Eastside Hockey Manager

Eastside Hockey Manager

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[2025-26] xECK29x's Premier Pivot Database (v10.4 - 10/6/25 - NHL Start of Season)
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[2025-26] xECK29x's Premier Pivot Database (v10.4 - 10/6/25 - NHL Start of Season)

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*** YOU MUST OPT-INTO THE PUBLIC BETA OF 1.5 FOR THIS DATABASE TO WORK ***

*** I WILL NO LONGER BE SUPPORTING OR CREATING DATABASES FOR 1.4.1 ***

*** POST ANY BUGS/ISSUES HERE, PLEASE PROVIDE SCREEN SHOTS AND SAVE GAMES ***

https://community.sigames.com/forums/forum/292-eastside-hockey-manager-bugs-forum/

Discuss this DB along with all things EHM on The Blue Line: https://ehmtheblueline.com/premier-pivot-rosters

And on Discord: https://discord.gg/5PunjFq

****Get updated logos BY Dani9 here****

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1720743334

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I want to thank everyone who has provided support, offers of assistance and encouragement. This project means a lot to me and I am so happy to continue offering it to the EHM community!

Special thanks and credits to:
Archibaulduk, IAmActuallyAnOtter, Vik3tbotselektor, penguinrevolt, Matee, filip85, Seanie, ChaiTiefling, Aahlstroem, Patrick, Matt#5, everyone who continues to provide support and encouragement to keep this going, especially the NTHL crew!

All playable and most background leagues have been updated mostly as of June 30th with this initial release, with more changes still to come.

This is still very much an NHL focused database project, so expect some unrealistic ratings and such in Europe, we still do not have enough researchers to keep those leagues accurate. If you want to offer some of your time to help please DM me!

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Known Issues:

- Due to an AI bug I've decided to remove buyout cap hit penalties from the NHL. This will help maintain AI team health long term so they don't continue to sign/buyout players and rack up penalties. More info on this bug here: https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/562580-player-continuously-signed-and-dropped-immediately/
-- This will also help AI GMs get out/around some really bad cap conditions that it's not capable of handling.

- Not all leagues have been tested, please follow the recommended settings and do not select more then 20 total leagues on view only OR enhanced!
- Please report any issues/crashes, please provide saves before crashes.

** HOW TO PLAY WITHOUT GENERATED FUTURE PROSPECTS **

Go to the workshop item folder \Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\301120\1428241604 and copy the contents to a new folder in \Steam\steamapps\common\Eastside Hockey Manager\data\database\[FOLDER NAME]. Whatever you name that folder is how the copied DB will show in the game list. Delete the database.db and rename 'database - no prospects added.db' to 'database.db'.

** FOR FANTASY DRAFT PLAYERS **

- Please delete the sections 'NHL Future Transfers' and 'Cap Penalties' in the extra_config!

** RECOMMENDED SETTINGS **

- Use the United States (July 2nd) start date if GMing in the NHL, if you are GMing in either the KHL or VHL you MUST use the July 2nd start date or the game will crash!
- Recommended to use a FULL DB to retain the most detail. If you still find day-to-day sim speed a little too long for your liking you can lower the DB size even further but keep in mind this will reduce the amount of non-playable clubs/leagues loaded into the simulation.

--- Only select leagues you intend to be a GM in, have an affiliate in, or will heavy scout or develop players, do not select all leagues as this will lead to crashes! THE MAXIMUM COUNT OF SELECTED LEAGUES IS 20!

Also:

- Disable starting wage changes so it forces values set in the database
- Disable Extra Players and Staff
- Retain All Teams

** HOW DO I CHANGE THE SALARY CAP? **

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/112fC3Zux6j-LYN0cIwi2gRLNxJgqoBee/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114145018347475141675&rtpof=true&sd=true

-- DO NOT ASK ME WHAT TO DO IF THIS DOES NOT WORK, EDITING SAVE GAMES OR THE DATABASE INVOLVES THE RISK OF DATA CORRUPTION --

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1,966 Comments
xECK29x  [author] Oct 17 @ 3:48am 
@hockeysauce - I don't think long term NCAA is really going to be playable or fun, EHM wasn't really designed for it to ever really work. The biggest issue is the teams are classified as Amateur, because of that staff options, funding and need will be limited. It's more-so playable for player development for prospects and transfer rule details, its a good starting point for your GM due to the high team reputations it should be easier to move into other pro leagues you have selected in your save.
hockeysauce Oct 15 @ 4:06pm 
thanks for the awesome work, as always... quick question, is there anyway I could get NCAA staff working? I'm willing to put the time in but I can't figure it out using the editor, in fact i'm quite confused lol

only the canadian-born NCAA staff seem to generate contracts of $2,000 annually when I start a save, but using the editor I cannot see any of the financial info that is set for the database. even NHL staff & players show $0 salaries in the editor, but work fine in-game

NCAA is still playable, played a great save on one of the previous roster versions, but eventually almost every team ends up with only a Coach/GM ... just hoping there is a way I could get teams to hire more staff

thanks
xECK29x  [author] Oct 12 @ 6:12am 
@boty and @tomplatinum- DM me and send the save.
tomplatinum Oct 11 @ 11:29am 
my game keeps crashing at the end of june, with no error message, just the game closing, it seems to be an old issue? did you ever find a solution?
these are the leagues I have loaded:
Canada - WHL, OHL
Finland - Finnish Liiga
France - Ligue Magnus
Germany - DEL 1, DEL 2
GB - EIHL, NIHL
Italy - IHL
Russia - KHL
Sweden - SHL, HA
USA - NHL, AHL, ECHL
boty Oct 10 @ 3:26pm 
Thanks again for keeping the game alive eck. Just started a new OHL save, the new 3 foreign players isnt working, still limited at 2 euros. Also maybe im blind but cant find the reserve list screen. Also got the date error like 3 different days but the game doesnt crash so its not a big deal
xECK29x  [author] Oct 9 @ 6:11pm 
@BobbyMaldini that hasn't been my experience at all so I'd like to see your save. You can DM me, if other people feel the same let me know and I'll see what I can do with my research team.
BobbyMaldini Oct 8 @ 2:51pm 
Is it really subjective? im trying to play with this current DB and all third liner score moire points than first liner. 16 bottom team of last year are now top 16s. I have to mannually change everyone back to reasonable '' roles '' erik haula, boone jenner, mathieu olivieer scoring more than mcdavid.. I just feel something is off.

@BobbyMaldini - I have no plans to manually set all offensive/defensive roles as the game on a whole does a good enough job and its one less thing I have to worry about, also its subjective. I will update player roles for the NHL, if you have feedback for specific things you can DM me.
xECK29x  [author] Oct 7 @ 3:12pm 
@Ricky Simón - you can easily change the cap yourself using assistant. Also I had to raise the max to be in line with Kaprizov's extension. The max contract limits scale to CA/rep, my hand was forced.
Ricky Simón Oct 7 @ 12:29am 
sorry but why raise max contract limits if we are playing with a static cap? The rising contracts reflect the rising cap.
xECK29x  [author] Oct 6 @ 8:18pm 
NHL start of season update pushed with all updates from training camp and final rosters, have a great first week! See change notes!