I thought my player did okay, he led the team in many offensive areas but that's to be expected when you're a little ahead of the window that your team is building for. I think my realistic goals were met, but optimistic ones not so much. I was a top contributor to my team, but because of the core meltdown a few seasons ago we lost most of the players near my draft class so compared to where I could have been if the plan kept traction I'm probably a bit below average. I think as a team, we could have had some better defense. Eller was doing his damndest to swat the pucks away, but I think we may have let too many through to sustain the success needed to progress through the playoffs. I'm confident we'll be better next season as the new core continues to grow and the team TPE overall spring's upward.


To me the S49 finals was the most memorable. Overall, I think S51 was rather important, though. Just a couple seasons prior, HAM found an exploit in the previous sim engine STHS, which allowed a team to do consistently and unreasonably excellent if all players had the smallest passing allowed (making them all shoot first). The exploit could not be worked around cleanly, which caused the sim engine change a couple seasons later to FHM. What I think made this situation controversial was HAM's attempt to game the engine without bringing it to the attention of league management. It was only caught when one updater was updating Hamilton during the offseason and noticed everyone was redistributing TPE out of passing and pushing their scoring up. Once discovered, HAM garnered a sour reputation league-wide. Hamilton's S51 cup win (which was notably after the sim engine change) was probably very important to Hamilton to show the league they can still do well while playing fair, and important to the league's cohesion by softening the discord between teams.


My format would be an 11 round elimination, with two teams going head-to-head each round. The seeding will be based on percentage of fights won. The top and bottom seeds will go head to head in the first round, and first team to 15 games won will progress to the next round. There, they will face the next team, which gets filled in based on which seed lost the last round (if bottom seed wins, next lowest seed fills in, and similar for highest seeds). The teams continue on with this king of the hill style competition until 3 teams remain. From there, the teams get shuttled into a gladiator pit with their normal playing equipment on and fight to kill. Once an entire team has been eliminated, the remaining players of the other 2 teams move to the last round. There, they pick one representative among themselves and the two players face off in a round of trivia with questions submitted by the other 13 teams. The winner gets the cup and the team that submitted the best questions gets to pick the mascot of the team that lost all their players to gladiatorial combat.


I think Hamilton should create a metal groin protector for hockey players. It would be branded with the team abbreviation, "HAM," and would be called the Hamilton Steel Cock. The tagline would be something like, "A Steelhawk fan is a Steel Cock fan." There would be posters of Dick Clapper with nothing on but the product, posing like a model and with a quote: "With my Steel Cock, no one's clapping my dick." - HAM Dick Clapper. The promotional song played at the arena during games would be a version of Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust," but every "bites the dust" is replaced with "buys Steel Cock." The product itself will be like an armored crotch guard with an extended chamber for a one-size-fits-all design, with bent spikes thrusting forwards in the likeness of a hawk's talons coming out the end of extension. No one would dare approach you seeing that in your pants, which could give you a leg up if the 12-man format proposed above gets adopted.


b. I think the teams should stick with the switching tactics they've used so far. Whether if one got to this point by sticking to their guns or by adjusting tactics frequently, they should continue to do so since their team has already been thriving with their strategy. So basically my stance is, "why fix what ain't broke?"


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