Executive Hockey News

Coaches... Continued

You can now change your coach! Click your team icon on the header on the main game screen, and click 'Change'. There are no limits (at the moment) to how often you change your coach, although that may change in future releases. When your coach is fired, back to the pool they go, and you can re-hire again later.

With this release, the AIs will not change coaches. That will probably change as well in the near future.

Coaches!

This is the start of coaches being added to Executive Hockey! For now, it's just a drop-in replacement for team archetypes (aggressive, defensive, wise, etc.), but will eventually be a fuller experience.

We also fixed some player career stats that were slightly inaccurate.

Miscellaneous minor fixes - October 16, 2023

Fixes bug where drop down lists wouldn't always be in front
Change so that AI teams are more likely to start drafted players sooner
Undetermined players now behave like a weighted average of the likelihood of them determining at each level; no longer like minor leaguers
Fixed bug where if you switched years there would be x's by the teams making the playoffs in the current year
Fixed bug where if you switched years when you weren't looking at your own team, it would never reset back properly
Customizable draft pools by year with some 'real' players for 2024 and 2025 included
Updated rosters
Slight performance improvements
All teams now lose rights to any draft picks not signed within 4 years (including human owner)
Bumped up # of games required to become 'determined'

2023-2024 Season Update!

Rosters for 2023-2024
Updates to many player attributes
Headlines screen now has correct date for each news item
Updated injuries to start the 2023-2024 season
Fixed bug where teams won't always draft best player available
New line change model; changes average time on ice
Shifts are now tracked, although not yet shown on front end
Improvements to scoring play algorithm; snipers/scorers are more likely to score and playmakers more likely to assist
Concept of game exhaustion is removed from the UI, but still exists internally, based on number of shifts played
If an AI team is up 2+ goals, they will lean towards defensive lines
Core, Journeyman, and Minor Leaguers are now slightly stronger
Slight increase to player values in their early 20s-late 20s
Franchise and Generational players now only have one position. This keeps the algorithm from always putting Tavares on the top line with Matthews, for example.

Roster Updates for 2022-2023

In addition to the roster updates for the 2022-2023 season, the following items were added or fixed:

On Lineup screen, columns in player lists on left side of screen are now lined up vertically
Draft results are now available for previous seasons
Draft screen now shows results of the draft after it is complete
Tab button borders now match control borders
Changed 'disabled button' font colour
Minor improvements to Offer sheet list box formatting
First button on Upcoming games panel now only ever says 'Go'
Slowed how quickly picks are made on Live Draft screen
Added feature to delete saved games
Changed close/exit box icons
Added 'Undetermined' tag for recently drafted players
Fixed crash when waivers get put on Unsigned-drafted list instead of Scratches
Added News to the home header
Added messaging about when a player becomes Determined when it's not a tag that would have been likely