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SHL Media through the years
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(This post was last modified: 01-04-2025, 05:05 PM by luke. Edited 1 time in total.)

You can see when I originally wrote this article back in 2023
Looking at all the graded media articles in SHL


I’ll put the same warnings that I did last year. There are some inaccuracies that could happen.

What could be wrong: When dealing with the word count, it gets tricky because what is a “word”. The way I counted up the words, is simply if there is a space between 2 things, its a word. And the secondary concern is dealing with the signatures at the end of people’s articles, and deleting them. With the signatures, I was able to not capture almost everything that in a signature, minus a couple words here and there.

The other big suspect thing about word count, is 2 more problems that I could not fix because of the context. The first big thing is that if people split their article into more than 1 post in the thread, it would not capture that. So that would decrease their overall word count. The 2nd problem is that if people collaborate on a media article and then post it, only the user that created it will receive all the credit for that word count. Like when Argar did the top 100 skaters in the SHL, or anything that the SHN has created. But, it is probably impossible to even determine who wrote what, and the time it would take even if it was possible would be pointless. The only other way I can think of to accurately determine the word count/ contributions to every single media article would be the graders payouts, but scraping that constantly I just dont want to even attempt.


This time I will be delving into the users who wrote the most media for year. Looking at all time, and then splitting between SMJHL and SHL. And then who wrote the most per year. Just making sure everyone gets involved and to show off from of the most wordy people over the past 15 years on the site. Well… more like 14, as the first year we dont have the data for the media. Since it was on another forum for the first 2 years.

The first media I have recorded was SMJHL media called “The Next Great Ukranian” by NateyD. Written on December 23rd 2011.


So lets look at a macro view to see who wrote the most words year by year, starting from the first full year of the SHL we have. 2012.

This table is for the user who wrote the most in both media sections for the year
YearUserWords Written
2012Abdeezy102,716
2013Keenan46,410
2014Hallsy87,928
2015Eggy216140,646
2016ArGarBarGar65,074
2017Rabidsponge2166,611
2018King91,201
2019gordieboom85,758
2020juke114,466
2021sköldpaddor61,801
2022boom44,147
2023spidey189,009
2024luke79,514

Funnily enough there isnt any repeats here. But a lot of legends of the shl. Abdeezy the first user to crank out 100k words all the way back in 2012. His most wordy was Armin Brovalchuk and his MTL Impacts
The one with the most replies that year was S8 Re-Draft with a whopping 150 replies. Writing 87 total articles this year, Abdeezy was a workhorse


In 2013 it was Keenan, with only 46k words. His most wordy one was Top 100 SHL Players. He had Elias Armia as #1 incase anyone was wondering. With him stating ‘Armia tops the list, but he and Webb are extremely close. Armia however has put up 59 points, while Webb's high is only 55. Armia's low is 50, which is lower than Webb's low but when dealing with players of that caliber ceilings are more important than floors. Combine this with the fact that he's a good hitter and basically every list should have Armia in the top 3 if not number 1 overall.’

2014 it was Hallsy with 87.9k words. Halsey is still with us today as well! But back in 2014 Hallsy was a writing machine. His bigged media piece that year was 9,712 words being S20 Preview. With 76 media pieces that year, Hallsy deserves his spot there.

2015 we all know and love our friend Eggy who wrote 140,000 words that year. The most out of anyone since Spidey wrote more in 2023. With only 49 media pieces, he wrote over 4,000 words in 14 different articles. With a recurring series call The Falcon’s Wing. His highest word count was 8117 that year

2016 we had ArGarBarGar, who was real efficient with his words this year. Only 16 articles, but 6 with over 9000 words each. With his massive media article of Top 100 SHL players of today. Though what is interesting about these articles is that they were split up by multiple replies. So the word count would probably be higher. But that is also being said, he had help writing from JayWhy and R1ceBowl as well. So there are some murky waters. If you wanted to take a look at it, here is his S30 Top 100 SHL players of today

For 2016 as well I'll shout out fgh as well. He wrote 60,897 words that year as well. Close behind Argar. With 59 different articles/podcasts as well. His most wordy was S32 Fight Night: Week 6

2017, we have Rabidsponge21, writing 29 articles for the time. A lot talking about West Kendall, S31 class, and other various articles. High most wordy was his S31 Class - How you doing? which was 8867 words long. Probably more as he had a 2nd reply.

2018 was my man King. With a total of 82 media / podcasts. He was dominant in both the media and graphics. A user who was in my same draft year. King came out of the gates swinging. In 6 months he wrote all these articles which makes it insane. His highest was LeShaun King: The Biography

2019 we had the one and only gordieboom.Who retired his player after not winning playoffs MVP. Arguably this is the only mickey mouse will of this series. As most of his media was just massive lists. As you can see with SHL most unique skater. So I will shoutout StadiumGambler who wrote 67k words. Sharkisback who wrote 67k words. And myself who wrote 65k words.
For Stadium he wrote The Gambler's Ramble: S48 Entry Draft Team-By-Team Analysis

2020 was Juke, writing over 114,000 words that year. His most wordy article that year was [SJHN Corsi Corner] The percent chance each team will win their round 1 matchup
Though, that being said for a lot of the SHN/SJHN stuff, words were split between different members. So it might not be truly all of Juke’s words. However, the next 4 users were also apart of the SHN at that time
Nhamlet writing 87k words. Dextaria writing 77k words. Boom writing 74k. And myself writing 72k words.
Also this year shoutout for Fitted writing 102 different articles that year.

2021 was the year for skolpaddor and her writing 61k words (and honorable mentions of Schwarz with 60k words and PremierBormanov 59k words). I think this year is the first year of truly a user that had the majority of the articles being player focused. Which is really cool to see. With her most wordy article being Only Son of the Falling Snow Which is an amalgamation of her original players career and all the different media she produced for it. As she said in the article
“I initially started to put this together just as a timeline, to pull together all of the media I’ve put out there over the course of Gunnar’s career (Including this and a few other things I will post later, it totals up to over 60K words). Over the past couple months of gathering links and filling in details, it took on kind of a life of its own, beyond just a timeline of media posts and into…whatever this is. As I said, there is a little more, this is not the end, but here in bonus media week, I decided it was time for this particular bit to see the light of day. It has been a labor of love through and through, and I hope y’all enjoy it even one tenth as much as I have enjoyed writing this story for the past three years. <3 “

So if you want to read a short story about a player. That's a great place to start and read!

2022 was a continuation of users being more story based users dominating the year. With Boom leading it with 44k words. Though it is the smallest an individual is on this table. It is also to note that 2022 is the lowest the media section has been used. Only 1 million words written by everyone. Boom wrote a lot this year, with 36 articles written. Mostly with narrative driven approach. As the most wordy was The Long Way Home Part 2. If you want to read all the chapters you can start here

2023 was the year that Spidey just showed up again. And absolutely destroyed the competition in terms of words in the year. With a whopping 97 articles and 189,000 words written that year. Surpassing everyone that has written before him, with eggy being the 2nd highest in 2015. The next highest was AK41 with only 36,000 words. Highest wordiest article being S71 Yearbook p.1 with 9378 words. He accounted for 16% of all words written that year in the media.

2024 was the final year, and the user that wrote the most words was me, Luke. The most wordiest was New England Pt1.5 Winning. However the articles that earned me almost all of words was the SHL75. Doing the top 75 shl players of all time.

A close 2nd this year was Jexter as well, writing 74k words. Doing a lot of media around Team Spotlights, and power rankings. The wordiest was being S76 Preseason Power Ranking and Retirement [2x Draft Media]



That was it for who wrote the most for each IRL year section.





Next up is splitting it up even more. But with less words and more tables.

With it being split between SHL & SMJHL

SHL Media Only
YearUserWords
2012Abdeezy95494
2013Keenan46194
2014Hallsy86397
2015ArGarBarGar106638
2016ArGarBarGar64458
2017Rabidsponge2166611
2018ArGarBarGar59919
2019gordieboom62137
2020luke72690
2021PremierBromanov58966
2022luke22375
2023spidey60424
2024luke79514



SMJHL Media Only
YearUserWords
2012leafsftw196764452
2013Riggsy18278
2014Leo73271
2015Eggy216130881
2016Rabidsponge2156348
2017Evok29395
2018King53573
2019sharksisback58055
2020juke58984
2021SchwarzNarr57596
2022boom27280
2023spidey128585
2024Missjmt54544

There are some interesting things to pull from both. The first one being that Argar is leading with 3 different years he was on top for the SHL media. Where in the SMJHL there is a different one each year. Which makes more sense with more rookies coming in and writing in the SMJHL media section each year.
The only users to have the leaderboards for both is Spidey in 2023 interestingly enough.
But with the SMJHL its mostly rookies. From what I can remember, Eggy started out in 2015, Rabid in 2016. Evok in 2017. King in 2018. Shark in 2019. Juke in 2020. Schwarz in 2021.

Then Boom and Spidey respectively broke up that tradition writing the most words in their respective years. And then Missjmt being a rookie that year, and speed running to a site ban in the same year.






For this next part, I am dubbing it. The 50k club, for anyone who wrote over 50,000 words in one year.Which there is only 51 of them

UserYearWords
spidey2023189,009
Eggy2162015140,646
juke2020114,466
ArGarBarGar2015110,310
Abdeezy2012102,716
fgh2015100,045
King201891,201
Hallsy201487,928
Nhamlet202087,122
Mac201586,434
Winter is Coming201586,220
gordieboom201985,758
luke202479,514
Dextaria202077,805
boom202074,837
Jexter202474,759
Leo201474,474
luke201873,355
luke202072,690
leafsftw1967201272,157
TheOPSquid202468,807
StadiumGambler201967,715
sharksisback201967,168
Rabidsponge21201766,611
Ballerstorm201566,317
OrbitingDeath201266,296
spidey201265,751
luke201965,469
ArGarBarGar201665,074
ArGarBarGar201462,456
hhh81202062,192
sköldpaddor202161,801
ArGarBarGar201861,076
fgh201660,978
SchwarzNarr202160,045
dankoa202059,948
ArGarBarGar201759,705
Jala201459,392
PremierBromanov202158,966
SlashACM201958,719
PremierBromanov202058,605
sve7en202058,414
TheSparkyDee202058,254
fgh201457,611
roastpuff202057,467
reid202057,128
awils13201957,056
Missjmt202456,729
Skeleton202056,727
Rabidsponge21201656,348
Hallsy201256,311
Kevin Juice Bieksa201555,719
Whikadoodle201455,428
C9Van201954,538
Steelhead77201454,340
Mook201453,941
ErM201853,810
joecool37201253,312
Joker5123201552,470
Allegiant201552,307
Phobospwns201752,092
JNH201251,717
Mac201650,920
Moreorless89202050,886
PenKnight201950,389


Spidey, Eggy, Juke, Argar, Abdeezy, and FGH are the only ones reaching 100,000 + words. From there, Argar reached 50k words written 5 times. Luke 4 times, Fgh 3 times. Hallsy, Mac, Bromanov, Rabidsponge21, and spidey reached 50k words 2 times.





Awards! Who doesnt love made up awards. And this will be to some of the most unique, interesting, longest, and most replied pieces of media on the shl.


For the first word. It will be the most worded article. Now, this one might be controversial just because im sure there has been plenty of pt1, pt2 articles that were split but were actually more words. Or articles that had more of the articles in the replies of the thread. However, there is only 1 winner. Or 1 mickey mouse winner and 1 actual winner.

The mickey mouse winner is Gordieboom’s SHL Most Unique Skater with 13,625 words. However, that is just list media. So we wont count it.

The actual winner is @CptSquall’s S52: End of an Era pt.1

The next award goes to who had the most replies in one piece of media! And that award goes to Kevin Juice Bieska with 637 replies in the media article. Being SMJHL Hunger Games. However it is to note that Kevin did the hunger games within the thread. So we will give 2 runner ups.

First one with 623 replies. Is Lord Pretty Flacko Potential UFA Thread.

Second one is 540 replies and is one of the best rules in the SHL! It is Jack Crasher's Free Agency Announcement

So congrats to them


This next award is going to the most specialist user. The only user to write more than 100 articles in a single season. No other than @Fitted2106 in 2020! So congrats to fitted for that


Thats all for the awards





The final big list. It is the users who had the most words written. It is a top 50 list. And just like Gordie it will be the big final list media for this.

RankUser# of ArticlesWord Count
1ArGarBarGar143374,465
2spidey250335,412
3luke278335,305
4Hallsy250273,501
5fgh215263,912
6Steelhead77145218,959
7Abdeezy153203,064
8Mac179202,064
9JayWhy145199,269
10Eggy21691198,770
11boom113178,785
12Rabidsponge21100174,678
13Muerto183170,506
14RomanesEuntDomus110163,270
15Allegiant84158,906
16PremierBromanov105155,982
17hhh8175155,810
18Whikadoodle163155,437
19NJBadApple109144,534
20leafsftw196795142,875
21OrbitingDeath96142,334
22GCool84138,511
23sköldpaddor89134,155
24JNH184133,801
25Chris-McZehrl190132,863
26Ace178132,511
27Merica156130,278
28juke45126,814
29Winter is Coming69125,599
30vbottas1799120,630
31karlssens80120,297
32Grapehead81116,967
33Durden74111,963
34DeletedAtUserRequest162111,215
35C9Van51109,700
36dankoa80105,675
37st4rface62105,420
38Mack71105,143
39Jexter68104,990
40stud157104,854
41JumpierPegasus118102,984
42Kevin Juice Bieksa73102,824
43Rancidbudgie40101,262
44sve7en16099,149
45Phobospwns4798,916
46SabresFan5798,746
47CptSquall7197,542
48awils133897,516
49Ballerstorm8496,263
50bbp12796,015


So congrats to ArGarBarGar for retaining his top of the leaderboard. With Spidey & Myself hot on his heels. @Hallsy you should write more.

You can find all the data here if you wanna do stuff with it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing


Finally, here is a word cloud of all of the words in the titles in said word cloud
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160 threads to <100k words is an elite ratio, change my mind.

I would give a lot to go back to the pandemic era, tbh. I miss having so much time to commit to the league and how easy it was to collaborate and create then.

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Amazing

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Folks are out here writing novels

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

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01-05-2025, 07:37 PMFitted2106 Wrote: LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

bring back FHN or I'm gonna cause a scene

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And I thought some of my statiscal media was good

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I haven't researched this but I guarantee Bonk and I have the most podcasting hours by far, probably three times more than anyone else. Funded three players whole careers for each of us over a ten year period

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Only 21k total words? I really ought to step my writing game back up.

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01-10-2025, 12:34 PMSlappydoodle Wrote: I haven't researched this but I guarantee Bonk and I have the most podcasting hours by far, probably three times more than anyone else. Funded three players whole careers for each of us over a ten year period

Podcasts are OP

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I'm happy to have written the equivalent of an entire novel on this website
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didnt realize luke was a gordie hater lmao

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