Hi All
Results are below.
I haven't actually inputted anything yet so there's nothing applied.
Open Free Agency Bids are due September 1, 2013 @ 6pm PST
Second round of open free agency would be September 8, 2013 @ 6pm PST. We'll probably have two more before season starts.
Hi BFHL GMs
It got pointed out to me that I didn't mention all the scenarios for what can happen to rated players that did not play in NHL last year.
In that email, I only said that you could drop a player without penalty if he didn't play last year due to our rating set being based on the last two years.
I should add that you could also elect to request that he goes to the prospect list because that's what normally would happen in our previous years.
Hi Everyone
I just put up an output for your rosters on the site to clean up some errors that were found.
Bullet points:
BFHL tries to ensure that there are no duplicate players in free agency, but we are only human and errors do occur.
This has happened twice now (Oduya, and now Orlov).
GMs are responsible to make sure that THEIR players and prospects are not signed by another team. If the "Original Owner" notices their players signed by a "New GM", it is the Original Owner's obligation to notify us. If they don't and it results in duplicate players existing, the Original Owner loses that player.
I probably shouldn't be doing this sort of stuff at this hour, but I did it anyways. It was made easier with some big help from Ivan and since he finished his FA stuff so fast, the pressure was on me to get moving :)
It's been a frustrating year ... again ... trying to source our ratings set. We may very well attempt to take it in our own hands and do them ourselves. The biggest fear I have about that is geting the data we need, timely and reliably... BFHL Ratings team anyone? hehe
Anyways, more important stuffs first:
Here's a quick preview of what the salaries for BFHL will look like compared to actual NHL salaries.
NHLnumbers listed the top 100 concensus draft picks. BFHL looked at where those players were picked compared to the concensus ranking to determine individual team picking performances.
Hey BFHL GMs
Hope your enjoying the summer so far.
Thanks to everyone for getting the draft done. I will be processing everything by this week hopefully. Also really hoping to be able to give you an update regarding new ratings shortly as well.
Meanwhile, what'd you think of your draft? You can add content to the site simply by creating some team news where it can be imortalized forever and ever and make us realize what Jay Feasters we all were years from now.
Various researchers have tried to value draft picks based on various metrics. Below are a few interesting ones for GMs to consider as they manage their teams in the future.
No matter what metric you value it by, it's clear earlier picks are exponentially worth more, and values evens out in the later rounds.
Articles on Value of Draft Picks:
Based on time on ice http://theleafsnation.com/2011/3/16/on-relative-worth-of-draft-picks