I just find it hard to fight TPE inflation. When the top players are all rocking 1600-2000 TPE and the roleplayers are at 900-1300. Well, you're kind of stuck playing unfavorable minutes and that doesn't incentivize players to want to go up. If you play brand new members on the top lines in the SMJHL and then 6 weeks later they're relegated to being 3rd (and more likely 4th) line plugs, you're not keeping interest. You might have them hooked for that 6 week SMJHL season, but then stuck looking at an insurmountable mountain to climb for 4-5 more seasons to catch up to the people on the lines above them.

The problem simply stems from how STHS works and how we do a slow build as a player. Real hockey has players that are far above their peers in talent level early on, the SHL doesn't have that, we have a progression/luck based system.

What I do agree with in all of this is that send downs winning Jesster are a big no-no in my book. I think that after a player is down for 3 seasons or is over a certain TPE threshold, they should be disqualified from being considered a Jesster candidate. My last rookie season in the SHL was S41 with, now retired Luuk Kraaijkamp, and I finished 3rd in Jesster voting as a rookie with around 500 TPE at the time of my going up. I scored 34 points on Toronto that season while the winner of the Jesster scored 42 points. The difference in our TPE was maybe 400 or more at the time. I will admit that I am guilty on my current player of wanting to stay "seasoning" in the SMJHL, but that's more of a product of the current system than what I would like it to be.

I just don't see a quick fix to a lot of the issues.