04-05-2022, 01:10 PMLordBirdman Wrote: I think @spooked mentioned it, but to me I always envied the STHS era stories of people being called up to the SHL in their 3rd season at 500 TPE and actually contributing.  Clearly under that scale and simulation a 500-800 TPE player wasn't so far off from the 1600-2k TPE players.  Also, as I understand it players were effectively maxed at 1600 TPE and getting to 2k TPE was purely to fight regression (correct me if this is wrong). 

It also depends where in the STHS era you are prior to like S35 or something most SHL teams would only have actives on the top 2 lines and the 3rd lines were mostly IAs (except for top teams). This made it way easier to get better stats when called up, hell if you would be spending max senddown time you'd be almost guaranteed to have your rookie season in the top 2 lines. The SHL just transitioned to have more fuller active teams in the period from S25 to S43. This is also seen by the lack of expansions in that timeframe.