Eat.Sleep.Sim NHL 2016-17 Season Database

this is some awesome stuff.

I kind of developed some formulas for when Im creating rookie prospects for my Junior League. The starting ratings of course are much lower and on a different scale. But the next time I create a draft class of rookies - I may very well look over your stuff for some ideas and reference.

Thanks for Adding!

Those ratings are working very well if you want realistic stats - obviously depending on the settings for scoring, shots and whatsoever you use in your league set up. I use the same ones in the GVFHL which only makes sense since I took part in creating it and running 100s of test seasons to see how certain attributes affect the outcome. Below is a little comparison of the 14-15 NHL season and what we had in CDNHL and GVFHL for the 15-16 season which was based on the previous year stats:

Goals total / per game
NHL 14-15: 6549 / 5.324
NHL 15-16: 6719 / 5.463
CDNHL: 6722 / 5.465
GVFHL: 6389 / 5.194


Shots total / per game
NHL 14-15: 73,595 / 59.83
NHL 15-16: 73,146 / 59.47
CDNHL: 71,299 / 57.97
GVFHL: 68,797 / 55.93


Shooting %
NHL 14-15: 8.90%
NHL 15-16: 8.98%
CDNHL: 9.43%
GVFHL: 9.29%


Hits total / per game
NHL 14-15: 61,476 / 46.98
NHL 15-16: 57,190 / 46.50
CDNHL: 48,901 / 39.76
GVFHL: 49,159 / 39.97

If you want more details see below for single player stats comparison. Obviously there is a dependence on who players where and this impacts some players more than others but overall the results were pretty cool.

goalie comp.xlsx (59.88 KB)

skater comp 1.xlsx (248.31 KB)


One thing to keep in mind however, is that with those rather low overall ratings attendence will take a huge hit if ticket prices are too high. That in turn results in some issues if you run a salary cap upwards of $45-50m since teams wont generate enough money to support higher payrolls. For the GVFHL I have introduced a sort of financial support system to make it work though that still needs some work i guess. You could also just add +2/3 to most of the attributes (EN, DI and so probably should be kept as is) to increase the overall totals. I did some testing on that and it works too but obviously needs some fine tuning.

Another league i am in rerates goalies mostly on games started...so > x amount of games = starter (80ov) then +/- based on save %...i used to scoff at it but really is there any more realistic way to track goalie value in sim, speed, agility etc based on gaa etc is also a stretch.