Walter A. Donaldson

Yes!  Download is a great idea.  Either that, or have them available all season.  Sometimes it's tough to check every day and if you fall behind there's just way too much info to absorb.

Would it be possible to make the assistant reports from each game available for download.
Alot  easier to read and analyze these when you have time and not because you are forced before they disappear.

Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe.
 
But I get your point and I agree.  I'm pretty sure this was brought up in the past and that Anders toned down the player progression in one of the latest updates for this reason.

I think that a 99 ranking for any attribute should be an incredibly rare occurrence.    There should maybe be 0-3 players total with a 99 skating attribute.  And one of those 0-3 may not be a great player, may have 60-70s in the rest of their skills, just be incredibly great at that one thing.

An odd trend that I noticed as I was promoted are the huge number of players in the Gold league with no bad qualities.  There is one team with six defensemen that have no skills under 90.  In my opinion, there isn't a single player in history that was in the top 10% of the league in shooting, skating, passing, defense, spirit, physical, and all of the other various attributes.  Wayne Gretzky, the best player of all time, certainly wasn't a 90% physical.  Maybe 60%?  He wasn't a 90+% spirit either, and probably not defense.  I can't think of any players that would be all 90s (and especially all 95s+), but certainly not six at one position on one team.
 
One of the wonderful things about having players with strengths and weaknesses is searching for the traits that you desire in a team and building a team with those traits.  I can't build the broad street bullies if all players are equal.  Does that make sense?

Hi guys!
 
This is like you say on todo list but at this point I cant tell you when.
 
We keep you posted!
 
//Tobias

I think it would be cool to have some additional jersey options to give teams a larger sense of identity - and to expand from 2 to 3 color combinations.  I noticed at the jersey select screen there is a drop down for Jersey Type, but there is currently only 1 option, which leads me to believe there was initial intent for multiple options.
 
I was looking at all the NHL jersey styles and came up with the three styles below.
 
1. Sleeve stripes + bottom trim+ shoulders (BOS, EDM, STL)
 
2. Sleeve stripes + bottom trim + middle stripe (MTL, MIN, FLA)
 
3. Sleeve stripes + bottom trim (CHI, DAL, VAN)
 
You could mimic other teams jerseys such as Detroit/Toronto by selecting option 3 and just choosing 2 colors.  The current design could still remain for nostalgic purposes and purists.
 

 
Thoughts?

Are there any plans to add more tactics to the game? The current four appear to be ordered from simplest to more complex, and with the game engine, the first two don't seem to be very used often...at least in my game world. Puck possession and transition rush seem to dominate.
 
I'm thinking of something like the EA NHL series or Hockey Franchise Manager where there are more diverse systems/tactics to choose from. For example, on offense - Behind the net, Tarasov system, Triangle, hound the puck, Brooks system, etc...or on defense - 1-3-1, 1-2-2 red, 1-2-2 blue, and so on.
 
I think having more diverse tactics to choose from would make tactics and strategy more challenging and flexible for game worlds.

Rainsilent, Fangowolf, and Wendel Clark, thank you for all of your input. I've made a few changes now. I had no idea players would get exhausted, I was only monitoring that for goalies.
I signed a defenseman, but he won't show up till tomorrow. In the meantime, I scratched the most tired defenseman and put in a serviceable guy from the minors (although his skating is still garbage) but it will work to get the guy back healthy.
 
I'm also going to spread out the icetime a bit more and put 4 forwards on the pp and hopefully that will guard against fatigue. 
I'll come back to this thread with any updates or questions.
Thanks again for all of your help 

Quick update, I'm currently on an 8 game winning streak since I made the adjustments. Thank you for all your help!

70% scoring is probably way too much. Checking line is very difficult to get to work, and you only have 10% two-way line. Depending on what kind of players you have in your two-way line(s), two-way line is a good option for both preventing opponent goals (with defensive skilled players) and scoring some of your own (with offensive skilled players). You probably should either use some of your current players in two-way line(s) with more ice-time and/or get some more suitable players for this purpose. Every two-way line players should have decent DEF ability. I personally like them to have a green bar in two-way role even if they play playmaker/sniper/powerforward, if possible. I would try to balance the lines with 40-60% scoring and 40-60% two-way(/energy/checking) focuses.
 
You also might want to consider changing your defensive tactic. My advice would be to consider between spread, conservative trap and aggressive forecheck, depending on how you want to emphasize what your current players are good at, what kind of game you want to play and build the team that way and what kind of tactics your opponents use. All these tactics are quite good against three different offense tactics and have only one obvious weakness each.
 
Player should always fit into a role you want him to play. It does not necessarily need to be his best role bar (if it is, great), but preferably green bar nonetheless. Then the individual roles should fit into the line, so that the line has a good mix of different roles. And finally different lines should form a balanced whole.

Since I can't see the most important thing, your roster, I can't really do much to help. With what I can see it could be anything from trying to get players on a line to play a style that doesn't suit them to the players just not liking the system which is a possibility.

Heroic and determined mixed in with some stable players and playing them will raise the winner instinct. From what i can tell, it doesn't rise right away. It has to be built up thru playing the games too.

First, I think this is somewhat common.  The game, much like real life, can be streaky.  I have been on both sides of this where my team started 27-3 (back in BHL) through the first half of the season, then hit a cold streak and fell out of promotion.  Last season I was nearly .500 through the first half of the season (I'm in Biscuit, SHL by the way), then ended up hitting a hot streak and finished 4th without really changing much.
 
It can be frustrating, especially since you said you significantly upgraded your team.  As stated, I finished 4th last season and feel like my team was significantly upgraded as well, only to start 2-4 this season.  And in some of those games I was absolutely smoked!  Something that rarely even happened last season. 
 
There are a ton of factors that go into it.  Could just be a cold streak.  Could be hot streaks for the teams you are playing.  Maybe the other teams have found their chemistry or perfect tactics.  Have other teams also upgraded?  Literally could be 50 different things.  But again, this type of thing happens in real life too.  My advice would be not to panic and start making drastic changes (like tactics).  Maybe try to figure out if certain players are the problem and make adjustments there.  Try different fair play tactics or team focus.  Or just try to ride the wave of emotion until you get back on track.

I guess u misunderstoon my point.
 
What I want is that I can easily see assigned players contracts at bottom of "Roster" page without need to enable "Show affiliate players" from settings

As mentioned in title, affiliate players contract should be shown like:
 
Name | ... Generic info ... | Years left | Salary | Effective salary
 
Matti

Some bug adding to player numbers in the Player Stats Screen.  See attached

I think that for managers who are not competitive, and who aren't in it for recognition, like promotions and such, guys who just want to develop players. So I'm proposing that managers be able to Manage AAHL 1, 2, 3, clubs, so they can develop players and interact with other Managers, and it brings team work, as any hockey player knows, and I'm sure most Managers know this, there isn't one player in a team, so I think that this would bring in teamwork in Management.

If I could read my Manager messages and then delete them all at once would be great!

We all know a red oval on the roster is an injured player, instead of putting INJ in the field, why not put the expected length of injury there.  Currently we have to go to the plyer page and then the form tab.
 
A delete all messages in team and manager would be helpful as well.

Simple, make possible to send 1 way contract player in AAHL if they clear the waivers. Otherwise if a two way player need clear waiver, it ridiculous and I totaly disagree.

I'm ok with the 10%. If there was no budget cost then people could fill two teams full of their own prospects with no regard to finances. In the long run, 10% of a players contract is very doable but some teams will need to make adjustments with the new systems in play. Let's say you want 6 prospects to go into each of your Affiliate teams and let's assume that we are talking GHL budgets. If you have 12 guys with $1 Million contracts that calculates out to a grand total of $1.2 Million in Affiliate costs (nearly the price of one decent player).
 
I think it also depends on Manager style. Some may want to take the long approach and pick up a lot of young, developing players to build a pool while some Managers may prefer the win now strategy. Either way, I feel Like the 10% contract cost is a good trade off.

In accordance with what Score is saying, I think the affiliate teams should have their own salary cap. Any player we sign to a 2-way contract should automatically be assigned to the affiliate team, and then we can call them up as required.

@ Euph:
 
Gotta bring that tone down man - Ineffable Leafs wasn't trying to lie, merely disagreeing with you (and he stated it in a neutral stance). No need to start calling people liars!

I want to point out that I agree that the relegation playoff make no sense. Why not let the 3rd to 6th team battle it out for the "cup" and why give playoff games to teams who finished last in their league? Also, the power level is not comparable and it makes for very one sided games.