Post Season Rules Review

[BluesGM]

Yeah but something needs to be done about weak drafts pools

[lebas]

I normally would agree with Juha on this but that down the road random boosting sounds like one of the newer better ideas ive heard. Be a kick in the thingy if you traded them and they boosted.

[BluesGM]

But random boosting does add a bit a realism to player development

[lebas]

I just like the idea of it being done 2-3 sim years later

[BluesGM]

Feb 8, 2018 18:30:42 GMT lebas said:

I just like the idea of it being done 2-3 sim years later

I can agree with that. 

[BluesGM]

So any decisions made from what we discussed here?

[chris8185]

Yeah, as much as recruiting new guys helps, we need to find a way to keep them here once they join. Lots of missed sims, dragged out draft/playoffs and no talent in the draft beyond the 5-10 picks is really hurting us. Not blaming anyone, just re-iterating that an extra simmer would do this league wonders. Extra boosts are great and all, but there's still a lot of uncertainty. I've been in this league since it's first season, I've yet to have a guy boom or bust. There should be enough guys in the draft who can become at worst a solid 3rd line forward / 4th-5th d-men in the draft who don't need boosts to fill the first round.

[Deleted]

Extra boosts were a great addition on the fly, big kudos Stephen on the call... but ya the draft is hurting me the most. As someone who's favorite part of EHM is the draft, I probably spent about 5 minutes scouting before I just filtered out guys with the highest Shoot/Hit ceiling and called it a day in hopes a magical boost would give me something that could play in pro's one day... truthfully I could of just BPA'ed past the 40th ish pick and gotten pretty much identical players to any sort of scouting, which is a bit of a downer.

Starting to side with Lebas and Juha on the "no to boosts" but also starting to feel like there is a reason no other leagues roll "vanilla" EHM like most older leagues did back in the day.

- after the fact boosts are a solid unique idea, but would like to see them restricted to players on teams... ie (maybe anyone age 20 - 24 without UFA status). Thinking if you boost UFA's that gives a big advantage to the active GM's, who are already pretty set in this league and hurts the less active guys and GM'less teams.
- not a fan of changing the active GM bonus from max 7 pot to max 8 pot... think it will cause further parity issues
- last but certainly not least, still a huge fan of instituting a cross league bonus for GHL/INHL/RLHL... maybe as simple as 20 con point bonus for spending a full league year in each league, given at each rollover in each league... think it is easy to coordinate and by far the best idea I can think of for adding GM's.

One more note to add and I am pretty certainly everyone is aware, but huge kudos to Joe for starting up his centralized EHM facebook concept. This is one of the best initiatives I have seen for keeping EHM alive in I don't know how many years... I am lazy and don't have much use for Facebook, but I think since FHockey went down and The Blue Line semi picked up the slack, we have been lacking for any centralized source of EHM knowledge/discussion/feedback etc... hoping maybe this can be the solution and will certainly be checking things out more in depth this weekend.

[BluesGM]

What if we kept the boost for current drafts, but then added more boosts to previous drafts? For instance, 15 boosts for the current, 10 more for last year, 5 more for 2 years prior. That way in total, a draft year will get 25 boosted players after all is said and done but it still keeps it unpredictable.