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ORIENTATION HUT
Welcome to the NHOL Community.
This orientation will give you some information to get you set to play.
It covers the basics how the Leagues work in our group.
Your probably wondering why we
do this detailed orientation and the reason is that our leagues are structured,
there is a method, and reason why we do everything.
We orientate every new member so they understand how the NHOL Community
system works for all modes of EA NHL 20 play in our group.
The NHOL Community has been in existence 6 years now.
Starting with just 12 players who were friends in a Madden League.
It may seem like a lot of information but we want you to understand how
it works, and after a few games playing everything comes clear and in
focus.
Our leagues are
for players with a mature manner, and
where sportsmanship is our #1 rule.
We have a lot of fun here!
It doesn't matter if your a great player or just a beginner learning to
play. We have a spot for you.
Our average age is 34 years old, we have players as young as 16 and as
old as 70.
We currently have 2 Communities on the PlayStation 1 that is strictly for
Versus 1vs1 players and another for all of our modes of play totaling
over 3,200 members.
You will receive an invite to both communities
shortly, if you haven't already.
We have leagues for Versus 1vs1, Eashl and HUT.
You are welcome to play in as many leagues as you choose.
Each year when the new edition of
EA's NHL is released we set up our Versus
1vs 1 leagues, then start the EASHL Leagues, and then HUT Leagues.
Our Versus 1vs1 Leagues have been opened.
Our HUT leagues, and our EASHL group are open.
If you
have interest in playing in our VERSUS 1VS1, or EASHL Leagues, please
contact a league
administrator about playing Versus or EASHL.
The NHOL HUT Leagues
are extremely popular
There are two ways to
play NHOL HUT.
They are the HUT FOR ALL
League (H4A) and
A Franchise League (Team).
Most all
our Community members play in both leagues.
The Team and H4A Leagues are two totally separate Leagues, with 2
totally different ways to play NHOL HUT.
In the Team Leagues you play the entire year and multiple seasons with a team you draft.
We usually have 2-3 seasons per year.
In the H4A League you play against your opponent using any HUT players
you have.
Everyone who plays Team Leagues starts in the H4A.
Once you have played 3 or 4 H4A games there you get offered a team in
one of the
Team League.
Playing these 3-4 H4A games is an evaluation period because we have no
idea if you have elite game play ability, average, or below average, and
want to place you in the proper team league.
Team League.
The Team Leagues have
4 groups based on ability.
League 1 (L1) for elite players
League 2 (L2) for above average players
League 3 (L3) for average players
League 4 (L4) for
beginners and folks who aren't that good but like to play.
In L1, L2, L3. and L4 each
league has 30 owners playing with
a team they select/draft for a season.
We are currently just
starting our 1st season of the year using NHL 20. We will be able to get you into one
of the leagues.
There are a few
different formats for Team League Play
Base Card League (Using Only Base Cards)
Franchise League (Where You Own And Control A NHL Team and All Their Minor
League Affiliates)
Salary Cap League (Where There Is A Salary Cap Involved With Your Team)
Euro League (Strictly For European Players)
At the end of the regular season every team
in all our leagues makes the playoffs each season.
All 30 teams.
Owners must play at last 90% of their scheduled games
to be playoff eligible, and all though that is considered playoff eligible
most of our team league owners play all of their games.
In our 6 years of our Team leagues we have played over
35,000 games scheduled, and
less than 1,000 games were not played and
computer simulated.
Everyone takes playing their scheduled games seriously.
We understand sometimes its hard to get a hold of your opponent due to
real life events, time zones, etc.
The league Administrators monitor the situation, and will work with you to get
your games in against your opponents.
Any open game on your schedule can be played at anytime during the
season, you do not have to play the games in order.
We do not play at designated times, you can come into the Team League
chat room and ask to play your opponents, or meet there or set a time to
play.
We do ask that you look on the schedule to see who is home and who is away each game.
At the end of the season
Team League Owners, usually NHOL Cup Champions, runners up, or President Cup
winners are promoted to a higher league.
Or you can ask to go up or down from a league
(example League 2 up to League 1) or (example League 2 down to League 3)
in a lower league.
For all of our leagues we record
every game in every mode of play to your individual member history.
So unlike EA that resets your records each season ours will run on
forever.
For Team League Games we record Team stats for every game played.
Individual player stats like goal scorers, assists, goalies saves, and goals
allowed.
We have a dynamic website, that makes entering the stats for Team League
quite easy.
We have tutorials to show you how to enter
stats and look over the website.
You will receive an email with all of the website links and user names
once we set you up in the Team League.
After the first time or 2 entering game stats takes about 5 minutes.
The winner of the game enters all game stats,
Once you play a game or two the entire system comes into focus.
A league administrator will work with you and show you exactly how the
team league works.
So that is how our Team 1vs1 league work.
HUT For All League (H4A)
T he HUT For All League (H4A) which is step 1
to start playing in the NHOL.
The H4A and the Team Leagues, are two separate leagues, but two
different ways for you to play in the NHOL HUT Community.
Even though we use the H4A for your 3 or 4 game evaluation period before we
give you a team in the Team, the H4A is a league that allows Team league players from L1, L2, L3, or L4 to
play against each other, using their HUT teams.
It also allows you to work on your game play ability against top
players, and to scout community members game play styles.
The H4A is not only a League it is a game within a game the main goal is
play as much as you can.
It works as follows:
2 members of the community agree to play then look on the schedule and
play.
You can play any NHOL HUT Community member as many times as you wish.
One of the players goes on the H4A website, go to our Randomizer, and puts
the names of the players and clicks the generate button.
The website will tell
us what teams are home and who is away.
One player will post a screen shot in the chat room so the opponent
knows what team
is home or away.
When the
game is completed the opponents will file a game report using the link:
NHOL HUT
GAME REPORT
NHOL H4A STATS WEBSITE/HOME AWAY RANDOMIZER
When the game is over, unlike the Team leagues that have detailed game
stats all we enter is the score, including Overtime if applicable, and
what community members played.
At the end of the regular season
(Every 3 Months) 16 teams in the NHOL H4A standings make the
playoffs.
Then 12 Community members with the most
games played are in, which leaves 4 teams.
The last 4 teams to be picked come from a special play in tournament, of
all the NHOL HUT Community members.
After the playoffs end and the H4A Cup Champion is crowned we award PSN cards to the winner $50--Runnerup,
3rd place and 4th $20 as a reward.
Your individual stats also get
updated.
You individual stats include Wins, Losses, Goals For/Against,
and your Individual Player Rating.
Your rating starts at 1500 rating.
If you play another
1500 rated player and win you might go up 15 points in your rating.
If you lose maybe down 15.
If you play a highly rated player and win maybe 25 points, if you lose
maybe down 10 points.
Like I said earlier the H4A is a great league to work on
your game in a relaxed setting, we consider it our local pickup rink.
So that is how our 2 NHOL HUT Leagues work.
ADDITIONAL
NHOL HUT FUN THINGS
NHOL HUT TRADING EXCHANGE: Meet
with other NHOL HUT Community Members and make deals to trade cards.
NHOL HUT WAGERING SPORTS BOOK: Open to anyone who wishes to gamble their
HUT coins in 2 methods.
Wagering Against Fellow NHOL Community Members Head To Head.
Wagering on Professional or College Sports in the NHOL HUT Sports Book.
You must first open a NHOL HUT Bank Account to do either first, once the
account is opened the NHOL will back all HUT coin wagers.
GAME PLAY RULES
As far as Game play rules for both leagues we have some simple rules.
DO
NOT QUIT GAMES OR PULL THE PLUG, IF YOU ARE LOSING ALWAYS FINISH THE
GAME OUT, THEN TALK TO AN ADMIN IF THERE IS A PROBLEM.
If the game is
lagging right away talk to your opponent and either restart the game or
play at a later time.
Lag is rare these days and we have good
connections with players from Australia to Europe.
Diving or
going to 1 knee in the offensive zone is not allowed, anywhere else on
the ice is ok.
Our most important rule is the Sportsmanship Rule and it is as follows:
If at any time during the game you go up by 5 goals, you
cannot shoot at the opposing goalie.
You must skate the puck over center ice or the blue line dump it in and
fall back and play defense.
If your opponent scores to cut the lead to 4 goals, you can then try to
score again.
You may ask why we have this rule and it is because no one wants to get
embarrassed.
It rarely comes in play in the Team leagues, but can in H4A
where you have elite players playing average or new players.
Everyone in the community is friendly and gets along.
All of our players say Good Luck (GL) and Good Game (GG) after the game
ends.
Our members are people you will play numerous times, this is not like
playing unknown people in EA.
There is absolutely no complaining in main chat rooms about your
opponents game play, glitches, or anything.
No political or racial comments either.
Can you swear well ok just do not make it every other word, and remember
though we do have females in the community.
Then you can moan all you want how EA screwed you.
We have Chatrooms on the Groupme
Chat App One for the Team Leagues/H4A, A Trading HUT Card Room, Bank
Room, and a Wagering Room.
Additional Informational Can Be Found On The NHOL
HUT Website
LINK TO NHOL
HUT
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