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JeffR · 12-16-2020, 12:40 AM

I've mentioned this in a couple of places, but I thought I'd keep a post here for easy reference for anyone who's wondering.

The default starting database for a standard game begins with a 2020-2021 season that's (more or less) a regular season that starts in the fall of 2020, with all leagues playing a full schedule. Some of the real 2020-21 structure and rule changes in leagues are present (even if they're likely to go away after this season), but any league with really significant changes (the NHL and other late-starting leagues, and those like the EIHL, NIHL, and ALIH that cancelled their seasons outright) will operate like they'd been able to play as if there'd been no interruption due to Covid.

Once we have firm details on what every league is doing (mainly contingent on everyone seeing what the NHL is going to do), we'll put together a start option that'll try to reflect what 20-21 really looks/will look like. Partial schedules, schedules with odd breaks (owing to cancelled/postponed games), cancelled international tournaments, some playable leagues that sit out the whole season, and so on. That'll all revert to normal for 21-22. We'll include this in one of the regular game updates; I'll give more details once we have a timeline for that.

The player database is another issue; we'll keep making changes in the starting player data up until the real NHL Opening Night happens, then we'll freeze that as the regular "Opening Night" database and add a "Current" version as we've done in previous years. Doing it that way does require some compromises; a lot of players, for example, were loaned to European teams from their NHL/AHL/CHL teams to get some playing time before those leagues resumed play.

If we put all of those players on loan like that, it would really break the AI because it's not designed to deal with great masses of loaned players like that (we had it that way in testing for a while, and the results weren't pretty.) So those players will start on the team they're contracted to.

As a side-effect of those loans, it's a little more difficult to use Eliteprospects data in the way I normally would to keep the rosters accurate. That'll probably fix itself once every league is playing again, but to begin with you may see some errors in the rosters of lower-level teams.

12-16-2020, 12:40 AM	#1
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,250	2020-21 Season in FHM7 I've mentioned this in a couple of places, but I thought I'd keep a post here for easy reference for anyone who's wondering. The default starting database for a standard game begins with a 2020-2021 season that's (more or less) a regular season that starts in the fall of 2020, with all leagues playing a full schedule. Some of the real 2020-21 structure and rule changes in leagues are present (even if they're likely to go away after this season), but any league with really significant changes (the NHL and other late-starting leagues, and those like the EIHL, NIHL, and ALIH that cancelled their seasons outright) will operate like they'd been able to play as if there'd been no interruption due to Covid. Once we have firm details on what every league is doing (mainly contingent on everyone seeing what the NHL is going to do), we'll put together a start option that'll try to reflect what 20-21 really looks/will look like. Partial schedules, schedules with odd breaks (owing to cancelled/postponed games), cancelled international tournaments, some playable leagues that sit out the whole season, and so on. That'll all revert to normal for 21-22. We'll include this in one of the regular game updates; I'll give more details once we have a timeline for that. The player database is another issue; we'll keep making changes in the starting player data up until the real NHL Opening Night happens, then we'll freeze that as the regular "Opening Night" database and add a "Current" version as we've done in previous years. Doing it that way does require some compromises; a lot of players, for example, were loaned to European teams from their NHL/AHL/CHL teams to get some playing time before those leagues resumed play. If we put all of those players on loan like that, it would really break the AI because it's not designed to deal with great masses of loaned players like that (we had it that way in testing for a while, and the results weren't pretty.) So those players will start on the team they're contracted to. As a side-effect of those loans, it's a little more difficult to use Eliteprospects data in the way I normally would to keep the rosters accurate. That'll probably fix itself once every league is playing again, but to begin with you may see some errors in the rosters of lower-level teams.