09-09-2016, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Meh, I wouldn't mind a shot at Nolan Patrick. He's a 6'3" right handed elite talent
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That is the wrong direction for this team to be trending at this point of the rebuild.
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09-09-2016, 03:17 PM
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#22
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09-09-2016, 03:21 PM
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#23
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This is an obvious troll job. Isn't EA based on out of Vancouver? At least their NHL sports division will be for sure. Probably a bunch of Canuck fans thinking it'd be funny to put the Flames last.
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09-09-2016, 03:25 PM
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#24
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 868904
This is an obvious troll job. Isn't EA based on out of Vancouver? At least their NHL sports division will be for sure. Probably a bunch of Canuck fans thinking it'd be funny to put the Flames last.
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It's a The Hockey News sim though. Not an official EA one.
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09-09-2016, 03:25 PM
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#25
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They put them first last year.
Anyway the problem here is that EA ranks players so highly that there's very little difference in quality between a 3rd liner and a first liner. Everyone's got an overall rating of 80 or higher, so in any given simulation, it's going to be more or less a coin toss. If they went back to a ranking system that meant something, where you'd have the worst players being ranked... even just in the 50's would do it. You wouldn't have to do it like they did in the early 90's where the Sens' defence were ranked a 2 overall. But just make it so there's at least some gap between the good and mediocre players in the league.
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09-09-2016, 03:26 PM
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I'd be a lot more surprised to see Nashville finish last in the Central with 73 points than I would be to see Calgary's result though.
I can't imagine a scenario where the Flames go absolutely tits up to the point of a 66 point season though. Brodie must have died or something. Of course it comes right after the league changes the draft rules because of the stupid grease.
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09-09-2016, 03:29 PM
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First Line Centre
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EA should run the simulation for like 1000 years and see how many cups the Oilers or the Leafs will win...
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09-09-2016, 03:34 PM
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#28
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Locke
That is the wrong direction for this team to be trending at this point of the rebuild.
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I'm not saying I would prefer this direction, but the consolation prize isn't bad either.
It's not like I'm expecting the playoffs next season
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09-09-2016, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
lol
They could run this EA simulation a million times and it wouldn't mean anything.
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Running it a million times and average the results would be a fairer approach. certainly would not have left them predicting the Flame would win the presidents trophy last year.
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09-09-2016, 03:44 PM
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Self-Suspension
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Not coincidentally I stopped playing EAs NHL games. The last 3 iterations were painful to say the least.
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09-09-2016, 03:49 PM
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#31
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Location: Flame Country
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inferno
It's a The Hockey News sim though. Not an official EA one.
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Not saying they actually did this, but it would be extremely easy to program certain teams to consistently do well in simulations and others to more consistently do poorly.
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09-09-2016, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
33 points behind the Oilers. Seems realistic.
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Terry Jones kinda math.
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09-09-2016, 03:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Well, the Oilers made the playoffs so thats all you really need to know about that, but coincidentally a new photo of the President of EA's hockey division has just been leaked!
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09-09-2016, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indiana
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It seems like this simulation does not have enough points in general. I doubt that every team with more than 89 points will make the playoffs. Only one team in the whole league has more than 104 points. I doubt that the top western team only gets 100 points. The central division is still by far the best division in hockey. At least put some effort into having realistic team point totals...
Edit: Last year was also ridiculous in terms of point totals.
Last edited by 1qqaaz; 09-09-2016 at 04:07 PM.
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09-09-2016, 04:28 PM
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#36
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
Not saying they actually did this, but it would be extremely easy to program certain teams to consistently do well in simulations and others to more consistently do poorly.
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It would but like someone mentioned earlier the Flames won the Presidents Trophy in THN's sim last season.
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09-09-2016, 04:39 PM
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#37
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
That is the wrong direction for this team to be trending at this point of the rebuild.
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Not if everybody gets injured. Then it's found money.
Patrick sure would solve every problem we have at forward. He's basically a better-skating, right-shot Monahan.
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09-09-2016, 05:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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I just did a sim of my own. The Flames finished 43-29-10 but had one less win than the Oilers and finished fourth in the West(the top four teams were Pacific Division teams). The Canucks ended up finishing third last in the league.
In the playoffs the Oilers ended up getting swept by the Sharks(which should have been Chicago but something is messed up with the seeding) while the Flames beat Nashville in 7 but lost to Chicago in 6 who won the Cup.
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09-09-2016, 05:03 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Does this really matter?
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09-09-2016, 05:05 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Isn't EA based in Vancouver? Always over-rating the Canucks and under-rating the Flames?
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