Idea

[SensGM]

In order to get folks to pay attention to their teams and league a little more one of the things we could do is something the RLHL does. They have some rewards which GM's need to pay attention to their teams and post the achieved award on the message forums. Here are some of the ones they do that we should consider implementing.  Note that I tweaked the limits they use down to 80 and this number is something that we can discuss later if there is any interest in the rewards. 


Rewards



Reward will be given out for:

-Getting someone to join (must stay a season) 5 CON pts to max of 80(goalies75)

-Player of the Month---1 con pt to that player (max 80)

-Rookie of the Month---1 con pt to that player (max 80)

-Captians Meetings (not clashes) 1 con pt to that player (max80)

-Trophy Winners---2 leadership/Con pts to any player (max 80)




*** Other reward points can be earned by doing things like Power Rankings etc..

*** Multiple Trophy winners cannot pool your pts together for 1 player

*** Rookie/Player of the month,you will need to post the news thread(within a week) in your team instruction to recieve the reward

*** Trophy Awards need to be claimed and submitted before next regular season starts. After that they will be void.

None of these will cause players to become superstars or the players to be overrated.  They will however get GM's to pay more attention to their teams and posting more on the boards. I really think that this league needs stuff like this in order for it to survive long term. 

Feel free to discuss as none of this is set in stone. I am just trying to come up with ways to breath some life back into this league. 

[lebas]

I like this idea, but this isn't a bash to Stephen at all (life comes first always). But I think the missed sims is to me personally the biggest fault of this league. Adding to the simmers responsibility might not be the best idea right now unless a 2nd simmer comes into the picture. Stephen is a great simmer and everything gets done, but he is also a busy guy and for that sims are all over the map. Consistency is the key to activity.

[BluesGM]

Dec 14, 2016 18:28:37 GMT lebas said:

I like this idea, but this isn't a bash to Stephen at all (life comes first always). But I think the missed sims is to me personally the biggest fault of this league. Adding to the simmers responsibility might not be the best idea right now unless a 2nd simmer comes into the picture. Stephen is a great simmer and everything gets done, but he is also a busy guy and for that sims are all over the map. Consistency is the key to activity.

I think it's a great idea to bring in some CON boost incentives, but it's just adding work to Stephen. If we could somehow figure something where this doesn't increase his workload (ie: having a 2nd simmer), then it could work. I personally don't have a problem with the missed sims, simply because Stephen always lets us know if he can't do it today, so then he pushes it back another day (NBD). But, he's already got so much to do, and adding to his workload, isn't going to help if he's doing it alone 

[Deleted]

Bring on the con incentives! Kudos Ottawa, glad this one was brought up.

Getting bored here, we need more activity. Stephen is an A class simmer, some of the GM's here are EHM icons, every GM I have talked to is really good people... no reason why things have to be so slow.

I would start posting cool stuff like Florida's last post, but I am lazy and want a carrot dangled in front of me for motivation. One post similar to Florida's per week/per month and gift 5 con = instant activity. Captain meetings = +1 con alone is enough for most people to thoroughly look through the file after every sim. I play too much EHM and still find myself opening this file every couple of sims and debating if it's worth sending in the single instruction "Please schedule first available EP". I do not mean that as disrespect as I know first hand that simmer is the most thankless EHM position ever, but I can honestly say if I am actively posting some player awards, write ups, captains meetings I am sure to send in whatever large or small instructions I have as well.

As much as it is adding work, I don't think entering a few con points into the players file is nearly as time consuming as a single sim... and if it is just too much for Stephen, maybe one of the senior GM's can lend a hand with stuff that goes beyond the sims.

[SensGM]

Adding in the rewards does not have to be Stephen. I do agree that this league needs a second simmer and that is no slight to Stephen. A backup simmer will help to keep things running smooth for those times when life intervenes and prevents a sim from being done.

The rewards will not add much to the sim time either as they are only very minor tweaks.

[Deleted]

I am for the con incentives. It gives GM's more reward for taking care of their respective teams and creates more involvement in the league as a whole.

We do need backup simmers without a doubt. Maybe 2 people who can jump in when Stephen is unavailable to sim. I am pretty sure we had someone not too long ago volunteer. Just can't remember who it was.

[lebas]

Pete the Philly GM simmed in the playoffs a few seasons ago.

[BluesGM]

How about something like this:

-Getting someone to join: 5 CON pts to any combination of players (can give all 5 to a single player, or spread it out over as much as five players) (can be done after the new GM has stayed for a month)
-Player of the Month: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Rookie of the Month: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Positive captain meetings: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Trophy nominations: 1 CON and 1 leadership pt to every nominee (deadline is a week real time after the award nomination sim)
-Trophy Winners: an additional 1 CON and 1 leadership pt to the award winners (deadline can be figured out during our off-season schedule)
-AHL teams: the GMs of the top 5 AHL teams at the end of the season get a certain amount of CON pts to distribute (ie: 1st place gets 5, 2nd place gets 4, 3rd place gets 3, 4th place gets 2, 5th place gets 1) (deadline can be figured out during our off-season schedule)
-Presidents Trophy Winners: 5 CON pts to any combination of players
-Milestones: when players reach specific milestones (ie: 200 goals, 500 points, 1000 games???), they get 1 leadership point (deadline is a week real time)

All players can only be boosted up to 80, goalies to 75. It's up to the GM to make sure he gets his boosts put in (not the simmer(s)).



Just spitballing here.....

[Deleted]

Team should get something when media glories them, that would engourage to try win games, differently than always make rebuilding and "try to loose". Nro 1 thing should be always winning.

[atlantagm]

I thought I've seen Stephen say on a few occasions that over-modding of the players.ehm concerned him. I'm fine for any boosts, doesn't matter to me, but I think Stephen might not like it.

[lebas]

Consistency wont change the strenght of the file... but will increase activity, it's just extra work for the simmer. I also agree with Juha it would be nice to see players get something for being good. Tanking should be punished not rewarded lol

[BluesGM]

I wonder why teams that are potentially tanking havent been punished

[Deleted]

I mean, it's hard to prove a tank unless we want to punish anyone who tries to rebuild. Plus we're pretty much all either pushing for the cup or pushing for 1st overall. In the past I've intentionally traded (or at least tried to trade) my 1st round pick in order to stop myself from tanking, but I don't know of a fair way to make it such that no one has their own first round picks.

Best way to punish tanking is to prevent it, I think, not that it's easy to do that either.

[atlantagm]

At this point the golden ticket in EHM leagues is activity. If a guy wants his team to be dead last every year so be it, as long as he's active.

[Deleted]

Dec 15, 2016 20:48:50 GMT BluesGM said:

How about something like this:

-Getting someone to join: 5 CON pts to any combination of players (can give all 5 to a single player, or spread it out over as much as five players) (can be done after the new GM has stayed for a month)
-Player of the Month: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Rookie of the Month: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Positive captain meetings: 1 CON pt to that player (deadline is a week real time)
-Trophy nominations: 1 CON and 1 leadership pt to every nominee (deadline is a week real time after the award nomination sim)
-Trophy Winners: an additional 1 CON and 1 leadership pt to the award winners (deadline can be figured out during our off-season schedule)
-AHL teams: the GMs of the top 5 AHL teams at the end of the season get a certain amount of CON pts to distribute (ie: 1st place gets 5, 2nd place gets 4, 3rd place gets 3, 4th place gets 2, 5th place gets 1) (deadline can be figured out during our off-season schedule)
-Presidents Trophy Winners: 5 CON pts to any combination of players
-Milestones: when players reach specific milestones (ie: 200 goals, 500 points, 1000 games???), they get 1 leadership point (deadline is a week real time)

All players can only be boosted up to 80, goalies to 75. It's up to the GM to make sure he gets his boosts put in (not the simmer(s)).



Just spitballing here.....

Rather than a deadline, maybe a monthly 'report' would work (i.e. you send in for your October bonuses in November, but if the game has reached December, it's too late)? That way Stephen wouldn't be asked to do extra work every sim, though I recognize it may be worse to have to do everyone's edits at the same time... I guess it also may not actually result in everyone doing it at the same time, if they have an in-game month to do it...

Also, I get that captain's meetings are a common thing to get a bonus from, but I've never understood the rationale. A guy plays bad, so his captain talks to him, and then he's a better player than he was before the meeting? 


One idea I've been mulling about that would be relatively low impact but potentially a lot of fun: 
-achievements are tallied up, whether for player awards/nominations, team success, whatever.
-At the end of the season, each team that got an achievement gets an extra draft pick, essentially a 6th round (or call them the undrafted free agents, ala Michael McNiven. Passed over at the 2015 draft, his first year eligible, he was signed by the Habs in September after attending their development camp). Order would, I think, be the regular draft order.
-Using the achievements, each teams gets a number of lottery slots (so, for example, if Anaheim has 6 achievements and Atlanta 3, then Anaheim would get #1-6, Atlanta #7-9, and so on for other teams). In other words, your odds are higher if you get more achievements, but as long as you got 1 achievement you still have a chance.
-Then 1-6 numbers are randomly selected, depending on how many teams got an extra pick (I figure 1 number per 5 teams).
-The teams who win get their 6th round pick boosted. Nothing superstar, 60s or 70s pot, similar con, but enough to make them useful. It'd be a way to use some of the really low ranked players, like Elmo Schmidt and Kjell Stjerna, guys who have decent ceilings but Shatner pot/con. 


It's maybe a little complicated, and there's some wrinkles to iron out, but it could maybe be fun?