12-28-2018, 11:36 AMluketd Wrote: Sure I’ll give my quick thoughts on this.

1. Expansion is a good thing, it will be temporary or permanent depending on the activity level in the next seasons.

2. I was on the 4th line my rookie season because my team was deep depth wise. The biggest factor in retention rate I think is 2 main things. The locker rooms you are in and how well you are doing in the sim.  For me personally a strong Czech Locker room and a strong whalers discord kept me interested in the SHL. Even though I only put up 14 points while other rookies I knew were getting 20+ it was that I was having fun and I had hope for next season to do better. Staying engaged and talking to people I think has kept a ton of people from quitting the site. Keep people invested into the team is also a good way.

3. As a gm you have to find a good balance of keeping your team competitive and giving ice team around. And it’s difficult process because you want rookies to do stuff so they keep on updating and having fun, and you also want to win because you want people to be happy about your team. I know for Halifax people were getting frustrated when they had a really good team but still failed to show up for it in the sim.

Just to add to that last point, I have been in quite a few locker rooms where the players where absolutely fine with one or two high-caliber inactives playing in a bigger role over lower TPE actives because it gave the team as a whole a better chance at winning and thereby made the overall experience more enjoyable for everyone, often even for the guys whose personal ice-time suffered a bit.