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Players 20 Jan 2010 | 04:21 am
This is an article I always wanted to do – about the named bundle of attributes, qualities and statistics, about the silent knight of Powerplay Manager, about the goat, ass, horse or hypogrif that car...
Advanced PPM-o-metrics 7 Nov 2009 | 04:43 am
Howdy everyone, I haven’t posted for a while, you should appreciate the reasons – the daily job, the autumn blues, Dinamo Riga underperforming in the second KHL season and, most importantly, the lack...
The key factor 18 Sep 2009 | 12:08 am
Let us put the tactics and game importance aside for a while and ask: what is the most important factor that decides the outcome of a game? Today we’ll talk team strength. Whether we like it or not, a...
Tactics and home ice advantage 16 Sep 2009 | 10:41 pm
In the first season I was first and foremost interested in finding out the basic relations of the tactics and countertactics, so I only recorded the tactics and the score of the match. As the spread i...
Aaaaargh, the economics! 6 Aug 2009 | 09:59 pm
Let me start with a short story, an urban legend. Once upon the time there was a poor young lad who met a millionaire and asked him the obvious question – how he made his fortune? The old millionaire ...
Golden friendlies 3 Aug 2009 | 10:13 pm
Why do folks play friendly games? There are many reasons. You get some money from selling tickets, your players gain experience and team chemistry. If you win, you also get rating points. On another l...
Tactics Check XL 16 Jul 2009 | 08:31 pm
Recently we have witnessed quite a few controversal discussions about the use and abuse of tactical tables. In the course of the discussions, the focus has shifted from “how do I use tactics to beat m...
1st season: 3/4 completed 13 Jul 2009 | 07:56 pm
With 2 games left to go in the regular season lets take a look back at the past 4 weeks. League games. Trying to break the curse of Counterattacks vs Breaking, Eaglets set out with normal game import...
Game importance revisited 9 Jul 2009 | 08:02 pm
In a previous posting I had published some data that suggest a very minor impact of game importance on the final result. There was this feeling that playing with higher importance was as “D&G” – expen...
The next moon 15 Jun 2009 | 09:29 pm
The river of time keeps flowing and the time has come for the second monthly progress report of my team. Moon is my unit of time that lasts four calender weeks, thus a PPM season can be conveniently d...
