|
I just loaded two zip files: Lalonde Howe IHL.lg.zip and Lalonde Howe IHL 1959.lg.zip
Here's why I did that. I started the league in 1946 and at the end of each league year (June 30th) I manually import a handful of historically significant players in roughly chronological order. I have auto-save disabled and save the league at the end of each league year and each July 1st. I have played through the end of 1955. Since I noticed some significant players have not appeared in the major league (the IHL) by age 22/23/24/25, I tested their progress by simming all at once through the end of 1958. Lalonde and Howe were not on major league teams by the end of 1958. OnceI determined that, I made my original post. I did not save the original sim to 1958.
I've resimmed a test through 1959. Lalonde made a major league team, Howe has not. I saved a copy of the test sim through 1959 and sent that to you as well.
Something that just occurred to me: I changed the players' peak ages to 27/28, which may be impacting their development? Perhaps I should pull that back. The intent of the change was to lengthen their period of impact on the major league, but maybe that's stunting their development?
I reviewed a handful of imported players and summarized their development in the attached file (also below):
Entry Year Player Name Result by 1955 Result by 1959
1946 Reg Noble 8 years in minors 12 years in minors (2 years of 2 points per game)
1946 Clint Benedict 8 years in minors 2 years in majors (age 28 & 29)
1946 Cy Denneny 7 years in minors - > forced assigned to major league team remained in majors
1946 Corb Denneny 8 years in minors 12 years in minor
1946 Newsy Lalonde 9 years in minors 4 years in majors (age 26 - 29)
1946 Georges Vezina 8 years in minors 4 years in majors (age 27 - 30)
1946 Punch Broadbent 7 years in minors, major at age 25 1.5 years in major, back to minors at age 26; 4 more years in minors
1946 Sprague Cleghorn 9 years in minors 13 years in minors
1946 Odie Cleghorn 9 years in minors 13 years in minors
1946 Babe Dye 8 years in minors 12 years in minors
1946 King Clancy 8 years in minors 12 years in minors
1946 Howie Morenz 2 years in majors remained in majors
1946 Hap Day 10 years in minors 3 years in majors (age 27 - 29)
1946 Babe Siebert 8 years in minors, 1 year in majors (age 25) 1 more year in majors (age 26), 5 years in minors
1947 George Hainsworth 9 years in minors 2 years in majors (age 27 & 28)
1947 Lorne Chabot 10 years in minors 1 year in majors (age 28)
1947 Dit Clapper 9 years in minors 3 years in majors (age 26 - 28)
1948 Cooney Weiland 6 years in minors 10 years in minors
1951 Maurice Richard 2 years in minors 6 years in minors
1952 Ted Lindsay 1 year in minors 5 years in minors
1952 Gordie Howe 1 year in minors 5 years in minors
1953 Terry Sawchuk 1 year in minors 4 years in minors
1953 Alex Delvecchio undrafted, no team 4 years in minors
1953 Jean Beliveau 1 year in minors 5 years in minors
1954 Jacques Plante undrafted, no team 4 years in minors
1954 Johnny Bucyk undrafted, no team 1 year in minors
1954 Henri Richard undrafted, no team 1 year in minors
|