Tickenest

Four opponents for me to scout. Thanks, tk.

I dispute the utility of this one. Tick goal (courtesy of our friend backhandfloater) - A goal scored by threatening to score by skating across the crease and shooting past the keeper, allowing the human opponent to take control of the keeper and skate to the far side of the net, and then pulling back and flipping the puck into the now-empty near side of the net

The Flyers have concluded their regular season as the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and a serious threat to go fo-fo-fo-fo-fo to the Cup. They finished with a 32-8-0 record, winning 80% of the time and exhibiting high levels of panache and style in doing so. They've experienced a series of ups, with a few losses serving as the occasional "Memento Mori" during the season-long triumphal procession of the Flying Men of Philadelphia. The coach has turned this mixed bag of talent into a scoring and defending machine, as the team (as of today) has pulled off the astounding feat of having both the highest Goals For and lowest Goals Against average in the league. This season was always going to be a downhill battle, and it's been an enjoyable romp. Some of the Highlights: -Scored 6 or more goals 23 times -Won by 5 or more goals 18 times -Scored at least 2 goals 39 times -Shut out opponent 5 times -About to sweep every major award -Best logo Coming Soon: Playoff Dominance

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I think the thing I hate most about being involved in an actual draft is that I never leave satisfied because I didn't get everything that I want. I mean, I understand that concept going in, but that still doesn't improve matters for me. And then you have to wait f**king forever for your pick to come up, and after your brief flurry of activity, it's back to sitting there and waiting. There's no way I would have sat through the 2.5 hour draft for the .net league without going insane and getting my fiancee extremely pissed off at me. I also hate pouring over lists of players to decide whom I want to draft. Custom rosters are fine as long as there's some sensibility to the ratings.

Can we have a third option in the poll, C: Drafts are really f**king boring?

Agreed. I can't believe people actually are opposed to it philosophically. I hate it when it's used on me, but I don't complain, because that'd be like complaining that a guy tripped me with the B button or slammed me with the C button.

To respond to your question in the subject, would that be Toadstool Tour or Advance Tour?

And if they're too far from the net to hit them with the keeper?

None taken, believe me. I consider the technique part of the cat-and-mouse game of manual goaltender vs. skater. But wouldn't it be more correct to call me the master of the "fake-skate-across" goal?

It took me about 2-3 days to get my team in the USA with a short waiting list at the time. My advice to you would be to pick which team you want to use, and then just never log in to the other team. You lose your team when you don't log in for 7 weeks, so it'll get taken away from your other identity after that, but if you don't log in to that user anymore, no one will ever know the difference.

Never learned them, don't feel I need them.

Um...they are very, VERY strict against one person controlling more than one team, and if you get caught you WILL lose both teams. I would highly recommend divesting yourself of one or the other. You're supposed to sign up for the country in which you're currently located, for what it's worth.

We didn't have any upsets by seed until the conference finals last season, so it never came up, but I'd think we'd do highest seed versus lowest in the second round, since it'd be kinda stupid to do it otherwise.

Sweden, because they always win. Wanna play a friendly next week? I don't have the Netherlands flag yet.

No, but I have more interest in European affairs than the usual American. Well, English soccer, anyway. But why do you say Dutch, specifically? Hattrick is a Swedish game, for what it's worth.... FC Tiki Tacoz 4 life, d00d.

Hmm...sounds like LOSER talk to me. As Herman Edwards so eloquently put it, "YOU PLAY...TO WIN...THE GAME!" ywned

As long as goal differential is a tiebreaker, people (including myself) will attempt to score.

Any bump in the server activity after the interview, Evan?

I'm the best I know because the only other people I ever played with were my brother and a college buddy of mine, and my brother never wanted to play against each other because he was afraid to lose to his little brother, and I beat my buddy too many times, sapping his spirit. I believe that this league is indicative of the best North American players. I'm sure other top players exist out there, ignorant of the site, but we could probably teach most of them a thing or two. And I'm still unhappy with you, you bum.

I WAS ONE OF THE OPPONENTS HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG PWNED

Yeah, I'm probably in the weaker conference, but it's only the weaker conference for me, because I don't have to play myself. ZING!!!!!!!!!!!

Calgary: 88 GA in 33 games, average of 2.66 goals against/game. Philadelphia: 101 GA in 39 games, average of 2.59 goals against/game. And, for what it's worth, my 243 goals in 39 games (6.23 per game) are also the highest GF rate in the league. And I do have 11 more points than you this season with a game in hand. GG!

Honestly, though, Hattrick is an economic simulation as much as it is a soccer simulation, and actual knowledge of soccer strategy beyond "defense = stops goals, attack = scores goals, midfield = gets you the ball" is unnecessary.

It's soccer. Soccer management, actually. I've been playing for a year and it's a lot of fun. Over 800,000 players worldwide, though only about 6500 in the USA.