smozoma

Still not seeing these icons except for a few threads (this one is the only one, i think!)

You counted me twice there

I played a line-changes game recently, and it was flippin' brutal, even with CHI and MTL. I'm not sure how I enjoyed line changes so much in dmitry's first league.. musta been because I had an amazing goalie (giguere) and the smartest player i've ever seen in nhl94 (federov). So now i need to work out a way to have 10-team leagues that don't use all the players. Current thought: flip the weights so that guys rated highly (lemieux, hull, etc) are actually good, and then give people a salary cap with which they can draft. ie, lemieux costs you $9.9 million dollars, because he's rated 99, and you only have 40 million or so to draft your top 6 players with. backup players would have some other limitation so you can't pick scrubs for your 5th and 6th guys, then pick some good guys as "backups" and then play them on the top line.

Me too, and I had some Machiavellian plotting to do. Coach smozoma hopes that his already-tight defense can be made better with a quality, hall of fame goaltender by the name of Patrick Roy. #1.5 Patrick Roy - DAL I will be the New Jersey Devils of this league, but wearing Dallas jerseys.

DAngit.. I didn't realize we were starting to draft right now. Hmmm... I'll drop my 2nd-round pick, then.

DAngit.. I didn't realize we were starting to draft right now. Hmmm... I'll drop my 2nd-round pick then.

DAngit.. I didn't realize we were starting to draft right now. Hmmm...

Not sure how this would hold things up...

I know that coming from a guy who was out of the playoffs, it looks like I just want better draft picks for myself by choosing hybrid, but even if I had placed better, I'd still want a hybrid. So: For each person who switches their vote from snaking to hybrid, I will gladly drop myself 5 spots on the draft order (I'm currently 5th, so if 4 guys flip their vote, I'm last)*. *Offer applies to those who have already voted snake in this thread or the other one, and only if hybrid ends up winning (because if snake still wins, then dangit it's every man for himself and i want 5th pick!) **not an attempt to get dadonch to resign. this would clearly not be a magical victory, so resignment would be unnecessary.

You can pronounce it pwnage if you want, as most people seem to Just my own personal holy war there... silent p! And I too thought 'injuring' was better, but 'pwnage' will still make me laugh.

Exactly... I don't want everyone to have a 0.500 winning percentage. I just want to stop seeing guys at like 0.100 and 0.900. Fine, it looks like hybrid is going to lose -- people want their superstars. Maybe next season, we can try snaking the first two, then non-snaking a few of the middle rounds, where the guys are a lot closer together. Good, smart drafters can still make some mid-round steals. I know that coming from a guy who was out of the playoffs, it looks like I just want better draft picks for myself, but even if I had placed better, I'd still want a hybrid. So: For each person who switches their vote from snaking to hybrid, I will gladly drop myself 5 spots on the draft order (I'm currently 5th, so if 4 guys flip their vote, I'm last). Offer applies to those who have already voted snake in this thread or the other one, and only if hybrid ends up winning (because if snake still wins, then dangit it's every man for himself and i want 5th pick!) EDIT: draft actually started tonight, so I dont' want to hold things up. I'll make my first-round pick now, but then if people change their votes and hybrid wins, I'll be dropping my draft position in the 2nd and subsequent rounds. Ironically, it will end up as though everyone else is doing hybrid, and i do snaking the whole draft, haha...

hybrid

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P is right next to the letter O on the keyboard. It's a typo adopted as the correct spelling, in typical Internet irony fashion. If that makes any sense... If you saw the South Park World of Warcraft episode, Cartman says "pwnt" at one point (pwnt = pwned = owned). He pronounces the P though...

Wow, that was pretty good. His first goal was good, too..

(still voting 2 minutes) If we make the 'injuring' penalty 1 minute, why don't we make them all one minute? Injuring a guy is pretty much the only penalty that has any real bearing on the game, as it is! I mean when the computer hooks a guy, it's very very very rarely a guy who's just about to break free for a breakaway or onetimer or something like that. It's usually some guy offscreen. When you injure a guy, you've actually done some real harm to your opponent (especially if it's for the game).

My vote is for 'injuring' As a side note, I'm of the opinion that the 'p' in 'pwn' is silent. Pronounced 'own', yet spelled 'pwn.' It would be an hilarious penalty name, but.. i like 'injuring'

alligators have so much more meaning to me now

Though it sounds terrible, I think I'd like the nets to be enlarged. The players and equipment are just so much bigger now. If you watch the old goalies, they had to be so much more acrobatic to cover the net. Guys would score with slapshots coming over the blueline, without a screen. 6x4 is such a great set of numbers, though...

I think it comes down to a few things. - The Wonky Skating. It's just different than the later games. In 94, the players 'swoop', whereas, in the newer games, they turn on a dime. It's just better somehow. You really need to work with the momentum of the players. If your player is skating the wrong way, you shouldn't just turn around and skate the other way, you should try to pass to a guy who has some momentum in the right direction. If you miss a check, you REALLY miss the check. - The Wonky Passing. Making over 60% of your passes is quite an accomplishment. I don't know why, but this unpredictability makes the game more fun, than knowing that every pass will work. If you pull off 3 good passes in a row, resulting in a goal, you just feel like you scored an amazing high-light reel goal. - The Quirks (which are also wonky). NHL 94 makes me laugh, plain and simple. I've played so many games of 94, yet I'm still surprised by some of the things that happen. How i wish i hadn't accidentally saved over the clip of me scoring off Larry Murphy's face... - Player Diversity. In new games, the players all feel pretty much the same. Not so in 94. The speeds, agilities, shot power and accuracy, and checking ability of the players are so varied, that every player has his own feel. Try playing with Randy Wood on the Sabres, whose speed is ~85, but agility is ~40. Then compare him to someone like Mike Modano (same speed, but better agility). Gretzky's shot will surprise no goalies, while Tomas Sandstrom's inspires fear in goaltenders, and Al Iafrate's inspires fear in every single player on the ice, other than the goalies. - The Sounds. the check noise in 94 is just SO SATISFYING. BLLOOOAARRGHh!!! - The Polish. The game is basically the evolution and refinement of a single vision over 4 years, from the first NHL Hockey game, to NHL94. OK, there are bugs for sure.. but they're good bugs! Also, compare the one-timers in NHL94, to the one-timers in NHL06 for the XBox -- the NHL94 ones seem much more natural and fluid. - Unpredictabilty. I touched on this before with the passing. It also applies to the shooting, such as when Iafrate shoots a shot at around 500 mph about 35 degrees off from the net, nailing a guy minding his own business by the boards in the face; and the checking, where you don't always know if your check will knock the player flat, or if he'll slide off the check and go in for an easy deke (you need to know the players well to know who can check whom -- or get good with the B-button poke-check/trip). Unpredictability creates obsession. A bit like gambling, or a girl you just can't quite figure out, but feel endlessly required to try to. Yes, i am comparing NHL94.. to love. Here are my NHL94 videos on youtube that I hope can help elucidate my points:

I also prefer the second set of divisions provided by dadonch. The central in the first set is just scary, and I'm in it (and am not one of the scary guys)

True, the question could be restated as 1 minute 2 minutes more than 2 minutes then vote again on 3 minutes vs 4 minutes, if the 'more than' option wins. same kind of thing for the draft format -- '100% snaking' vs 'not 100% snaking (could be 100% non-snaking, or a hybrid)'

seconded!

"headbutt"!

Might want to put the deadline in the title of the thread. I very nearly skipped this thread because it didn't seem to actually be about anything in particular.