04-03-2019, 08:41 AMztevans Wrote:

04-03-2019, 05:33 AMChris-McZehrl Wrote: what you can do is that we had for the SMJHL ... the last teams of each conference fight for more BALLS for the Lottery Draft. so they have a less offseason. (7 games series)
with that you could also do a new format of playoffs!

- 1st and 2nd of each conference (division winners) are seeded for next round.
- place 3 must go against place 6 & place 4 against place 5
- maybe in just 5 games series for this between series!

then the baddest place team from reg season of their conference must go against the 1st (conference winner) and the other winner against the 2nd of the conference.

so you have less members they must wait until next season and you has also more playoff action & a battle of the BALLS.

of course the losers of this between series will be in the lottery draft and there you can also let run a battle of the BALLS series which team will have more BALLS.

I feel like I posted this in a suggestion box thread literally last week, but the reason the SMJHL got rid of that series is because literally everyone hated it.  The teams hated it, the players hated it, SMJHL HO hated it.  It was universally hated.  Bringing it back, for the SMJHL or SHL, is the definition of insanity.

It sounds like a neat way to "keep people involved" but in reality the series were often not competitive, usually between teams with very little activity and thus little interest or fanfare in the series, and with teams so bad the GMs had little they could do to adjust during the series to try and make it interesting.

No forever.

EDIT: Oh, the simmer hated it too.  I really can't emphasize enough how much it was hated.

I brought that up for only one reason. I know that members of eliminated teams are wait all the time for finished post season. If they have something more to enjoy it could help. On the other side the reg season would be more senseless in my opinion. because a weak team could lose the most balls case for the lottery. So this all were just ideas not more. I also know that many gone inactive because of too long offseasons (Post + offseason).

If we would have something interesting during that time we would make sure that those members wouldnt go inactive.

I liked the old IHF system for that. all players they were on the cup finals werent available for the IHF and the IHF started right on the same time as the cup finals started. but what you gonna do for the prior rounds? maybe you say you can nominate after each round eliminated players and the group stage goes 20 games. After 10 games the first round is over and you can nominate there the eliminated players from the first round. after the group stage so before medal round you can nominate all players they are eliminated after the second round.

if the right members come together I believe we could work something out that the eliminated members would have some more interesting things to follow and we keep there activity. But we also need then seperate simmers because you cant force JR or CampinKiller to do the sims for IIHF or WJC as example.