03-31-2022, 12:01 PMChevy Wrote: In the FHM manual, it very specifically states that Positioning, Reflexes, Recovery and Rebound Control are the primary attributes that dictate whether or not a goalie will make a save.  The others I believe will dictate at how good that save will be (actually catching in the glove vs bouncing off the glove, etc).  Mental Toughness is the other biggest factor I think, then Stamina.  Mental Toughness is like a skater stamina.  If it is low, and you start letting in goals...its a cascading effect that will eventually lower all of your attributes...kind of like when a skater is gassed in a sim (more penalties, starts playing at lower attribute levels than what they actually have). 

The other big thing, as we can see historically in sims is that you can have a max earning goalie who can absolutely steal wins where they shouldn't have won...but its Goalie + Defense that is the biggest factor.  If you have a solid defense in front of you, your goalie statistics improve exponentially (see times where Matt Smith or A Jobin were ridiculous, but also had a great supporting cast on Defense)...compared to times where defense was lacking but you had a high impact goalie (Toronto / Winnipeg / etc).


Overall, good data though Blitz.  Glad you're enjoying Shuckle.


Also, lets not ignore too the fact that, after the big TPE scale revamp, Goalies were unaffected...so its kind of a plus

I didn't realize that it was in the manual. That should make it interesting when compared to NHL data.

I do want to do some testing around the idea of team effect on performance. It's planned for a media piece later on. I wanted to focus more on the meta and how TPE is used in it for the scope of this project.