Interested in starting a keeper basketball league

[kidcolin]

I can xfer to you via Full Tilt.

[IrishHand]

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Clark, MEb, Commish,

A couple of questions.

1. Any reasoning on why a scoring split results in a win for the home team? Is it just because software just can't handle ties?

2. I don't really get the development league slots. In what way are they different than the reserved squad?

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1. There aren't ties in the NBA, so there aren't ties in this league. There is, however, a home-court advantage (accurately measurable over a large sample size). The "4.5-4.5 tie goes to home team" doesn't come into play nearly enough to fully depict the home-court advantage (you'll see it impact maybe a half-dozen games a year for a full season for all teams - it's very rare for teams to split 8 categories and tie one when three categories can't be tied and you're talking about 12 players accumulating stats over 30+ total games).

2. D-league slots are only open to players in their 1st or 2nd year in the NBA (so rookies and sophmores), and once a player's been used on a team's active or reserve squads, he's no longer eligible for the d-league spots. It's a mechanism to allow teams to invest in long-term projects (2nd round picks, many 1st round picks, undrafted rooks) and park them somewhere for a year or two to see if they develop. In the absence of those spots, rebuilding teams would have a much harder time of it.

[sethypooh21]

Are the D-league spots open to drafted but unsigned euros?

Also, guess who is the worst regular player in the NBA according to our stats...

[MEbenhoe]

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Also, guess who is the worst regular player in the NBA according to our stats...

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Rondo? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[sethypooh21]

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Also, guess who is the worst regular player in the NBA according to our stats...

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Rondo? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Rajon does surprisingly well (top 200)

No, the winner is the Stache...(next worse is Toine Walker and then a pretty big gap before the next worst, Laptop Lightfingers Marcus Williams...)

[kidcolin]

That's not all that surprising. Morrison's troubles were obvious, but I remember reading a stat head's report on the worst players in the league, and 'Toine was right near the bottom.

[IrishHand]

Depends on how you define "regular". If you want to include 'Toine (23 mpg last year), you're using a pretty liberal standard. However...lowest-ranked "regular" players, using 40+ games, 20+ mpg as "regular":

1) 'Toine
2) Morrison
3) Willie Green
4) Jason Collins
5) Telfair
6) Desmond Mason (first 30 mpg guy)
7) Gary Payton
8) Ronald Murray
9) Claxton
10) Magloire

[ClarkNasty]

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Are the D-league spots open to drafted but unsigned euros?


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No. They have to be in the league.

To clarify, at the beginning of the season you'll select 3 eligible guys (1st or 2nd year in the NBA) to sit on the D-Squad. If you activate any of them, then they cannot return to the D-Squad that year. The only way they return is either at the start of the following year (if they were a rookie), or if you trade them to another team (the new owner has the option to put them on his D-Squad).

[EPiPeN11]

Can there be some sort of injury spot(s)?

[ClarkNasty]

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Can there be some sort of injury spot(s)?

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Yes. There are 2. Alex will detail the rule in the revised constitution he sends out.