win in the playoffs so that your team can gain some reputation and so that players get used to playing in playoffs. Anyways Good Luck on the rest of the season, and possibly the playoffs if you choose to go for it!
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    Jack Reacher got a reaction from ColoKrabatt in Draft Preferences   
    So Draft preferences help you to order your picks and prospects you want. So basically if you have the first overall pick, if the draft preferences are not selected, the computer will automatically take your #1 pick, but if you do have a preference, select the player you want and then go horizontally across to a drop down bar which is set to any pick. Change that to one of the drop down options, which will be "first round pick", "second round pick", or "third round pick". This ensures that the prospect you want will be chose n with the right pick. But also remember to set draft preferences to "use shortlist over rank", so the computer chooses from the players you want instead of the ranked ones in the draft. Hopefully that helped.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Rideon34 in Draft Preferences   
    Just looking for some advice going forward, how do draft preferences work? Because I definitely just wasted the first overall pick this year. I had a list of guys and the guy I ended up getting was about 12th on my list. How can I prevent this in the future?
     
    Thanks.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to glenngg in Draft Preferences   
    I'm new to this too, but if you are taking the time to make your shortlist and put it in order, you'll usually want to select the option "shortlist only".  For your 12th player to be selected, you must have had some other option selected.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Gator Raid in Playoff Push?   
    You never know what could happen, 2nd kinda sucks in my opinion...
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    Jack Reacher reacted to canucks357 in Playoff Push?   
    And just like that, lost all the recent games. 2 points up on 9th playing 2nd when 9th is playing last. I may go through all this and miss playoffs anyway - finishing with a mid-round pick as a reward.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to canucks357 in Playoff Push?   
    Penultimate game of the year could be a big one given how close we are!
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Jiihee in Dirty Trades   
    Wou, something just happened to me what i have never experienced in this game before.
     
    Today when the trade window opened again i got offer what looked pretty good trade for me.  So i accepted the offer but my mistake was not to check the details of the player carefully. What ended up happening was that the player contract was ending and i didn't have the time to renew her contract and now the player is in the free agent's. The player what i traded for him was actually pretty talented young lad and for sure is going to be GHL level at some day.
     
    Like i said it was my mistake for not checking the details of the trade offer more carefully but to be honest i never thought that any manager here would be so dirty that he would even try to offer a player for someone whos contract is ending and it was not renew'd.
     
    Before this i have had only positive experiences about trading with other ppl but this case just blew my mind. Meaby its better to stop trading and communicating with other managers to prevent something like this happening again.
     
    There should be a block to prevent managers to offer players for other managers who's contract is about to end after youth draft and end of the season, cause there will be always someone who will abuse these kinds of things at the expense of others.
     
    I wont start pointing fingers but if someone is interested about this trade its not hard to check from transactions day 77.
     
    Ps. Managers who operate like this, get some backbone...
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    Jack Reacher reacted to canucks357 in Playoff Push?   
    I've won 9 of my last 10 and just beat the top team. I think my team is telling me what I should do. All-in it is! Up to 6th now setting up a potential series vs a team I've consistently done well against for some reason.
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    Jack Reacher got a reaction from Gator Raid in Playoff Push?   
    There will always be that tough decision between going for the cup or staying low enough to get a top 5 pick. Since Howitzer is a fast paced world, I would risk dropping spots to gain a better prospect, but this year's draft is pretty disappointing to tank for. I would actually try to win in the playoffs so that your team can gain some reputation and so that players get used to playing in playoffs. Anyways Good Luck on the rest of the season, and possibly the playoffs if you choose to go for it!
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Gator Raid in GHL Tradeblock   
    I’ve gotten many offers for players I mention on here, and people send me players I’m interested in. Same deal with Jack though, just not the right deal being sent my way yet.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to littleb in Inaugural Tarnished Silver Biscuit Plate PreS 15   
    Have you ever thought that Preseason has been a bit dull?  No pride or glory...... and certainly no fresh biscuits to eat!  Our world is clearly lacking in its namesake, so a group of us are having a pre-season friendly tournament to entertain us and thought we might as well drag you guys along for the ride as well. 
    The teams involved this season are:
     
    1. Pittsboro Plastic Attack - Long time BHL team freshly promoted from the 2nd spot, clearly threw the final games to get to 2nd and cover his mad ninja skills... . very sneaky!  We will have to keep an eye on him as it is rumored they use plastic swords to impale unsuspecting opponents during the game!  Watch those injuries!
     
    2. Tullahoma Tomcats - Promoted in 1st at season's end and are letting everyone know it!  Coach Wendel thinks he is pretty awesome but he may have to keep that ego in check as he is up against some raw talent in this series.  His lads are clearly still in party mode and will need to ensure they get off the sauce if they want any chance of winning this prestigious piece of cra..... erm I mean this incredible trophy!  
     
    3. Minnedosa Musketeers - SHL team for three seasons now and constantly riding Leopards coat tails.  It has driven them to depression where all manager Little signs are fat bastards that run over people and play for the garbage goals.  Some pundits give them a shot though, based solely on the fact there is biscuits involved and boy those boys love biscuits!  If they win good luck even making the locker room with them!
     
    4. Deferiet Leopards - SHL team for three season and well established hard rockers!  When not on the ice you can catch them down at open mic night screeeeeeching on guitars and pretending they have vocal talent.  Probably the class of the tournament unless the hookers and blow get them.... ah the life of a celebrity!  
     
    The rules for us are simple.... each team will play each other once in the pre season (I will do my best to keep an updated table in here.  Winner has the most points and if there happens to be teams level the tie breakers are results between teams level, goal difference and finally goals for.  If it is still tied after that I am going to set a poll up and we will all have a vote to see who wins!  We can't leave a tie at the top after all.... like any of us will play nice or share their biscuits!?!?!?!?
     
    The draw is as follow first team is home:
     
    Day 4 – 1 vs 2 (2-3 OT) and 3 vs 4 (5-3)
    Day 5 – 1 vs 3 (2-4) and 2 vs 4 (2-0)
    Day 6 – 4 vs 1 (3-4 SO) and 2 vs 3 (3-6)
     
    In the event the home team doesn't send their game off..... please proceed to door number 3 where Olga the Norwegian Dom will whip you for your incompetence.  
     
    That is all for now, if this goes off well I may look at ways to expand it for future seasons.  
     
     
    Standings to date: pts - record - GF - GA
     
    1. Minnedosa Musketeers - 9 - 3-0-0-0 - 15 - 8
    2. Tullahoma Tomcats - 5 - 1-1-0-1 - 8 - 8
    3. Pittsboro Plastic Attack - 3 - 0-1-1-1 - 8 - 10
    4. Deferiet Leopards - 1 - 0-0-1-2 - 6 - 11
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    Jack Reacher got a reaction from Gator Raid in GHL Tradeblock   
    It has worked for me, people have read this post and have been contacting me on offers for those players. The right one just hasn't come yet. im still waiting
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    Jack Reacher got a reaction from Gator Raid in Playoff Push?   
    In my experience, playing in the playoffs will give you more manager and team reputation which in turn will let you get high rated players for a cheaper price. Depending on the player, they can either grow a lot or stay stationary. I once had some guys jump from a 88 to a 90-91, but that was also the year I won the cup. Other years, they usually grow 1 overall or stay stationary. the pros of making the playoffs is gaining reputation and maybe a possible overall jump for some players. The cons of making the playoffs is that if you aren't a top team, you wont get every far and you lose a potential top 5 pick as you mentioned, but also there is the lack of fulfillment of not making the playoffs(wheather its exiting early or not making them at all). If the draft class is decent enough I would risk going into the playoffs, but since this years is a bit weaker than previous years, I would suggest playing younger players so they can "get used to" the big club and vs big league teams.
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    Jack Reacher reacted to Paul T in Playoff Push?   
    You bring up a great point.  I suppose if the top 5-6 draft prospects are that much better than the players who would go 7-16, I might consider tanking to get that stud player.  But being in a Slow world, I put more emphasis on short term.  I play to win.  Always.  If there's a chance I'd make the playoffs I'd go for it and try to pull a few upsets.