Subject: Questions & Answers

Well said!

so I have 2 guys on NT who are not currently starting on my team - should be 99-100 energy at the end of the year. good deal...though I might sell them (McCall and Fairchild). If you can find a few others in the same boat you could have a great energy line.

the one thing that I have come to realize is that players built to do well against weaker teams will not do well against better teams - when you play in the CL or in the national team against other top level players any weakness is exacerbated - so the role of build, chemistry and energy become even more important in those games than it is in a normal game.

What is an example of a player built to beat weaker teams? Do you mean one atty types or people with minimum tech and maximum primaries?

As HR and Econ department level rises, do the numbers of unscouted qualities become more accurate?

I understand that it does, but I have nothing but anecdotal proof. I hadn't scouted one of my original players until last season, and his Qs turned out very close to what it read unscouted each day.

Yessir!

How beneficial is it to have good defensive forwards or two-way defensemen? At what point does an offensive defenseman become worse as a D-man than he would be if playing as a forward? And vice versa for defensive forwards.

Does it make sense to have a typically constructed team with 2-3 scoring lines and 1-2 checking lines? Or should players be trained to the normal ratio of primary and secondary attributes for their position regardless of the situations/lines they play?

I don't have two-way players at all. I think it would be a waste of attributes since I don't think the game is built that way.

If your going to do it...try not to train offence more than a 1/4 of Defense and train their shooting at about half what you train for Forwards. So far, lines aren't organized by tactics (like checking lines), but by time on ice, so the trick is to Balance out all your lines accordingly.
It really only makes a decent difference when using an Offensive tactic. Else the impact is relatively small.

That's what I have. My centers have 35% Def, wingers 25%def. Dmen have 0%-75% OFF.

What sort of chemistry do your lines have?

100, 94, 76, 64.

All mine are near 100. 2 at 100 and the other two above 95. Both goalies are 100 as well.

Are you better off spreading new players among your lines, so that they end up closer to 80?

If you balance TOI then yes. If you don't then adjust accordingly in my opinion. Say you do 30/30/20/20 then I'd say do 1/1/2/2 in terms of new players. Something like that.