I'm kind of getting bored. I have this one Franchise where I absolutely wreck. I've got 7 prospects I drafted eating up the league, but now I've won the cup three years in a row and am in line to win another.
My main concern is that I have at least 5 more top prospects ready to go for next year. I don't want to keep winning over and over it's lame. I've tried taking over as GM of another team to see it'd be fun, but no.
EDIT: (I was in a hurry so I typed this quick)
So I've tried to come up with ways, like lowering the Salary Cap so it would be harder, but still I don't know what to do. I don't just want to trade them away, I'd like to do something creative I guess with them.
Last edited by ExxonPirate; 06-19-2010 at 09:15 PM.
If you start a new game, do not let yourself trade up in the draft or utilize top 10 draft picks. Focus on drafting in the later 1st and other rounds. Also, avoid free agency, it's way too easy to throw out 20 million and pick up Pronger, Kovalchuk, and Luongo to turn your team from failure to instant contender.
If you're keeping the same game and want to remain with your team your only option is to really trade them away. Maybe figure out a criteria like you keep 2 players from each forward line, and 1 player from each defense pairing and trade the rest away for whatever the AI gives you (preferably not picks--maybe aging talent). Or you could put all your players' names in a hat, and draw 15 of them, trading away whoever isn't drawn.
If you're even half decent at the game and even remotely abuse the drafts (trading for higher picks to grab star talent) you'll find your team fills with prospects quick. It's gotten to the point with me, where even drafting with the 30th and 60th pick produces no busts. I usually have at least 1-2 NHL ready prospects waiting to join the team every year.
Give yourself a self imposed cap (really low)
Only get a maximum of picks per Draft, dont move up massive.
Build a team full of homegrown (players you drafted) players.
I might aswell throw it in here because its kind of a prospect/scouting issue.
When I'm in the draft my scout whom has 99 Judging Potential, to pick Player A whom has Red attributes, and isn't very interesting, but saying he will be a more talented, better version of say Josh Gorges. I'm not exactly sure why he says that or why he refers to Josh Gorges and then says hes top pairing potential. Not only that but when I scan through the draft I find these players whom are 18-19 are developed with yellow attributes like 70s or sometimes rare 80s, and they are also said to be say Like Henrik Zetterberg.
Why doesn't my scout tell me to go for that player? Isn't it supposed to be BPA? Based on my experience, players whom are red attributes especially in determination and technical, they rarely develop or their ranking will regress to say 1st pairing to reserve Dman.
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