Quick Questions Thread

[Argonaut]

What does this button do when I'm in a historical recalc? By default it's ticked on. Does it allow for rating fluctuations throughout the season, then there's a July 1 recalc? If so I'd prefer to leave it off.

But if unticking it locks player ratings entirely even in a new season, then I will leave it on.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by Argonaut

What does this button do when I'm in a historical recalc? By default it's ticked on. Does it allow for rating fluctuations throughout the season, then there's a July 1 recalc? If so I'd prefer to leave it off.

But if unticking it locks player ratings entirely even in a new season, then I will leave it on.

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe it'll do anything if you have Historical Recalc on.

[Argonaut]

Last question for now.

Looking for some guidance on the nuance of player roles. Should I go by the text description of the role, or the highlighted attributes? Or some combination of the two?

Here's the specific example:

My system calls for a slick passing offense, with a non-physical zone defense. I want one of the D-men on each pairing to be more conservative. Should I choose the Stay At Home Defenseman or the Old School Defenseman role?

On the one hand, the Old School role has passing instead of stickhandling highlighted, which fits my system. But on the other hand, the text description says the Old School guy is more aggressive in defense, which I don't really want.

[TopeHabFan]

Hi there, apologies if this has been asked before but I tried searching and couldn't find what I was looking for.

I would like to add a minor league affiliate (ECHL team to my existing NHL Canadiens), but I'm not too sure if/where I can do this. I'm in my 2nd season, and on July 1st so I figured I could edit the teams/affiliations, but I can't see where I can do this. Also, I am using commissioner mode.

I know that the ECHL Rapid City Rush has no current affiliations, so I was trying to link my Habs with them, but I could not see any options to do so. I also tried adding a new team to the ECHL (not through the expansion draft though) just to see if the option to affiliate would pop-up, but it was to no avail.

Is the option to add new minor affiliates only exclusive to expansion NHL teams? I look forward to hearing any answers... Thanks!

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by Argonaut

Last question for now.

Looking for some guidance on the nuance of player roles. Should I go by the text description of the role, or the highlighted attributes? Or some combination of the two?

Here's the specific example:

My system calls for a slick passing offense, with a non-physical zone defense. I want one of the D-men on each pairing to be more conservative. Should I choose the Stay At Home Defenseman or the Old School Defenseman role?

On the one hand, the Old School role has passing instead of stickhandling highlighted, which fits my system. But on the other hand, the text description says the Old School guy is more aggressive in defense, which I don't really want.

If you don't want aggressive, don't take Old School.

Originally Posted by TopeHabFan

Hi there, apologies if this has been asked before but I tried searching and couldn't find what I was looking for.

I would like to add a minor league affiliate (ECHL team to my existing NHL Canadiens), but I'm not too sure if/where I can do this. I'm in my 2nd season, and on July 1st so I figured I could edit the teams/affiliations, but I can't see where I can do this. Also, I am using commissioner mode.

I know that the ECHL Rapid City Rush has no current affiliations, so I was trying to link my Habs with them, but I could not see any options to do so. I also tried adding a new team to the ECHL (not through the expansion draft though) just to see if the option to affiliate would pop-up, but it was to no avail.

Is the option to add new minor affiliates only exclusive to expansion NHL teams? I look forward to hearing any answers... Thanks!

Affiliations are done from the Top team, not the bottom. Edit your team on July 1st. Farm Team 1 and Farm Team 2 (aka AHL, ECHL) are listed on the bottom left of that page.

[Monaldinio]

Originally Posted by Monaldinio

Hello Community. I have a question about the manager lever. Is there a limit? After my last season i get no points to update my manager Level. I was 1st place after the regular season und won the Cup!

Again I can't level up my manager abilities after the season. Something is broken.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by Monaldinio

Again I can't level up my manager abilities after the season. Something is broken.

What's happening? Did you sign through it?

[Monaldinio]

Originally Posted by Adam B

What's happening? Did you sign through it?

I'm the manager of the edmonton Oilers since 20 years, my contract was always renewed. This seasons too. But after the season transition, I no longer get manager points that I can distribute over my skills. I have no idea what I'm doing differently than before.

[Monaldinio]

Next problem. My payroll exceeds the salary cup. Current payroll is 91,5 Mio. Musst have 81,5. So I put a player with a 12,1 Mio contract on waivers. The program calculated a new salary of 87,96 Mio for the team. Totally broken. So it's unplayable...

[reverist]

Originally Posted by Monaldinio

Next problem. My payroll exceeds the salary cup. Current payroll is 91,5 Mio. Musst have 81,5. So I put a player with a 12,1 Mio contract on waivers. The program calculated a new salary of 87,96 Mio for the team. Totally broken. So it's unplayable...

Without seeing full details, my guess is this applies: "Under the 2013 CBA, a team only derives a specific savings from demoting a player on a one-way contract to the AHL. This savings is calculated as league minimum plus $375,000."

In other words, he's probably on a one-way contract and you're not going to see 12.1 mil drop off when you waive him--you're just going to see that smaller figure of league minimum + $375k. At least if I understand correctly.

[Monaldinio]

As a European, all these rules about salary cup, draft, trade, free agents...are absolutely nonsense. And these limiting rules in a Land with unlimited capitalism. What an irony.

For information, solved the first problem. The reason was the do not disturb mode.

[hagakure]

I've tried searching the net for this but can't find an answer anywhere. I doubt this is a bug, probably just a lack of knowledge on my part about the WHL, though I've read their rules page on the real WHL website. I get that there is an age limit (16-20) and a limit of two OA players and two foreign players. That makes for a real challenge when building the team, but I like it.

What I can't understand is why I can't do some other things to fill my roster. After the very first season, when all my 19-20 year olds became free agents or got picked up by the NHL, I had to fill a lot of holes, but there was nowhere for me to go:

1. Almost all the free agents were considered OA, even if they were only 19. I signed the very few I could, but the rest were off limits.
2. Almost all my unsigned draft picks, new or historical, were too young -- even the 15 year olds though I had Justin Lies on my 2019 team at age 15 -- or they didn't want to play Major Junior. I managed to get maybe two players from there.
3. I can only call up JrB players who are under contract to me -- which was only two goalies that I didn't need. I can't seem to negotiate with the JrB team for any of the players they claim to have full rights for, and going to any of the other WHL teams to ask for rights to one of their JrB (or unwanted roster) players is only going to result in them demanding at least a 1-for-1 swap, so that defeats the point. No one ever seems to accept just draft picks.
4. I can't seem to negotiate with any team not in the WHL, even if it's another Major Junior league.
5. I can't seem to offer contracts to anybody else that my scouts report on. As above, they are too young, too old, I don't have the rights and can't trade for them, or they don't want to play Major Junior hockey. I'm not sure why my scouts waste my time reporting on guys in different leagues that I can't touch.

I'm in hardcore challenge mode so I can't go into Commissioner Mode and mess with the settings. How am I supposed to get a full roster under these circumstances? I have 22 players and one just got injured for 5 months. I'm kinda screwed here. Do all these restrictions exist in real life (like is a 19 year old considered OA if he will turn 20 at some point during the season?) or am I overlooking something in the interface?

Sorry for the long question; appreciate any assistance.

The attached photo shows what happens if I try to "Offer Contract" to any of the players contracted to BCB -- supposedly "my" farm team.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by hagakure

What I can't understand is why I can't do some other things to fill my roster. After the very first season, when all my 19-20 year olds became free agents or got picked up by the NHL, I had to fill a lot of holes, but there was nowhere for me to go:

A few explanations:

-the WHL drafts players a year before they can play (technically, they're allowed to play a few games at 15, but there are conditions to those and we don't implement that in-game)
-inter-league trades with the other two major junior leagues aren't allowed
- to change leagues, a player has to be released and then have every other team in his league pass on the opportunity to claim him
-you can't negotiate deals with the Junior A leagues (BCHL, etc.), although you can steal from them, see below
-if you already have your 3 overage players, you won't be able to sign more

As a junior team, the simplest way of finding the guys you can sign is to open the search screen (from the manager menu or the search field at the top of the screen) and set the filter to ages 16-18 (or 19, but depending on when you do that it may get some overage guys if they have late birthdays) and click the "Signable" checkbox on.

That'll give you a list of several hundred players you can get immediately. Choose who you want, right-click and offer-contract (even if they're with a team - the signable filter will show you guys that you can steal from another team with no compensation). Since it's a junior contract, they'll auto-accept if they're willing to play junior - which nearly all will be, the signable filter will exclude college-bound players.

[redtiger7]

Originally Posted by Monaldinio

Next problem. My payroll exceeds the salary cup. Current payroll is 91,5 Mio. Musst have 81,5. So I put a player with a 12,1 Mio contract on waivers. The program calculated a new salary of 87,96 Mio for the team. Totally broken. So it's unplayable...

Turn on comissioner mode. On july 1st (game time)edit the league and turn off (uncheck) salary cap.

[CalleJarnkrok]

I've noticed a bug when shopping/trading players.

Example scenario:
Let's say I shop Taylor Hall & I receive a bunch of offers.
The best offer I receive is a 1st rd pick & a prospect from Boston.

But... I want to "Discuss" that trade and maybe look for a different prospect.
So I go into the trade screen and I remove that prospect from their side of the trade window.
But then after looking around at Boston's prospects, I realize that the one they offered me is the one I actually want.

So I re-add him to the trade window, making it the EXACT same offer they initially offered me. I hit "Offer."

A couple days later, I'll get their response saying: "NO WAY! We can't add that much salary to our payroll."

This is something I've noticed many times and in many different iterations. It's usually not a big deal but sometimes it'll happen on Trade Deadline day and then I have no more runway to re-offer and execute the trade I want.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by CalleJarnkrok

I've noticed a bug when shopping/trading players.

Example scenario:
Let's say I shop Taylor Hall & I receive a bunch of offers.
The best offer I receive is a 1st rd pick & a prospect from Boston.

But... I want to "Discuss" that trade and maybe look for a different prospect.
So I go into the trade screen and I remove that prospect from their side of the trade window.
But then after looking around at Boston's prospects, I realize that the one they offered me is the one I actually want.

So I re-add him to the trade window, making it the EXACT same offer they initially offered me. I hit "Offer."

A couple days later, I'll get their response saying: "NO WAY! We can't add that much salary to our payroll."

This is something I've noticed many times and in many different iterations. It's usually not a big deal but sometimes it'll happen on Trade Deadline day and then I have no more runway to re-offer and execute the trade I want.

It's not a bug. The Discuss offer allows the other GM to immediately rethink his offer. They feel they've given you a fair offer and have it worked out how they will make it work. When you choose to "Discuss" instead, there is always a chance (and it's a high probability) they will immediately change their minds and say "No."

You changing your offer could affect other trades that were planned and now have to be cancelled or re-discussed between teams as they were clearing cap room for it. It is the chance you take when you say "Discuss" instead of just "Yes."

[CalleJarnkrok]

Originally Posted by Adam B

It's not a bug. The Discuss offer allows the other GM to immediately rethink his offer. They feel they've given you a fair offer and have it worked out how they will make it work. When you choose to "Discuss" instead, there is always a chance (and it's a high probability) they will immediately change their minds and say "No."

You changing your offer could affect other trades that were planned and now have to be cancelled or re-discussed between teams as they were clearing cap room for it. It is the chance you take when you say "Discuss" instead of just "Yes."

Fair enough, that makes sense.

[Argonaut]

Anyway to rename awards or even delete them entirely? The Mark Messier award is the worst offender here in historical games.

Can't find an option within the game, and the game files seem locked behind .dat files.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by Argonaut

Anyway to rename awards or even delete them entirely? The Mark Messier award is the worst offender here in historical games.

Can't find an option within the game, and the game files seem locked behind .dat files.

You can edit the awards I believe on July 1st in the League Edit screen.

[MacerV]

How do I stop contracts/reserves from being drastically altered in historic mode. I'd just like to start out a year or two back but contracts seem to get thrown into a blender and a huge number of players/prospects have disappeared for some reason.

Also is there any way to change the save location for the game, the documents folder is where I keep my documents not game saves.