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rich · Overselling players since 1993

Round 2, Game 2 - March 12, 2020 - SEASON CANCELLED

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Round 2, Game 2 - March 12, 2020

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Steve has a slight edge here, he basically has his default lineup. If he wins he is in a good position because he has a significant edge in games 5 and 6.

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Mckinnon out for the rest of this series. Balls.

MLP · Guru

Matthews
Marner
Marchessault
Toffoli
Forsberg
Horvat
Ellis
Suter
Gardiner
Dumba

SBriand · Guru

Ovechkin
Tavares
Gaudreau
Carlson
Larkin
Hyman
Gallagher/Sheary
Brodin
Hagg
Myers

rich · Overselling players since 1993

I think we need to consider a plan if games get rescheduled. What if 2 games on a 7 day night get rescheduled for a day in the finals?

rich · Overselling players since 1993

NBA season suspended.

Zach6668 · Guru

Well, the solution is simple if the NHL season is suspended... just wait until they go back to playing games... I guess? I dunno, but at least we'll have time to figure it out.

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Yeah that's the easy one. I'm just worried about staggered suspension of games, butnwe can only cross that bridge when we arrive at it.

Zach6668 · Guru

I'm trying to study for my professional exam this week, so haven't had time to be proactive, but I would hope that you guys trust me to make the right call if a decision is needed (considering I'm well out of the playoffs and nothing will impact my team).

MLP · Guru

im thinking there may be a whole new schedule, and we will have to just deal with it.
or even worse, they actually cut the season short and we dont have enough games for a final.
you dont want it to mess up our game here, but at the end of the day, its all bigger than our little game of fantasy

ill live with whatever we decide. Hopefully its just a suspension of 15 days or so, and then everything starts right back up again, same type of schedule. Best case scenario that prob wont happen, but I can be hopeful

Adam · Guru

rich wrote:
I think we need to consider a plan if games get rescheduled. What if 2 games on a 7 day night get rescheduled for a day in the finals?

If the season is just paused, then I think the obvious move is for Zach to analyze the schedule once an updated one is released and set the remaining playoff game schedule accordingly. I doubt very much only a few games will be impacted, it’ll be all or nothing...most likely a significant pause in the schedule to start with.

Zach6668 · Guru

If it's like the entire season, I would run the playoffs in the first 13 game nights of next season then jump into a new season with rosters we formed in the summer (you could still have the auction and sign guys, etc, I guess? Their tier would depend on where they stood when the season was cancelled. Not unfair.

MLP · Guru

damn, good idea Z!
didnt think of that

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Of course

Adam · Guru

Brilliant.

Zach6668 · Guru

Some wrinkles to work out if that were the case... would it kind of balance out where some portion of players retired or something vs new players being available via farm callups? I.e. say someone on your farm isn't playing this season, but happens to be in the NHL when the remainder of the playoffs are played, is it fair to allow that call up, if desired? (To me it kind of balances out if I had like a Patrick Marleau or something who retires in the "off-season".)

Also, to be clear, I'd use the rosters as they are now, and kind of keep a duplicate roster for everyone with new signings, drops, auction pick ups, etc. Once the playoffs end, the season is rolled forward and the new rosters come into effect.

We can worry about it more as it happens. If they don't cancel things before the games tomorrow, I'm immensely interested in watching the Pens/Jackets in an empty arena.

MLP · Guru

i was thinking empty arena games were going to be some of the most watched all year

digitalmonkey · Guru

will the system allow it?

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

I'm sure we could get Scribes to make it work

digitalmonkey · Guru

I'm excited for the coronavirus rule Bob and Daniel create

MLP · Guru

digitalmonkey wrote:
I'm excited for the coronavirus rule Bob and Daniel create

lol

rich · Overselling players since 1993

It's unreal how bad the US reacted to this.

digitalmonkey · Guru

But the numbers are good, Rich. Very good. The best.

Zach6668 · Guru

Jay wrote:
I'm sure we could get Scribes to make it work

crossed my mind to ask scribes to make us a website today when he was telling bob how bad his site is lol

digitalmonkey · Guru

Bob just said "cool"
Lol

Zach6668 · Guru

ya, odd, he usually says **** off

digitalmonkey · Guru

Lol

Dubey · Guru

Love the idea of doing the playoffs at the start of next season. It would take some work, but could we run the start of next season at the same time as the playoffs from this season so we don’t have a shortened season? Basically 2 concurrent leagues.

Broadway · Guru

Dubey wrote:
Love the idea of doing the playoffs at the start of next season. It would take some work, but could we run the start of next season at the same time as the playoffs from this season so we don’t have a shortened season? Basically 2 concurrent leagues.

No reason not to have playoffs and regular season at the same time. We would need to add another Yahoo league. That is work but we should be able to do it

Adam · Guru

Broadway wrote:
Dubey wrote:
Love the idea of doing the playoffs at the start of next season. It would take some work, but could we run the start of next season at the same time as the playoffs from this season so we don’t have a shortened season? Basically 2 concurrent leagues.
No reason not to have playoffs and regular season at the same time. We would need to add another Yahoo league. That is work but we should be able to do it

Nah, we could easily just do paper lineups on the forum. Scoring would be mildly annoying but it's only for a couple weeks.

Zach6668 · Guru

crossed my mind to do it concurrently as well, open to either solution

Adam · Guru

Sounds like on-ice officials who are currently on the road are being told to book flights home, so that'll do it for this season I'm sure.

Fenxis · Guru

Adam wrote:
Broadway wrote:
Dubey wrote:
Love the idea of doing the playoffs at the start of next season. It would take some work, but could we run the start of next season at the same time as the playoffs from this season so we don’t have a shortened season? Basically 2 concurrent leagues.
No reason not to have playoffs and regular season at the same time. We would need to add another Yahoo league. That is work but we should be able to do it

Nah, we could easily just do paper lineups on the forum. Scoring would be mildly annoying but it's only for a couple weeks.

I would think Yahoo scoring would be so much easier than manually doing it but that's just me. Like the work to setup someones roster isn't much more work than figuring out their scores for the night.

Fenxis · Guru

Actually we could just keep the current Yahoo league as is (well change the URL) and then, in addition to renewing it, create a new league using the old URL. boom.

Broadway · Guru

I would suggest keep the current Yahoo for 19/20 season and create a new Yahoo for the 20/21
My guess is Zach would know best though since he does the bulk of the Yahoo pre season work

-- Edited by Broadway on Thursday 12th of March 2020 01:25:40 PM

Zach6668 · Guru

It's all pretty easy to do. Seems we'll have quite a while to do it, too.

MLP · Guru

Are we that against a shortened 20-21 season?
Im easy, but I feel like it might be less of a load for all of us just to be dealing with 1 set of games at a time?

just talking, dont care either way, I know we have a smart and fair group that will come up with a great answer. Again, #FCHL4LIFE

SBriand · Guru

Good series rich. Hopefully we will get to play it out sooner rather than later.

Adam · Guru

MLP wrote:
Are we that against a shortened 20-21 season?
Im easy, but I feel like it might be less of a load for all of us just to be dealing with 1 set of games at a time?

just talking, dont care either way, I know we have a smart and fair group that will come up with a great answer. Again, #FCHL4LIFE

It doesn't matter to me but I don't expect to be competitive next season either. Generally I fall in favor of more games and definitely no byes.

SBriand · Guru

I will literally do the scoring by hand for the remaining 2 rounds. Just post lineups on game threads like we already do. Unless I’m dead by then. Then you can decide what to do then I won’t give a fck.

rich · Overselling players since 1993

SBriand wrote:
Good series rich. Hopefully we will get to play it out sooner rather than later.

At least in theory we'll have totally healthy lineups!

Fenxis · Guru

My guess they might, if the season resumes soon, is that they play a shorted season (like 4-7 games) to even out the teams and act as a preseason. THen head into the playoffs.

Adam · Guru

There's talk that the league wants to resume and finish the regular season at some point and has asked all teams to work out logistics with their respective buildings so the playoffs can extend into July. I don't see how that would work with so many player contracts expiring on July 1st, but I guess that's for them to figure out.

Zach6668 · Guru

Adam wrote:
MLP wrote:
Are we that against a shortened 20-21 season?
Im easy, but I feel like it might be less of a load for all of us just to be dealing with 1 set of games at a time?

just talking, dont care either way, I know we have a smart and fair group that will come up with a great answer. Again, #FCHL4LIFE
It doesn't matter to me but I don't expect to be competitive next season either. Generally I fall in favor of more games and definitely no byes.

Well we only need 13 game nights for 19/20, right? We'd basically just lose one cycle (15 game nights, 16 games) if we didn't do them concurrently.

Zach6668 · Guru

I'd kind of rather give the playoffs the spotlight they deserve, rather than overlapping with meaningless regular season games.

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Zach6668 wrote:
I'd kind of rather give the playoffs the spotlight they deserve, rather than overlapping with meaningless regular season games.

Agreed. Even having the Dannyg tournament in playoff is unseemly.

Broadway · Guru

This isn't resolving in 2 weeks. A month is very optomistic

I'm guessing the season is going to be cancelled

Adam · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
Well we only need 13 game nights for 19/20, right? We'd basically just lose one cycle (15 game nights, 16 games) if we didn't do them concurrently.

It's fine with me either way, getting the playoffs finished somehow is the important thing.