23 man roster
Close your eyes and pick 11 random players. (Can be as many ELCs as you get)
Fill in the other 12 roster spots with players of your choice. (ONLY 2 ELCs!)
Stay under the cap
Have fun and @ me in the comments when you've completed the challenge!
Then, looking at everyone elses picks, I put into question the honesty of them - seeing as I literally hardly had heard of most of my picks. So instead I sorted by cap hit and re-did it.
This time I got:
Huberdeau, Kane, Pettersson, Turris, Kaut, Dumoulin, DeKeyser, Shattenkirk, Carlo, Talbot and Vehvilainen.
Added ELCs: Hughes and Svechnikov
Analysis:
I lucked out on Pettersson and Huberdeau, then I just added good players and removed bad players. Crazy good scoring first and 3rd lines, stupid good possession 2nd and 4th lines. Great 1st pairing D, okay-to-solid 2nd defensive pair, and lastly a mixed bag 3rd pairing. I chose McAvoy over Klingberg cause Shattenkirk is actually useful on the PP. I chose the best goalie of the past season and used my random one as back-up.
This is a pretty interesting challenge, but I think there are too few random players to cause real variation - I just have them as scratches or bottom of the lineup players.
Yeah, looking at what other people got I was very suspicious. So I tested it and found the same thing you did -- where over half they guys I selected were basically league minimum players that I'd never heard of.
Yeah, looking at what other people got I was very suspicious. So I tested it and found the same thing you did -- where over half they guys I selected were basically league minimum players that I'd never heard of.
Yup, seemed pretty disingenuous to me. So I decided to at least post what I did in full honesty.
Yup, seemed pretty disingenuous to me. So I decided to at least post what I did in full honesty.
And I agree on your last point in the description -- I think you should have a 20 man roster only; all the randoms should be in the lineup (maybe 10 random - 10 not, in that case)
Yeah, looking at what other people got I was very suspicious. So I tested it and found the same thing you did -- where over half they guys I selected were basically league minimum players that I'd never heard of.
Quoting: MelonVK
Yup, seemed pretty disingenuous to me. So I decided to at least post what I did in full honesty.
i sorted by last name and just luck of the draw.
But yes, your first picks were quite terrible, and im not sure the others are being completely honest