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Post by johnnybower (Det GM) on Dec 12, 2014 23:57:33 GMT -5
Here's a rule change suggestion in line with the tanking issue - the wording will need tweaking but I hope my comments will clarify what I mean - "every team's active roster must consist of players who are actually on an NHL roster." This is not to say that every team has to have active players playing every night, only that all of our active rosters must consist of RL active NHL'ers every night. I hate seeing rosters in our league that have "active" guys with green, yellow, red cross and red flags next to them (in other words they are NOT active NHL'ers) while they have guys on the bench or in the minors who ARE active NHL'ers. This would also necessitate an exception to the prospect-eligibility rule (might have to activate a prospect before his NHL GP factor) but that is not a huge issue IMHO. And I still say we need to reduce the number of NHL games played to keep prospects in the minors.
This is not rocket science. I can field an active roster of 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4F, 6D and a G who are all on active NHL rosters, with NHL-eligible guys on the bench and in the minors, in compliance with our league rules, who can fill in if need be, and be salary-compliannt as well...and I am in the bottom 10 in this league (a.k.a. rebuilding...) I have worked hard and made bad deals (for me) to enable this...it pisses me off to see GM's who can't or won't do the same.
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Post by zaphod (NYI) on Dec 14, 2014 17:34:30 GMT -5
agreed, artificial tanking by not dressing the "most competitive roster you can" every night, needs to be called out and penalties of draft rankings need to be implemented, imo.
according to the rules, we need to ice an active roster. when I joined the league, I was forced to make deals that might not have been my best deal I could make to comply with having an active roster.
this season that has almost entirely been disregarded.
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Post by burnsy8801 on Dec 15, 2014 18:09:46 GMT -5
I make line changes every day...if I have guys playing they will play...I have one active nhl goalie who is backstrom and I have like 5 guys who are IR eligable so I can't do much about that...I have tried to drum up deals to pickup some NHL players in trade talks but trades are few and far between this season.
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Post by Penguin on Dec 22, 2014 7:27:24 GMT -5
I like the idea about taking the % of games played by roster with the number of games available. If GM benches more than x% of games available he loses draft spots appropriate to %benched.
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Post by Ken (ANA) on Dec 22, 2014 11:45:08 GMT -5
I like the idea, but that penalizes people with multiple minor eligible players who cannot be brought up due to a full roster, or people who happen to players who play on the same day often. I think a combination of minimum games played and a percentage of Fantasy Roster production over NHL production could work. A minimum games played rule should encourage people to roster full line-ups most nights. I think we just need to find a good number. Last season, all 30 teams averaged 1300 games played. Only 7 teams came below 1200 games and only 1 team came below 1100 games. Some number around 1000 games is very achievable. This should keep teams from keeping too many IR players and non-NHL players on their active roster. To keep GMs from playing less productive players over star players (essentially not dressing their best line-up), we could compare their team's fantasy production to their team's NHL performance. For each scoring category, if we take a team's fantasy total and divide it by the team's NHL total, we get a percentage that represents the teams fantasy production compared to the NHL production (e.g. If a fantasy team's active roster scores 80 goals in a season and the players scores 20 goals on the bench, we would divide 80/100 and the Goal Percentage would be 80%). We could average out the percentage of each scoring category (excluding +/- and FO%) to get the teams overall fantasy production compared to NHL production. This still kind of penalizes teams that have multiple minor eligible players or players with conflicting schedules, but if its based on scoring categories rather than games played, dressing the best roster available should minimize the impact. Again, finding a good percentage would be key. Something like 80% should be very achievable if you're dressing your best roster every night. Credit to magicstew for this. I was inspired by something he posted a while ago regarding a a points only league. I adapted the idea to a H2H league. Our rules are quite onerous now in that they require constant monitoring of every team in the league. I'd prefer something easier where Fantrax does all the tracking and we just do a little math at the end of the season. This offers a little flexibility in that no one has to fix their roster every week. If you were very unlucky and had a bunch of players go on IR and sent to the minors all of sudden, you don't have to make any trades to fix your roster, you just better make sure you reach the minimum games played at the end of the year. If you're can't dress your best line-up daily for whatever reason, you don't have to. You just better make sure your best players are on your active roster or you risk your percentage falling too low. Let me know what you guys think. Obviously this idea isn't perfect in that it doesn't force each team dress their best line ups every day (which is important in H2H). It could also possibly open up more room for some GMs to creatively tank, but hopefully if we increase the punishments and actually follow through with them, it will be enough to deter any extreme tanking and keep things from getting out of control. The main benefit is that it is MUCH less work than the rules we currently have now. Anyway, I encourage people to find flaws and loopholes for this idea. Solutions in addition to the flaws/loopholes you find are even more welcome
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Post by magicstew on Dec 23, 2014 9:34:34 GMT -5
Good thoughts Ken, can see this or a form of it working. Just have to figure out what the punishment is for non compliance at year end. Dropping dropping so many spots in the draft, more spots the farther away you are. I also think we should have a draft lottery as well, match up the standings to NHL year end standings and go with their draft lottery.
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