Eastside Hockey Manager - Part IX Maybe 1.5 Edition?
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Savi
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Since it's always fun to see players from non-traditional hockey countries pop up; I just concluded the 2027 draft (didnt' draft myself since I'm managing a junior hockey team)
While previous drafts haven't been very eventful, this one has though. Very much so even. A German, Belarussian and Latvian player were all taken in the top 10. Belarus had 7 players drafted overall, which might be a record for them. Kazachstan and Ukraine had two each, Austria and Norway had four, same amount as the Czech Rep. France had one, as did Poland, both in the 7th round.
However, there were two curious cases, both were unranked and both were taken in the 4th round.
One from New Zealand, in his third year of eligibility;
and one from a Japan High School team;
While previous drafts haven't been very eventful, this one has though. Very much so even. A German, Belarussian and Latvian player were all taken in the top 10. Belarus had 7 players drafted overall, which might be a record for them. Kazachstan and Ukraine had two each, Austria and Norway had four, same amount as the Czech Rep. France had one, as did Poland, both in the 7th round.
However, there were two curious cases, both were unranked and both were taken in the 4th round.
One from New Zealand, in his third year of eligibility;
and one from a Japan High School team;
Since it's always fun to see players from non-traditional hockey countries pop up; I just concluded the 2027 draft (didnt' draft myself since I'm managing a junior hockey team)
While previous drafts haven't been very eventful, this one has though. Very much so even. A German, Belarussian and Latvian player were all taken in the top 10. Belarus had 7 players drafted overall, which might be a record for them. Kazachstan and Ukraine had two each, Austria and Norway had four, same amount as the Czech Rep. France had one, as did Poland, both in the 7th round.
However, there were two curious cases, both were unranked and both were taken in the 4th round.
One from New Zealand, in his third year of eligibility;
and one from a Japan High School team;
Ahhhh validation for adding those junior programs and making them able to produce players!! LOVE seeing this stuff
Savi
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Yeah me too. The Import draft is always fun, because there's always a bunch of players from weird countries who get drafted. Mexico, Taipei, Hungary, Iceland, Romania, China.. None of them make it to the NHL but some do have decent CHL careers. I drafted a Mexican center a few seasons ago, he had pretty good attributes but never made any real progress and only played limited 4th line minutes.
Me too as New Zealander!The last name Hay is well known in NZ Ice Hockey so a quite realistic prospect from here. Funny was what I have seen some years ago in a EHM session that my real team mate was assigned as GM for the Ice Blacks.
Cool
can you give any insight to NZ hockey IRL?There are a few other decent prospects in my current game. In last year's Import draft, two players from NZ got drafted. Both have reached the end of their contracts so they should sign with their CHL clubs (Niagara and Vancouver - both have room for an Import player on their roster)
Right now, I'm a few days away from this season's Import draft, the final rankings had 1 player from NZ:
Yeah me too. The Import draft is always fun, because there's always a bunch of players from weird countries who get drafted. Mexico, Taipei, Hungary, Iceland, Romania, China.. None of them make it to the NHL but some do have decent CHL careers. I drafted a Mexican center a few seasons ago, he had pretty good attributes but never made any real progress and only played limited 4th line minutes.
Cool
There are a few other decent prospects in my current game. In last year's Import draft, two players from NZ got drafted. Both have reached the end of their contracts so they should sign with their CHL clubs (Niagara and Vancouver - both have room for an Import player on their roster)
Right now, I'm a few days away from this season's Import draft, the final rankings had 1 player from NZ:
yes some of the last names are close to real ones, Parise Heyd, Jeremy Chai, Josh Hurring
Me too as New Zealander!
Being we have a working scraper for EP we will make sure the NZIHL rosters are accurately filled out when the rosters get populated, so keep an eye out for that!
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One small thing I'm wondering for 1.5 is if a wing taking face-offs is going to continue to be so discounted regardless of their face-off rating.
Like Claude Giroux for example. 20 LW, 19 C. Consistently one of the top face-off guys in the league. If you leave him at 20 LW, 19 C he sits between 25-30% on face-off percentage. If you swap that to 19 LW, 20 C, he's north of 60%. I see that across the board if you try to use a wing at center or have them take face-offs through unit tactics.
Like Claude Giroux for example. 20 LW, 19 C. Consistently one of the top face-off guys in the league. If you leave him at 20 LW, 19 C he sits between 25-30% on face-off percentage. If you swap that to 19 LW, 20 C, he's north of 60%. I see that across the board if you try to use a wing at center or have them take face-offs through unit tactics.
I'm planning to get back into EHM - how much is 1.5 going to fix? Should I wait for it to drop?
Also, what's the best rosters and the like to load?
Also, what's the best rosters and the like to load?
This is the change list so far:
Changelist for 1.5.0beta (ongoing)
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New features:
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- Improved Join Network Game screen to include option to remember the connected IP by name and a list of past games remembered (up to 5)
- Added starting option to retain DB wages for players/staff without any possible adjustments (league min/max limits still apply)
- Added config file option for limiting the Potential Ability of game created extra players at game start and newgens in historical databases until a given year (for usage see HISTORICAL_DB_PA_LIMITATION in extra_config.cfg)
- Enabled waiver draft support for National League in historical databases (waiver draft needs to be set to "not extinct" in the database to enable it)
- Added optional player attribute highlighting in the player attribute panel based on preferred role or selected role (only available for players who have a scouting report)
- Added options in Preferences to control attribute highlighting (Disabled, Enabled All, Enabled Key/Essential only)
- Added new random potential options in the database for player/non-player potentials:
- PA -20 = random between 150 and 200
- PA -19 = random between 130 and 180
- PA -18 = random between 110 and 160
- PA -17 = random between 90 and 140
- PA -16 = random between 70 and 120
- Added functionality to help test custom database league structures with a Test Leagues option on the Selected Leagues screen on the first day of a newly started game
Database and Importer changes:
[apply to new games started with newly imported databases only]
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- Added extra rule for marking nations not counting as foreign in transfer rules (value 163)
- Added extra rule for maximum number of foreign goalies (all teams) in transfer rules (value 164)
- Added extra rule for maximum number of foreign goalies (domestic teams) in transfer rules (value 165)
- Added extra rule for minimum contract length in years in transfer rules (value 166)
- Added extra rule for overriding draft minimum age in draft extra rules (value 167) (only applies to the hardcoded drafts included in the game)
- Added extra rule for overriding draft age cut-off date (player needs to be of minimum age before this date in the draft year) in draft extra rules (value 168) (only applies to the hardcoded drafts included in the game)
- Added extra rule for overriding draft maximum age (domestic players, if lower than general max age) in draft extra rules (value 169) (only applies to the hardcoded drafts included in the game)
- Added extra rule for overriding draft maximum age (all players) in draft extra rules (value 170) (only applies to the hardcoded drafts included in the game)
- Added extra rule for defining the date of the waiver draft in draft extra rules (value 171) (only applies to the National League waiver draft if waiver draft is enabled, if not set the draft default date is Oct 1st)
- Added extra rule to disable draft lottery (value 172) in draft extra rules (only applies to drafts with a hardcoded lottery)
- Added extra rule to disable participation to Olympic tournament (value 173) in transfer rules (only valid for North American leagues)
- Added extra rule to define the number of continental A licenses given out in transfer rules (value 174)
- Added extra rule to define the number of continental B licenses given out in transfer rules (value 175)
- Added extra rule to define the number of continental C licenses given out in transfer rules (value 176)
- Added extra rule to define league as a candidate league for continental A licenses in transfer rules (value 177)
- Added extra rule to define league as a candidate league for continental B licenses in transfer rules (value 178)
- Added extra rule to define league as a candidate league for continental C licenses in transfer rules (value 179)
- Added extra rule to define team to receive automatic continental A license every year in transfer rules (value 180) - note that you need to list all A-license clubs with this rule or alternatively not list any at all in which case the teams are picked from the defined A-license leagues
- Added extra rule for marking nations that are considered non-agreement nations for defected players in relation to player rights to keep rights from expiring normally (value 181)
- Added verification and fixes for invalid database version numbering when loading some custom databases to start a game with
- Added support for "Regulation Wins Only" league sort rule (value 12)
Gameplay changes:
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- Club histories are now processed at the start of the game to find possible club records for most points etc. in custom DBs
- Fixed regular season finishing position in manager history being duplicated in some leagues
- Adjusted the minimum number of players needed on roster before emergency players are created
- Improved logic for determining most suitable contract start date for signing players to contracts starting at the end of current contract or at the end of season
- Fixed some transfer date issues for future transfers that need to go through after a few years based on the contract start date
- Improved AI scouting accuracy for both current and potential ability to better reflect their judging abilities
- AI GMs/scouts put more emphasis on raw potential when drafting
- Fix to picking teams from lower league stages for situations where the league fate has not been set correctly even though the league has ended
- Better support for custom cup competitions
- Added notes about extreme low/high value of pass tendency into the player scouting reports
- Fixed players with long term injuries not being counted against the cap on human teams despite not being on Injured Reserve list
- Adjustments to player wage request levels
- Adjustments to player interest levels - especially older players moving back to their native nations to end careers
- Some fixes to player rights expiry handling
- Improved AI managers signing pending restricted free agents to new contracts
- When evaluating last standings positions for teams before the draft, the top playoff teams are now sorted correctly behind the league champions
- Fixed a bug with a player being drafted not getting the rights expiry calculated correctly
- Adjusted the "most overrated" player in the team report to exclude players with high enough current ability in relation to club reputation
- Improved handling of award reputations in the game and their effects on award winning player reputation (for full effects, new career game is recommended)
- Adjustments to AI shortlisting and contract negotiations
- Improvements on restricted free agent interest in re-signing with their current team
- Fixed contract cap hit getting recalculated when a player is traded
- Fixed contract sign date being updated when a player is traded
- Adjustments and fixes to scheduling of games, especially in playoff stages
- Adjustments to jersey retirements to prevent lesser players who played a long career at a club from getting jersey retired too often
- Added a check for the "signing bonus counts against cap" rule on extensions (signing bonus was previously automatically always included)
- Improved financial modeling for teams playing in a league in a country other than their domestic nation
- Improved placement and career paths of young players in the US junior/high school leagues
- Improved performance when checking league extra rules that are linked to particular club unique ids
- Improved general AI accuracy of evaluating player potential in relation to judging potential ability
- Fixed instances of Entry Level Contracts signed very late in the season but just before season update from sliding unnecessarily
- Adjusted development of high potential players
- Adjusted effects of player role on generated attributes and attribute development
- Fixed inactive teams in leagues with upper age limits and no overagers allowed sometimes attempting to sign overage players
- Fixed an issue with the secondary sorting of league tables in some edge cases when using regulation and overtime wins for sorting
- Fixed initial unrestricted free agent contract demands (wage and contract length) in the first summer to be more realistic, especially in custom UFA DBs
- Added more secondary positions for extra players generated at game start
- Added more secondary positions for players loaded from the database if no secondary positions have been set
UI changes:
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- Added link back to club screen on the club history screen
- Added display in league information screen for the rule on which nations do not count as foreign
- Added information to league rules page on trapezoid rule and shootout winning goal rule if used in the league
- Fixed the comp information displayed on season schedule list
- "Divisional Standings" view now also shows the playoff separators if the divisions are all separate initial stages
- Some small fixes to the divisional/conference standings screens
- Added contract start date to the contract details shown for pending future transfers in team transactions screen
- Fixed the league link with logo in some places displaying wrong text next to the logo
- Fixed the team link with logo in some places displaying wrong text next to the logo
- Added "Buried Contract Cap Hit" information to player contract details panel if league has the applicable rule
- Small fixes to drawing of dropdown menu buttons
- Fixed the team calendar screen monthly view to use the European/North American date format preference for week start day
- Fixed "Club Payroll Room" from appearing in the club finances screen when there is no salary cap in the league
- Steam Workshop screen now shows the local path of the installed items as a tooltip on subscribed items
- Select Leagues screen at game start will now show the Database author field in the screen subtitle if filled in the db data
- Added display in league information screen for the rule on which nations are considered non-agreement nations for player rights expiry
- Fixed a glitch where the "Description" panel on the Non-Player Profile was in some cases overlapping the player stats panel at the bottom if the person had a player profile as well
- Scouting Report panel now also lists the player's own preferred role next to the career role evaluation of the scout
- Some color clash fixes when checking team jersey colors
- Fixed non-player/player bio to not display time at club when "club join date" was not set in the database
- Fixes to alignment of generic club/comp logos on some screens
- Off-season salary cap information displayed in comp financial rules if off-season cap differs from normal salary cap
- Some layout improvements on Salary Cap Chart screen
- Added Extension Signing Bonus to Contract Details screen if a player has a contract extension setup
- Improved club Salary Cap Chart screen to show effective current season cap hit and nominal cap hit for each player if they differ currently
- Added Club City Location data to be displayed on the team information page as latitude/longitude
- Added Team Location view in League Information screen to visualize relative team locations
- Fixed small team logo and team name text overlap on Team Affiliates in Team Information screen
- Fixes to Club History Competitions screen when attempting to view histories of individual competitions that are in-active
- Changed Age column on Team Screen - Other view to list Birth Place
- Fixed new arena name not displaying in "Planned relocation" label on team info screen
- Fixed fixed legacy label for "Based in" league information display for some leagues to display just the database information
- Fixed grey error/info popups to redraw when switching back to the app window if focus had been on a different window
- Added support for "Regulation Wins" column in league tables
- Added the name of the database used to start the game on the "Selected Leagues" screen (new games only)
Other changes:
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- Fix for custom databases that add new leagues with teams from other nations than the league nations, where small teams were sometimes not loaded into the DB due to low rep
- Fixed "Select All" or selecting nation on the "Select Leagues" screen not activating All-Star games in some custom comps when multiple comps are linked to the same leagues
- Added link to "League Rules" and a note to suggest reading the league rules to the team introduction news item
- Fixed possible crash when terminating a scout contract after going into their profile from the scouting screen
- Fixed season preview news item for very large leagues by limiting the number of reported teams to maximum of 45
- Improved handling of custom league/cup draw date data
- Fixed a bug with custom leagues in small nations where new teams with no reputation set were not found when setting up the league
- Fixed a possible crash issue with teams with a nation set but no division set when creating exhibition games
- Better support for custom leagues/cups where teams from another nation take part in a domestic league/cup of another nation
- "CAREER_HISTORY_TEAM_NAME_CHANGE" commands from import_config.cfg can now also be added to extra_config.cfg
- Historical team name changes logged with above command also apply to player draft information displayed in the game in various panels
- Fixed player salaries that were not set in some custom historical dbs for National League being calculated to be too low at game start
- Fixed some possible crashes related to the draft screens
- Fixed an issue where the time of day was reverting to morning when loading a saved game that was saved in the evening
- Fixed a crash with the fantasy draft when more than 40 teams are involved (maximum number of teams in fantasy draft is now up to 99)
- Fixed possible crash with large custom leagues (40+ teams) when setting team last positions before draft
- Fixed crash with large custom leagues (40+ teams) when setting up regular season winner at the end of the season
- Added support in the editor/game to make Major Junior Import Draft extinct in the editor for historical databases
- Upped the maximum possible number of teams listed in the draft lottery news for the first round order from 30 to 50 to better support custom leagues
- Allow award histories more than 30 years old to be read in from the DB
- Fixed some possible crashes when viewing club histories by competition
- Fixed club histories position from database being displayed wrongly (one off) in club histories by competition
- Updated club histories tracked by the game to list past standings data position and comp using the initial conference/division when appropriate
- Fixed a crash when viewing some non-playing staff in custom databases with an invalid preferred job set
- Improved error messages in case of problems when scheduling a league from a real schedule template
- Improved processing of config file entries
- Fixed a crash when processing an error from a league with a mismatch of promoted and relegated teams
- Fixed an error message "ROSTER_MANAGER::compile_roster() - array overrun" appearing in some custom DB saves with a lot of team affiliations for one team
- Fixed leagues with a host arena set for use with the playoffs/finals scheduling all games of the team playing at the host arena during the season as home games
- Added support for custom leagues where an odd number of previous stages feed into a playoff stage with different amount of teams from each stage
- Fixed a crash bug with a prospect update news item when a team affiliate had no division set
- Fixed possible crashes related to loading up too many leagues/transfer rules when creating new games
- Improved extra config file processing stability and fixed a number of possible crashes when reading config entries
- Fixed league award histories to be loaded at new game start even if the winner for the past year is no longer an active person in the database
- Fixed db based club records with no active person data but name strings loading up with random looking names
- Added a progress dialog when parsing config files when starting a new game to help track possible errors in custom config files
- Fixed a possible crash in historical databases with staff/player nation set to an extinct nation
- Fixed a possible crash in custom databases with linked comps set unnecessarily
- Prevented creation of extra players at game start for clubs set to extinct nations
- Fixed a possible crash when using custom databases setup with a comp that starts on an Olympic year but is also set to run at 4 year intervals and set to skip Olympic years
In-Game Engine v85
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- Scoring level adjustments in general
- Adjustments to better bring out the technical abilities of the very high end players
- Adjustments to the number of shots taken
In-Game Engine v84
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- Adjustments to energy and condition levels during game based on tactical settings
- Adjustments to penalty calling AI
- Scoring level adjustments
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What DB to use is totally subjective to what you want to do.
I had this pop up in a recent Arizona scorched earth playthrough. I had a player become unhappy around 34 years old after playing in Arizona for 16 years and winning 5 cups because he "wanted to finish his career in Canada"
however once his contract expired he re-signed with us and was no longer unhappy. He finished his career happy and "proud to be play at Arizona" even though the Coyotes were not one of his favorite teams.
Is this something that is being addressed or is it not really that much of a bug.
regardless all these changes seem wonderful!
alko
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still accepting players for the EHM superstar v13! as always thanks to ECK for the great work on the rosters that we use!
Empoleon8771
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I hope someone remakes the 1998 DB when 1.5 comes out. I really like using that database, but I've found it kinda easy to game at this point. I think adding the "dislike team/staff" makes it too easy to acquire players and "likes team/staff" makes it too easy to sell off players for massive returns. Just as an example, here were some trades I made in my most recent game with Pittsburgh:
Jagr and Skudra to Washington for Gonchar, Kolzig and Zednik (I don't think this one is that bad, since 3 years of 192 CA Jagr is really valuable, but it makes me a juggernaut in the future)
A pending UFA Straka to Buffalo for Satan, Peca and a 175 PA Campbell
A pending UFA Hatcher to Dallas for Langenbrunner
Hrdina to Detroit for a 198 PA Datsyuk
Kasparitis to Boston for McLaren, followed by McLaren to Nashville for Timonen (Kasparitis and McLaren both suck in EHM since they're hitters with 140s PA, while Timonen had like a 165 PA as a playmaking D)
You can abuse that database if you know who to target. Primeau is another good one, in a previous simulation I did Straka for Primeau and a future 1st. That future 1st turned into 4th overall, which was Duncan Keith. I once had a game where I turned spare parts into Mogilny, then traded Mogilny for Satan, Campbell and another prospect and then traded Satan for Alfredsson. It's just less fun when you can game the computer GMs like that.
Jagr and Skudra to Washington for Gonchar, Kolzig and Zednik (I don't think this one is that bad, since 3 years of 192 CA Jagr is really valuable, but it makes me a juggernaut in the future)
A pending UFA Straka to Buffalo for Satan, Peca and a 175 PA Campbell
A pending UFA Hatcher to Dallas for Langenbrunner
Hrdina to Detroit for a 198 PA Datsyuk
Kasparitis to Boston for McLaren, followed by McLaren to Nashville for Timonen (Kasparitis and McLaren both suck in EHM since they're hitters with 140s PA, while Timonen had like a 165 PA as a playmaking D)
You can abuse that database if you know who to target. Primeau is another good one, in a previous simulation I did Straka for Primeau and a future 1st. That future 1st turned into 4th overall, which was Duncan Keith. I once had a game where I turned spare parts into Mogilny, then traded Mogilny for Satan, Campbell and another prospect and then traded Satan for Alfredsson. It's just less fun when you can game the computer GMs like that.
I'm well underway into a 2000-2001 database, working with ECK and the team to develop it. Pretty excited, but still lot's of grunt work to do.
e: Couldn't handle Messier being on the Canucks in 98 so went with 2000
Empoleon8771
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That's really good to hear, I like playing the older DBs more than the current DBs. I want to see if I can do better than what actual teams did
The only thing I'd say is make sure to not abuse the like or dislike staff or team thing. I think it makes sense in some DBs, like in the newest ECK DB which has the Oilers as a "disliked club" for Puljujarvi (which makes his trade price much more realistic), but it just never worked in the 1998 DB for some reason. Although that may be something that changes with 1.5 too.
archibalduk
EHM The Blue Line
This is very cool! Best of luck. If you or xECK29x come across anything that could make your life easier in the Editor then let me know.
Thanks Archi, once I get a bit more to show off I'll start a blog post on TBL and update it as I go
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