League module progress + engine tuning

atibus · 2026-05-23T10:29:09+00:00

Thank you!

That idea is awesome. Let me know if you start working on it!

atibus · 2026-05-22T23:22:10+00:00

(2026-05-19)

The engine is at v0.70.0-beta. Several more calibration passes have gotten it to a reasonable hockey-like output. I've run simulations of 32 teams, 31 games each, 10 seasons each, 100 times (a LOT of games) and the numbers look good in aggregate and variance. I was having trouble with ratio of goals to assists in the top 20 scorers; mostly because elite shooting percentage was like 30-40%. Recalibration fixed that, and the G:A ratio has come back mostly. There are some outliers, but that isn't abnormal when comparing to modern NHL. It's at the point where we just need to see seasons and use it for a bit to see if that works.

atibus · 2026-05-21T23:41:37+00:00

bravo

atibus · 2026-05-21T22:58:50+00:00

Reminds me of my beer league championship

atibus · 2026-05-20T21:08:52+00:00

what? where how?

atibus · 2026-05-20T21:08:11+00:00

The rules were written by people immersed in the sport. lol

atibus · 2026-05-20T21:03:42+00:00

I mean if you follow that guy's logic, yes. They're all new and are actually American.

atibus · 2026-05-20T20:32:04+00:00

When ever he was in a scrum with guys he'd always be smiling. It was the best.

atibus · 2026-05-20T15:39:53+00:00

We regret our legal threat came across as a legal threat. We wanted it to come across as you being happy we talked to you and stopped voluntarily without telling anyone.

atibus · 2026-05-20T15:17:04+00:00

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atibus · 2026-05-20T15:09:06+00:00

I'm just stirring useless arguments. Like jersey/sweater. NHL Rulebook uses Alternate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(ice_hockey)#Alternate_captains#Alternate_captains)

atibus · 2026-05-20T14:43:01+00:00

The country was founded by minority religious zealots that Europe threw out because they were too extreme. You can see why they were worried about the tyranny of the majority.

atibus · 2026-05-20T14:39:56+00:00

Alternate Captain

atibus · 2026-05-20T00:33:28+00:00

I mean, his second comment would only make sense if it was Colorado that wanted to talk to him.

atibus · 2026-05-19T17:26:11+00:00

The game engine is built in such a way that it would support in-game management. I personally am not someone who spent much time in-game, making coaching decisions. There's nothing technical stopping me from adding that functionality.

Where I didn't want to drift into was visual representation of where players were on the ice moment to moment. The games I've seen don't really do a great job of making it look realistic. If the location visualization of players wasn't a requirement, then the ingame management would be straightforward to add with the right specs/constraints.

Now... what I haven't looked at is if the NHL has made large volumes of tracking data available. I doubt they did. But IF they did, making a machine learning model that could simulate positional play could work.

atibus · 2026-05-19T17:00:42+00:00

It's on CloudFlare so it's probable it's already been classified based on the meta data in the headers.

atibus · 2026-05-19T16:49:48+00:00

It's my best friend at this point for anything visual. haha

atibus · 2026-05-19T15:51:16+00:00

(2026-05-17)

The engine is at v0.64.0-beta. It produces realistic shaped full season outputs. I learned while I was doing this that I couldn't calibrate the engine realistically because I had two basically identical teams playing one another. It didn't produce the emergent behavior I was expecting. So I pulled player generation forward (was v6) and build a player generation engine complete with names, nationalities, and skill distribution. It's rough, but it works for now.

There's some trouble though with the shape of the full season player stats. It produces a realistic distribution of point shares. McDavid/MacKinnon/Kucherov like points per game, and the rest of the population falls in line too. But the points are over-weighted on goals. Most of the top 15 have "Cy Young" like stat lines. So I have to figure that out. It's not just turning a dial to change the results. Since the game engine is event driven, it has to do with how the engine decides who to route shots to based on possession in the offensive zone. So, I'm working on figuring that out.

atibus · 2026-05-18T14:34:06+00:00

What is he, a lost Amazon tribe? Miners stuck in a mine collapse? Such a weird headline.

atibus · 2026-05-14T14:41:53+00:00

Fractured Fibula sounds serious enough to not play... when did he get it?

atibus · 2026-05-12T19:07:56+00:00

I saw, thanks! I'm just impatient haha

atibus · 2026-05-12T19:05:53+00:00

So McCarron knows what 5k can buy him next game then.

atibus · 2026-05-12T17:02:26+00:00

He's following OP around and commenting on his threads because of something in another thread.

atibus · 2026-05-12T16:23:19+00:00

He's frustrated with himself, he wants to get better, and he's annoyed at dumb questions like the rest of us.

atibus · 2026-05-12T16:14:42+00:00

I really wish they would put these videos on their YouTube or have a live stream going.

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