Is there an overage rule in the CHL?

handsome · 03-22-2014, 11:47 AM

is there an overage rule in the chl?? because it seems like teams are signing as many 20 year olds as they would like...and could this be addressed in your next patch?

old fat bald guy · 03-22-2014, 01:00 PM

Yeah, I asked that question and Jeff -- I think it was Jeff -- said that's a known issue.

JeffR · 03-22-2014, 01:24 PM

Yeah, it was just considering the wrong age range as being overage - Malte's fixed it, it'll be in the next patch.

plaugher · 03-22-2014, 03:56 PM

Good to hear. When I was working on my CHL game, I would always end up having to spend a few hours manually editing each of the "excess 20s" that didn't deserve to be an overager in the league (imho) and lapsing the rights of the "failed 19s" that never made it out of junior aaa, so that a) teams would have space to draft some players, and b) teams would hopefully be at or under the three overager maximum, and then realizing that the rights of "actual" overagers had been lapsed, and having to go through the whole charade again.

Of course, regularly, excess 20s would then be signed on again over the course of the season (not as many as had been there previously, but still too many), so the best I could hope for was to adhere to the rule myself (which was, of course, difficult to do, when you see your primary competition loading up on physically mature free additions).

Happy to see that it has been addressed for the next patch!

03-22-2014, 11:47 AM	#1
handsome Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 34	Is there an overage rule in the CHL? is there an overage rule in the chl?? because it seems like teams are signing as many 20 year olds as they would like...and could this be addressed in your next patch?

03-22-2014, 03:56 PM	#4
plaugher Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 34	Good to hear. When I was working on my CHL game, I would always end up having to spend a few hours manually editing each of the "excess 20s" that didn't deserve to be an overager in the league (imho) and lapsing the rights of the "failed 19s" that never made it out of junior aaa, so that a) teams would have space to draft some players, and b) teams would hopefully be at or under the three overager maximum, and then realizing that the rights of "actual" overagers had been lapsed, and having to go through the whole charade again. Of course, regularly, excess 20s would then be signed on again over the course of the season (not as many as had been there previously, but still too many), so the best I could hope for was to adhere to the rule myself (which was, of course, difficult to do, when you see your primary competition loading up on physically mature free additions). Happy to see that it has been addressed for the next patch! Last edited by plaugher; 03-22-2014 at 03:59 PM.

03-22-2014, 01:00 PM	#2
old fat bald guy Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 220	Yeah, I asked that question and Jeff -- I think it was Jeff -- said that's a known issue.

03-22-2014, 01:24 PM	#3
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,426	Yeah, it was just considering the wrong age range as being overage - Malte's fixed it, it'll be in the next patch.