12-13-2018, 08:19 AMRabidsponge21 Wrote: I most definitely don't claim to have all the solutions with my main post. This is why I started this to at least get people talking. Honestly I'd like just a few of these ideas as a base to be considered to start then we can go from there

And again to people like @Boomcheck  your one of the very few who go up right away it's a more rare occurrence then regular and like I said you leave the ability to go up still after 1 season but your regression timer starts right away. You can't say over the past 15 seasons I've been here that no more than 10% of draftees go straight up after draft. It just doesn't happen.

Why would we run a system that would benefit a player for staying down another season than going up right away? That's kind of the exact opposite of what should happen. The flaw in your suggestion is that the player that spends 2 seasons in the SMJHL will get more opportunity to earn TPE before even hitting regression, while the player that goes up earlier has less opportunity to do so. Why not just keep the rules as the same, 1 season before the draft, but if you stay down you cannot have more than x tpe. Like you literally cannot earn over a certain amount, hard cap. See people will get up in arms about it and say, 'what about the young prospects apart of stacked teams'.

I don't see many teams using their 4th line, it's just a double shifting parade. There's room in the SHL, but no one wants to take it.

People staying down has been a trend since like S20+, it does have to do with how stacked some teams are like ArGar says BUT people still don't take the chance when they are available. They fear doing poorly. They would rather be that big fish in a small pond of the SMJHL where they put up great numbers.

When given the opportunity to go up immediately while being offered top 6/top 4 mins players ill still stay down. With how things are currently, forwards can have it a little rough. Defensemen? They can do really well right out of the gate.

Part of the reason I prefer going up so quickly is because the settings are different between the SHL and SMJHL, so it would be in my best interest to test out how I do in the sim setting that matters.

With expansion we will be able to have more homes for players, but I also believe the frail mindset of members in this league may not change. When I first joined I barely made the 4th line of a Chiefs team and was happy. I essentially played on the 3rd/4th line for my first 3 seasons. The SMJHL seemed more like the AHL and ain't nobody really wanted to be sent back down there.

Also this league favors offensive production in many ways, and i'm not talking sim engine. I'm talking members in the awards committee. They are heavily biased and seem to lean towards point production from what I have experienced. Why put your TPE in other areas when all they care about is how you put the puck in the net or how many dimes you get? I will say it again. The awards committee is horrendous.