EHEC's Future
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:56 am
Alright, good-ish not-so-news first: I have paid for hosting for the website for the next two years. This costs around $70 (US) per year. If you feel like contributing to hosting costs, as a few have offered before, PM me and I'll let you know how.
Now to other things. As you've probably noticed, we've lost a few GMs over the last few months. Prior to season start, we were actually nearly full, but a few GMs went missing just as the season started (??): ARI & FLA. That adds to those who announced their departure (CBS & MTL), and the seemingly perpetually vacant NJ. Five vacancies is an uncomfortably large number - I can handle one or two, but fixing up lines and rosters for any more than that gets very tedious. So if you have the inclination, here's what you can do to help:
1. Advertise and try to recruit new GMs. I bump the post on hfboards every now and then but there are probably better places. I know Justin started a reddit thread some time ago (which probably could use refreshing), there are posts on EHM The Blue Line, and Marty has volunteered to advertise on Hockey Virtuel to replenish our Quebecois pool. Or just ask your friends, family, whatever (I have tried and failed at this numerous times; oh well).
2. Volunteer to be an interim GM. If you're really keep to take on a second team, the process is fairly straight forward - let me know which team interests you (it has to be in the opposite conference from your main team) and I'll set you up with a forums/GMO account for that team. I'm normally reluctant to advertise this too heavily as I'm concerned about burnout, so don't feel obliged to do this unless you really want to.
3. Give feedback, come up with new ideas, etc. For example, reviving voting on awards.
4. This is the big one, but in the long term we need other simmers. I can handle simming for now but it does get it a bit tedious to do this every night. I've also been reluctant to push on this because of our experiences with a certain committee member of the past, but there are ways to minimize the risk (mostly scheduling so that we sim as few of our own games as possible), but it's going to be necessary in the future - definitely for the playoffs. It is a fairly involved process and requires a degree of trust, so I'll post more details about the sim procedure in the next few days and you can decide if you'd be interested in this.
Questions?
Now to other things. As you've probably noticed, we've lost a few GMs over the last few months. Prior to season start, we were actually nearly full, but a few GMs went missing just as the season started (??): ARI & FLA. That adds to those who announced their departure (CBS & MTL), and the seemingly perpetually vacant NJ. Five vacancies is an uncomfortably large number - I can handle one or two, but fixing up lines and rosters for any more than that gets very tedious. So if you have the inclination, here's what you can do to help:
1. Advertise and try to recruit new GMs. I bump the post on hfboards every now and then but there are probably better places. I know Justin started a reddit thread some time ago (which probably could use refreshing), there are posts on EHM The Blue Line, and Marty has volunteered to advertise on Hockey Virtuel to replenish our Quebecois pool. Or just ask your friends, family, whatever (I have tried and failed at this numerous times; oh well).
2. Volunteer to be an interim GM. If you're really keep to take on a second team, the process is fairly straight forward - let me know which team interests you (it has to be in the opposite conference from your main team) and I'll set you up with a forums/GMO account for that team. I'm normally reluctant to advertise this too heavily as I'm concerned about burnout, so don't feel obliged to do this unless you really want to.
3. Give feedback, come up with new ideas, etc. For example, reviving voting on awards.
4. This is the big one, but in the long term we need other simmers. I can handle simming for now but it does get it a bit tedious to do this every night. I've also been reluctant to push on this because of our experiences with a certain committee member of the past, but there are ways to minimize the risk (mostly scheduling so that we sim as few of our own games as possible), but it's going to be necessary in the future - definitely for the playoffs. It is a fairly involved process and requires a degree of trust, so I'll post more details about the sim procedure in the next few days and you can decide if you'd be interested in this.
Questions?