Post by BluesGM on Dec 14, 2011 17:24:54 GMT -5
as lame as it would be to see some young kid who turns into a stud in the NHL being rated poorly or regressing each season I loathe the idea of a league filled with 80ovr type players. I look at the rosters of other leagues and that's what it seems like happens after 5 seasons or so. it's ridiculous to have an 80ovr 3rd or 4th line and i feel this current method creates much more of an overall "Team building" concept. you can still acquire young guys who are highly rated and have them created to their abilities (this was addressed last season with the re-working of the prospect creations) and when they're really young you stand a much better chance of them progressing as they have quite a few seasons to play through. Not to mention they're cheap and therefore you can pay the ridiculous salaries for a UFA and then have your prospect play with them in an attempt to bolster their stats and have a greater chance at getting a positive increase during the auto re-rates. (my guys who went up were by and large guys who had good seasons for their ovr ratings).
we did nhl rerates in my oshl leagues and my leagues never became like that. the leagues that have 80ish 4th liners are generally because they have farm development on (which we dont) or a poor set up draft/prospect creation system.
i missed this discussion, since it's under a friggen chara review thread, but i'm for nhl rerates, at least a one-time thing. it's pretty bothersome/annoying to see guys like kris letang be a 74 overall. theres 2-3 guys per team, at least, that seem to be in dire need of an NHL correction rerate.
i told nick earlier about doing a one-time thing, where everyone would wake up christmas morning and have 2 guys rerated (with parameters so the rerates arent out of control). sort of like a ECFHL christmas gift. it would fix alot (not all, but at least some) of the guys that need it, and make the rest of the leagues duration more enjoyable. i cant be the only one that is ridiculously bothered by seeing a perennial all star like letang be a piece of crap 3rd pairing d-man, can i? theres a ton of other examples out there, im just using him as one.
my parameters were:
no one 35 or older would get rerated. there needs to be a line drawn so older players can regress
no rerates over 3 overall points. the sim only bumps players up 3 pts, maximum, so it would be as if we turned on farm development on for a sim. kind of. except the guys would be re-rated manually for their nhl play
every team would benefit almost equally. i've looked through every team and every team has at least 2 guys that need either their overalls bumped or a certain individual rating bumped to make their ratings more realistic to their NHL persona. i offered to do it, and i think everyone would be extremely pleased with their outcomes if i was to do it for you all.
and this has nothing to do with my team, as my team doesnt really have anyone really that underrated. hell, if anything, the worst rated player on my team is taylor pyatt, and its because hes overrated...lol.
and those that would bitch that "i traded so and so and had i known theyd be rerated for their NHL play i never would have traded him!!!!" ...well, guess what? i traded letang, to my biggest competition (PJ) and he'd be one of players that would get the biggest bumps in ratings if i were to do the rerates.
it would be a one-time thing, just to fix guys so the entire league certain guys aren't rated poorly. think of it as a christmas gift, from me to you ;D
thoughts???