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  1. Is there a benchmark against the computer that I should achieve before I start playing against people online? I'm just getting back into 94 and I was never that good in the first place but I'm hoping to get practiced up before I get embarrassed in netplay. I've been trying tons of different teams against the All Star teams with mixed results. In a 5 minute game where you're Anaheim against ASE, what's a decent result against the computer? The Jets vs. ASE? Chicago vs. ASE? ASE vs. Anaheim? Thanks guys, looking forward to getting back into this.
  2. I'm interested if this is still a going concern. I've been away for quite a while, but I'm itching for some old school Genesis hockey.
  3. Time for someone to set this in motion. NHLPA 93 Draft League. No penalties except fighting, no line changes, 5 minute periods. I'm willing to commish and look after stats and the rom and all that although my html skills suck. The biggest problem in every league is finding owners with the same level of commitment. Guys who are really into it and have time are frustrated by the people who have other priorities and maybe not as much time. I think that if a schedule is set up at the beginning of the season (a pair of games against the same player every week) this can be done in a semi-orderly fashion. Everyone will play a pair of games against every other player (double-round robin I guess) and will make the playoffs depending on placement in their division (assigned by location to decrease ping for playoff purposes [and assuming we have enough guys for 2 divisions]). I use Gens and have had good success with it so I propose that we use this emulator. Of course since it's a draft league I'll be hacking up the NHLPA 93 rom with NOSE and distributing it. I guess since everyone else in the world has the AOL chat dealie we'll use that. When signing up, include your e-mail address, AOL name, and city/town. Email: girabbit@hotmail.com AOL name: girabbitwastaken City: Regina, Saskatchewan
  4. How about instead of a league, we have an informal evening of NHLPA 93. Set a date and time, choose a rom (just so we're all the same). I'm assuming that everyone uses Gens like we did in the NHL 94 Cup chase. If there's 4 guys, great, we can have a little round robin. If there's more all the better; we'll work out something as we go. It could be made into a regular occurance (every Monday or whatever). We would never wait weeks for guys to get their games in. The winner of a given week would hold the belt until the next when they will defend it. We could also have different belts with point caps (only allowed 300 points worth of overall value on the ice at once; no line changes assumed). Good luck finding a night when I can be there.
  5. Yep. Me. Right here. And probably a friend of mine once we start getting some games going. AIM: girabbitwastaken MSN girabbit@hotmail.com
  6. The 93 board has been pretty dead lately, so I thought I'd throw the idea out of having an NHLPA 93 online league. I was thinking that drafting teams would be fun, possibly with some contracts (so that players move around and things don't get stagnant). Anyone interested? Does anyone even read this board anymore? Go to it!
  7. While Tony Twist was way way better in real life than as rated in NHLPA 93, I was going more for the Mosi Tatupu type (plays way above his stats). I'm sure Dan Vincelette and 3 of the six Ottawa d-men from the game sent a couple of nasty letters to whomever did the ratings in the game.
  8. Thanks muchly for the info. I never would have thought of that. I'm gonna try it right......now!
  9. Maybe I'm blind and missed this, but is there a trade function? Great tool for working with rosters, but having the ability to swap players between teams easily would be awesome. Hopefully I'm just missing it and being an idiot. If anyone has any tips on the fastest way to trade players between teams (possibly using a spreadsheet where the entire roster would be assembled then pasted en masse?) that would be great. Thanks.
  10. girabbit

    favorite team

    When I play against Quebec I'm not afraid of Owen Nolen, it's Tatarinov that kills me. He's a huge hitter and covers up a lot of the suspect goaltending. Also Super Joe. He's the man. Vancouver has a deep lineup and are also very cool if only because Kirk McLean is awesome. I'm all for Boston, since Cam Neely is a force if you slide him into the centre position. That's my deal, strength up the middle. Pointless rambling finished.
  11. Because I love talking about NHLPA93 and love to hear the sound of my own voice (my own fingers tapping?), I'm starting up a new topic. It seems like there's a bunch of guys that are rated relatively poorly overall but are dynamos on the ice. What gives? Which players do you think are the best bang for their buck? Discuss. Here's a partial list: (I don't want to give too much away) Forwards: Steven Q Yzerman: Yzerman? Yeah, Yzerman. I'm well aware that he's a 95, but he plays like 150. One of the two supermen in the game. So dominant we named "the Yzermaning" after him (7 goals in a game with assists on all other Detroit goals). Bernie Nicholls: So he may be the worst player to ever score 150 points in a season, but I'm not going to hold that against him. Inspired many yells like "Weekend at Bernie's: part one!" and so on. NEmerson: You'd think that Shanny or the Hullster (Hullster knows GTing) would be the Blues' best lamplighters. Nope. It's Emerson, hands down. Brian Bellows: When you can score from anywhere in the offensive zone with a full-power slapshot, you know you've got a keeper. Although it may be the terrible support in Minnesota that make him look so good. David Volek: I'm the first to admit that the only reason I started playing him was because he scored the most important goal in the Canadiens' playoff drive of 1993 (despite not even playing for the team), but he's a really nice compliment to Hogue and Turgeon on the Island. Long Island. Just as long as you don't try to call them the Islanders because Gary's lawyer buddies will sue you so fast... Gary Leeman: Where would this list be without Gary Leeman? Still on this board, but missing the most underrated player in the game. Scores like Lemieux, cheap like Shawn Burr. Steve Bozek and Perry Berezan: Besides Wilson (the Sharks' best offensive threat) and possibly Falloon, these two guys are the only ones who can score on SJ. Including empty netters. Mike Hartman: The sandpaper in Tampa Basically the only guy who can keep up with Semenov and Bradley. Defensemen: Don't need to say much about these guys except they're in two categories: hitters and accesories (excellent match for an elite d-man) Hitters: Sweeney, Tatarinov and Svoboda. Accesories: Per Djoos (come on, say his name out loud. Pear Juice!), Zarley Zalapski and Mark Howe. I alway forget Howe because he's on the second page of Philly d-men, but he's well worth it. That's it. No point in rating the goalies since I mostly like playing with teams that only have one goalie. And the guys I like as a kid beacuse of their names. Vincent Riendeau, Mike Liut, Don Beaupre (how can I choose between those two!), Rejean Lemelin, Brian Hayward, etc. With NOSE this sort of talk becomes nearly semi-useful...
  12. If this is the sign-up, count me in. I don't have anyone I want to play with in particular, so I'm easy that way. The only thing is that I seem to be far away from the rest of you, therefore the ping is high. If you're willing to play with a high pinger I'm game. The biggest problem will be getting 4 people online at the same time. The best thing to do may be to decide on a night, see who shows up and improv a tourney format. I'm willing to do this, as I've done lots of formats for different amounts of players. Or we could set up an informal "league" where we meet and play for fun on any given night (or weekend afternoon, if that's when people are available). There it is. Let's get this party started.
  13. http://www.hexaddicts.com/nose/index.html This will change everything.
  14. Wow. Great posts guys. If you ever need someone for that NHLPA 93 league (one team per conference) I'm your man. I love being the crappy teams (SJ, TB, Ott etc.) and trying to scratch out a defensive gem. But I have to take issue with line changes. I don't know why people love line changes. I can't stand them. When you play with line changes it gets way harder to compete with the best teams (depthwise). If you play without line changes with Tampa Bay, you can actually put out a decent group of forwards (Semenov, Bradley and Hartman) who can score like crazy. With line changes, you end up just holding on until your good players get on there (yeah, I'm talking about you Dan Vincelette). I just like to be able to use all the teams without having things totally uneven. Ever think about drafting players for your NHLPA93 league? NOSE is pretty easy to use. I was thinking of having a league where you draft players and at least half of the players have to be born within 300 km of the "franchise base" which would be decided by the player after drafting them. You could have Dynamo Moscow (Bure, Mogilny, etc.), Salmon Arm Salmons (Yzerman, Sakic, anyone from BC), the Davidson Goliaths (Fleury, Clark, Jeff Brown) or the Viking Vikings (Sutter, Sutter and Sutter). I think that would be really cool. No line changes of course, as it would be tough enough to get 3 people from the same area without people poaching. What are these hfboards of which you speak? I'm intrigued.
  15. I guess I mustn't have been very clear. In the theoretical league that will never happen the winner of each division will be the one that placed highest in the standings. No playoff for the title or contender match. That's what I meant by European style. Moot point since it'll never happen. I suppose at the end of 8 months or so we could have a "Champions League" where the winners of each month face off in a single elimination tourney. By making it based on the round robin standings, this format eliminates the need for the title contender and title match. It would make for smaller leagues (but hopefully more dedicated ones, as nhlpa93rules suggests) but that's where the beauty of the promotion and relegation comes in. On the downside, there's less excitement as there's no official and definitive title match. But it does provide more excitement for us basement dwellers as we have an insignificant title to play for. I am not knocking the Cup Chase format. I like it a lot, but I love theorizing about epic leagues that never come to fruition. JA
  16. Oh yeah, I'm well aware that this is a total pipe dream, and as I've previously established I have no time to do this either. However, I feel that I need to rebut against some of the points you've made, Mr. Nest. I would ammend the number of players per division to 5 and have each player play each other twice. I don't think it would be too tough to play 8 games a month against 4 other people. It's pretty much the same number of games as Cup Chase which I think is a very good template. And if you wanted to (a HUGE if), you could play more by joining the different leagues. I'm thinking that there will be some if not quite a bit of overlap between the leagues as the best players will probably be playing against one another in multiple leagues even if they aren't playing in all leagues. As far as promotion/relegation, I think you could make it interesting with as few as 10 players, although 15 would certainly be preferable. Noobs would be automatically assigned to the lowest division until they've proven themselves (it would only take 2 cycles to reach the top division if there were 3 divisions). The whole concept may be too deep (number of divisions) and wide (different leagues) to be initially successful and survive. The Tecmo crowd at knobbe could definitely support such a system since there are so many of them. Unlike many people, I'm not a huge fan of the fighting. I don't consider it a plus or minus in NHLPA's favour and yes, it is very annoying when you're on a breakaway. And the one-timers I'm kind of split on. I don't really like the idea of the one-timer, but it is the only way I can score in 94 so it definitely has its place. Now I'm going to lose every game in Cup Chase because everyone knows my secret. Anyways, if you're interested in having different divisions in Cup Chase, I'd be glad to help you with the adminish stuff. I'm always setting up tourney and leagues for my friends (which don't get finished more often than not) and love doing the work. We've done Nintendo Olympics (twice), SNES Olympics, Puzzle Tourney, Tecmo tourneys (multiple), Tetris (many) and Dr. Mario. I'm so lame that I even made trophies for many of them. We never did finish the NHLPA 93 tourney, but we did play many drunken nights of "Punch Drunk Glove". Required are: 2 hockey gloves, Genesis, NHL anything and some booze. Lots of booze. Each player starts the game with their bare hands. The first player to score puts on one of the hockey gloves. The next player to score puts on the other one. After that, if you score you get the other guys glove. If you are already wearing both gloves, take a big swig of beer. And you can't hog a glove. You need to alternate gloves when you each have one. To make things harder/more interesting, put a player who sucks out there and designate him as your "Sacco". If you score with him at anytime, drink beer; if you score with him with both gloves on drink twice. Man. That was another super long post. Sorry.
  17. Okay, here's my idea. It should run like European soccer leagues do. There are x number of teams in the Premiership, x number in the first division, second division, etc. The teams in each division would play each other once over a given period of time (let's say a month). The team at the top of the standings is the winner and is promoted to the next level and the lowest placed team is relegated to the division below. To make it interesting, there will be a couple of "leagues" (meaning a set of divisions). We will play without line changes (because it evens teams out) and the leagues will differ by the number of total overall points a player is allowed to put on the ice at any given time. The top division will likely be an open (no cap) where people can duke it out with which ever team they like, no restrictions. Of course you could always take the Islanders and try them here if you want a challenge, but this is likely where the Wings, Hawks and Rangers will hang out. The next division would have a cap of 420 points allowed on the ice at all times, meaning that you can't have Messier 91, Gartner 94, Turcotte 80, Leetch 87, Patrick 86 and whoever and whatever the goalie rating is out there. It's too many points. This more up the alley of the middling teams. The last league would be the toilet bowl league with a cap of say 375 points. This is where the Senators and Sharks have a chance at victory. And if you really love the Wings, you could probably squeeze a team in here with Kocur, Marsh and the Squealer. Depending on how much time you have to play, you could have a number of teams at any given time. Theoretically you could have a team (perhaps two) in each league (not division). This would allow people with less time (me) to play without having a huge commitment. Of course everything hinges on having enough players to make the promotion and relegation happen. If we had 12 players for each league we could probably make things happen. If we had enough players (or interest) we could tack some different style leagues on, like a drafted league (draft players from any team with a points cap in mind so that the guy with Yzerman doesn't automatically win [no repeated players]) or the revenge league (play a two game series with any two teams in the first game, unlimited points and then reverse the teams for the second game, player with the best GF/GA ratio wins). I'm sure I've forgotten some points, but feel free to ask me questions or show interest. Thanks.
  18. Hey. She gave birth today, so my free time has been easily halved. That's about 0 to 0. My current jobs are linen truck driver (about 45-50 hours a week) and choir director at church, as well as the choir director at my wife's church as she recovers. I think the key to any league is dedicated players. Without that, you've got nothing. Even trying to match people of the same commitment level is tough (like matching students with nothing but time with working guys like us). Haven't been to NHL95, but I'm not talking about salary cap. I'm talking about different divisions with caps on how many points you can put on the ice at a time (overall ratings, so you would need to think about who gives you the most bang for your points). But I'm a little busy now. I gotta sleep tonight cause I don't think I'll get a decent night's rest for about 18 years. That's the price you pay when you have a girl.
  19. I'm working on a new league/tourney format unlike any other on the internet (that I've seen anyways). I don't want to throw it out there before I have given it sufficient thought and ironed out all the wrinkles, but it will probably involve capping, promotion and relegation of some species or another. I'm pretty busy (working 3 jobs at the present and my wife is due tomorrow), but if we cross paths I'd love to play some NHLPA93. The real man's hockey game.
  20. Oh yeah. No question. I love NHLPA93 way more than NHL94. I like that you can score on every breakaway and I hate one-timers. It also reminds me of a simpler time when there weren't so many damn teams. My favorite players are dominant forces in the game (Yzerman and Gartner) and there are plenty of diamonds in the rough that play way above their stats (Tatarinov, Stanton, Djoos, Stephen Leach). Plus playing defense is more difficult (instead of manual goalie, you have to move the goalie around with your defenseman without taking him out of position). I hadn't played 94 for 5 years before I heard about the Cup Chase; I think that says it all. Some day I'll have a uniquely formatted NHLPA 93 league. If there's significant demand, I'll get on it a little sooner.
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