Anyone agree with this?

Raderick · 12-12-2003, 04:04 PM

With my experience not only with OOTP, but with FHL leagues, I ran into this article today, read it, can't agree more with it. I just want to see what others think about it. It's in the form for FHL leagues, just to let everyone know.

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GM Character Traits in FHLs

Since getting involved with FHLs I have observed some interesting trends in the characteristics of GMs. I originally wrote this article around Halloween so the themes that I have chosen fit really well at the time. Due to popular demand I have revised the article to fit any league at any time of the year, but if the names and descriptions sound a bit ghoulish to you there is at least an explanation. Go ahead, read it and then figure out where you fit in.

There are various different classes of GMs in FHLs. Some GMs like to trade regularly and often, and some exist only in the figments of our imaginations, and some are in between.

Out of the following, which one is you:

1. The Living

These are the GMs who are active and very positive to deal with. They are open to being contacted by any GM, at any time, trying to help make not only their teams better but the other peoples teams as well. They are always looking for a deal, but never to rip other GMs off. Their favorite line is, "I want to help you, and you can help me," and they mean it. These teams usually do o.k. some win big, some lose big, but they are active and experience the draft in every sense of the word. They really love hockey, they talk it, walk it, live it, and breathe it. If they want to trade, they deal, and deal reasonably, if they don't want to deal they at least explain why. They are in the draft for the love of the game, and have a lot of fun.

2. The Dead

These GMs exist, we know they do, their names are on the GM Listing so they must be there. But their names are silent like the names on a tombstone, lifeless. There is no communication. While the Dr. Frankensteins attempt to contact them for players (pieces) to their team (creation) there is never a response. The teams of these GMs perform well for the most part, but who runs them, and do they even exist? They never return emails and are never seen on ICQ. Essentially, they don't take part, satisfied with lying peacefully and letting the season occur around them.

3. The Vampires

The Vampires are the GMs who seem to wait and watch. They observe the league, and see the teams doing poorly, then they casually approach. The "victim" GM senses it immediately that these vampires are after more then just a player, they want blood, and they want the souls of their teams. When the offers come for players they are frightfully lopsided as the "victim" is stunned that this GM would attempt to steal the life from their team and leave a drained husk behind after the deal. Oh, they respond to emails, but is there any hope when they do? The question is not what players do they want, but how many pints of blood.

4. Ghosts

The Ghost GM is a relative to "the Dead." They are on the owners list so, the league knows they are out there. While being mostly silent, sometimes there is a grievance within their team that causes them to rise from their resting place to glide throught the graveyard (the league) looking for something, some player to restore peace to their slumber. They rarely return emails unless their rest has been disturbed. They trade and are often purposeful and deadly serious, and then they dissappear. Do they exist? Well, we hear they do trade but no one can prove it until it is over.

5. Dr. Frankenstein

This GM is a close relative to the Living but just more urgent. The Dr. Frankenstein GM is indeed a mad scientist. Driven by the voices that whisper incessantly inside their heads to improve their teams. They madly search the graveyard for pieces to improve their creation. They contact every possible means, they talk to Ghosts, Vampires, the Living, and the Dead Any possible means to acquire the pieces that are missing in their team. Constantly on ICQ, sending emails out, returning emails regularly, often the same day. The Dr. Frnakensteins of the league are persisitent and some times annoying, mainly because they rarely give up and even more rarely take "no" for an answer. These GMs pursue the players they want and then wait, however long it takes, to bring life to their teams. Persistent and passionate and always believing that someday THEIR TEAM WILL RISE!!!!

Perhaps when I wrote this originally I did so out of frustration. Afterall, it was Halloween and my team needed desperated help. The league I was in exhibited characteristics of all the types of GMs listed above. While some of the descriptions are humorous, they are accurate and it is extremely sad when a league is dominated by vampires, the dead and the ghosts. The fact remains, each of us can find a place in these descriptions

I admit I am a Dr. Frankenstein and the teams that I GM are at various stages; Vancouver will rise again, Quebec is still collecting parts, while Buffalo is fully alive. The biggest frustrations in being a GM is that when improvement is needed, because it is then that The Dead are our worst frustrations, and The Living keep us sane. GMs that fall into the category of The Dead either don't feel they need to trade or just don't want to. You know what? I speak for all Dr. Frankensteins, if you don't want to deal get the heck out of the league! If you feel your team has "risen" and are happy with your roster, then at least explain that to other GMs that you are staying put at the moment but eventually will want to trade again. There is nothing more frustrating then sending out 6 emails looking for the missing parts and getting one email back!!!! Just tell your fellow GMs that, no I don't want to trade. I am satisfied with my team and I don't want to change anything right now. That's o.k. If the Dead and the Ghosts continue to snub the league they will find out that when it is time to trade that there aren't many GMs who will be very willing to deal with them.

To everyone who chooses to participate in your respective leagues, thank you. That is why I got involved, to always be able to talk deal, and when it doesn't work to reply why not. To talk hockey! Why be in an FHL if not to talk it with your draft-mates, and enjoy the game? (This is Dr. Frankenstein's connection to the Living. I wish someone in the hockey draft graveyard would raise the dead, vanquish the vampires, bring the ghosts into the light, and give poor old Dr. Frankenstein some more POWER, then . . . . maybe we could all live!

Mark Hyde

currently involved in:

EHL, FOIHL, NLHL, COACH

the link: http://fhlworld.com/faq/strategies/gmtraits.html

JerseyPride · 12-12-2003, 04:06 PM

Great article! From what I've seen in the leagues I'm in, alot of the stuff that was in this article is right on point.

woody5254 · 12-12-2003, 04:52 PM

I am a Dr.Frankenstein/Living/Vampire hybrid I think

My way of going about things actually depends on the league and my fellow owners.

kq76 · 12-13-2003, 10:01 AM

What is someone who is very active but doesn't initiate trade talks?

EagleEye_0 · 12-13-2003, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by kq76
What is someone who is very active but doesn't initiate trade talks?

A mummy?

12-12-2003, 04:06 PM	#2
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12-12-2003, 04:52 PM	#3
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12-13-2003, 10:01 AM	#4
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