09-23-2020, 04:13 PMjRuutu Wrote:

09-23-2020, 03:56 PMGeckoeyGecko Wrote: yeah, yeah, I know, i shouldnt reply to these, yadayada, whatever.

but im gonna because i dont wanna do my structures hw so here we go.

This take is objectively wrong. For starters - more tpe invested in the goalie position leads to swiftly diminishing returns. You spend more cap and cant get much actual proper in-sim results back for it. Unfortunate, but that's how the sim engine works. Goalies peak at about 900-1100 (give or take i think) tpe.

Secondly, a teams locker room is the most important asset they have to retain and bring in new assets. Look at what joe wrote earlier in the thread - NOLA was losing out on free agents because they had serpe on their team. if a team were to bring slash in and piss off half of their LR, makin them leave in free agency or simply lose the drive to keep updating, thats a hefty mf price to pay for a very expensive, theoretically slightly better, goalie.

The path to success in the SHL is building a team centered around the locker room. A group of people who enjoy playing with each other, driving each other to stay active, and keep updating. I wasn't the finest co-gm, but that was my philosophy when i was Manhattan co-gm. That core won a cup and has stayed competitive for seasons - and they all enjoy playing with each other.

lastly, this:


dude if u can sign him for free what makes u think somebody gon be payin for him at the deadline kekw

Last point first, if a team wants to change things up at the deadline? Maybe they are not playing as well they could, improving one area of the team could help?

Unfortunate stuff if it's true that roughly around 1k TPE goalies are at their peak, is it better to just bank from there on then?

And what comes down to locker rooms, I have hard time believing Serpe alone is enough to turn free agents away, the hot team with a lot of ´SHL famous´ users is cool with Serpe in the room but Free agents turn their back to the hot team and to the users in the team just because of Serpe? In general, your thoughts of the locker rooms make sense, but I'm still going to say that too much value is put on them.  I would also like to say that there is no way users like Slash are going to stop anybody from being active, too much time spent focusing on what if's instead of making or at least trying to make hockey moves happen.

The thing is FAs tend to have a choice - an LR that's great all around, or a good LR but with Serpe and Slash. Which one do you think gets the edge? It doesn't even have to be that objectively bad, but it's simply worse than other LRs, and that means that FAs are going to not choose it.