So what exactly is the point of this? You start with the current NHL roster, and then draft young players and make trades with other GMs to become better over time?
Total newb to this - someone please explain this to me...
Yeap pretty much. Since it'll be head to head you'll be going up against another team for an entire week tracking performances.
Just wanted to bring up two concerns.
1. Since were using real teams and yahoo h2h, some teams will play a lot a week and go against a team that doesn't play so much, it should even itself out over a season but those winter classic/international games will be challenging. Also we have to hope for an active trade market as well.
2. Since I don't think theres a cap/floor thing in yahoo, we'd have to keep track of it ourselves (using nhlscap etc), but we'd need some good capologists in the system. Reason being bonuses, incentives to rookie contracts.
It'd be pretty interesting to see if we could set it up, I'd be a bit confused about how the free agency period would work (what do you do for this etc?) and predicting how the cap goes, but it defn adds to the excitement.