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OGSHL will be entering our 5th year of existence. All of our ratings are created by hand and are purely based on NHL production from the previous year and advanced stats from the previous year. My ratings pack is regarded as the best however I no longer share it publicly. With that being said we are...

With our expansion draft looming we had an owner switch to the Vegas Golden Knights we now have the Toronto Maple Leafs open who are highlighted by players such as Seguin, OEL, Provorov, Bobrovsky, and others.

The Islanders and Hurricanes are also still open!

The Bar Down Simulation Hockey League is currently searching for a few replacement GMs. We are now in our third year of the league and are halfway through the season. We sim one set of games per day to match the real NHL and all player ratings are determined off of how well players perform in the pr...

Hi Joe and TY for youre ratings!! Question? You said that - All players who have played 10 games in the AHL or NHL have been created! So why Joe Vitale with only 1 game played in 2015-16 is in youre rating? And if he ok to be created, how you rate Score Passe and def with only one game played? Tank...

We have released a new ratings update to fix some errors especially in the checking department, Matt Martin for example was at 58 checking when it was suppose to be 99 checking. There were about 50 player updates or so in terms of checking ratings. I just sent the email to SimonT with the updated pa...

Hey guys just wondering when FG and PS will be updated I asked for this same thing last year. Skating and fighting still makes absolutely no sense! Otherwise this would be a pretty decent ratings pack. It does seem that Joe has put a lot more effort into improving other areas, particularly with def...

I am emailing Simon the STR file now to be located in the Downloads section sometime tomorrow!

I see a lot of recommendations to use the 1.5 engine. What specific sim features are not included in 1.5? 3 on 3 overtime? Anything else? 1.5 seems to be the best overall engine and most consistent in terms of player scoring and good teams actually doing good. It also has the best balance in scorin...

Kudos to you for putting this together. Looks great, and I really appreciate you doing this. I'm looking for some clarification though, please: "- All player stats are 100% based on the 2014-2015 season except for PS, DU, EX, LD (which are based on the past 2 seasons" Is that supposed to ...

I am very proud to present to the STHS community the second edition of the Bar Down Ratings Package! This package we have taken even more time developing and using the full spectrum of ratings given to us. The first thing you will notice is there raise in player overall compared to last season for b...

The ratings are done, we are doing test runs right now to see how everything comes out in terms of scoring and everything.

Should be up in a couple days!

As the creator of the Bar Down Ratings pack, the new ratings are currently being made and we will most likely be releasing the package in the next week or two.

I'm just curious how do the line combination settings such as PHY, DF, and OF for a specific line interact with the "Team Wide Strategy? For example if I have 1 line set as 0 PHY 3 DF and 2 OF and my Team Wide Strategy is 0 PHY 2 DF and 3 OF, how does it differentiate between the two, or do the...

What about this point? All players who have played 10 games in the AHL or NHL have been created 10 games last year? Last 2 years? In career? I just want to understand the criteria because a guy like Slava Voynov is rated but, he played only 6 games last year. Thank you Hey Simon sorry I never saw t...

Spot has reopened!