General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions, all playable leagues + affiliate/dependent junior leagues refreshed
- Massive cleanup of thousands of UFA players - huge thanks to NoPurposeFlour for his help!!
- Cleanup of unrealistic PA ranges for NHL undrafted 22-25 y/o players.
- Cleanup of players/staff missing CA/PA.
- Had to wipe out award history database wide due to data corruption of that table. Will be rebuilt over future updates, NHL awards updated -- thanks Manimal!!

NHL Updates:
- Compiled analytics and new CA values based on Game Score Value Added (GSVA) (https://theathletic.com/3894138/2023/02/09/2022-23-nhl-gsva-leaderboard/) and Goals Saved Above Expected (GSAE) (https://www.moneypuck.com/goalies.htm) over the last few seasons -- thanks Imactuallyanotter!!
-- 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.
-- Boston Bruins
-- Carolina Hurricanes
-- Colorado Avalanche
-- Edmonton Oilers
-- Florida Panthers
-- Minnesota Wild
-- New York Islanders
-- Seattle Kraken
-- Tampa Bay Lightning
-- Toronto Maple Leafs
-- Vegas Golden Knights

- Updated NHL-AHL-ECHL affiliations
- Updated NHL & AHL referees

European Updates:
- Updated Continental Cup teams and league structure -- thanks archibaulduk!!
- Updated Champions Hockey League prize money -- thanks mat.liebl!
- Updated players and staff across many playable leagues -- WE NEED RESEARCHERS TO HELP WITH DETAIL WORK OR THESE LEAGUES WILL NOT BE UPDATED!!

Austrian Updates:
- Updated ICEHL schedule

Canadian Updates:
- Updated OHL, QMJHL, WHL and LNAH schedules
- Added/updated affiliations for OHL, QMJHL and WHL teams based on real-life and fantasy selections. We did this with the USHL and it helps out the AI from releasing players. Thanks javs and Manimal!!

French Updates:
- Added transfer rules for U20 Élite

German Updates -- thanks mat.liebl!!
- Updated DEL schedule
updated Player Budgets a bit for DEL and DEL2 and third level; Updated Leagues (DEL2, lower leagues, U20 Level (DNL, DNL2, DNL3) for teams

Great Britain Updates:
- Updated EIHL schedule
- Added NIHL National as playable again and updated transfer rules -- thanks topbeats! Love to see the passion from the UK fanbase!

Japanese Updates:
- Added ALIH as playable

Russian Updates:
- Updated KHL schedule
- Updated MHL clubs and league structure

Slovakian Updates:
- Updated SHL clubs and Transfer Rules

Slovenian Updates:
- Updated teams for Slovenian IHL

Swedish Updates:
- Updated HockeyAllsvenskan, HockeyEttan and HockeyTvåan clubs

Ukrainian Updates - Slava Ukraini!
- Added Ukrainian Hockey League as playable and updated clubs and league structure

United States Updates:
- Fixed NCAA contract start years -- thanks NoPurposeFlour!!
- Updated AHL and SPHL schedules

Fixed reputations of NY Islanders

Reduced NY Islanders CA missed during re-scaling.

Updated with latest NHL transactions

Fixed Reilly Smith and Blake Wheeler - thanks jth!

General Updates:
- Initial NHL Free Agent Frenzy release for 2023-24 season
- Complete re-balance of all competitions, clubs and players/staff
-- Competitions re-ranked based on recent performance in Continental play and NHLe by Thibaud Chatel (https://thibaudchatel.substack.com/p/rethinking-nhle)
- Extensive cleanup of leagues and clubs
- Reduced playable leagues to focus on NHL-focused simulations and game play based on community survey results from April, 2023. More info here: https://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=245496#p245496
- World Championships, World Juniors and Champions Hockey League all refreshed and updated, WC D3 and WJC-20 D2 now fully functional again

NHL Updates:
- Updated salary cap and other financial rules for 2023-24 season
- Making the LTIR guys retire early to give AI teams more cap. The EHM AI doesn't really know how to handle these contracts and they just cause more issues then they are worth.

To-Do:
- Manual re-rates and staff list updates for all playable European leagues, some ratings may be way off as we used an algorithm to perform the initial re-balancing. WE NEED MORE DEDICATED RESEARCHERS!!
- Fill out goalie statistics, the tool we use to pull data from Elite Prospects does not pull the detailed goalie stats so we have to do these manually.
- Continental Cup structure needs to be updated, its been removed for now.
- NHL re-rates

Fixed EIHL crash issue -- thanks MattK!!

General Updates:
- Final release for 2022-23
- Notable latest transactions (includes releases and retirements in European leagues as well as transfers starting in 2023-24)
- Updated future retirements for notable European players

NHL Updates:
- Refreshed Prospect Generator sheet
- Raised Natural Fitness for all NHL signed players by 1, new base number is 16
- Lowered injury proneness for all players by 2 besides those on LTIR/truly injury prone
- Updated notable 2024 draft picks: https://theathletic.com/4351800/2023/04/04/nhl-draft-2024-ranking-scott-wheeler/

Canadian Updates:
- Fixed a few leagues not being set to Junior

Czech Updates:
- Refreshed Tipsport rosters
- Added Liga 9. trid (new U15 league) and updated/added lots of junior affiliations, colors and arenas

Finnish Updates:
- Refreshed Liiga rosters

German Updates:
- Refreshed DEL rosters

NHL Updates:
- Latest transactions, including those starting in 2023-24 -- remember to remove these if starting with a Fantasy Draft setup!!

Russian Updates:
- Refreshed KHL rosters

Swedish Updates:
- Refreshed SHL rosters

Swiss Updates:
- Fixed NL and SL league structures -- thanks Named!!

United States Updates:
- Latest AHL transactions starting in 2023-24
- Updated date of ECHL trade deadline

NHL Updates:
- Fixed financial issue for salary cap increase
- Updated starting injuries for traded players.
- Updated retirements

Fixed Tucson, AZ coordinates and other small fixes -- thanks Raimo!!