Quote:Originally posted by Bojo@Nov 28 2016, 02:24 PM


[b]Restructured Head Office
- SHL Head office will be me, GM's, and DC.
- I will propose decisions
- Can be veto'd if at least half of the members vote against (within three days)[/b]

I don't understand why GMs are being included in these decisions. I feel like some of the issues that cropped up that ended up going to HO to be discussed were people in leadership positions whose teams would be directly affected by the outcome of HO decisions. I do know that some felt transparency had been an issue, but I feel like that could be fixed with the DC redesigns you'd suggested.

Also, where does juniors fit into this? Are we still keeping juniors separate with a separate commissioner, or is juniors now falling under this umbrella as well? I don't really care as long as there's a line of responsibility somewhere.

Quote:[b]Redesigned Discipline Committee
- Elections for four DC members. Separate teams, two from each conference.
- Within three days a decision must be made.
- If none, I will decide.
- If tie, I will be tie breaker.[/b]

^Awesome.

Quote:[b]Rulebook refinements
- Headquarters will go through the rule book together to ensure it's up to date and proper
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One thing that had been talked about was punishment sizes--when there were simultaneous tampering and multi issues, those two were brought up as the punishments seeming off-balance. Perhaps that's an area that could be looked at on revisiting?

Also, specifically, under juniors rosters, the minimum SMJHL player limit is 17 (I'm assuming 3 lines of skaters and 2 goalies) but on the consolidated rulebook it says 18. I think 17 is correct but would like to confirm?

Quote:[b]Web Site Improvements
- Admin control = I can play around with ideas!
- Give me tips on how to improve site presentation
- Will create a "prototype" skin that you can use. If it's good I'll move it to production[/b]

LOVING the reorganization of threads already. One request I have: could we potentially move the player development way up, maybe even all the way up to fall under create a player? I feel like it would be easier to direct rookies from the create-a-player section directly down to the next section when they're confused about what to do with their player after creation.

Quote:[b]Inter-conference Rivalry Matches
- East vs West Rewards
- Reward top teams from both
- Makes boring matches more interesting; even for other teams[/b]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I feel like this isn't a big issue in seniors, because in the beginning of the season you're tweaking lines and looking to improve your overall team record, and towards the end of the season you've got teams who are on the playoff bubble. Not against it per se, I just think it's nice but not as essential as some of the other stuff on the list..

Quote:[b]Recruitment
- 1 tpe flat for each person who joins
- +3 tpe once they hit 300 TPE
- Need advertisement help. I will provide funds. Reddit? Facebook?[/b]

A little out of the box, but maybe we could arrange some cross-platform advertising with the puckstothenet comic website? I don't know how wide their audience is, but might be a way to bring some new blood in in exchange for throwing them a little coffee money. http://www.puckstothe.net/

Quote:[b]Player Tasks
- First off, there's only so many ways you can make writing 200 words or photoshopping a pic interesting every week. It's a challenge. Sunday Fundays were actually a decent idea, I wouldn't mind if we simply expanded that to the weekend.[/b]

^Not on the PT team anymore, partially for this reason. It's tough to keep coming up with creative ideas without specific community input--this is EXACTLY why we opened a suggestion box, to which one person (thank you, Crutch! has submitted fresh and creative ideas. I like that there's something every week with schedules and expectations. It's fine if you want to introduce a breath of fresh air to PTs, but for the love of god, suggest something specific. (Would be fine with the SF deadline extended over the weekend, though.)

Quote:- I want to eliminate the idea of grading. It should simply be a submission that meets simple requirements that even a nucklehead could do. No longer (1,2,3,4,5), but simply (Yes, No).

We essentially already addressed this when we created the rubric--it's on a 0-3 scale. Grading like that allows for partial credit to people who are just a bit shy of wordcount or missed a logo but appeared to give half a shit. You'll get a 3 unless you fuck up and miss a requirement; you'll get a 2 for missing multiple requirements, and 1s or 0s almost never happen. The rubric is pinned in the PT thread for those who have questions; the arbitration team only had 2 cases over an entire season. Grading is fine IMHO.

Quote:- I want to restructure the idea of a cap to either simply eliminating it, or relaxing it. I understand inflation can be an issue, so I won't just go throwing tpe everywhere. But I believe it can be simplified with the same end result. Still workshopping that. Again, open to ideas.

We opened PGSs to be league-wide for this reason. One thing I'd like to see is to have the cap raised to 40 overall but combined with the PGS cap--you can supplement your cap with your choice of PTs, milestones, or PGSs. This would also be easier on us as updaters--not having to track two separate caps.

Quote:[b]Awards/All-Stars
- Will start at the begining of the playoffs, and will be decided on by the end (with the exception of playoff-related awards obviously)[/b]

Awesome in theory, poor in practice. We didn't get a ballot until very late bc Buster got busy, but voting happened within the week as soon as we did. I'd propose that, instead of the head being responsible for creating the ballot and the committee voting, the task could feasibly be split up into each AC member being responsible for one 'section' of the ballot. Then if someone's inactive, the head can come fill in for their ballot section and replace them for the following season. Thoughts?

Quote:[b]Discord
- Encourage people to post on the forums as well. Chatting is 100% ok, of course. But if you got something to share, do it on the forums so more people can see.[/b]

I've made way more friends on the Discord than I ever did on the site. I think having the glut of 'official' X discussion threads makes the general forum discussion thread obsolete and discourages cross-team random chatting.

Quote:[b]Cliques
- I know it's scary, but invite people into your groups instead of pushing people away becaues they're new/different/seem odd. More of a rant I've seen in general, including my own team.[/b]

Always a good rule of thumb. I actually think the SHL Discord has done a lot to combat this--again, encouraging cross-team communication. I'd like to see something similar happening site-level as well.

Quote:[b]Random Ideas
- Clean list of jobs people have on the site
- Clean up the arcade
- Work with groups (like updaters) to see how we can improve a job[/b]

This is something I feel like I've been shouting into the wind about for a long time, but.....we have almost NO procedural guides for jobs, especially for the heads of jobs. Improving a job starts with having a codified process and task checklists, and in a lot of places we don't have that but should. Updaters is actually one of the few places we both have a guide for players and for updaters themselves.

Quote:[b]Player Builds - mpc
- More options? Less options? I want to see less people with checking as a weakness, maybe even removing that as an option altogether.
- I don't think we should complicate builds by having update scales for each type of player[/b]

Here's something I'd like to test:

-Skater (F/D) and Goalie scales only. Goalies have to be on different scales for reasons of sim performance; this has been brought up and rejected before. However, there's no reason we couldn't have consolidated F and D templates.

Here's my idea, with explanations of why I chose the way I did:

http://theshl.b1.jcink.com/index.php?showt...dpost&p=2090224

Quote:[b]Forward/Defense Switching - mpc
- Idea I had is to declare what side of the ice you will be playing that season from the start of the season. I'm ok with switching between front and back (heh) but it's a tiny sacrifice to make for cleaning up defense/forward stats and eliminates the issue completely for fantasy.[/b]

^Yes. Yes, yes, yes.