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It may just be that they scored twice on a major penalty.  Was it a 5 minute major?  

This should now be fixed.
 
 
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Thanks for this Anders! Two possible bugs I saw after the update:
 
1. Whenever I try to modify the training specifications for my main team, I get the Error page (this goes for players already on my team before the update and for newly signed players after the update). I've tried a hard refresh on my browser but still got the error.
2. The AAHL statistics of players I signed after the update and sent down to my affiliate is showing up on my team page, in both the Statistics tab of the team page and the 'Team Leaders' box with Highest Goals/Assists/Points/etc. on the Home tab of the team page

A pre release of the affiliate teams feature has been made on the UAT today! Check below for more info. Please report back any bugs to this topic (not the bugs section). Have fun!
 The pre release contains the followingAffiliate leagues AAHL, AAHL 2 and AAHL 3 (new) Create up to two affiliate teams. Affiliate team levels Professional, SemiProfessional or Amateur. (Eligible levels depend on your team level) Affiliate teams will be using the same tactics as your own team. Assign and recall players to your affiliates. Only players with two way contracts (not having the one way contract clause) may be assigned. Salary cap impact. Assigned player’s salary will only count as a tenth against your team’s salary cap when assigned. New user setting on how to display assigned players on your roster. Assignments and recalls generates transaction logs  Other improvements and bug fixesThe previous AMHL and AMHL 2 (American Minor Hockey Leagues) has been renamed to USMHL (United States Minor Hockey League) to not be mixed up with the AAHL leagues. Simulator improvements to fix the delayed simulation problems.  How to get going with affiliate teamsCreate and view affiliate teams by using the Action menu on your team page Assign/Recall players by using the Action menu on that player’s page

Thanks! The cards are appearing now.

The team card isn't showing up when I click on team names from the League page. I just get an empty white pop-up. (The page has fully loaded too)

Made a pre release to the UAT today.
 
This is what's included:
 
* Team card. Just like when clicking a player’s name a team card will appear on team link clicks. The card will display short team and manager info. You can then continue to the team’s page from that card.
* Extended view of non playable leagues; player stats and latest transactions.* Adjustments of the game engine; Scoring (increased), shots (decreased), penalties (increased).* Adjustment of player development (increased)* Improvements of game play in non playable leagues.* Fixed bug where password reset could crash* Fixed bug where a team’s league position may become unsync* Fixed bug where teams could sign players even if over the salary cap This will be installed pretty soon on the official server too. But I will let it run over the weekend on the UAT to spot any bugs. Let me know if you see anything. Thanks

Welcome to Clapper!
 
I also think you inherit a good team with a lot of excellent prospects, but also with chances to fight right now for the Cup! 

Welcome and good luck to you too, by the sounds of it thing are turning for the better for you. Keep it up!

To combat some Monday boredom, I went ahead and calculated some average overall stats from GHL teams. Overall doesn't of course paint the full picture of a player's capabilities, and thus is only a vague approximation of what a team can do, but it's the only easily available number for comparison.
 
Team overalls here are comprised of the average of a team's best 18 skaters (12 centers/forwards, 6 defenders) and the starting goalie. OFF/DEF come from the same players, but are simply rounded up/down to the closest full number for clarity. SG is simply the assumed starting goalie (best overall). Calculations made on day 5 of S10.
 
Here are the numbers - teams are in order starting from best OVR.
 
1.  West Chicago Protons (GM: Richard Feynman - bouncer)
OFF: 89 DEF: 91 SG: 95 OVR: 89,5
 
2.  Deadwood Vandals (GM: Kim Vandaele - koekefix)
OFF: 87 DEF: 89 SG: 96 OVR: 88,4
 
3.  Harrisonville Sabercats (GM: Hurja Herra)
OFF: 88 DEF: 89 SG: 88 OVR: 87,6
 
4.  Rome Trojans (GM: Yann Rock)
OFF: 87 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 87,5
 
5.  Cedar Rapids Minutemen (GM: Richard Armour)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 93 OVR: 87,1
 
6.  Eldred Elite (GM: Steven Bennett)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 93 OVR: 87,0
 
7.  Canmore Grizzlies (GM: Matt Muffett - themattinthehat)
OFF: 86 DEF: 87 SG: 91 OVR: 86,9
 
8.  Moapa Valley Gothic Knights (GM: David Chaw - FTW)
OFF: 87 DEF: 87 SG: 90 OVR: 86,9
 
9.  Richford Rebels (GM: Jusu Manager)
OFF: 86 DEF: 89 SG: 89 OVR: 86,9
 
10. St.Thomas Stray Cats (GM: Erzac Ray - Erzac)
OFF: 87 DEF: 87 SG: 90 OVR: 86,8
 
11. Portland Oilers (GM: Xavier Zhou - xZhou)
OFF: 86 DEF: 88 SG: 91 OVR: 86,6
 
12. York Wolf Pack (GM: Jiri Heikkala)
OFF: 85 DEF: 87 SG: 93 OVR: 86,2
 
13. Violet Volcano (GM: Soupy Salez)
OFF: 85 DEF: 88 SG: 92 OVR: 86,1
 
14. Thetford Mines Pegasus (GM: Anthony Grauwels - Pingu)
OFF: 85 DEF: 86 SG: 89 OVR: 85,5
 
15. Oshawa Dynasty Heroes (GM: Kris Zenatik - Euph)
OFF: 85 DEF: 85 SG: 86 OVR: 84,7
 
16. Collegeville Rhinos (BOT)
OFF: 85 DEF: 82 SG: 90 OVR: 84,4

There seems to be some shady business between GHL and SHL bot

Steve, your trade was ok. If trade is between two managers (with no complete newbie), then it is almost all the time ok - the trade meter will take care of bad trades. Obviously there might be small portion of trades where the two know each other (or it is multi-account) and one team aims to boost the other, but that is also easy to recognize (and I don't think somebody like this is in GHL/SHL right now).
 
The more I think about it, the more I am for complete ban of trades with CPU teams. Easy solution (if you are only human in your league level, get a friend or leave for different world - it is boring to be alone anyway). Only CPU-CPU can be allowed. Over 90% of shady business is Human-CPU and report button is also dangerous as it seems to me that one gets message when it is pushed without any human cross-check that it is not just angry click from team that lost to you (why someone wanted to push it for you?).
 
This will make this game so much better and cheating is usually the critical point of such type of manager game - either you can solve it and you have most of the managers happy and clean, or you will fail to deal with it and the game is ruined for many. 
 
Also I wonder - are there any reverted trades? I noticed that Rhinos are now again CPU as the new "manager" got a lot of reports, I assume, but why the hell aren't the trades reverted? If somebody takes over of a team for a week, makes 10 CPU trades and then is banned, those trades should be automatically reverted - no questions asked.

Senet with another user?

Although we came back from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game with just half a minute remaining, it looks like the changing of the guard will have to wait since we lost in OT. I'd say Protons and Vandals are still the standard-bearers for the league, and they're both gradually climbing back up to their usual spots in the standings.
 
It'll be a big game for us tomorrow yet again facing a traditional powerhouse in the Grizzlies.

Well, Vandals squeaked by GKs in a SO, Oilers handled Trojans, and Rhinos sent Protons packing, so this season is truly wide open!  
Here are tonight's key contests:
 
Oilers 3rd VS Protons 4th -- Another big test for Oilers, but if they pass it, does this represent the changing of the guard in GHL?  Or do Protons still have a few tricks up their sleeves for the upstarts!
 
Two other teams to watch tonight are Grizzlies 14th and Minutemen 10th.  Both are playing teams in the lower half of the standings, which have always been typical easy wins for both.  If one or both continue their slide tonight, how long until we see some big moves?

Couple big GHL games tonight testing some of the new guys!  
 
Gothic Knights 1st VS Vandals 6th -- Are GK for real this season?  Are Vandals just off to a slow start? Trojans 5th VS Oilers 3rd -- Are the Oilers enjoying beginner's luck?  Will the well seasoned Trojans send them back down to earth? Protons 2nd VS Rhinos 4th  -- Is the Rhinos' star fading fast or was last night's lost to Stray Cats a learning moment?

Hiya guys,
 
I'm not sure if this has already been suggested...didn't really check through the threads.
 
Would it be possible to have a new World created that runs on the "North-American" type of Leagues? So, a World without the promotions/relegations, like the NHL? Not sure how much work would be required to make this happen, but it'd be pretty cool to start simultaneously with the affiliate teams update(NHL/AHL).
 
1 League -> 2 Conferences -> 4 divisions -> 30(or more) teams total?
 
You could even forget the whole Conference/Division thing at the beginning tbh...
 
What do you guys think?
 
I think it'd garner quite a bit of interest from the current GMs and any new guys coming in....I suppose one problem would be the World filling up quicker due to less teams?

This would be a minor change, but would it be possible to let the AI use their backups more often rather than only when the better goalie is injured. In my opinion, it is a little bit unrealistic to play a goalie when he has the exhausted stat. I imagine that the behind the scenes algorithms for the games do take exhaustion into play and that it causes the goalie to have a drop in performance.And so my suggestion would be to have a simple formula added to the AI managers so that they check to see if a goalie has the exhausted stat and if he does, to only play him as the back-up until he is once again fit. The second best goalie would take his spot as the starter until the best one is fit. 
 
I'm not exactly sure how player development works, but I imagine minutes played and performance ratings are also factored into a player's development. Rotating to the back-up and allowing the starter to only play when he is not exhausted to get better performance ratings should also aid AI to develop their own good goalies. This same formula could also be used for players, however, I don't think they suffer as much from the problem.

There are some more improvements on the way regarding computer team trading AI. This will include computer teams less likely to agree on trades with unrealistic number of players involved. Computer teams will be less likely to get involved in too many trades each season. They will value incoming trade picks less but will still demand great value for their own. I'm also thinking of introducing a lock down period for free agents before being able to trade them. This is not decided but maybe would prevent quite a lot of abuse.
 
Can't say when this will be ready since I'm in the middle of another update at the moment. But I will really try to speed things up or perhaps pause the other update and squeeze this one in before.
 
Thanks for all your comments and commitment of making this game better!

I think it would be cool if we could have our prospects play in preseason games without signing them to contracts. It would be a good way to evaluate how well a prospect fits into your lineup in order to see if they are ready for your team and, even if they aren't, it would still be neat to see them play.

Maybe make something similar to the Olympics with this game and have an international tournament every few seasons.
 
The tournament would have 12 teams divided into 3 groups of 4, such as this.
 
Group A
Canada
Czech Republic
Germany
Austria
 
Group B
Sweden
Finland
Russia
USA
 
Group C
Slovakia
Switzerland
Norway
Italy
 
I know the groups aren't balanced but I'm just trying to get my point across.
 
There could be an automatic qualifier to the tournament so the best players are showcased since there are so many small hockey nations in GPHM (Italy, Norway, Austria, France, UK, Denmark, Slovenia, etc.) By this I mean the countries are ranked in terms of combined player overall and the top overall nations get to participate.
 
Whereas the best nations automatically get a spot in the tournament (Canada, Sweden, Russia, USA, Finland, etc). Sort of like coefficients in soccer/association football.
 
This would offer managers a break during a certain point in the season to regroup and make trades/signings (depending on league position), and it would be interesting to see how your players play against the best.
 
Maybe players would be able to manage international teams?
 
What do you guys think?

If you hold a player's rights until Season X, do they expire at the beginning or end of Season X?

The rights expire at the end of season X, but you can only sign them to a contract during the silly season in the beginning of the year. This is going to be changed some time into the future.

Is adding more statistics to the game in the pipeline for improvements? I believe we have a good set of base stats available, but it's rather hard to fully analyze a players performance. For example, if I want to know if a player played well defensively all I can go off of is +/- and taking a shot in the dark at guessing what the performance number could mean. A good starting point would be adding a stat like corsi (shots for minus shots against while player is on the ice). Managers would get a good indication of a players puck possession.
Anyways just me nit picking, keep up the good work Anders.
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Just a small thing that might make speaking with other GM's more convenient, if something similar to an email inbox was implemented instead of having to chase down old messages through all the gm notifications.