RSHL & MSHL Start Times
Filed under: Hockey Zone
This is written by Icevulture and taken from the front page of Center Ice:
I've got a feeling that a lot of squads are going to have lag problems in pre-game. Although to be fair WZL had the same problems with start times and did a lot to fix it last season and by using the same method of calling games earlier. in Premier League the system is slightly different. The game is called when the match is scheduled and the ref then starts a ten minute timer. The squad caps can agree to start at any time in this period once they're ready, but the ref will start the game when the ten minutes are up as long as both squads have at least two slots filled.
This is written by Icevulture and taken from the front page of Center Ice:
Teams may or may not have read some of the changes in the S13 rulebook, so I'm going to point out one of the bigger changes happening this season. Rather than having 10PM games get delayed, and delayed, and delayed some more so that they start at 10:40PM or something stupid like that, we're going to have the games starting at the times that they're scheduled to start. The referee training guide has the following in it:
-Games should be STARTING at the time they are scheduled
-If a game is scheduled for 7PM, it should not be getting announced to the zone at 7PM or 7:02 PM, it should be getting announced at 6:50PM and starting at 7PM
Consider this your formal announcement about this rule change. You need to get your teams online and ready to go so that the game can start ON TIME. If a team cannot show 4 or more people by the time the clock gets to the time your game is supposed to start, you will forfeit. If you can show enough people to your game, but they're having lag problems, the refs can wait for things to clear up so that he can start since your team had enough people when the game was scheduled to start. There are limits to how long the ref should be waiting though. I'm not going to put a firm number like "5 minutes" up there or anything, because it depends on the circumstances of the situation.
Games SHOULD be getting announced to the zone about 10 minutes earlier than they're scheduled to start, give or take a few minutes. The important thing to remember is to have your team ready to go on time so that the puck can drop when it's scheduled to drop. This rule not only makes it easier to figure out how long you're going to be playing your league game, but it's going to make things easier on the refs since they'll be able to finish the average game within the 1 hour time slot so that if they feel like helping goal judge the next game, they have the ability to do it.
I've got a feeling that a lot of squads are going to have lag problems in pre-game. Although to be fair WZL had the same problems with start times and did a lot to fix it last season and by using the same method of calling games earlier. in Premier League the system is slightly different. The game is called when the match is scheduled and the ref then starts a ten minute timer. The squad caps can agree to start at any time in this period once they're ready, but the ref will start the game when the ten minutes are up as long as both squads have at least two slots filled.
