WHL Looking for One New Manager

[Eskimo Brother]

The WHL is entering year #10.
This is a league of really experienced, solid guys from here on the Dobber forums.
In fact, we only consider new GMs if they have a good reputation here and over 100 posts (preferably over 1000 posts).

Here is a list of last year's standings, with Dobber members in parentheses:

Vancouver Voodoo (GoNucks)
Royal-City-Leafs (Havanablast21)
District-5 Ducks (evans334)
Lake Valley Thunder (First Round Pick)
Kootenay ICE (Hawkdog)
Amsterdam Red Lights (rataylor22)
Kings County Condors (Bobby4Ev)
Sherbrooke Phoenix (Dr.Brad)
Toronto Fighting Turtles (Kofax)
Victoria Dead Hookers (Loch)
Maine Moose (GinFizz)
Valley Wildcats (Axeman33)
Windsor Spitfires (Pengwin7)
Glasgow Kiss (Magicstew)
Edmonton Road Runners (Lemmy)
South Carolina Stingrays (BlackhawksFan)
Thornhill Rebels (Eskimo Brother)
Sudbury Wolves (Butch)
Montreal Canadiens (newfcollins)
Fort Frances Muskies (Burgundy)
Fresno Firebirds (Pit Bulls)
Hamilton Steelheads (Dennis)
James Bay Cougars (InForAPenny)
*Montreal Bulldogs (xxx) --> Available team


The league is a H2H league run on Fantrax, with weighted scoring for different stats - but it is mostly Points-Heavy and favours general scoring.
We have 23 regular season weeks where you play every opponent once, then a H2H playoffs.
Of the $720 collected fee ($30 each), $130 goes to Fantrax Premium and the other $590 is paid out to: Top-3 regular season standings, top team in season scoring, plus the champion and runner-up in the playoffs.


Teams roster 40 players during season, 25 on their PRO roster and 15 on minors.
Teams must manage their 25-player pro team on a $100.00M cap hit maximum.
Each offseason, teams must keep 30 (of their 40 players).
This promotes off-season trading during two drafts:

July 15th, we have a 5-round prospect draft (mostly of the current year's NHL entry draft players, but some past draftees)
Sept 15th, we have a 5-round PRO redraft (mostly of those dropped players)

The available team finished last this past season, but wouldn't have if there was an active manager from mid-October and on. As a result of the inactivity, the team ended up with the sixth-best lottery odds for our draft lottery (tied to NHL teams, so this team is tied somewhat fittingly to the new Utah team).
The team roster is listed in the following post.

The new GM may be doing a dispersal draft with the roster below and possibly other league teams. It is offered up that other WHL teams can put ALL their players and picks into the "pool" and join the redraft.
So the roster below might be 100% or 50% (if another team joins the redraft) or 33% (if two teams join) of the players/assets to be drafted from, and on from there.

That's sort of a delicate wild card to consider.
New GM would need to pay $30 immediately to join the league.

If necessary, the new GM will be taking part in a dispersal draft the last week of May to create their team.

If interested, post in this thread AND/OR send PM to me, Eskimo Brother, to express interest.
We will be selecting the Dobber member judged as the best fit to join the league.
We typically have 5-10 interested people every time there is an opening... so please don't feel bad if you aren't selected.

Looking forward to finding a new GM to join our WHL group!

[Eskimo Brother]

Roster posted here (apologies for my inability to format tables):
Skaters:

Yanni Gourde

William Karlsson

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Anders Lee

Ryan Lomberg

Eric Robinson

Nino Niederreiter

Mathieu Olivier

T.J. Oshie

Blake Lizotte

Ondrej Palat

Tanner Pearson

Jalen Chatfield

Dylan DeMelo

Noah Dobson

Drew Doughty

Josh Manson

Ryan McDonagh

Ryan Winterton

Vincent Desharnais

Matt Grzelcyk

Alec Martinez

Shane Wright

Liam Ohgren

Aydar Suniev

Kasper Halttunen

Fabian Lysell

Jimmy Snuggerud

Tyler Tullio

Andrew Cristall

Drew Helleson

Tristan Luneau

Ryan O'Rourke

David Reinbacher

Goalies:

Scott Wedgewood

Sam Montembeault

Cayden Primeau

Michael Hrabal

Erik Portillo

Antti Raanta

[BlackhawksFan]

This is a great league! GM's are very active, in both conversation as well as trade talks. Being a deep salary cap league of 24 teams, it is super challenging and competitive. It's one of the most fun and realistic fantasy leagues I am in.As stated, it is made up of entirely all Dobber Forums members. I joined two years ago, and it has turned into my favorite league. There is always something going on in this league on a daily basis.

[Axeman33]

Just finished my rookie season and I will say, it's a very well run league. It's active, that's for sure. Always lots of chat and chirps (in a good way) going on daily on the fantrax chat box and lots of teams willing to talk trade. I guess when you are paying to play, that's to be expected and it doesn't disappoint. Lots of GMs who are willing to help as well, which is always great. If you're coming in, bring your A game because all the GMs here are knowledgeable and you aren't pulling the wool over anyones eyes here.

[Dennis]

I've had a lot of fun in this league. Great group of managers and failing in this league has helped me succeed in other leagues. I love the constant activity and chat and I'd be happy staying with the league even if I am never able to pull my team out of the basement.

[Pengwin7]

Great league. Great guys (all Dobber forum guys).
Big thanks to evans334, rataylor22, and EskimoBro for doing an enormous amount of commissioner duties over past 2-3 seasons!
All three are just absolutely the best co-commissioner teammates that a league could ask for!

[Now - just to figure out how to get my own team out of rebuild mode... 5+ years now... we need dumber GMs... for my sake... not for the league, teehee]

[9gretzky9]

I have some interest. I don’t post a lot here but I post a lot on other sites like hockeysfuture.com. I also run my own league.

If you can, please email me the rules to:
[email protected]


Thanks.

[Pit Bulls]

As one of the original GMs, I can honestly say with confidence this league will not disappoint.

Great group of GMs, always willing to talk trade, provide assistance or simply chat. And, our co-commishes are the best in the business! Our GMs are also from all time zones in North America and even have one member from New Zealand so there is always somebody to chat with throughout the day and throughout the off-season.

In addition to our regular season and playoff matchups, this league offers some fun side bars - like each GM voting for the "Supersoft" GM of the year, and a tiered playoff system so all 24 teams have a chance at the big money or moving up (or down) in your draft lottery position.

And finally the WHL has maintained a Record Book since day-one so each GM has benchmark for how the best of the best has faired over the years.

So don't hesitate - throw your name into the hat!

[Eskimo Brother]

Looking to finalize a new "hire" by the end of the weekend. There's some interest already, but if you want your name on the consideration list then get it in sooner than later.

[Eskimo Brother]

Thanks for the interest. We're reviewing the list with the league now, and we'll let the successful GM know on Monday.

[butch]

good luck to those who tossed their hat into the ring

[GinFizz]

I mean... Im in this league. Theres that.

[havanablast21]

Great league. Great guys (all Dobber forum guys).
Big thanks to evans334, rataylor22, and EskimoBro for doing an enormous amount of commissioner duties over past 2-3 seasons!
All three are just absolutely the best co-commissioner teammates that a league could ask for!

[Now - just to figure out how to get my own team out of rebuild mode... 5+ years now... we need dumber GMs... for my sake... not for the league, teehee]

I second this. Our leadership has built the foundation on which this league thrives. The people in this league are fantastic!

[havanablast21]

I mean... Im in this league. Theres that.

Don’t let this discourage anyone. ��

[Bleue35]

Still room? My email is [email protected]