1) The website is updated to include all transactions that were submitted and confirmed as legal trades.
2) Please remember your trade formatting. I had a lot of trades I had to correct formatting things on. With the number of trades being so large, I shouldn't be doing this. Going forward, I will not process anything that has formatting errors as it just takes twice as long to do an update with me cleaning up these trades. There are plenty of transactions to view on the website if you are in doubt so please refer to those.
3) The new disk was due to be out Friday at 6pm. To date it has not been put up and the creators have not responded with a new date/time. I anticipate it will be soon (another freeze to follow so I can do the update/move first year disk players) but I just don't know when it will be for sure.
Now the MUST READ part:
4) We have made a slight tweak to the rules on trading draft picks for beyond two drafts. As of June 15th each year, you may now submit trades involving draft picks for the next set of available picks. This means that on June 15th (this week) you can submit trades including the 2023 draft picks. On June 15th, 2022 - you can submit trades involving 2024 picks.
We have made this a few weeks earlier than normal because we know these trades exist and they create a ton of administrative work following the draft; a time in which the administrative work is at it's highest for the league offices. As such, the only reason we are permitting this early going forward is to try to reduce some of that chaos following the draft. The rules have been updated to reflect this and reads as follows:
On June 15 each year, we will allow the next draft pick year to be available for trade. For example, on June 15, 2021 - trades involving draft picks for the 2023 draft will be allowed to be submitted. On June 15, 2022 - draft picks for draft year 2024 will be available to be included in trades. While the league office does not support trading picks in advance of two draft years, the reality is that the picks are being traded and it is creating an administrative nightmare immediately following the draft. In order to potentially avoid this, we permitting the picks to be dealt a few weeks ahead of the draft.
5) Lastly, the plan for this season only was to allow teams to re-rate up to 3 players off of the alternate ratings disk that we have access to. The reason for this was that with the disk we use doing a two-year rating, it wouldn't capture breakout players or rookies accurately.
After reviewing the ratings off of the disk and importing them into the CCHL system, the fact of the matter is that the adjustment will not work as intended. The alternate ratings did not provide players with the boosts we had hoped for, and actually really sees star players go up as much as 10 overall. The intent was not to turn McDavid or Matthews into Super McD or Matthews - they are already that on their own. The real problem is that this will really only improve star players and that was not the intent behind the idea as that could dramatically skew the competitive balance with 3 players on a roster of 20 going up by 8-10 each.
I will take responsibility for jumping the gun on the idea without seeing the ratings and the impact once we brought them into the CCHL weights.
We did talk as an executive committee and have come up with a compromise that we will be trying for this season only (as of this writing. If it goes well, maybe we keep it going...we'll see).
CCHL teams may use one rating from the alternate pack to change up to 4 players on their team. This means that CCHL teams can use one rating (example in a moment) from the alternate pack to improve that rating category on up to four players on their CCHL team, but a team may ONLY upgrade one rating on 4 skaters (goalies not included).
Example: The alternate rating has John Hockeyguy with a 80 in skating but our disk has him at a 70, you can change that to a 80 from the alternate rating pack. You could not however change his skating and scoring rating, you would have to pick just one to update per skater (up to 4 skaters per team).
Once we have the new disk and it is uploaded, I will send out the alternate ratings file to the league and another set of cells to copy/paste that details how to easily format your rating change requests. It will be easy but formatting will be important and I will not accept anything that is not in that format because I don't want this to become an exercise in interpretation for myself.
The bonus to this is that with changing all of the ratings for 3 skaters like we had initially thought about doing, there would be reductions in some ratings based on the rating systems. In doing it this way, CCHL teams will ONLY see positive gains.
One other thing to note is that this cannot be applied to UFAs signed in the 2021 signing period. These 4 improvements can ONLY be applied to players under contract throughout the free agent period.
Teams also do not have to participate in this but I don't see why all teams wouldn't take 10-15 minutes to go through the process to accurately rate their teams.
I think that's it for now. Any questions, please address Paul/myself. Please do not reply to all as it will be easier to answer questions directly rather than in a league format.
Thanks,
Matt
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