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5.9 The Minnesota Wild select goalie Andy Moog

4th Round Selection, MIN selects Steve Duchesne (defensemen)

3.9 (3.8 skipped) Neal Broten

Evan, did you have an old site with random 94 related stuff? I swear I remember visiting an NHL 94 site a lot further back than 2003.

The draft league site also has the same functionality. You can sort by different ratings and by drafted or undrafted.

NHL 94 was one of those things I would search for from time to time (pre-google days). I remember visiting Evan's site probably close to 10 years ago and seeing his personal records. I also found the sega cd version through this site. I can't remember at what time they updated it, but eventually there was a forum and one day I finally signed up to chime in about underrated players on the game. Basically, every so often I would check out the site over the last 10 years, seeing as how it's not very hard to remember the name of the website.

That's what happens when the game desynchs. You can tell that you are desynched when the other player does things like that. If it keeps happening then there is a problem with one of your setups. It could be that you are trying to use different roms, or one of your internet connections is unstable. A ping of 100 or more is pretty high.

I'm a run-n-gun style as well. After having Selanne on my team, I've gotten used to controlling that much speed and still being able to deke. It actually seems like the smoother the connection is, the less of a problem having 5+ speed becomes. This year I'm hoping that pairing Selanne with another speedster (Ronning) will establish more passing chemistry to my offense. Before, Selanne was just so much faster that I'd outrun my other forwards.

2.40 Minnesota selects Cliff Ronning.

Yes, what I do is replay the video and use a desktop capturing program which records everything on your desktop into an .avi format. The free one I like is http://camstudio.org/

I think I hosted that one. Setting it up to host is really easy, you just need to access your router and it's a simple setting.

It's saved in one of the gens folders. To play the file, you go to netplay and change your option from p2p or client, to playback. You'll see a list of your saved movies.

1.9 The upstart Minnesota Wild select Teemu Selanne. (back for another season)

http://www.retrobase.net/gensplus/ You'll have to run a screen capture program after recording the highlight to get a usable video formation, but this emulator captures movie files that you can replay on the emulator.

Hosting p2p might not work for everyone but the new kaillera file allows both p2p and server play, it works with all gens emulators, and it allows the recording of movies ... So I'd suggest it's a good idea for everyone to upgrade. If anyone needs help in figuring out how to host a p2p game (anyone can play p2p as long as the home team has set up their router) let me know and I can help through AIM.

Snaking

It looks great so far. I can't wait to play this.

I'm going to vote no, just because it's pretty unrealistic to have doubles of a player in the league even if it's not really a big deal to me either way. Now if there were two Roenick's, that'd be a different story.

I vote no mainly because of how thin the player pool is. Some teams would have really horrible goalies, and there aren't that many quality defensemen either. In addition, I know that almost every league will need a few replacements as the season goes on, so expanding too much could make it really tough to keep the season going if people drop out.

Good points. The thing is the pwners at the top of the draft would be gaining a selection advantage for three straight rounds, the most important rounds of the draft, even if the difference is only the 2nd round. If you were going to have a hybrid I think starting the snake in the 2nd round would be a better solution. So that it would go 1 -- 24 , 1 -- 24, 24 -- 1 ... instead of 1 -- 24, 1 -- 24, 1 -- 24. I don't know, I think that having the advantage for the three most important rounds is a big advantage.

For the sake of civil debate, I hope you don't mind if I reply again AJ. Now the main argument in favor of the hybrid draft is the idea that we need to give the weaker owners better teams and vice versa. I personally believe that since the super studs (Roenick, et al) are so much better than the rest, DaDonch's non-playoff team lottery, which awards the weaker owners the higher first round picks ,does offer some balance, in that, you don't have a super talented owner with a super stud. That said, I'm in favor of allowing the owners in the lottery to choose lower positions in the 1st round of the snake if they want to, because the argument can be made that having two B+ players is better than having an A+ and an B- player (if you follow me). The second thing is that when you break down the skill level of the various owners, let's say there are roughly three classes amongst our 24 teams. The elite 8 (owners who are fighting it out deep into the playoffs), the average 8 (owners who are fighting for playoff spots), and the below-average 8 (owners who are not consistently competitive). The "below-average 8" are going to be grouped in some draft order at the top. Whoever gets the first pick is going to be sitting really pretty when compared to the eighth pick, because he gets to pick 7 spots ahead of that guy in each of the first three rounds. So what would appear to happen is that his team has been made definitively stronger than the eighth guy in the order under the proposed change. You've taken two owners of near equal skill and given one an advantage over the other due to the non-snaking order. So I guess I don't see a perfect solution here because the hybrid still creates a competitive disadvantage for certain owners if they draw the short stick. If we really wanted to shake things up, we could always hold an auction instead of a draft. Give every owner a 100 million cap, and auction off all the players.

I think people do care but I guess I'm of the opinion that since this is a competitive league, it should be played without handicaps. Part of the beauty of the draft league is that, in theory, the teams are entirely equal. We don't run into situations like on the original rom where there are tons of overpowered teams. I definitely appreciate all of the creative solutions, but I believe DaDonch's lottery system. which distributes the top picks and the ultimate superstars to the non-playoff teams, is really an equalizer in itself without compromising the philosophy of a balanced draft. Another thing to think about is if you take out the snaking, players of relatively equal skill may become disadvantaged by their draft order. For example, take the non-playoff teams and hypothetically say the 8 players at the top of the draft have near equal skills. Whoever happens to land the #1 pick will not only get their choice of the superstars, but they will also get to pick 7 spots ahead of the #8 spot for however many rounds the draft doesn't snake. So his team should be markedly better even though he is of near equal skill to the #8 person. The same thing will happen at the bottom of the draft as well. Picking a few spots ahead of someone in successive rounds is a big advantage and while it might even things out slightly between a highly skilled player and a not-so highly skilled player, it could upset the competitive balance between those players of equal skill -- part of what the draft league and the snaking system intentioned to avoid, imo.

Wow, I never had seen this page before. The tips section is great, especially the videos which detail different scoring techniques.

I posted about this already, and later talked to DaDonch, so I wanted to clarify that I'll be switching from the Islanders to the Minnesota Wild.

I echo these thoughts and I feel that the snaking draft has an inherent fairness to it, as well as inherent strategies. Based on where you draft, certain drafting strategies present themselves, and the thought that goes into putting together your team is one of the best and most unique aspects about this league.