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Minor update to version 4.9 (2019/20) (22 January 2020)

General Updates:
- Fixed a bunch of invalid jersey numbers - -thanks Matthias!!

NHL Updates:
- Reduced max wages for scouts and other non-coach positions

Russian Updates:
- Reduced KHL max wages for scouts and other non-coach positions

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Version 4.10 (2019/20) (27 February 2020)

General Updates:
- Fixed WJC-20 year offsets for year one of the sim (31 Dec 2020 bug)
- Re-added WJC-20 staff contracts after testing -- thanks Matee!!

NHL Updates:
- Updated all transactions as of the NHL trade deadline
- Updated forward positions based on depth chart updates
- Updated lots of attributes and CA/PA across entire NHL organizations

AHL/ECHL Updates:
- Updated club details and players/staff

Canadian Updates:
- Updated QMJHL career histories -- thanks getzlaf15!!
- Updated QMJHL league structure, schedule and conferences/divisions along with a UID value conflict in the database. This fixes the scheduling and draft issues for this league -- thanks Archi and cjfoley1!!
- Updated all players/staff in Midget leagues -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all WHL transactions and draft picks
- CJHL Updates: -- thanks Javs!!
-- Updated competition names, divisions and reputations
-- Updated transfer rules
-- Updated ruling bodies
- Updated clubs and players/staff of several semi-pro leagues -- thanks Matee!!

British Updates:
- Updated DOBs for over 200 players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Czech Updates:
- Updated Chance Liga structure and arena information -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated Chance Liga history
- Updated Tipsport Extraliga playoff format and dates -- thanks Matee!!
- Added missing details for ~150 players -- thanks Matee!!

Danish Updates:
- Updated Danish players/staff -- thanks Hons85!!

Estonian Updates:
- Updated Coolbet Hockey League clubs, league history, arenas, and players/staff -- thanks Alles!

French Updates:
- Updated finances and prize money for Synergie Magnus League and Division 1 -- thanks Steven_EHM!!

Kazakhstan Updates:
- Updated all player/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated schedule, playoff format and transfer rules -- thanks Edgars and Matee!!

Lithuanian Updates:
- Updated clubs, competitions, league history, arenas, and players/staff -- thanks Alles!

Polish Updates:
- Updated PHL history and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated Russian UFAs -- thanks Matee
- Updated KHL schedule - had to move entire regular season back one whole week to ensure playoffs end before 30.4. This was causing KHL seasons to never end properly if the Gagarin Cup finals went over 5 games.

Swiss Updates:
- Updated various staff -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Updated USHL player career histories -- thanks getzlaf15!!
- Updated all players/staff in Midget leagues -- thanks Matee!!
- Fixed USNDTP transfer rules so now ONLY American players will be signed -- thanks Javs!!

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Version 4.11 (2019/20) (8 April 2020)

General Updates:
- This will be the last update for the 2019-20 season, thanks everyone who supported, downloaded and played with this database, see you next year!
- Removed enforced starting 'day of the week' for all competitions with hard coded schedule dates, this will reduce some of the scheduling issues observed in future years of the sim.

International Updates:
- Updated competition names and dates for NaturEnergie Challenge and World Championships
- Removed the following competition due to low importance: Kaufland Cup
- Removed the following competition as it hurts human GMs playing KHL clubs, these should have the "Russia II" national-team which is not possible in-game: Deutschland Cup and European Hockey Tour
- Removed the following competition due to ongoing issues: Euro Ice Hockey Challenge

NHL Updates:
- Updated all future transfers for next year (NCAA, CHL and Europe)
- Updated potential top free agents from NCAA, Major Junior and Europe - https://theathletic.com/1638086/2020/02 ... nd-europe/
- Updated several things in the extra_config including injuries, retirements and future transfer dates to fix contract lengths

Belarus Updates:
- Updated clubs and arenas -- thanks Matee!!
- Fixed Salei Cup bronze medal game -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated Parimatch-Extraliga A/B league names and structures -- thanks Matee!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated all players/staff across various junior B and C leagues -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Czech Updates:
- Updated ~300 Czech UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all Tipsport and Chance Liga players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Other European Updates:
ROM, HUN, ITA, BEL, HOL, AUT, CRO, LIT, JPN, SBA, SLO free agent players/staff updated -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated Mestis/Liiga/Suomi-Sarja competition history -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated Finnish free agent players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Icelandic Updates:
- Added playable league structure for Icelandic League (Hertz-deild karla) and updated players/staff -- thanks Matee!1

Latvian Updates:
- Updated clubs and arenas -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated players/staff in Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated all Russian player/staff UFAs -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated KHL Olympic year schedule -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter and Sasha_Shlyapik!!
- Updated transfer rules and finances for VHL and KHL -- thanks Sasha_Shlyapik!!

Slovak Updates:
- Updated Tipsport and Hokejová Liga structures, now have accurate playoffs and seeding -- thanks Matee/ppaalloo!!
- Updated club short names
- Updated all players/staff in Tipsport Liga and UFAs -- thanks Matee and ppaalloo!!
- Updated all players/staff in Slovenská Hokejová Liga -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Added new players/staff to Slovenská Hokejová Liga -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated Tipsport awards -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated all players/staff in SHL -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Updated overage players in NCAA -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

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Version 5.0 (2020/21) (9 October 2020)

General Updates:
-Initial release for the year, databases come loaded with extra prospects created via the Prospect Generator by IAmActuallyAnOtter
-NHL Free Agency ready, includes all transactions as of 10/8 and includes the full 2020 NHL Draft Class as well as
most for the presumed 2021 class and notables in future classes
-All NA league loans (NHL/AHL/CHL to Europe) are included, teams have the options to recall these players at any time, loans will only last at most until end of the first season
-Massive amounts of club, league, player updates (thousands of players added and updated), just too much to list even at a high level, this is going to feel like a different game overall. Every playable league has full and (mostly) accurate rosters!
-Extensive time and effort put in to update club and league histories, records and awards
-All junior leagues across the world re-tiered and updated
-US-HS and college clubs re-tired, should help with US born players being stuck without a team post-draft
-Financial data across the database redone, should have closer to real-life salaries and balance
-Partial NHL organizational updates done, WIP over the next few weeks.
-Anaheim, Arizona, Boston, Buffalo, Carolina, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New
York Islanders, New York Rangers, Ottawa, Philadelphia, San Jose, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, Vegas and Winnipeg completed

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Version 5.1 (2020/21) (30 October 2020)

General Updates:
- Latest NHL/AHL/ECHL transactions and other notable transactions world-wide
- Pittsburgh Penguins (players/staff + RFAs/prospects re-rated)
- Updated currency exchange rates worldwide for those supported
- Made more financial tweaks world wide based on testing and validation (larger changes to AHL/ECHL/SPHL) -- thanks Riz!!
- Implemented record_config.cfg file which adds even more detail for club/player/league records (mainly covers NHL/AHL/ECHL to start) -- HUGE thanks to getzlaf15!!

Belarus Updates:
- Updated club max budgets for Extraliga A -- thanks pukovnik and Alessandro!!

Slovak Updates:
- Updated clubs, affiliations, players & staff for Hokejová Liga and Tipos Extraliga -- thanks TomTeki!!
- Updated Kaufland Cup clubs -- thanks TomTeki!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated club max budgets for IHL -- thanks pukovnik!!

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Version 5.2 (2020/21) (1 December 2020)

General Updates:
- Latest NHL/AHL/ECHL transactions and other notable transactions world-wide
- Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators and New Jersey Devils (players/staff + RFAs/prospects re-rated)
-- Sorry Blues and Caps fans, I will finish your teams up shortly I promise!
- Updated various US club colors -- thanks Dani9!!

British Updates:
- Updated EIHL player history records -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

Canadian Updates:
- Added QCHL D2, updated clubs in Nova Scotia U15 Major Hockey League and updated QMJHL staff
- Fixed OHL and QMJHL schedule templates -- thanks kev26!!

Croatian Updates:
- Added back league structure for main league, filled out roster and added career histories -- thanks pukovnik!!

Czech Updates:
- Updated 2. Liga and Junioska Liga Akademii staff -- thanks Bobbitt01

Finnish Updates:
- Updated Liiga/Mestis/Suomi-Sarja/U20 SM-Sarja staff -- thanks Bobbitt01!!

German Updates:
- Added missing career histories for 2019-20 season for DEL/DEL2
- Added U15 division and affiliations and updated club reputations for U20/17/15

Italian Updates:
- Updated IHL staff -- thanks Bobbitt01!!

Polish Updates:
- Updated clubs, players/staff and Polska 1. Liga league rules (changed to Amateur league) and updated affiliation types -- thanks Matee (welcome back)!!!
- Updated PHL and 1. Liga league structures -- thanks Matee!!
- Added some career histories for PZHL/1.Liga (WIP)

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL fixture rule for foreign players -- thanks hedoroman1!!

Swedish Updates:
- Removed J20 Nationell from being playable, needs additional troubleshooting to fix an issue -- thanks FL22 and others for the report and save games
- Various CA/PA, position and staff updates in SHL/Allsvenksan and J20 Nationell -- thanks Aalstroem!!
- Updated J20 Region staff -- thanks Bobbitt01!!
- Added hybrid icing to SHL playoffs and fixed multiple arena sizes -- thanks Th0rsM!!

Swiss Updates:
- Updated staff for MySports, NL and SL -- thanks Bobbitt01!!
- Updated NL player history records -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

United States Updates:
- Updated ECHL player history records -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

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Version 5.3 (2020/21) (13 January 2021)

Change Notes:

Note: I purposely have NOT included any league structure changes specifically to deal with COVID-19. Most league structures and club counts are the same as they were in 2019-20. Some future changes have been made early (ex: NCAA). This includes affiliation changes for NHL/AHL/ECHL, they are the same as 2019-20.

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions world-wide
- Cleaned up player rights across many different leagues to remove invalid entries and ensure rights are properly set if players are cut/transfered
- Adjustments made to players created by prospect generator -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!

NHL Updates:
- Updated extra_config injuries and retirements
- Updated loans and jersey numbers, heights, weights and some positions from training camp rosters
- All NHL organizations updated and re-rated: includes players, staff, buyouts/retained salaries, RFAs and prospects
- Fixed some incorrect/missing player rights, had to remove some NHL draft information to make this work due to a game bug -- thanks Aalstroem!!
- Updated 2021 and 2022 NHL Draft Class notables and standouts

Expansion Alternative Database Updates:
- Seattle team based on v5 Mock Draft performed by The Athletic staff: https://theathletic.com/2253127/2020/12 ... ion-draft/
-- Modified Jake Allen's contract to work around extra_config limitations
- Added Trois-Rivières Aigles and "Iowa Wild Hawks" (Coralville) ECHL expansion teams
-- Trois-Rivières added as affiliate for Montreal/Laval
- Fixed affiliations for Seattle and Palm Springs to have Norfolk as ECHL affiliate

World Junior Championships U20 Updates:
- Updated players/staff for all clubs

Asia Updates:
- Added ALIH as playable, updated players/staff, clubs, league structure and player career histories

Austrian Updates:
- Updated several ICEHL club names
- Updated AlpsHL players/staff -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated AlpsHL player records -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

Belarus Updates:
- Updated clubs and added league structures for Belarus Parimatch-Extraliga B and Vysshaya Liga -- thanks Matee!!

Canadian Updates:
- Fixed QMJHL seeding in the semi-finals -- thanks jimpx131!!
- Updated some of the Candian Sport School Hockey League tiers
- Updated player rights for CHL players
- Fixed several Junior A player rights that were incorrect (mainly impacted SJHL and MJHL clubs)

Finnish Updates:
- Updated divisions/clubs in II & III-divisioona -- thanks Matee!!

Estonian Updates:
- Updated competition names and clubs -- thanks Matee

Italian Updates:
- Made some changes to the way Serie A works, should help with scheduling issues. -- thanks DaveZG

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Latvian clubs -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated transfer rules and added league structure for Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga - -thanks Matee!!

Lithuanian Updates:
- Updated clubs -- thanks Matee

Polish Updates:
- Updated polish players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Slovakian Updates:
- Updated players/staff for Tipos Extraliga and Hokejová Liga -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated player records for Tipos Extraliga -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

South Korean Updates:
- Updated KIHL, High School and College leagues

Spanish Updates:
- Added LNHS as playable, updated players/staff and added career histories

Swedish Updates:
- Updated player records for HockeyEttan clubs -- thanks ESHMfan01!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated UHL league structure, clubs, players, career histories & staff -- thanks Modano!!

United States Updates:
- Updated ECHL & SPHL rosters and rivals
- Made some tweaks to the USHL transfer rules to fix some minor issues -- thanks Pax25!!
- Updated USHL clubs, players, player rights, staff and career histories
- Added fictional USHL/NAHL affiliations to help human/AI GMs create rosters and better manage their pools of players -- thanks Pax25 for playtesting/feedback!!
- Updated NAHL players and player rights
- Updated NA3HL and NCDC player rights
- Reset SPHL teams and structure to 2019-20 season, will not be keeping changes made only for one season
- Updated USHL player records -- thanks ESHMfan01!!
- Increased reputations of NCAA clubs to try to encourage more signings

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Version 5.4 (2020/21) (06 February 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions world-wide
- Tens of thousands of attribute updates for players based on a custom version of the prospect generator -- huge thanks to IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Over a thousand European transfer updates and retirements for players/staff -- thanks Matee!!
- Fixed up lots of smaller issues related to competitions
- Removed non-player classification from all prospect generator added players
- Rotated club UIDs to remove any potential issues with hard coded CHL clubs -- thanks Archi for the updated Editor!!
- Updated players generated by prospect generator based on algorithm updates and other tweaks -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Updated hundreds of short names for (mostly inactive) clubs to reduce potential issues

Canadian Updates:
- Lowered reputations of some C-level junior leagues
- Updated attributes and CA/PA for some future elite/generational talents in the 2022 and 2023 classes.

Czech Republic Updates:
- Updated lower-tier clubs -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated transfer windows for all leagues -- thanks Matee!!

Estonian Updates:
- Updated clubs, players and staff and added league structure for Coolbet Hokiliiga -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated clubs in lower leagues -- thanks Matee!!

German Updates:
- Updated clubs in lower leagues -- thanks Matee!!

Great Britain Updates:
- Updated player/staff ratings, attributes and player types -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Italian Updates:
- Due to continued issues/instability we had to remove the league structure for Serie A and the Italian Hockey League (IHL)

Russian Updates:
- Updated all levels of Moscow Student Hockey League clubs and changed to Domestic College and added transfer rules -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated FA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Fixed issues with Ukrainian Hockey League structure -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Lowered reputations of some C-level junior leagues

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Version 5.5 (2020/21) (16 March 2021)

General Updates:
- Due to continued optimization and testing we have made changes to the recommended configuration for starting a new game in order to keep the most detail and prevent potentially notable players/staff from being trimmed from the DB.
-- Due Full sized database
-- Optional but STRONGLY encouraged: retain all players/staff from at most ten nations relative to your selected league nations
- Latest notable transactions world-wide
- Fixed/adjusted CA attribute point role spreads for pure offensive and defensive player types ex: high defensive role for an offensive player or vise versa, or low defensive skill spreads for defensive roles)
- Fixed/adjusted pass tendency for "playmaker" style players to ensure they have the tendency to pass rather then shoot
- Updated UFAs from various nations -- thanks Matee!!
- Champions Hockey League team pools should be fixed now -- thanks Archi for the fixed Editor!!
- Updated clubs for Continental Cup

Prospect Generator Updates:
- Changes to optimization for the PG to both 1.4.1 and the forthcoming 1.5 patch releases
- Reduction of PA's so that distribution is now 90% of current ECK database on a 6-year quota (was previously 115% to allow for players not reaching their potential ability)
- CA generation cap of 59 now applies to all goalies (Was previous 70)
- CA generation floor of -10 players raised to 70 (Was previously 50)
- Ambition and Loyalty for -8, -9, -10, -14 and -15 PA players set to values that will increase salary asks after ELC completion to follow IRL behaviors.
- Increased leadership attribute generation for -9, -10 and -15 players
- Changed non-player generation so that all players that generate with non-player attributes will very likely not make it past the CHL/USHL/U20 Junior league levels
- Changed reputation generation so that it calculates by nationality, will lessen the likelihood of players from non-traditional countries getting drafted unless they're special
- Increased generation of stickhandling and passing for generated goalies
- Introduced a small number of very tall players (195-200cm when fully grown) with -14PA as PG guys generally cap out at around 192-194cm.
- Increased goalie height floor from 175cm to 180cm

NHL Updates:
- Latest transactions and started re-rates:
-- Organizational re-rates (players + unsigned prospects) based on mid-way point of the year: Anaheim, Arizona, Boston, Calgary, Vancouver, Washington, Winnipeg -- thanks Flinch for the feedback!!
- Updated NCAA/Europe NHL free agents with potential/likely NHL interest

AHL/ECHL Updates:
- Updated colors for Iowa Wild Hawks and Trois-Rivieres Aigles to better match the logos
- Updated all player/staff, jersey numbers, new heights/weights and captains
- Added missing affiliation for Henderson/Fort Wayne
- Removed affiliation for St. Louis/Springfield and Tulsa
- Folded Brampton and added Iowa to North Division and affiliated with Ottawa/Belleville - only a temporary placeholder
- Expanded ECHL to 32 teams and added/updated affiliations (expansion DB)

Canadian Updates:
- Increased reserve limit to 60 from 50 for CHL leagues to give AI/human GMs more flexibility as certain rules can't be set in game
- Competition types, reputation, transfer rules and tiering updates for all junior leagues -- thanks Javs!!
- Updated transfer windows for CHL leagues -- thanks Javs!!
- Dropped upper age limit by 1 year (ex 17 for a U18) for more accuracy for non-playable junior leagues without transfer rules -- thanks Javs!!
- Updated players/staff for AJHL, BCHL, QJHL, MJHL
- Added Blackfalds Bulldogs to AJHL and updated schedule and players/staff
- Added Winnipeg Freeze to MJHL and updated schedule and players/staff
- Updated OHL and WHL draft pick transfers (for future 1.5 version release) -- thanks jdubs!!
- Partial updates for OHL players and prospects, also updated player rights:
-- Barrie -> Ottawa completed
- Removed loans for all CHL leagues
- Removed ~250 duplicate Canadian players/staff -- thanks Matee
- Added/updated players from 2019 OHL U18 Priority Selection
- Reduced reputation of Semi-Professional clubs
- Updated WHL and QMJHL draft names (WHL Draft and QMJHL Entry Draft)
- Updated WHL players -- thanks Flinch!!

Belarussian Updates:
- Removed age limit and changed club types for Belarusian Vysshaya Liga

Czech Updates:
- Updated Czech U20 leagues players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Danish Updates:
- Updated club names and Danish Metal Ligaen league structure details -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated Suomi-sarja players/staff and UFAs -- thanks Matee!!

Great Britain Updates:
- Removed league structures for National Ice Hockey League 1 and 2 for future reconfiguration after folding of Bracknell clubs.
- Updated player/staff for NIHL2 -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Icelandic Updates:
- Updated players/staff and league name -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated PVHL league structure and players/staff -- thanks Matte!!
- Updated NMHL and MHL clubs and added league structure for NMHL -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated transfer rules to allow a max of 50 contracted players on squad for all leagues -- thanks Aalstroem

United States Updates:
- Updated transfer rules across multiple leagues -- thanks Javs!
- Fixed transfer rules causing crashes involving USNTDP clubs
- Dropped upper age limit by 1 year (ex 17 for a U18) for more accuracy for non-playable junior leagues without transfer rules -- thanks Javs!!
- Removed ~300 duplicate U.S. players/staff -- thanks Matee
- Updated ~600 UFA U.S. players/staff -- thanks Matee

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Version 5.6 (2020/21) (16 April 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions world-wide
-- Due to game crashes in game version 1.4.1 I am unable to put in NHL ELCs beginning in the 2021 season via FUTURE_TRANSFERS in the extra_config.cfg file, these will be added when game version 1.5 is released
- Fill-in generator re-ran against the database to fill in attribute values (based on prospect generator) -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- Further changes to roles to remove extreme or improper values vs player type (ex: heavily defensive sniper)

NHL Updates:
- Increased NHL salary cap to 91.5, left floor at 60.2 to accommodate for deadline acquisitions
- Latest transactions and started re-rates:
-- Organizational re-rates (players + unsigned prospects) based on this years performance: Buffalo, Carolina, Chicago, Colorado, Columbus, Dallas, Edmonton, Florida, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Montreal, Nashville, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Jose, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Toronto -- thanks to those who provided feedback!!
- Updated scouts across several organizations
- Updated/added players for 2021 Entry Draft Class
- Updated several longer-term injuries
- Lowered Natural Fitness for some 30+ year old players to ensure aging speeds up

European Updates:
- Started processing free agency transfers/releases
- Updated Norwegian, German and Slovakian UFAs -- thanks Matee!!

Canadian Updates:
- Completed updates for OHL players and prospects, also updated player rights:
-- Oshawa -> Peterborough completed
- Cleaned up Amateur/Semi-Pro leagues
- Updated ~300 Canadian UFA players/staff (mainly retirements) -- thanks Matee!!
- Start removal of CHL league rights for players already playing in the NCAA

Norwegian Updates:
- Updated UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated heights/weights in all players on SHL, Allsvenskan, HockeyEttan and J20 Nationell

Russian Updates:
- Updated NMHL players -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated heights/weights for VHL and MHL players

Scottish Updates:
- Updated SNL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated ~450 UFA players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

United Kingdom Updates:
- Updated rosters and staff for EIHL Series and NIHL Spring Cup teams -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

United States Updates:
- Reduced reputations of small colleges
- Increased contracted amount and reserve list size for NCAA teams
- Updated NCAA players who have entered into the transfer portal (changing schools)
- Started checking for USHL rights for players already playing in the NCAA where applicable

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Version v6 Beta-1 (2021/22) (12 June 2021)

Updates from v5 Final include:
- Up to date transactions across most leagues
- NHL free agent class updated
- Most European free agents dropped to pool (for playable leagues)
- Updated Seattle expansion draft team
- Updated new ECHL expansion teams and NHL/AHL/ECHL affiliations
- NCAA commitments
- Added 2021 NHL Entry Draft placeholder draft class
- Processed the following draft classes (PLAYERS NOT RATED):
-- OHL/OHL U18
-- NA3HL
-- USHL Entry/Future
-- NAHL
- Massive updates to club, competition and player career histories globally, really busted my ass adding and overhauling this so I hope it is noticed and appreciated - this is by far the most detailed DB we have ever produced!
- Added multiple tournaments back with proper scheduling globally:
-- Champions Hockey League
-- Continental Cup
-- Deutschland Cup
-- Euro Hockey Tour
-- Fixed Olympics
-- Slovak and Swiss cup scheduling updates
- Scheduling and other league updates for various leagues
-- Tier 1 pro leagues that would loan players for tournaments have proper breaks for those tournaments and Olympics
- New PG sheet by ImActuallyAnOtter

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Version v6 Beta-2 (2021/22) (18 June 2021)

- Latest transactions
- Career histories updated for players who played in Latvian Optibet and Czech Tipsport in 2020-21
- Added HC 21 Presov to Slovak Tipsport and folded Detva — thanks Duce
- Updated KHL transfer rules for foreign players — thanks hedoroman
- Fixed Champions Hockey League group play (6 games vs 4) thanks Ichiro-51 for reporting
- Removed AlpsHL league structure as it requires further debugging and is causing crashes.
- Fixed Slovenian IHL structure showing no teams
- Slight changes made to NHL schedule for Olympic break, this won’t be the final schedule when V6 is released, only a placeholder.
- Updated league and club reputations for NCAA D1, really interested to see if this helps the NCAA issue. Thanks Flinch for the research!
- Changes made to Swiss NL/SL to work with new team counts (temporary schedule dates in place).
- Added official 2021-22 schedules for the following leagues:
--- SHL
--- Allsvenskan
--- Czech Tipsport Extraliga
--- Czech Chance Liga
--- Finnish Liiga
--- Finnish Mestis
--- Finnish Suomi-Sarja
--- Norwegian Fjordkraft-ligaen

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Version v6 Beta-3 (2021/22) (03 July 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Updated NHL offer sheet compensation zones for 2021
- Fixed some reputations being inconsistent across a few leagues divisions
- Fixed International Ruling body and re-linked to proper competition -- thanks Archi!
- Removed unused Financial and Transfer Rules -- thanks Archi!
- Updated NHL/AHL/ECHL affiliations for 2021-22 season based on changes announced so far
- Updated 2021 OHL, QMJHL, CHL Import and USHL draft classes with new CA/PAs, should produce decent results -- interested for feedback!!
- Updated Danish Metal Ligaen players -- thanks Hons85!!
- Updated ECHL club histories, club reputations, historical team names and player career histories -- thanks Amc74!!
- Updated various US junior, minor pro and NCAA competition histories -- thanks Amc74!!

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Version v6.0 (2021/22) (28 July 2021)

General Updates:

- Initial release for 2021-22 season, expect frequent (potentially weekly) updates until start of NHL season
- Rosters for almost all playable leagues updated as of this month, more detail work to come throughout the summer
- Updated NHL ELC slides into 2024 and AAVs
- Updated NHL staff
- Updated NHL cap penalties (adjusted dates, added carryover bonus overages) — thank you Manimal and IamActuallyAnOtter for the help!!
- Updated various club/competition colors and historical names
- Removed Savannah Trashers from ECHL and affiliated Seattle/Palm Springs with Idaho
- Updated lots of award, club name, and player career histories — thanks Amc74!!
- Updated Slovakia clubs, affiliations, players and staff — thanks Duce and TomTeki!!
- Updated Slovak 2. Liga and added back league structure — thanks TomTeki!!
- Updated ~10k players Off/Def role spreads — thanks Iamli0nrawr for the feedback!!
- Added CA/PA and fixed positions/reputations for thousands of players (mostly juniors) – this should positively impact CHL draft classes and make it much more enjoyable to play any level of juniors
- Updated Nation IIHF scores and finishing places based on WC results — thanks penguinrevolt!!
- Added Asian Winter Games and Southeast Asian Games as international tournaments — thanks penguinrevolt!!
- Added GOJHL as playable (still needs 2021-22 schedule and needs an updated playoff format) — thanks FMFan2014!!
- Updated CHL draft picks
- Added most US/Canadian junior draft classes for 2021
- Removed NIHL league structure as we plan on rebuilding how it works
- Updated Continental Cup teams
- Added official 2021-22 schedules for the following leagues — thanks penguinrevolt for testing/feedback!!:
--- NHL – slightly modified, all road trips and matches are intact (moved games scheduled for 2/23-4/29 to 2/4-2/8 & moved games up to resume on 2/22-4/22)
--- CHL Memorial Cup
--- OHL
--- QMJHL
--- Czech Tipsport/Chance Liga
--- Danish Metal Ligaen
--- ECHL
--- Finnish Liiga/Mestis/Suomi-Sarja
--- French Magnus League
--- KHL – slightly modified (moved games scheduled for 2/23-3/1 to 1/24-1/30)
--- Swedish Hockey League, HockeyAllsvenskan
--- Swiss National League – slightly modified (moved games scheduled for 3/6-3/14 to 1/30-2/7)

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Version v6.0.1 (2021/22) (31 July 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions worldwide
- Fixed Seattle Kraken affiliation with Palm Springs -- thanks Endoplazmatické Retikulum!!
- Changed Dependency from Independent to Semi-Independent for NHL/AHL affiliations.
-- I added placeholder contracts for the Islanders based on heavy speculation they are completed but not filed (Zajac, Parise, Palmieri and Cizikas)
- Updated IamActuallyAnOtter's Prospect Generator import sheet to version 6.3
--- Removal of all lower end prospects, as well as -14, -8, -9, -10 prospect ranges (Now only -15, -17, -18, -19 and -20 ranges are used)
-- Introduced "feedback testing" where a number of recent PG's were run for long-term sims, with regular exports which were then used to re-calibrate attribute generation to give better rounded players for specific role types once they get to the NHL level (~470,000 rows of data in Excel) - Specifically Forward Playmakers and Physical Snipers.
-- Reduced PG numbers (~5.5k players and ~4.5k non-players)
-- Improved Offensive Role, Consistency, Vision and Determination rolls for -20 prospect skaters
-- Improved Consistency, Passing, Stickhandling and Determination rolls for -19 and -20 prospect goalies
-- Revamped prospect signup included
- Ran "Fill-In" generator against database to generate key attributes for players with CA and roles set based on the Prospect Generator algorithms -- thanks IamActuallyAnOtter!!
- Improved depth of 2022-2023 draft classes (classes will be re-evaluated once several issues of rankings start to come out) -- thanks IamActuallyAnOtter!!

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Version v6.1 (2021/22) (11 August 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions worldwide -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated NHL financial detail for player contract asks, these have been increased. Please provide feedback or report any game breaking issues (specially with how the AI manages their teams with these changes!) -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter and Comb for feedback!!
- Added affiliations for Ottawa/Belleville and Atlanta (ECHL)
- Reverted schedules for CHL Memorial Cup, OHL, QMJHL and WHL back to last years due to issues with real-life schedules, will generate new fake schedule templates for those leagues or move real-life dates around.
- Updated staff in CHL leagues (WHL, QMJHL, OHL)
- Updated early notables for the NHL 2022 Entry Draft: https://hockeyprospect.com/2022-nhl-dra ... -8th-2021/
- Added 2021 NAHL and QJHL draft classes
- Updated EIHL/NIHL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!
- Added real schedule for EIHL and updated playoffs
- Updated Belarus Salei Cup league structure and teams -- thanks Matee!!
- Added league structures back for Australian Ice Hockey League, New Zealand Ice Hockey League, NIHL National, North 1/2 and South 1/2, real schedule added for NIHL National, real schedules to come for the rest when released. We are also exploring how we can add the Cups back as well. -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!
- Updated clubs and structures for Finnish SM-Sarja, U20 Mestis and AlpsHL.

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Version v6.1.1 (2021/22) (18 August 2021)

- Fixed DEL2 relegation league stage -- thanks DaX for the report and save game!!
- Removed Slovak 2. hokejová liga from being playable while we work to fix the playoff tree errors

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Version v6.1.2 (2021/22) (21 August 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated NHL scheduling (both Olympic and regular years). Schedule for 2021-22 season still accurate as far as games played but dates moved to work around game limitations. Further refinement and changes likely to come. -- thanks penguinrevolt!!
- Fixed extra_config retirements to occur in 2021 when using August start date.
- Updated AJHL, AlpsHL, AHL, Belarus Extraliga A/B, NCAA D1 (all conferences) staff
- Added RMU back to AHA
- Updated SHL, Allsvenskan, J20 Nationell rosters, captains, long-term injuries and staff
- Updated HockeyEttan, HockeyFyran, HockeyTrean, J18/J20 Regional and J20 Nationell rosters
- Updated various Swedish clubs and affiliations at multiple levels (need to still update divisions for HockeyTrean)
- Added league structure for Italian Hockey League, still needs some small tweaks to playoff seeding -- thanks Archi!!
- Updated ICEHL and Italian Hockey League rosters
- Updated NAHL clubs, league structure (real schedule added) and staff
- Updated SPHL league structure and added Vermilion County, updated staff
- Added league structure for Chinese Ice Hockey League Hong Kong per user request, updated clubs and players from 2020-21 season. -- thanks Penguinrevolt!!

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Version v6.2 (2021/22) (05 September 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions -- thanks Matee!!
- Deeply refreshed European junior leagues mentioned below adding randomized and tiered CA/PAs to players, should greatly improve NHL/CHL Import draft depth and initial list of prospects for Euro pro leagues with affiliated Juniors.
- Updated the abbreviations of a few nations, this may impact your flag logos (should be updated in Dani9's next update to his logo pack)

NHL Updates:
- Updated injuries, heights, weights, player numbers. Re-rates of NHL organizations and refreshes of depth charts to start after this update and continue until the start of season.

Austrian Updates:
- Updated ICEHL staff (updated in last release but left out of change notes)
- Updated AlpsHL rosters

Belorussian Updates:
- Updated Parimatch-Extraliga, Salei Cup and Vysshaya Liga clubs and league structures -- thanks Matee!!

British Updates:
- Updated NIHL National, NIHL-1, NIHL-2 rosters -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!
- Added playable league structures for U18 D1/2, updated all NIHL structures and added playable structures for all NIHL Cups -- thanks Archi!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated BCHL, GOJHL, QJHL, MJAHL, MJHL, NOJHL, SIJHL, SJHL, OHL, OJHL, QMJHL, WHL and USports rosters
- Increased reputation of CHL Memorial Cup and OHL, QMJHL and WHL -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!

Czech Updates:
- Updated Tipsport Extraliga, Chance Liga, 2. Liga, Extraliga dorostu and Extraliga junioru rosters

Danish Updates:
- Updated Metal Ligaen rosters

Finnish Updates:
- Updated Mestis, Suomi-sarja, U16-U20 Mestis & SM-sarja rosters

French Updates:
- Updated Synerglace Ligue Magnus, Division 1-3 and FFHG U17/U20 Elite rosters
- Updated max age for U17,U20,U22 leagues

German Updates:
- Updated DEL, DEL2, Oberliga, U17 and DNL U20 rosters

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Erste League clubs and rosters

Italian Updates:
- Updated IHL rosters and league structure -- thanks Archi!!

Kazakhstan Updates:
- Updated Kazakhstan Pro Hokei Ligasy rosters

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Opitbet Hokeja Liga rosters

Netherlands Updates:
- Updated BeNe League clubs and rosters

Norwegian Updates:
- Updated Fjordkraft-ligaen, 1/2. divisjon and U20 rosters
- Folded U21 teams and re-enabled U20 teams

Polish Updates:
- Updated PZHL and 1.Liga rosters

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL foreign player eligibility rules -- thanks iparinile!!
- Updated KHL, VHL, MHL. NMHL, U16-U18 and PVHL rosters

Slovak Updates:
- Updated clubs, affiliations and cup names for Tipsport and Hokejová Liga -- thanks TomTeki!!
- Updated Hokejová Liga league structure
- Updated Tipos Extraliga and Hokejová Liga rosters and staff -- thanks TomTeki!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated International Hockey League rosters

Spanish Updates:
- Updated LNHH clubs, league structure and rosters

Swiss Updates:
- Updated officials, clubs and transfer rules for Swiss leagues -- thanks Marcomunetti!!
- Updated NL. SL, MSL, and U15-20 (A, Elit and Top) rosters

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated UHL rosters

United States Updates:
- Lowered reputations of top-end NCAA schools so top-end prospects don't walk to UFA as often -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- Updated clubs, divisions and added playable league structure for the USPHL - a 65 team, 10 division Junior B league with a huge 21 stage structure -- big thanks to penguinrevolt for the help on this!!
- Added league structure and updated clubs, rosters and staff for the FPHL
- Updated NAHL. NA3HL, NCDC, USHL, NCAA DIII and SPHL rosters
- Updated NA3HL player rights
- Updated USHL staff
- Updated NAHL clubs

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Version v6.3 (2021/22) (20 September 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions -- thanks Matee!!

NHL Updates:
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Montreal Canadiens, Nashville Predators and Seattle Kraken

NCAA Updates:
- Thanks to help/inspiration from Flinch and Penguinrevolt, we have remade the league structure for the NCAA D1 tournaments into one giant league. This is something we have been thinking about doing for a while, it's a little closer to real life and makes it more management for us when it comes to updating details like career histories. If the community strongly dislikes this change, I will reverse it and look for other options. I'm very interested in your feedback about this change. This will also fix the crashing when selecting all US leagues which we started experiencing last update.

British Updates:
- Updated EIHL foreign player and roster size rules based on 2021-22 season regulations -- thanks Archi and ChaiTiefling!!
- Updated EIHL and British Challenge Cup rules -- thanks Archi!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated NOJHL rosters
- Added secondary Canadian citizenship for non-Canadian or American players who are considered domestic based on where they played junior. Feature request opened to add functionality to support this situation in the future, for now manual workaround -- thanks PensFan101!!
- Added support via 1.5 transfer rule to consider United States a domestic nation for all CHL leagues

Russian Updates:
- Further tweaking to KHL transfer rules per feedback from several folks -- thanks to everyone who provided feedback

Slovenka Updates:
- Added/updated coordinates for several cities, updated 2.Liga league structure team sorting, fixed playoff tree issues and added promotion/relegation between 1 and 2.liga. -- Thanks Punks_Not_Dead, penguinrevolt and Matee!!
- Updated several club and competition names -- thanks Matee!!
- Will update Hokejova liga, 2.Liga, U20 and U18 rosters and staff next update or patch the changes in late next week.

United States Updates:
- Combined USNTDP U17/U18 under the USNDP competition with the only change being upper age limit per competition. Interested in feedback/reports of issues!
- Updated USNTDP U18 roster

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Version v6.4 (2021/22) (12 October 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions -- thanks Matee!!
- Greatly improved North American staff and re-tiered from major junior through the NHL. Looking for feedback on these changes, brings staff more in-line with players, should greatly improve staff pools over time.
- Updated national minimum wages and updated salary wage floors globally, looking for feedback on these changes!!

NHL Updates:
- Updated NHL rosters as of the 5 PM submission deadline. Players assigned to minors/juniors as needed (AHL/ECHL rosters partially updated, to come when those are finalized after camps wrap up, will back-port into TBL).
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Blues, Winnipeg Jets
- Updated NHL/AHL/ECHL affiliations based on recent announcements
- Updated NHL transfer rule for max years on contract -- thanks jth!!
- Updated date for NHL All-Star game (February 5th)

British Updates:
- Updated several club competitions and club details (mainly junior and university teams) and well as lots of player/staff updates across all leagues -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated QMJHL rosters, staff and player rights -- thanks Manimal!!
- Removed overage player rights for OHL and WHL

Russian Updates:
- Updated financial data for all leagues, retired some UFA players, and added player and staff salaries -- thanks Angry Duck!!
- Updated transfer rules for KHL to allow for loans between teams
- Slight updates to KHL rosters

Slovakia Updates:
- Updated rosters for Slovenská Hokejová liga, 2. hokejová liga, Extraliga juniorov, Kaufland Extraliga dorastu

Swiss Updates:
Thanks Marcomuetti for all the items below!!
- Updated foreign player rules for NLA, NLB and MSL
- Updated players/staff across all Swiss leagues, much more updates to come!
- Updated league rules (OT, shootout, icing) for all leagues
- Updated playoff format for SL
- Updated transfer rules for NL

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Version v6.5 (2021/22) (2 November 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Updated Prospect Generator to v5

NHL Updates:
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canuncks and Vegas Golden Knights

Canadian Updates:
- Updated heights/weights of OHL, WHL and QMJHL players
- Updated rosters for AJHL, BCHL and MJHL clubs

Russian Updates:
- Updated retired players/staff, club affiliations and further tweaked foreign player rules for KHL -- thanks Angry_Duck!!

Slovakia Updates:
- Updated HK Kosice-Cana club details and colors (still need to update 2.Liga rosters) -- thanks R0bin!!

United States Updates:
- Updated rosters for AHL, ECHL, NAHL, NCDC, SPHL and USHL clubs including USNTDP.
- Vastly updated NCAA commitments - expect slower and longer initial load times -- thanks NPF!!

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Version v6.5.1 (2021/22) (6 November 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions

NHL Updates:
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Edmonton Oilers
- Reduced Player of the Week awards to just a single player to reduce amount of news items and repetitive awards to players
- Moved NHL trade window re-opening to June 15th (after possible 7 round SCF) -- thanks Treb for reporting!!

AHL Updates:
- Updated league structure for 82 regular season games from 76, the schedule was proper but the league structure wasn't updated so it would announce playoff teams too early. -- thanks Worgbane for reporting!!
- Renamed/re-branded Palm Springs to real life Coachella Valley Firebirds and updated arena

Canadian Updates:
- Updated rosters for CCHL, OJHL and QJHL clubs
- Added some (presumed) OHL affiliations with OJHL/CCHL clubs

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Version 6.6 (2021/22) (29 November 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Prospect Generator updated to v6 -- thanks ImActuallyanOtter!!

NHL Updates:
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, New York Rangers
- Updated arena details, attendance averages based on early season data, and updated market size and fan support and training quality for some clubs
- Added future arena move for the Calgary Flames from the Scotiabank Saddledome to the Calgary Event Centre on July 1st 2024

Austrian Updates:
- Updated league structure of bet-at-home ICE Hockey League - removed Bratislava Capitals as they withdrawed from competition and updated league structure

Canadian Updates:
- Added future arena move for the Calgary Hitmen from the Scotiabank Saddledome to the Calgary Event Centre on July 1st 2024

Swiss Updates:
- Updated almost all Swiss players playing in Switzerland, huge thanks to Marcomunetti!!

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Version 6.7 (2021/22) (21 December 2021)

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions

NHL Updates:
- NHL organizational re-rating (players, prospects and RFAs) completed for: Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals - All NHL organizations are re-rated! Will re-visit some players and all staff between trade deadline/pre-playoffs
- Updated arena names for Florida and Winnipeg -- thanks Dani9!!
- Updated head coach contracts via CapFriendly

British Updates:
- Updated junior clubs, affiliations, players and staff including adding lots of junior players! -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Canadian Updates:
- Only some WHL draft class notables (those who have signed commitments) added so far. Both WHL classes will be completed in January alongside NHL draft class prep and World Junior updates.

Swiss Updates:
- Updated league structure for NaturEnergie Challenge -- thanks Dani9!!

Ukranian Updates:
- Spilt UHL and created new UHSL, removed playable league structure for UHL as its future is unknown

United States Updates:
- Updated ECHL dress rules -- thanks Fabio™!!