Subject: I.1

I think I’ve noticed that as well.

And the pp and pk make no sense. I’m one of the highest OTS teams in the league, but I’m bottom 3 in pp and pk? How does that work? My team also likes to give up short handed goals and never get any as well.

I’ve been using 4 forwards and 1 Def on the power play for ages, maybe I try going 3 forwards and 2 defensmen?

Where do you see those PP and PK stats? Is that a pro pack thing? I'm probably under you in either of these categories (I mean, just last game I gave up 8 PP goals on 10 penalties... Why did I even take 10 penalties in the first place, Wut?! O.o), tho, so IDK if I want to know XD

I’m not sure if it’s pro pack, but go to statistics - teams. Then there’s a drop down to look at general or pp/pk.

My pk is better than yours, but your pp is almost double mine! Last year my pp was 26.57%, second best in the league. Now it’s 11.29%, 4th worst.

Ouch, that’s a lot of power play goals! If it makes you feel better, I had a game where I had 10 power plays, and got 0 power play goals

Monday's game is kinda skewing those PP stats (6/9), haha.

I had forgotten about that tab in the league stats, but I can now confirm that's propack only.

In fact, my only other win I was 1/9 on the PP...

It appears my special teams are back on track! Thanks for the comments everyone!

We have a three game home stand next week. I don't believe I have ever seen that before in this game...

what is the criteria concerning the team ranking picks for the draft? i had a look at my recent standings and i've never been (at least in the last 8 seasons) in the top 13 teams to pick while way more better teams than mine gets regularly the top 5 choice. Can someone please explain this incongruence.

We assume that our cash payment to the brass at PPM Head Office is insufficient, resulting in the same situation as your own. We so far have resisted the invisible pressure to up the "draft improvement fee" and we urge you to do the same. Power to the people!

In all serious though you and us are in the same boat, middling teams in the division who get the shaft on the first draft when the lottery favors those with high Sports Academy/staff numbers and then the second draft which favors those teams that suck. I must say though that the first draft really seems to always go against us, even though we are maxed out on the above criteria. I sometimes wonder if it is the same as our dearth of talent on the weekly SA pulls, like there is some kind of bug in the system that never gets fixed. Try complaining. Squeaky wheel gets the grease...

yeah, like paulroedb said, one draft is based on sports academy level (I think this one is also sorted by league ranking when levels are the same, but maybe it's a lottery), the other is based on reverse league ranking.

It would be more interesting if there were more than 1-2 actual good players from the drafts (or if Bs were at least a bit more viable than they are. The gap between A and B is HUGE. A+ is usually near 83-87% AvgQ, A's are usually about 76-80%, and Bs are generally ~68-72%)

That's not really true. Bs are just wild. Some are 78 AVGQ and have interesting distribution while others are 68% and are shit everywhere. They are all B. It's annoying because scouting is almost useless because of it. I never cared to show up for the draft. There are so few As that the top of the draft is known in advance and the rest are just names with no way of having any idea which one is worth it and which one isn't. In the end, just draft 4-5 B prospects and It's likely you will land a good one.

Yeah, I though I had amended my previous post, As are actually like 72-82% or so and B is anywhere between 62-73% but usually more towards mid 60, which is rarely good enough to even make the NT.

Nevermind Cs. They're not worth even looking at, so I don't even know why there is a D rank at all.

Yeah but, as i said, there are aome 78 avgQ in the B categories. It's just a huge gap of players.

Agreed that C a D are completely useless.

I'm back in I.1 once again! Hopefully here to stay!