Challenge 19: Atlanta Thrashers (Discussion Thread)

blueshirtnParis · Post by **blueshirtnParis** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:45 pm

bruins72 wrote:
blueshirtnParis wrote: Something had to give so out goes Ramsey and in comes the AGM Per Backman. Marc Crawford steps in as AGM and coach in waiting.
Are you still in your first season? Has it been at least 6 months since Backman has been hired? Any new head coach must have already been with the team for 6 months before becoming head coach.

Yes he was signed on 9/3/06 as AGM. It is 3/23/07 in my game so that is more than 6 months according to my calculations. You need a screen shot?

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:48 pm

Nope. Just checking. You're new to the challenges and sometimes people miss certain points in the rules when they're first starting out.

blueshirtnParis · Post by **blueshirtnParis** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:53 pm

Thanks. It is a lot to take in at first, been playing with only my own rules for so long.

But I have the cheat sheet and the rules page constantly open so I don't miss anything.

So far its been fun and challenging even though I suck

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:57 pm

It's okay to suck in the challenges, especially starting out. We've been making them harder and harder because people have been playing the game so long that they've gotten quite good at it. We've also taken out so much of the trading because it's so easy to exploit the AI.

I'm doing pretty poorly so far in this challenge. I'm 6 games in and have a record of 1-4-1. Antropov is doing quite well though. He leads the league with 11 points. We're taking far too many penalties though and our PK is not quite up to snuff yet.

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:28 pm

I've noticed this is one challenge where you have to be very good on the PK, because of the team you have. You're going to take a lot of penalties and so in order to combat that you need to be able to handle the PK.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:32 pm

thunderbug wrote:I've noticed this is one challenge where you have to be very good on the PK, because of the team you have. You're going to take a lot of penalties and so in order to combat that you need to be able to handle the PK.

So you're saying that if Batdad comes along and joins the challenge, he's going to dominate?

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:35 pm

Lol. We will have to see won't we? For example look at the numbers I posted for the first half of season one for PP and PK. Normally I take a lot of pims anyway, though I don't think I'd be anywhere as good if my PK wasn't clicking.

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:38 pm

bruins72 wrote:It's okay to suck in the challenges, especially starting out. We've been making them harder and harder because people have been playing the game so long that they've gotten quite good at it. We've also taken out so much of the trading because it's so easy to exploit the AI.

I'm doing pretty poorly so far in this challenge. I'm 6 games in and have a record of 1-4-1. Antropov is doing quite well though. He leads the league with 11 points. We're taking far too many penalties though and our PK is not quite up to snuff yet.

So you're going to try and win season 2 by improvement points?

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:43 pm

That 89% PK is huge when you're taking so many penalties. I'm sitting at 75% right now and it's killing me. I've got 186 PIM in just 7 games. Toronto has 192 but they've played 8 games.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:46 pm

thunderbug wrote:
bruins72 wrote:It's okay to suck in the challenges, especially starting out. We've been making them harder and harder because people have been playing the game so long that they've gotten quite good at it. We've also taken out so much of the trading because it's so easy to exploit the AI.

I'm doing pretty poorly so far in this challenge. I'm 6 games in and have a record of 1-4-1. Antropov is doing quite well though. He leads the league with 11 points. We're taking far too many penalties though and our PK is not quite up to snuff yet.
So you're going to try and win season 2 by improvement points?

LOL! No, I'm not bombing season 1 for the improvement points. I usually do improve quite a bit from season 1 to season 2 though. Season 3 is usually the best though.

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:55 pm

bruins72 wrote:That 89% PK is huge when you're taking so many penalties. I'm sitting at 75% right now and it's killing me. I've got 186 PIM in just 7 games. Toronto has 192 but they've played 8 games.

Something else that's pretty astonishing is Chris Mason is on pace for 60 games this season. I'm not trying to overplay, but am going with who plays the best at the time. Pavs isn't playing awful, but is definitely not playing as well as Mason.

kuulapaa · Post by **kuulapaa** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:44 pm

I finally got the first win in game #6, we had lost five straight games before winning Caps in shootout. I tried to manage without personal tactics but now I have to admit they are needed, so much better was the game after I adjusted them to all my players. So it's not purely a team game, is it eh

The PK% is now 79.2 and we have had 2nd most penalties (116 PIM) after Sharks. It could be worse because our PK% is 25th in the league. That percentage is actually pretty normal to my teams and there is more to improve in our PP% which is 11.4 and on 20th position in the league - far behind of Oilers percentage of 37.1 with which they are leading the league in PP%. Those are pretty impressive numbers!

By the way, Pavelec has played 4 of our 6 games and has 7.75 average rating. I sure hope he'll continue in the same way he has started.

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:57 pm

For me Pavs has had 8.15 and Mason has a 9.00 (all of this through 46 games on the season). Good luck getting things back on track.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:02 pm

So Eager is close to coming back (I can't wait to get Modin out of the lineup!) and Slater (my 2nd line center) goes down, out for 2 weeks. So Burmistrov gets moved up to the 2nd line. I recalled Hopzapfel and put him on the 3rd line, leaving Stewart as my 4th line center. I'm going to struggle, I think.

Before Slater's injury, we had started doing a little better. My scoring wasn't balanced. My 2nd line was slacking. So I moved Ladd down to the 2nd line and brought Kane up to the 1st line. After that I had 2 productive lines... for a couple games. Now we'll have to see how Burmistrov does there.

blueshirtnParis · Post by **blueshirtnParis** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:44 pm

bruins72 wrote:So Eager is close to coming back (I can't wait to get Modin out of the lineup!) and Slater (my 2nd line center) goes down, out for 2 weeks. So Burmistrov gets moved up to the 2nd line. I recalled Hopzapfel and put him on the 3rd line, leaving Stewart as my 4th line center. I'm going to struggle, I think.

Before Slater's injury, we had started doing a little better. My scoring wasn't balanced. My 2nd line was slacking. So I moved Ladd down to the 2nd line and brought Kane up to the 1st line. After that I had 2 productive lines... for a couple games. Now we'll have to see how Burmistrov does there.

Modin has been pretty good for me and looking at other peoples stats he has put up some amazing numbers for his price.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:58 pm

He just wasn't doing anything for me. He's just "okay" in some many areas but he's old and his condition seems low too often.

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:09 pm

He's been good for me defensively, and ok offensively for me. Couple that with his age, and there's others who could be useful that are younger.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:48 pm

I decided to give Modin a shot at RW on the 3rd line. I juggled things around and moved Little to center while Slater is out. This opened up a RW spot. Hopzapfel is sitting.

And another injury. On defense this time. Oduya is out for 10 days with a broken cheekbone. I've called up Valabik to fill in.

I've got a question for everyone... how are you using Buffy? Do you play him as a defenseman or a winger? I've been using him at D and he hasn't produced much. He's just so slow though. I worry that this might be bad on the wing.

Oh and to the person asking about how Peverly is doing for people... he's been pretty bad in my game. 3 points in 15 games.

tksolway · Post by **tksolway** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:00 pm

I've tried to play tough tactics with this team (since they are really a team of pluggers), but this result is just too cool. I have never had this happen before. The Caps forfeited the game to me after too many of their players were thrown out of the game

Result
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tksolway · Post by **tksolway** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:02 pm

another Pic

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blueshirtnParis · Post by **blueshirtnParis** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:04 pm

tksolway wrote:I've tried to play tough tactics with this team (since they are really a team of pluggers), but this result is just too cool. I have never had this happen before. The Caps forfeited the game to me after too many of their players were thrown out of the game

Result
Result2

uh....wow!

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:13 pm

That's awesome! How many PIM did each team have in the game?

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:21 pm

bruins72 wrote:I decided to give Modin a shot at RW on the 3rd line. I juggled things around and moved Little to center while Slater is out. This opened up a RW spot. Hopzapfel is sitting.

And another injury. On defense this time. Oduya is out for 10 days with a broken cheekbone. I've called up Valabik to fill in.

I've got a question for everyone... how are you using Buffy? Do you play him as a defenseman or a winger? I've been using him at D and he hasn't produced much. He's just so slow though. I worry that this might be bad on the wing.

Oh and to the person asking about how Peverly is doing for people... he's been pretty bad in my game. 3 points in 15 games.

I've used Buff on D. He's had 22 points is plus 19 and has a avr of 7.92

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:33 pm

thunderbug wrote: I've used Buff on D. He's had 22 points is plus 19 and has a avr of 7.92

I've used him on D too. He's managed 7 points in 14 games and a 7.64 avr. That's not bad but I expected more.

Peverly really has been awful! Despite having nice offensive attributes, he has only 3 points in 17 games, a -12, and a5.76 avr. I've even given him time on the top 2 lines and the PP. He's just been useless!

francis246 · Post by **francis246** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:24 pm

Aahlstroem wrote:Did Peverly produce for you guys? He didn't for me so I traded him for Linus Omark in the beggining of season 2

Nope he did not and I traded him for Zheredev. Seemed like a deal I could not pass up. I just got the deal done, before the July 16th deadline. I tried trading Antropov, but it was hard and his value went down after the draft. $:\$

Challenge 19: Atlanta Thrashers (Discussion Thread)

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