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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Feb 9, 2016 11:16:33 GMT -5
UDMFHL: NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Alright guys, here are some of the changes I am proposing to go into effect starting next season. First off, I want to say I don't think it's fair or practical to change things for this season. We're over halfway through and I think it's only fair we suffer through Ryan's settings until the offseason. That being said I see no reason why we can't begin the discussion now about potential changes we'd like to enact Minor Leagues EligibilitySo to begin with, one change I will absolutely be making is modifying the minor league eligibility rules from being based on the players cap hit to being based on the amount of NHL games a player has played. Fantrax has settings to moderate this stuff so I don't have to keep an eye on everyone's rosters, then send them a message if they have a player in the minors they shouldn't. Obviously the actual value of these limits will be a matter of debate which can be discussed but my initial suggestion is 175 Games Played for skaters and 85 Games Started for goalies. This gives you around 2 NHL seasons worth of games before you have to make a decision on whether to cut a guy or keep him up on your main roster. I feel it gives you a little bit more control then it being dependant on an NHL GM hopefully signing his guy for less then the 2 million cut off. Now for the proposed rule changes I'd like to make: - Unlimited IR Slots: I don't see why there should be a limited number of IR slots in a league this deep. We have up to potentially 60 players in the minors that could be used to replace those injured players and I feel good drafting and organisational depth should be rewarded. There shouldn't be a dead roster slot not accumulating stats just because you already have 5 injured guys but only 3 IR slots. When our starting roster is 25 players deep it's inevitable lots of guys are going to get hurt.
- Category Adjustments: Having both PPP and STP as seperate categories is redundant and dumb. I'd like to remove the PPP category from our scoring system and just keep STP. Pretty straightforward. Additionally, I'm not particularly enamoured with the takeaways category. I almost feel like Ryan added it knowing he was going to be targeting Mark Stone in the draft and that would give him a leg up on the rest of us since the Ottawa scorers give him roughly 93 takeaways a game for some reason. I don't have much of an argument for this other then this category, I think, is pretty silly and I'd like to see it go. Now since we'd be removing two skating categories it would, I think, leave goalies with too many categories in comparison so I would propose removing Shutouts as a goalie scoring category. It's kind of a luck category in weekly leagues, given how infrequently they happen and how often you'll win the category in a matchup with a 1 it seems like the least important category to keep. If it was a roto league I'd be down for it but in weekly leagues I don't think shutouts is a great category to have.
- Adjustments to forum usage: I'm sure some of you don't like the forums particularly much and don't see the point to them. I would have to respectfully disagree. I think the forums can serve many purposes that are useful to the the league, and to me personally in running it. It's good for discussions like this, it's good for keeping records (buyout penalties, trades, old drafts) and can hold the rules and any amendments we make to it. It gives us a place to hold the Entry Drafts and I think it's good for trade blocks. Yes Fantrax has a rudimentary system for setting up a trade block but at least on the forums you can be a bit more descriptive - list what you are looking for in return, maybe tier your guys based on how you value them or how much you're looking to get rid of them, etc. However, what the forum DOESN'T need to be used for is keeping a record of your roster, free agent adds or waiver claims, as Fantrax can take care of all of these things.
Lastly regarding the forums - if everyone could go on there and add their Kik username to the Contacts thread so any new GMs we add can find you guys easily if they need to would be greatly appreciated.
So in summary: WILL CHANGE:1) Minor league eligibility changed from salary based to GP/GS based. PROPOSED CHANGES:1) Unlimited IR slots 2) Removal of PPP as a scoring category 3) Removal of TK as a scoring category 4) Forum usage adjustments: YES NO Cap Penalties No roster records Entry Drafts No waiver claims League discussion Free agent acquisitions Trade records Rules (and subsequent amendments) Trading Blocks GM Contact Info So everyone feel free to discuss on my proposals and make your own suggestions in this thread and hopefully we can make this league as Ryan-less as possible by next season. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 16:54:53 GMT -5
I agree with all of the above! Though I'd be cool with lower limits for minor league players. 82 games for skaters and 50 for goalies?
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Post by Los Angeles Kings (Alex) on Mar 8, 2016 15:50:28 GMT -5
Not a fan of removing TK as a scoring category, especially that I traded Johnny Hockey in part to have this advantage in stats. It's like trading for Matt Martin for the hits category and then to suddenly remove it.
Not super crazy with the minor eligibility proposal as my initial draft was based on having as many under 2 mil as possible, but i'm open to this change; in the end, it's not going to make much difference
I have no issues with the other proposal. I would add PIM as a category, that's just my opinion.
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Mar 11, 2016 20:02:55 GMT -5
Not a fan of removing TK as a scoring category, especially that I traded Johnny Hockey in part to have this advantage in stats. It's like trading for Matt Martin for the hits category and then to suddenly remove it. Not super crazy with the minor eligibility proposal as my initial draft was based on having as many under 2 mil as possible, but i'm open to this change; in the end, it's not going to make much difference I have no issues with the other proposal. I would add PIM as a category, that's just my opinion. In regards to the minor league eligibility change: I agree it definitely sucks. I have a few players I drafted hoping to be able to move them up or down for the next few years as well, but I just do not have the time to spare to go through everyone's roster every day to make sure they are legal, then message them and hope they fix it in a reasonably expedient fashion. Fantrax has a built in system that won't let you put a player who has played over a certain number of NHL games into the minors which means it can self-police and I don't have to do it. There have already been several occasions this year of people putting ineligible people in the minors and I'm not sure how long that was the case until I happened to notice. In the end to make life easier on me to running this league this is a change I have to make. In an effort to make the transition easier I wanted to set a rather high limit for the games played to start (we can debate bringing it down in later years) so that there's a relatively large margin for young players to still be minor eligible in the new system. I'm not sure I made the reasoning super clear in my initial post so I wanted to explain fully why I'm enforcing the change, even if it is going to negatively effect a lot of rosters. Otherwise thanks for actually pitching in on the proposed changes, Alex. At this rate I may be making sweeping changes to the league with only the input of 20% of the owners and I'm not super keen on that so the more feedback I get the better. |
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Mar 31, 2016 9:41:06 GMT -5
So the season is closing down and I have some additional rule amendments to propose: - IR Enforcement: So currently the system is that if a player is in an IR slot becomes healthy the team so locked from making any transactions after a 48 grace period. I would like to change this so that after the 48 grace period the team roster becomes illegal. This will cut down on the cap circumvention that comes from leaving a player on the IR even though they are healthy.
- So as (hopefully) all of you are aware, the Dallas Stars circumvented the cap this year by running a team with only 23 players on their roster. As per the rules you must always have 25 players on your roster at all times. The ruling I made on this circumvention was a penalty of $1 million off the cap for the following year per unused roster slot. So in this particular case the Stars will have $2 million less for the 2016-17 season. That being said I think concrete rules should be laid down. I can't see a situation like this recurring with more experienced GMs but if it does I would like to make the cap penalty more severe going forward. I propose to keep the $1 million per unused slot penalty for the regular season but if you take an illegal team into the playoffs the penalty will increase to 5% off the cap per unused slot. The number of years this penalty will be in effect for will be 1 year per matchup an illegal roster is used for. So say a team is illegal for two weeks with 3 unused slots the penalty will be either $3 million or 15% off the cap for the next two seasons depending on whether the violation occurs during the regular season or the playoffs.
I do realise that mistakes happen so when I notice (or am notified) of cap circumvention I will contact the owner and they will have 24 hours to correct it. I will use a 1 strike system so on an owners second offence and any offence afterwards the penalty will be enacted immediately. These strikes would renew at the start of every season.
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Post by New Jersey Devils (Doug) on Apr 8, 2016 19:17:20 GMT -5
I think we should be able to add more the 1 player per 12 hours. I also think we need an entirely new draft. We have so many new players who have inherited teams that are not good. It would be better if we could all start with a clean slate.
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs (Sean) on Apr 10, 2016 14:32:24 GMT -5
So will players over two Mil be allowed in the minors next season? What is the game limit as far as guys in the minors 120?60 for goalies? Does that reset if the player gets traded to a new team.
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs (Sean) on Apr 10, 2016 14:44:39 GMT -5
And I was wondering if you have a player who is an rfa. Can you release him since his salary will change.
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Apr 11, 2016 2:05:33 GMT -5
So will players over two Mil be allowed in the minors next season? What is the game limit as far as guys in the minors 120?60 for goalies? Does that reset if the player gets traded to a new team. They will not unless they are under the games played limit. To start I am going to have it set high to start. 200 GP for skaters and 100 GP for goalies and we can vote to bring it down next offseason. It's a big change and I don't want folks getting screwed too hard adjusting to an entirely new system. |
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Apr 11, 2016 2:06:43 GMT -5
And I was wondering if you have a player who is an rfa. Can you release him since his salary will change. Yes it would fall under the same rule that a UFA or player about to enter a contract extension would. |
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Apr 11, 2016 2:21:42 GMT -5
I think we should be able to add more the 1 player per 12 hours. I also think we need an entirely new draft. We have so many new players who have inherited teams that are not good. It would be better if we could all start with a clean slate. The reason that rule is in place is to 1) prevent folks from adding a whole bunch of people in one day to stack a matchup and 2) right after the drafts there are usually prospects people want who didn't get drafted. This prevents one team from swooping in and grabbing all the players at once. Regarding your second point: We have discussed this briefly on the league chat but I believe a redraft is unfair to the original owners who have been around since the beginning. When the new owners took over a team they were aware of who was on the roster and the rules of the league and chose to forge ahead anyway. That being said I can understand the frustration of having to manage a poor quality team that is not of your making (I've done this before in other leagues) but again I did know going into it what I was in for. You suggested on the league chat an expansion style draft which I feel is more fair and reasonable than a full redraft. I will write up a proposal for that with a guideline for how it would go and put it up to a vote here along with the other proposals. |
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Post by New York Rangers (Jimmy) on Apr 12, 2016 23:13:16 GMT -5
Will there be cap on roster limits so that we dont have teams with a 100 players (stupid) can we have a cap please.
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs (Sean) on Apr 13, 2016 10:30:39 GMT -5
Not a bad idea to lower the Minor league roster a few players.
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Post by Montreal Canadiens (Tyler) on Apr 13, 2016 10:57:30 GMT -5
Will there be cap on roster limits so that we dont have teams with a 100 players (stupid) can we have a cap please. The cap is currently 62. I will add a poll to reduce it with several options. |
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