INPUT for 2017/18 SEASON forward

[Flames GM (Beamer)]

Lots of discussion about SCD from Jan 25/26, 2017.
Put you thoughts on rule amendments, structure changes, etc... in this posting.  Scott (NYI) and I welcome any constructive feedback on any problems and issues that any GMs come across.

It's easy to point an issue...be sure to put down how you would plan to FIX an issue.

If you want anonymity, feel free to message either Scott or myself and we'll be sure to raise your input during LM meetings in April. 

Cheers,
Beamer

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Canucks get Griffen Reinhart and 2nd round pick from NYI for Shinkauruk, Demko and 1st round pick 2016. Auston Matthews

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Reset the league 2017-2018
Put a maximum player salary
Recruit now and vet GMs for 2017-2018
Fresh, untouched rosters should be appealing to new GMs
Filling the league will get rid of "voting blocks"
Include Vegas expansion draft

If you have a strong team and don't want a reset I challenge you to try again for the sake of having competition coming from 30-31 teams and not just vyimg to win the stanley cup in a 10 team league with a bunch of openings

[Red Wings GM (Jeremy)]

Why we looking at doing this again?

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Tanking...

Toronto has currently 6 open roster spots on ESPN, here he has Mitch Marner, Zach Hymann, Nikita Soshnikov, Freddy Gauthier etc in his minors. Im playing against him this week and its just like having a bye week (I'll lose now that I said it) but this isnt how I want to win and it shouldnt be how you're allowed to lose. I know how important a top draft pick can be but cmon. What happens if it comes down to 2 teams 1 playoff spot but guess what one of em gets to play Toronto in this state.

I bet I could lose to this team and still make the playoffs, I'll bench my entire roster for the week so he wins 12-0 and a team like Vancouver destroyed by 2 owners with no assets gets the top pick.

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Forgot to mention, starting Jonas Gustavsson who's in the minors every night over Ryan Miller/Markstrom

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The surprising part is that even without calling anybody up, not fielding a full roster, etc. I'm still only going to get 2nd overall because the Canucks are even worse than I am. My team was in full rebuild mode when I took over and the trade offers I got for decent players were disgusting. I've added so far this year Brandon Saad and sold everyone else. I'm within the roster limits set out in the league and don't see much reason to be better. I can understand you not liking that, and I'd likely support a revision to the rules not allowing it in the future but for now it is what it is.

As far as constructive changes that I see as necessary;
1. Clean up the forums and setup the availability of an "alert" when players are posted on waivers, signed in FA, etc. Reduce the number of forum sections and you can probably even remove the team pages since we have a master spreadsheet covering all of that.
2. Set a max on retained salary, 70% on a particular contract is fine but set the max a team can hold all deals to say 10% of the CAP or a similar hard #.
3. Switch to Fantrax and merge all teams into one league. If that means cutting 6 teams and holding a contraction draft/letting everyone go to FA or paying the funds make it happen. Having two separate ESPN leagues really makes it challenging finding FA's and drops the competition level.
4. Adjust the scoring to make it simpler to compare player values, from H2H Categories to H2H Points so players have a simple fpts/game number to ensure new teams joining the league can figure out which players have value and which ones don't and make fair trades. This will also give GM's voting on trades an easier route to making an informed decision.
5. Figure out a way to make it easier for teams to communicate with each other. For example, if I want to get in contact with the Blackhawks GM I can take a blind guess in the chatango as to who he is or dig through the forums to find him and message him.
6. Clean up the rules overall, there are amendments and rules in different places and finding the full current set is much harder than it should be.
7. There is a pair of new Commish's here and league management has changed greatly in the last year. I've seen quite a few threads in the chat complaining about the way things were and being incredibly negative about the future of the league. I'm not saying we dump those GM's but something should be done to ensure teams are on the boat or off of it.

Back to work for me, just my early thoughts. I've expressed others ideas to the new GM's and want to be a part of the solution.