I think that my player, James Kimanje, had a fantastic start to the season but unfortunately fell off a cliff in terms of production as the season went on. He began the season top 5 in points, carrying 10 points through 10 games, and then finished the season with a measly 14 points. He did practically nothing as a offensive player, and in fact only received milestones from the league for his defensive efforts. I'm not quite sure what caused this, as I was capped at 425 before this season started. My best guess is that my build, while best suited for the team, is not best suited for individual success. I am fine with that, but as a 4th year player I would like to at least try and go after some individual hardware and see what I can do with it.  I do want to improve so much next season that I make a push at SMJHL MVP, and I've asked my GMs Noka and Jearim to help me achieve that goal. Only time will tell if I can be successful.



I can definitely come up with a worse bracket. I call it the Alternator. In this bracket, round one will feature teams seeded 1 and 2 playing each other, seeds 11 and 12 playing each other, and then make the middle normal. 3 plays 10, 4 plays 9, 5 plays 8, 6 plays 7. Then, the playoffs are reseeded. The worst seed now becomes the best, and vice versa. The middle two teams then get byes and games are played normal playoff style. So we'd potentially be seeing the 4 and 7 seeds getting byes, with seeds 1 and 12 playing and 3 and 10 playing. Then, assume that seeds 12 and 3 win. We now have seeds 3, 4, 7, and 12, and they are now re-seeded to those original seeds. From there, seed 3 plays seed 7 and seed 4 plays seed 12. The winners of those games then play for the championship with the lower seed having HFA. I can't think of anything worse than that.




I think that the best city to host a playoff bubble in would be Fargo, North Dakota. Now hear me out, I know it's an unorthodox choice. But if you're having an entire league in one city for the playoffs, you don't want a gigantic city where spread of the virus could be accelerated. You also don't want to play more than one game at a time, and you'll need time in between to clean the arena and such things. So, you pick a town that can handle a decent number of people but also won't go nuts. That's Fargo. It's central to North America, and it has several outlying cities nearby with good hotels, such as Dilworth, Glyndon, Stanley, Horace, Oakport, Reed, and of course West Fargo. There are plenty of catering and fast food services in Fargo as well that would be better off for the large business brought in, and they would be able to use the money to better the North Dakota community as a whole. I really do not see a downside for this plan.




This is so easy for me. Hamilton's the Steelhawks, so of course we're going to capitalize off of that. And how are we going to do it? We're going to craft some special energy drinks that are alcoholic. The name will of course be the Steelhawk Shot. It won't be a shot though, it'll be 25 ounces of C4 energy drink, which for those who don't know makes your skin feel tingly within moments of drinking, and 5 ounces of vodka. We're not worried about whether it's legal or not, this is a sim league. We're also not worried about whether it's a good idea, this is a sim league. To finish off the drink, we'll throw in a bit of artificial flavoring from Kool-Aid. Shit tastes like water so it may keep patron's heads from exploding. For those of you following at home, that's 5 shots of vodka mixed into two full cans of energy drink boasting 200mg of caffeine per can. Plus some. This shit will knock a man out, either from heart palpitations or drunkenness one. You put the drink in a specialty cup, probably plastic and featuring a cheap-ass applicable sticker with the year of the playoffs on it, and charge $25 for the drink with free refills on water and $1 soft drinks the rest of the night. Other than some possible deaths, I don't see a downside to this marketing plan.



A) This is a bit of a difficult question. I believe that Buffalo has the better roster however. Their average TPE, disregarding the goalie with criminally low TPE, is around 1400. As for Hamilton, their average TPE, which also strangely has a criminally low TPE goalie we will not include, is around 1250. Hamilton does have a lot more 1900-2000 players, but the rest of their players are around 1000. Buffalo has a few 1900-2000 and most of the rest of their players are 1400-1700 with a few 1000 or so. So, I'm gonna give the edge to BUF just because I feel they're more balanced.
B) Any GM worth his salt knows that they have to look at every possible avenue to secure victory. If I'm the home team's GM, I am going to throw the first game so that the away team gets a confidence boost and thinks they're gonna kill the series. Then, knowing what the away team is doing, I'm going to come back and implement my new gameplan that counters their strengths precisely and essentially guarantee the next 3 wins. After that, you just have to rely on the home crowd to get the job done.
C) I've never been to the great lakes, however much I would like to, so I don't know how qualified I am to answer this question. However, I am going to go with Lake Huron. Why? Well, I don't think the greatest lake would be named after something. That just insinuates that it's lesser than that thing, so Michigan and Ontario are out. Then, I don't feel that a lake that is spooky, like Lake Erie, would be very great either. So it's out. Then, when it's down to Lake Superior and Lake Huron, I go to my tried and true method: choose the less obvious answer. One would think that Lake Superior would be the best just based on the name, so we will crown Lake Huron as the crown jewel of the Infinity Stones of the North.
D) I'm gonna pick Evok here, a goalie from Buffalo. I've played some werewolf with Evok before and have seen her character in that game as well as on multiple streams in ISFL and PBE, and I also know that she's dedicated, having at least one max earning player in each of the big 3 sim leagues. I am not allowed to go see my boy Gabe, so yeah. I'm gonna go with Evok.



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