Gator Raid

I agree with Gator Raid, I'm not huge on micromanaging the minutiae.  I like how GPHM has a salary cap and that's it.  It's not about being the richest team, it's about having the right players to win a cup.

I hate my team. LOL. I thought the year would go great since I got some of my key veterans returning, but all it did was just sink me in 16th early on. It took me 10 games to actually get out of 16th only to be stuck in 15th for 5-8 games. I stayed mediocre for the rest of the season then my team finally woke up but it was too late. I made a playoff push and on the last day of games, I beat my opponent 5-2, which I thought would seal my playoff hopes, but no I lost out the #8 seed to another team that had a goal differential of +4 and I had +3. It was quite disappointing and quite upsetting since this was my second time of not making playoffs in franchise history. I just wanted to share my story...BE Prepared no matter how good you think your team is! Good Luck to all teams in playoffs and everyone BE PREPARED, I WILL BE BACK! lol

It’s because the first seed sucks

I’m not in the LIHL but I love meeting and conversing with other managers, this game has a great community.
 
I’m Gator Raid, manager of the Unity Fire Dogs in the GHL, if you have any questions about the game or just want a second opinion on something regarding lines, tactics, trades etc. let me know! I’m learning new stuff about this game everyday, so I don’t know everything, but I’m willing to pass on what knowledge I do have.
 
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I think he means we are given the player overall, but that’s it. If we want to know that players shooting stat, passing etc. we would have to scout them to find out.
 
Again, this is what I got from his comment, would be cool though.

No, he will play for them for this season, then be returned to you and you will have an opportunity to sign them this offseason. This is a good thing actually because then he will get ice time and develop faster. His rights are still yours.

No, he will play for them for this season, then be returned to you and you will have an opportunity to sign them this offseason. This is a good thing actually because then he will get ice time and develop faster. His rights are still yours.

Well it looks like the age factor of the game has caught up to me. I am trading everyone away except Kadura who is untouchable. In return for these high overall players I have, I need atleast 1 prospect(88+ overall and less than 20 years old) and a draft pick. The asking price is steep because these players can make an impact on your team instantly. Any team that cannot afford that price please message me to find out what type of trade we can negotiate. ALL TEAMS MUST message me before offering, if teams don't I will most likely ignore your offer. Thanks and let those messages come in!

I’m not in the LIHL but I love meeting and conversing with other managers, this game has a great community.
 
I’m Gator Raid, manager of the Unity Fire Dogs in the GHL, if you have any questions about the game or just want a second opinion on something regarding lines, tactics, trades etc. let me know! I’m learning new stuff about this game everyday, so I don’t know everything, but I’m willing to pass on what knowledge I do have.
 
Talk to you soon

In my experience changing the training hasn't done much if the player is a consistent player that gets injured. Go to a player's individual stats and check how many games he has played in each season and based off of that determine if he gets injured or not. like 5-10 games injured is fine like once every 5 seasons or something, but if it's more frequent then I suggest either trading him while he still has value or having a backup to play his role since he will probably get hurt. One thing that has worked for me is changing the tactics. I used to play on hard and players would get injured left right and center, so I decided to to play around with those tactics for one season. For every 20 games, I switched up the tactics each time(one time "Hard", next "Dirty", and so on). From that correlation I determined player injuries had something to do with those tactics. From that experiment, I learned that more injuries occur in "Dirty" tactic, then "Hard", then "Normal", then "Fair", and then "Safe". My team had 0 injuries when playing in Fair and Safe. Hope this helped.

Your players “Big Games” trait is what mainly affects winner instinct. Also goalies seems to have more of an affect than skaters.

6th overall pick up for grabs, Looking for prospects 86+ovr and 18-19 years old. Must have blue/green big games trait. I’m willing to package veteran players with the pick to make the deal go through.

So Draft preferences help you to order your picks and prospects you want. So basically if you have the first overall pick, if the draft preferences are not selected, the computer will automatically take your #1 pick, but if you do have a preference, select the player you want and then go horizontally across to a drop down bar which is set to any pick. Change that to one of the drop down options, which will be "first round pick", "second round pick", or "third round pick". This ensures that the prospect you want will be chose n with the right pick. But also remember to set draft preferences to "use shortlist over rank", so the computer chooses from the players you want instead of the ranked ones in the draft. Hopefully that helped.

Your players “Big Games” trait is what mainly affects winner instinct. Also goalies seems to have more of an affect than skaters.

You never know what could happen, 2nd kinda sucks in my opinion...

There will always be that tough decision between going for the cup or staying low enough to get a top 5 pick. Since Howitzer is a fast paced world, I would risk dropping spots to gain a better prospect, but this year's draft is pretty disappointing to tank for. I would actually try to win in the playoffs so that your team can gain some reputation and so that players get used to playing in playoffs. Anyways Good Luck on the rest of the season, and possibly the playoffs if you choose to go for it!

I’ve gotten many offers for players I mention on here, and people send me players I’m interested in. Same deal with Jack though, just not the right deal being sent my way yet.

It has worked for me, people have read this post and have been contacting me on offers for those players. The right one just hasn't come yet. im still waiting

In my experience, playing in the playoffs will give you more manager and team reputation which in turn will let you get high rated players for a cheaper price. Depending on the player, they can either grow a lot or stay stationary. I once had some guys jump from a 88 to a 90-91, but that was also the year I won the cup. Other years, they usually grow 1 overall or stay stationary. the pros of making the playoffs is gaining reputation and maybe a possible overall jump for some players. The cons of making the playoffs is that if you aren't a top team, you wont get every far and you lose a potential top 5 pick as you mentioned, but also there is the lack of fulfillment of not making the playoffs(wheather its exiting early or not making them at all). If the draft class is decent enough I would risk going into the playoffs, but since this years is a bit weaker than previous years, I would suggest playing younger players so they can "get used to" the big club and vs big league teams.

I collect data of all the teams top 20 players (12 forwards, 6 defensemen, 2 goalies), add them all up and compare what the league is looking like every year. This year I thought I’d share my data (players on waivers were NOT counted even if they were better than some players dressed, I DID include players on IR if they were better than a dressed player at their same position, I DID NOT include players in the minors).
Legend:
-number before team name is total team overall
-number in parentheses to the left of the team is their ranking in terms of overall
-list is in order of league position at the time when data was collected
- +/- number to the right of team name is how many overall points away from the average total overall they are
-number to the right in parentheses is teams average overall
 
(8) 1845 Pittsboro +3.3 (92.25)
(2) 1877 Stony Brooke +35.3 (93.85)
(1) 1903 Unity +61.3 (95.15)
(4) 1856 New Castle +14.3 (92.8)
(7) 1848 Burnside +6.3 (92.4)
(5) 1853 Forest Park +11.3 (92.65)
(12) 1819 Mountain Lakes -22.7 (90.95)
(3) 1862 Palm Harbour +20.3 (93.1)
(6) 1851 Nottingham +9.3 (92.55)
(10) 1838 Parkland -3.7 (91.9)
(9) 1840 Victoria -1.7 (92)
(7) 1848 Goderich +6.3 (92.4)
(14) 1799 Wyoming -42.7 (89.95)
(14) 1799 Tahsis -42.7 (89.95)
(11) 1820 North Atlanta -21.7 (91)
(13) 1809 Northdale -32.7 (90.45)
 
Total overalls: 29,467
Average: 1841.6875
 
320 players
Average overall: 92.0

I collect data of all the teams top 20 players (12 forwards, 6 defensemen, 2 goalies), add them all up and compare what the league is looking like every year. This year I thought I’d share my data (players on waivers were NOT counted even if they were better than some players dressed, I DID include players on IR if they were better than a dressed player at their same position, I DID NOT include players in the minors).
Legend:
-number before team name is total team overall
-number in parentheses to the left of the team is their ranking in terms of overall
-list is in order of league position at the time when data was collected
- +/- number to the right of team name is how many overall points away from the average total overall they are
-number to the right in parentheses is teams average overall
 
(8) 1845 Pittsboro +3.3 (92.25)
(2) 1877 Stony Brooke +35.3 (93.85)
(1) 1903 Unity +61.3 (95.15)
(4) 1856 New Castle +14.3 (92.8)
(7) 1848 Burnside +6.3 (92.4)
(5) 1853 Forest Park +11.3 (92.65)
(12) 1819 Mountain Lakes -22.7 (90.95)
(3) 1862 Palm Harbour +20.3 (93.1)
(6) 1851 Nottingham +9.3 (92.55)
(10) 1838 Parkland -3.7 (91.9)
(9) 1840 Victoria -1.7 (92)
(7) 1848 Goderich +6.3 (92.4)
(14) 1799 Wyoming -42.7 (89.95)
(14) 1799 Tahsis -42.7 (89.95)
(11) 1820 North Atlanta -21.7 (91)
(13) 1809 Northdale -32.7 (90.45)
 
Total overalls: 29,467
Average: 1841.6875
 
320 players
Average overall: 92.0

I collect data of all the teams top 20 players (12 forwards, 6 defensemen, 2 goalies), add them all up and compare what the league is looking like every year. This year I thought I’d share my data (players on waivers were NOT counted even if they were better than some players dressed, I DID include players on IR if they were better than a dressed player at their same position, I DID NOT include players in the minors).
Legend:
-number before team name is total team overall
-number in parentheses to the left of the team is their ranking in terms of overall
-list is in order of league position at the time when data was collected
- +/- number to the right of team name is how many overall points away from the average total overall they are
-number to the right in parentheses is teams average overall
 
(8) 1845 Pittsboro +3.3 (92.25)
(2) 1877 Stony Brooke +35.3 (93.85)
(1) 1903 Unity +61.3 (95.15)
(4) 1856 New Castle +14.3 (92.8)
(7) 1848 Burnside +6.3 (92.4)
(5) 1853 Forest Park +11.3 (92.65)
(12) 1819 Mountain Lakes -22.7 (90.95)
(3) 1862 Palm Harbour +20.3 (93.1)
(6) 1851 Nottingham +9.3 (92.55)
(10) 1838 Parkland -3.7 (91.9)
(9) 1840 Victoria -1.7 (92)
(7) 1848 Goderich +6.3 (92.4)
(14) 1799 Wyoming -42.7 (89.95)
(14) 1799 Tahsis -42.7 (89.95)
(11) 1820 North Atlanta -21.7 (91)
(13) 1809 Northdale -32.7 (90.45)
 
Total overalls: 29,467
Average: 1841.6875
 
320 players
Average overall: 92.0

Motivated by the number of players of Asian descent to have recently been drafted in the early rounds of the NHL Draft, such as Nick Suzuki, Kailer Yamomoto, Cliff Pu, Jason Robertson, Tyler Inamoto, and Jonathan Ang, I compiled a list of players of Asian descent in GW Biscuit (total of 33 players, including some in the junior leagues) and created a team from the top-rated players at each position. 
 

 
Although definitely lacking in depth, the team actually has some bright spots. Specifically, goaltending would unquestionably be a strength, as Justin Yu is one of the best goalies in Biscuit and still getting better. Jermey Sin was actually the Russian League scoring leader last season, and would spearhead this team's attack along with centres Max Lang and Preston Yao. Ruari Vu and Graham Lao form a competent top defensive pairing for the team, although the quality of defensemen drop down drastically afterwards.

Many of the players for this team (Sarah Do, Anthony Bui, Ryan Lai, etc.) are fast approaching retirement and have declined significantly in the past season or two. As a result, part of the reason behind me posting this now was to acknowledge them for their solid careers. On the other hand of the spectrum, there are a number of young players such as 15-year-old Louis-Phillip Low of the Ingolf Hawks (CAJHL) who I'd expect to continue to rise up the ranks and help fill in the gaps left by these retiring players.

Note that in cases where there was some ambiguity as to the name, such as the surname Lang, I assumed that these players are of Asian descent. In addition, just going off of last names of possibly Asian descent misses players who have Anglicized last names such as Jason Robertson, of Filipino descent, who was drafted by the Dallas Stars 39th overall in the 2017 NHL Draft. Finally, I have a hunch that I missed a number of players of Japanese descent simply because their surnames may not be as easy to spot when scrolling through hundreds of names so feel free to let me know if I've missed anyone!

Could you maybe have a message sent out the day before the draft order releases stating the odds of each team to win? There are obviously percentages either way to determine the draft order, so why not release those numbers? It would help us see just how lucky (or unlucky) some teams get.

Could you maybe have a message sent out the day before the draft order releases stating the odds of each team to win? There are obviously percentages either way to determine the draft order, so why not release those numbers? It would help us see just how lucky (or unlucky) some teams get.