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yeah I was thinking like early August for draft and then start league in September, I think we'll do that still. We'll miss ya Jack!

Round 2 - Sunday, 6/12 at 11:59 Pacific Conference Finals - Sunday, 6/19 at 11:59 Pacific Final - Sunday, 6/26 at 11:59 Pacific Good luck to all, thanks for playing VHL!

OK, we will begin VHL3 Draft in a few weeks then. Look for an announcement soon on the chat and on here

ok, so no summer break for GDL?

Hey guys, great season once again, thanks to all for playing VHL2! This was a tough season with GDL running concurrently, but it's been really competitive again. UPDATE: VHL3 will be open with the next draft sometime during the SUMMER. **Changes for VHL3** We will move back to a ~44 game season, regardless of # of A guys in a division. 50 is too much. Draft will not be a snaking draft any longer. Instead, we will go to a true NHL style draft where we start from #1 pick again in Round 2, etc. This should allow for better competitive balance, while also rewarding players who play all of their games. We will move to quarterly deadlines, and there will be harsher penalties for missing deadlines. If you miss the first 2 deadlines, you will likely be removed without a chance to catch up in quarter 3. We'll discuss more as a group together, but playoff point docking/draft position drop are options, and I will consider a concrete method to handling this, penalty wise. I am floating this one, possibly for a league vote: Playoff seeding will be separated from playoff qualification. We will move towards a more classic-style playoff system where win % does determine your seeding. For example, my Bruins (3rd seed) had to play Labs (6th). Labs had a higher win % than J&J (5th). So who should have been 5th? This is my question. And finally, Lupz....come back! :-) -Skip

I feel I've been lucky in running VHL since the guys have been really good about letting me know when things are going on. In season 1, Wittgenstein and a couple of others needed to be replaced, and usually (2 of 3) they came to me about it. We finished almost all games. This season was pretty solid, a couple guys aside Probob aside. But we only had 7 coaches finish all their games. I feel this is mainly on me, because the season length got extended and that doesn't help. I don't feel too badly, because that change was made for competitive balance as we have 14 B coaches and only 4 A coaches in an 18 team league. I also didn't know the GDL draft was going to start right after we began the season, so that was a miscommunication between me and Brutus, but that can be fixed moving forward. All we need to do is have a better schedule of events/leagues. I have no problem starting the VHL draft in the 2nd to last week of GDL or something, so that we go right into VHL as the GDL playoffs get going. This should be easy enough, each league takes about 7-8 weeks for regular season so just need to space out more. Slackers Regarding handling slackers, I feel this is the toughest thing in NHL94 online. I've used a few tactics: 1.) Immediate Removal - if a guy is slacking so much, just remove him and let him know why (Dcicon in VHL1). I gave Dcicon some chances to catch up, but he didn't and I removed him early to avoid an issue all season. 2.) Draft Penalties for DNPs (Draft Leagues only) - This puts pressure on guys because if they have a bad season, they won't get a good pick because I add 2 pts for each game played. This is the opposite of playoff DNP penalty, as the more points you have, the later your pick will be. 3.) Playoff Penalties for DNPs - I do a minimum of games played, usually 75 or 80%. I also dock 2 pts for each DNP, which heavily affects playoff qualification. 2 guys made the VHL2 playoffs because they played all their games, while teams with better win % missed due to DNPs. I also support the idea that the commish should be subjective and look at each team's DNPs to determine if it is on one coach over the other. In that case, only one team gets the DNPs. 4.) Don't Invite Them Back! Deadlines - Weekly They've been sort of useless, I have to agree with that since it was said earlier. Maybe quarterly deadlines would make more sense. I don't love Labs idea of mid-way and then final, too much time wasted on one slacker with no rule to control it...but I do like the spirit of the idea. For example, if someone needs to hit their 16th game by end of week 2, then they could get docked or have one of the penalties mentioned earlier. Too many deadlines = less importance to each individual deadline. If we have 4 deadlines, and you missed 2 or 3, you're a slacker and should be treated as such by being replaced or put on probation, I guess. Question: What does "probation" even mean? We keep an eye on everyone already, so are players on probation penalized in some way?

hey guys, please dl the 2nd version of the playoff ROM if you have to play against me, sorry about that

Thanks CoachMac!

@CanesFan - thanks dude! I am glad you like it! @oboe - go for it bud! Can you send it my way after? I wouldn't mind trying it out.

Playoff ROM Attached (V2) VHL2playoffs2.bin

Matchups are set: Round 1 #3 Boston (Skip) vs. #6 Pittsburgh (Labs) #4 NY Rangers (JV) vs. #5 Columbus (J&J) Byes - #1 Washington (Brutus) and #2 NY Islanders (Zepp) #3 Edmonton (Darko) vs. #6 Los Angeles (Mavs) #4 Montreal (Ba55i5t) vs. #5 San Jose (Pearate) Byes - #1 Florida (FPB) and #2 Dallas (Texas) East 1. WSH (Brutus) - 66 pts 2. NYI (Zepp) - 64 adjusted pts 3. BOS (Skip) - 59 pts 4. NYR (JV) - 56 pts 5. CBJ (J&J) - 34 adj pts 6. PIT (Labs) - 21 adj pts ------------------------------------------------------------ 7. COL (CBK26) - 9 adj pts 8. BUF (FC) - 7 pts 9*. WPG (RoBro) - 20 adj pts (needed more games to qualify for playoffs) West 1. FLA (FPB) - 71 adj pts 2. DAL (TexasPachyderm) - 58 pts 3. EDM (Darko) - 50 adj pts 4. MTL (Ba55i5t) - 50 adj pts 5. SJS (Pearate) - 39 adj pts 6. LAK (Mavs) - 36 adj pts ----------------------------------------------------------- 7. TOR (Jer) - 34 pts 8. TBL (AquaLizard) - 32 pts 9. STL (Sicarius) - 4 adj pts *You must play 38 games to qualify for playoffs -2 pts for each DNP. They will count for VHL3 draft as well. ***SPECIAL NOTE FOR PLAYOFF TEAMS*** For the Playoff ROM, I will accept line changes if you have a change to make to your lines. Please add to this thread by Monday night and I will add your new lines to the ROM.

Thanks bud! One of my friends told me once me (when he came over while I was editing the newer games for accuracy) "You're sick, there is something wrong with you. You edit more than you play." Yes, it may be a sickness, but one I am not trying to shake! My goal is to keep making the game better. I remember how great I thought my 2014 ROM was, and now I'd probably think it is s**t. But yeah, those player cards...gonna be a learning experience.

Was that WWF arcade game the one where you work your way up to fight Andre the Giant and TM$M?

I've already made a lot of changes to the 2017 ROM, and added Matthews to TOR and Laine to WPG since that is how it should go. Cannot wait to work on that when I have time this summer/early fall

Hey man, did you see I added one? :-D

No prob dude - just added it to the original post (excel file) - enjoy!

I'd definitely add Barcelona Summer Games '92 and Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball (both from NES), but Raph and I have basically the same list. I still run some summer games every now and then. 92-94 was the wheelhouse for NES games.

I'll post my list later, but KingRaph and I would've had a lot of fun as kids. Baseball Stars was my sh*t! Pro Wrestling? When are we hanging out?!

Awesome thanks dude! Coach Mac sent me some pointers but it still seems daunting to me.

...in the 5 months until then, I hope to add player cards. Don't hold me to it, but that is the goal!

Hey guys, here is the playoff update for the 2016 ROM. I hope you all enjoy the real playoffs, and hope you've have had a great season of 2016 ROMing :-) I've continued to make some updates to ratings with the goal of making 4's great again...I hope you dig it! Next update: September for NHL17! -Skip P.S. - as always, if you see an error, please let me know. I found a solid player who had the wrong handedness this time around, so any and all help is always appreciated! P.P.S. - If you like this ROM, ask me about VHL. NHL16playoffs.bin NHL16playoffsSkip.zip

most importantly: how will we make the 30-team ROM a 32-team ROM?

yeah I use Slack at work and thought about introducing it to the masses here, but it'd be an exercise in futility. I was thinking of making the guys in my league join it but it's already hard enough to fill a league haha I think Slack is about 1,000x better than AOL, which always sucks anyways. Moving would be great but people generally fear change :-)

yeah I want in on what this old man is cooking with

As many of you know, Flatcrusher has taken over for Buffalo. Good luck Flatsy!