Eastside Hockey Manager - Part X Patch 1.5 Edition! (Open Beta)

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Ok so, I've been in development of my own Database for quite a while now and although it was only going to be for my own use, I'm very happy with how it's turning out so thought I'd gauge any interest in a public release.

Wow, this is awesome! Have you done any long term saves with it?

 

[xECK29x]

Ok so, I've been in development of my own Database for quite a while now and although it was only going to be for my own use, I'm very happy with how it's turning out so thought I'd gauge any interest in a public release.

Intro:
The DB is based on the season 2019/2020 and won't be updated to current years, the reason for this, is that the whole aim is to create a DB that is the most accurate, most realistic and least bloated available, constantly updating means this can't really happen. The 19/20 season was obviously the last before covid hit and when i started doing this DB in the 20/21 season some leagues weren't fully running so it made sense just to stick with 19/20

The DB was created by using the default historical 2006 DB that comes with the game, this default DB had the least amount of data that cant be deleted i.e only around 4500 clubs, 500 Comps etc so was the perfect one to start with, All players, staff, officials were deleted so it was semi blank.

Playable Leagues:
See the screenshot below for what leagues are available to play
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Leagues were selected based on how accurately they can be represented, so no US junior or college leagues, and how many games are in the season. I would love to have included the Spanish league for example, but they only play 16 games which would make for a boring game. BeNe League is included as although the season only has 20 games, they also have two cup competitions that increase it to over 30.

League Rules and Structures:
Every playable league has been built from scratch and sim tested until 2050 multiple times to ensure there are no bugs, no conflicts with international tournaments, drafts or playoffs and all rules are working correctly.

The rules have been established as close to real life as possible. Most leagues have official rulebooks available, so this has been what I have used to decide what to add. Some rules are not possible to 100% add so some variations have been done. For example in Belarus the top league has a rule of only 7 players over the age of 27 on the roster, this isnt possible to add in EHM without causing other issues so I have added a limit of 7 vets on the roster based on games played of 440 which after testing does closely match the age limit.

Teams which compete in more than one National comp has been implemented. So Jesenice will play in both the Alps league the domestic Slovenian league, Corona Brasov in both the Eerste Liga and domestic Romanian League, Triglav in the domestic Slovenian League and the International League for just a few examples.

International Competitions:
Same as above, international comps have been accurately modelled and, in some cases, expanded. See below for a list:
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Most notable feature here is an expanded U20 World Championship to include the lower divisions
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Naming convention:
I've took a leaf out of an add on for Football Manager I used to use for real name fixes, this creates a consistency in names for clubs and leagues. The long name will be expanded so, example, instead of long name Brynas IF and Short name being Brynas it becomes like the below
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Where the short name will become Brynas IF.

As can be seen in the playable league list, Leagues names and named as they would be locally for example Drzavno Prvenstvo Slovenije for the Slovenian National League.

Finances/Salaries:
I have spent an obscene amount of time on the finance info section of the editor to try and model European player salaries as realistically as possible. Team budgets and player wages are based on numerous local paper articles for leagues like the SHL,NLA and also on agent websites which list average wages for each league. Player wages will not be accurate as nobody, outside of the KHL and a few players in other top league are known, but they do match team budgets.


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This is just a small peak. Later on, after I've finished a bit more stuff Ill demonstrate how this DB will handle prospect generation and some other stuff. If there is anything people want me to screenshot and show now or talk about, just let me know.

Great stuff man, please share some of the financial work with me as I still struggle in that area, especially if you are seeing healthy staff lists deep into the sim. Would like to get a sense of the reps you are using as well. Love the localized league and club names, I’m always on the fence with those but we tend to stick to whatever Eliteprospects uses to make it easier to use the tools we built. Can’t wait to poke around this and if you ever want to help out with Pivot/TBL let me know.

 

[NathanB]

Eager to see more moving forward. Those of us who do databases as a hobby understand - as much as you’ve described here it only scratches the surface of the amount of thought that has gone into this project. Sometimes I am more frightened of trying to describe a database or database update to others than I am just doing the “work”.

Oh yeah definitely, there's so many little things I've done I can't even remember them all myself!

All players have been added in manually, no importing, no scraping just adding so that every player, and club, has been looked at with stats, reports etc and rated accordingly as well as a player role being assigned.

I deleted all awards and started again with them so that most playable leagues have awards as they have in real life

I deleted all officials and added them all back in so again, most playable leagues have real life referees, I'm pretty certain they don't really make a difference, and I haven't tested them, but they all have current abilities as well based on the IIHF categories a, b, c they use to assign international tournaments.

Scheduling also took a lot of time, especially for those teams that play in two national competitions. For example, Corona Brasov plays in the Erste Liga and Romanian championship, it's the same team playing in both so no II team or reserves, IRL if Brasov play a Romanian team in the Erste Liga the game doubles as a Romanian Championship game as well, obviously cant be done in EHM so I had to schedule two 36 game regular seasons that dont conflict, so both playoffs are separate and dont get played at the same time while also being finished before Euorpean contracts expire on 30 April and preferably also before the Romanian National teams plays in the World Championships. Nightmare!

Wow, this is awesome! Have you done any long term saves with it?

Not by playing the game normally no, I have done quite a few long-term tests though, mostly for league structures i just used the new test league feature as its much faster, but for wages, finance, prospects etc I have holidayed for 10-15 years in the future. The day i get to just play it rather than edit or test will be welcomed!

Great stuff man, please share some of the financial work with me as I still struggle in that area, especially if you are seeing healthy staff lists deep into the sim. Would like to get a sense of the reps you are using as well. Love the localized league and club names, I’m always on the fence with those but we tend to stick to whatever Eliteprospects uses to make it easier to use the tools we built. Can’t wait to poke around this and if you ever want to help out with Pivot/TBL let me know.

Yeah I just liked how localised names looked in FM so thought I'd try it, there are some issues though. For consistency I've done it the same way for all teams but there are one or two, mainly Russian teams, that make it difficult, for example CSK VVS Samara! Long full name becomes Centralnyy Sportivnyy Klub Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Samara. Still want to check that it doesnt cause any issues in news reports etc for being too long.

With finances I'd be happy to share, just a quick peek is the Swedish Hockey League

Team reps are, for the SHL at least, set quite a bit higher than in your DB, about from 5700 for IK Oskarshamn to about 7500 for Farjestad, Skelleftea etc

The 2112 agency website is what i use for a range of salaries, I believe you use the same. For the SHL their range is 60K - 250K EUR, but this is the tax free amount so the cost to the club is actually in the range of 110k-480k Eur per player and obviously is mainly used for import players so some local players will be paid less than the lower amount.

In my testing this does result in the top players asking from 250k-500k depending on favoured teams, nationality etc Whereas marginal or younger SHL players will ask for 60k-150k.

I'll probably look at amending it again once I've completed all the players and teams and done some more testing but for now Im quite happy with the results

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

@NathanB Whenever this goes live, I am down to play! The last custom one I’ve been trying was the GUH league. Spent hours and hours diving into that.

Is this part of the 1.4 or 1.5 update?

 

[xECK29x]

Slight schedule change (which is better for me). I didn't realize the cap compliance date for the NHL is Monday afternoon, so I'll either release late Monday night EST or early Tuesday morning.

 

[Treb]

Slight schedule change (which is better for me). I didn't realize the cap compliance date for the NHL is Monday afternoon, so I'll either release late Monday night EST or early Tuesday morning.

Still on course for this?

 

[xECK29x]

Still on course for this?

Likely not, didn't get as much done over the weekend as I would have liked, everyone in my family decided to have computer problems.

 

[xECK29x]

Pivot 7.3/TBL 15 released!

Known Issues:

- The 7.3 release is largely untested besides specific testing of new/fixed league structures, you may run into issues. PLEASE REPORT THEM!!

- The Czechia 2.Liga structure may have issues building the playoff groups, it's recommended you DO NOT enabled this league until the next release.

- It's possible the Olympics may not fire deeper into sims (10+ years), it's a hard thing to triage and we are looking into it. Please provide saves if this happens to you!

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions and rosters refreshed across European leagues playing in Champions Hockey League or have started preseason play. Likely the last major refresh for Europe.
- Several league rosters refreshed, mainly junior leagues.

NHL Updates:
- Reverted max contracts to real-life 50 max from 60. We fixed the dropped players via another method
- All NHL depth charts refreshed, many players touched and lightly edited, deep dive re-rates are in progress, see below
- Trade deadline updated to March 3rd
- Updated head coach salaries per CapFriendly
- Re-tiered top end players (170 CA+) for F/D based on JFresh's top 20 lists on EP Rinkside.
- Added Ottawa/Belleville/Atlanta and Los Angeles/Ontario/Greenville affiliations.
- Started NHL organizational re-rates (contracted players, prospects and notable RFAs): Huge thanks to JFresh (@JFreshHockey - JFreshHockey is creating NHL analytics-based visualization cards. | Patreon) and Andy & Rono (@ARHockeyStats - Home - Andy & Rono) for their excellent analytics data!
-- Anaheim Ducks
-- Arizona Coyotes
-- Chicago Blackhawks -- Thanks Seanie for feedback!!
-- Columbus Blue Jackets
-- Detroit Red Wings
-- Montreal Canadiens -- Thanks Fabio for feedback!!
-- New Jersey Devils
-- Philadelphia Flyers
-- Seattle Kraken

Austrian Updates: Thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!
- Updated affiliations, arenas, cities, clubs, competitions and the Alps Hockey League structure
- Added Austrian U20 as playable and updated staff and rosters

Belarus Updates:
- Added league structure back for Belarusian Vysshaya Liga

Canadian Updates:
- Updated league structure for SIJHL -- thanks bam_margera for fixing and Knoeppel for reporting!!

Croatian Updates:
- Updated clubs and re-added league structure for Croatian Prvenstvo Hrvatske -- thanks Matee!!

Czechia Updates:
- Updated 2.liga clubs, players and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated affiliations and clubs in II, III and IV-divisioona

German Updates:
- Updated affiliations, arenas and club/player records -- thanks livi0312!!
- Updated clubs, players, staff and DNL league structure -- thanks Matt!!

Great Britian Updates:
- Updated EIHL/NIHL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Hungarian Erste Liga clubs and league structure

Japan Updates:
- Re-created Asia League Ice Hockey and made Japan Cup extinct, updated clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL affiliations, arenas, clubs, players and staff -- thanks Angry_Duck!!
- Bumped reputation of KHL clubs and league to match that of AHL, this fixes issues with staff salaries. -- thanks JustMatt!!

Slovak Updates:
- Improved reputations and finances for Tipos Extraliga -- thanks R0bin for feedback and testing!!
- Added league structure back for 2. hokejová liga and updated clubs -- thanks Matee!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structures -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated clubs, injuries, players, competition records, staff, and SHL salaries -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

Swiss Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structure for Swiss Junioren Elite -- thanks livi0312!!
- Fixed incorrect award history data for NL -- thanks rhuber1986 for reporting!!
- Updated league structures for SNL, SL and MyHockey league -- thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated clubs and added league structure for reformed UHL -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Removed any NCAA future transfers 3+ years out due to AI teams not signing players due to that transfer -- thanks Mark for reporting!!
- Updated clubs and NCAA D1 league structure -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

 

[Tatartots]

Pivot 7.3/TBL 15 released!

Known Issues:

- The 7.3 release is largely untested besides specific testing of new/fixed league structures, you may run into issues. PLEASE REPORT THEM!!

- The Czechia 2.Liga structure may have issues building the playoff groups, it's recommended you DO NOT enabled this league until the next release.

- It's possible the Olympics may not fire deeper into sims (10+ years), it's a hard thing to triage and we are looking into it. Please provide saves if this happens to you!

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions and rosters refreshed across European leagues playing in Champions Hockey League or have started preseason play. Likely the last major refresh for Europe.
- Several league rosters refreshed, mainly junior leagues.

NHL Updates:
- Reverted max contracts to real-life 50 max from 60. We fixed the dropped players via another method
- All NHL depth charts refreshed, many players touched and lightly edited, deep dive re-rates are in progress, see below
- Trade deadline updated to March 3rd
- Updated head coach salaries per CapFriendly
- Re-tiered top end players (170 CA+) for F/D based on JFresh's top 20 lists on EP Rinkside.
- Added Ottawa/Belleville/Atlanta and Los Angeles/Ontario/Greenville affiliations.
- Started NHL organizational re-rates (contracted players, prospects and notable RFAs): Huge thanks to JFresh (@JFreshHockey - JFreshHockey is creating NHL analytics-based visualization cards. | Patreon) and Andy & Rono (@ARHockeyStats - Home - Andy & Rono) for their excellent analytics data!
-- Anaheim Ducks
-- Arizona Coyotes
-- Chicago Blackhawks -- Thanks Seanie for feedback!!
-- Columbus Blue Jackets
-- Detroit Red Wings
-- Montreal Canadiens -- Thanks Fabio for feedback!!
-- New Jersey Devils
-- Philadelphia Flyers
-- Seattle Kraken

Austrian Updates: Thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!
- Updated affiliations, arenas, cities, clubs, competitions and the Alps Hockey League structure
- Added Austrian U20 as playable and updated staff and rosters

Belarus Updates:
- Added league structure back for Belarusian Vysshaya Liga

Canadian Updates:
- Updated league structure for SIJHL -- thanks bam_margera for fixing and Knoeppel for reporting!!

Croatian Updates:
- Updated clubs and re-added league structure for Croatian Prvenstvo Hrvatske -- thanks Matee!!

Czechia Updates:
- Updated 2.liga clubs, players and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated affiliations and clubs in II, III and IV-divisioona

German Updates:
- Updated affiliations, arenas and club/player records -- thanks livi0312!!
- Updated clubs, players, staff and DNL league structure -- thanks Matt!!

Great Britian Updates:
- Updated EIHL/NIHL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Hungarian Erste Liga clubs and league structure

Japan Updates:
- Re-created Asia League Ice Hockey and made Japan Cup extinct, updated clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL affiliations, arenas, clubs, players and staff -- thanks Angry_Duck!!
- Bumped reputation of KHL clubs and league to match that of AHL, this fixes issues with staff salaries. -- thanks JustMatt!!

Slovak Updates:
- Improved reputations and finances for Tipos Extraliga -- thanks R0bin for feedback and testing!!
- Added league structure back for 2. hokejová liga and updated clubs -- thanks Matee!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structures -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated clubs, injuries, players, competition records, staff, and SHL salaries -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

Swiss Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structure for Swiss Junioren Elite -- thanks livi0312!!
- Fixed incorrect award history data for NL -- thanks rhuber1986 for reporting!!
- Updated league structures for SNL, SL and MyHockey league -- thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated clubs and added league structure for reformed UHL -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Removed any NCAA future transfers 3+ years out due to AI teams not signing players due to that transfer -- thanks Mark for reporting!!
- Updated clubs and NCAA D1 league structure -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

Thanks ECK! Any chance you have a timeline for pumping out the rest of the re-rates?

 

[xECK29x]

Thanks ECK! Any chance you have a timeline for pumping out the rest of the re-rates?

No, cmon man I need a break

 

[3074326]

No, cmon man I need a break

Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment.

(I'm kidding, thanks for the update )

 

[Savi]

Playing for the first time in a while, but it this a known error? Pops up July 1st, start of season 2, and game crashes right after. Tried going on holiday mode too but to no avail. Playing with the most recent Pivot Rosters.



edit: I tried with some autosaves from earlier dates, first with one from June 25, that one also crashed on July 1st; then another one from June 18 and I actually got past the crash date but then it still crashed on July 4th

 

[xECK29x]

Playing for the first time in a while, but it this a known error? Pops up July 1st, start of season 2, and game crashes right after. Tried going on holiday mode too but to no avail. Playing with the most recent Pivot Rosters.



edit: I tried with some autosaves from earlier dates, first with one from June 25, that one also crashed on July 1st; then another one from June 18 and I actually got past the crash date but then it still crashed on July 4th

Was this was the 7.3 update or the older version? We fixed an issue with the MHL in year 2, this would happen after the divisions were realigned which was causing a problem. There is a larger overhaul coming to the MHL to make it more realistic in the next update.

 

[Savi]

Was this was the 7.3 update or the older version? We fixed an issue with the MHL in year 2, this would happen after the divisions were realigned which was causing a problem. There is a larger overhaul coming to the MHL to make it more realistic in the next update.

I checked to be sure, but yeah it's the 7.3

 

[xECK29x]

I checked to be sure, but yeah it's the 7.3

OK I'll re-test, probably best not to enable that league structure then.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Awesome work as always and much appreciated @xECK29x

 

[hoyster]

This guy has to be one of the best prospects I've ever seen in this game. Still 2,5 years until he'll be drafted

 

[bashbros32]

this may have been asked before, but their are so many pages in this thread, and so many threads in the decade since this game released (not quite) that I wouldn't know where to look.

are there actually download files for steam workshop subscriptions? ie. @xECK29x pivot db?

if not is there a place where one could download the db file?

looking to make a few changes but I want to use the most recent update lol.

 

[Treb]

this may have been asked before, but their are so many pages in this thread, and so many threads in the decade since this game released (not quite) that I wouldn't know where to look.

are there actually download files for steam workshop subscriptions? ie. @xECK29x pivot db?

if not is there a place where one could download the db file?

looking to make a few changes but I want to use the most recent update lol.

Yes.

How can I find the rosters downloaded from Steam Workshop? - EHM The Blue Line

www.ehmtheblueline.com

[Your Steam Installation Folder]\steamapps\workshop\content\301120\. If have installed Steam to its default path then you will find it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\301120/

 

[Treb]

Pivot 7.3/TBL 15 released!

Known Issues:

- The 7.3 release is largely untested besides specific testing of new/fixed league structures, you may run into issues. PLEASE REPORT THEM!!

- The Czechia 2.Liga structure may have issues building the playoff groups, it's recommended you DO NOT enabled this league until the next release.

- It's possible the Olympics may not fire deeper into sims (10+ years), it's a hard thing to triage and we are looking into it. Please provide saves if this happens to you!

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions and rosters refreshed across European leagues playing in Champions Hockey League or have started preseason play. Likely the last major refresh for Europe.
- Several league rosters refreshed, mainly junior leagues.

NHL Updates:
- Reverted max contracts to real-life 50 max from 60. We fixed the dropped players via another method
- All NHL depth charts refreshed, many players touched and lightly edited, deep dive re-rates are in progress, see below
- Trade deadline updated to March 3rd
- Updated head coach salaries per CapFriendly
- Re-tiered top end players (170 CA+) for F/D based on JFresh's top 20 lists on EP Rinkside.
- Added Ottawa/Belleville/Atlanta and Los Angeles/Ontario/Greenville affiliations.
- Started NHL organizational re-rates (contracted players, prospects and notable RFAs): Huge thanks to JFresh (@JFreshHockey - JFreshHockey is creating NHL analytics-based visualization cards. | Patreon) and Andy & Rono (@ARHockeyStats - Home - Andy & Rono) for their excellent analytics data!
-- Anaheim Ducks
-- Arizona Coyotes
-- Chicago Blackhawks -- Thanks Seanie for feedback!!
-- Columbus Blue Jackets
-- Detroit Red Wings
-- Montreal Canadiens -- Thanks Fabio for feedback!!
-- New Jersey Devils
-- Philadelphia Flyers
-- Seattle Kraken

Austrian Updates: Thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!
- Updated affiliations, arenas, cities, clubs, competitions and the Alps Hockey League structure
- Added Austrian U20 as playable and updated staff and rosters

Belarus Updates:
- Added league structure back for Belarusian Vysshaya Liga

Canadian Updates:
- Updated league structure for SIJHL -- thanks bam_margera for fixing and Knoeppel for reporting!!

Croatian Updates:
- Updated clubs and re-added league structure for Croatian Prvenstvo Hrvatske -- thanks Matee!!

Czechia Updates:
- Updated 2.liga clubs, players and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated affiliations and clubs in II, III and IV-divisioona

German Updates:
- Updated affiliations, arenas and club/player records -- thanks livi0312!!
- Updated clubs, players, staff and DNL league structure -- thanks Matt!!

Great Britian Updates:
- Updated EIHL/NIHL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Hungarian Erste Liga clubs and league structure

Japan Updates:
- Re-created Asia League Ice Hockey and made Japan Cup extinct, updated clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL affiliations, arenas, clubs, players and staff -- thanks Angry_Duck!!
- Bumped reputation of KHL clubs and league to match that of AHL, this fixes issues with staff salaries. -- thanks JustMatt!!

Slovak Updates:
- Improved reputations and finances for Tipos Extraliga -- thanks R0bin for feedback and testing!!
- Added league structure back for 2. hokejová liga and updated clubs -- thanks Matee!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structures -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated clubs, injuries, players, competition records, staff, and SHL salaries -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

Swiss Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structure for Swiss Junioren Elite -- thanks livi0312!!
- Fixed incorrect award history data for NL -- thanks rhuber1986 for reporting!!
- Updated league structures for SNL, SL and MyHockey league -- thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated clubs and added league structure for reformed UHL -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Removed any NCAA future transfers 3+ years out due to AI teams not signing players due to that transfer -- thanks Mark for reporting!!
- Updated clubs and NCAA D1 league structure -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

Buyout penalties seem to be disabled in the NHL.

 

[xECK29x]

Buyout penalties seem to be disabled in the NHL.

That's intended because of issues like this and until they are fixed the AI (or your AGM) is just going to wreck your club with buyout penalties: Player continuously signed and dropped immediately

Also the game wasn't designed for the modern NHL cap shenanigans, the AI has a very hard time with real life cap situations like Toronto, Vegas, Minnesota etc.

 

[xECK29x]

Some fixes pushed under the version 7.3.1:

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions
- Fixed Olympic games not firing after first trigger -- thanks Matee!!

NHL Updates:
- Updated club reputations and "Last Position" for all teams which should fix the pre-season waiver order in year one. -- thanks ujlien for reporting!!
- Fixed Michael Bunting's contract -- thanks ekerckoff!!

Czechia Updates:
- Updated 2.liga league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL affiliations -- thanks Angry_Duck!!

Swedish Updates:
- Fixed some historical records, and increased SHL team budgets -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

 

[H3ckt1k]

Pivot 7.3/TBL 15 released!

Known Issues:

- The 7.3 release is largely untested besides specific testing of new/fixed league structures, you may run into issues. PLEASE REPORT THEM!!

- The Czechia 2.Liga structure may have issues building the playoff groups, it's recommended you DO NOT enabled this league until the next release.

- It's possible the Olympics may not fire deeper into sims (10+ years), it's a hard thing to triage and we are looking into it. Please provide saves if this happens to you!

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions and rosters refreshed across European leagues playing in Champions Hockey League or have started preseason play. Likely the last major refresh for Europe.
- Several league rosters refreshed, mainly junior leagues.

NHL Updates:
- Reverted max contracts to real-life 50 max from 60. We fixed the dropped players via another method
- All NHL depth charts refreshed, many players touched and lightly edited, deep dive re-rates are in progress, see below
- Trade deadline updated to March 3rd
- Updated head coach salaries per CapFriendly
- Re-tiered top end players (170 CA+) for F/D based on JFresh's top 20 lists on EP Rinkside.
- Added Ottawa/Belleville/Atlanta and Los Angeles/Ontario/Greenville affiliations.
- Started NHL organizational re-rates (contracted players, prospects and notable RFAs): Huge thanks to JFresh (@JFreshHockey - JFreshHockey is creating NHL analytics-based visualization cards. | Patreon) and Andy & Rono (@ARHockeyStats - Home - Andy & Rono) for their excellent analytics data!
-- Anaheim Ducks
-- Arizona Coyotes
-- Chicago Blackhawks -- Thanks Seanie for feedback!!
-- Columbus Blue Jackets
-- Detroit Red Wings
-- Montreal Canadiens -- Thanks Fabio for feedback!!
-- New Jersey Devils
-- Philadelphia Flyers
-- Seattle Kraken

Austrian Updates: Thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!
- Updated affiliations, arenas, cities, clubs, competitions and the Alps Hockey League structure
- Added Austrian U20 as playable and updated staff and rosters

Belarus Updates:
- Added league structure back for Belarusian Vysshaya Liga

Canadian Updates:
- Updated league structure for SIJHL -- thanks bam_margera for fixing and Knoeppel for reporting!!

Croatian Updates:
- Updated clubs and re-added league structure for Croatian Prvenstvo Hrvatske -- thanks Matee!!

Czechia Updates:
- Updated 2.liga clubs, players and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated affiliations and clubs in II, III and IV-divisioona

German Updates:
- Updated affiliations, arenas and club/player records -- thanks livi0312!!
- Updated clubs, players, staff and DNL league structure -- thanks Matt!!

Great Britian Updates:
- Updated EIHL/NIHL players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Hungarian Erste Liga clubs and league structure

Japan Updates:
- Re-created Asia League Ice Hockey and made Japan Cup extinct, updated clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Junioru Attistibas Hokeja liga clubs and league structure -- thanks Matee!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL affiliations, arenas, clubs, players and staff -- thanks Angry_Duck!!
- Bumped reputation of KHL clubs and league to match that of AHL, this fixes issues with staff salaries. -- thanks JustMatt!!

Slovak Updates:
- Improved reputations and finances for Tipos Extraliga -- thanks R0bin for feedback and testing!!
- Added league structure back for 2. hokejová liga and updated clubs -- thanks Matee!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structures -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated clubs, injuries, players, competition records, staff, and SHL salaries -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

Swiss Updates:
- Updated clubs and league structure for Swiss Junioren Elite -- thanks livi0312!!
- Fixed incorrect award history data for NL -- thanks rhuber1986 for reporting!!
- Updated league structures for SNL, SL and MyHockey league -- thanks bam_margera and penguinrevolt!!

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated clubs and added league structure for reformed UHL -- thanks Matee!!

United States Updates:
- Removed any NCAA future transfers 3+ years out due to AI teams not signing players due to that transfer -- thanks Mark for reporting!!
- Updated clubs and NCAA D1 league structure -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

Started a new save with this one, and in the first two months Arizona traded for Tavares and then put Chychrun on waivers

 

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Started a new save with this one, and in the first two months Arizona traded for Tavares and then put Chychrun on waivers

In my most recent save, Alex Tuch played the entire 24/25 season in Rochester, because he was waived.

In 25/26, after getting 4 points in 9 games, +1, and no penalties, Montreal waived Brendan Gallagher, nobody claimed him, and he played the rest of the season (and half the next) in Laval. Montreal then traded him and 2 4th rounders to Philly for a 2025 7th round prospect.

Philly kept Gallagher and his 6.5 Million, in Lehigh Valley.

Some other wild trades:

September 2022: Arizona trades Jakob Chychrun to Ottawa for a 2nd.

Colorado trades J.T. Compher to NYI for a 2nd.

November 2022: Colorado trades NYI 2nd to ARI for Christian Fischer. xd

Toronto trades Alex Kerfoot to DET for Kyle Aucoin

March 2023: Vancouver trades Tanner Pearson to TOR for Wayne Simmonds and Matthew Knies.

Colorado trades a 1st to NJ for Mackenzie Blackwood

July 2023: Winnipeg trades PL Dubois to BOS for a 1st, 2nd and 7th.

August 2025: Colorado trades Bowen Byram to ARI for 3 2nds and a 3rd.

Buffalo trades Dylan Cozens to CHI for a 2nd, a 3rd and 2 4ths.

January 2026: VGK trades Alex Pietrangelo to PHI for a 4th, a 7th, and an undrafted prospect.

August 2026: Colorado trades Sam Girard to ARI for a 2nd, a 3rd and 2 4ths.

February 2027: Buffalo trades Rasmus Dahlin to NYR for Zac Jones and a 2nd.

 

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Question for anyone really:

Is there some stat or something that triggers the: "Does not want to move to a team in north america" Line?

I'm thinking about starting a save over in Europe and I want to see how far 1 superstar player, and a mega-rich owner, can take a super low team... but I don't want the player to ditch for NA the second he is drafted.

Also along with this, has anyone asked about (or tried) fleshing out the Sweden lower leagues? Like Tvaan, Trean and Fyran?

Are all the Swedish leagues properly linked? Like, even if they aren't playable, if I plop McDavid, Makar and Shesterkin onto Black Wings HC in HockeyFyran, would they promote from Fyran to Trean, Trean to Tvaan, Tvaan to Ettan, Ettan to Allsvenskan, and then to SHL?