Three Point Wins

Please pardon the wall of text -- and please also pardon me sleeping through the originally planned time, which for some reason I had in my head was happening Saturday afternoon.

One of the things which I want to avoid with my time in the CHL is the "gamesmanship" that comes with any mathematical exercise. I want this to represent a true fantasy league experience in managing a hockey team, and not a mathematical abstraction. It's a hockey game, not a board game.

Accordingly, I voted against this because the number of points awarded in a game is not a fixed sum (it's either 2 or 3), and this is exactly the kind of disparity that leads to "un-hockey-like" decisions. It will make it mathematically correct for coaches to pull their goalie with minutes left in a tied game, something that even Patrick Roy wouldn't do, and in time, the other coaches will figure out that they should do the same. It will result in "mathematically correct, hockey wrong" situations where teams are doing 6-on-6 faceoffs at center ice with well over a minute left in OT.

Barring something in the league to resolve ties completely, I'll have to vote against anything with such a disparity.