Version 0.9.56 Game Update Now Available (Aug. 4: new Mac fix, see first post)

[AnthonyG]

Does anyone know how to schedule playoffs in Custom league i check schedule playoffs box in the beggining of creating custom league but when the seasons over there isnt any can anyone help?

[Thatoneguy]

Anyone getting Invalid database option for everything? Custom game, historical and regular?

[RamMan12]

I started a custom league and started the initial draft. The game will not let me draft a skater. I try to draft one, and a box comes up saying "Please select a Goalie!"

[Deriken]

Originally Posted by RamMan12

I started a custom league and started the initial draft. The game will not let me draft a skater. I try to draft one, and a box comes up saying "Please select a Goalie!"

Same thing happened to me, first two picks had to be goalies while all the other teams were soaking up the top defensemen

[dave1927p]

Originally Posted by Deriken

Same thing happened to me, first two picks had to be goalies while all the other teams were soaking up the top defensemen

yeah, that's happening to everyone. Not a bad choice to draft a goalie first, but certainly not good selecting two goalies in first two picks

[yzerwing]

In historical mode on July 10, 1993, it says the draft is happening, but says it will take place on July 10, 1994, and then won't let me draft or move to the next day. Only way to move past was to resign from my team and move to next day and then rehire myself.

[umwoz]

Frolik is a Winnipeg Jet now, not a Blackhawk

[dave1927p]

my biggest struggle with the game is not knowing if players are playing up to their rated ability. Jeff, I really would like to know how we are suppose to know this as I'm having some difficulty being a longtime EHM player that I am (used to the AvgRtg)

[drewst18]

I don't like average rating. Its not a real statistic, take your +/-, points, wins/losses and determine the avg rating for your own player.

I think being able to determine that will be the difference in this game. But to each their own I guess

[Hotstreak]

Originally Posted by drewst18

I don't like average rating. Its not a real statistic, take your +/-, points, wins/losses and determine the avg rating for your own player.

I think being able to determine that will be the difference in this game. But to each their own I guess

I know this has been debated in a previous thread. As was brought up there, average rating is a real statistic in a sense that some teams do rate their players after every game as seen in the HBO series. Now, if this game were real life, we could just watch the players play and rate them ourselves. But we can't do that so outside of goals,points, +/-, there's no way of knowing how they played, and while these statistics might be desent indicators of how offensive players are performing, they're poor indicators of how well defensive/grinder/role players are doing.

In fact, even a first-line offensive player can have his performance misrepresented by stats. For example, if you look at Max Pacioretty's stats from the past 2 seasons, you'd see that his points-per-game went up and be inclined to think that he must have played better this season than last. But, I think if you were to ask most Hab fans who watched him play this season, they'd tell you he played worse than the previous year.

[Parker27]

penguins d-man Harrison Roupp salary is over 5 milj Per years. What? Also perron is Oilers now and paajarvi in st.louis.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Parker27

penguins d-man Harrison Roupp salary is over 5 milj Per years. What? Also perron is Oilers now and paajarvi in st.louis.

Ruopp's a typo, there was an extra number at the end of his cap hit so it was in the 5-millions instead of the 500,000's. Perron-Paajarvi got missed, I'll get that updated.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by AnthonyG

Does anyone know how to schedule playoffs in Custom league i check schedule playoffs box in the beggining of creating custom league but when the seasons over there isnt any can anyone help?

If the playoff format doesn't fit the league (e.g., too many teams), it won't start. There are also a number of settings in the playoff rules that could cause it to go wrong; there'll be proper documentation of all of them in the manual at release, but it's not ready yet, so configuring the custom leagues is going to be a challenge for a while.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by RamMan12

I started a custom league and started the initial draft. The game will not let me draft a skater. I try to draft one, and a box comes up saying "Please select a Goalie!"

Yeah, something's broken in the way the draft rules are coded, the goalie choice should apply to all teams, not just the user's. We'll get it fixed.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by umwoz

Frolik is a Winnipeg Jet now, not a Blackhawk

Looks like his contract was changed to Winnipeg, but not his current team. Fixed.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by pancancerfightr

I have an issue with the players that are being put on waivers. Here are some of the players waived since the start of the 13-14 season before the season started:

Derek Stepan
Victor Hedman
Marco Scandella
Brooks Orpik
Matt Carle
Valtteri Filppula
Teddy Purcell

And others who, as I wrote in my diary thread, would never be waived unless they pulled a Aaron Hernandez. Can this please be worked on for the next build? Also, Scandella has a cap hit of over 10 million dollars which isn't hardly the case. I know it's a work in progress, but knowing it's happening is why we are playing/testing the beta I assume.

It's a combination of the NHL rosters being very large at the moment because it's the offseason, the game not including the 10% offseason cap cushion, and the clumsy handling of the way the game tries to get under the cap. Working on getting the last two fixed, the first one will clean itself up by the start of the season.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by dave1927p

are there still plans to update the interface still?

Eventually, yes. Major revisions before release, no. I agree that it's not fantastic at the moment, but there are more urgent priorities in the next few weeks. But we'll continue working at it, and I think a complete overhaul will be in order for next year. We can do a lot more to minimize the clicking and other busy-work.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by tfong

Are the new game systems of aging, retirement etc implemented in this patch?

Those were already in, I was just describing the existing systems in my posts about them.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by croatian

In full version of the game, will be possible to post news on FB and Twitter, like in OOTP 14 ? It would be so cool feature

I want to get that stuff in, but we're not going to put aside urgent pre-release work for it. SI was apparently getting hundreds of tweets an hour at one point from the twitter integration in Football Manager, that's some pretty nice free advertising.

[Thatoneguy]

I keep getting invalid database version whenever I try to start a new game for all options. Regular, historical and custom. Tried running in administrator mode, didn't work.