02-01-2021, 02:28 PMfishy Wrote:

02-01-2021, 02:07 PMMuerto Wrote: It is absolutely a myth that you need to be 1300+ TPE to be a contributing player in FHM. WPG made the semi-finals last season with:
1. A 700 TPE player who got 39 pts
2. A 700 TPE player who got 25 pts and had the most hits of any forward
3. 2 other sub 800 TPE players who played meaningful roles and had decent seasons for their TPE level

So, if we could do it ... why can't anyone else?

You guys definitely can and did do it, but a part of your Cinderella run was avoiding the HAM/BUF/CHI trio until the Conference Finals. You do deserve credit for beating LAP and EDM however so I’m not trying to be too negative, but it’s the games against these teams with near 2k-tpe players on all three lines is where the 800 tpe players get absolutely shelled.  In WPGs 5 game series against HAM for example, the average shots per game were 40.4-22.8 in favour of HAM. Making those 800 tpe players perform less like AHL players and more like 3rd-4th liners should be the ultimate goal of the update scale change and would ultimately result in a more balanced league.

Using this as a reference, FHM All Players, 800 tpe players are the equivalent to an 8th/9th defencemen like Martin Marincin, or a decent AHL Forward like Zac Dalpe.

Basically our current update scale is asking users with the skill levels equivalent to good AHLers to come play big minutes against lines of like MacKinnon (2k tpe), Draisaitl (1.9K tpe), or Panarin (1.8k tpe).

And yet in that HAM series our best line was our 3rd line with a 1200 TPE player and 2 sub 800 TPE wingers.