2015 POST SEASON DEBACLE FANTASY DRAFT SUPER BREHS ALRIGHT!

you... da_juice... just destroyed my ultimate dream of having 3 consecutive championships.. you failed me.. *runs away crying*

 

I have never gotten to the finals

 

Hehe. Still a GOAT run.

 

^thread in hangout

wow man.. my parents left me for a little over month when i was 10 years old .. this is pure BS...

 

I thought the 3 peat was sure to happen. Da juice saves us all

 

Glad I could help.

I had another idea for a draft that should make it a lot harder. You draft an eight man rotation from a pool ranging from 1980-2015 with the following rules/limits:
- You must have at least one player from each decade (with 2010-2015 being considered one decade).
- You are limited to a certain number of total all star appearances on your team. For instance, if the limit is 20 and you were to pick Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the remaining seven players on your team may have only one all star appearance between them.

 

^^
Very good ideas.

 

The only thing we might have to adjust for is the guys this decade, who have played in a lot less all star games than their skill level accounts for. For instance, guys like Davis, Harden, Durant don't have as many all star appearances because they've only been in the league for five or six years. That could skew the balance of teams and unnecessarily force guys to draft younger, modern guys. We'd either have to ditch the current decade, or do some weird metric that adjusts for current players.

 

I like this idea a lot.

 

So, my proposal is this:
- The pool of draftable players is anyone that has played in at least one NBA game from the 1980 season to now.
- Pick 8 players.
- Must have at least one player from every decade.
- In addition, you may only have one player from the 2010-2015 season (this is to prevent teams from circumventing the all star limit rule by only picking young guys).
- There is a limit (to be set and agreed upon by all participants) of how many cumulative all star appearances each team may have.
- Team managers choose what year the player is from for the purposes of fulfilling the above rules. For instance, Lebron James could be considered either a player from this decade or the previous one. If a manager would to use Lebron from the year 2006, Lebron's skills and stats would be at the level it was at '06, and James would be considered a player from the 2000s.

I think that covers most of it. We'll vote on the winners like last time I suppose. What number do you guys think we should set for the all star appearances? Personally, I think the lower twenties is the absolute highest it should be.

 

I like it minus the all star thing

 

My knowledge of past decades is based on mostly all star players.

 

The only reason I put in the all-star rule limit is because it prevents everyone from having ridiculously stacked teams - since we'd have multiple decades worth of superstars to choose from. I would imagine most of us have a limited knowledge of guys from the '80s and '90s, but if we set the all-star appearance limit to a good enough number, it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

 

da_juice is the super breh.

 

You guys are too much.

 

We can't go back to 1977? Bill Walton would be such a perfect first pick with only 2 all-star appearances with MVP level performance. Calvin Murphy becomes pickable too.

 

There definitely are some cool 70s players, I agree. Maybe make the 80s-2k15 picks mandatory and the 70s one voluntary.

 

Adding the 70s waters things down.

 

I didn't include the '70s because I figured most of us wouldn't know most players, and because the merger only occurred about halfway through the decade, and the three point line wasn't introduced until 1980. So the '70s, at least to me, isn't anywhere close to the modern NBA as far as play style and stuff goes.

But what does everyone else think? I'd be willing to let people pick from the '70s without making it mandatory, however I am a bit worried- like Maloe said- that it might make the teams too powerful.