Thursday, March 29, 2007

League News (from Commissioner)

I also clicked on the option (which I never understood before) for seed division leaders (i.e. so like you know from the NHL, the top team in the division would automatically get either 1st or 2nd depending the higher of the two division champs). Thanks, this should better emphasise the division rivalries and the reward for winning the best of those 6 games against your division rivals - and all those great defensemen, goalies and young forwards you've traded to them :)

Hey guys. I made the schedule using the FHL option this time and a few things changed that I found helpful - I bumped up the number of games per "day" to better reflect the actual day set that I play - which is basically 11 games a day (than each team plays almost every day). This means you won't have that nasty problem of playing twice when the days are short like in the past so your lines will be used daily!

A couple changes to note, instead of 88 games in the regular season, the season is 78 games long and the matchups work as follows:
6 division games against same division teams
4 inter-division games against the team in the other division in your conference
2 inter-conference games against the team in the other conference
= 78 Games total

Secondly, I clicked the option for OVERTIME LOSS point - like the NHL. I don't think this will have a lot of impact but thought it should be interesting to try - because I'm sure I'm not the only one who's pissed at losing in overtime and getting 0 pts.

And finally, regarding TC points, we'll still have them but instead of the numbering of 60 and 40 for non-playoff teams and playoff team respectively, it will be 36 and 24 respectively. These next offseason than would be applied in blocks of 3 rather than 5, therefore as you can image, the max would be 12 for any one player and minimum 3 on any one player. Also, for winning the All-Star game you won't be rewarded with TCs, although of course we are still having the allstar break as usual and the games. The three awards that get tcs will still get them but will get 3 for each award instead of 5.

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