Quote:Originally posted by KleslaR@Sep 6 2016, 07:08 AM


Wow wow wow, timeout here. Strength is the most important? What does strength affect then? Skating, shooting, body checks, puck posession, etc? What's the point of being a role player if you still need to sink a crapload of TPE into strength? I was going to build a more defensive minded player from now on (since my scoring is already at 60, I figure that's enough) but if I don't sink points into strength, nothing else matters?

I mean it seems like there are some fundamental flaws in this system and I have to agree with a lot of the points OP makes because while hits do tell some things, I'd still love to have more corsi because its sometimes really hard to figure out what the hell is that isn't working. <a href='index.php?showuser=2273' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-3'>bk1689</a> was a -22 on the season and he had more TPE in his build than me, so technically he should have been better but he just got absolutely punished in the sims when it came to that stuff.

I heard Tanner talking about how goalies don't really get good until around 700-800 TPE but with all of this info, I can't decide what stats I should focus on because I'm getting a mixed message from every single source I'm looking at.

I'm the simmer, I will usually have a bit of a better grasp than most others on this. Yes, strength is the most important attribute. It basically is all about puck possession.

Now that doesn't mean that points elsewhere don't matter. If you're solely defensive minded, putting points into defense and puck handling is great for shot blocks and positioning. It's not that you NEED high strength to be super successful in everything, it's that it's the attribute that will most help you be that successful in all three areas of the ice.

What strength does is: It gives you the ability to maintain control through hits. The most common way to have a giveaway is through being hit, and most common way to have a takeaway is through hitting somebody. Strength makes it less likely for you to lose the puck when you get hit, and it doesn't affect the decision-making formula in the same way Skating, Passing, Scoring, Puck Handling and Defense do. It makes it the only attribute that is solely around controlling the puck and doesn't affect the way your player plays.

The thing most people have to realize is, TPE is not the be all end all. It never would be in any system. It's how you use it. That's why we made everything change to where you have to determine which attributes you find most important. So just because someone has more TPE than you, doesn't mean they'll do better. If they're playing more minutes, they're more likely to be out there for a goal. If they have weaker defense than the person they're against has scoring/skating/passing, they'll likely be giving up some points to them. It's not that it's a perfect system, by far it is not, but it's a system where you need an understanding and a complete player to be successful, not just "here's TPE, I win."

As for goalies, as somebody who builds them primarily, yes it does take until around 800 TPE to be a really good goaltender who is capable of being a full-time starter in the league. It's not impossible, sometimes you can be lucky with someone below 800, but that's around the threshold for a really good goalie. It's just the way the scale works and the fact that goalies will perpetually be behind all the skaters in terms of skill/ability.