05-22-2023, 09:07 AMhonkerrs Wrote: 2) Trading.  If you really need someone to tell you by now that anything after the first couple picks in the 2nd in the 20 team era are almost completely useless then I don't know what to say.  Too many GMs are giving away retention or saving people from cap hell for pennies.  If your excuse is "well someone else would do it", then it's probably not a great idea, esp for a useless pick.  I'd rather lose a player in FA then give retention and help another team to get a useless pick....esp for the teams who can't even scout well. Maybe the solution here is to get rid of retention contracts would be a start.  But the rest you can't really stop stupid sadly

okay so since this is pretty clearly directed at us imma respond to it and explain our process a little

We lost five players this offseason (O'Byrne, Pale, ASM, Makela and Izzy, leaving out Chevy because that was to bring up a prospect) and got jack squat in return. It was obvious that we were going to have to blow it up and Winter was also going to leave for nothing. Since we don't have our own 1st until S74, we can't just straight-up tank the roster, so the trade (which to be clear, no one else offered) was the only opportunity to get something for losing a third of the roster to FA and retirement. Especially as someone who just got back to managing, charging in to be a hard-ass doesn't help with building relationships with other GMs and the spectre of the player just signing elsewhere and leaving us with nothing was still on the table the whole time. We have a decent roster and only a handful of prospects right now, so it's not like we were going to use that money the next few seasons anyway. This spendthrift-ness also enabled us to get an 1100 TPE player and an extra flier on a prospect for literally nothing, so it's all coming out in the wash anyway.

Also, we got an active at 54 this draft, so 2nd round picks probably mean more than you think.

Quote:3) Tactics.  People will claim theres a meta but its really just a copy cat league, just like the NHL.  I truly believe theres a lot more metas to be discovered , just no one has found it yet or has the guts to try things (mostly cause we can't test but even then people didn't really).  I really like there is no testing now but until FHM gets rid of being able to see teams tactics , people just gonna copy as we've seen already.  Maybe to inspire teams more , HO can allow GMs and their team the ability to fully re design their TPE builds once or twice each season.  It's either that or people get builds assigned randomly to them each off season and GMs have to figure out how to make it work.  No, not archetypes, those would just create a meta too (and good luck finding a balancing committee) please no one suggest this for the 100th time...

Luke's right though, there are far too many teams tanking and then tanking with bad decisions on top of it.  Maybe a way to incentivize making playoffs would help too...NHL teams are incentivized cause they make a lot of money if they do make it in...here we got nothing

I'm not a fan of the TPE adjustments that often because it's just not realistic. Players don't completely change their playing style in real life, Ovechkin doesn't become a defensive mastermind in the middle of the year for no reason. The updaters and fileworkers would also probably riot in the streets at the amount of extra work they'd have to do.

Playoff bonus pools could be interesting - say, $500,000 to each player for getting in and escalating with progress - to give teams some accomplishment for making it in.