angryjay93

Looking back at some of this, I feel it's prudent of me to address why LA and Edmonton were closely ranked. When I did the rankings originally, I remember a few people that I respect highly speak lowly of zhitnik. When I rated zhitnik, I hit him hard with my rating and gave the LA defense a 4. I probably should have ranked LA closer to Buffalo since they have similar options. Buffalo received a 7 which makes me think that a 6 for LA would be a much more reasonable ranking. As for Edmonton I boosted Ranford significantly and gave him a 7.5 rating because other people raved about him in other conversations I was involved in. Also the defense was probably overrated a tad but not all too much I think. Kravchuk and Manson are both plus skilled heavyweights and they seem to have good chemistry together. They received 6.5 but maybe a 6 would be more fair. Lastly I've spent a lot of time with Hrudey over the last year and he's not bad in manual. Id boost his 3 rating to a 3.5 or 4. Id probably take him over a guy like Burke, Vernon, and maybe even Tom Barrasso (I hate fat or clunky goalies). Put all these adjustments together and the teams start to separate a bit and LA pushes closer to the top in a tie with wpg and Edmonton drops down to just above Hartford. This seems right in that the best part of LA is their forwards. But they don't have a top 10 forward, they just have pieces that go great together. While Edmonton is a steady defensive team with a top 10 forward and some journeymen wingers that are respectable enough.

Thank you everyone for helping me get all my games in this season. Especially fenty who played me at 2 am his time.

I appreciate the work chaos, raph, and Hali did in this season and all other seasons before hand. I understand your dilemma because Id be pissed to lose a division because I didn't play a guy who played 9 games in 5 weeks and couldn't sync up with the replacement on short notice. I appreciate the fact I got a couple extra days and will keep in mind that future seasons will be handled different. These guys communicate with us, are transparent, and do their best to help everyone. Thank you good buds!

It seems we have a few different threads attacking the same subject from different angels and through it all I side very much so with Brutus in terms of opinion. We are lucky to have enough guys to fill out leagues at the moment. In the case of snes anyone who did sign up was admitted into the league. There was and is no wait list in the event that random people didn't play. If people don't take personal responsibility then there isn't a whole lot that can be done. Shorter and faster leagues help but aren't an answer all in themselves. The last 92 league that coach ran didn't have the usual completion rate. Why? Because guys didn't take personal responsibility nor was there enough time to make up for a lost time slot. There is a happy medium somewhere but we aren't gonna get it by brow beating slackers and making every league a 20 game sprint with 6 managers. In those leagues any amount of slackers more than 0 kills the league. Again, it comes to personal responsibility. Brutus laid it out in another post where he squeezes game in despite a busy schedule. Without diving into detail, I'm also super busy AND I have to travel across town from where I live to get a connection I can play with. I live in a metro with well over 1 million people and it isn't a short drive. But I've made the time and played 74 out of 80 classic games before the original deadline. The games I missed were with carse who was hardly around and fenty who I have an 8 hour time difference with. I don't expect him to be up at 2-6 AM during the time I'm frequently on so it's no one's fault really. If you want to play games you get them In regardless. If you don't, well the games sure as hell don't play themselves.

I assumed there was an extension because chaos mentioned it in the group chat. Otherwise I would have played plabax Friday night to get the games in. Its really tough to get games in on a holiday weekend too. I wouldn't say a whole week is needed but a couple extra days would be nice.

I'd do ANH/FLA all day every day to him, lol!!! I'm not a big fan of the tier idea. It's too subjective and I think Raph did a post where we did a fairly bang up job as a group in picking even matchups. I tend to like our format as is. I could be into the best of 3 idea that Seth proposed once we are into top 16 or maybe even perhaps top 8. I dont see much point in having it in the preliminary rounds because too many times coaches can be mismatched skill wise and its pointless to use the extra 10 minutes. Plus, it makes any sort of upset that much harder to pull off. Once things are deep into the tournament, I could see why we expand things a tiny bit.

I'll be around Friday evening after 9 pm est. Bo and zalex, any chance either of you will be around?

These are some very sad completion percentages 4 days before the deadline.

Bob, I won't be able to make it online until 9 tonight.

I might be able to get online by 9. If other guys can play Wednesday that would help me out.

Snes: Gens: I will be on tonight after 9 est and possibly tomorrow if I get enough guys setting up game times. If not I'm just going to watch the sharks game. I can be around Friday evening anf Saturday during the day by appointment. In other words if you know when you may be online please drop me a line here so I can make sure I clear the time and show up.

Always with excuses. This sounds like the scene in swingers: Me: you gonna practice when im not here? Plabax: (repeats question like a moron) Me: Ok, we'll play some more. He likes to get scored on. Great Times!

CB check = C check I get body checked a lot more then most others and I check far less then most others. I still get my share of offensive production and victories almost regardless of team makeup. Where Raph got me in our classic games this season was on transition. He got my defenders caught one way or another and just had breakaway after breakaway and i didnt do enough to adjust or get the manual GC working like i needed to in order to stem his transition. The CB wasn't any bigger of a factor then a C check. The biggest thing that you can do plabber is admit you have holes in your game. Stop being arrogant about yourself, I've seen enough of your tape and played against you enough times to know this is a fact. I had to admit the same thing to myself at some point and I made it a point to work on where I felt I was weak. Hell, we've all had to come to this realization and have worked to make ourselves better. You are no exception, you will need to put in work or you will continue to have this occur to you.

Congratulations on the new position coach! I'm also happy to see you'll still be in the area and not in eureka, Nevada on the loneliest road in America

I will be around for games on Wednesday night around 9pm est. Seth, zalex, habs, and carse can you please post if you will be available that night? I'll likely be playing snes as well and just want to make sure I get everyone I can.

Id consider it too. I can likely find a cheap Chicago flight.

You can score with a pass shot in 3 seconds from center. I've done it once against the computer and I know a few guys have done it in league. Moral of the story, don't ever let your guard down.

I would love to have a different way to chat. My aim is going nuts lately and I find myself having to regularly Uninstall and re-install

I just saw the June start date. I'll take sf

I need the odds on Seth with Ottawa. Just itching to send my money off to vegas. Screw it, I need all the odds!!! Let's go raph, lol

I didn't read most of this topic but I think I get the gist that Tru wants his perception changed. All I can say is change your actions and don't justify what you've done in the past. Many people considered me to be an abrasive pain in the ass during my first run as a player. I think now that perception is mostly changed. I didn't ask for it or demand it, I just decided to change my approach and people gradually started thinking different. It feels more genuine to other people if you just do something instead of saying you will do it and ask to be rewarded. That's my two cents and I'm done here.

Id love to try and be in, but with me in both classic leagues itd probably be a bit tricky.

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Nicely done raph. All this info almost makes me want to participate in a draft again. Love the breakdown and rational thought processing here. I'll always be partial to "just give me 6 guys and let's go!" some old habits just die hard.