09-28-2019, 02:26 PMhhh81 Wrote:

09-28-2019, 02:15 PMJNH Wrote: Perhaps should look at how the SHL has a coach of the year award and GM of the year award.  Though I still think Tig should qualify for both because they built a great team and did great with that team on the ice.  

Though just for clarification when voting, are the voters taking into account past years moves when making GMOTY? Like DET iirc didn’t do too much roster movement before last season other than adding a couple rookies to their depth, most of their real roster building was done in the past (as it should be).  So is GMOTY really like best GM of the past few seasons with also good results this season? Or are they strictly judging it based on only things that happened this season?

We pretty heavily focus on the current season, including both the on ice results and moves made to improve the team. We looked a lot at some advanced stats like roster quality, CF%, PDO, etc. Specifically focusing on DET, their roster performed as expected while also having the highest average and actual TPE roster in the league. You raise a valid point that some of their big moves happened in previous seasons, so the process is imperfect. The committee was pretty consistently in agreement on DET outside the top 3, and I think, all in all, we got the correct finalists.

You don't need to make moves to be a good GM though, sometimes simply keeping the roster together is impressive enough, especially when you have 4th year players like Detroit did iirc. Once you have basically a capped top 9 / top 6 plus some high tpe 4th liners there isn't much you can (or should) do in terms of trades / fa signings. By the way they got pingy to redistribute his unusable build, so that was a significant improvement.

I calculated average tpe in S48 and Detroit wasn't that good, so they improved a lot in S49 by getting their sophomores to reach 300+ tpe and keeping their veterans. Also I just remembered that Izem Abioye was acquired via a trade in the offseason.

At the end of the day Detroit built one of the most dominant teams in recent memory, and they did it in a season when almost everyone was rebuilding after the reddit draft. If you look at roster quality no one was even close. I ran some test sims out of curiosity and it was really really impressive, they won .700-.750 % of games. So I don't see how you can make an argument for any other team to win it, they were just that good. Really interesting selection