Historical Play - 1917

[ffp7175]

Just wondering on how others fill out the 1917 season
for the 4 teams

Trying to replay the entire nhl years as close to the
players that were on the actual teams

but at the beginning of the NHL, teams did not carry a full roster
of 17 players to dress

Do you just add players from the minors who never actual
played for that team and can effect actual historical play

or do others use some other technique such maybe creating
players that are all similar in skills, so they wont alter the season
that much

any comments would be appericated

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by ffp7175

Just wondering on how others fill out the 1917 season
for the 4 teams

Trying to replay the entire nhl years as close to the
players that were on the actual teams

but at the beginning of the NHL, teams did not carry a full roster
of 17 players to dress

Do you just add players from the minors who never actual
played for that team and can effect actual historical play

or do others use some other technique such maybe creating
players that are all similar in skills, so they wont alter the season
that much

any comments would be appericated

So maybe I'm not 100% sure what you're asking. If you load up a game in 1917, you have 14 spots to fill your roster. The only thing is that unlike the NHL at that time, you need to have 2 goalies on your roster. Jeff's explained it before (and may again here), but essentially it's the closest we can make it. There's an issue if an goalie gets hurt mid-game.

There are no made-up players though. Everyone in Historical really existed. In the early years however, I know Jeff scoured multiple databases pulling players that were active at that time in what we would now refer to essentially as senior leagues and could have been called up/signed to the clubs. There's also a handful of players from previous years who are Free Agents like Dick Irvin who played a little in the Pacific Coast league and would eventually play in the NHL but may have chose not to for a variety of reasons.

[redtiger7]

I'm curious how a 14 player set up handles exhaustion and fatigue. Are they any changes to how that's handeled for those years?

[JeffR]

For goalies, fatigue recovery is a lot faster in the single-goalie era. For the others, no difference, but the schedules tend to space games a lot farther apart.