General updates:
- Latest transactions across most playable leagues, some leagues will not be updated through the year as often as others
- Updated several club names and colors across the DB -- thanks Dani9!!
- Small but significant PG update: Dirtiness and Agitation set to 0 for most players (but not all)

NHL Updates:
- Updated all NHL teams with stage one of re-rates, see below.
- This season I'm going to handle NHL organization re-rates in three phases:
1) Training camp basics (this update) - heights, weights, starting injuries, numbers, captains and positions
-- Note, I did not put "personal" injuries into the DB such as Woll and Van Riemsdyk, will monitor how long they are truely out for in real life and will adjust as needed.
2) Depth chart updates (estimated late October) - current ability, player types and potentials (prospect pool updates)
3) Detailed updates (rolling updates between November-January) - this will need data (NHL EDGE/Evolving Hockey) from in-season - attribute updates and other details
- Now is the time to start sending in fan-feedback before I start those other phases! Submit feedback for ANY league here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iB5yCI91uPiiEAxrSlS1Vs_ZcQHujndLw4piEmP3WLg/edit?usp=sharing!!
- Raised max contract limits, yes expect crazy asks, this is the new normal!

Canadain Updates:
- Updated Greater Ontario Hockey League branding and clubs
- Updated OJHL clubs and structure

Spanish Updates:
- Updated arenas, clubs, histories and players/staff for Liga Nacional Senior and made human-playable -- thanks Gala-vine!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated SHL schedule -- thanks jth^!!

Folder cleanup, updated logo.

General updates:
- Rosters refreshed across the DB
- As of this update going forward I will be more selected of the real life junior players I add to the database to reduce the size of the player pool and allow more room for newgens and PG players.
- Champions Hockey League teams updated
- Updated players/staff from the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup
- Removed thousands of real-life junior players missing key details who are not yet notable to allow more room for Prospect Generator players, mainly from lower level leagues.

Prospect Generator Updates:
- Change notes to come, but has been overhauled since the last Pivot release in late July.

International Updates:
- Updated World Championships structures and schedules (all levels) and Euro Hockey Tour -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!!
-- Specifically we combined WC's relegations to groups to avoid wrong promotion news flags

NHL Updates:
- NHL re-rates will start in October, will update player numbers, heights/weights and depth charts post-training camp.
- Updated playoff tie-breaking procedure: https://www.nhl.com/info/standings-info/tie-breaking-procedure -- thanks to whoever reported that, I can't find the DM!
- Updated 2026 draft class and some 2027 notables (https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6553301/2025/08/18/2026-nhl-draft-ranking-preseason-gavin-mckenna/)
- Updated 2028 draft class notables
- The players found not guilty will be added back into the database when their suspensions are lifted in December or if they return to hockey with another club.

Asian Updates:
- Updated ALIH structure and Japan ruling body and nationality rules -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!!

Austrian Updates:
- Updated win2day ICE Hockey League schedule
- Updated Austrian U20 International clubs and structure

Canadian Updates:
- Expanded max foreign players transfer rule -- thanks Blake101678!!

Czechia Updates:
- Removed 2. Liga as playable as structure needs further updates.

German Updates:
- Updated Deutsche Nachwuchs Liga clubs, structure needs complete re-working in a future update

Great Britain Updates:
- Added two-way contract support
- Updated U19/U16 leagues and affiliations

Latvian Updates:
- Updated U18 and U16 junior leagues and clubs

Kazakhstan Updates:
- Updated Kazakhstan Pro Hokei Ligasy clubs and structure

Polish Updates:
- Updated TAURON Hokej Liga and Polska 1. Liga clubs and league structures

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL salaries -- thanks Angry Duck!!
- Updated KHL shootout and foreign player rules to the best the game can support -- thanks ДАВАНКОВ!!
- Updated KHL affiliations, captains and staff
- Updated Russian U18 clubs

Slovakian Updates:
- Updated Tipos Extraliga schedule

Swedish Updates:
- Added Swedish U18 Svenska Mästerskapen as playable, huge thanks to Vik3tbotselektor and Aalstroem for all the design work and testing for this!!
- Updated HockeyEttan and HockeyTvåan structures -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!!
- Players manually re-rated and updated by Aahlstroem in SHL/HockeyAllsvenskan
- Updated SHL/HockeyAllsvenskan captains -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Updated player role across various leagues -- thanks !MR!!
- Updated U20 Nationell structure, schedule, transfer and fixture rules -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Added transfer/fixture rules for all other levels of U20 as well as U18 and U16 -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Changed flag to make contracts guaranteed to prevent players being randomly released by the AI in the SHL, HockeyAllsvenskan and HockeyEttan --thanks Aalstroem
- Updated HockeyAllsvenskan and HockeyEttan staff
- Added HockeyTvåan club histories, retired numbers and staff
- Added U18 Regional histories, retired numbers and staff

United States Updates:
- Updated NCAA future commitments -- thanks Seanie!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated CHL transactions
- Changed CHL transfer systems back to North America. I changed to IIHF to test some things with the NCAA rule change and forgot to revert back -- thanks francis246!!

General updates:
- Updated some playable leagues since last update
- Refreshed Prospect Generator

NHL updates:
- Latest signings and updates
- Restored zeroed out Offensive/Defensive roles for ~280 players -- thanks Lyn!!

Latvian Updates:
- Updated player roles for Optibet League -- thanks !MR

Norwegian Updates:
- Added 1. divisjon as playable again, updated clubs, staff and players. -- thanks !MR

United States Updates:
- Fixed NCAA contract end dates. -- thanks Archi!!

Fix to Ukraine league, slight changes to Latvian Optibet -- thanks !MR

General Updates:
- Updated rosters of most playable leagues
- League schedule updates below also applied to Free Agent Frenzy DB

NHL Updates:
- Added 2025-26 schedule
- Changed All-Star Game Format to USA vs the World
-- Interested for feedback on this, might only be a short lived thing, it's not possible to do "North America".

Canadian Updates:
- Removed CHL affiliation limits -- thanks Spade18 for the suggestion

Danish Updates:
- Updated player roles across various leagues -- thanks !MR

Latvian Updates:
- Updated Optibet Hokeja Liga clubs and structure

Norwegian Updates:
- Updated player roles -- thanks !MR

Russian Updates:
- Added KHL schedule for 2025-26 -- Please note this schedule has been moved back 21 days to allow playoffs to end within game boundries.

Swedish Updates:
- Updated player roles across various leagues -- thanks !MR

United States Updates:
- Added 2025-26 ECHL schedule -- added Greensboro as active again with appropriate affiliations
- Cleaned up NCAA rosters, further updates needed when full rosters are finalized - majority of sophomore-senior classman may not be on rosters and listed as UFA for now and will be fixed before the start of season release in October.
-- This does not impact players with NHL rights
-- This cleanup was needed as some NCAA rosters were over 40 players contracted, resulting in cuts of players and breaking future transfers.
-- We need to fix some problems with current tooling to get accurate length NCAA contracts, part of the problem is how the game calculates domestic college contract lengths, which resets if a player transferred teams within the NCAA.
- Added roster size limit start/end dates for offseason expansion for NCAA teams, should help limit the AI cancelling future transfers when the roster is already maxed out

General Updates:
- Updated notable transactions in some playable leagues as of July 11th.

AHL Updates:
- Added 2025-26 schedule template

ECHL Updates:
- Temporarily removed Greensboro due to schedule issues, will fix once I can get the 2025-26 schedule formatted correctly.
- Assigned CAR/CHI affiliations to South Carolina

Latvian Updates:
- Fixed playoff format for Latvian Optibet Hokeja Liga

NHL Updates:
- Fixed Kaedan Korczak extension -- thanks raimo!

North America Updates:
- Fixed Rock Springs (NCDC) team name to fix a crash condition -- thank raimo!
- Updated NCAA structure, enabled Tenn State Univ and updated roster/staff -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

Fixed Seth Jones and Evander Kane -- thanks raimo!