RULE CHANGE VOTING

[coach]

Gentlemen,

Below are the rule change proposals for next season.
After this voting, the plan is to leave the rules alone for a few years unless there is a clear need to institute an inseason rule change.
Please respond to me Via a PM with you votes. Do not reply to this message. Please put in the subject line your teams name and VOTES. The voting deadline is THURS NOV 28TH
A passing vote is 60%, if 60% is not received for an option, a 2nd vote with the 2 least popular options eliminated will be sent out. 2nd Vote will be tabulated and majority rules.
Votes with only 2 options, majority wins the vote.


Select one option from each catorgory (eg: 1 – D, 2-C)

1 )GWG & SHUT-OUTS
A) Keep as is
B) Keep SO & replace GWG with SOG
C) Remove both completely
D) Remove both completely, but still add SOG

2) HITS / BLOCKED SHOTS
A) Add HITS
B) Add BKS
C) Don't add either

3) GOALIES
A) Change to "start 1 / bench 1" Games played limit min tentatively set at 65 games
B) Keep as is

4) WAIVERS
A) Change back to old waiver system (claimed player cost team 50% of cap hit)
B) Keep as is and Remove Re-Entry Waivers
C) Change to old waiver system and remove Re-entry waivers
D) Keep as is

5) 2WAY PLAYER CONTRACTS
A) Increase 2 way salaries to 4 Million - increase of 1m (13-14 3M)
B) Keep as is

[grasser]

I had sent this to the rest of the fat cats... I'm posting it here to see if anyone else agrees with me...
If not, I'll just vote and hope for the best.
Here goes:

The one thought I have, which may be more of a pain and maybe no one else cares, but it's with the two goalie votes - SO and 1 and 1 or 2 starters. Personally I'd want to know if we were going to one starter and one bench or keeping 2 before I voted on getting rid of shut-outs. If we went to 1 and 1, I could see why we'd get rid of it and just let the best tandem run with it. If we keep 2 starters, then I'd want to keep the SO as you're collecting that stat no matter what, not just getting lucky with the goalie you choose on each night. It's not something you can research - minus maybe the best team in the league playing a dreadful offence... you may have a step up on the rest that night - but in general you can't research shut-outs. Make sense?

Anyone else agree?

[rack55]

I think you countered your own argument there by giving an example of how you can actually GM for shutouts. There are a lot more stats that are a lot more uncertain/lucky than Shutouts, which are very much an individual performance stat. GWG are random, all you can do is own players who score lots of goals on winning teams. +/- is greatly influenced by team performance. SHP, especialy for D-men, is an inflated stat at times. Wins are a team stat too. I'd say shutouts are more earned by the player than any of those stats.

[grasser]

Yes, maybe. But even the worst team in the league can still pot a single goal on the night on the PP which kills any research. I also just think going to 3 goalie stats and 7/8 player stats is stupid. But I've always been a goalie advocate so it's my job to bring it up haha

[cam]

I think most pools work best at an 8:4 or 7:3 ratio. Hopefully we'll end up with one of those.