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I don't think it's a fair trade and I wouldn't allow it normally. As this helps a rookie but makes his position worse than if they would have just traded places and hokkee is in a better position I will allow it.

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PRoBob's idea was exactly what was done when me and Vocally Caged were commissioners of GDL starting from GDL 6. I have run leagues from 2001 and had develop this system over the years as these same issues came up. It seems like once there are new runners they all repeat the same mistakes and over the years develop something that works. The gametime system (as we called it) worked extremely well. In GDL 6 97% of games were played, in GDL 7 99% and in GDL 8 97.7%. Playoffs were always played in time within a month. That's average of about a week per round. Here are the gametime rules taken from this thread.

http://nhl94.arkku.net/playoffs.php?league=6 http://nhl94.arkku.net/playoffs.php?league=7 http://nhl94.arkku.net/playoffs.php?league=8 http://nhl94.arkku.net/playoffs.php?league=9 dcicon is correct in this case and I was surprised about it myself too as gdl has been run like it before and I don't like it as it puts me in unfair position in my opinion, but kingraph has the right to change how playoffs are done as a commissioner. One bad thing is though that the gdl site is built so that highest seed plays the lowest seed in every round and automatically updates the playoff tree like that (like you can see here: http://nhl94.arkku.net/playoffs.php?league=10)

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I'm little worried as dcicon was online but didn't answer my messages for 4 days. Here's our log: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14678503/nhl94/dcicon_log.txt

why complain about the 5-8 rule now instead of 2½ weeks ago when it was announced ? It wasn't against anyone then as all positions were still open.

for kingraph's defense this is largely done because of I suggested it 2-3 weeks before the season would end. He announced it 2 weeks before the end of regular season and when he did all positions were still open. It was only after this that he secured his position at the top and some players started slacking (well almost all of them). I suggested that in a situation where nearly all games weren't being played the positions can be so random that there is no point for the regular season other than just to get in playoffs. I know from personal experience this can be very frustrating for title contenders. In my first GDL season (4) I was 2nd seeded in my conference only to meet 7th seed kgman due to him slacking. There's been many similar situations in leagues, and I think it's within commissioner's right to be able to balance these kinds of situations. Kingraph had seen this change be done in classic league so it's only natural GDL can try to use it aswell in his command. You are correct though about this system regarding your points PCT. You could have avoided playing and kept your percentage unrealistically high on purpose, after all the last 20 games you had to play, 10 of them were against very top players so it was only realistic the percentage would go down. But you needed to play those games as points pct wont get you in playoffs. It just helps you after you get in.

to his defence I have propably seen him online 10-20 times during the league, while you I saw twice. It would be more fair if nahkahomo would not lose points but you did, in my opinion.

nope. it's stick handling. all 5 stick handlers do it and 4 stick handlers in a good day. This was already found 9-10 years ago.

- there was this new thing called kaillera netplay for gens emulator, so we decided to try playing some old games with it online with my friend onlainari. We were surprised how well it worked and NHL '94 became the game to play. This was March/April 2001 - first league was organized by onlainari in May 2001. We found the players to the league from his friends and from a small ircnet community of online players of latest NHL games. 8 players participated. This group turned into group of NHL '94 fans. NHL '94 commmunity was born. First ever NHL'94 online league was won by Depch. - Mahavishnu, who dominated the regular season (27 wins in 28 games if I remember correctly) didn't participate to playoffs due to having to go visit his relatives. I started the league with 56k modem and struggled to compete against others who had new ADSL connections. Ping difference in servers was like 175 to 30. I got new ISDN connection for the playoffs and it made all the difference when I got 99 ping to the server. I managed to get 2nd in the league. Another notable rookies were onlainari Mahavishnu and Depch. - I organized a new league in summer 2001. This time I invited 4 of my friends to participate. We got 11 players in the league. One of my friends, Pete, won the league and beat Depch in finals. Pete won his 3 first leagues he played. - Pete's little brother ILU, who I consider the most talented player I have ever seen always came up with new ways to score. He brought pass shots to the NHL '94 scene which he had used alot in the PC NHL95 game he used to play. - I was a gamepad player and when I found out all the best players in the community were keyboard players, mostly due to their background of playing PC NHL95. These players included Pete, ILU, Mahavishnu and Depch. I decided to start playing with keyboard from that point on. - 3rd league had 13 players. This time it was Mahavishnu's turn to win. Mahavishnu also won 4th league. Pete won 6th and 7th. - in 2002 the checksum fix was found (I can't remember who. maybe Don). This allowed the game to be edited. We started doing our updated NHL roms with Mahavishnu. He did the rosters and kept them up to date and I did the graphics. - from our 6th league and onwards we only used updated roms to play our leagues - the rules in our leagues were always lines on penalties and offsides on. No exceptions. - I finally managed to win 8th league in the beginning of 2003 after being in the finals 4 times before - 8 leagues were played in 2003. I won all 5 leagues I participated in. I was Buffalo Sabres in all of them. We also won 2vs2 league with Pete. - I played my best NHL'94 hockey in 2003 and 2004. I won 8 leagues. After that I only participated to every 2nd or 3rd league, and wasn't as active as before. I seriously think 2004 me would easily beat 2013 me in a playoff series. There isn't any new tricks other than weight bug and those tricks were done lots better back then. - new Finnish star Wayler won many leagues from 2005 to 2007. He and his brother Olliz were SNES players but played genesis as no one else was interested playing SNES NHL '94. I think they would play very good in SNES NHL '94 leagues. - We had couple of visitors from North America and tickenest even played in some leagues. some guy called kgman visited our ircnet channel sometime 2005 perhaps and we played against eachother and I was very impressed and excited such good players came from North America. I think we split our wins at that time but I remember we struggled to find decent servers we could play in equal terms. - nhl94.com was published in 2005. - first North American NHL '94 leagues were played in 2005/06. I didn't want to participate in them as I would have propably have to play in american servers with 125-150 ping and I wasn't actively playing NHL '94 anymore. - first GDL season was played in early 2007. I didn't know about the league until I saw kgman won season 3. - in 2007 P2P kaillera was done. It allowed me to come play in North American leagues. - I signed up for GDL 4. - in my first season I came 2nd in my conference only to meet 7th slacker kgman. In what I think was one of my most enjoyable playoff series I lost 4-2 ( , ) I phoned him after the series to congratulate him. - I won GDL season 5. Against Carse in round 3 I was down 3-1, but I won the series in 7. That's propably my best comeback in playoff series. - coming to North American leagues was in many ways like going to NHL from here. The game is faster and more straightforward as there are no rules or line changes. I still think Finnish players were overall better than North American players back in 2009. AJ was like Mahavishnu of america, and Wayler was like Carse with Freydey's manual skills. And Pete could really win any league if he just wanted to. - in 2009 I got married and in the same month I lost Finnish league finals in game 7 overtime, against my best man (Pete). I scored own goal with Teppo Numminen. - I took over GDL for season 6 and was commissioner for few seasons. During my zero tolerance policy there were some minor incidents but games were always played in time. - after GDL 5 I haven't had any notable success in NHL '94, apart from winning Blitz season 5. It was the only season I have ever played Blitz. I didn't like the drafting in the league. I started to build my team from scratch and my 1st overall pick was somewhere 40th overall. During that season we played one 11-10 OT game with zalex ( ). - for few years I have only really played GDL. after sometimes even a year between seasons it makes it hard to come back to the top again. - I really think I'm great at manual goalie, but high latency games doesn't suit my reaction based style at all. It's very different to play against other Finns with basically no latency at all. - On the other hand higher latency and straightforward game suits my offensive style much more. - I think kgman is the best NHL '94 player ever with me being close 2nd.

http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?/topic/11328-nhl-94-tournament-idea/

I agree this could be tried. No trading would allow even teams for all players. I think having different draft positions to suit the kind of team you like is not a valid argument. When it's your turn to draft you draft the kinds of players you want in your team. Simple as that. It would make the draft even more interesting.

I disagree that playing with same teams is equal. That particular team can suit to another player's playing style much better than others. As you said draft league allows players to build teams they like.

I agree with plabax that carse got away with 2 barely fair trades. I don't know how that slipped out of the trade reviewers, and personally I'm sorry I didn't notice it. I reviewed the trades now and it indeed seems his 1st and 3rd trades were as I said, barely fair, and together allowed him to get 2 1st rounders in his team (2nd trade carse lost in my opinion). Personally I would have rejected his 1st trade, but barely allowed the 3rd trade. My point is though that plabax is correct. These things should be discussed more openly. I don't like when this happens. This is something that needs to be learned from for next gdl seasons. That being said, Klima fortunately is not a gamechanger in the same way Mogilny, Bure, Selänne, Roenick, Yzerman are. Klima has been and will be in the future in the hands of title contenders as he never gets into top 10 or wherever near those real superstars. The fact that tomkabs played so well with him tells more about skills of tomkabs than it does of Klima, in my opinion. Together with Gretzky, another similar player, as I said, should have been avoided.