S61 Championship Week

S61 Championship Week

Nike
SHL GM
S22, S28, S40, S42 Challenge Cup Champion & Merica Lover

#59

10-10-2021, 10:19 AM (This post was last modified: 10-10-2021, 10:49 AM by Nike.)

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

Nike
Victor Helstrom

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2. Written, 3 TPE, What if...? (150 words min.)

Pick a moment in SHL history to change. It could be something large, an expansion draft, sim engine change, or something smaller, like a trade or team punishment. Change something about this moment in the SHL and explain the impact the difference would make in how the league developed since that moment. (think Butterfly Effect)

Gorlab never gets banned. The league continues to devolve into madness. The commissioner group cannot continue to keep up. In fact, it gets so bad that any player who joined the site after S20 refuses to continue to put up with the heel of the SHL continuously picking on them. And for all of their troubles building one of the better simulation communities on the web, those players are shunned by the old guard, lead by Gorlab. The Renegades continue to be poked at and prodded by the greatest troll in all of SHL history. Ultimately, without banning Gorlab, the SHL faces a fast and swift demise. Losing out as the top hockey sim site and leaving only the VHL behind to bask in the glory of their sweet, sweet victory. And while much of Gorlab’s antics could be relatively funny, over the long haul his banning has likely had a pretty positive impact on creating a community that will continue to grow.

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Draft Kings (150 words min.)

Pick a draft class in the SHL that you believe had the most impact on the SHL. It can be a consensus pick, like S36, 31, or 53, or an off-the-board one (S41?). Explain your reasoning to why this draft class impacted the league; Could be in a good way, or a bad way.

The S20 draft class was one of the most impactful draft classes of all time. In fact, it was one of the first reddit drafts that the SHL had ever seen. Before reddit became a recruitment hunting ground, the SHL relied heavily on hockey future boards and EA Sports NHL message boards to try and garner interest. Of course, at that time there also wasn’t anywhere near the means of communication that we have now amongst teams. Discord did not exist. We communicated on locker room threads. The S20 draft class brought us Bojo, and Bojo was one of the first site members who had the technology or coding skills to be able to modernize a lot of the different tools that we were using to keep the site cobbled together. This draft class was the largest of its time and one of the most incredible kick starts to growth that the SHL has ever seen.

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7. Graphic, 2 TPE, This one's for Seymour

Design a championship ring for either team. Yeah you can use the ring site.

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12. 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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread.php?tid=119534

Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3116926

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13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)

There has been some discussion on the forums but its always good to hear more opinions: Parity. Going back 6 seasons including this one there have been 4 teams in the finals: Buffalo, Chicago, Hamilton, and Texas. If you add New Orleans you can go back 8 seasons. 5 different teams for 8 straight finals. Is this an issue? Does it need to be fixed? Can it even be fixed? I'm interested to hear opinions, approaches, or just doom and gloom on whether you think this will change, or if we will still be talking about the same teams making the finals over and over in 5 seasons.

FYI, the word is parity. Not sure if that’s intentional or not? Anyways, the SHL has always had a bit of trouble balancing the importance of parity and also rewarding those GMs, players and collective teams that work harder than the rest to create winning cultures and be successful in the sim. When you look back at a small sample of finals, it can look like some teams and members are doing all the winning. And maybe that’s OK. Parity is great, but randomness is not. And while it can be really frustrating to see the same teams consistently being presented with the Challenge Cup, there’s a reason that those teams are there. As a former GM, there’s really nothing more frustrating than putting together the best roster on paper and having a sim engine with too many variables completely destroy the record of a phenomenal roster. Sure, maybe that’s how it should be because that’s how it works in all of sport. The underdog is a fun story, but its not quite as rewarding as being incentivized to continue to build the best teams and grow your player. Those folks that do those things deserve to be rewarded and the likes of Buffalo, Chicago, Texas and Hamilton all deserve their continued success because of their ability to draft, develop and trade better than the rest of the league around them. We all operate under the same set of rules and sim engines. Want to win more? Be better.