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Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to apologize for the lack of communication on our side regarding the progress of the website and the league format. I have been extremely busy in my personal life and that has impacted my ability to spend as much time with the website as much as I would have liked to. Samuli (@Lurkins) has been very busy as well and as a result we were unable to open up the website for your testing as quickly as we wanted to. I hope  you can forgive us for this and continue to believe in us and NHL Gamer as much as we do.

Moving on to updating you on our progress:

Let's start with some great news: Samuli was able to locate our the problem we were having with the login functionality on our tournament website for a long time and getting that up and running has relieved us our biggest concerns and it allows us to move on to polishing the other aspects of the website.

Let's get some key information out there. We will discuss this further during the coming days, in order to keep this post brief.

We have decided to start the league with 60 teams, divided into 4 groups. Since this is the first league, we suggest that the teams in the groups are simply randomized. Each group will have 15 teams and every team inside a group plays each other twice (once at home, once away). 8 out of 15 teams in each group go to the playoffs, totaling 32 playoff teams. Playoffs will be best-of-seven.

The teams that are left out of the regular playoffs would play another type of playoffs for positions in the 2nd season. We can get into this more in a future blog post, but I have been in touch with @Billy44205 about his division concept and I personally think this is an interesting concept that is worth looking at. Unfortunately I don't have my notes with me at this time, so I will have to touch on the details in the next blog post. As all who read Billy's post about his vision, you know that it's a bit of information to chew.

In order for us to make sure that everyone finds the new site satisfying from the get-go, we have decided to open the site next week, on Friday the 4th of December. We want to give the teams roughly a week to get accustomed to the new site and enough time to add all of their team members. Thus we suggest that the league starts on the 14th of December. If the majority of teams feel like this is too late, we can agree to give teams less time to prepare their roster and look for an earlier date to get things going.

Please let us know in the poll and comments section how you feel about our suggested time-frame and ask any other questions that you might want answered.

 

On behalf of the NHL Gamer staff,

Kenneth

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Nephenzy

Good work, it's not important wether your team seed 1, 10, 20 or not at all... what's important is that all of these teams or most of them don't end up in the same group, many of them will for sure end up in the same group anyway.

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gzell60
47 minutes ago, Nephenzy said:

Good work, it's not important wether your team seed 1, 10, 20 or not at all... what's important is that all of these teams or most of them end up in the same group, many of them will for sure end up in the same group anyway.

Why would you want them to end up in the same group? Or is it a typo?

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Nephenzy
8 minutes ago, gzell60 said:

Why would you want them to end up in the same group? Or is it a typo?

Yeah I missed don't hehe. I don't care if my team get a tough group. I think it's for the leagues best to have an exiting playoff. I don't think anyone wants semifinals or maybe even a final ending up with double digits. That is what's gonna happen if some groups are too easy.

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8 hours ago, tokFan said:

I think we should go for @gzell60  "Top 20 results (all games)".

I'm liking the approach as well. Do we want to categorise the teams in the top 20, or just say that #1 is equal to #20, meaning, we can randomise the 20 evenly into the 4 groups.

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gzell60

We should just randomize them at this point, it's hard to split 20 teams up into 4 groups and still make sure they are all even. Literally any of those teams can beat each other.

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l-Furyan-l
33 minutes ago, Kenu said:

I'm liking the approach as well. Do we want to categorise the teams in the top 20, or just say that #1 is equal to #20, meaning, we can randomise the 20 evenly into the 4 groups.

Maybe just put the Top-8 randomly two-by-two in the four different divisions and then randomize the rest? :) 

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Nephenzy

I dont think it has to be too complicated, Main point is that each group get 5 teams from this top 20 Instead of maybe 10 or 15 of these teams together... If you want to categorize anyway, it´s easy just to draw top 4 in separate groups and 5 to 8 in separate groups, 9 to 12 and so on... Just choose EASHL ranking as our seeding rank, I myself would prefer 6vs6 since that´s what we are playing for... then everyone know in the future that if you want to be seeded move up the eashl ranking. If theres is 1 or 2 really good teams that havent played enough to be seeded, It doesnt matter as they wont mess up the groups anyway, and still get their spot. You can draw a parallell to soccer championships where you have to move up the UEFA coefficent to be seeded, and seeds have a big factor to the standard of a tournament, but still it doesnt mean that lower seeded teams are worse or cant win, it´s just balanced groups.

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Heksaa
10 minutes ago, Nephenzy said:

I dont think it has to be too complicated, Main point is that each group get 5 teams from this top 20 Instead of maybe 10 or 15 of these teams together... If you want to categorize anyway, it´s easy just to draw top 4 in separate groups and 5 to 8 in separate groups, 9 to 12 and so on... Just choose EASHL ranking as our seeding rank, I myself would prefer 6vs6 since that´s what we are playing for... then everyone know in the future that if you want to be seeded move up the eashl ranking. If theres is 1 or 2 really good teams that havent played enough to be seeded, It doesnt matter as they wont mess up the groups anyway, and still get their spot. You can draw a parallell to soccer championships where you have to move up the UEFA coefficent to be seeded, and seeds have a big factor to the standard of a tournament, but still it doesnt mean that lower seeded teams are worse or cant win, it´s just balanced groups.

This, completely agreement from here for this.

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Yup, I agree. Seeding the top 20 separately, in order to cause them to spread evenly 5 per group should be even enough. I suggest we use the TOP 20 (6vs6) ALL-TIME-list that @gzell60 posted.

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40 minutes ago, Kenu said:

Yup, I agree. Seeding the top 20 separately, in order to cause them to spread evenly 5 per group should be even enough. I suggest we use the TOP 20 (6vs6) ALL-TIME-list that @gzell60 posted.

+1 from me. Nice work @gzell60 !

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