smozoma

OK, I've picked my 3 guys I will be protecting in the draft. Please message me to tell me the 3 guys you will be protecting in the draft. So I can't change my choice based on the information I get from you guys, here is a way to check that i haven't changed my mind when all the picks are revealed: the product of the numeric values of the first letters of the names of the players I'm keeping is 2128893, and the sum is 78.

Wow, yeah, it really speaks volumes about his defensive skill, 5 ties.

Hello fellow for-the-moment Blitzleagueans. Any suggestions for the name of the league? Blitz was just the first thing that came to mind, and I'm not particularly attached to it. Any other ideas? While we're on the subject of names, I'm thinking of calling the "C" league the "Farm" league, since, conceivably, we could end up with a full "C" league and require a "D" league.. making things weird.

signup deadline for A and B leagues is 11:59pm Saturday (EST) C league signups are always welcome (even mid-season, you will be added to the league)

Whereas these days, everyone get 90s. You get 90s! You all get 90s!

Alright, Whalers are yours, but please do an official signup, including your AIM (or email address) http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=7148 thanks also, what league level are you thinking of being in?

I'm going to write an online draft system, which could take a couple days (though it'll be pretty simple this season)

Dervin changed his AIM to Dervin36

I'll take Dallas, for some speed, and hope the draft can bring me some D..

i have enough trouble scoring 3 goals period

I won't be online until late Friday night. sorry if i hold things up if the team draft gets to me.

we've entered the time period where people will get skipped if they don't pick within 26 hours of the prev pick

write a program that runs through the file and add up the values of the bytes, then re-writes the checksum. don't include the old checksum when calculating the new one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum Near the end if the file, there is a checksum value that needs to be correct.

(home team listed first, winner in bold) DET 2, PHI 3 PHI 1, DET 2 great games, very intense, never an easy shot on net

what dmac said

It's dmac's turn 8. maddmac94 9. TessLog

flamingpavelbure takes Boston

hokkeefan2 changes his pick from Vancouver to Washington

hokkeefan2 chooses Vancouver Washington

Just pointing out here that there is no need to post the players you're keeping/protecting. You can keep it secret until the end. Oh, don't tell me your player picks until I have chosen a team, too! Unless you don't care if I know.

League Info Thread: http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=7126 League Signup Thread: http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=7148 League website: http://www.blitz.com/ NOTE: Signups for the "A" and "B" leagues are over. "C" league signups are still welcome, though! NOTE: forward weights are changing now (I changed my mind..). Check here for ROM and new weights list So far, we have just 15 coaches signed up + me. I will leave "A"+"B" league signups open until either a) we get 20 players or b ) 11:59pm Sat June 14th. After that, new coaches will be put in the "C" league. So, we'll have between 8 and 10 teams in each of the "A" and "B" leagues. (No one needs to be an expansion teams, woo!) Pick Your Team OK, you can pick your team now, in the order specified in the list below. So, metzgerism can pick any team, first. Then thegr8199kings gets to pick, etc. Don't post the players from your team you want to keep. You'll tell those to me when all coaches have picked their teams. I won't read your keep list until I've made my own keep list. If a pick is not made within 26 hours after the previous pick, that person is skipped (but can then pick at any time). Note: since this post is kind of sudden, i will say no one will be skipped for 50 hours from when this was posted, so that's 9pm Friday the (dundundunnn) 13th. Remember: a) You get your team's original NHL 94 roster, BUT, you only get to keep your top 3 players (then we do 3 rounds of drafting after that, then you pick 3 more to keep, then we draft 3 more, then do free agents). Tell your player picks directly to me when you've made them. b ) I changed the weights of the players so checking ability makes sense (chart here http://www.blitz.com/downloads.asp lower weight = better checking). c) I improved the goalies about 6 points each (except Belfour and Roy). There are now 13 goalies rated 70+, instead of 8. d) The teams that don't get taken, all their players will be draftable. e) duplicate players are considered to be only on the expansion team (Vanbiesbrouk = FLA not NYR) Pick teams in this order: 1. metzgerism - (CHI) 2. thegr8199kings - (NYR) 3. hokkeefan2 - (WSH) 4. bigchiefjay1016 - (DET) 5. Rage93 - (CGY) 6. sebe82 - (PIT) 7. flamingpavelbure - (BOS) 8. maddmac94 - (BUF) 9. TessLog - (TOR) 10. BeefJerkyRules6 - (STL) 11. snoboarder3211 - (PHI) 12. Vocally Caged - (WPG) 13. Icestorm NHL94 - (EDM) 14. WagsTh - (VAN) 15. Dervin36 - (MTL) 16. smozoma - (DAL) 17. vinniersmith - (LA) 18. minddefect - (HFD) 19+. ("C" League get to choose teams independently from A/:lol: For reference, here is the player draft order (established by the teams' Ron Barr Rating), but we'll only be using max 20 of the teams. We will draft in the same order each round, to try to even out the teams. ANH, FLA, OTT, SJ, TB, HFD, NYI, EDM, DAL, NJ, STL, PHI, WSH, QUE, VAN, TOR, WPG, MTL, BUF, NYR, LA, CGY, DET, PIT, BOS, CHI So, if you take chicago, you'll get to keep 3 guys (may I suggest, Roenick, Belfour, and Chelios?), but when we get to the drafting, you'll be last for the first 3 draft rounds. Then you pick 3 more guys to keep from CHI. Then we'll draft in snaking order for the last 3 rounds, and in that set of draft picks, you'll pick first, last, first A Few More Weight Changes Sorry to keep making things confusing, but I found that there were too many forwards with weight=6, so I adjusted the formula a bit, and a few more guys changed wgts. See the attached picture for the guys who changed. I also made an excel sheet that should be useful in the draft. Here: Blitz_League_Player_List_s0v3.zip. If you don't have Excel, you can get OpenOffice or use Google Docs (which is really cool) Blitz_League_Player_List_s0v3.zip

wicked pedia says "Owner of one of the biggest noses in professional ice hockey, before he retired!"

I found this way a bit easier to understand (adapted from magoo's post): FOR PLAYERS: total = (agility * 2) + (speed * 3) + (offensive * 3) + (defensive * 2) + (shot_power * 1) + (checking * 2) + (stick_handling_value * 3) + (shot_accuracy * 2) + (endurance * 1) + (pass * 1) if total < 50 x = 25 + total/2 else x = total x = round_down(x) if x > 99 overall_player = 99 else overall_player = x NHL95 NOTE: for stick_handling, use this table to find the needed value : sth => sth_value 0 => 0 1 => 1 2 => 1 3 => 2 4 => 2 5 => 2 6 => 3 7 => 3 8 => 3 9 => 4 a => 4 b => 4 c => 5 d => 5 e => 5 f => 6 FOR GOALIES: total = round_down(agility * 4.5) + round_down(defensive * 4.5) + round_down(puck_ctl * 4.5) + (stick_r * 1) + (stick_l * 1) + (glove_r * 1) + (glove_l * 1) if total < 50 x = 25 + total/2 else x = total x = rounddown(x) if x > 99 overall_goalie = 99 else overall_goalie = x

League Info Thread: http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=7126 League Signup Thread: http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=7148 Blitz League Website, ROM, and Test Schedule! Site: Home Page ROM: Download Page (teams are the same, but the weights are changed) View new player weights: By Team | By Weight Anyone Can Play Right Now I made it so ANYONE can play games right now and upload them. You don't even have to have signed up. Have fun testing out the ROM! Instructions are on the site home page. Just log in using the username/password homeguy/homeguy. Site Needs Work Still I found that sometimes uploading a game caused an error. Don't worry about it, most of the stats should be in the DB. Also the boxscores are missing the away players. I'll look into it. The site will continue to improve. I have quite a few other pages to add still (records, leaders, power rankings, etc), but they haven't been upgraded yet from my old non-season db versions.