Prompt 2

Grogu is my first player built from the ground up with the FHM sim engine. When we made the switch away from STHS, my player was already quite deep into his career, just a couple of seasons away from regression. So I never really had to work through the Junior League slog, and the first few seasons of being a sub 1200 TPE player trying to compete against the behemoths. I have one main goal with Grogu and that is to hit 2000 TPE because it is obvious that if you want to be a star, that's the level to which you must aspire! FHM gives a lot more flexibility in how you want to build your player so that makes it fun for sure!

My approach to building Grogu's player at each stage is going to be a little more planned out. The rookie season in juniors is all about getting to that 350 cap as fast you can. Interestingly, for players who reach the 350 TPE limit before their second season - they are looking at doing literally one update over three seasons: unbanking to 425 after Season 2, then coasting on that build for your two more seasons of eligibility in the juniors. So you have to be a little more certain in how you apply that, unless you want to keep spending money redistributing things.

So anyway, my approach was to look to be minimum 9s in all the stats. Then, because I want to be a more defensive-minded counterattacking forward, I put the defensive attributes like checking, positioning, and defensive read a notch higher than the more offensive skills. As a center, I do also have some TPE applied into Faceoffs which otherwise might have been able to boost some of that offense, but that's ok. When I get to spend +75 on next season's build, I will look to have some more offense going.

So after that, assuming things go to plan, I have 2 seasons to gather up as much TPE as possible before hitting the SHL. That initial unbanking is going to be hugely important because you might be talking about 400 TPE or more, based on the TPE levels of players a couple seasons ahead of me. I will probably continue to put more focus on defense in the first few seasons so as not to be a liability, but by season 6-7 I intend to shift the areas where I put the bulk of my updates (more towards the speedy forward archetype) and really drive those key offensive stats up to 19s at least! From there ... ah I will worry about regression when I get there!!