[jwnovak]

Are there any plans to change the way goalie starts are assigned?

How much affect does coaching philosophy have on goalie starts?

Playing in an online league for a couple years now.
Part of the issue with goalie starts is that when you play in an online league, for time constraints basically all online leagues are simulating a week or so of games at a time.
Doing this, over-riding goalie start selection isn't exactly feasible for every game when you have 32 human controlled teams.
So, with the sliders. We have weird things happening all the time. Guys who's goalies start 25 games in a row and others (with the "stick with starter in playoffs checked) who's team is starting their 2.5 Ab/3 pot goalie with 20 starts over their 4 Ab/5 pot with 40+ starts during the playoffs.
It doesn't matter what the sliders are, we have tested it with GMs having the exact same sliders, but the affect on goalie starts is basically non-existent.

Can we request some sort of "assigning starts" feature for goalies?
It's made goalies complete voodoo/rng for the starts. Same sliders from one team to the next and you get wildly different starts for goalies.
It makes startegizing goalie starts basically impossible.
ESPECIALLY the "Stick with starter in the playoffs" not working is incredibly frustrating. It's shouldn't be weighted. It should be you play the starter period in the playoffs. A 100% override.

It's pretty common in the NHL to have your calendar and before hand you can pick and choose starts for a goalie. Like making sure your starter is in for rivalry games, or choosing which in a back to back you want which goalie. Why do we need to rely on "weighting and sliders" for starts? Takes the GM/Coaching aspect out of it.