Re: BRHL 2016-17 RATINGS PACKAGE - RELEASED! / PAQUET BRHL 2016-17 NOTATIONS - LIBÉRÉ !
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 2:13 pm
BRHL provides a great package!
The below is a general rant, not specific to BRHL.
I think raters need to think differently about ratings and whether they match up to "realistic/comparable" NHL numbers. Just because the end of season result looks close to NHL doesn't mean it's a good ratings.
I worry that we lose playability of the game with this mentality and my last season experience really highlighted that.
With so much acclaim about 1.5, I decided to move my league from 2.1 to 1.5. The GMs hated it. They said nothing they did seemed to help their teams and auto line teams were simply kicking butt. Previously, auto line teams tend suffer.
We switched back to 2.1 mid way but this time trying a different ratings pack with "NHL realistic 2.1 results". Game play was better than 1.5 but again, auto line teams were put on an even playing field it seems and some had decent seasons. Also we found odd plays in the play by play log and end game results in the playoff finals were annoyingly very close to the same like 3-2 OT.
So maybe pushing towards exact NHL results is not a great thing, causing players to be very closely bunched together attributes wise and we need a bigger spread
This i just an overall observation and impression I have
The below is a general rant, not specific to BRHL.
I think raters need to think differently about ratings and whether they match up to "realistic/comparable" NHL numbers. Just because the end of season result looks close to NHL doesn't mean it's a good ratings.
I worry that we lose playability of the game with this mentality and my last season experience really highlighted that.
With so much acclaim about 1.5, I decided to move my league from 2.1 to 1.5. The GMs hated it. They said nothing they did seemed to help their teams and auto line teams were simply kicking butt. Previously, auto line teams tend suffer.
We switched back to 2.1 mid way but this time trying a different ratings pack with "NHL realistic 2.1 results". Game play was better than 1.5 but again, auto line teams were put on an even playing field it seems and some had decent seasons. Also we found odd plays in the play by play log and end game results in the playoff finals were annoyingly very close to the same like 3-2 OT.
So maybe pushing towards exact NHL results is not a great thing, causing players to be very closely bunched together attributes wise and we need a bigger spread
This i just an overall observation and impression I have