Quote:Originally posted by Steelhead77@Aug 24 2017, 06:02 PM


Poor Wongy, finally puts together a stellar season, gets some luck and people want a goalie scale change. Let him have this lol.

But all kidding aside, I wouldn't say Wongy's build is on par with a 1600tpe player. He has 4 categories at 85, where you have them at 95. He has nothing at 99, where you have three at 99. He also has PS and PH at 50, which is a choice he made so he can have the others higher. Sure he is putting together a strong season because he's following the plan of secondaries around the same level, primaries around the same level and our team is solid plus we've gotten some luck. He has great stats this year, but could easily have gotten boned at the start of the season and had a GAA above 3.00. Which has happened a lot, even when he was 1300tpe. The sim will always do that, regardless of tpe and build.

Again, I get it, but it's not the norm for goalies to have 1600tpe. An 800tpe player is someone who's worked hard and deserves to see solid numbers. We shouldn't make scale changes based on how it effects 1400-1600tpe goalies because those are not the norm in the league. Making it harder for a normal or casual player to have an effective goalie will only make it less likely and fun for someone to create a goalie imo. Only the super active tpe maniacs will create goalies.

If we start making 700-800tpe goalies not capable of starting for an SHL team, we won't be helping the position imo. People will lose interest because they will never be good enough to start.

In reality an SHL starter should be able to put together a solid season at 800-1000 tpe, which is about what we see now. Yeah the difference in performance is not that big with 1600tpe players, but it never will be because of the randomness of the sim.

My back up Richard C Hocolate is a good example, a casual active player who's been working consistently since we drafted him in S29. That's 8 seasons, 9 including juniors that he's been working on his goalie. He's finally around 800tpe and capable of being a decent SHL starter. An update scale would never allow active casual players like this to reach starter level in the SHL. Which means only the highest tpe earners would be able to make goalies if we had an update scale change.

I think the only thing a scale change would do, is help the highest of tpe goalies use more of their tpe. It would not change anything in goalie performance imo and would negatively effect the people creating goalies and the time it took to make a capable SHL starter.

Also I think McFadden should just stop earning tpe, spend the training money on chicken parms and dates with the league's hottest ice girls.

But what if Chocolate was a skater, he would never have been a decent player. Every other position needs at least 1000 tpe to make a good player. But the goalie position is essentially saying, here is where you can be semi active and be successful, if ur active, dont be a goalie.