Hehehe. Sorry boss.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Do you want a booster or no?
Seriously though, I don't know if I'm going to draft any boosters this year because of the bonus structure, unless one falls way below where I expected him to be drafted.
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Hehehe. Sorry boss.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Do you want a booster or no?
Is your pick available ?Parker wrote:Gutsy, risky pick by Vancouver. Well, you don't win big by playing it safe, right?
Okay, looks like I'm up. Gimme five minutes.
What are you offering for it? I'm not interested in trading down picks, or in a package of players.NashvilleGM wrote:Is your pick available ?
So my Doan + 30 for Sam Brittain isn't good enough?Parker wrote:I'm not directing this at anyone specific, but it might not be a great idea to make really one-sided trade offers to the guy whose team just won the fucking Stanley Cup. They're insulting and all they accomplish is to guarantee that the Cup winner's organization never bothers wasting time trying to make a deal with you again.
Pff, have you never been in an EHM league before? Don't flatter yourself, Adam would of run over you in the WCF if it hadn't been for the fact he's such an outstanding gentleman.Parker wrote:I'm not directing this at anyone specific, but it might not be a great idea to make really one-sided trade offers to the guy whose team just won the fucking Stanley Cup. They're insulting and all they accomplish is to guarantee that the Cup winner's organization never bothers wasting time trying to make a deal with you again.
Brittain is pretty awesome, but who would take over as captain of the Coyotes? Georges Laraque?Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:So my Doan + 30 for Sam Brittain isn't good enough?Parker wrote:I'm not directing this at anyone specific, but it might not be a great idea to make really one-sided trade offers to the guy whose team just won the fucking Stanley Cup. They're insulting and all they accomplish is to guarantee that the Cup winner's organization never bothers wasting time trying to make a deal with you again.
I'll throw in Ruslan Salei.Parker wrote:Brittain is pretty awesome, but who would take over as captain of the Coyotes? Georges Laraque?Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:So my Doan + 30 for Sam Brittain isn't good enough?Parker wrote:I'm not directing this at anyone specific, but it might not be a great idea to make really one-sided trade offers to the guy whose team just won the fucking Stanley Cup. They're insulting and all they accomplish is to guarantee that the Cup winner's organization never bothers wasting time trying to make a deal with you again.
I wasn't trying to flatter myself, I'm just saying that if my team just won the Cup it should be clear that I'm not a moron, and offering me a trade only a moron would accept is a little insulting. As for getting run over by anyone in any league, this is the second league I've been in where I took a non-contender to a Cup winner (without selling out the team's future) within two seasons, so I'd like to think I could hold my own in any league.Tampa Bay GM wrote:Pff, have you never been in an EHM league before? Don't flatter yourself, Adam would of run over you in the WCF if it hadn't been for the fact he's such an outstanding gentleman.
Naw. Too bad you already traded Commodore, because Commodore + Brittain for Doan + 30th pick totally could've happened. Commodore is natural leader!Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:I'll throw in Ruslan Salei.
For the Springfield Falcons, yes.Parker wrote:Naw. Too bad you already traded Commodore, because Commodore + Brittain for Doan + 30th pick totally could've happened. Commodore is natural leader!Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:I'll throw in Ruslan Salei.
True, but he's at the very lowest point of boosting probability. There's a decent chance it'll happen, but if it doesn't, he wouldn't have any more value than a guy drafted at least a full round later.SharksGM wrote:Jensen isn't a risk. He'll be a decent grinder even if he doesn't boost and over a 3 year period boosting probabilities are, well.. high, let's just say.
Hey, I ALMOST traded it. I just got impatient. Plus Slava Namestnikov has way too cool of a name to pass up.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Odds Parker keeps the pick: 1/1
Odds Parker trades the pick: 5/1
Just make the pick, bro. You're not fooling anybody.![]()
Point taken on Jensen's low-end value, but I wouldn't call Namestnikov a weak second-line forward. Other than being a little inconsistent, he's basically a natural centre version of Mikkel Boedker, with a little less shooting and a little more stickhandling. I'd call him at least an average second liner.Vancouver Canucks wrote:Looking at the picks after mine, really your looking at a weak 2nd line forward and a 4th/5th defencmen, where as jensen very well could be a very nice 1st/2nd line winger with some grind. now lets hope he boosts!!
It definitely doesn't stack; you only have the same X percentage chance of a boost each year, but I understand what Dan is saying. The player only has to boost once but has several chances to do it. If you're looking to flip a coin and have it land on tails, every time you flip that coin there is the same 50% probabilty that it'll land on tails, but if it only has to happen once, the more flips you get the better chance you have of eventually landing once on tails. As the number of flips approaches infinite, so does the chance that you'll get at least one landing on tails.Jungle Cats wrote:i don't know if it stacks... i do know that brickley boosted 7/10 times i simmed ahead this year after doing nothing last year... and he's only a 78 con.
See trade thread.Bub(NYR) wrote:Also, where's MIN?
Yes sir. More on that later.Parker wrote:Hey, is that a new splash page? Looking good, EHEC.
i fear change...Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Yes sir. More on that later.Parker wrote:Hey, is that a new splash page? Looking good, EHEC.
Explains why you didn't vote for Obama.Femur wrote:i fear change...
Hey it's not like I'm picking anytime soon anway, but I was just curious.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:See trade thread.
I sent him the offer mid-afternoon and he got back to me early this morning. Sorry for holding things up. Femur should be around, but if not, I've got his two picks. Hopefully NYI is around and then I'll pick for CGY and OTT, MTL is always nearby, then I have a list for NJ, then OTT again and hopefully we'll be into the middle or later of the 2nd round by tonight.
What changes has Obama brought? There's still no health care, and you're still in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy is even further in the toilet. Does that count as change?Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Explains why you didn't vote for Obama.
I also didn't vote for Obama. Can't stand the guy. Hate him with every fiber of my being. Completely unqualified to be President.Parker wrote:What changes has Obama brought? There's still no health care, and you're still in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy is even further in the toilet. Does that count as change?Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Explains why you didn't vote for Obama.
There are some very exciting younger Republicans on the fast track like Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, and Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida. Rubio might give it a go in 2012, considering he'll have about the same experience record that Barry had when he ran.Parker wrote:God would it suck to be a US voter. You're fucked no matter what...
think we are there; nobody has ever been so broke in the history of the world as we are today. i think i read somewhere that even if you took every nickle in the entire world and threw it at the US deficit right now that it wouldn't end it. we are through the looking glass...there is no possibility of our society continuing on present course.Parker wrote:...I think it's going to take a complete collapse of the economy before any real changes happen...
Who's supposed to write the policy? The public? The public who has no idea about what is going on except for what the news tells them. In a country where women who vote for whichever candidate is the most attractive and where all people vote solely on the "candidate they'd want to have a beer with"? No way can you trust the public to do anything.Parker wrote:Yeah but the old-school rich white man GOP still makes all the policy, and their policy is to do whatever is in the interest of the big corporations, because that's where their campaign contributions come from. I think it's going to take a complete collapse of the economy before any real changes happen. Clearly the dot-com crash and the mortgage crisis haven't been enough of an impetus.
When you say the deficit, you don't mean the national debt, right? Cause the national debt's a crock of shit. We have no intention of ever paying it back, will continue to print money we don't have, and it's nothing more than a tool for prospective candidates to point to as evidence of why they're better than the other guy.Femur wrote:think we are there; nobody has ever been so broke in the history of the world as we are today. i think i read somewhere that even if you took every nickle in the entire world and threw it at the US deficit right now that it wouldn't end it. we are through the looking glass...there is no possibility of our society continuing on present course.
that is no longer true; up until recently (i believe Clinton, but could be wrong), we were simply owing ourselves money. but all of that changed when interest rates hit bottom and we made the choice it was cheaper (in the short run) to borrow some of the money. and under Barry, as you said, we are beginning to monetize some of the debt.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:[...the national debt's a crock of shit. We have no intention of ever paying it back...
i sort-of agree, but i think people are waking up. and of course, i wouldn't say stupid...i would say they are expert in what they need to be expert in and up until recently, the interplay between government, them, and big business hasn't been as pressing as it is now. i admit i get frustrated how easily many seem to buy a line of b.s., but i think my brothers and sisters are going to start making the correction. obviously, i could be wrong and we could be heading towards real-life Escape From New York.Jungle Cats wrote:I want to stay out of this. Ah, well. Here now, interested in that particular point of view, which I've never seen it put so forthright -
The public is irrevocably stupid and this is an acceptable status quo because all policy is essentially based in the interests of private entities, who know what they're doing.
Is that about right? I don't want to twist the meaning.
I didn't know I was supposed to sit here and write a political science dissertation. Simplify it however you want. I trust big business long before I trust the people.Jungle Cats wrote:I want to stay out of this. Ah, well. Here now, interested in that particular point of view, which I've never seen it put so forthright -
The public is irrevocably stupid and this is an acceptable status quo because all policy is essentially based in the interests of private entities, who know what they're doing.
Is that about right? I don't want to twist the meaning.
Clearly. You've made my point. If the corporations succeed, that's fine. When they get government bailouts to pay bonuses to executives whose legacy is massive failure, I'd like to think there is a problem. Capitalism is supposed to reward the successful, not to steal from taxpayer to reward the failures.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:Without big businesses succeeding, the economy takes a gigantic shit.
And you don't see any problem with this?Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:When you say the deficit, you don't mean the national debt, right? Cause the national debt's a crock of shit. We have no intention of ever paying it back, will continue to print money we don't have, and it's nothing more than a tool for prospective candidates to point to as evidence of why they're better than the other guy.
How is the national debt a crock of shit? Responsible spending is necessary at any level - public, corporate, personal - just look at some of the Eurozone economies (i.e. Ireland, Greece), who have faced big problems because of their debt.Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:When you say the deficit, you don't mean the national debt, right? Cause the national debt's a crock of shit. We have no intention of ever paying it back, will continue to print money we don't have, and it's nothing more than a tool for prospective candidates to point to as evidence of why they're better than the other guy.Femur wrote:think we are there; nobody has ever been so broke in the history of the world as we are today. i think i read somewhere that even if you took every nickle in the entire world and threw it at the US deficit right now that it wouldn't end it. we are through the looking glass...there is no possibility of our society continuing on present course.