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    littleb got a reaction from Gammgubben in Draft class presentation   
    I don’t even really want an overall. I want a ranking and the stats they have for the league they are in and that is it.
     
    My idea is based on time scouted. You could have a quick scout which takes 1 day and get a general feel for him. Maybe they will say his skating, puck handling and shooting would be exceptional for your league but he will always be lacking in defense. Then when you look at him you would see random ranges for each ability that would be -/+ 15 or even just the words as well as a potential generalization like rising star, promising etc.
     
    Normal scout would take 2 days and give you attributes within a closer range like -/+ 10. If would give you a more accurate reading of his potential and maybe point some things out like he seemed to always find a open player or he excelled at the physical side of the game giving you better ideas of potential roles.
     
    Final one is a deep scout. I still like margin for error so plus or minus 5 for attributes and includes an interview that would indicate mental abilities. Or heck maybe the interview stage could be something on a certain day in the off season where you select so many players you want to interview.
     
    Of course if you deep scout everyone you won’t get as many reports and might miss someone but will have a good idea if he is a star. If you do smaller scouts you will have more data but less accurate. Adds more decisions in the game and makes the draft more lively. N
     
    Now I have no idea what it would take to happen... but think it is something I would like to see.
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    littleb reacted to Paul T in Season 17   
    Hey now!  The Leopards B-squad are going to come out firing on all cylinders. 
     
     
     
    Yes, this needs to happen!  Although with the new auto-promotion system after the reset, I'd be surprised if you didn't either win SHL or promote via SHL playoffs in S1.
     
    ...and if this upcoming season last's long enough, there's a solid chance you are in GHL by the end and I am back in SHL.  Haha.
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    littleb got a reaction from ColoKrabatt in Can a leopard change his spots?   
    I don't think currently the traits ever change.  I think there was a suggestion made about that though in the suggestions forum before and might be thought about.
     
    The roles fluctuate based on the players skills that benefit said role, and the league level they are playing at.  So yes it does
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    littleb got a reaction from ColoKrabatt in Up? Or down?   
    Scratched players will not sub in mid game anyway.  They are sitting up in the box with their suit on watching the game and your team will play short a player for the rest of the game where an injury occurs anyway.  Give your guys a chance to play if they can as it is better for development.
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    littleb reacted to Paul T in Can a leopard change his spots?   
    Deferiet Leopards never change their spots.
     
    Also, what littleb said.
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    littleb reacted to Wendel Clark in Can a leopard change his spots?   
    About the roles. Littleb's answer was about the role bars. Not sure if the orinal question was about them or the actual role that the player is set. You can set the role from your team page's "action" menu, under "player roles". But the role bars in player page show some indication as to what role(s) are generally suitable for each player.
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Vojtěch Dolnan http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3736
     
    I have posted here my 5 cups top line C and RW, so next step is obviously the LW -  and that is Vojtěch Dolnan. Together with Chovanec and Brož*, the most successful Slovak player in this world. As I'm Czech, I'm happy to have so successful neighbor (and another 4 Slovaks in my affiliate, but no Czech player is in my team now). Dolnan is now 38yo, but still at his top 94 OVR. He is mostly playmaker though his career for high skating and passing, but has decent combination of all skills including scoring. 
    We got him via trade in S2 and since then, he was stable part of our top line and also in all our 5 cups we won.
    In 818 regular season games, he collected amazing 760 points (321+439), +248, 247 PPP, 2534 shots with 19:30 avg. TOI and 76 avg. performance. His 86 points (31+55) in 101 PO games was very important for us and ranks among highest PO points collected.
    The purposeful role model is our long time assistant captain and has collected many individual awards: most points in GHL in S7 (77 points), most points in S11 (55 points) together with most goals (28), and most points in S13 (51 points) together with most assists (35) and best +/- (+32). 
     
    *fun fact - Brož and Dolnan both started very young with Camden Blackhawks team in S1 and when relegated to SHL, they were traded to GHL (Brož to Grizzlies) in S2 and both trained hard, became top players, both won golden cup and never left their GHL teams.
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Jeremy Hawks http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=4229
     
    Jeremy is my favorite player and I cannot start active players with anyone else. He is true heart and soul of my team as he is the only one from the very beginning. 16  seasons with Protons! I got him as very talented, 21yo right-handed defender, 78 OVR in SHL (that was very high number in SHL S1!). Only later I realized that right-handed D is very valuable and I was always happy to have him. He is now 95 OVR (37 yo) and remain one of the best right-handed D in the league. I would compare him to Drew Doughty. Although he has high scoring, he is not the offensive gun as EK or Burns, but he is dominant D on both sides of the ice. He has high passing, high scoring, high defence, physical, and endurance. So he is also eating a lot of TOI... in the first 4 seasons he played 25:00 - 25:30 TOI average and pretty high performance. 
    Regular season stats are 816 games played, 404 points (98+306), +162, 22:30 avg. TOI and 77 average performance. He has 105 playoff games (exactly the same as Protons played) with 57 points (17+40), +29.
    There was drop in his performance in S5/S6, because this friendly guy was always willing to sign a long term contract for peanuts (9 year, $1 550 000 per season in S3), but he was training so fast, even he was feeling he is massively underpaid back then. We fixed that and still got cheap top right handed D. 
    He obviously has 5 GHL cups, but also was with us when we directly promoted from SHL in S1. 
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Since this world/server is about to end and this season will be most likely last one (might be even incomplete), it is good time to remember here some players - so I will introduce few of the most important players from the Proton team into Hall of Fame (HOF) in this topic. 
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Bon Honda http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=14969
     
    Bob Honda is my second choice for HOF - I really liked his name and he also has 6 cups in total (5 with Protons and 1 in S1 Mount Healthy Young Guns). He was very important part of our team for the entire career, left-handed forward in our top line - average TOI per season was 20:30-22:00 and in S7 he has most point in PO (14 points in 9 games, which is second most to Frank Beard's 15 in S3). Unfortunately he retired too early, in age of 36, while still at highest 91 OVR. Compassionate and tough player was very universal in roles (as high skating, high scoring, high defence and high spirit player) and always performed very high as a sniper or a powerforward. He was loved team member especially for his willingness to sign quite cheap long term contract (highest was $3 370 000 per season for 6 years).
    In 760 regular season (GHL only) games, he collected 683 points (321+371), including 220 PPP. He also has very high +225 in plus/minus, 2362 shots and average TOI of 20:30 with average performance of 77 over his entire career. 
    He also played 91 PO games with 75 points (41+34) and +16 in +/-.
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Stefan Söderström http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3622
     
    Stefan was not in the productivity table, but he was most dependable defensive shield in GHL for his entire career. He retired this season at age of 37 with still great 93 OVR (his best was 94) and his key skills were defence, physical and spirit, all maxed to 99. Together with big body, ~200 cm and ~100 kg (sorry to US managers, I never really learned U.S. customary system - and I think this is funny - https://twitter.com/GiveMeInternet/status/1029618705318273025?s=15.), he was predestined to be PK specialists. 
    He has also 6 cups (5 with Protons and one with Mount Healthy Young Guns). He was briefly captain, but 'A' for most fo his career and as far as I remember almost always healthy. Stefan was best in GHL in +/- in S11 and +/- is probably his most impressive stat - he has in regular season +316 in his 834 GHL games. That is more than his points, 276 (42+234). One can also notice 1401 hits and 617 PIM. Average performance was 77 and average TOI 19:30. 
    And even more impressive is his PO card - huge number of games, 115 games with 35 points (2+33), +32, 92 PIM and 190 hits. 
     
    What a career for this determined role model. 
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Nolan Daugherty http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=15016
     
    Nolan is not technically retired, but at age 41 he is waiting for contract offer and with declination from 94 OVR to 82 OVR, one can see he is no Jagr. But I think there might be big fat contract waiting for him in Russia. 
    Nolan was for really long time the best or at least among best centers in the GHL. His 99 faceoff skill was really valuable and thus 56.7 FO% si among highest in GHL (he won stunning 6594 faceoffs in his regular season career). And for the Protons, he was top line center in all our 5 cup teams. 
    Nolan was mostly known for his great two-way play and as top line center for most of his career, he played average TOI of 20:30 with lots PP and PK time. In 839 GHL games, he collected 706 points (257+449), +207 in +/-, 40 SHP, 2568 shots, 1808 hits. He also played 87 PO games with 63 points (23+40) and 56.2 FO%. 
    He had most points in GHL in S8 - 76 points in regular season. 
    This tough and nervous guy was a nightmare for PP of the other team (even at age of 41, he still has defence of 99)
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    littleb reacted to bouncer in West Chicago Protons Hall of Fame   
    Today, I want to start with the already retired players. And later I will continue with the active ones.
     
    Artem Bublik http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=1798
     
    There is already a special thread on Bublik, but I cannot start with anyone else. He was the cornerstone of all of our 5 cups. He has 6 cups in total (one  cup for the French Gulch Black Knights), which makes him second most successful goalie in Biscuit and most successful starter. He retired at age of 40 with still amazing 95 OVR (he lost some endurance, but kept other skill still very high). Despite being cocky and egocentric, he was loved. He would have stayed with Protons longer, but he was a money guy - he was paid $6 390 000 per season in S5 and he asked for similar amount in his late 30's (ended up with $5 575 000 per season with the Thetford Mines Pegasus in S11).
    But his stats are amazing - he played in 570 regular season games (553 started - counting only GHL) with OVR performance of 75. He had 73 SO, 92.3 SV% and 2.23 GAA. In playoff he was stable as well - 75 games played (73 started) with OVR performance of 75, 8 SO, 92.2 SV% and 2.29 GAA. 
    He had most shutouts 6 times in GHL, 6 times best GAA, 5 times best SV% and was named 1st star of the week 11 times (and made top3 of the week 18 times!). 
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    littleb reacted to Paul T in 2nd Annual "Tarnished Silver Biscuit Plate" PreS 16   
    OK, it's that time of season again.  Time for the 2nd Annual Tarnished Silver Biscuit Plate!  For those who missed last season's extravaganza, the best way to describe this tournament is, think GHL GOLD CUP... but better!  Or here is a link to last seasons tourney:  http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/9682-inaugural-tarnished-silver-biscuit-plate-pres-15/
     
    The round robin tournament is between 4 prestigious SHL teams, who at one time in their history auto-promoted from BHL. 
     
    1) Minnedosa Musketeers.  They need no introduction.  They were the winner of last year's Tarnished Silver Biscuit Plate and the only one of these teams to make the SHL playoffs.  They were tired of always finishing 2nd best to the Leopards and went into S15 with a chip on their shoulder.  A literal chip because all they do is aggressively shove food into their faces.  They are known as being the biggest, baddest and fattest team in all of Biscuit. 
     
    To get a glimpse of their greatness in action, here is a link to their preseason training video: 
     
    Last seasons result:  3-0-0-0, 15 GF, 8 GA
     
    2) Tullahoma Tomcats.  I would say they need no introduction, but they do it themselves anyways.  A team that exceeded all expectations last season, but it still was not good enough for Coach Wendel.  Anything short of a 60-win season catapults him into a rage of fury. 
     
    The below clip was taken after a S15 win in which the Tomcats only won by 1 goal (start video at 0:45): 
     
    Last seasons result:  1-1-0-1, 8 GF, 8 GA
     
    3)  Pittsboro Plastic Attack.  The SHL newcomers certainly held their own last season and avoided relegation by a large margin.  Known league-wide for patience with player development and building an empire via draft picks.  Coach Naekfor is meticulous when it comes to building a team.  Everyone who has ever tried to pry a draft pick off his hands has received the same response: 
     
    Last seasons result:  0-1-1-1, 8 GF, 10 GA
     
    4)  Deferiet Leopards.  A disappointing season for the Leopards that was foreshadowed by a disappointing preseason tournament.  The Leopards missed the playoffs by a single point for the first time since taking over the franchise.  While most teams dwell on the golf course, that just isn't their style.  Instead, these hard rockers threw a killer party complete with fine women, booze and blow and partied their faces off.
     
    The full party was recorded here in this completely NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR CHILDREN video: 
     
    Last seasons result:  who cares, what's it to you anyways?
     
     
     
    Season 16 schedule (Home teams on left):
    Day 4 - Leopards vs. Plastic ... Musketeers vs. Tomcats
    Day 5 - Tomcats vs. Leopards ... Plastic vs. Musketeers
    Day 6 - Leopards vs. Musketeers ... Plastic vs. Tomcats
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    littleb reacted to Steve in S15 General Chat   
    Congrats to the Vandals and Kim for another Championship!  The fact that you have a couple former Elite on your team clearly means Elite are right there in the running for next year, haha.
     
    I didn't overlook this one, ha!
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    littleb reacted to Smashvilles4Realz in S15 Trades   
    have you ever had your identity or personal information compromised because of a needless online purchase. i have. it sucks. unless they begin accepting cans as payment, that's pretty useless advice. alot of people are not willing or unable (a kid who doesn't have a bank account for instance) to make a monthly online payment, to your point, yes, i waste $2 a month on useless stuff every month. the difference being, i hand a person cash and not my credit card # to hold in a database indeffinetly. it's risk v. reward i suppose.
     i plan to purchase a pre-paid visa card and use that for my monthly $2 fee. That would be my advice to anyone who falls in the same catagory as i.
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    littleb got a reaction from Steve in S15 General Chat   
    I am not sure I want to win this playoff tbh.
     
    If this truly does end up being the last of the last I would prefer giving my boyz in SHL free tooth extractions and visits to the hot nurse in hospital.
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    littleb reacted to EXXEO in S15 General Chat   
    I think I discovered the Banger's strategy for this round of Playoffs; take out the exact same positioned defensive forward early on in the match. Crafty!
     
    It was quite Ironic that the same spot got injured but I'd have to say that the second match Injury didn't appear to be on the Banger's end. Royer won a faceoff but went too hard for it, slipped and broke his nose on his own skate! I know, it seems impossible but the video went viral after a Banger fan posted the carnage in YouTube.
     
    Good luck with the GHL opponent Bodmin - take them out at the knees...or their face....doesn't matter who that way
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    littleb reacted to jdonutken in Introduce yourself   
    I'm jdonutken, near Chicago, just acquired the Louisbourg Miners in LIHL.  Baffling; will be slow going...
     
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    littleb reacted to EXXEO in S15 General Chat   
    More typical back-to-back matches for us this season: yesterday we beat the #1 team on the road, today we lose to the #14 team at home...
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    littleb reacted to Paul T in S15 General Chat   
    Forever connected by some weird magnetic force.
     
    Season 12 - tied in points (both promoted from BHL to SHL)
    Season 13 - tied in points
    Season 14 - tied in points until the final day of the season
     
    Season 15...
     

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    littleb reacted to Paul T in S15 General Chat   
    Trouble in Deferiet!
     
    The Leopards recent string of losses has created turmoil in the locker room as coach Paul T has started to question the compete level of his players.  After making the SHL playoffs the last two seasons and getting off to a hot start this season, the Leopards are slowly skidding down the standings and seem destined to miss the playoffs for the 1st time since relocating to Deferiet. 
     
    After their loss to the #1 Indians yesterday, a scuffle ensued between coach Paul T and the team's longest tenured and most respected player, Juan David Waller.  Despite giving up almost 6" and 30 lbs, Paul T got his point across.
     
    The result:

     
     
     
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    littleb got a reaction from MattBerserkers in Draft class presentation   
    Personally I think there should be a generalized overall. Then we need scouts in the game and the more time they scout certain players the more info you get. On my phone so not going to go full detail.... but think that would be a hell of a lot of fun
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    littleb got a reaction from MattBerserkers in Draft class presentation   
    There are actually a lot of people who put the time and aggravation into deep scouting.  I do think having a little bit of work is what makes you earn your keep a little, so am on the fence whether I am a fan of it or not.  Just like scouting in free agents, you have to go look at each player in detail and if you are willing to do the work you have an advantage.  
     
    Saying this the I can see where your idea has merit, not sure which side of the fence I am on with it though is all.
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    littleb reacted to Mark Z in Mascot issue / Solutions   
    1. check out www.openclipart.org 
     2. www.graphicsfactory.com / this is most likely what you are using now. has some of the same icons! 3. www.summitsoft.com has a logo design program