JCC Discussion Time: Let's Talk About Drafts - next draft?

Mm... Fish.

 

i've been thinking of putting together some mini drafts, in the spirit of fan-duels or daily fantasy football or whatever.

they'd be a much smaller commitment (2 or 3 rounds of drafting? maybe 4 or max 5?), probably a smaller pool of gm's, and would ideally only take a couple days or a week to complete. would you guys be interested in that? what would be some cool subject matter? we could do stuff that has already been done, or something different (like 3 on 3 basketball, or game of thrones characters, or something).

 

Blue spotted yellow tailed mini kissing fish!

 

That sounds neat, prenn.

 

All mods or current mods?

 

Oh, you sweet summer child...

 

So, thinking about another NBA game, and the idea tom had to have teams selected instead of players. How about an auction?

Each GM gets $100 to spend/bid on teams. We do a draft order. First person up puts a team up for bid. All GMs have 24 hours to bid. Commish announces current high bid. At that point a second team is put up for auction. The first team has another 24 hours for second bids. At that point, the commish announces who won the first team's bid, what the current high bid is on the second team, and the next GM in line puts up a third team for auction.

So, it might go like this.

Day 1, tom puts the Kentucky Colonels up.
24 hours later, Inty announces that the current high bid is from RX_Sith at $15. At that point in time, DarthTunick puts the Lakers up for Auction
24 hours later, Inty announces that tom has won the Kentucky Colonels for $16, and that the current high bid on the Lakers is Tunick at $80. At that point in time, EmpireForever puts the Celtics up for auctions.
The next day, Inty announces that Tunick has won the Lakers for $99, Tom is leading the Celtic Bidding at $80, and PRENNTACULAR puts the Orlando Magic up for Auction.

We'd continue until every GM had spent all their money. Once a GM is out of money, they can't bid and they can no longer put a team up for Auction. If no other GM bids on a team, the GM that put them up for Auction gets them for $1.

At the end of the day, you might have the following:

LloydChristmas spent $45 on the Cleveland Cavaliers, $35 for the Phoenix Suns and $20 for the Orlando Magic. He can then trot out this starting Lineup:

PG: LeBron James (Cleveland, 08-09)
SG: Charles Barkley (Phoenix 93-94)
SF: Shaq (Cleveland 09-10)
PF: Shaq (Phoenix (08-09)
C: Shaq (Orlando 95-96)

With a bench of any combination of players, with the caveat that you cannot duplicate a player with the same team (so, no multiple Cleveland LeBrons, etc).

Another example:

Prenn spends $100 on the Lakers. No other team can be added. But, Prenn can go with a starting five of

PG: Magic
SG: Kobe
SF: Sacre
PF: Kareem
C: Shaq

Other thoughts: Teams that relocated would be put together. So if tom bought the SuperSonics, he'd also get the Thunder. If someone bought the L.A. Clippers, they'd get the Buffalo Braves and the San Diego Clippers, too.

Limit this to 8 GMs (or less). Play a round robin against all other seven teams, 2 home 2 away against every other team. Do a playoff of some sort.

 

That's an interesting concept. May take a bit to get it down, but seems fun.

 

I'm possibly intrigued.

 

Sounds pretty good to me as well.

 

hell yea

 

for the idea in general, or for Sacre starting alongside Magic/Kobe/Kareem/Shaq?

 

I'm literally making that lineup so y'all back off

 

not if i do it first

 

Mod Types, am I okay to do an 8-player NBA Auction Game?

 

Yes.

 

Go for it

 

Will get it posted this weekend.

 

Posted http://boards.theforce.net/threads/arena-the-fourth-basketball-draft-game-auction-style.50038590/

 

With no activity in the basketball draft since basically April, I figured I would share some ideas I had for a new draft. It is the offseason and we'll need something to keep our basketball loving minds busy other than discussing which scrub is now getting a max contract. I would be interested in being commish unless someone else really wants to do it.

1) The Non HOF/All-Star draft: We briefly discussed this during the past draft. In this version, all players in the Hall of Fame or any that ever made an All-Star team would be blacklisted. This I think could be fun especially if you like doing some research beforehand, and would allow for different players to be selected, who otherwise would not be. This would give everyone the opportunity of really putting some thought into their teams construction, rather than just loading up on HOF players.
2) The Lone Ranger draft: In this idea, in the first round, everyone would get to pick ONE legend of the game to build a team around. After the first round, all HOF/All-Stars would be blacklisted as in the draft concept above, and the rest of the draft proceeds as already stated. Which legend would be able to put his team on his back and carry them to the title? This would give us a chance to find out.
3) Dynamic Duo draft: This is the Jordan/Pippen or Shaq/Kobe idea. In the first two rounds of the draft, you can pick TWO HOF players to start your team with, and after that all HOF/All-Stars would be blacklisted as in the concepts above.
4) Franchise League with a twist: Everyone would draft ONE franchise. You can submit your roster using any player that ever played in at least one game for that franchise. The twist is that you can use any season of the players career, regardless of whether it happened for your franchise or not. Want to have prime Dennis Rodman on the Mavs or Lakers? Now you can! How about prime Penny Hardaway on the Heat? Now you can! How about high-flying dunk machine Shawn Kemp on the Magic? Now you can! To make this idea a fair one to all involved, this league would use a salary cap. The salaries of the players are all listed on Whatifsports when you search for them. The cap would keep a level playing field for everyone, as the majority of the franchises present many fun possibilities to submit a championship roster.

My other thoughts are, I would like to play a full 82 game slate for the regular season. Each time the games are simulated though, it would be 7 games at a time for the first 77 games, then finishing up with a 5 game set to equal 82. Number of playoff teams would be determined by the size of the league. It would be fun to get as many people as we can to play. Also, it would be cool if someone would be willing to keep a spreadsheet or something of the league stats.

Those are the thoughts I've had. Any interest, thoughts, or suggestions?

 

So, I had the following thought about the next Comic Book/Video Game/Movie Character/Etc. Draft. Because, the biggest issue is always "the list" and the "power Levels" is always the second issue.

What if we did something like this.

Upon sign-up, each GM puts forward 20 characters to be draftable. After all 8 (let's say 8 for now), the two judges add five characters and the Commish adds ten additional characters to the list, giving us a a total of 180 characters. Each team drafts, say, a dozen, meaning just over half of the characters get drafted. This means:

1) no long arguments over who does/doesn't belong on the list
2) list is still long enough that no one gets stiffed into not having a choice at the end
3) the GMs are largely in control of the power level. If someone decides to throw Mistress Death on the list and everyone else has characters at the level of Superman, that GM is giving themselves a 7-in-8 shot of not having the heads-and-shoulders most powerful pick in the draft. Odds are, you wouldn't see someone do that.
4) Gets a chance for people to have fun with the list. Let's say you want your 20 characters to include J. Jonah Jameson, Aunt May, Martha Wayne, and Martha Kent. Go for it.

I'd also be kind of in favor of doing this on a smaller run - 4 GMs and a quick tournament. More likely to get through it and prove concept, and not have folks have their time eaten up. With 4 GMs, we could even run a draft with just five participants. The GMs act as judges for the matches they aren't in, and the commish is the third judge/tiebreaker.