Will we have a new season in the IPL?

I sent Highlanders invitation for Friendly. Did I understand correctly I am 2 games home? Good luck and hope to have good games, just like we had in the regular season!

You are so certain that one of us will win it, arrogance. I LOVE IT smile

This has been quite difficult times and it was the toughest season for me yet, the last one. Having to sell out whole team and to start building it up from scratch pretty much. It will take a lot of time for me to become better than what my team was at its prime. Now is the time for others to take away the trophy from me.

Great news, got already couple game requests and sent invitations to the rest. Just hoping that this season we will have all games happening, had couple where opponent was lacking players. And btw, am I now back to back champion?

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Thank you everyone who cleaned my team smile Now I have improved financials and will work on a new strategy on how to build my team! I will make it to the Premier Division one day! No need for me to trade players anymore as my salary cost is now perfect for my plan!

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Hi! Devils Henchmen is in a really desperate need to sell 3-5 players from the team! You can make an offer for weaker players or buy directly!

I am in a really big trouble. I will go bankrupt in 2-3 days if no one helps me!

The reason I am going in bankrupt is that I had too optimistic ideas on the differences in money between divisions. And as I play in 2nd division I am making far less than I hoped for!

For example:
Lassi Annala - Defender
26 years old
STR: 91, EXP: 59

Luukas Pulkkinen - Defender
21 years old
STR: 91, EXP: 33

These are just 2 of my very good players!

You can either buy with money directly or offer me players for these. Hoping to get under 30 year olds and around 60-70 STR. But anything goes as I dont want to just have to kick the players.

Please help me not to lose so much money in this game! There are also wingers that I have with pretty similar stats! (under no transfer contract but will change when get offers!!!!

Only player not for sale is Joel Westman as he has Franchise contract!

I have been doing that scouting by going through the teams one by one and using the trade window to do that (some players may miss if the team has hidden them) How do you do it? smile

We could do 6 team divisions with league format (friendly games 3,6,9...) 2 seasons in gametime is 1 season in IPL and bottom 2 or 3 relegated and 2nd division top 2 or 3 promote.
Or 6 team divisions where on season 1 everyone in the division face each others and top 4 go to playoffs the next season and bottom 2 play relegation games against 2nd division top 2 teams. (2nd division top 4 play playoffs one round to make up top 2 and "finals" are against division 1 bottom 2 teams.

Or maybe not, this sounds difficult big_smile

I did not scout last season, if I remember correctly this season is THE season to scout. But is the age now 18-21 or 18-20?

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Very nice to see us facing again! I hope we can have more entertaining games! Welcome Vienna Dragons and good luck to the league!

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Sorry to see you go Zell am See. Hope you get your financials together!

About season 5, any ideas on when the divisions are set up and schedule? I need to start practicing to try to take individual trophies to my guys and to make sure I get back to back trophies wink

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Thank you everyone for this amazing opportunity to join this league! Devils Henchmen remain undefeated for the season. I am looking forward to the future! I managed to snatch the title on my first season in the league. It is an amazing result for me. Next season I am hoping to be able to fight for some individual trophies against Cully Courtnall wink

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Congratz to Violent Gentlemen on reaching the finals and good luck! I will do my best to make sure you dont have anymore wins in IPL Four! Let the games be fair and entertaining!

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Thank you kleinher! And it is very interesting to see which one makes the cut to meet me in the finals, I believe that I am home team at games 1 and 3 in the finals? Good luck for the semifinalists! I hope to make your life more difficult in the finals, if that is even possible! smile

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Yeah I am confident I will make it through the semi's. Looking forward on seeing who I face in the finals. Even though anything could happen. The finals could be epic smile

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IPL Trophy: [X] [ ] [ ] [ ]
3 more notches to go! Hoping for good games on my behalf. Injury on my best defender provides little trouble. He will be okay before the match but his form is still question.

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That is actually quite a good idea and to add it to a scouting, it would be like one extra day to find out that. It would limit the players you can scout and leave more room to wiggle. This player is weaker but potential is better etc.

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Yeah it is a massive change. And that compared to other team getting punished for too old line it is even bigger.

Yeah, this game is simple yet I still havent figured out the tactics and how to be able to win against similar strength teams but I hope I manage to learn that someday soon. And at the same time I am bouncing ideas around in my head what could maybe improve this game.
That improvement could be only on strength value to make it little bit smaller. but still make it significant for the teams to work more with line compatibilities like in the real hockey world. And I dont mind if this gets hammered down completely. I get the fun in thinking about what could be done smile

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Brice schrieb:

Overall it´s not a bad idea. I like the idea with the prime age and older players slowing down a bit. But I think for the most managers line chemistry should be something how well players perform with their linemates. I remember when Jagr joined the Panthers and was in a line with Huberdeau and Barkov. The two young players improved a lot, led by the experience of Jagr. So sometimes a line gets better with an older, but more experienced guy. This is the case with defenders, too. A younger defender often gets a more experienced guy to learn from him.

Yeah chemistry is one thing I am thinking of how to provide the idea to the game also. That Jagr example is excellent. There the average age with huberdeau and barkov even was around 21-23 if I remember correctly when Jagr joined. And After Jagr the line was around 26-29. And everyone performed better (even jagr). I loved that line personally smile
Thats why I thought that there would be the prime average age of the line. That example I wrote earlier is on the whole Line experience. But it could be more precise with offensive line and defence pairs. Then it would be even more precise.


Brice schrieb:

To get all these points together you must compare experience and age, maybe with a maximum value. So that a line with 2 experienced, but older players gets a boost, but a line with 5 old players slows down.

Yeah thats why the line average age would work somewhat in that situation.
Line with following players:
Center - 22         -Wingers - 35 and 35            defenders - 20 and 33
Average age would be 29. In my example this line would have 5% improvement on all players due to the average age

But line with
Center - 30             Wingers 35 and 35              Defenders          30 and 33
Average age would be 32,6 rounded to 33 they would get 5% decrease due to the line being so old.

But as you said the offensive and defensive pairing would work even better. This same formula could work on those too. Making it that every line has 2 average ages to take into consideration.

Brice schrieb:

I also thought about a maximum strength level a player could reach. Maybe 20-30 points higher than his starting value. This would be interesting for the draft, too. Currently the players stop their strength improvement at the age of 34. It would be possible that these players loose a few strenght points until their end of career.

I agree totally on the degrading when getting older. Experience increases all through life but strength gets lower during getting older. Jagr is good example he was good over 40 but he wasnt amazing anymore big_smile
Would that maximum be limited even with more focused training? Or would training increase the maximum?

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This may be only a personal problem for me but I have been having so much tough time playing similar SEF teams against teams that seem to have every player over 30. Experience shows as it should yes but I still have an idea that might make this game better. Tell me if you think I am right or wrong please.

There should be maybe performance value either on individual players or on line chemistry. I would like more the line chemistry. Line performance could have like 10% improvement if the average age of the line is 27 (NHL player prime age maybe). And it would decrease to 0% effect to 23 or 31 and go little bit negative below or over that. Let me show an example:

The line average SEF value is 75 in this example.
If the average age is 27 that line should be 82,5 (75*1,1)
And below examples on what it could be on other averages
20 69,375 (75*0,925)
21 71,25 (75*0,95)
22 73,125 (75*0,975)
23 75 (75*1)
24 76,875 (75*1,025)
25 78,75 (75*1,05)
26 80,625 (75*1,075)
27 82,5 (75*1,1)
28 80,625 (75*1,075)
29 78,75 (75*1,05)
30 76,875 (75*1,025)
31 75 (75*1)
32 73,125 (75*0,975)
33 71,25 (75*0,95)
...

I dont know the formulas the game is using and this is just an idea I have been having. This would take into consideration that the player even though is a superstar at young age that they will make some silly mistakes while learning. And when the player is starting to get way over their prime they usually slow down. And if one team is having the lineup averaged out to the middle the line is fast and experienced and at its prime. And older players are still good but they start to slow down.

What do you guys think? smile One thing might be that the decrease when line gets older might slow down so they would get the bonus a bit longer, but a lineup of 38 year olds shouldnt be 100% fit.

One other choice could be that even though 38 year old can be 100 str and 100 exp they might not be able to reach 100 form anymore. Their cap could be lowered down. These are just ideas and I wanted to throw them out smile

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Little bit tougher division was the deciding factor that I couldnt compete in the statistics department. Congrats to Violent Gentlemen, next season I will challenge you even stronger!

Good opening half to this league with being undefeated. Pretty decent results also.  Looking forward to the playoffs. It will be very interesting, hoping to see myself in the finals and having tough finals.

Cully Courtnall played very well. Amazing to see such young player score that much.

Will there be 3 semifinal games anyway, even if other one wins 2-0?

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Things are looking bright for the Devils Henchmen as we have secured the playoffs position for the next season, only shame is that Highlanders of Tain had to forfeit the game between. Devils are currently undefeated but face really tough opponent in the last 2 rounds as they face Violent Gentlemen and give Highlanders of Tain the second chance in their meetings.

Devils are looking forward to the last 2 meetings this season as they provide much needed information of the overall level of Devils team and the next faceoff against Violent Gentlemen may well be facing either in the semi-finals or in the finals depending on how things turn out. Very interesting to see.

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Little offtopic. I am interested in hearing more about other teams buildup. I can begin it myself
Devils Henchmen
Season 132
Amount of players - 17
Average age - 27 years (which I believe is quite nice and low, even though this season I am losing to opposite teams veterans)
Average strength - 65
Average experience - 54 (my young team shows on this as this is quite low)
Team value - 38 million (averaging 2,2 for each player)

If you dont want to share I understand completely. And if you want to give out only some of the information that is ok too smile I am mainly interested in average age str and exp as those are best to compare teams with.

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Devils Henchmen are very close of securing the playoffs at IPL Season IV. If Devils win and Boston Lynxes take down the Highlanders Of Tain then Devils are quaranteed for top 2 finish in the division and Highlanders are in big trouble. This may be very historical season as Highlanders are the team to beat!

And btw, Devils are aiming to improve for the next season so we should be stronger in the possible playoffs than we are currently.

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That sounds good.