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4 years ago

Strategies — Goalie usage slider

Some teams have a clear #1 goalie, some teams are almost 50/50 in their usage of starter versus backup and the rest are somewhere in between.

Franchise mode needs a slider under team strategies to dictate how often your starting goalie rests. 0-100%. 0% means the starter only plays if the backup is hurt and 100% means the starter would start every game when not injured. This way if you sim some games you don’t end up with unrealistic starts for your backup goalies. (It would be nice to be able to adjust other teams sliders on this one, because it seems like AI logic would probably be way behind and have goofy percentages once traded and signings happen)

This could turn into additional strategy options in the future, like when those goalies tend to be used. Maybe an option where a starter always rests on back to back games, or when you’re playing the opposite conference the backup always plays, or if playing any contender the starter always gets the start etc.   These additional options would be nice but not completely necessary.

The slider and % section it in my opinion needed 100%. We shouldn’t still be seeing Vasilevsky and Nedeljkovic have the same number of games started.

@EA_Kent 

@EA_Aljo 

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  • kyl_35's avatar
    kyl_35
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I asked for this and a few other goalie related items a few years ago. Sure would be nice if the finally implemented it. 

  • Same. I don’t understand the time spent on some of the silly stuff that happens twice a season (scoring from the ground) but not adding in things that are huge in sports (player usage time/scenario, being able to change positions in franchise mode, etc). 

    I will say I’m glad they added the third forward and defense lines for the PK this year. I always hate when one of my PK guys are in the box and the AI chooses to replace his spot with a sniper or something ridiculous. That is a big win for franchise mode.

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