2022-2023 VHL Ratings Beta Release

[Boston Bruins]

Jun 6, 2023 13:27:13 GMT -5 Utah Hockey Club said:

Jun 6, 2023 11:57:30 GMT -5 Buffalo Sabres said:

did you run with our exact sim settings?

Wolf sent me a screenshot of the current settings and I tuned from there. For those interested in my methodology I did the following:

1. Run full regular season SIMs and tune the goal slider until there was an approximate amount of players with over 82 points compared to the last NHL season. I was happy when there was between 20-30. In the NHL there was 28.

2. Run full regular season SIMs and tune the shots slider until there was an approximate amount of goalies with over 0.910SV% compared to the last NHL season. I was happy when there was over 10 while over 3 goalies with 0.920SV%. This would also required further tuning of the goal slider to offset any increase or decrease in shots to ensure scoring stayed level.

3. During this tuning, also adjust the fights and penalty slider to match PIMs and fight count in the NHL.

4. Run full regular season + playoffs to see how teams perform in the post-season. I'm happy I did this because originally NYI was winning half the Cups. I attribute this to the hits slider being too high and with guys like Cizikas, Martin and Clutterbuck having too much sway on gameplay. Once I turned hits down, it became much more realistic.

5. Once all sliders were set, I ran a final 5 full seasons (which the results are in the GSheet from above) to ensure everything was looking good. The only anomaly was the Red Wings acting like the Kings of 2012 and going to the Cup final after being an unlikely 8th seed. Other than that, everything seemed to replicate the previous NHL rather accurately in a repetitive season-over-season manner.

But how did the Bruins do!?!?!?!?!? 😂🤣😂

[Utah Hockey Club]

Jun 6, 2023 18:55:08 GMT -5 Boston Bruins said:

But how did the Bruins do!?!?!?!?!? 😂🤣😂

Looks like they won one Cup, but I think they were a perennial playoff team.

[Boston Bruins]

[Florida Panthers]

Jun 7, 2023 9:18:41 GMT -5 Boston Bruins said:

He was simming the NHL rosters not ours haha 

[Boston Bruins]

Jun 7, 2023 9:26:59 GMT -5 Florida Panthers said:

Jun 7, 2023 9:18:41 GMT -5 Boston Bruins said:

He was simming the NHL rosters not ours haha 


You couldn't let me dream, eh???

[Nashville Predators]

dumb question, but the rating packages include decimals. I'm trying to figure out what my cap is gonna look like next year with potentual RFA deals. Are numbers round up or down for the overall

Ex) Tage Thompson is rated 79.22xxxx. Would he be rated a 79 or 80 in the sim? Makes quite a big difference in the value of contract he will be signing this offseason

[Utah Hockey Club]

Jun 7, 2023 21:29:16 GMT -5 Nashville Predators said:

dumb question, but the rating packages include decimals. I'm trying to figure out what my cap is gonna look like next year with potentual RFA deals. Are numbers round up or down for the overall

Ex) Tage Thompson is rated 79.22xxxx. Would he be rated a 79 or 80 in the sim? Makes quite a big difference in the value of contract he will be signing this offseason

Not a dumb question at all. The decimals are the raw output of the ratings model. Everything is sig-fig rounded before being loaded into SIM. However, SIM recalculates OV with the rounded numbers so we won't know exactly player's OV until Wolf rolls over the ratings to next season. The purposes of the early Google Sheet release is to give everyone an approximation of what to expect.

[San Jose Sharks]

Thanks for all the hard work

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Yeah thanks for the hard work guys.