The IceHL 2012 Yearbook
Need a good book to settle in with this weekend?
Download the IceHL 2012 Yearbook and learn more than you ever wanted to know about the world's only crowd-sourced fantasy hockey league.
Two options to suit your connection speed:
- FULL QUALITY VERSION (20 MB/PDF)
- MOBILE VERSION (9 MB/PDF)
The only difference between the two versions is file size (and therefore image quality). In terms of content, they are exactly the same.
The IceHL 2012 Yearbook was a huge undertaking, in the works for more than five months. The result is the most comprehensive guide to the league that exists anywhere in the world.
Not only will you find the IceHL's logo and jersey designs taking a starring role, but you'll also find complete recaps of the 2011-12 season including individual team and player stats along with scores from every game all season. It really is comprehensive.
And if you're new to this IceHL thing, the first four pages of the book should get you caught up on what it is and why it's so popular with Icethetics readers.
Hope you guys enjoy the 2012 Yearbook. If you have any feedback on the book, I'd love to hear it. Drop me a line in the comments or by email. And if you have any suggestions for the 2013 Yearbook, I'm certainly open to that as well. Enjoy!
Chris
By the way, last season's Yearbook is still available as well.
Reader Comments (6)
Stunning. This may be the coolest, nerdiest, most amazing fantasy sports item I've ever seen. Love this. (and I was super excited to see I got credit for suggesting the league name).
The info about an international league coming in the next years is also exciting. The rebranding/relocation initiative is also going to be fun, but what about (and I'm sure it was suggested whenever this was actually bandied about, but I can't seem to find it if it was), what about something more of a promotion/relegation format. If you don't make the playoffs, or finish below a certain threshhold, that team gets relegated to a lower division that might be made up of hundreds of smaller teams in one big league (that doesn't have to actually have fantasy teams associated with it, or you can use a league simulator to determine records if it's important for "historical" reasons.
I know it's a ton of work keeping these design processes going, but I'd love to see it as an ongoing or even weekly thing, where every week a new team gets to go through the process, one that may or may not ever make it to the Big Leagues.
So with relegation/promotion, you can have the excitement (or fear) of where you finish in the standings having a design impact.
Just my two cents on what is already a brilliant and amazing project.
I have been following this fantasy league off and on for about a year now, so I may be mistaken. However, in the yearbook, it says the largest city in Canada without a team is Ottawa. Toronto doesn't have a team (that I know of) unless you consider Hamilton a part of Toronto as a Metro Area. Just trying to clarify, but other then that, amazing job on everything. It is amazing to see all of this come together with the help of a community. I just wish I was here from the start :)
Ignore my previous comment, I realize that Hamilton was one of the Toronto options for a team. Sorry :P
this lockout makes me think that a cool future addition would be a fantasy college hockey iceHL spinoff...
Great job on the layout and design of the yearbook!
really like the year book. I had hoped that we would see the runner up jerseys like you did the logos in the first year book.