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Penfold75 · 02-17-2014, 08:23 PM

The thing that I don't understand about the expansion question is this. It has been said there are issues with generating the schedule etc for a 32 team expanded league in FHM 2014. So when FHM 2015 comes out what will be the difference if two new teams pop up in 2014 and you need to include them in the new version. Surely the point of generating the schedule etc becomes an issue then. If the player had an option before each season of whether they wanted to expand the league then or not, then if they chose to expand a new schedule would be generated. Surely this sort of things must be working in the historic mode for when historic expansion occurred. One year you have for example 10 teams and the next 12 teams.

Expansion is not 'fictional' but a very really part of the game of hockey down the years and nobody can be sure it won't happen again. I have always thought contraction was a better option first for the NHL to weed out the weakest franchises or to move them to better markets.

02-17-2014, 08:23 PM	#39
Penfold75 Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Glasgow in Scotland. Originally Winnipeg. Posts: 426	The thing that I don't understand about the expansion question is this. It has been said there are issues with generating the schedule etc for a 32 team expanded league in FHM 2014. So when FHM 2015 comes out what will be the difference if two new teams pop up in 2014 and you need to include them in the new version. Surely the point of generating the schedule etc becomes an issue then. If the player had an option before each season of whether they wanted to expand the league then or not, then if they chose to expand a new schedule would be generated. Surely this sort of things must be working in the historic mode for when historic expansion occurred. One year you have for example 10 teams and the next 12 teams. Expansion is not 'fictional' but a very really part of the game of hockey down the years and nobody can be sure it won't happen again. I have always thought contraction was a better option first for the NHL to weed out the weakest franchises or to move them to better markets.