01-07-2020, 02:38 PMWasty Wrote: Having 90 passing doesn’t hurt your player. Maybe you had a bad season. My player has 97 passing and had 51 points, who lead the league in scoring? oh yeah a pass first player. Having high passing doesn’t kill your player, whoever told you that is a damn liar.

For sure being passer does not make you suck but to me it seems like consistency isn't strongest points of SimonT, at least what I have seen in fantasy (where there is lot of moving factors) or in my own test at SMJHL level (no changes made, points anywhere from 10 to 24 for me, 22 to 42 and 24 to 46 for two forwards during 50 game season, 20 seasons, done around season 49).

And even if you have good season now you just can always reasonably think based on tested data, forum outrage or looking at Hamilton and their shots for/goals for from this season to question if your player would be better (or more helpful to team) with high scoring and low passing, which sounds like it can be very demoralizing when you have invested lot of time to player, even if difference ins't as significant as you would think.

Difference between passing and scoring might be something that gets more noticeable when most of the team is doing it and while Hamilton were top of goals for by small margin they still were not dominating everyone and for example lost both their games versus Edmonton so season isn't over yet. Also based on quick search on S50 IIHF file, ratio of shooter to passers above 92 was around 9:5 so it is not that shoot first players were not common before this all.

01-07-2020, 03:19 PMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: And yeah I don't get why the league doesn't implement some quick stopgap solution to curb the worst possible affects and to take away the asterisk that everyone will attribute to this season if HAM wins. Just say that Scoring can't be more than 15 or 20 points higher than Passing and be done with it, this will give you ample time to work on other fixes like the Forced Passer on Lines 1 & 2 thing (which I'm not really a fan of) and the eventual transition to FHM.

Based on this isn't those both stuff that they might do for next season. And that maybe raises real question that I have not seen too much around, if people would think that restricting players development, maybe adding some roster limits and players being even more similar would be preferable solution to sim engine change in long run? Like setting fixed passing to 80 or 90 would make it more even playing ground and remove last real choice for good builds there was.

There will always be people who don't want to build meta player that is same as everyone else even if it makes them worse but there is also very competitive people who want to be on top and want to build best player they can which leads people just reaching what ever caps are seen as best.

All in all, very tiring topic to go on and on, so no wonder people might be leaving over it for multiple reasons.