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Originally Posted by thebusbybriddon

I don't think they're that hard to understand the playoffs. Top two teams in each conference are the top 2 seeds and basically 1v8, 2v7, 3v6 & 4v5. Also will the Challenge Cup be implemented?

No, that's incorrect. It's not the top teams from each conference. It is the team that finishes top of the EIHL (i.e. the overall standings) that gets the first seed. The second seed is the top team from the conference that doesn't produce the EIHL champion. But things are different if the champion doesn't win the conference (as happened this year with Nottingham winning the championship but finishing 2nd in their conference).

The conference standings in game are based on the full 52 games. Whereas in real life the conference standings are based solely on the 32 intra-conference games. So the positions of the teams may be different in the overall standings compared with the conference standings. Take for example this present season - Nottingham came top of the overall standings (and therefore won the league championship) whereas Belfast won the Erhardt Conference. Likewise, Edinburgh finished highest in the overall standings of the Gardiner teams, but in fact finished bottom in the Gardiner conference. Braehead won the Gardiner conference but only came 8th in the overall standings. As I mentioned, FHM doesn't reflect this at present and so there's no point implementing the exact seeding system unless and until the correct conference standings can be calculated in game.

Like you say, it's not difficult to understand. But as I said in my previous post, I think it is far too ambitious to expect it to be implemented into the game right now and it is dependent on the correct conference standings being implemented first (which is based on intra-conference games only).

Jeff mentioned this big issue in the status update earlier this week:

In less encouraging news, we're starting to run into the exact problem we were hoping to avoid: making little hardcoded fixes to account for oddities and exceptions in the way rules (both on and off ice) work in individual leagues. That's driving us away from the modular approach we wanted to take, where customization is easy because the rules can be swapped in and out for a given league and will behave in a uniform way. And there's a stability cost as well: a lot of the frequent crashing you saw in the first couple of weeks post-release was attributable to quick-and-dirty fixes that accomplished one thing, but led to situations where something else broke in a very bad way.

This is another reason why I haven't mentioned the seeding rule to them. Although it is straightforward to understand, it will require time to code (and with every new rule, there are the abovementioned stability issues). There are many other things that need to be fixed first. From a UK perspective, and in my view, the priority is to fix the six issues I mentioned in my previous post re the EIHL playoffs, adding the EPL playoffs, the 2 week notice system and perhaps also the import rule (and I have logged requests for all of these things).

As for the Challenge Cup / EPL Cup / the various NIHL cups - no these won't be in the first version.

Originally Posted by thebusbybriddon

Also for my EIHL the Goals Against section on my stats centre has nothing on it... All the players are at 0. This is the same with fights won. Also the faceoffs won doesn't make sense. Krestanovic is top with 144 but then in second is Fergy with 222??? Now i'm guessing this is the total amount of faceoffs hes had but still...

This is an issue with the game's user interface / functioning / bugs rather than a beta data issue. You need to report this in the Bug Reports Forum. This thread is for UK data issues, etc.