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Forum: GM Game 2019-20May 18, 2021 at 1:14 p.m.
Thread: 2019 - 20 GM Game - News and Important Info Thread
Good Afternoon Everyone, with the regular season ending tomorrow we wanted to get a heads up on events happening within the next month or so and a timeline for those events.
We will pull final season stats 5/20 to allow for the final games worth of data to be processed by NST. This final scoring period will determine playoff matchups. Playoffs will be week long periods ranging from saturday to friday starting this weekend 5/22. The rounds will proceed as follows: First Round: 5/22 - 5/28, Second Round: 5/29 - 6/4, Final 4: 6/5 - 6/11, Stanley Cup: 6/12 - 6/18. Voting will end on Wednesday nights. New matchups and all voting results will be posted on Friday. The lottery date exact date has not been decided yet but will likely fall between rounds 2 and 3. The NHL Entry draft will begin starting at 10AM EST 6/25 (Friday morning fyi).

Couple quick notes, you should set your playoff lineups asap this will include all areas (forward, defense, goalie, pp, pk) as voting will begin on saturday and your round 1 lineup will "lock" friday at midnight. You are allowed to change your lineups round to round. Injuries will be dealt with on a case by case basis. The GM must PROVE FACTUALLY the player would be back in time during your matchup to be considered for that round. You are doing the research not us. For example: If I search dylan larkin injury, I get out for season. I cannot get any further information on how bad the injury actually is, what the injury is, or what the timeline would be for that injury. Larkin would be ineligible for the playoffs since I cannot find any evidence he would be back by 5/22. This may change if I advance and more data becomes available but until then he is ineligble for the playoffs.

Voting is the most important part of our playoffs and should be taken seriously. We have increased the luck %(roughly 25%) for matchups this year so there may actually be some upsets due to that. There may be instances where someone is a clear cut favorite, dominates the vote, but loses the sim based on the luck matchup. It will likely affect a series or 2 if not more. Just know, nobody is out to get you, we are trying to make the playoffs as real as possible without starting them a month early there should be upsets naturally and as has been proven in prior years that typically isnt the case when straight voting occurs. The highest and lowest votes per series are not taken into account for series voting. You also cannot vote on your own matchups or on matchups whose first round pick you hold. Voting is exclusive to GM's only sorry agm's you can voice your input to your gm's but it is ultimately their call. Lastly, this is new for this year but we thought it was a necessary addition... being this is one of the most important times and arguably the only time of "required" appearances in gm game... IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EXCUSE FOR MISSING A VOTE PRIOR TO/DURING VOTING AND YOU MISS VOTES YOU WILL LOSE YOUR SPOT AS GM FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS IT. We have it currently set up where you can vote saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, and wednesday that should be plenty of time to get a spot in. Voting shouldnt take that long. We should be able to achieve 100% voting from this group of gm's. If you dont want to vote or are too lazy to care you will be replaced in the offseason with someone who does.