09-12-2018, 07:07 PMTomen Wrote: I am obviously not Izzy but how I interpret his post is that not everyone will be able to have the same "settings" to achieve the same career goals. But that has never been the case in the SHL if you go back through the history of the SHL. TPE inflation, regression scale changes and Update Scale changes made it that players never had the exact same chances to achieve high career numbers.

You could say that those who created around S17-S25 are in a sweet spot for the highest career numbers because of TPE inflation, they still had the older & easier update scale which allowed for higher attributes and therefore a better in sim performance. S21-S25 thre were 52 games played in a season. Rule changes also happened which limited double shifting star players so overall ice time got less and therefore production.

09-12-2018, 07:12 PMMike Izzy Wrote: Realism Era (S12-S20; S25-Present)
52-Game Era (S21-S24)
Inflation Era (S9-S11)
Experimental Era (S6-S8)
Dead Puck Era (S3-S5)

these are the 5 eras of the SHL.... if we make a change to the regression table which all but ends a players chance at any historical numbers then the era must be changed to allow that new generation of players to set there own standards under the new rules... (active players caught in between these changes are subject to debate IMO)

But... if we use the longest career (24 seasons) as the template to make these change then theres an inherant fairness to the rules.

09-12-2018, 07:14 PMSleepy Wrote: I'm sure Izzy will explain, but from my perspective of it, he's concerned that changing the regression scale so much will somehow change the validity of previous record holders and the ability for new players to break those records because the scale affected them differently than players under a previous scale regression curve.

Oh okay, yeah I got confused cause I thought that was already address.

if thats whats meant by it, then it's not an issue, based on just what you guys shared. As you said this is already the case. Every era is very different from every other, and there's already no way to compare them.