Posted by felonius on 7/14/2010 11:56:00 PM (view original):
is this due to the lock out I keep hearing about being supposedly immanent as the new sim cba is negotiated?

just kidding, I'm new around here - is this kind of wait for new players after a season ends the norm? I checked the NHL sim forums and they didnt seem to have this issue

There has never been another release that has taken anywhere near this long.          

Here's a thought (re: position effectiveness). Maybe it's too little, too late. But it would be fast.

1. Use basketball-reference's position effectiveness (guards, forwards, centers).
2. Then make adjustments due to height; players listed as guards that are 6'6 or taller are probably more G/F and their baseline effectiveness should be treated as such.
3. Make manual adjustments for special cases (Magic Johnson, younger variants of Kevin Garnett and Dirk Nowitzki, etc.)     

I'd also get rid of the percentages. Make it really simple; just have the natural positions listed and have fixed penalties: A center playing point guard is going to have different problems than the opposite. A big player going smaller than their natural position will probably suffer drastically increased turnovers. A small player going big will suffer dramatically increased fouls. Both will fatigue a lot faster. You could have those penalties scale with each step along the positional axis. A center-only player is -3 as a shooting guard. A shooting guard / small forward wing player is +2 as a center.

This is taking longer than it took BP to cap the well.  I agree with ash and longtall, just release the 09-10 players under the existing algorithms, then update all the whirligigs as soon as Kevin Costner comes up with a solution.

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This really is sad...I just hope this doesn't mean total collapse of the game. I love playing the ODL, and I'm sunk a ton of money and time into the two progressives I'm in. I will be disappointed if this travesty causes all those leagues to fold - especially the HDP, where my team will be really good for the next few season ;)

Posted by tarheel1991 on 7/18/2010 1:09:00 PM (view original):
This really is sad...I just hope this doesn't mean total collapse of the game. I love playing the ODL, and I'm sunk a ton of money and time into the two progressives I'm in. I will be disappointed if this travesty causes all those leagues to fold - especially the HDP, where my team will be really good for the next few season ;)

echoed here.  Some of the leagues are different (I'm not in HDP), but there are ones I feel that strongly about.  Sad.

starting to beleive that it is....

Not a word from site staff in eons. This is a disgrace.

Does anyone else think that the PE thing was an excuse/lie to buy them more time to output the new players, simply because they weren't going to/didn't have time to do it? At this point, anything is possible.

I just want to go on record as having no comment to make about any of this and also I would like to note the fact that at this time I plan to have no comment to make on this subject in the future and have for quite some time continued to have no comment to make on this subject in the past.

emphatically so

I'd like to go on record as having seen you go on record about not commenting on any of this.  I plan to not comment on you not commenting on the subject in the future and have continued to have not commented on you not commenting on the subject in the past.

I commend your countless, contented comments, though to comment, we're very uncontented currently.

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