Asunto: Questions & Answers

take a nice rest, I'll wait for your assitance in the future. Thanks a lot bud.
By the way: my facilities go like this:
Training 9
Reg 8
Human resources 7
Maintenace 8
Education 8
Sports 9
Medic 7

I will focus on Human resources next, but I think the upgrade wont be ready in time for next season, so maybe I wont upgrade it now.
Maybe regeneration.

I'd say it depends on the league. Our league has people spread between 95% and 80%. The ones at 80% are definitely having a lot more trouble in the past 5-10 games.

I created a spreadsheet to calculate the energy remaining for each team in the league. I copy the info contained in the League/Statistics/Team/Tactics panel and dump it into google docs. Then I have four formulas:

The Energy loss (Column R):
=-(I2*0.1/3)-(J2*0.25/3)-(K2*0 .5/3)-(L2*1/3)-(M2*1.5/3)

The number of lines played factor (Column S):
=(N2*1+O2*1.106+P2*1.212+Q2*1.318)/(N2+O2+P2+Q2)

The net energy loss (Column T):
=R2*S2

The remaining energy (Column U):
=100+T2

Now, it doesn't take the into account the following:
- Friendly games
- NC tournament games
- It assumes all lines are played for the same amount of minutes.

Looking at the energy has been a decent indicator as to which team will have a strong finish and which ones are just crashing.

You actually have enough time to upgrade HR to level 8 before next season sponsor contract offers on day 109. I strongly recommend you do it.

what I dont have is the money xD I require more than 5M and I have like 2,9M so...
chinook I got lost with the formula xD

Fair enough.
Ok, first formula calculates the energy cost for each period you played at very low plus the ones played on low, etc.

The thing is, those energy costs in the guide are if you play 4 lines each at 25%. So the second formula checks how often you played 4-4-4, 4-4-3, etc. and assigns it a percentage.
For example: 4-4-4 = 1 while 3-3-3 = 1.318

The rest is just to multiply the energy lost by the line factor and that's it.

The morale here is simple: don't waste your energy. You'll pay for it in the playoffs.

but if you arent in front of rest of teams you need to battle to get in PO and 1 game with saved energy could mean 1 point after top8 im playing on second lowest all season and now i finaly get into top8 - hope i will be there till the end of season

The use of the diff. game importance is probably one of the most "management" parts of the game. It's a real strategy, and gets even harder as you get to the tougher leagues.

You can even wait for next 2 sponsor payments (tomorrow and next Wednesday) and still build it in time. Get a loan, if you still won't have enough money.

I completely understand, and honestly, playing second lowest is very good and should mean that you still have energy above 92 or so. But in running this query, I've seen teams below 75% and we still have 10 games left to go.

It's scary that there would be teams with energy anywhere near 75% at this point.

87 for me is lowest becouse in start of season i changed imporances by periods but i didnt seen any diference and now i play all game with 3 lines and 34/33/33 time on ice

Dude, in league Canada IV.2, I saw some teams at 60%.

I would suggest to be careful with the 3 lines thing. When you do it all the time, it does burn a lot more energy than running 4 lines.

but it boosts team strenght its very expensive to get 4th line at 3rd strenght

So, those players I have in less than 80 should be resting right now? Like, no more games until playoffs?