11-28-2019, 12:56 PMBDonini Wrote: Not sure if this has been mentioned and don't really wanna read through 10 pages but from what I've seen it looks like playing players out of position has a big effect on their performances, if that's the case it could hurt SMJHL teams who often have a lot of forwards out of position to try giving more ice time to actives.

Even with development off players will get better in their "off-positions", the thought was that we could set players to the max rating in their primary position, then a reasonable rate at other forward positions for forwards and D positions for D. As they play in those off-positions they improve at it and it doesn't take super long to improve. We do have the option to put primary positions at 20 and other F/D position(s) at 19 if we wanted to, then the impact would be basically 0. Though I do like the idea of players getting better on their off-wing or at C over time if they haven't played it before.

Your point is well heard though, we don't want to scare teams off from playing active players in their off-side, so it might just be a matter of picking a reasonable starting point for those off sides, or negate it almost completely from the start.