NHL Season Resumption Save File

[JeffR]

The NHL is back, and now that the playoffs are about to begin, we've updated our previous season-continuation save to include the 24-team format and updated rosters.

http://misc.ootpdevelopments.com/nhl...layoffs.lg.zip

This is a custom-mode save game with just the NHL and AHL active, so it plays very quickly. We advanced it normally to March 12, then stopped and replaced all the NHL stats and standings that had been generated with the real-life regular-season numbers. Rosters are as accurate as possible as of July 31, including injuries and a few rating adjustments.

To use it, just unzip the contents of the file into your regular FHM save folder and load the "NHL 2020 Playoffs" save as you would with one of your own saves. You'll need to have the game updated to version 6.9.86 to use the save.

If you want to take over a team after loading the save, go to the Manager menu and retire the "Joe Average" default GM, then click continue and you'll get the setup screens to create a new GM for yourself, and take whichever job you want.

A few things to note about the save:

-the starting date is in March, not August 1, since a date in August would've passed FHM's July 1 season start date and would force the game into the 20-21 season
-games are played in each team's regular arena, not just in Toronto and Edmonton
-It is absolutely not intended for play beyond the end of the 2019-20 season, we took a few shortcuts with the data that will do some odd things if you continue past the end of the playoffs.
-the roster limit has been increased to 31 to match the NHL's rules for the playoff resumption; some player cap hits have been reduced to keep the teams well under the cap so the AI doesn't do anything odd to the rosters because it's over
-The AHL, while present, isn't intended to be playable or an accurate continuation of the the real AHL season. We just included it to get a large farm player pool for the NHL. It has no player stats and the standings aren't the real 2019-20 AHL standings.
-Because of the way season stats are stored, wiping the fictional game results leaves some player stats screens - mainly the ones based on roster-type views (e.g. League-Stats-Player Stats) - with all the stats at 0 and will only accumulate stats from March 12 onward. The goal number in box scores is affected by this, so e.g. Ovechkin's next goal will appears as "Alexander Ovechkin (1,ES)", not "Alexander Ovechkin (49,ES)". Individual player screens and the leaderboards will still have full season stats, though.
-Players only have stats from 2019-20, there are no career stats. For that reason, milestones will not work normally. If you turn the talent-from-stats option on, we suggest using settings of 50% stats percentage, 67% for the current season, 33% from last season (this will actually result in 100% weighting for current season stats, since the last season's stats are all 0 in this game)
-Since the AI had control of the teams up to the date of the save, some numbers and captains will be inaccurate as the AI made its own choices in those areas.

We tried to make this as accurate as possible, but if anyone would like to improve on it with some additional editing to the save and share their versions, please go ahead.