smozoma

hear hear!

kgman, i think. http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?act=Search

I concur If GDL adopted the weight bug fix, then I might as well shut down Blitz because it would be redundant.

DAL 3 - 6 WPG WPG 6 - 2 DAL ggs

In other leagues, I never noticed much difference, at least not in my record. I think I found a whole classic season to actually slightly favour away. In "B", the home advantage just in terms of Wins vs Losses (OTW counted as a win, OTL as a loss), the win% for home teams is 56.8% In "A", it's just 50.3% This includes me setting the ROM to give the home team a big advantage..

cool, thanks for doing this

So i guess the problem is DNP penalties hurt people who didn't play, but also hurt people who did play. They work properly in that they make people with DNPs have to play better teams in the playoffs... but then their opponent has to play a harder team than they should, too, so it's unfair to them. Maybe we should just use the above ratio system for deciding who gets into the playoffs (it looks like DNPs will be a factor in "B"), but use points for playoff seeding. However, let the top 4 seeds choose if they want 4 home games or 4 away games (since I find it hard to say if there is a home or away advantage.. but maybe some people do better going up or down). DNPs will still hurt you in the draft, though.

Hm, that's an intereting idea, letting the top 4 seeds pick who they want to play.

I had hoped to eventually get 12 teams per league, so doing 8 playoff teams this season was more for consistency between seasons. That's also the reason you have 5 games vs some teams and 6 vs others. Better regular season performance will still give you easier matchups through the playoffs, though... But yeah, it's pretty hard to miss the playoffs due to DNPs..

the idea presented is actually worse than a loss.. you lose points.

Here's how it works... (please post your thoughts below). Each unplayed game loses the two players involved a total of 2 points, split between them in a ratio dependent on their number of unplayed games. So looking at this for myself... I have: 3 games left vs metzgerism 2 games left vs sonoffett87 DNP games: 5 - smozoma (39GP) 5 - metzgerism (39GP) 17 - sonoffett87 (27GP) Metz and I have an equal number of DNPs (5), so we split the penalties for our DNPs evenly. -1 point each per game. -3 each total. The ratio of DNP games for sonoffett87 and myself is 17:5. In terms of percents, that ratio is 77.27%:22.73%. So, for each game's 2 point penalty, that's 1.545:0.454 each game. Since we had 2 DNPs against each other, sonoffett87 gets a total penalty of -3.09 and i get a total penalty of -0.91 - The sum of my penalties for not playing metz and sonoffett is -3.91. - Metz has no other DNPs, so his total penalty for the season is -3 points. - sonoffett87 has a lot of other DNPs, so will end up with quite a few more penalty points in addition to the -3.09 against me... (however with so many games left to play, it should be relatively easy to play some of them and reduce that 77.27% ratio (increasing my 22.73%!)) ------------------- I think it takes two people to not play a game. There was lots of time to make arrangements to play hard-to-reach players. I know sometimes it's 99.99999999% the other guy's fault, but I don't want to have to evaluate every case. I think this method of DNPs is relatively fair. Next season, I will have a forum section for scheduling games. People will have to use that to try to contact people they have trouble playing, and since everyone can see the posts there, it'll be clearer who is at fault and maybe some DNPs will be awarded as victories to one player. ------------------- Making the playoffs is based on points, including DNP penalties. The top 8 teams in terms of points in each league make the playoffs (so 8 teams in "A" and 8 in "B"). There will need to be some discussion, however, on how seeding will work. It doesn't seem fair that a team in the top 4 in points might end up playing a team with a better Pts% than them in the first round. Maybe in these sort of cases, players for the teams with lots of DNPs will have attributes decreased in the playoff ROM?

ggs i have much to learn

Not sure if i'll be able to play tonight, having a friend over. I'm not quite sure how i'll handle the "guy was never around so i coudln't play him" situation, but I will favour the guys who have been around more and put in more effort. I'll come up with and post the penalty system tomorrow.

I need to play: metzgerism - 3 sonoffett87 - 2 I'm available: Mon: (gotta play GDL in the little time online I'll have) Tue: 9pm - midnight Wed: 7pm - midnight -- might not be around Thu: 7pm - midnight Fri: 7pm - 2am Sat: most of the day/night Sun: most of the day until 12(midnight)

Please try to schedule your remaining games here. The season ENDS on Tuesday, Nov 25. Post your availability and who you need to play.

QUE 5 - 2 WPG WPG 3 - 2 QUE These were some great tight games.. some great hitting, too

ggs

You keep the same team name. Some of your players change (about half).

In the CHI row, the 2 games vs WPG are missing (WW). In the DAL row, there are 2 games recorded vs WPG (WW) that actually haven't been played Can you move the DAL WW to CHI please?

they're former Habs in the Western conference (though i wonder what other xhabs are not getting boosted.. ) Apparently the league is looking into this. You're allowed to vote as many times as you want, BUT, you can't use automated tools. Someone on some forum suggested using a browser plugin script to repeatedly vote for Canadiens players, so they'll probably scrub out the votes that look like they were done by a script...

I held off playing you because we're in the same division and always end up around .500, so those 2 games could be really intense games to play at the end of the season when they could decide which of us made the playoffs. You're always around, so there was no risk of missing you in the last couple weeks (it's not like I was going to wait until the very last day). We played them early and they were just like ordinary games, not memorable at all. You ruined that for me, thanks. Selfish.

look again

The final deadline is Wednesday Nov 26 at 6:00 AM in the morning EST, in less than 2 weeks. Games must be uploaded before that time. I will work out a DNP (Did Not Play) system and make a post. DNPs will hurt you in the standings AND in the draft. Playoffs will start almost IMMEDIATELY (i just need 1-2 days to set up the DB). We should have 2 champions a week before Christmas. We should be able to start the draft for Season 02 in the first week of 2009. The following coaches are behind schedule, still not having made the 30-game deadline: "B" Dervin - 18 gihtarman - 21 Rage93 - 25 metzgerism - 29 Flamingpavelbure - 29 (not bad considering started at 0 games a couple weeks ago) "A" skoolyardpuck - 21 Icestorm NHL94 - 27 sebe82 - 28 I'll also try to get a "schedule a game" subforum...

I am just 5 games short of the next deadline and have 3 days left. So.. shut it

WPG 3 - 6 LA LA 2 - 3 WPG OT ggs