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!!

EK65 trade

NHL Updates:
-- NHL organizational re-rates for the New York Rangers
-- Fixed Logan Cooley's contract -- thanks raimo again!!

Belorsussian Updates:
- Updated Extraliga league structure

Removed Belarus as playable until league structure is updated -- thanks Samsid for the report!

Fixed some high end NCAA player PAs - thanks Raimo for the report!

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