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  1. Posted

    No, the team placed 1/2 in the lower league get automatically promoted and 15/16 (or whatever the bottom two teams are in the specific leagues) get automatically relegated. Then teams 8-4 play in playoffs. The top two teams from those playoffs play teams 14/13, if they can manage to beat them in a playoff series, they get promoted but if they lose then the higher league keeps their spot.

     

    Hope this helped,

    Gator

    You got a couple numbers off, so I'll just write it out.

     

     

    EDIT: THE FORMAT OF GAME WORLDS HAVE BEEN CHANGED, AND WHILE THIS IS NO LONGER EXACTLY CORRECT, ITS STILL ROUGHLY RIGHT. CHANGES INCLUDE THAT THERE IS NOW A COPPER LEAGUE BETWEEN THE IHL AND BHL. LEAGUES HAVE ALSO BEEN DOUBLED IN SIZE CREATING AN EASTERN AND WESTERN CONFERENCE. THE TWO CONFERENCES WILL FACE EACH OTHER DURING REGULAR SEASON, HOWEVER WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE GHL, WILL PLAY PLAYOFF GAMES EXCLUSIVELY AGAINST THEIR OWN CONFERENCE.

     

    PLAYOFF/RELEGATION CHANGES:

    GHL: TOP 8 TEAMS IN EACH CONFERENCE COMPETE IN THE PLAYOFFS (16 TEAMS IN TOTAL) FOR THE GHL CUP

    RELEGATION PLAYOFFS: TEAMS 10 AND 11 IN A CONFERENCE WILL FACE EACH OTHER IN A PLAYOFF SERIES, LOSER IS AUTOMATICALLY RELEGATED

    PROMOTION PLAYOFFS: TEAMS 3 TO 5 IN A CONFERENCE WILL FACE EACH OTHER IN A COUPLE PLAYOFF SERIES, WINNER IS AUTOMATICALLY PROMOTED

     

    The leagues in-game now also have a lot more detail and it should be more clear if you go to league page --> playoff tab.

     

     

    GHL:

    1st-8th play playoffs for Golden Cup

    9th-12th watch the Golden Cup

    13th & 14th are in relegation playoffs, they will match up against a team from SHL playoffs and winners will be in the GHL next season, losers in the SHL

    15 & 16th are relegated to SHL

     

    SHL:

    1st & 2nd are automatically promoted

    3rd - 6th play promotion playoffs

                 -3rd vs 6th -> winner plays 14th SHL team (I think) for a chance at promotion

                 -4th vs 5th -> winner plays 13th SHL team

                 -it's possible that there can be 0 to 2 teams that earn promotion through the promotion playoffs (for a maximum of 4 teams                                                 -promoting and relegating)

    7th-12th watch the Golden Cup

    13th & 14th are in the relegation playoffs and each match up against a BHL team

    15th and 16th are automatically relegated

     

    BHL:

    1st & 2nd are automatically promoted

    3rd - 6th play promotion playoffs -> the 2 winners then have to play teams 13 and 14 from the SHL

    7th - 12th watch the Golden Cup

    13th & 14th play in the relegation playoffs and must match up against an IHL team

    15th & 16th are automatically relegated

     

    IHL:

    1st & 2nd are automatically promoted

    3rd-6th play promotion playoffs -> the 2 winners must match up against the BHL relegation playoff teams

    7th-10th watch the Golden Cup

    11th - 14th do relegation playoffs

               -this isn't a situation I've been in nor payed attention too, I'm not sure if there's a mini tournament among themselves and the 2                                           -losers have to play the LIHL playoff winners or if they all have to play LIHL winners. But you should kind of see the pattern of what                                   -is happening now.

    15th & 16th are automatically relegated

     

    LIHL:

    1st & 2nd are automatically promoted

    3rd-10th play in the promotion playoffs

              -I've been in this situation before, but it's been so long that I forget exactly how it plays out. It's either all 4 winners play the 4 IHL                                        -relegation playoff teams, or there is an extra round and the 2 winners play the 2 losers of an IHL relegation round

    11th-16th watch the Golden Cup

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  2. Posted

    It's exactly as you have said. Top 2 teams are automatically promoted, and then the next top 4 (next top 8 in the LIHL) teams play in some playoffs for a chance at promotion. The top 2 teams take over the 2 automatic relegation spots; the two winners of the playoffs then play the 2 teams in a relegation "playoff" spot, the winners get promoted/ get to stay in the higher league.

     

    In summary, every season there are 2 teams that automatically promoted and a playoffs to give 2 more teams a chance at promotion.

  3. Posted

    Like Rainsilent said, we need to see the roster to be able to help out. Although from your first attached thumbnail, it looks like you have guys playing in a different role than what they're good at. Based on the same thumbnail, check your checking line players to see if they make good grinders, power forwards or enforcers. (Maybe not enforcers, I haven't really chased any so I'm not sure if they are good checking players.) Also check that your two-way defensive lines and stay-at-home defensive lines are good at their role. Another common mistake is teams ignoring teamwork/winner instinct/size. Bad teamwork is a death sentence. Winner instinct is increased by having a good mix of green and blue trait players (eg: heroic, determined, stable). Although a few yellow/red guys won't hurt and too many green guys actually can. Size is less important, but I've found that teams that look good, but have an average height of 5'8" often do bad. Bigger teams also often finish higher than a person would expect.

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  5. Posted

    We should be able to set the trade status of prospects just like we can with players. I think that its especially needed for AI teams because whenever an AI GHL team gets lucky and drafts an amazing player, human managers manage to acquire the prospect in a trade before he can be signed. The trade I just noticed went through that prompted this suggestion would have been autodeclined almost immediately were it sent to a human. I'm not going to call the person out, but the trade was a 35 year old player on an expiring deal + a ghl 1st from a team that just finished in a high spot+ 2 pieces that will never be GHL pieces for a freshly drafted 90 overall prospect. There also weren't many good free agents this season so that 18 year old prospect was the only real asset that the AI had. IMO, just like the AI getting improvements so that they had young stars to their "untouchables", fresh, good prospects should get that same status.

     

     

    Also, AI should make more signings sooner and immediately sign any star prospects. The AI hasn't done major team building and its almost day 3. The AI already looks like a guaranteed to be relegating team.

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  6. Posted

    What exactly determines final standings in a tie? I always thought it was points > num wins > goal differential > goals as I swear that I've seen that before. But I've also seen some teams place ahead by having a better goal differential than total number of wins. Is there an actual order or is it just randomly select a team to get the better spot?

  7. Posted

    Wow, I'm surprised that nobody has answered this, training is a little bit vague.

     

     

    From my experience offensive training improves skills such as shooting, passing,etc, defensive training improves defence, checking, etc and general training improves skills such as endurance and skating. I've also found (although it may be my imagination) is that if you set a player's role and/or line role to something, the player will improve in that role a bit faster. Ex: two-ways forwards will improve their defence a bit faster than other skills.

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  9. Posted

    The contracts still work mostly the same as before there were affiliates. If a guy signs in a higher league and then is traded down, he gets a 1-way contract.

     

    However I haven't really heard your situation brought up before even though it's definitely weird considering that you want to send him to the same league that he was just in. Maybe a solution would be players to keep the lowest league affiliates that they can play for constant and to have it as a notification on the players transfer page. Similar weirdness would happen for a player with a one-way being traded up and then being put on an affiliate. Maybe if a guy gets sent up, any new higher division affiliates that a team has is allowed to take the player. Any affiliates that the player couldn't play in before due to his contract stay locked.

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  12. Posted

    I've actually got a slight variation to how I think the season will go down.

     

    1. Horn lake Hooligans

    2. Larson Knights

    3. Hawkeye Revolution

    4. Cuba City Eagles

    5. Pinewood Lumberjacks

    6. Wildwood Violent Rush

    7. Urbancrest Comets

    8. Cedar Rapids Panthers

    9. Wynward Wildfire

    10. Sellwood Spirits

    11. Wolfe Wolves

    12. Molson Monkeys

    13. Batchawana Battlin Bears

    14. Montmorency Vortex

    15. Bleinheim Pirates

    16. Morden Defenders

  13. Posted

    Back again with the new power rankings for Fishbowl season 12, on day 5.

     

    I decided to change the formula slightly. Rather than only considering the best goalie, I've decided to weigh a teams best goalie at 0.75 and second best goalie at 0.25. Formula used for overall is:

    [(average offence) * 12 + (average defence) * 12 + (best goalie) *0.75 + (second best goalie) * 0.25]/25

     

     

    1. Larson Knights - Kelvin "unknown forum name"

    Off: 90.67 Def 92.33 Glt:89.75 Ovr: 91.43

    Previous position: 2nd, playoff 2

     

    2. Hawkeye Revolution - Marcel Proust "MProust/Haradim"

    Off: 89.42 Def: 92.17 Glt: 91.5 Ovr: 90.82

    Previous position: 3rd, playoff 4

     

    3. Horn lake Hooligans - Mike Grubb "Mickg34"

    Off: 89.17 Def: 90.67 Glt: 95.25 Ovr: 90.13

    Previous position: 1st + Golden cup winner

     

    4. Pinewood Lumberjacks - Matt H "Mattlumberjacks" aka "me"

    Off: 89 Def: 90.83 Glt: 90.75 Ovr: 89.95

    Previous position: 10th

     

    5. Cuba City Eagles - Mare Maro "unknown forum name"

    Off: 89.17 Def: 89.33 Glt: 89 Ovr: 89.24

    Previous position: 4th, playoff 2

     

    6. Wynward Wildfire - Matthew Bernsten

    Off: 88.33 Def: 89.83 Glt: 91.75 Ovr: 89.19

    Previous position: 9th

     

    7. Wildwood Violent Rush - Juho Kainulainen "Keskustankeisari"

    Off: 88.75 Def: 89.5 Glt: 90.5 Ovr: 89.18

    Previous position: 6th, playoff 2

     

    8. Wolfe Wolves - Marcel Cloutier "unknown forum name"

    Off: 87.58 Def: 90 Glt: 89.5 Ovr: 88.82

    Previous position: 7th, playoff 3

     

    9. Cedar Rapids Panthers - Mauri Nieminen " unknown forum name"

    Off: 89.17 Def: 88.17 Glt: 90 Ovr: 88.72

    Previous position: 5th, playoff 3

     

    10. Urbancrest Comets - Noah High "unknown forum name"

    Off: 88.33 Def: 88 Glt: 95.5 Ovr: 88.46

    Previous position: 14th

     

    11. Sellwood Spirits - Misco Grossi " unkown forum name"

    Off: 87.75 Def 88.17 Glt: 88.75 Ovr: 87.99

    Previous position: 11th

     

    12. Molson Monkeys - Nathan Macdonald "unknown forum name"

    Off: 87.42 Def: 88 Glt: 90.75 Ovr: 87.83

    Previous position: 13th

     

    13. Montmorency Vortex - computer (previously ineffableleafs)

    Off: 86.92 Def: 87.83 Glt: 92.5 Ovr: 87.58

    Previous position: 8th, playoff 2

     

    14. Batchawana Battlin Bears - Joe Leconte "forum name unkown"

    Off: 86.92 Def: 87.5 Glt: 91.5 Ovr: 87.38

    Previous position: SHL 1st

     

    15.Blenheim Pirates - Martin J. "unknown forum name"

    Off: 87.08 Def: 86.67 Glt: 91.5 Ovr: 87.06

    Previous position: 12th

     

    16. Morden Defenders - Justin Camara "JMonkey"

    Off: 85.08 Def: 87.83 Glt: 89.75 Ovr: 86.59

    Previous position: SHL 2nd

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  14. Posted

    Yes, your situation will be the same once the season starts. Your only way out if you want to make any moves is to shed the 2m in a trade (might take a while to find a willing trade partner) or to lose some salary by releasing players. Honestly though, most teams I see this happen to end up keeping their team throughout the season and often earn back promotion as their players are that much better than everybody else - that said, I've also watched some spectacular relegations for other teams in the same situation.

     

    Also, this should be in questions.  ;)

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  17. Posted

    You're just having an unlucky season. In the past 32 days this Fishbowl season, I've only had a single injury to my main squad team and it was a 1-day injury. Past seasons I've lost pretty much my entire defence plus a few forwards and centers with varying lengths of injury time in a span of 10ish days. Injuries are all about luck, but you can mitigate that by looking at a player's recent history. Injury prone players tend to have multiple injuries listed.

  19. Posted

    Either the minuses aren't registering against my team or my team doesn't hop onto the ice until my backup is put in net. Considering my starting goalie performance drop, I'm kind of hoping for the latter ;)

     

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    Moved to Q&A since it's not a bug.

    -jusatin

  20. Posted

    I've noticed in both Clapper and Biscuit a bit of an odd trend. In both leagues there have been several matches that I have won and lost that leave me scratching my head in confusion. The box score will show a 100% lopsided advantage to one team and by all guessing you would assume that the team with all the best stats would most likely be the winner. Not the case. I saw a match recently where a team put up early 50 shots and still lost to a team who put up half the number of shots and were stuck in their defensive zone for nearly 65% of the match. I have seen games like this previously but feel as if it has been the norm this season. Once more, I'm not complaining necessarily because my #14 Clapper team beat one of the top seeded teams recently on a match just like this but I don't know if I agree with how often a match like that can happen.

     

    As additional info, on many games that we lose and have a high percentage of positive stats, my entire team will play in the green or blue and my goalie will post something like a 55 performance. I rest my goalies well and find that kind of a strange dip in performance rather odd, especially after he had just came off the bench from resting the last game and the entire team was killing it.

     

    Any one else seeing this?

    Are you also playing the Pinewood Lumberjacks? I'm starting to wonder if GoalieMakesEasySave.exe is working for my team.

  21. Posted

    Why so few human teams in the SHL?  GHL, BHL, and IHL are full, but only 5-6 humans in the SHL.  It concerns me a little, as it took me 4 seasons to go from IHL to SHL, and I'm a bit afraid that something happens at this level that causes people to quit.

     

    Anyone with thoughts on this?

    My guess is that its because the GHL has only just recently filled up in the past few seasons. It's not that difficult to earn promotion if your only facing AI's and therefore most people that got promoted into the SHL would then get promoted again into the GHL the next year. Now that the GHL is pretty much full, there are now human managers both being promoted into and demoted into the SHL which means that the number of people entering the SHL is finally bigger than the number of people exiting the SHL. And then there's also the occasional people that quit, but that happens in every league and I think the past season or two have all had an AI team get promoted into the SHL.

     

    When I first started in the LIHL, the GHL was roughly as full as the SHL is now, so it's not that bad. Also the reason the LIHL/IHL/BHL leagues are always nearly full is because anybody can join those leagues. Compare that to the SHL and GHL where managers either have a lot of experience which lets them just join a team or else have earned promotion which will take many months to do in Fishbowl depending on which league that you started in.

  22. Posted

    Yeah, I don't know why he is performing so bad. Maybe try to go after the Reapers goalie Giertl who is performing pretty decently despite being on a bad team. My opinion is that Bardou + a pick should be a fair trade considering both of their performances so far in a similar amount of games but behind entirely different teams. Another option would be to try switching your defensive tactics up. You've got fringe GHLers on your team and those players might be good enough that they are able to hide the fact that your defensive tactic is currently getting beat.

  23. Posted

    I think world class also requires a minimum number of games played. In fishbowl, I went in successive seasons starting in the LIHL all the way to the GHL and don't yet have world class status, however in Lumber, my account had done the same thing, except got stuck in silver for a few seasons and earned a world class reputation before making it to the GHL

  24. Posted

    Ugh, my backup prospect goalie, Chevrier, can't make a save for his life. But I need to play him because I want him to develop and I have a feeling that getting the occasional GHL game is better development than an affiliate at his current talent level.

     

    Maybe my goalie rotation should look like 2 games Konchesky, 1 game Chevrier and 1 game Stafford. Or else send Chevrier down, but bring him back up whenever I noticed that I am playing a team with bad scoring ability. What do you guys think?