Recent content by GunterD

You can't build a team around Giannis and Flagg. Not on the same timeline, Giannis will be able to leave before Flagg can hit his prime. If you're trading for Giannis, you have to have a winning team in two years. If you're building around Flagg, you want to peak in about 5 years. Not...

I dunno the problem with trading for him is you have to cash in a lot of your resources to get it done. But he's only got 2 more years left on his deal and if you can't get him to re-sign in that time, and can't assemble the rest of a championship team on that timeline, you basically just lost...

I remember really hating Bolerjack as an announcer. Then one year for league pass I decided to do a thing where I watched all of the games with the home team's broadcast team. I don't hate him as much anymore. Don't remember specifics but there's some really terrible announcers out there...

I dunno its like, in a strategy card game, you want to set up your deck to give yourself multiple ways to win. My optimimum is to get this combination of cards, and if I do I will win. But if I don't get that combination of cards, I want a backup plan involving a different combination of...

For Charlotte..... Made the playoffs twice in that 15 year period. Draft odds were .17% 25% 19.9% .17% .8% .8% 1% 6% 1.8% 1% 12.5% 13.3% 14% in that period That factors out to be.. about a 35% chance they didn't win in that time period. Certainly not lucky but not horrible odds it happened...

While I think conspiracy theories about the draft are silly (the Ewing draft maybe being the only one I'd consider might have been rigged), I will admit sometimes its kind of fun to indulge in what if speculation, same as its fun to engage in superstitions, as long as you don't buy into it super...

Wasn't actively posting at this point so I'll admit I just brushed past it in catching up with the thread. It does mostly achieve your stated objectives of keeping the average good pick going to the worst teams, but rewarding the best teams with the best chance at the top 5, which would...

Kinda tough exercise before we know the lotto results. In a way its nice because with all the draft picks and young players we have a lot of options open. What you do with these guys depends on what direction you want to go. For this off season I'm assuming that 1) We expect to get a guy in...

Ah that is a good point I didn't consider. Trading cap space would be hard, just because draft pick trades are usually really future things and it would be kind of hard to guarantee that you would still have it available. You could still do 2nd round trades, and draft day trades for players...

It is an interesting suggestion. My gut feel would just be that its a little too complicated to not have exploitable edge cases that will result in unintended consequences, but those may be able to be ironed out with small rule changes. The biggest problem might be that it sounds to me like...

Leaning in to the tanking concept instead of trying but failing to disincentivize it means the tanking teams get what they want faster and stop tanking sooner. So teams tank for less time, and fewer teams are doing it at the same time. All flattening the odds does is make it take more time to...

All 30 Team Owners are going to agree to a system that intentionally ensures that their team will never receive an expected superstar through the draft? I'm not ever going to believe in a conspiracy theory that says the owners are in on it. In addition to them you also have to rig the lottery...

This is why I don't trust AI with anything right now. (side story, I once saw a commercial I thought was kind of funny that talked about great shows having one-word titles and included "ER" in the mix. I tried to search for the commercial, and the AI overview came back saying something along...

Eh, I'll admit that I'm not digging too much deeper into this than just a google search on the number of TVs that are usually tuned in to their games. I still think all those things you say about SA having deep roots and an international fanbase happened because they got lucky and drafted...

Been a few pretty good ideas discussed in here recently I think. Removing lottery protections on the non-lottery winning picks would help some, at least with the jockeying that gets done at the higher picks, though I don't think that part is the worst part of tanking. It would have the side...