Subject: II.2

I feel like every time I play the Saints, my players completely forget about the puck and turn into ruthless warriors. It'd be awesome if players could get injured in-game, though the Saints would probably have half a team right now.

booo...that would not be cool.

I think that the rankings change every time you refresh before the first game.

Congratulations and good luck.

I think that the game just gives you more penalties when playing against significantly better teams. At least, that seems to be the main place where the technique-agressiveness ratio might actually manifest itself.

That's probably what it is, and some of my players have a bad tech-aggressiveness ratio, too. But I'm going to pretend that they just randomly turn into ruthless warriors, as it makes me feel better about myself.

I seem to have forgotten about the first game of the season and possibly as a result lost a point (I might have changed my tactics a little resulting in a different game). Hopefully that doesn't cost me in the fight for 7th or 8th.

I also hope that taking out the older and more experienced defensive minded players from my bottom two lines and replacing them with future offensive stars doesn't hurt me this season.

Even though I've gotten rid of most of my players that couldn't shoot, I still seem to be lagging pretty badly in shooting. Everyone else with good shooting must make it at least 1:1 with offense or something.

I never go 1:1 with offense. I stay at about 75% for wingers and about 50% or even less (a lot less) for centers. Centers with low shooting you have to place in lines with wingers with high shooting.

Thanks for the input. Those numbers seem more reasonable; 100% would be too high and probably require a season dedicated to training shooting. Hopefully changing a few wingers who are at 50% to 75% should help.

Just a friendly reminder, especially U18/U20 national teams, please post any players you have that are good, and please post them often, as that is how they are updated. Thank you!
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Aaaaand we just lost Huggy.

I guess that's another open playoff spot. It seems that if I ever manage to make it to I.1, it will most likely be because enough better teams quit.

Everyone we are having a hard time building a good U-18 team please upload your good 15 to 18 year ohttp://usa-db.powerplay.nixiweb.com/upload.phpld players to the USA database. Thanks.

The database link is [linkhttp://usa-db.powerplay.nixiweb.com/upload.php=]

Let me try one more time. usa-db.powerplay.nixiweb....

I wish I had legitimate players to contribute, but as my team gets better and my new prospects enjoy the benefits of better facilities, the requirements to even be realistically considered for the U18 remain just out of my reach.