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CanuckJohnny · 11-12-2023, 05:20 PM

Just had a season where the AI played Shesterkin 28 games and Quick 56.

I know backups playing way more games than starters was an issue in last year's game, thought it had been tuned a bit and fixed to a degree at some point in 9, but it seems to be back with a vengeance.

I don't know what's worse, haha, that they played a 2.5 star 38 year old Quick twice as much as incumbent starter and perennial Vezina candidate Shesterkin or that it worked in that Quick had reasonable success (not as good GSAA/60 as Shesterkin but he did have seven shutouts and the Rangers made the playoffs). I feel like mediocre goalies are still too OP, and shutouts are still too high (Merzlikins also led the league the same sim with 10 shutouts). Goalies are voodoo and I appreciate that FHM replicates that to an extent, but there are a handful of elite goalies in the league that consistently excel and it should be far rarer to see an established elite goalie replaced by a mediocre backup. (Do goalie ratings even do anything I'm starting to wonder?). But yeah, hopefully the AI can be tweaked to favour starting elite goalies most of the time.

11-12-2023, 05:20 PM	#1
CanuckJohnny All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2022 Posts: 554	Goalies... Just had a season where the AI played Shesterkin 28 games and Quick 56. I know backups playing way more games than starters was an issue in last year's game, thought it had been tuned a bit and fixed to a degree at some point in 9, but it seems to be back with a vengeance. I don't know what's worse, haha, that they played a 2.5 star 38 year old Quick twice as much as incumbent starter and perennial Vezina candidate Shesterkin or that it worked in that Quick had reasonable success (not as good GSAA/60 as Shesterkin but he did have seven shutouts and the Rangers made the playoffs). I feel like mediocre goalies are still too OP, and shutouts are still too high (Merzlikins also led the league the same sim with 10 shutouts). Goalies are voodoo and I appreciate that FHM replicates that to an extent, but there are a handful of elite goalies in the league that consistently excel and it should be far rarer to see an established elite goalie replaced by a mediocre backup. (Do goalie ratings even do anything I'm starting to wonder?). But yeah, hopefully the AI can be tweaked to favour starting elite goalies most of the time.