S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

Rich
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S30, S31, S39 Challenge Cup Champion

#242

08-15-2021, 05:38 PM (This post was last modified: 08-15-2021, 09:00 PM by Rich.)

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7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)

We're at a point in the SHL where a good chunk of the playerbase played back in the STHS era, and a good chunk has known nothing but FHM. If you're in the latter part of the league you must have heard the horror stories... so: Let's make a hypothetical.

Players who played in both eras: What would have happened if we just had one sim engine? Posture how your career would have gone if we stayed in STHS (sans exploits). Or what if you had created in FHM the whole time? Would things have gone better or worse?

For you FHM babies: What if we were still in Simon T land? Would your career be where it is now? Or would randomness have stunted the dynasties you may or may not have been part of?

My player’s career would have been significantly better had we stayed in STHS. The randomness of STHS is wildly overblown by a lot of people. STHS was generally quite predictable. The individual game results could be a bit on the random side, but regular season standings were still fairly predictable. The random element made playoffs far more variable, and arguably more interesting. That was a bit of a digression. The point is, because coaching has far less influence over a player's performance in STHS, I am very confident my player would have had a better peak of his career. To this point, my player has had only 1 season above a point per game, with 78 points in S58. I think it is likely he doesn’t have as many points in a single season, but overall would have a higher point per season average. Also, his career +/- wouldn’t be comically bad, to the point of probably being unrecoverable, because of how lopsided FHM is.

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11. Podcast, 3 or 4 TPE

Record a mini-podcast on any of the below topics!

-How good the PT/mPT prompts were this season

-How good these CW prompts are

-How much of a hunk that SlashACM guy is

-Oh yeah... we should talk about S60 stuff too I guess.. reg season and/or playoffs.

1 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 5 minutes or 4 TPE for 7 Minutes

2 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 6 Minutes or 4 TPE for 8 Minutes

Post the direct link to your podcast.

Spotify link - 11min

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12. Written, up to 4 TPE - Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. The salt special: Do these teams deserve to be here? Or were they gifted a trip to the finals through puck luck and bullshittery?

Of course both teams deserve to be there. These were the top teams in their respective conference during the regular season. You might say that makes them the most deserving. You might also say that makes this the most uninteresting possible outcome. In any case, I don’t think there is anyway you can call them undeserving.

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b. Buffalo has been here many times in the past 20 seasons, this is only the second (I think I'm too lazy to check) time for Chicago. Which is more impressive? The continued dominance of Buffalo? Or the solid couple of runs Chicago has made despite the team only being 15 seasons old?

I wouldn’t characterize either as particularly impressive. More impressive though, I would say Chicago. They went through more roster and management turnover than Buffalo did during the offseason. Regardless of whether that turnover appears to be an increase or a decrease in quality, turnover equals uncertainty. I think that makes Chicago more impressive in their performance, even if they did fall short.

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c. Everyone's a critic: Nitpick one thing about either team's logo, jersey, rink design, goal horn, or general site demeanor.

I believe the Buffalo branding and logo are among the best in the league. Chicago, on the other hand, is a bit middle of the pack. Colors are fine, but for me, the logo doesn’t work well on a jersey. I think maybe they could try a version without the team city and name at the bottom of the logo.

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d. Who is the best player to play for either team? Is it a current player? Retired? Traded? Make your case.

The greatest player to ever play for Buffalo was clearly Tatu Makela. You might think that his career numbers were hardly noteworthy. Yeah, ok, fair enough. However, how many other players do you know that came back into the league as a ghost to haunt another team's roster? None. That’s why he’s the greatest.

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17. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 16 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

MILESTONES TBD (check back later)