General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Increased the Upper Age Limit of some junior leagues by 1 to work around EHM limitations involving real-life player situations which could lead to them being dropped at sim start and leading to poor or no development

NHL Updates:
- Continued scattered re-rating update work based on data from NHL EDGE, Evolving Hockey and The Pro Hockey Group/CapFriendly Premium covering NHLers, prospects and future draft picks.
- Updated 2024 draft class based on NHL CSS Mid-Term rankings

European Updates:
- Updated several lower-level European leagues and nations -- thanks Matee!!
- Updates of UFAs for various nationalities, some club and league name and color updates.
- Refreshed players in the top junior level U20 leagues for top IIHF nations
- Updated several Czech and Slovak future NHL draft prospects -- thanks RastosTheKodo!!!

North American Updates:
- CHL and CJHL league trade deadline transactions processed, draft picks updated best as I could follow
- Updated clubs, competitions and players across various junior leagues -- thanks Archibaulduk!!
- Updated several Canadian club names to support the new release of the logo pack -- thanks Dani9!!
- Fixed a bunch of incorrect AHL/ECHL contracts and re-rated most players under contract

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Updated currency exchange rates -- thanks Rass!!

NHL Updates:
- Scattered rating update work based on data from NHL EDGE, Evolving Hockey and The Pro Hockey Group/CapFriendly Premium, working with IAmActuallyAnOtter to create sustainable processes to make updates more consistent and easier using these data sets.
-- These updates are league-wide and sporadic based on what data is available of quality, full organizational re-rates will happen over the off-season
- Updates to notables for 2025 Entry Draft class
- Updated CA/PA of NCAA players who should garner NHL attention for ELCs

Prospect Generator Updates: thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Updated PG potential levels to match the level of talent seen in the 2019-2024 drafts inclusive to give more consistency in talent in longer-term saves
- Created some new player archetypes, particularly on the defensive defencemen and forward roles
- Created more targeted mid-level ability prospects to help fill in the gaps between PA level 140-150 and 160-170
- Created "fill-in" players for the 2028 NHL draft year (last draft year between IRL prospects and the PG kicking in). These players are available to be immediately drafted in CHL league drafts, removing the need to use "Generate Extra Junior Players" if you play as a GM in those leagues
- Increased the floor of most major nation players to 110 from 90
- Lowered the ceiling of most non-major nation players from 140 to 120

German Updates:
- Updated free agent players -- thanks Mat.liebl!!

United States Updates:
- Updated AHL and ECHL transfer rules

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions
- Transactions and roster refreshes across several smaller leagues -- thanks and welcome back Matee!!
- Adjusted player aggression, dirtiness and agitation to bring penalty minutes into closer alignment with real life numbers -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Updated several club names and colors for Dani9's logo pack

Continental Play Updates: -- thanks PabloSanok!!
- Updated several leagues linked to the Continental Cup, including shuttering some smaller leagues who are not active over the next few years.
- Updated CCup and CHL licenses for accurate teams in 2023-24

NHL Updates:
- Updated rights for some players in the KHL -- thanks AngryDuck!!
- Updated 2024-2027 draft classes based on several early watch lists/rankings (for 2024) and statistical analysis of DB and Prospect Generator tweaks -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Fixed/tuned attributes of many players to allow for better growth with better attributes selected per player roles -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!

Austrian Updates:
- Updated transfer rules for win2day ICE Hockey League and Alps Hockey League -- thanks mat.liebl!!

Canadian Updates:
- Fixed OJHL league structure

Czechia Updates:
- Updated clubs and staff -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated II-divisioona clubs -- thanks Ahmat!!

German Updates: -- thanks mat.liebl!!
- Updated and re-rated DEL and DEL2 players and staff
- Updated reputations and captains for clubs in DEL, DEL2, Oberliga and DNL
- Updated financials for DEL2

Polish Updates:
- Updated arenas and clubs -- thanks PabloSanok!!

Russian Updates:
- Fixed Olympic year schedule template -- thanks Filip85 for the report and penguinrevolt for the fix!!

Slovakian Updates:
- Updated TIPOS hokejova liga clubs -- thanks Dani9!!

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated IHL league structure -- thanks Filip85!!

Spanish Updates:
- Updated clubs, players and staff in LNHH

NHL Updates:
- Updated rights for some players in the KHL -- thanks AngryDuck!!

Great Britian Updates:
- Updated EIHL, PINIHL, NIHL1, NIHL2, SNL, BUIHA and all junior clubs, affiliates, retired numbers, players and staff -- thanks ChaiTiefling!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL/VHL affiliations -- thanks AngryDuck and Славяныч!!

United States Updates:
- Fixed NCAA schedule -- thanks penguinrevolt!!

Fixed several smaller issues -- thanks raimo!!

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions including non-playable league roster refreshes
- Re balanced PA across the DB for current and future real-life players to better cluster for quality NHL and CHL league drafts in 2024 and later. Prospect Generator will be added after the 2028 draft class. -- thanks imactuallyanotter!!
- Updated staff for most playable leagues -- thanks Manimal!!
- Updated various team colors/names for Dani9
- Updated Prospect Generator: Tweaks to Consistency and Important Matches value distribution. -- thanks imactuallyanotter!!
- Updated officials across multiple leagues -- thanks GerardS0406!!

NHL Updates:
- Updates for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Entry Draft class notables
- Updated depth charts and captains post training camp - more detailed re-rates to come later in the year
- Updated season starting injuries
-- NOTE: Lots of guys have Chest or Twisted ankles/knees for the first 3 months, this is to ensure they will be day to day injured at start of season for cap reasons to match IRL. These injuries were chosen as they will not have potential re-occurrence, if you want to remove these edit the extra_config.cfg file in a text editor before you start your game!

Austrian Updates:
- Updated/added Austria U20 International as playable and updated clubs

Danish Updates:
- Added U18 division

German Updates:
- Updated affiliates across all leagues -- thanks Matt!!

Japanese Updates:
- Corrected number of teams in Stage 1 -- thanks to those who reported this!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL transfer rules -- thanks Снеговивичок!!

Swedish Updates -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Re-rated SHL and HA players, goalie stats and staff
- Updated SHL and HA captains, financial data, affiliations, arenas, rivalries and retired numbers
- Updated J20 Nationell transfer rules
- Updated J18 Nationell and U16 SM rosters

Ukrainian Updates:
- Updated UHL clubs, rosters and league structure

United States Updates:
- Fixed crash involving Minnesota High School Hockey clubs -- thanks Dani9!!
- Updated NCAA staff, some of these lists haven't been touched in years

Fixed Slovakia2

Fixed Marcel Marcel's player rights

General Updates:
- Fixed Olympic Games draw dates preventing final stages from working -- huge thanks to Penguinrevolt!!

NHL Updates:
-- NHL organizational re-rates COMPLETED with the following teams below:
-- This is just an initial level-set of CA/PA, Player Roles, Offensive/Defensive Roles and some light attribute work, more to come through the year.
-- Anaheim Ducks
-- Arizona Coyotes
-- Chicago Blackhawks
-- Columbus Blue Jackets
-- Montréal Canadiens
-- San Jose Sharks
-- Remaining UFAs who played in the NHL last year

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions, all playable leagues + affiliate/dependent junior leagues refreshed

NHL Updates:
- Updated playoff eligibility sort rules for tiebreakers in standings
-- NHL organizational re-rates using new analytics including prospects and RFAs for the following teams:
-- This is just an initial level-set of CA/PA, Player Roles, Offensive/Defensive Roles and some light attribute work, more to come through the year.
-- Updated depth charts for teams re-rated so far including new teams below:
-- Buffalo Sabres
-- Calgary Flames
-- Detroit Red Wings
-- Los Angeles Kings
-- Nashville Predators
-- Ottawa Senators
-- Philadelphia Flyers
-- Pittsburgh Penguins
-- St. Louis Blues
-- Vancouver Canucks
-- Washington Capitals
-- Winnipeg Jets

-- Boston Bruins
-- Carolina Hurricanes
-- Colorado Avalanche
-- Dallas Stars
-- Edmonton Oilers
-- Florida Panthers
-- Minnesota Wild
-- New Jersey Devils
-- New York Islanders
-- New York Rangers
-- Seattle Kraken
-- Tampa Bay Lightning
-- Toronto Maple Leafs
-- Vegas Golden Knights

Updated Prospect Generator -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!

PG has been completely revamped for Pivot v8 September release, includes:

A complete rewrite of the attribute generation model has been undertaken, now based on regression analysis of almost 100,000 data points spread over 10 different 20+ year simulation files.
- Potential abilities re-scaled to match new Pivot rating system
- PG has been split into a 2 tier approach, where players that have a chance to roll over 160PA have a different generation model to those who cannot roll over 160PA; in the aim of making sure mid line and bottom line players look more useful than previous generations of the PG
- Several attributes have changed from a RANDBETWEEN model to a bell curve model (personality traits as well as core mental attributes like creativity, flair and decisions)
- A limiter on consistency, important matches and natural fitness has been added to players that can roll over 160PA to allow more space for players with 160CA or less to shine
- A further limiter on consistency, important matches and natural fitness has been added to goalies that can roll over 160PA to allow more space for goalies with 160CA or less to shine
Instead of equally providing player abilities across left and right sides, this new PG is more like real life. Defencemen are now split approximately 65% left to 35% right side, and the same with wingers
- Forwards are now split so that 50% of all forwards are centres (previously equally split between LW, C and RW)
- Physical attributes completely revamped (now split into tiers) to improve drafts. Increases particularly for skater acceleration and speed, but not so much that over half the league has 20/20 for acceleration and skating when they are 23yo+.

Asian Updates: -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!!
- Updated ALIH clubs and schedule
- Updated Chinese, Japanese and South Korean clubs/competitions

Polish Updates:
- Updated competition names and Polska 1. Liga clubs

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL salaries -- thanks AngryDuck!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated SHL injuries -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

United States Updates:
- Updated ECHL financial info -- thanks Manimal!!