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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - MrPresident - 03-23-2025
Option 1
Kristian Seppanen, the superstar right defenseman and assistant captain of the Atlanta Inferno ice hockey team of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the Simulation Hockey League, commonly known as the SHL, would change a number of rules to make the games more chaotic, including:
1. Making goalies even less useful in FHM, because what do they even reliably do? (And that's no slight on goalies, it's a pure slight on FHM for being a horrible engine)
2. Making it mandatory that the same play is repeated for the entire 60 minutes of the sim, so that you have no clue what actually occurred.
3. Making blocked shots be each the equivalent of a goal scored for the shot blocker, making Kristian Seppanen an offensive beast.
4. Making it so that the Atlanta Inferno don't miraculously stop having any form of offence, and if the Atlanta Inferno offence is stifled, the game gets paused until we feel confident again.
5. Every game is played in Atlanta Inferno home ice.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - JKortesi81 - 03-23-2025
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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Tsunny - 03-23-2025
Written Option 1:
With pretty much the same teams facing each other almost all the time it can get a bit repetative and a bit boring after a while. Perhaps looking at alternatives from other sports could be a good way to go to spice things up. Of course Sonja is not the type of woman who would twist the rules so her team gets benefited. She wants to win fair and square. However taking inspiration from one of her other favourite sport would be a great start. When it comes to domestic cup competition in Football/Soccer the opponents are drawn against each other as such there is not many repeating matches which would certainly make things more interesting. Another benefit from this would be the possibility to draw strong teams against each other, granting some excitement early on in the playoffs and as an extra bonus there could be new faces seen in the finals if a strong team is beaten. Lets take the English FA Cup as an example. There was quite a few big teams getting eleminated early (both due to facing one another and due to upsets) which means in the round of 8 there is only one traditional "big six" team left who are also in a struggling form which means there is a good chance that we will get an unlikely winner this season. Which is very exciting from a neutral fan's perspective.
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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - JR95 - 03-23-2025
Remember when you were younger and you didn't have enough kids at the outdoor rink to have 2 full teams with goalies, so you turned the net around facing the boards and played without goalies? That's what I'd love to see in the SHL playoffs to really spice things up. While I am looking out for my boy @G2019 (can't have a bad save percentage if you aren't playing), This would genuinely add an incredible amount of chaos to the games and the outcomes would be completely unpredictable. If you wanted to make things even more arbitrarily random, you could add a golden puck on a 1 minute timer where if a team scores, their goal counts for 2 goals. I don't think I'd want to implement many more changes after that. At some point it becomes a little too hard to track and this already provides the perfect amount of randomness. It would be almost impossible to win 2 years in a row.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Mongoose87 - 03-23-2025
Option 1
I think Elaina Beneski, like all of her close friends, is ultimately an agent of chaos, so any rule changes made at her behest will ultimately reflect that. Let's be honest - no one ever had their life become more stable when Elaina, Kosmo, Giorgiy or Jerzi was introduced to them.
First rule change - Second period goalies are pulled. On the surface, this looks like a true chaos option, and indeed I suspect it may prevent repeating, but it's ultimately going to force fundamentally sound hockey. You have to back check without a goalie. You have to play tight defense without a goalie. Every shot counts, because every shot is a goal.
Next change - all players must be deemed sponge worthy.
Last change - enlarged shoulder pads. What can I say? Elaina is a true 90s girl and she loves her 90s style. Everyone has to have those big Klingon style shoulder pads for some reason.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - oknom - 03-23-2025
Big mistake putting me in the driver’s seat for playoff rules with my team in the conference finals. You idiots! First off, western conference teams will only be able to field left handed players. This includes skaters and goalies. Right handed players rostered for the playoffs can continue to practice and play, but must play with left handed equipment. Violations are a game misconduct.
For the rest of the playoffs, winning a fight gives your team a powerplay. If you’ve won a fight before this rule has been implemented, you can start every period on the powerplay to make up for this injustice.
Goals by defenseman count for 2, and defensemen are allowed to interfere with forwards now.
Im not entirely sure those last few rules will only benefit us, but they sure will benefit my player. The winner of one of the two playoff fights so far, the other being Jarrod Lakemore of the Buffalo Stampede.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Pyro182 - 03-23-2025
In an effort to create a more exciting playoffs Westley will be instituting a few rule changes. Firstly for every 12pts btwn two teams that face each other, the lower seeded team will be spotted 1 win to increase competitiveness. Secondly, he will be massively increasing the fighting sliders. Continuing his increases to physicality, he will also be allowing unit tactics, but solely for the creation of 1 "grinding / checking " line per team. While the first rule does improve Toronto's chances at going far this season, the main goal of Westley's rules is to make every game as intense as possible. In fact, to further increase tension every game will now be played entirely under the rules of sudden death overtime. First goal wins, whether its the 1st minute or the 120th, every game ends the moment someone scores. As these rules are so carefully planned out both Westley and myself expect HO to take this post extremely seriously and to use this as a guideline on how to improve the playoff experience
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Magenta - 03-23-2025
Written 1:
Well since my teams keep losing in the first 2 rounds, my proposal is that we have a losers bracket that allows teams that lose in the playoffs to have a shot at redemption against the champions. Maybe instead of a 7 game series, we have best of 5 for the initial bracket, then best of 3 for the losers bracket, then the final championship will see the initial bracket winner having only to win 2 games in a series while the loser bracket winning team has to win 4. All losers, whether you lose in the 1st round or 4th, all are welcome in this bracket, but the winner will always have home-ice advantage. This would create a good amount of chaos, especially if we have teams play each other multiple times. We could certainly see three-peats again, but with the redemption factor in play, teams might lean into rivalries more and be motivated in different ways.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - ThePyroAlpaca - 03-23-2025
Juan Tymer is a good option for mvp consideration. On a Winnipeg squad boasting a grand total of 4 players over 1400 tpe to start the year hopes were not high. Still the team managed to not miss the playoffs, something they have managed to do every year since Juan has been on the team, and we're almost .500. Juan was a big reason for this success, being top ten in both assists and points for a defensemen even though he lacked the high tpe defence partner or complimentary forward core (outside of LHL). So even though his numbers may be lower than some other defensemen like on higher scoring teams his point totals would likely be higher if he had a larger high skill complimentary cast. Same can be said for other winnipeg stars, Langston Madison Laurant and Rhett Carpet, who both also put up stellar seasons with limited support offensively or defensively.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - OVOXO - 03-23-2025
Written Option 1
Elliot Alderson, after watching the same teams dominate playoffs again, decides to take matters into their own hands. Elliot breaches the leagues operations system and starts hacking. He first creates an algorithm that programs the ice to subtly tilt in random directions, making the puck behave in weird manners. Another hack is adding random "goals" that never happened but count in the final score. Nobody noticed at first, the changes were subtle, and weirdly enough Elliot's team started to climb up the rankings.
A funny hack that Elliot did was the zone scramble, where every 7 minutes of gameplay, the location of face-offs dots would shift by 8 inches in random directions. With his sister Darlene providing occasional assistance, Elliot installs on the HO's system the "hockey.exe" virus with all of these rule changes. The league's IT security is a joke compared to what he's used to dealing with, They don't even notice until it starts happening across multiple teams and the Steelhawks starts winning a lot of games.
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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Shiamus - 03-23-2025
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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - brocksamson - 03-23-2025
Option 1
Were I, Paul Krugman, the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008, given the opportunity to, simply put, mix things up for the playoffs I would bring inanity of the highest degree to the task! First, everyone must be wearing at least one piece of goalie equipment. Which extra piece of padded bulk? Who selects the extremity to be padded, or perhaps even adorned with a catching glove? We let fate decide! Before the game we introduce the skaters on either team and they drop a ball into a roulette wheel of sorts. But this wheel has no numbers nor red nor black! This wheel has combinations of goalie equipment! Will you be wearing a chest protector or will you have a left leg pad, catching glove and goalie mask? Lady Luck will be your guide!
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - LeakyCink - 03-23-2025
Unpredictable playoffs? Chuck Lumbermouth can give you unpredictability. Randomized seeding. That's right, seeding is drawn from a hat, and reseeded every round. Will this guarantee strong playoff rounds that get progressively more competitive? No, not in the slightest. Will it guarantee chaos? Almost certainly. You could have two teams worthy of meeting in a conference championship clashing in the first round. Teams with no business getting out of the first moving on to face another team with no business being there. We would have Cinderella stories left and right. Teams that make the playoffs for the first time may end up playing in multiple rounds, gaining valuable experience. At first there will be excitement surrounding the new system. Eventually some people will take offense to the idea, feeling as if their team earned an easier path during the regular season. This is where we double down. Cross conference seeding.
RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - Baron1898 - 03-23-2025
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RE: S81 PT #5: Let’s Mix It Up - DeThePyro - 03-23-2025
Written Option 1: If I were to make one change in the SHL, the change would be very simple. It would be to make injuries and player randomness more. Right now, there's less. It's very strict and very regimented. And I think that a little injury change would much changes levels. Also I want less playoff spots. There is so many playoff spots that it's impossible to miss playoffs and regular season has no meaning if you just make playoffs. Let's just say half the teams get it both looks. At J and SHL it means so much. Drafts would means so much because of bad season means you miss playoffs. Instead of just not having the chance for the cup. Also it makes out better players have much higher salaries because right now the salaries are very compressed between players. I would make it if you're a great player you have to have a massive salary. Like look at normal NHL teams. They, they're their top players, take huge percentages of their cap. Here it's only every player makes about the same, but you can't have too many good ones. But no, the contracts aren't big enough. They need to be much expanded, expand the cap, expand all that. And that's what i would do