PBE Affiliate - username Laser - 3/16

#1 - Tough Season: 6/16
This season, probably the worst thing to happen to James Kimanje was not the fact that he had a -14, most likely cementing himself as one of the most 'meh' players of all time. Nor was it the fact that he had a lowly 46 DGR, the worst of his career. He actually did have the most goals and the least penalty minutes of his career so far, so that was quite nice to have. The worst part of his season was being forced to let his parents move in with him as they had foundation issues with their house. They stayed with him for the entire second half of the season and likely will be there for the first half of season 61 as well. James' +/- dropped nearly 30 points after they moved in, both because of the added stress of having his parents there and him having to sleep on the couch instead of in his own damn bed. Truly not much could be worse. (167)

#2 - Pokemon: 9/16
So this is an interesting prompt honestly. Usually when I play through the pokemon games I love to take all the fire types and blaze my way through the towns, leaving a burning waste behind me. However, in a hockey league that plays on ice, that might not be the best plan. I would take several ice-types to lead my crew, starting with Cyrogonal, Articuno, Kyurem, Calyrex, and Eiscue as my top options. Then, I'd add other types that aren't necessarily ice types but also aren't fire or a warm type in order to get the best possible results. Mew would definitely be on the team, and I would add Victini, the spirit of victory, for a permanent morale boost. I'd catch all these pokemon at low levels, then breed them for IVs and wait until I have perfect IVs for all of them (which could take a long ass while) to begin my journey through the J's and majors. I think I'd do quite well with all perfect IVs. (170)

#5 - SMJHL Playoffs: 11/16
Currently, all of the SMJHL teams make the playoffs, with the top 4 seeds getting a bye and the other 8 teams playing to try and make it to round 2. Now that we will have 14 teams rather than 12, I think that the playoffs would frankly be more of a pain than it's worth to seed. Likely you'd have 2 byes and then 6 play-in series, but I think that's too much to have to deal with. Rather than make all 14 teams make the playoffs, I'd like to see 8 teams make it. 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 in each conference is the cleanest way to do it, and it allows a guaranteed better pick for the 6 teams that don't make it via lottery. While it doesn't automatically encourage engagement as much as a guaranteed playoff trip, I do think it would help encourage engagement more for the teams who actually earn their way in as well as make it that much sweeter if a team misses one season then makes it the next. (180)

#12b - 12/16
As the former GM of a team that made the playoffs for 26 consecutive seasons in the ISFL, I am absolutely going to say that Buffalo's continued run of dominance is far more impressive than a couple good seasons by CHI. That's not to take away at all from what CHI has done, but for a team to continually be in the championship talk season after season despite a ton of other teams in the league, good or not, especially over so many seasons, is nothing short of true dominance. (90)

#15 - Trivia: 15/16 
confirmation: ventriloquist

#17 - Milestones: 16/16
+1 TPE, Kimanje bad confirmed