S74 All Star Week

S74 All Star Week

Mazatt
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01-24-2024, 11:45 PM

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1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE. Claiming 3

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

Link your Milestone claim as task 1 for up to 3 TPE towards your 8 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your ASW submission. This is done because the person who grades ASW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3465435

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a. Two teams, Edmonton and Los Angeles, tie with five total nods each. Both of those teams are in the West. Playoff rivalry aside, do you think it's to the West's advantage or disadvantage to have a relatively large number of players from the same two teams? Does it make the all-star game better or worse when this happens? 1 TPE

The biggest question that always pops up here is under what merit do we have the all-star game? Is it for fan entertainment or is it for fan engagement? They are two very different things. To have a big emphasis on entertainment is to bring in the greatest players regardless of team to bring the greatest on-ice product to the fans. To focus on engagement is to bring in a player from a varied amount of teams so that every fan has an opportunity to cheer for a player. So if we subscribe to the entertainment school of thought--fuck yeah let's do it, who cares if all of the best players are from 2 teams they're the best players. But for engagement, let's give Minnesota and franchises like that a chance to cheer someone on.

In my opinion, it makes the all-star game better to have the best players regardless of teams, even if it displays a lack of parity in the west.

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b. While the East rolled it back with two top defensive pairings - this year that means Philadelphia and Hamilton - the West mixed it up with only Los Angeles having two defensemen present. Everyone else has a new partner. Which side's defense are you more interested in watching? 1 TPE

I want to see the West's defensive lineup--mostly because I want to see Jimmy Wagner in the all-star game. Like, this dude is old as fuck, he's what, 21 years in the league? This feels like a our John Scott moment, guys already had his goodbyes out in the media and here he is, about to rock in as an all-star. It's like John Scott, who cares about the highest scoring defensemen when this dude is about to come out in knee braces and knock a hat trick

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How much of a correlation do you think there is between TPE and an all-star nod? Should there be more, or less, than there is?

There should be zero correlation between all-star nods and TPE. Frankly, it shouldn't even enter the conversation. Did we not learn anything from the cautionary tale of Fedor Sotakov? With draft, contract, and general performance all surrounding a TPE base can we not have one aspect of recognition just focus on player performance (ignoring hall of fame and awards and other things like that). While it is important to recognize the efforts that go into cultivating a great player, the out of player leaderboards, rankings, and even badges serve as plenty. If we go ahead and start basing all-star voting based on the TPE, what point is there to it is the real question I guess. If we let TPE sway the way in which we vote, do we not just already know the all-star team ahead of time?

Perhaps this is an argument for a separate all-star team-adjacent celebration for top TPE at each position. Just a seasonly log of "here's who the top TPE players at each position are" but that feels... a tad bit superfluous.