Playing a whole season with only 20 players probably didn't help either. At least there's always playoffs.
so they played 80 games over the last 3 weeks while i was short a few players hmmm
Playing a whole season with only 20 players probably didn't help either. At least there's always playoffs.
so they played 80 games over the last 3 weeks while i was short a few players hmmm
chaos, vancity, here's an idea
for next draft, just for one draft, putting all past winners of the draft in the same division, all rookie GMs in their own division, all first round exiters in their own division... in other words, simply put teams into divisions based on past record... i know i know two fantastic teams could meet in the first round instead of the third or fourth or fifth, but there is some justice to it as well, like when the NHL expanded in '67 putting new teams in the same conference
you mean the MXD division?Don't we all just belong in the "my team is always the best and I just keep getting screwed" division?
Hey guys, I just forgot that I won't be around all weekend, from friday afternoon through sunday night. So I won't be able to tabulate the vote for this round (for all subsequent round I should be fine). We'll need a volunteer or two to take them.
Thank You.
Just want to repeat myself that we'll need someone to take the votes and tabulate them, unless everyone is fine with getting the results late sunday night or monday.
Could we perhaps push back voting?
Because I'm busy preparing my arguments for my own series, I haven't had nearly the time I wanted to examine the other series much less even give them a serious look.
One more thing: research goes a long way to establishing credibility and has the double function of selling your team in the eyes of the other GMs.
Don't be intimidated by guys slapping down encyclopaedic quotes from The Trail or other arcane sources, either.
The real question is whether or not you like doing the research necessary to really excell in this thing. I think the GMs who do best are, to a man, as much in love with the process as they are with the results. For my part, I've been telling myself I didn't have enough time for the ATD since my first week of participation back in ATD#8 (seriously, I'm a lawyer and time does become a real ***** sometimes, which is why I always roll with a co-GM), but I enjoy the research, debate and discussion that constitute the ATD so much that, like a crackhead, I keep coming back for just one more fix.
And the value among forwards!
Robitaille 188th overall?
Sundin 205th overall?
Bauer 317th overall?
Damphousse 412th overall?
All fantastic value relative to other guys getting picked just before and after them. Maybe they dropped because they aren't "popular" with you guys, hence you don't think about their ability and value in assessing teams.
Then my team gets criticized for drafting a "too good" backup when it was the 18th round!!! Should Lorne Chabot fall any further than 485th overall?
I thought I did a wonderful job of drafting. Apparently not according to you guys. I don't understand it. Maybe because I'm seen as just a rookie who didn't join the clique conversations.
Part of me thinks it's just an antiQuebec sentiment at play, as someone pointed out.
I'd bet though it's all about names liked. Some players are really liked out of whack with their value, and some GMs always get ranked well despite having up and down rosters. Take that Hockey Outsider and VanIslander. Is that their best rosters ever? Do they think so? Yet they finish 2nd in their division. And the other administrator, EagleBelfour always finishes first.
On the down side I was criticized for my second line; nobody had a problem with Yakushev, some had one with Malkin, and pretty much everybody disowned the Kovalev pick, which was obviously more important than any of my other 23 picks.
Neither does the fact that my first line left winger has more career goals than the first line left and right winger on the team that finished in first place in my division. Come to think of it my first line right winger also has more goals as well.
CARLYLE: 120 PIM in 69 career NHL playoff games.
RAMAGE: career 2226 PIM
But does every line have to play dump and chase hockey? Can't a puck possession line succeed? gretzky, Kurri and Coffey combined for hundreds of goals without dumping and chasing the puck. The Soviets and Red Wings Russian-5 unit in the nineties showed that lines don't need to play dump and chase hockey to succeed. I agree a TEAM needs some lines to do that. But not every line,
Thanks again for your comments guys. I'm starting to understand. It sure helps take off the sting.
Could we perhaps push back voting?
Is Bun Cook a mid-seventh round player? Probably not. But he was the guy we felt was the perfect fit for our first line LW spot. And I didn't think he'd be available in eight. So we had to get him when we did.
So it's settle. The time limit to vote is May 31st at 11:59PM ET. I'll announce the results on monday and with some luck be able to create the second round matchup.
Good to know. Maybe it's just because I haven't been participating much in this thread, but the vote deadline was a little difficult for me to find.
Perhaps we could institute some sort of mass PM or dedicated thread for deadlines?