Updates: Draft Class, Olympics, etc.
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:19 pm
Gents, with my fiancee out of town visiting family from Thursday to next Tuesday, I will have plenty of time to put in the 2010 draft class. I hope to have this done between Friday and Tuesday. I will be attempting to compile information from numerous sources including Hockey's Future, stats, mock drafts, scouting reports, etc. If you guys can link me to some of this information, it would be much appreciated. You can just post it in this thread. I will also be re-evaluating some of the draftees already in the file.
I plan on adding two additional rounds to the draft and go with 7 like the NHL does. I will update these two rounds manually. I will replace the EHM-generated draftees to fill as many slots as I can and then start deleting the game's worst OA players who are not with a team to fill out the rest if need be. I also realize that I will need to replace retiring players at some point as well. Therefore, some additional draftees may be added at season's end. I will send the updated career.car, players.ehm, and statistics.ehm to Ryan on his sim nights so that you guys have an updated file and so that it will stay consistent with attribute changes to current players. The updated file will be included in the uploaded one nightly.
It is a huge undertaking and I appreciate your patience if the sim is late for whatever reason or something else occurs. Again, I will be very grateful to anybody who can help me out with the acquiring/compiling of information. Note that the WJC will be going on in the EHEC file during this update. Some players may change names. Just a heads up so that you guys don't think that the file is going haywire.
In terms of the Olympics, there are two options in my mind. The first is that the league-controls the Olympic sim and posts nightly results. This is my least-favorite option. I fear that it will further decrease activity and make getting back into the EHEC schedule very difficult, with several inactive GMs. My other idea is to put together a volunteer list of GMs who want to control an Olympic team. It would be done completely at random by pulling names out of a hat. All of the current rosters/countries will be put in a separate savefile with the Olympic schedule. Assuming that we get more interest than there are countries, I will prepare a second, or in some cases third, team with several countries. Likely, these countries will be US, CAN, RUS, and perhaps SWE. In these instances, the Committee will construct the team. At that point, we will re-arrange the schedule and create our own round robin brackets.
As I said, the Olympics have to be generated in a separate save file. For this reason, injuries and attribute changes will NOT carry over to the EHEC file. Only leadership (LE) changes will be entered in to the league file and will be entered on a 2x basis. So if a player gains 3 LE during the tournament, he will increase by 6 LE in the EHEC file. Odds are, the changes will be very minute, but it is important to simulate the increase in experience and leadership as best we can.
I am open to any other suggestions on how to operate the Olympics.
A couple other items of note. Guys, I really want some more participation in discussion on the boards. Make a bullshit thread in the off-topic forum. Maybe a thread for some Youtube videos of sick highlights, or other random shit. Discuss recently released movies or some interesting articles you found. Anything. I know it's hard to get a lot of discussion going as we all are busy, but give it the old college try. Talk shit after games. Anything.
Also during my time away from the ball and chain, I will be trying my hand at creating some team pages for everybody so that the EHM News tab for each team and the league as a whole can be posted. We'll see how it goes. I will likely try to edit the main page to get a Player of the Month, GM of the Month, and Player of the Week blurb in there. Sorry it's taken so long. Since our webmaster bailed on us, and I haven't had the time or patience to dick around with HTML, I feel like it's way overdue. If anybody can help me figure out why the calendar page doesn't work properly, I'd really appreciate some help. When you click on a specific score, it doesn't go to that box score, just the first game of that month.
Keep up the activity, guys. A million times thank you to the guys who check in every day or every other day. The rest of you, try to stop by more frequently.
Also, get your friends involved. We have a handful of open teams and have not received any applications in quite some time. I really want to get all the teams filled again.
Thanks, and Happy New Year to all.
I plan on adding two additional rounds to the draft and go with 7 like the NHL does. I will update these two rounds manually. I will replace the EHM-generated draftees to fill as many slots as I can and then start deleting the game's worst OA players who are not with a team to fill out the rest if need be. I also realize that I will need to replace retiring players at some point as well. Therefore, some additional draftees may be added at season's end. I will send the updated career.car, players.ehm, and statistics.ehm to Ryan on his sim nights so that you guys have an updated file and so that it will stay consistent with attribute changes to current players. The updated file will be included in the uploaded one nightly.
It is a huge undertaking and I appreciate your patience if the sim is late for whatever reason or something else occurs. Again, I will be very grateful to anybody who can help me out with the acquiring/compiling of information. Note that the WJC will be going on in the EHEC file during this update. Some players may change names. Just a heads up so that you guys don't think that the file is going haywire.
In terms of the Olympics, there are two options in my mind. The first is that the league-controls the Olympic sim and posts nightly results. This is my least-favorite option. I fear that it will further decrease activity and make getting back into the EHEC schedule very difficult, with several inactive GMs. My other idea is to put together a volunteer list of GMs who want to control an Olympic team. It would be done completely at random by pulling names out of a hat. All of the current rosters/countries will be put in a separate savefile with the Olympic schedule. Assuming that we get more interest than there are countries, I will prepare a second, or in some cases third, team with several countries. Likely, these countries will be US, CAN, RUS, and perhaps SWE. In these instances, the Committee will construct the team. At that point, we will re-arrange the schedule and create our own round robin brackets.
As I said, the Olympics have to be generated in a separate save file. For this reason, injuries and attribute changes will NOT carry over to the EHEC file. Only leadership (LE) changes will be entered in to the league file and will be entered on a 2x basis. So if a player gains 3 LE during the tournament, he will increase by 6 LE in the EHEC file. Odds are, the changes will be very minute, but it is important to simulate the increase in experience and leadership as best we can.
I am open to any other suggestions on how to operate the Olympics.
A couple other items of note. Guys, I really want some more participation in discussion on the boards. Make a bullshit thread in the off-topic forum. Maybe a thread for some Youtube videos of sick highlights, or other random shit. Discuss recently released movies or some interesting articles you found. Anything. I know it's hard to get a lot of discussion going as we all are busy, but give it the old college try. Talk shit after games. Anything.
Also during my time away from the ball and chain, I will be trying my hand at creating some team pages for everybody so that the EHM News tab for each team and the league as a whole can be posted. We'll see how it goes. I will likely try to edit the main page to get a Player of the Month, GM of the Month, and Player of the Week blurb in there. Sorry it's taken so long. Since our webmaster bailed on us, and I haven't had the time or patience to dick around with HTML, I feel like it's way overdue. If anybody can help me figure out why the calendar page doesn't work properly, I'd really appreciate some help. When you click on a specific score, it doesn't go to that box score, just the first game of that month.
Keep up the activity, guys. A million times thank you to the guys who check in every day or every other day. The rest of you, try to stop by more frequently.
Also, get your friends involved. We have a handful of open teams and have not received any applications in quite some time. I really want to get all the teams filled again.
Thanks, and Happy New Year to all.
if we're calling teams.