Why don't you just set up a discord call and show your screen as the simulation runs?

yes, they are gourmet bagels (before we slice them into a million pieces)

whats the difference? besides, it might take longer to set that up than it will to run the lotto.

WhY nOt SeT uP a TwItCh StReAm?

Just youtube stream it.

Just do what you're doing. It's worked so far, so why change.
IF, and say IF you felt you needed to appease the masses (or the 2 ppl who need it) you could record the lotto thing with your phone and post the video in the Twitter chat for all to see.
But don't ever feel you need to give in to peer pressure.

That's my Wednesday night PSA

Thank you Brett, very cool

Much Wow!
Such Idea!

Will there be a buyout period before the expansion draft?

Yes, around May 13th

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NZiWKBXuErAxWGzhJRHEQawTHS5K1KljvCqCUI7CU1w/edit#gid=0

Are we going to do another one of those playoff brackets, where the winner gets an extra draft pick or something?

Let's do it.
Group = GM Game
Password = V3

https://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/leagues/gm-game

You mean where RAIF gets an extra draft pick for picking every series winner and every number of games correctly?

Just so people are aware, you cannot take a player, protect him, and then return him to his original team to circumvent expansion draft rules. (Until Jan 1st of the following year)

https://mobile.twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/879349814726725633.

That doesn't take into account the "hidden rules", where the league can intervene if they believe circumvention is a factor.

March Waiver Order

NEJ
NEY
OAA
LES
DTT
CHG
ARA
FIA
AHI
CGAY
BFF
CLR
SJE
TAY
WIG
NSV
MOO
MSA
EMON
DLL
WGN
PGH
VAS
CRL
NODES
BOO
VCR
SLS
TOO
PHA
CUM

can you put it in Non-Friedman terms so I don't have a stroke?

no

For the Free Agency, there were some players who signed IRL extensions July 1st 2018 after the game had started. I’m assuming that they don’t count in game, and if that’s the case you guys might want to remind everybody of that fact so people don’t get screwed over

Yep, that is a good reminder. Any extension signed after May 19th, 2018 is not recognized in the game.

And here are a few more since typically no one asks about this stuff until it's too late

Each team will be able to extend one UFA without competition. Term and AAV will be negotiated with the BOG during the UFA extension period near the end of May.

UFAs and RFAs must be protected in the expansion draft or they can be selected by QBC.

No-Movement Clauses for expansion purposes must be protected if the clause continues into the 2019-20 season.

The 2019-20 season begins officially on July 1, 2019 for player contract details.

Edited to reflect proper NMC rules

BOO just BOO

If we are recognizing May 19th, 2018 as the start of our v3 game, then WHY in the bloddy Blue He(dbl hockey sticks) are we recognizing July 1st as the date for contract clauses.

What we're saying here is that if a player signed an absolutely stupid real life new contract, we don't have to recognize it because it was signed AFTER our game started.
That would mean then, our "season" should officially end as of May 18th, 2019 at Midnight EST meaning any current contact clauses should end on that date or at least switch to their new function.
So if player has a full NMC, but it switches to a M-NTC "next season", in regards to our game that "next season" would start on May 19th, 2019
Yet, we're being told that players with such clauses need to be auto-protected in the upcoming expansion draft in our game because the clause doesn't switch until July 1st....

Expansion draft is scheduled for May 20th start, which would mean all our current in game contracts would end the day prior to that, yet we have to recognize the current clauses for another month after expansion.

Clitch in the system, easily fixed by either moving the expansion draft back to July 2nd (won't happen) OR just let it be known that any clauses that switch as of July 1st actually take effect May 19th to reflect our in game year long season.

The only personal example I gave offer is my dear friend Johnny Boychuk.
WHY should I be penalized by being forced to protect him in our "in game" expansion draft just because his real life contract changes 40 days too late.

It blurs too many lines. We either recognize our in game start date as the change over date for everything, or we follow any and all real life dates.
Again, our game started May 19, but if a guy somehow signed an absolute crap new contract on May 20, the team who has that player doesn't have to keep it and can sign him to something new (and likely much cheaper)

Me: Not mad, just thinking out loud

Blah Blah Blah.
Quick thought on a rule that should be implemented.

Can we resign extra UFAs prior to expansion draft in order to qualify for EXP purposes.
Or do we not really care about the rules?
Since almost no team will qualify for the real EXP draft rules, if this is not inacted.

We can only extend 1 single UFA because FA "Needs to be more exciting" or "Needs more action"

Yeah, but then 90% of the teams won't qualify for expansion draft rules..

I guess we only care about certain real-life rules when it suits us.

It’s better if we can only resign 1 UFA. That way 62 FA’s don’t become unavailable. It should be somewhat interesting

All I am suggesting is we should be allowed to sign enough UFAs to qualify for EXP draft rules./