EHM The Blue Line

We all know that there are problems with who wins awards. Like, a defenseman can have the most points, best +/- and highest average rating in the league, and not win the Norris. Are there any guys that just came out of nowhere for you?

I just finished a season, and the Selke Trophy winner was John Madden. The first runner-up was Jere Lehtinen. Pretty straight forward, right? The second runner up was Jed Ortmeyer.

I picked him up on waivers at the beginning of the season. He spent the season either as a healthy scratch or on my 4th line, only killing penalties when there were injuries.

Played 7:49 per game.
Average rating of 6.48.
Collected 4 goals and 8 assists in 65 games.
Ended up as a +8.

That's the third best defensive forward in the league?

I'd really rather not have these negative SI Boards type threads here. It's a complex game, it will never be perfect. But discussing only the negatives of the game gives people the impression that the game sucks, which it doesn't. We like to promote the game not tear it down by pointng out one example of where it screwed up when it rightfully gave the trophy to Madden and runner-up'd Lehtinen both of whom have won the award before. See what I mean? So this thread can only go in a negative direction and we don't want to have that hovering negativity about the game here so I'm going to close this thread.

I'm of course not saying you can only say glowing things about the game, but starting a thread saying "We all know that there are problems with who wins awards." promotes a negative view of the game. It could make people think that all the awards given out by the game every time are totally wrong and that that is common knowledge and undisputable truth. Well even in your own example it did give the award to the right person didn't it?

So if two other people have some 3rd place nominations they think are bad they post here too but that doesn't say anything about the thousands of correct logical decisions for awards the game did make over that time from users who haven't seen any problems in their games so don't chip in to a negative thread.

So framing it in a way that makes it sound like every person nominated for all of the 100+ awards are broken works against us as a site as we are here to support the game. If people get turned off to the game they get turned off to TBL and we don't want that happening.

I hope you understand what I'm getting at here.