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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
I understand that. So let's say I have a league where Nicolai Khabibulin retires. What you're saying is that he'll be replaced by another Russian goalie, right? Granted, it won't be the same Russian goalie, but in your "one-goes-out-one-comes-in" world, I can be assured that there will be as many Russian goalies on day one of the league as there will be twenty years in the future.
That doesn't make much sense to me, and it seems odd that, of all the templates for generating new players, you would choose that one -- especially when a far superior one exists right under your noses. It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and saying "no, I think I'll just stick with the crackers, thanks."
Now, let me hasten to add that I'm not questioning this because it's something borrowed from EHM, I'm questioning it because it seems like a fairly bad idea that just happens to have been borrowed from EHM.
Like I said before, I've never played EHM, and what I know about the game is based primarily on what I've read here. It sounds like there were a lot of good things in it, and those are the things that should be incorporated into the WTHM game. I'm just saying that, in this case, this doesn't sound like one of those good things.
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nope, that's not quite what he's said.
You keep saying "league" and "NHL" but Seb is talking about the entire player database.
Maybe I can help a bit with understanding:
Let's say start date is 2012. There are 690 actual NHLers (and an absolute maximum of 2400 players owned by or playing for an NHL team, 1700+ of whom will be in the AHL, KHL, Elitserin, etc. So there's 690 guys in "The League" (if you are concerned with NHL), and maybe upwards of 20000 in the actual world-wide database of all leagues.
A player retires (out of 20000) and a new on is "born" into that 20000, and the new player just borrows the nationality and position of the retiree, nothing more. Not skillset, not potential, not ability, not weight, not eye color.
So if you have 6 starting Russian goalies in year 1, you can have 15 in year 30. Or absolutely none. They are not recycled into the 690 players in the league, they are "recycled" (if you would even really call it that) into the 20000+ players of the entire database, and then, their skill level is determined entirely independently of the player who retired. Georges Laraque could retire and his replacement could wind up being another Sidney Crosby. Their skills or playing styles are not linked.
