Vikings former FP [D] Francis Kopecky retires and [D] Jimmie Melkkala assumes the role.

Players get hurt in the playoffs all the time. Even guys with stamina of 75-80 are prone to little 2-gamers. They are gonna get hurt a whole lot more often now, though, with the 100-stamina guys being limited!

I just want to officially state that I am keeping no bench this season. Everybody is in the minors except the people in each game. If the players in the minors are going to improve and the bench players aren't, then everyone has to be called up when needed.

Quote: Originally Posted By canuk on 5/20/2010Is it possible to update the very first post in this forum with the new rules and possibly updating the FP list

Fellas, rammers has asked me to look into this and I've tracked all our posts back at least a year... The FP List is quite outdated, I'm researching it as much as I can but there are a few holes I can't fill in. I will post a special thread later today and we can update everything there.

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The "playoff goalie" issue:

First of all, if there's something to be done about it, the only simple and elegant solution that need be considered, IMO, is the one big_drive offers above.  Only each team's top two goalies per regular season games played eligible for playoff use.  We all know that sometimes you go through a season with a rotation, sometimes you use one main guy and the backup doesn't even get into 10 games.  It seems to me that we don't want to be picking over our opponent's rosters, we don't want to get into a situation of saying "you can dress this guy but not start him", etc.

Now, I'm not going to be too contrarian here, but IMO I haven't seen this as a big issue.  Let me just talk this out.  I know it seems kind of silly to have a name show up in goal that you've been seeing around the MLD forever and now only shows up at playoff time.  Yes, it looks silly and unrealistic.  Well, there are a lot of unrealistic things involved here, much as we try.  I think what's critical is whether or not a "playoff goalie" can swing a series, and I'm not sure.  As evidence, let me present the Firebirds.

As far as I know, I was the first owner to retire a goalie under the old 350 min TOI.  Morton was 100/100 and didn't win in the playoffs.  I retired another 100/100 goalie, Xavier, who didn't win in the playoffs.  They lost because the teams in front of them weren't good enough, couldn't score in the playoffs, that's the story of all damag sim teams, all defence and not enough goals.  My best goalie ever in a short term was Darville, a guy who never had the stamina to be a full time starter, but for some weird reason had multiple extended shutout streaks in his career.

The rules we put into place this season are designed to now limit the effect of repeating stacked rosters in multiple seasons, while still allowing GMs to determine and plot the lengths of their players' careers.  Over time, I suspect that will minimize any effectiveness of a "playoff goalie."  I believe teams win in the MLD, not goalies and not even star players.

Big Drive's suggestion is the best we have, so I say we should go with that for future seasons. But then only the two goalies with most games should be the only one used, also in backup position, even if their game energy% isn't fully 100%.

Just want to toss out there that I never meant to single out Rune... Aliens were just the first team I noticed using a different goalie in the playoffs, and I was confused because I thought the 20 game rule also applied to G.  I'm good with any fix as long as there is SOME fix.

Hrmmm....  am I able to post?  (this is a test)  

(Editted....  wow, this is apparently my 1st post ever.......  wtf?)

I was thinking on the player ruleing of only the players drafted in the current year being used for the playoffs, how about we extend it to all players with a 165,000 salery  can be used might be easier to watch . As for goalies I like the idea of using the 2 goalies that had the most time in in the current season to be used for the playoffs

Aliens has retired C Carlos Tijuana and appointed RW Joseph Pilha as new FP

Ny Junk Yard Dogs announce with the retirement of RW Jean -Louis Halinen they are naming LW Lou Romola as their new Franchise Player