Announcement thread discussion

[Arian The Insider]

I nominate Lee

Seconded

[Tony]

Tony gets it.

Oh c'mon, Lee...

[Lee]

[Fraser]

Yea go on I'm power hungry enough

[hong57]

You can see all the nice things we said about you in the past.

LOL!

[Lee]

CC has also discussed and voted in the following:

850 Skater Games Played (to end of BBKL regular season) (to take place of 1100 including playoffs)

70 maximum, 35 minimum, Goalie Game STARTS (to end of BBKL regular season) (to take place of 82, 41 rule)


Will begin next season (2017/18)

What brought about this rule change? What is the purpose?

I see the 1100 GP as keeping bottom teams more engaged for longer into the NHL regular season.

[foofnik]

CC has also discussed and voted in the following:

850 Skater Games Played (to end of BBKL regular season) (to take place of 1100 including playoffs)

70 maximum, 35 minimum, Goalie Game STARTS (to end of BBKL regular season) (to take place of 82, 41 rule)


Will begin next season (2017/18)

What brought about this rule change? What is the purpose?

I see the 1100 GP as keeping bottom teams more engaged for longer into the NHL regular season.

I'm very pro regular season only. Bottom teams slacking all season long to stay low and then stacking GP to meet the mark when their low position is already set and they have no more matchups makes 0 sense to me.

Good job CC, love it.

[Shoalzie]

It made sense to have rules geared towards our actual regular season. The goalie rule was proposed first and the skater GP was a spinoff idea.

[Lee]

Okay, both makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

[dave1959]

Yes. both rules (and penalties for breaking them) affect regular season only, so it makes sense that the numbers only use regular season stats.

[Lee]

How will this be trackable? Won't fantrax continue to track GP until the end of the NHL schedule?

[dave1959]

How will this be trackable? Won't fantrax continue to track GP until the end of the NHL schedule?

Fantrax allows you to track stats for whichever period(s) you want.

I just did it, and all teams reached the 850 minimum this season. (Anaheim barely at 856, lol)

Montreal-78 and Detroit-72 would have exceeded 70 goalie starts. Everyone hit 35 minimum.

[Sensfanjosh]

I like the change too, well done guys- good to see the CC tidying up existing rules.

[Lee]

Seems like it makes it easier to make GP. Carolina is still 70 GP away in our current format.

[Fraser]

Good move guys should help ensure continued goaltender distribution

[koomzzz]

whats the thought process behind making the threshold 850?

[Shoalzie]

1100 for a full season...around 870 for 21 weeks. We rounded down to 850.

[dave1959]

whats the thought process behind making the threshold 850?

As of Mar 5 NHL standings (last day of our regular season) the NHL had played 967 games (78.6%) of it's scheduled games.
http://dropyourgloves.com/Games/AnyDate ... 5&League=1


78.6% of 1100 is 864.6.

We rounded it down to a nice even 850.

[CasperX22]

850 seems like a really low number.

[Shoalzie]

Punishments will be stiff for those who can't hit the minimum.