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Originally Posted by Adam B
Every year we have people who think players are retiring too early; but the thing is - the game is changing. Players aren't playing until their 40 anymore - or not many. Many don't have that chance. Teams move on, players want too much money, or the cap plays in.
Now sometimes what you do makes a difference (like if a player is a UFA, there's a substantial better chance they will retire then if they are contracted), but it's not out of line.
I'm pretty sure you can go back into the FHM6 forums and find someone saying the same thing because Crawford retired in their game at the end of their first year and how "unrealistic" that was and I said this exact same thing. Ennis is a guy who is now 30+, on the downside of his career, only been playing for basically league minimum and only on one year deals for the last couple of years. It's more than possible he's out of the NHL whether retired or no one signs him next offseason.
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It took you seven years to figure out that expansion teams are supposed to participate in the entry draft before their first season, so you have absolutely no room to talk about “realism” in this game.
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Originally Posted by Adam B
The stats usually tell a story and looking at a player history can tell you enough. There are some storylines with players moving on to other things though, just as there are for coaches/scouts.
As for McBean - If you're playing a Challenge Recalc is on and he was retired by that point, which is why he retired.
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We shouldn’t have to “look at a player history” to tell us. When Corey Crawford announced his retirement, he didn’t say “look at my stats and history and that’ll tell you why I retired.” He gave us a clear, understandable, relatable reason. When people make suggestions to improve immersion, your response shouldn’t be an immediate dismissible, it should be taking it into consideration, or at least saying that, even if you don’t plan on doing so. And while I’m here, when somebody asks a question like OP did - simple yes or no question - your response shouldn’t be to completely ignore them in favor of jumping down the throat of the first reply because they used a word that got under your skin. It’s not hard to be friendly and engaging with customers(if you can’t do it, that’s fine, customer service isn’t for everybody, but you probably shouldn’t be interacting with customers on behalf of the game if you can’t) and I guarantee this type of behavior drives people away from the board and away from the game.
OP, as far as I know, there’s no single stat that is the difference between retiring or not. I haven’t bought this year’s version yet(waiting for opening night rosters) but what I would do if I were you is compare Ennis(or anybody else you want to stop from retiring) to similar players in age and skill who don’t retire and see what the difference is. If you really want him to continue playing for whatever reason, drastically edit him(give him a huge contract, radically increase his skills, whatever), and then change him back after simming past the retirements.