05-23-2022, 05:05 PMtrella Wrote: What I do believe is that your team’s philosophy and outlook on the league is harmful. The SHL is supposed to be a be a pro experience. That’s at least what made me love this league and stay for as long as I have. I feel like the way you guys run things takes that away. Yes, your locker room is bumping all the time and you guys are a great group and great people, no matter what people say about you personally, but I feel that your attitude towards team building and player building is all wrong.

Rotti, I don’t know how you can say there is a “correct” build. That doesn’t exist. The only correct build is the build that best emulates the player that people WANT to build. When people ask for help on their builds, you should be asking, “okay, what type of player do you want to build?” and you should be giving advice based on that response.

Maybe I'm being pedantic but SHL definitely isn't a be a pro experience, maybe it was once. I find sim leagues to be a very blank slate in terms of how they enable people to engage with them, even more so now that there's a web of affiliated sim leagues where many of us are in several of them. The way some people play represents that kind of experience, but you have users who neglect their own player and primarily want to GM/take on other important league jobs and you have players who are quite clearly here for the locker rooms/community rather than their player's success.

In other leagues I've had clear plans for my players, but I've never watched a hockey game - I joined because lots of my sim league friends said this was their favourite league, and that ties into the point about builds. I'm here for the locker rooms and every time I have sufficient TPE, I ask my GM how to spend it and ask them to build whatever player helps the team most. If someone asked me what type of player I wanted to build, I would have no idea. I just want to help the team.

I get why people like you and RED find the importance and influence of GMs frustrating, but I wonder how many people feel the same way as you and would prefer if it was more individualistic.