Features

This list contains all the features currently program in the STHS version 1.

A demo version is be available with 2 limitations: it will be impossible to save your league and it will be impossible to create the file use by your general managers.

Full Play by Play Game Engine:

• Full Play-by-Play option lets you read exactly what happens in the game
• Complete box score of each game, both professional and farm
• The ability to simulate playoff for farm
• Coach can pull goalie at the end of game
• Option for the commish to tweak the game engine league with 8 options
• • How coach affect the game
  • How many fights per game
  • Team revenue per game
  • How many goals per game
  • How many injuries per game
  • How much team morale affects players
  • How many penalties per game
  • How many shots per game
  • How many hits per game (Version 1.1)

Major Features:

• Use of the new NHL rules (Sudden Death / Shootout)
• The ability to simulate International Tournament
• Option to make your own point system
• The ability to setup your professional and farm lineups for the next 10 games
• Complete history of team transaction
• Option to make up to 5 level of capacity in an arena with different ticket price for better finance management
• Specific coach strategy for each game included in lineups
• Free STHS Editor for your general managers
• STHS Editor only needs 1 pre zip file to run
• Multiple options to manage how players evolutes
• Separate coaches for your professional and farm teams *
• Two options for player ratings: normal or simplified
• Option to hide player overall rating
• League creation using a fantasy draft
• Ability to import some data from FHL
• Automatic 7-day back up of your league files
• Over 40 W3C HTML (or any format) files outputs available for your website.
• Option to choose the team order in the HTML files outputs.
• Files outputs can use custom header and/or footer or can use an overall header and/or footer.
• A scheduled editor
• The ability to created rivalries between teams
• The ability to compile player's stats to know there career stats.
• Generate free agent offers in the STHS Client and load these offers in the simulator automatically.
• Generate Fantasy Draft List and Entry Draft List in the STHS Client and load theses lists in the simulator automatically.
• The ability to load lines from the client.
• Use the new NHL Draft Rules.
• The ability to simulation farm game without unknown players (Version 1.1)
• The ability to simulate games with up to 25 players and 3 goalies (Version 1.1)

*The league commish will have to establish the rules in order for professional teams to hire a farm team coach.

Others Features:

• Automatically load lineups received from your general managers before your simulate your games
• Each team has 1 captain and 2 assistants.
• Option for RFA (Restricted Free Agent) and UFA (Unrestricted Free Agent) age
• Option to choose between 4 playoffs Lengths
• Ability to give a playoff bye for conference leader
• Option to penalize players who doesn't play in there natural position
• Option for maximum player overall rating in farm
• Option for maximum number of players in your professional teams
• 3 different options for salary cap rules
• Option for a minimum and maximum player salary
• Ability to have 2 or 3 divisions per conference
• League, team and player top 5 records for many stat categories
• League wide auto roster and auto lines
• Leagues files are created as ZIP and MD5 by default
• Coaches have contract, salary and age like players
• Ability to have revenue sharing from rich teams to poor teams
• Ability to add TV and Radio Right to revenue sharing
• Option to run the STHS without human intervention from the command prompt. The STHS will load your league file, load your latest lineups, simulate, output your web site files, save your league files and close by itself.
• Output coaches, goalies, players, professional team and farm team stats in CSV and XML format and export to a database using a third party program.
• RSS Feed for your Today Games
• Ability to simulate an All-Star Game
• Ability to edit multiple players at the same time
• Only 3 leagues files; no temporary files left over
• Each player has a morale rating
• Full waiver system
• Option for a luxury tax (Version 1.1)
• And much more!

Software Limit:

• Maximum of 100 teams available
• No players limit per teams
• No prospect limit per teams
• Maximum of 150 drafts pick per teams
• Maximum 10,000 available players per league
• Maximum 1,000 available goalies per league
• Maximum 5,000 games scheduled per season
• Maximum 500 available coaches per league
• Maximum 10,000 available prospects per league
• Maximum 100 available players/Goalies in waivers per league

System Requirements:

• Windows® 98 / ME / 2000 / Xp / Vista - I do NOT support the STHS or Client when running Windows 98 or ME.
• 400 MB of available hard disk space
• 192 MB of RAM - 256 MB Recommend
• Internet Connectivity
• 1024 x 768 Screen Resolution Recommend
• Windows® Knowledge
• Ftp and Html Knowledge to make your league website