EA Sports NHL 2012

Dash wrote:I think you might need a gold membership FYI, don't know if you have one or if that is even still the case.

I read there's still a few error with the update. Leclaire still on Sens, just as a lot of other UFAs are on their last teams, not in the FA list.

RAGE! I tried last night, what the Diddle is this gold membership rubbish!

Does PS3 require membership for updates?

I don't intend to purchase a gold membership for this game, if I get it at all. If PS3 offers updates without any special membership, that makes my decision easy.

No, PS3 you don't need to spend any additional money to play. But, for the money XBOX charges, they make up for it in gameplay quality. PS3 has had its issues, and if they charged money to use their services, they could put hat money into better things.

tim1_2 wrote:Did my first fantasy draft last night to start my Be a GM mode. Wound up with Zibanejad, Couturier, Nugent-Hopkins, Larsson, Cowen, Huberdeau, Butler, Colborne, Gromley, Filatov, etc....hilarious. All those guys were taken in the later rounds.

Also, it was funny to see that the two highest rated players NOT taken in the draft were Alfie and Gonchar. I couldn't bear to see this, so I signed Alfie as a FA, and now he can play out his career on my 3rd and 4th lines, with PP duty.

Sorry to burst your happy little bubble, but when I did a fantasy draft, I drafted a few of my faves, but then signed the majority of them as free agents after the draft. And there is this loophole/mistake whereby if you sign them as a free agent, they don't have to be sent back to juniors, they'll play in the AHL. Thus you can use them as call ups. Also their salary becomes league minimum.

Check out the goalies, you could probably get jake allen, the pickard brothers, and matt hackett.

Copied and pasted from the General Hockey Talk:

Unsigned players go to free agency after 2-3 years after being drafted, not exactly sure which it is. I know if you didn't sign Silfverberg, he went to FA.

Players will develop in the CHL and AHL. Players that are eligible for CHL automatically get sent back anytime you try to send them down (to AHL). You will get a notification saying this person must be sent to juniors and will be unable to be called back up for the rest of the season.

Signed non-CHL players have to play on AHL or NHL roster, since there isn't an option to sign them and let them play in Sweden for example.

So if you sign MZ93 you have to play him. If you don't have a spot for him in the AHL, you will have to make one or he will nto play and not get better.

Best way to develop players is to check their potential and focus on the section (Offense, Defence, Athleticism) that is the lowest rating. Then find their lowest rating in that category and set the player training to develop it.

Also I focus on the player type. So if I have a small PLY center and his lowest potential categories are Defence and Athleticism, I focus on Athleticism, since I don't care too much if he won't check.

Don't forget your GM upgrades too. I put most of my points on Asst. Coach so that my players develop quicker.

As far as drafting goes, take players with HIGH league interest. Avoid ones with NONE. The more league interest, the higher potential they usually have. So they may have low ratings, but high potential.

As SD mentioned, be wary of your contract situation. You can only have 50 players under contract. So only sign players (prospects) that you want, and ones that you could potentially lose. So you are safe to leave a player unsigned for 2 seasons. I also like to leave 1-2 contracts free for waiver pick ups (because the computer will waive players because of contract and not potential/overall). So you will see Cory Schneider on waivers sometimes.

To clear up roster spaces, you can trade useless guys taking up valuable roster spaces (like Lessard) away from young guys like Zibanejad. Trade them for 4th-7th round picks. Just keep trying in the off-season to unload them.

Thanks for all the tips. Think I need to restart my Be a GM Mode. Although I did trade Bobby Butler, Brian Lee, and two 2nds for Bobby Ryan. Ryan's stats go through the roof in this game.

tim1_2 wrote:Thanks for all the tips. Think I need to restart my Be a GM Mode. Although I did trade Bobby Butler, Brian Lee, and two 2nds for Bobby Ryan. Ryan's stats go through the roof in this game.

I think we might see that very same deal come to pass in reality.

Patrick Kane and Matt Duchene are two of the best players in the game IMO - also Tavares and Giroux.

Turris + 1st for Crosby works too apparently.

I've restarted my BaGM many times, mainly because of the roster updates.

Aside from boosting some of the Sens players potentials, and boosting Yakupov, Ekblad and MacKinnon to all A's and putting them on my team, I try to keep things real

Ekblad's still in the CHL and is alreayd an 83.

Riprock wrote:Turris + 1st for Crosby works too apparently.

I've restarted my BaGM many times, mainly because of the roster updates.

Aside from boosting some of the Sens players potentials, and boosting Yakupov, Ekblad and MacKinnon to all A's and putting them on my team, I try to keep things real

Ekblad's still in the CHL and is alreayd an 83.

How do you boost player ratings?

Creation Zone -> Edit player.

Just change their potentials to whatever. Some players legitimately just are underrated, like Stone and Silfverberg. Same with Petersson. It's disappointing when they just don't develop.

Some players also just have poor ratings - like Greening is way too slow.

Riprock wrote:Creation Zone -> Edit player.

Just change their potentials to whatever. Some players legitimately just are underrated, like Stone and Silfverberg. Same with Petersson. It's disappointing when they just don't develop.

Some players also just have poor ratings - like Greening is way too slow.

I'm sure I tried and had no luck, must have been mistaken.

Riprock wrote:Creation Zone -> Edit player.

Just change their potentials to whatever. Some players legitimately just are underrated, like Stone and Silfverberg. Same with Petersson. It's disappointing when they just don't develop.

Some players also just have poor ratings - like Greening is way too slow.

Yeah, a lot of the ratings are really bogus. This is one thing that EA should pay way more attention to (since it's very easy to change), but they neglect.

tim1_2 wrote:

Riprock wrote:Creation Zone -> Edit player.

Just change their potentials to whatever. Some players legitimately just are underrated, like Stone and Silfverberg. Same with Petersson. It's disappointing when they just don't develop.

Some players also just have poor ratings - like Greening is way too slow.

Yeah, a lot of the ratings are really bogus. This is one thing that EA should pay way more attention to (since it's very easy to change), but they neglect.

Don't they offer updates online? I don't go online admittedly, but I think they do.

The roster updates haven't changed ratings at all this year. I shouldn't say at all, because I think the first one or two they changed the rookies from the 70s to low 80s.

But they haven't edited ratings for anyone who has had a good year (or bad).

The Alfie with the biggest hit I have ever seen in NHL history on the Leaf's Dion Phaneuf, putting him out of commission for 6-7 weeks! I named it HFS as in Holy F*cking Sh*t.

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/120935460

Awesome!

Voting underway for the NHL 13 cover - Karlsson v. Lundqvist! Vote EK now.

The Flyers fans were out in force as they put both Giroux and Hartnell through... which is funny since I thought that only one player from a team could advance since they went head to head in rnd 1...