Quote:Originally posted by Merica@Jul 8 2015, 05:39 PM


Mac, the whole POINT of being a new player is that you are a rookie, and you are behind the curve, as all rookies are. Send downs have been in the league longer and therefore have earned more TPE. You can't just eliminate that advantage that they worked for.

Sorry for all the Winter, I believe that ties in with your article since the borderline for a marginal SHL player has risen over and over each season.

That is something that was discussed as well and another reason we aren't doing the discussion in public since it eats up a lot of time responding to peoples concerns.

Therefore, I at least, have been reading instead of posting in the threads taking in all the comments and such and hoping to find a happy balance for everyone.

Ideally, that would be appealing to the newer members and with the current starting total and senddown cap, there might be a handful of players hit 350 before the draft. This means senddowns get to dominate against all but a handful. Currently, 400 TPE is around the point most if not all your stats are in the 80's (a decent third liner) and you start to flesh out your build, 350 is not too far from that and only the most active and dedicated rookies will hit 300 by seasons end.

50 TPE spent in the 70's can create a huge difference state wise.

I compiled the data on the top TPE earners each season and the average seems to be around 135-145 with a few outliers around ~175 (Creller, Stinson, Zoidberg) With the proposed increase to the start, a new player can reach the same level as a senddown by the time the championships roll around and if sent down would be the same level as 1st or 2nd year senddown.


With people taking up the top 9 in the SHL and the top 6 in the SMJHL being dominated by senddowns who can't make their SHL team yet but are so far ahead of new creates that they will not lose those positions. No one wishes to play fourth line minutes so you have ~40 spots for new members now.

So come preseason in Season 25, when the SHL teams are full and new creates are looking at 3rd line or 2nd pairing in juniors, against players with over double their TPE, unlikely to give up that playing time, what do you think will happen?

The hardest working ones will make it, but we will lose a lot of semi active members unnecessarily who will see nothing but low minutes for a long time.

This league is entirely too reactive at times. Expansion needs to be done NOW, there are an incoming ~40 rookies into the SHL, only ONE stayed up last season and that doesn't look to change this season, so where will next seasons draft class go? The only option is expansion and fixing the TPE engine (gain, start, scale and regression) otherwise, we will have logjams of players in the top 6 for seasons on end.