Theodore Duncan
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Post by Theodore Duncan on Sept 4, 2018 3:53:06 GMT -5
I just had this idea. Anyone have interest of doing a fantasy draft of all-time NBA players during the off-season? And then in the end we vote who has created the best possible team. If Billy agrees, winner could get a complimentary 2nd?
Let's see how many GM's there would be interested in doing this? And then we can also decide how many rounds, etc.. Once we get number of GM's I can randomize the starting order and set-up a new thread for the draft itself.
Snake draft format. All possible NBA players in history can be taken.
For example:
Team A - pick 1: Tim Duncan
Team B - pick 2: MJ Team C - pick 3: Kobe
Team D - pick 4: Lebron
Team D - pick 5: Bill Russell
Team C - pick 6: ... Team B - pick 7: ... Team A - etc...
GM's in: 1. Theodore Duncan
2. Ron Artest 3. Stuff 4. DJ Jazzy Jeff 5. Paul Pierce 6. Ben Wallace 7. Pete Maravich 8. Scal
9. Billy King 10. Kong 11. Allan
12. David Robinson 13. Yeezy 14. J.Cole 15. Red Auerbach
16.
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Post by Ron Artest(1x Champ) on Sept 4, 2018 7:50:38 GMT -5
I’m in
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Post by Stuff The Magic Dragon on Sept 4, 2018 8:03:49 GMT -5
count me in!
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Post by DJ Jazzy Jeff on Sept 4, 2018 10:56:02 GMT -5
Sound fun! I'll do it
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Paul Pierce
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Post by Paul Pierce on Sept 4, 2018 10:57:50 GMT -5
Hell yeah
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Ben Wallace
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Post by Ben Wallace on Sept 4, 2018 13:23:56 GMT -5
im in
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Pete Maravich
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Post by Pete Maravich on Sept 4, 2018 13:38:54 GMT -5
I'm in.
Are we going all the way back or should there be a cutoff? Not many people alive have an opinion on George Mikan or Bob Cousy. We could do it by decade each offseason. I am down either way. I'm just spitballing. |
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Post by Brian Scalabrine on Sept 4, 2018 14:03:11 GMT -5
I'm in if there's a second on the line
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Post by Ron Artest(1x Champ) on Sept 4, 2018 14:36:44 GMT -5
I'm in.
Are we going all the way back or should there be a cutoff? Not many people alive have an opinion on George Mikan or Bob Cousy. We could do it by decade each offseason. I am down either way. I'm just spitballing. most players picked will be from the 80s onwards anyways with the exception of a few guys, (Bill, Wilt, West, etc).... |
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billy
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Post by billy on Sept 4, 2018 15:46:29 GMT -5
In
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billy
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Post by billy on Sept 4, 2018 15:46:48 GMT -5
I'm in.
Are we going all the way back or should there be a cutoff? Not many people alive have an opinion on George Mikan or Bob Cousy. We could do it by decade each offseason. I am down either way. I'm just spitballing. most players picked will be from the 80s onwards anyways with the exception of a few guys, (Bill, Wilt, West, etc).... Maybe post-merger? And I'm a huge George Mikan fan! |
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Jackie Kong
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Post by Jackie Kong on Sept 4, 2018 16:01:36 GMT -5
It would need to be at least starting in the 1979-80 season when the 3-point line was implemented. x_x
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Post by Ron Artest(1x Champ) on Sept 4, 2018 16:34:08 GMT -5
most players picked will be from the 80s onwards anyways with the exception of a few guys, (Bill, Wilt, West, etc).... Maybe post-merger? And I'm a huge George Mikan fan! post merger makes sense |
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Jackie Kong
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Post by Jackie Kong on Sept 4, 2018 18:19:49 GMT -5
The 3 point line was implemented just a few years after the merge. In any case, I am in. You should put a contestants limit though and reject those who are currently taking too long to pick in the football league (lol) or else this will never finish. 20 participants sound like a decent number.
Edit: or 15. x_x
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Jackie Kong
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Post by Jackie Kong on Sept 4, 2018 20:01:14 GMT -5
Since I wouldn't qualify for a 2nd round pick you should give me number 1 pick to make this fair for everyone else.
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Allan Houston
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Post by Allan Houston on Sept 4, 2018 21:46:39 GMT -5
I'm down
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Theodore Duncan
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Post by Theodore Duncan on Sept 5, 2018 1:26:04 GMT -5
Cool. We are 11 now. I think something between 15-20 could be nice. Then with 10 rounds we go down to 150-200 top players in NBA history. After the first 20-30 all-time greats it starts to get interesting.
I was wondering what to do the with old guys. Post merger seems like a good cut-off
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Theodore Duncan
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Post by Theodore Duncan on Sept 5, 2018 2:25:04 GMT -5
Another idea. Maybe 16 teams and instead of one direct vote for all teams, do a bracket in the end until there is one winner?
Team 1 vs Team 16, Team 2 vs. Team 15, etc..
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Jackie Kong
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Post by Jackie Kong on Sept 5, 2018 7:32:40 GMT -5
This is about putting the best possible team though right? I mean Battier is not a top 200 player but someone might want him in his team as a glue guy. :D
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Ben Wallace
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Post by Ben Wallace on Sept 5, 2018 7:34:04 GMT -5
Another idea. Maybe 16 teams and instead of one direct vote for all teams, do a bracket in the end until there is one winner? Team 1 vs Team 16, Team 2 vs. Team 15, etc.. I like this idea. |
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Theodore Duncan
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Post by Theodore Duncan on Sept 5, 2018 7:37:08 GMT -5
This is about putting the best possible team though right? I mean Battier is not a top 200 player but someone might want him in his team as a glue guy.  I would say definitely the team build should make sense. And also having backups for each position should matter. Like if you just pick BPA and end up with 7 guards and 3 wings, you gonna have a bad time against a team with Shaq and 9 good roleplayers |
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billy
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Post by billy on Sept 5, 2018 8:34:58 GMT -5
We can do a bracket and we'll just randomly seed it.
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Jackie Kong
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Post by Jackie Kong on Sept 5, 2018 9:04:30 GMT -5
We still need 5 more persons for that though and the ones who will be active probably already signed up. We should limit it to 12 and have 4 groups of 3 teams with each team facing each other. Then, you make elimination rounds with the 4 top teams. The tiebreaker could be total votes in favor.
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David Robinson
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Post by David Robinson on Sept 5, 2018 9:08:17 GMT -5
I'm in if you need another
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Theodore Duncan
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Post by Theodore Duncan on Sept 5, 2018 9:14:49 GMT -5
I think just 4 more GM's should be doable to get to 16, maybe not everyone has seen this yet.
How about it?
@xavier0717
Edit.. or new guys?
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Post by O.J. Simpson on Sept 5, 2018 9:57:26 GMT -5
I'm going to pass. I'm not sure I understand what's happening.
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Post by Ron Artest(1x Champ) on Sept 5, 2018 10:44:16 GMT -5
This is about putting the best possible team though right? I mean Battier is not a top 200 player but someone might want him in his team as a glue guy. :D right let’s not overthink this. All time means EVERYONE available. The merge cut off is a good idea, but it shouldn’t get to the point of narrowing down a select group of players. Besides, where you rank a player is subjective. For example, I probably consider Bird a top 5 player, where as most would say top 10... not much of a difference to a casual, but it’s an entire argument for a ‘basketball head’... |
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Ben Wallace
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Post by Ben Wallace on Sept 5, 2018 14:55:52 GMT -5
This is accounting for each player's absolute prime? Does their entire career matter or pretending we're taking a player for one season during their peak WAR (or whatever metric) season?
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Yeezy
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Post by Yeezy on Sept 5, 2018 23:03:25 GMT -5
I will join, should be fun, thanks Theo!
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J Cole
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Post by J Cole on Sept 6, 2018 1:42:07 GMT -5
I'm interested
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