xZhou

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.

This is related to the National Teams thread from S11:  http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/8229-s11-national-teams/
 
I figured I would keep this updated in case national teams are ever introduced to the game.  Dibs on Italy.  This is updated for S12.
 

 
 
 
Update for Season 13 below.
 

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)

There's some issues and nice to have features:
Remove player info popup in match stats when using mobile phone - doesn't work - instead use direct link to player page Remove team info popup in player stats when using mobile phone - doesn't work - instead use direct link to team page Add space between team name and league in "Next game" box on team page (appears only when promotion/relegation/friendly(?)) Enable collapsing when using mobile phone on Team page - it would be nice if I can collapse those boxes e.g. "Team leaders" (https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_collapse.asp) Add "Injuries" box to Team page - Show injuries if any active Fix "Player stats" sorting by performance (http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7597-player-sorting-by-performance-doesnt-work/) (1.3.3) Combine player ordering - in roster page players are ordered by number but training, edit role and edit lineup uses some random ordering Rating ordering - ratings order in "Rating" page and in "Development" dropbox isn't using same ordering I was browsing game log on iPad and noticed that stats column and player name columns are not in sync (stats column row height doesn't match first column) Mixed normal text and CamelCase notations (e.g. in Transfer status and Tactics view) Add "User on holiday" marking to standings (e.g. change blue dot after team name to yellow)  
I continue filling more details when I found/remember some but there's couple small "issues" what I found. Feel free to add your own UI/UX issues.
 
(*Mobile phone = I'm using Chrome on Huawei P10)

Still paused here - everyone else seeing this too?

Thanks Steve! Honestly I think it was pretty fluky - my goalie really stood on his head in the playoffs and I doubt I'll have similar results next season which is why I loaded up on picks.

Hi everyone,
 
I thought it would be cool to create national teams. I started off with Canada and USA as they have the biggest pool of players to select from. Please note that this is just a shortlist I created and what I thought are the best OVR players in Biscuit. I changed some centers to forward as they would be better in that position ofcourse.
 
Please feel free to change or discuss the teams. And if you want to create one of your own or from another country, that would be nice as well. So I always selected 6 centers, 10 forwards, 8 defenders and 3 goalies.
 
 
I wonder how these teams would end up in a best of seven :-)
 
CANADA
 
CENTER Collin McCarthy - 28 yrs old - 89 OVR (Protons) LAbbas Gelinas - 30 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) RNolan Daugherty - 36 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) LCurtis Luck - 30 yrs old - 89 OVR (Wolf Pack) RAndres Forest-Marin - 31 yrs old - 89 OVR (Sabercats) LZack Kite - 30 yrs old - 89 OVR (Trojans) L FORWARD Noah Arbour - 28 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) RSimon-Pier Byers - 20 yrs old - 91 OVR (Volcano) LMarc Bozanic - 27 yrs old - 91 OVR (Grizzies) LAlex Howie - 33 yrs old - 90 OVR (Pegasus) LJulien Inukpuk - 30 yrs old - 93 OVR (Rebels) RJoseph Hatfield - 22 yrs old - 90 OVR (Sabercats) LIzaak Letemplier - 27 yrs old - 92 OVR (Sabercats) REloi McCoshen - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Elite) LSebastian Guyard - 32 yrs old - 91 OVR (Trojans) LJulian Lisi - 33 yrs old - 91 OVR (Trojans) R DEFENSE Adrien Berrouard - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Protons) LCarmelo Pregent - 36 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) LFelix Kiolet - 22 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) LLoick Bulloch - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Minutemen) LGhali Tadros - 34 yrs old - 96 OVR (Volcano) RTomas Francois - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Grizzlies) LRichard Fahy - 34 yrs old - 94 OVR (Marauders) LJesse Fiore - 27 yrs old - 94 OVR (Wolf Pack) LElliot Holden - 28 yrs old - 95 OVR (Rebels) LNathaniel Poirier-Ladouceur - 19 yrs old - 94 OVR (Rebels) R  GOALIE Justin Yu - 21 yrs old - 95 OVR (Vandals) LElliot Birch - 35 yrs old - 93 OVR (Elite) LAdem Malette - 18 yrs old - 94 OVR (Miners) L __________ USA CENTER Alan Council - 23 yrs old - 90 OVR (Protons) RNicholaus Pearl - 32 yrs old - 89 OVR (Vandals) RDuran Doerr - 31 yrs old - 90 OVR (Marauders) LCruz Lopez - 25 yrs old - 90 OVR (Pegasus) LJoshua Eldred - 34 yrs old - 90 OVR (Elite) LEugene Villasenor - 32 years old - 90 OVR (Stray Cats) L FORWARD Bob Honda - 33 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) LCarson Corn - 28 yrs old - 90 OVR (Vandals) LJonathan Crossett - 32 yrs old - 88 OVR (Volcano) LAngelo Sledge - 28 yrs old - 92 OVR (Grizzlies) LRickey Mulhern - 31 yrs old - 92 OVR (Grizzlies) LAron Welcome - 28 yrs old - 88 OVR (Marauders) LBrett Arrieta - 24 yrs old - 90 OVR (Marauders) LNorman Mohan - 34 yrs old - 90 OVR (White Ice) RDougie Furman - 26 yrs old - 88 OVR (Sabercats) RMatthew Sontag - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Sabercats) R DEFENSE Ashton Lindsay - 27 yrs old - 91 OVR (Protons) LJeremy Hawks - 32 yrs old - 94 OVR (Protons) RGerald Cale - 29 yrs old - 89 OVR (Vandals) LNoah Bramble - 29 yrs old - 94 OVR (Vandals) LShane Helms - 19 yrs old - 90 OVR (Minutemen) LLeonardo Adame - 27 yrs old - 93 OVR (Minutemen) RSone Friedel - 21 yrs old - 91 OVR (Marauders) RLamont Teed - 28 yrs old - 90 OVR (Rebels) LZavon Mellor - 29 yrs old - 94 OVR (Elite) LZachary Rish - 29 yrs old - 90 OVR (Trojans) L GOALIE Jonathan Ormsby - 22 yrs old - 93 OVR (Minutemen) LJeffrey Hanrahan - 26 yrs old - 92 OVR (Marauders) LLenell Wax - 27 yrs old - 92 OVR (White Ice) L    * EDIT: Added Eugene Villasenor from Stray Cats in Team USA (replaced Boller from Sabercats)

Ah, that explains it. That bug was fixed on the last v1.3.1 release on September 1st
 
Fixed bug where team references on affiliate assigned players could be become unsync. I will check if there is something I can do to correct the problem on your team, otherwise it will sort it self out for the next season.

This we will have a look at. Not sure it has happen before.
 
 
 
 
This is a bug which with next patch should be sorted.
 
Keep enjoying the game and thanks for reporting!

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.

I'm sure it is already common knowledge that teams get a boost when playing at home.  I decided to do some quick research into how much of an advantage the home crowd gives their team. I know there are many variables that could affect this such as injuries, starting goalies, etc - but my results seemed directionally consistent.
 
First, I took a look at home winning percentages for all GHL, SHL & BHL teams.  For the purpose of a percentage, I considered OT/SO win a win and OT/SO loss a loss.  The average home record and win percentages are below.
 
GHL:  11 - 2 - 2 - 8 = 56%
SHL:  12 - 2 - 1 - 7 = 63%
BHL:  12 - 1 - 1 - 9 = 56%
 
Second, I took a look at my own team's history to determine how my home record compared to my overall record.  For example, my Win % this year is 80%.  My home Win & is 83%.  An advantage of 3%.  Last year, my Win % was 72% and my home Win % was 83%.  An advantage of 11%.  When averaged out from Season 1 - 11, my average home ice advantage was 6%.  This falls in line with the GHL/BHL results above where home ice seems to add a 6% advantage.  SHL seems to be the outlier.
 
Finally, I tallied all goals scored in BHL this year (I did BHL since that's the league I'm in).  On average, the home team is scoring 3.8 goals per game, while the visiting team is scoring 3.3 goals per game.  The home team is scoring 53% of the goals.  I did the same for GHL and the results were 2.66 Home for 2.27 Away.  The home team is scoring 54% of the goals.  These numbers seem a bit lower than the first two sets of results. 
 
For now, until I have a chance to do more research and understanding that there are many variables that could sway these numbers, I will conclude that the home team gains a roughly 5% advantage.
 

Hi,
 
I didn't check if this has already been reported but in GW Biscuit there are some players that have played 176 games in AAHL. This seems like a bug, since this is a new league from this season.
 
Screenshot attached.
 
Thanks.

I started looking into team/city locations out of curiosity.  Being a visual guy who digs graphics, I decided to pull a map together.  Below is a map of all GHL teams.    If I get more free time I may do SHL/BHL.  Enjoy.
 

Nice! 
 
In the next update we have been working alot with bugs in affiliate teams. 
 
Please be patient. =)

Also it would be nice to remove affiliation stats form TEAM LEADERS table. Does not make any sense to see somebody has 20 points player in AAHL before GHL league game. 

Hi, it would be nice to have notification about injuries/recoveries in affiliation teams. I just recall player form there just to realize he is injured, which I did not know about (also not for how many matches until I counted it). Since there is no IR, I'm sending injured 2W players from my A team to affiliate and I think I will not get message that they are healthy again. That would be great thing to add.

Hello all,
 
I accidentally resigned my top prospect Samuel Dobrik who I drafted 4th overall in the last draft.
 
I would really much appreciate if you didn't try to sign him, as him being in the free agency is the result of be being clumsy and trying to do things too fast while on mobile. I tried to recall him to my team to change the affiliate team he's in, but instead chose to resign him, thus making him available for all to sign.
 
So I kindly ask that you do not offer him a contract, as a mark of good sportsmanship, and if you have offered him a contract that you would take your offer back.
 
Thanks a lot,
Jussi

Thanks for reporting. Bugs confirmed. I have also temporarily fixed things in Mitts

1. West Chicago Protons (Richard "bouncer" Feynman)
OFF: 89 DEF: 92 SG: 91 OVR: 90,6
 
2. Harrisonville Sabercats (Hurja "Hurjaherra" Herra)
OFF: 88 DEF: 90 SG: 93 OVR: 89,2
 
3. Deadwood Vandals (Kim "koekefix" Vandaele)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 89,1
 
4. Cedar Rapids Minutemen (Richard "rainsilent" Armour)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 94 OVR: 88,6
 
5. Canmore Grizzlies (Matt "themattinthehat" Muffett)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 92 OVR: 88,3
 
6. Thetford Mines Pegasus (Anthony "Pingu" Grauwels)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 95 OVR: 88,1
 
7. Portland Oilers (Xavier "xZhou" Zhou)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 91 OVR: 88,0
 
8. Richford Rebels (Jusu Manager)
OFF: 86 DEF: 90 SG: 90 OVR: 88,0
 
9. Eldred Elite (Steven "sbb11578" Bennett)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 93 OVR: 87,9
 
10. Rome Trojans (Yann Rock)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 88 OVR: 87,8
 
11. Pascoag White Ice (Nicolas Senet)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 87,5
 
12. Oshawa Dynasty Heroes (Kris "Euph" Zenatik)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 87 OVR: 87,1
 
13. Violet Volcano (Soupy Salez)
OFF: 85 DEF: 88 SG: 94 OVR: 87,1
 
14. York Wolf Pack (Jiri "jiihee" Heikkala)
OFF: 85 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 86,8
 
15. Buckingham Breakouts (Jussi "jusatin" Ahonen)
OFF: 86 DEF: 86 SG: 93 OVR: 86,5
 
16. Pinehurst Miners (Phoenix "phoenixtf" TF)
OFF: 85 DEF: 86 SG: 91 OVR: 85,9
 
 
Calculated on day 5 of S11, 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)

Here's a short annoyance that I just encountered: if your main team is short a player, it will still automatically sign a free agent. My suggestion is to instead automatically promote one of your affiliated players instead.

Just made an early pre release of the upcoming v1.3.1. You won't see any big changes right now,  but please report back any oddities you may find (it's quite untested).
 
New features
New hidden trait: Current ability (not yet complete). This new trait allows players to go into longer slumps or into longer streaks. These slumps or streaks will not be visible in player ratings, only in stats and in game performance (analysis). What may cause or break a slump depends on player’s individual profile. Some examples: transactions (trade, free agent signings, releases), injuries, general happiness concerns, game performance. Improvements and bug fixes
Endurance update.
- Increase penalty for exhausted players.
- Increase endurance penalty for hard training. Fixed bug where salary cap status didn’t include pending contracts when calculating promotion or relegation for next season. Fixed bug where salary cap status didn’t include pending contracts for affiliate assigned players. Fixed bug where salary cap status was glitched on day 77 after promotion or relegations took place.

New bug encountered: Mitts GHL playoffs. 
Am unable to recall players.  Get a pop-up that says that we don't have enough salary-cap space, but we have over $6 million place this season, but only about $460 000 for next year's  salary space??  
Perhaps the system is only looking at next-season's budget?  
 
Sorry to complain after the fact: but it probably would have been more prudent to let the season roll-over in UAT, before doing the update in the regular game-worlds.
 
UAT: Mitts; GHL; Blackville Blacks.   http://uat.gameplanhockey.com/team?gpid=65
 
Sorry. Don't want to just complain.  The affiliate teams are pretty cool so far. 

Here are the new rankings, calculated at the end of regular season.
 
1. West Chicago Protons (GM: Richard Feynman – bouncer)
OFF: 89 DEF: 92 SG: 95 OVR: 90,8
1st in GHL, 141pts.
 
2. Harrisonville Sabercats (GM: Hurja Herra)
OFF: 88 DEF: 90 SG: 92 OVR: 89,2
13th in GHL, 73pts.
 
3. Deadwood Vandals (GM: Kim Vandaele - koekefix)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 89,0
2nd in GHL, 123pts.
 
4. Cedar Rapids Minutemen (GM: Richard Armour - rainsilent)
OFF: 87 DEF: 90 SG: 94 OVR: 88,7
3rd in GHL, 106pts.
 
5. Richford Rebels (GM: Jusu Manager)
OFF: 87 DEF: 90 SG: 90 OVR: 88,3
11th in GHL, 85pts.
 
6. Canmore Grizzlies (GM: Matt Muffett - themattinthehat)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 92 OVR: 88,2
6th in GHL, 93pts.
 
7. Eldred Elite (GM: Steven Bennett)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 93 OVR: 88,1
8th in GHL, 90pts.
 
8. Portland Oilers (GM: Xavier Zhou - xZhou)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 91 OVR: 87,9
5th in GHL, 94pts.
 
9. Rome Trojans (GM: Yann Rock)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 87,9
10th in GHL, 85pts.
 
10. Moapa Valley Gothic Knights (GM: David Chaw - FTW)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 87,9
12th in GHL, 76pts.
 
11. Thetford Mines Pegasus (GM: Anthony Grauwels - Pingu)
OFF: 88 DEF: 87 SG: 90 OVR: 87,6
7th in GHL, 91pts.
 
12. Violet Volcano (GM: Soupy Salez)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 94 OVR: 87,3
4th in GHL, 105pts.
 
13. York Wolf Pack (GM: Jiri Heikkala)
OFF: 85 DEF: 88 SG: 93 OVR: 87,0
9th in GHL, 88pts.
 
14. Oshawa Dynasty Heroes (GM: Kris Zenatik - Euph)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 87 OVR: 86,8
14th in GHL, 71pts.
 
15. St.Thomas Stray Cats (GM: Erzac Ray - Erzac)
OFF: 86 DEF: 85 SG: 89 OVR: 85,5
16th in GHL, 59pts.
 
16. Collegeville Rhinos (GM: Nicolas Senet)
OFF: 85 DEF: 84 SG: 90 OVR: 84,5
15th in GHL, 60pts.
 

I did some research and found this to explain it.

Yeah, it might've just been a major penalty. That was the explanation given when someone had reported something like this some time ago.