u/TheGreatZiegfeld

With the new game on the horizon, I assume the up-to-date custom rosters are in the works. Every so often I'll see missing or incorrect information on a custom roster and fix it on my end (usually just statlines), but is there a way that I can contribute those more technical fixes to the upcoming custom rosters?

I posted on the forum already about some players in RSB's custom roster with missing stats or misspelled names. I figure it'd be good to have other people work on the small-scale fixes to make the roster creator's job easier - especially with the new history eras being added.

For how thorough the site can be, it's inevitably going to have its blindspots.

One example I can think of is the new age artist Arden Wilken, who has only one album under her name on the site despite being a fairly prolific musician and a notable name in her genre during the 1980's. I would have added more of her work to the site, but I'm not great when it comes to adding non-digital issues to the database - not to mention much of her work was re-recorded for CD, meaning someone listening to the original tapes might have a much different experience from someone listening on CD or online.

The current free agency list tends to exclude any players signed to contracts with other leagues (unless it's junior/NCAA level). I don't mind this so much, since you can sign them once they become UFA's anyway, though maybe there could be separate free agent tabs or filters so you can include or exclude players who are technically under contract in a different league but might still be eligible/interested in signing in a league like the NHL. This would probably depend on their current contract stipulations, so some players might be able to come over immediately while others might need to wait until the end of their current contract.

But I also noticed that there will sometimes be players who aren't signed to any contract at all, yet still won't be listed on the free agency page throughout the season. This has become more noticeable for me since I tend to play commissioner mode with high contract limits, so I run through a large amount of lower overall free agents. At the end of each season, I'll see a surprising number of retiring players who weren't signed with or playing for anyone in the past year, yet weren't listed as available free agents for that season. Sometimes if I can find that player's profile through a search, I can still sign them as a free agent, but they aren't listed on the free agents page, at least once the season has begun.

Maybe a more thorough free agents page and/or better free agent tracking would solve this problem? Have more UFAs signing with other leagues, but some of those leagues might be domestic (AHL-only or ECHL-only contracts, also stuff like the LNAH) and still eligible to immediately sign with your NHL team without having them just be inactive the whole year.

Ever since I got a last.fm, I've loved the recommended artists tab. That said, there's still some things about it that I feel completely in the dark about.

For context, I listen to a lot of ambient music, but for recommendations I tend to seek out a broad variety of genres. So sometimes I'll go to the recommended tab and dismiss some of the artists I have less interest in so I can see what else gets recommended.

My questions:

• Does removing an artist from my recommended tab have any permanent effect? Because I'd hope for a distinction between "I'm not interested in this artist for now" and "I never want this artist recommended to me."

• Do the artists you dismiss have any effect on what future recommendations you receive? Like if I delete a lot of my ambient recommendations, does the algorithm notice that and adjust accordingly? Or is it just entirely based on listening habits regardless of any removed recommendations?

• Why is there this giant fish skulking around my neighborhood like he wants something, what could he realistically desire

Any clarifications are much appreciated.