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Old 02-04-2020, 09:34 PM   #1
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Philosophy Sharing

Hey guys, first post here. I've been playing the game for close to a week now and I love it. I had a question to ask the community simply out of curiosity. I wanted to know what's everyone's philosophy on building a roster? Hypothetically speaking, let's say you inherit a team, or you build a team from scratch through an expansion draft. What do you look for? What are your role preferences? Do you place more importance on certain positions more than others?

I have a strong bias towards building a roster of two-way forwards, grinders/agitators and defensive defensemen. I start by acquiring a franchise goalie (a good goalie will suffice as well) because I don't feel like my system will work how I want it to if I don't have some stability in the net. Once I get the goaltender I want, I start looking for D-men that can shut down the opposition. I'm not concerned on if they have big slap shots or not, I prefer having them move the puck around to the forwards and prioritizing their energy on backchecking.

Now, on to the forwards. I'm not looking for players that are 30+ goal scorers. I'm looking for forwards that have position versatility, I want wingers that can play seamlessly on both ends, or forwards that can play all three positions. Darcy Tucker and Mike Rupp would fit that description, as they can play all three forward positions, and also excel at being grinders. I find having players that can play more than one position help save you a lot of headaches in reshuffling your lines if someone gets injured.

Of course, not every forward is gonna match that exact description. That's where I start looking for forwards that can play a defensive game. The ideal forwards that I would want on my roster would resemble players like Jere Lehtinen, Patrice Bergeron, Bob Gainey, Guy Carbonneau, Michael Peca or John Madden. I favor centers with strong checking skills, as I'm a big proponent in playing a 1-3-1 trap. It is by no means always effective, but the success rate of the trap is undisputed.


I hope I didn't bore everyone with my incoherent ramblings. I'm genuinely curious and excited to know what your play style is and how it differs from mine.
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Old 02-06-2020, 07:33 PM   #2
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Very good post, I'm not very knowledgeable about hockey tactics but enjoy reading/learning about it.
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Old 02-06-2020, 08:17 PM   #3
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Nice post!

For me, it's more of an offensive build. Speed and offensive awareness are key. My top two lines are interchangeable very offensive minded forwards, with excellent defensive forwards on the third line (my top PK guys) and my fourth line is usually filled with rookies that I'm training. Offensive too. But for that to work, I need a strong D (at the very least three good defensive Ds) and a franchise goalie.

A started a game with FHM6 where I created Seattle (current time, not historical game). I was coach in the OHL in my first year, but with Seattle, the following two years, my team has been :
Gaudreau-Kadri-Marchessault
Nyqvist-Cirelli-Puljujarvi
Marcus Foligno-Akil Thomas (whom I'm grooming as a defensive center)-Wayne Simmonds
Hendrix Lapierre-Quinton Byfield-Philip Tomasino

Barrie-Gotisbehere
Slavin-Brodin
Sergachev-Cernak
Murray

Holtby
Saros

There's a few players I got from the expansion draft that I wouldn't have normally traded for (Kadri for example), but they're doing good, so they're staying put for now. Still, I'm starting year 3, and I've just traded Gaudreau for Hall and traded my whole 2nd line in order to promote my fourth line. An all new set of kids is not on the fourth.
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Old 02-07-2020, 02:45 PM   #4
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Nice post!

For me, it's more of an offensive build. Speed and offensive awareness are key. My top two lines are interchangeable very offensive minded forwards, with excellent defensive forwards on the third line (my top PK guys) and my fourth line is usually filled with rookies that I'm training. Offensive too. But for that to work, I need a strong D (at the very least three good defensive Ds) and a franchise goalie.

A started a game with FHM6 where I created Seattle (current time, not historical game). I was coach in the OHL in my first year, but with Seattle, the following two years, my team has been :
Gaudreau-Kadri-Marchessault
Nyqvist-Cirelli-Puljujarvi
Marcus Foligno-Akil Thomas (whom I'm grooming as a defensive center)-Wayne Simmonds
Hendrix Lapierre-Quinton Byfield-Philip Tomasino

Barrie-Gotisbehere
Slavin-Brodin
Sergachev-Cernak
Murray

Holtby
Saros

There's a few players I got from the expansion draft that I wouldn't have normally traded for (Kadri for example), but they're doing good, so they're staying put for now. Still, I'm starting year 3, and I've just traded Gaudreau for Hall and traded my whole 2nd line in order to promote my fourth line. An all new set of kids is not on the fourth.
I really like the look of the first line. Kadri might not be a first-line player at this point of his career, but he plays enough of an all-around game that he covers for Gaudreau and Marchessault on the defensive end. Plus, he's an agitator. Good agitators are always nice to have. Ironically, with how the Leafs roster is built now, they could use someone with Kadri's skill-set, instead of building what I feel like is an OHL team in the sense that it's all offense and no defense.

Man, I love Wayne Simmonds. I know he's not exactly on a team-friendly contract right now, but I love the game he plays. He's someone I wish Montreal would have made a move for back when he was still in Philly.

Sergachev! Ah, man. I was devastated when Montreal traded him for Drouin. I had high hopes for him, and I think he's gonna develop into a two-way stud. Typical Montreal, always trying to swing for the fences for the next French superstar. That's a conversation for another day, though.
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Old 02-08-2020, 12:17 PM   #5
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I'm personally still learning the ins and outs of Hockey strategy. But in general, I like reasonably responsible 2 way players with a bias towards offense. I usually like to have one forward and one D who is really good defensively and sound offensively, such as Sean Couturier, but mostly people who are the other way around.

I try to have my teams play more of a skill game, with lots of playmakers and players with good awareness, but I won't sell out the defense. At most I will have one line of defensively questionable forwards. I also love versatile forwards and Dmen as I tend to tinker too much!
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Old 02-08-2020, 12:18 PM   #6
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I'm personally still learning the ins and outs of Hockey strategy. But in general, I like reasonably responsible 2 way players with a bias towards offense. I usually like to have one forward and one D who is really good defensively and sound offensively, such as Sean Couturier, but mostly people who are the other way around.

I try to have my teams play more of a skill game, with lots of playmakers and players with good awareness, but I won't sell out the defense. At most I will have one line of defensively questionable forwards. I also love versatile forwards and Dmen as I tend to tinker too much!
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Old 02-18-2020, 09:46 AM   #7
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My philosophy is a bit different.

To me the goalie is my last priority. I'd love to pursue a stud.. but feel a reliable average goalie with great Positioning/Technique can work wonders. I lay most of my focus on having depth down the middle and across the back (good centres and a good top 6 defensive corps).

For centres I usually go for players who have great Awareness/Hockey sense and Positioning. Wingers have to be fast - some can be two-way and some can be pure offensive players but acceleration, agility, and speed are my priorities. I usually try to get centres that can play a 200 foot game as most tactics require a pivot that can play without the puck. Although, if I have an offensive wizard who happens to be a centre then I'll have to make do with him and alter my tactics to accommodate his cherry-picking ways and put him with some two-way wingers so I don't get chewed up.

I'm with you on versatility. It's a long season and you need guys that can play up and down the line-up and also move from the wing, the middle and so forth. I always have a few wingers that have some great centre attributes. They're great on the PK and good to have if a centre goes down with an injury.

I always end up with deep teams with a log-jam of talent on the blue-line. My middle six is usually better than most other teams in the league and a middle of the road goalie that puts up good numbers because of the depth in front of him. I play very basic/conservative 5v5 and am very aggressive offensively on the Power-play. As a coach I am always looking to give the odd guy a game off if his fitness falls below 75%.. unless he's a stud and I'm playing within the division - then it's all-hands-on-deck.
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Old 02-18-2020, 03:30 PM   #8
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I build my teams around very simple formula. Playmaking center, goalscoring winger and grinding/defensive winger. All 4 lines go that way. Of course, if guys are also 200 feet players thats even better. Defensively its two-way defensmen parings for the most time, but more stay-at-home guys would do here and there. I almost never use purely offensive defensmem as they are more of liability than anything. I might use one as a powerplay specialist if i absolutely have to, but with sheltered minutes 5v5. When it comes to goalies, their ratings dont really matter, so its pointless to go after 5 star stud fo 8-10 mil/yr. A 2,5-3 star cheap guy with decent intangibles can do wonders. Its only a matter of him staying hot rather than cold. I find this formula very succesful. Won Stanley Cup with everyvteam I managed.
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Very good post, I'm not very knowledgeable about hockey tactics but enjoy reading/learning about it.
I think the great thing about FHM is that you don't have to be an expert of hockey tactics. The game gives you a clear explanation of what tactics do and who/what they're effective with. I'm not an expert myself, for me it's just a combination of how long I've been watching hockey (early 2000s) and having an old man who played hockey all his life drill his knowledge into my head lol.

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My philosophy is a bit different.

To me the goalie is my last priority. I'd love to pursue a stud.. but feel a reliable average goalie with great Positioning/Technique can work wonders. I lay most of my focus on having depth down the middle and across the back (good centres and a good top 6 defensive corps).

For centres I usually go for players who have great Awareness/Hockey sense and Positioning. Wingers have to be fast - some can be two-way and some can be pure offensive players but acceleration, agility, and speed are my priorities. I usually try to get centres that can play a 200 foot game as most tactics require a pivot that can play without the puck. Although, if I have an offensive wizard who happens to be a centre then I'll have to make do with him and alter my tactics to accommodate his cherry-picking ways and put him with some two-way wingers so I don't get chewed up.

I'm with you on versatility. It's a long season and you need guys that can play up and down the line-up and also move from the wing, the middle and so forth. I always have a few wingers that have some great centre attributes. They're great on the PK and good to have if a centre goes down with an injury.

I always end up with deep teams with a log-jam of talent on the blue-line. My middle six is usually better than most other teams in the league and a middle of the road goalie that puts up good numbers because of the depth in front of him. I play very basic/conservative 5v5 and am very aggressive offensively on the Power-play. As a coach I am always looking to give the odd guy a game off if his fitness falls below 75%.. unless he's a stud and I'm playing within the division - then it's all-hands-on-deck.
This is good stuff. I tend to strictly abid by the player tactics I set, but I never thought about tinkering with the unit tactics. I could absolutely amp up the aggressiveness on the PP now that you mention it. I should experiment with giving guys days off on back to backs. I do it for goalies, but I've been too stubborn so far to give skaters days off.

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I build my teams around very simple formula. Playmaking center, goalscoring winger and grinding/defensive winger. All 4 lines go that way. Of course, if guys are also 200 feet players thats even better. Defensively its two-way defensmen parings for the most time, but more stay-at-home guys would do here and there. I almost never use purely offensive defensmem as they are more of liability than anything. I might use one as a powerplay specialist if i absolutely have to, but with sheltered minutes 5v5. When it comes to goalies, their ratings dont really matter, so its pointless to go after 5 star stud fo 8-10 mil/yr. A 2,5-3 star cheap guy with decent intangibles can do wonders. Its only a matter of him staying hot rather than cold. I find this formula very succesful. Won Stanley Cup with everyvteam I managed.
I'm with you on not using pure offensive d-men. Not my thing, the D-men are my last line of defense for a reason. Give me a Lidstrom over a Coffey anyday (although Coffey seems to be an offensive dynamo regardless of age in FHM from my experiences lol)
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