OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Goalie usage and roster rules prior to WW2

JeffR · 02-21-2016, 07:47 AM

Keeping two goalies on the roster in the one-goalie era is a necessary evil for the roster management AI to function. There are special goalie fatigue rules in that era that minimize/eliminate starts for the backups, but what's probably happening is the in-game goalie replacement system is switching the starter out when the starter gets into trouble, which shouldn't really happen. That can be fixed relatively easily, at least, we can just disable that code in certain years. Pre-46 is probably the best time, since the Rangers were actually using a two-goalie system after Jim Henry came back from the war and shared time with Chuck Rayner for a couple of years before being traded to Chicago, and continued it to a lesser degree with Rayner and Emile Francis for a while after that.

02-21-2016, 07:47 AM	#4
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,394	Keeping two goalies on the roster in the one-goalie era is a necessary evil for the roster management AI to function. There are special goalie fatigue rules in that era that minimize/eliminate starts for the backups, but what's probably happening is the in-game goalie replacement system is switching the starter out when the starter gets into trouble, which shouldn't really happen. That can be fixed relatively easily, at least, we can just disable that code in certain years. Pre-46 is probably the best time, since the Rangers were actually using a two-goalie system after Jim Henry came back from the war and shared time with Chuck Rayner for a couple of years before being traded to Chicago, and continued it to a lesser degree with Rayner and Emile Francis for a while after that.