Hello everyone and welcome to another rousing edition of Commissioner's Corner featuring yours truly, the league commissioner and fearless leader.
I hope everyone enjoyed the CCHL draft lottery this week and a big congratulations goes out to the Calgary Chinook who has managed to win the lottery twice a year. Who would have thunk that Calgary would be the lottery winner, as that usually goes to the other city in Alberta.
In reviewing the bonus money payouts for the last regular season, the first thing that comes to mind is that whoever has Kirill Kaprizov should easily take top prize next year in the rookie category.
The reality here is that CCHL teams barely play rookies, as evidenced by the fact a team got some bonus money in the category for a guy that barely played and had 11 points. Not ideal and perhaps we need to find a way to change that category to something more impactful than what we have right now. The design was to encourage people to play rookies but that simply isn't happening.
On the encouraging front, the bonus money for invalid lineups has gone up 2.2% this season. That means that teams were paid 2.2% more than a year ago.
It's a nice reflection of the trend as looking at the level we were at as a league two seasons ago, the bonus is now paying at 7.5% more than it was back then. People are making sure their lineups are valid and that is a good thing.
Next up, in terms of total lineups received this year, we were the fourth highest in the history of the CCHL. It's a nice number but also a bit disappointing from a personal standpoint because we were on track to shatter the previous records.
Two things happened this year to slow that down. Lineup submissions dropped off dramatically from seven/eight per day to three/four per day after the trade deadline.
The other thing impacting it is that we had four teams that were over 10 invalid lineups each, which impacted the totals significantly. Those four teams also left money on the table as they did not qualify for one penny of bonus money for lineups.
In any event, that's all for this blog about the bonus money. Once we have all the Twitter and blog submissions in the middle of April (following the last playoff game) we'll add the money to everyone's account and post the list on the site.
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