SimonT Hockey Simulator V1.1

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Version History

Version 1.0.9 or more of the STHS Client is necessary to open the Client File Output by the Version 1.1.1.

• Small modification to Finance formula so it's use the average arena capacity instead of the default arena capacity in formula.
• Remove the auto partial lines code for goalie because when you #1 goalie was injured, the partial lines was sending to pro a farm goalie and putting him #1 goalie. The auto partial lines code for goalie is now the same that auto lines.
• Erase some Injury that could not happen on ice (Surgery, Cancer)
• Small modification to 3 Stars Formula to include Penalties in formula.
• Players doesn't get penalty minutes in stats when there penalty create a penalty shot anymore.

• Fix bugs where you could have a third goalie without any name playing in the farm.
• Fix a bug creating draft pick for team when team were created before simulating one season.
• Fix a bug in the print output of a fight.
• Fix a bug where goalies would get injured after faceoff.
• Fix a bug where winning goal and tying goal were not given correctly.
• Fix a bug where you could have 3 goalies in your pro roster when the option was to set to maximum 2.
• Fix a few rare bugs in Edit Players windows.
• Fix a bug where you erase a goalie would wipe a random player from a line.
• Fix a very rare issue with Playoff Clinching when using Division Leader.
• Fix a bug where players would get the exhaustion injury, get remove from team lines and recover on the same day.
• Fix a small bug where changing password would not query the save league at close.
• Fix a bug where Trade Windows could be open in Playoff.
• Fix a bug where Team Stats would incorrectly output in Playoff.
• Fix an issue where the Jack Adams Award was give automatically. It has to award manually.
• Fix an issue where Entry Draft Order using the "Use New Draft Rules" was incorrect. (Or the rules was change since last time I program it)
• Fix a bug where lines could be incorrect and stop simulation when using the "Fix incorrect rosters / lines with the Partial Auto Function", not using the "Use Normal Auto Roster when Partial Auto-Roster Line Failed" and simulation multiple day in row.
• Fix a bug where some Farm Game would not be print in the Schedule XML in Playoff.
• Fix a bug where All-Star Game would play with only 2 goalies if the option was set like this.
• Fix a bug where farm lines would be correct if they had fewer than 18 players and full farm option was activate.
• Fix a bug where the random coaches function would give coach to farm team even if farm were deactivate.
• Fix a rare bug editing coach's name.
• Fix a bug rerating coaches.

• Add the Coach Strategies in the Game Output.
• Add the abilities to set Farm Injury Recovery Speed option independent from your Pro.
• Rename the Coach Tab to Strategy and rename the Coach Match Plan to Strategy because those setting apply when you use the disabled coach's options. The behavior of the option is the same, only the name change.
• Add the abilities to add a rest day at the end of your schedule when importing a custom schedule.
• The total amount of Luxury Taxes paid is now written in the team finance output.
• Important modification to the Transaction and Team History XML Files that might impact third-party tool that use those files.
• Add the abilities to edit your team name in season.

Version 1.0.9 or more of the STHS Client is necessary to open the Client File Output by the Version 1.1.0.

• Modify how the forward makes decision with the puck.
• Modify how the defenseman makes decision with the puck.
• Modify the powerplay to raise the chance of goal.
• Modify the goal formula.
• Modify the deflect formula.
• Modify the shot block formula.
• Players can now dump puck, continue the attack and try to hit defenseman.
• Modify the "who retrieved puck" formula so defenseman has more chance to win the defense formula only if they are in the defensive zone and forward has more chance to win the hits formula only if they are in neutral or offensive zone.
• Modify the "who retrieved puck" formula so defenseman has more chance to retrieve the puck if they are in the defensive zone and forward has more chance to retrieve the puck if they are in neutral or offensive zone.
• Modify how morale affects players.
• Players can now have good and bad days.
• Teams and players morale should less fluctuate.
• Fatigue has less effect for players in 5 vs 5 in the last 5 minutes of the third period.
• Add a hits option in the simulation option.
• Overall formula modify slightly so it's influence by the new hits simulation option.
• More Realistic Injuries List. Over 100 different injuries now possible.
• Modify the Stats Change formula for the Goals/Points in row.
• Raise the chance of suspension.
• Contract duration can now up to 99 years.
• Raise the chance of goalies injury.
• Auto-Roster function now checks the Payroll before running.

• All bugs fixed include in version 1.0.5 or lower is included in this version.
• Fix some bug with the Auto Lines for Farm when Full Farm Option was activate.
• Fix an issue where penalty didn’t expire after a goal if there was an fight penalty still being purge.
• Multiple of small bugs.

• Add the abilities to simulate your farm league without unknown players.
• Add the abilities to have between 18 and 25 players in a game.
• Add the abilities to set the minimum of C, RW, LW, D and G in a case.
• Add the abilities to set a Luxury Tax.
• Add the abilities to set your contract duration to 0 when assigned unassigned player and activating prospect manually. If this option is not activate, the contract will always be 1 year.
• Add the abilities to see what year and overall pick of a prospect in the prospect windows.
• Add the abilities to add and edit the Draft Year and Overall Pick of any prospect manually. It's still done automatically by the STHS when you use the Entry Draft Function.
• Searches are now not case sensitive.
• Add the abilities to have a rest day at the end of your pre-season or season.
• Add the abilities to print a date instead of day number in schedule and team schedule output.
• Add the abilities to change the default number of simulation per day.
• Add a new command prompt call "LoadOutput" who load the lines and output without simulating.
• Add the abilities to see who is protected in the expansion output.
• Add the abilities to see a "Payroll Centrale" where all the information related to payroll can be seem really quick at the end of the finance output.
• Add the abilities to make offer to free agent as year long (As condition that the "Unassigned Available in Free Agent" option is activate).
• Add more info into the XML Files.
• Add the abilities to skip your entry draft.
• Add the abilities to remove players, prospects or entry drafts from a transaction.
• Add the abilities to set % of chance of retirement for 5 different type of age group that you decided.
• Add the abilities to rerate only specific stat in the rerate option.
• Add the abilities to send players to the waiver during off-season.
• Add the abilities to manually remove a player from the waiver. This is the only way to remove a player from waiver in off-season.
• Add the abilities to send any players on waiver. If they cannot be sent to farm because of max farm overall or max farm salary option, they will be sent into scratches after leaving waiver.
• Add the abilities to simulate without coaches.
• Add an "Automatic Save After Simulation" option.
• Add the abilities to automatically resign RFA/UFA player using a RFA/UFA resigning algorithm.
• Add the abilities to resign a player manually using the RFA/UFA resigning algorithm.
• Add the abilities to restrict the number of unassigned players sign during a season.
• Modify the behavior of free agents option in a season. The option will always be visible unless trade dead lines are passed.
• Add the abilities to simulate a shootout only from the exhibition windows.
• Add the abilities to simulate fast playoff. With this option, both conference play on the same day and all players will rest for 1 day after each game.
• Add rest day in the playoff. At the beginning of each round, all players will rest for 1 day. In the playoff final round, all players will rest for 1 day after the game.
• Add the abilities to output index file without league prefix.
• Add a feature to show the number of win versus total faceoff in game output.
• Multiple small improvement.

SimonT Hockey Simulator V1.0

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Version History

Version 0.9.10 or more of the STHS Client is necessary to open the Client File Output by the Version 1.0.6.

• Small modification to Finance formula so it's use the average arena capacity instead of the default arena capacity in formula.
• Remove the auto partial lines code for goalie because when you #1 goalie was injured, the partial lines was sending to pro a farm goalie and putting him #1 goalie. The auto partial lines code for goalie is now the same that auto lines.

• Fix an issue where penalty didn’t expire after a goal if there was an fight penalty still being purge.
• Fix an issue where you had Overflow in Simulation - File Creation if you had a level capacity to 0.
• Fix a bug creating draft pick for team when team were created before simulating one season.
• Fix a bug where goalies would get injured after faceoff.
• Fix a few rare bugs in Edit Players windows.
• Fix a very rare issue with Playoff Clinching when using Division Leader.
• Fix an issue where players would get the exhaustion injury, get remove from team lines and recover on the same day.
• Fix a bug where winning goal and tying goal were not given correctly.
• Fix a issue where Trade Windows would open in Playoff.
• Fix a bug where Team Stats would incorrectly output in Playoff.

Version 0.9.10 or more of the STHS Client is necessary to open the Client File Output by the Version 1.0.5.

• Fix a bug where the checkbox Do not Apply Rerate, Rookie and No Trade where not save when creating players.
• Fix a bug where you could not suspend a player manually.
• Fix a bug where an arena that didn't have the default number of capacity could make more money.
• Fix a bug where defenseman would react different when playing at slot #1 and #2.
• Fix a bug where Most Win In 1 Year and Less Win In 1 Year would be print twice and the second time, it should have been read Most Points In 1 Year and Less Points In 1 Year.
• Fix a bug where two team record (Most Win in a Year and Most Lost in a Year) were incorrect.
• Fix a bug where Release By was print out twice when releasing player
• Fix a bug where TeamScoring was incorrect when player had the same number of point. GP was the tie breaker when G should have been the tie breaker,
• Fix a bug where winning goal was give the wrong player.
• Fix a bug where player time on the ice would was not round correctly.
• Fix a bug where player would not remove from waiver if the day if should have been removed has no match to be play.

STHS Client

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• Modified how free agents are list in Free Agent Windows.
• Add the abilities to Output CSV Rating Files of your current files from the STHS Client
• Rename the Coach Tab to Strategy and rename the Coach Match Plan to Strategy because those setting apply when you use the disabled coach's options. The behavior of the option is the same, only the name change.
• Add confirmation message before wiping lines.

• Fix some bug with the Auto Lines for Farm when Full Farm Option was activate.
• Fix a bug where you could have 3 goalies in your pro roster when the option was to set to maximum 2.

• Modify the client so it's supported the new abilities (The abilities to have between 18 and 25 players in a game and the abilities to set the minimum of C, RW, LW, D and G in a game) of the STHS.
• A message box containing the free agent offer you made will happen when you save those offers in a file.
• Add the abilities to Wipe Lines.
• Modify how the warning message would show up in the roster windows.
• Add the abilities to make offer to free agent as year long (As condition that the "Unassigned Available in Free Agent" option is activate)
• Add the abilities to filter the player you see in the Free Agent Windows. You can filter using the show only players I have an offer on.
• Auto-Roster function now checks the Payroll before running.

• Fix a bug where goalies would not show when the "Show players who has received an offer only" was checked in the Free Agent.
• Fix an important bug where Trade availably and Expansion Draft Protection would be reset every time a GM would send is lines.
• Fix a bug where you could not sign a goalie that was unassigned.
• Fix a bug where you could not give offer to goalie that didn't have a team and was under the RFA age.
• Fix a bug where you could make free agent offer and entry draft list for a team without entering the password.
• Fix a bug where you could send a player to the farm without going in waiver if the player has the same exact overall that MaxFarmOV option.