Prompt # 2

side note: this is the only time I have chosen to do the second prompt this season. 

While I believe that Franchise Hockey Manager does a decent job of simulating hockey, there are a few areas where I believe it falls short. Primarily, and arguably the most difficult to quantify, is the simple unpredictability of the individual players. Every season there are amazing players who go on horrific cold streaks, or previously nameless fourth-liners who rise to the occasion and have outstanding seasons. 

This extends into the SHL as well, which is a similar, but different case. In my mind the biggest deficiency of the SHL in representing hockey in a simulation is the lack of injuries. Now, I fully understand why this choice was made, and for the sake of user participation and enjoyment, I agree with it. But that is not what this prompt is about. Furthermore, I find the progression via TPE in the SHL is extremely linear, and players settle in to a long grind of slowly, steadily improving in their role, and then peaking, and declining via a similar process. This is where the SHL sits furthest from reality, in my mind. Player skill and progression is never a straight line, and, especially as we've seen over the past two NHL seaons, neither is regression. Veterans experience renaissance years, players peak later into their twenties, and promising sophmores struggle to find the magic they captured.

Now I have absolutely no clue how to go about addressing these perceived deficiencies, but again I'm not the ideas guy. By the looks of it, I'm just here to nitpick. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk