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Hey guys,
Just let me know when you are available and I will stop harranging you.
Garth - NYR
I've posted my schedule up here before (random evenings around 8pm CST, most likely time). What is yours?
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I will be available to play tonight probably around 8pm CST. Catch me now because I will be on vacation 3/28-4/4. I need to get up to at least 20 games played before I leave to ensure I'll be ahead of the checkpoints.
I can be hard to schedule (just ask rc69fab!
) so don't say I'm not giving yall a chance.Available again tonight for SNES-2. Fell a little behind due to vacation. I just have 4 coaches I need to play, I think.
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I will be available to play tonight probably around 8pm CST. Catch me now because I will be on vacation 3/28-4/4. I need to get up to at least 20 games played before I leave to ensure I'll be ahead of the checkpoints.
I can be hard to schedule (just ask rc69fab!
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AIM messages are absolutely fine (note: I didn't take issue with that). Negativity earns the opposite response.
Nothing to see here, move along!
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Hounded? Wtf do you mean? So when I am available to play games I am not allowed to see if you are busy? Yeah I may be well ahead of schedule but you did not give your time schedule until now so what was the harm in asking you to play our games? If you want me to stop asking them dont be signed on to AIM
I mean the following:
1) Calling me out (anonymously but obviously) in public forum: See here
2) IM message: "i don't want this to drag on week after week". Must be kidding. We're 10 days in.
3) This thread: "you backed out of playing the games tonight". Already addressed this.
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Now then, for everyone else, my availability is random evenings usually between 8pm - 10pm CST. I say random because sometimes I have work to do, I have graduate classes, kids, a loving wife, or any number of other distractions. When the wife is busy (usually twice a week) it's a great time for me to play. Unfortunately that did not happen last week and I had to struggle to hit the checkpoint. Hope to get out in front of the checkpoint a little bit, because I will be in the british virgin isles from 3/28-4/4.
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you backed out of playing the games tonight. both you and volly are hard to get games done with. 2 games is only 20 min.
I was there as you know. I sent out 3 simultaneous IMs and Quebec was first on the horn. We played 2 games and then I had to attend to family (have 2 young children). You got an IM directly from me. Please get off my back, I'm getting tired of being hounded. You are the only one trying to give me a hard time. We are 10 days into an 8 week season.
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Need to get at least two games in tonight, hopefully several more. If you've been looking for me, I will be there.
AIM:gsguyotte (Buffalo Sabres)
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I have no idea why you guys are in such a rush. You're going to be waiting around for laggards to finish their games anyway. A classic season should be savoured like fine wine, not shotgunned like so many cans of domestic beer.
But yeah, still infinitely better than being a slacker. Play your games people.
I agree with this comment. There is no prize for finishing first. I thought these "seasons" were supposed to be enjoyable, not a 7 day sprint to the finish line. I'll be online when I can be there, keep comfortably in front of the checkpoints, and enjoy the ride while I'm getting my butt kicked around the ice. When it gets a little later, and the games get harder to schedule, we can set up appointments to ensure we get the games played.
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For having only 8 posts you sure do have a lot to criticize...
Can you explain what I am criticizing please? I'm making an observation that I found interesting.
I think this site and leagues are great.
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Whoa. What the f**k did you say about the Islanders??
Lol. I knew that would draw someone offsides.
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Anyone from snes2 not happy with their team and don't want them anymore?
If no one is getting rid of their team then I will switch from NYI to Washington
Buffalo is GREAT with me. I needed a good goalie and BUF is #3 in the category.
rc69fab, there are definitely some good teams available. Jets and Blues are both top 10 teams if you ask me.
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I'd welcome any suggestions for how the B league(s) could be run. Judging about the amount signing up, if it keeps going, we may go with three B leagues.
Keep in mind with one big league, we'd have to double up teams and I don't think we want to get into Chi vs Chi etc. There's also some players in B who I think we be too good if they finished the regular season to play in the lower tier playoffs(ex. the lost points for several unplayed games and moved down in the standings.)
Please keep the ideas coming.
Back to the main point of how to run B leagues this spring. Now it's up to 42 signups for SNES. I think we possibly need to have 3 SNES leagues. I think the practical limit for league size is about 20. This is because there is a big drop-off in team ratings after 20. I think no one should ever have to play as ANA/FLA/NYI/OTT/SJ/TB unless they choose to.
Then I would just divvy up the veterans evenly into the 3 leagues, then fill with all the rooks like myself. At the moment, if all players get confirmed (still 14 left to do) we could have 3 leagues of 14, which would be fine. If a bunch of these 14 don't make it, I'd prefer two larger SNES leagues, again no bigger than 20.
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This is an explanation of the basic idea of a ladder: http://www.greencourtsoftware.com/essays/clguide.html.
Basically, you can start a ladder by ordering people based on previous league results. You move up the ladder by beating people above you. The specifics can vary, but typically you can only challenge someone within X spots higher than yourself. If the lower player wins, they move up. In some versions they might swap spots on the ladder. To make it harder to climb, you can simply advance winners by 1 or 2 spots, and drop losers by the same. This is probably more appropriate for 15 minute hockey games - a single game doesn't tell you much about who is better. It should be calibrated so that you would have to beat someone fairly consistently to get past them. Lots of ways to do it.
Imagine a 50 team ladder, where you can challenge up to 20% (10 spots) ahead of you, with winners rising 2 and losers dropping 2 spots. If you then challenge the guy 10 spots ahead, and beat him solidly (4 out of 6), you would rise 4 and he would drop 4. So over the time of about a playoff series, you could pass him or get close to him depending on how often you were winning. Sounds about right - keeps the ladder pretty fluid but it takes time to make your name.
What ends up happening is a very natural ordering of the players in a short period of time. It's cool to be able to look at where you stand, and who is close to you, and be able to schedule a game that you know is going to be very competitive.
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I'd welcome any suggestions for how the B league(s) could be run. Judging about the amount signing up, if it keeps going, we may go with three B leagues.
Keep in mind with one big league, we'd have to double up teams and I don't think we want to get into Chi vs Chi etc. There's also some players in B who I think we be too good if they finished the regular season to play in the lower tier playoffs(ex. the lost points for several unplayed games and moved down in the standings.)
Please keep the ideas coming.
Some other random ideas:
1) A hockey challenge ladder (one for each system). If you're familiar with the concept from tennis, basically the same thing (google it if you're not). A ladder runs continuously, so interest would not stop down between leagues. I noticed very few posts on these forums in January, I guess because it was between Fall and Spring season.
This is especially good because new people will find this website randomly throughout the year. Most of the time, leagues are in session, or idle, so people can't really join up and get quickly hooked. They may forget and lose interest and never return. This happened to me twice before I got the email that leagues were forming. The ladder would provide an immediate way for people to start playing, get "confirmed", and become part of the forum. It would be a "sticky" feature in net parlance.
2) Idea 1 would create a player ranking. Since we know the player ranking, then teams could be distributed more fairly, like in a real pro sports draft. Among the players selected to play in a particular league, the worst player (according to the ladder or some other distribution) gets first choice, and so on. As opposed to the random selection we currently have. This is another way to make the competition within a league more equitable, without resorting to the more drastic idea that I had earlier.
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I'd welcome any suggestions for how the B league(s) could be run. Judging about the amount signing up, if it keeps going, we may go with three B leagues.
Keep in mind with one big league, we'd have to double up teams and I don't think we want to get into Chi vs Chi etc. There's also some players in B who I think we be too good if they finished the regular season to play in the lower tier playoffs(ex. the lost points for several unplayed games and moved down in the standings.)
Please keep the ideas coming.
Have you ever considered running a league where each person plays "as themselves", rather than married to a particular NHL franchise? When you actually play your scheduled opponent, you can simply select any NHL 94 team that you would like to play as. I guess you might get some Chi vs. Chi games that way too, but it would also eliminate unfairness based on team selection. The results would be more about "who's the best player", as opposed to being biased by how good or bad your team was. Just an idea.
I noticed among the 30! signups for SNES, there are 12 different top team requests. So I think you could pretty easily partition leagues to minimize the number of games where both players choose the same team, if you knew everyone's preference. And besides, would anyone really be upset by a few Chi vs. Chi? I mean, that's a pure battle, best player wins. Zero game bias.
This would also allow for larger leagues, since the biggest problem with those huge leagues currently is that whoever is playing with the worst 5 teams basically have little to no chance. Now you could have a large, fully competitive league.
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How much of it is actually Home Ice Advantage? How much is game play preference? I know personally that I play better trying to score at the top net 2 times a game so when I am the away team I have 2 periods to score in bottom net and that's where I struggle. But sometimes it does seem as though the home team seems to play a little better also.
This probably has some to do with it. I actually prefer to score at the bottom net, I feel like I can see the trailer a little better and I do play for a lot of one-timers.
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In getting worked up to start my first league, I was browsing the past standings and noted something interesting.
I looked at all the Classic 94 Leagues from 2010 (both GENS and SNES), and 6 out of 7 leagues posted a higher home ice winning percentage. It was quite significant in some cases (57% home ice win in SNES-A Spr. 2010). The average overall all the leagues was around a 53% home ice winning percentage.
Anyone think there is a little home ice advantage built in to the game? It sure seems it.
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Test game request, tonight (2/22) would be great. 9pm CST or thereaboots. SNES. AIM: gsguyotte
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Would like a test game, tonight if possible. 9pm CST would work very well. AIM : gsguyotte
Regards,
Greg
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In truth, I played the PC version (95 I think it was) the most. Loved the stats and season mode. I have tried both the SNES and GENS version via emulators on Android and they are essentially the same, so I don't care. I guess I prefer GENS simply because there is an A and a B league, indicating a bit more interest on that side.
Mods: When I filled out the waiting list form, I forget my user name on here was txsting. I'm the one who put in 'gguyotte' as the user name.
Okay, so 'gguyotte' was already taken on AIM. So I will be 'gsguyotte' - and I'm abandoning the username 'txsting'. Planning to play SNES after learning a little more about it.
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Try me in the evenings after 8pm CST. If you want another specific time, ask and I might be able to do it.