CopperAndBlueGM
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- Mar 9, 2017
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My plea is to rethink the approach to re-rates for goaltenders.
In talking to a few GM's at the draft that many feel similarly. I understand some others may be loving this years random ratings as it's a means to solicit a King's ransom in assets from other GM's but I ask your consideration for the good of the league stability.
I know for a number years I've been away it has defacto been accepted to take the ratings from another source and accept it is based on only one year as well as the fact that backup goalies get assigned unusable ratings just b/c they don't play the majority of the games. While it's been accepted it doesn't make it good.
This years ratings are particularly extreme if the range between goalies with some NHL starters also now being given unusable ratings. There also doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to them.
Apparently Carey Price sucks, based on the ratings, while Kari Lehtonen is a stud.
I had planned on releasing Antoine Bibeau from my prospect list but now apparently, despite even having horrible stats in the AHL will be signed as my best rated goalie and won't be that far back from Carey price.
I could fill this thread with a never ending list of unexplainable goalie ratings but will spare you as all you do is need to look and understand the frustration GM's are feeling.
Goaltenders are one of the largest financial commitments, and hardest to replace, key contributors and shouldn't be just left to random rating instability.
I know all too well from the past how painful and hated doing ratings were in the past and appreciate the ease of just saying we're going with this but I ask you as overseers of the league stability to reconsider.
I also know that the usual refrain is we all have ratings challenges we can use but when the ratings are illogical to start with it's all too easy to highlight other anomalies as a benchmark making that a far from rational approach.
I invite all GM's who feel similarly, or those opposed, to simply chime in with a yea or nay to revisiting goalie ratings thinking of the league itself not your individual team.
In talking to a few GM's at the draft that many feel similarly. I understand some others may be loving this years random ratings as it's a means to solicit a King's ransom in assets from other GM's but I ask your consideration for the good of the league stability.
I know for a number years I've been away it has defacto been accepted to take the ratings from another source and accept it is based on only one year as well as the fact that backup goalies get assigned unusable ratings just b/c they don't play the majority of the games. While it's been accepted it doesn't make it good.
This years ratings are particularly extreme if the range between goalies with some NHL starters also now being given unusable ratings. There also doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to them.
Apparently Carey Price sucks, based on the ratings, while Kari Lehtonen is a stud.
I had planned on releasing Antoine Bibeau from my prospect list but now apparently, despite even having horrible stats in the AHL will be signed as my best rated goalie and won't be that far back from Carey price.
I could fill this thread with a never ending list of unexplainable goalie ratings but will spare you as all you do is need to look and understand the frustration GM's are feeling.
Goaltenders are one of the largest financial commitments, and hardest to replace, key contributors and shouldn't be just left to random rating instability.
I know all too well from the past how painful and hated doing ratings were in the past and appreciate the ease of just saying we're going with this but I ask you as overseers of the league stability to reconsider.
I also know that the usual refrain is we all have ratings challenges we can use but when the ratings are illogical to start with it's all too easy to highlight other anomalies as a benchmark making that a far from rational approach.
I invite all GM's who feel similarly, or those opposed, to simply chime in with a yea or nay to revisiting goalie ratings thinking of the league itself not your individual team.