01-31-2021, 11:38 PMDrunkenTeddy Wrote: I believe parity is an issue, but it's not because we keep seeing the same teams making the finals, sure that's part of it, but I think the lack of parity has a huge impact on individual players. In sths you could be a 1000 tpe guy on a rebuilding team and pick up 40+ points, in fhm those same players are lucky to break 25. We did not realize when we moved to fhm that it would be so drastic. When a player on a rebuilding team can't even feel like they are performing decently they aren't likely to want to stay for a rebuild to finish. Add to that the fact that sub 800 tpe players are a detriment to their team on the ice and we have an issue that increases the length of time a rebuild takes and hurts the players involved when it comes to stats.

When we made the initial update scale we didn't fully understand what builds would work in the shl, we didn't spend a ton of time on 600 tpe players and a lot of assumptions were made. The originally proposed scale would have been way worse, as shocking as that sounds, we made major changes to the original proposal to make it more even, but I don't think we went far enough to help semi actives and lower tpe players be useful. I think the solution is to move to a scale that allows players to get to a reasonable level in all ratings for relatively cheap, then the grind begins to become elite.

As someone in charge of and on a rebuilding team through the entire FHM swap, I think you hit the nail on the head Teddy. Before with Simon even if your team was bad you could have an all star caliber season with a high tpe player. You just don't see this in FHM. I went from 50 points in my last STHS season(roughly 1500+TPE at the time) to 28-30 each season after until our team started getting more pieces up. I won't lie that I hate that my players peak seasons were likely tanked by the timing of the switch but in general the FHM change has been a massive positive for the league that outweighs my personal gripes. It's hard to tell a team we are getting better when players can't see more individual success like before until a team improves overall.

While I haven't been able to contribute as much to the new update scale discussions, I love that HO and the Owners are taking steps to make things better for the league.