05-20-2023, 10:56 AMRagnar Wrote: we are saying players start to regress by the time they’re 24 (SMJHL is treated like juniors, so the player would be 18 after 4 seasons in the SMJHL) which is absurd to me.

Might be the most trivial part of your reply (the rest I agree with to some extent, but so is J GMing I guess :pepehands: ), but I don't see any junior league having players start at 14. In Canada, you can get exceptional status at 15, but 99% of the league starts at 16 and runs through 20, which would mean regression starting at 27 which kinda makes sense as regression +1 is where you hit your real TPE peak (or so I was told), which means you effectively start being less good at 28 (for comparison's sake). Peak NHL years usually run between 27-31, so it's really not far off.

I get the argument is more about the length of J careers, but we're struggling to get players to go through 4 J seasons because of how stale the experience gets with not being able to apply TPE. It would be an interesting thing to look at, but you'd be looking at a complete overhaul of the system.