2021 Official All Time Draft SIMULATION THREAD

[KobesFinger]

Alright guys, this kind of died so I'm trying to bring it back.

Draft Thread

To quote myself:

When I ran the last draft, we did a round robin. We all play each other X number of times, say twice at home and twice away, and the most victories is #1 seed and so on. H2H record is the tie breaker.

For the knockouts, do for instance 5 home games and 5 away games for each tie. If it ends square, the team who scored the most total points in the tie gets HCA and we did sudden death. We also did a 3rd placed series of the two beaten semi finalists.

For this you'll need to generate the box score for each match, save it and share them when doing the tournament itself

So I'm going to sim TWO home games and TWO away games for each team, so everybody plays everybody else 4 times for a grand total of 44 games each. This will give a big enough sample size to determine the seeding for the knockout part. As there are 12 teams and not 8 or 16, the top 4 teams will get a first round bye. The first round will be as follows: #5 v #12, #6 v #11, #7 v #8 and #9 v #10. Seeding tie breaker will be H2H record, then point differential, then total points scored.

The knockout stage will be 5 home games and 5 away games each, first to 6. If it ends 5-5, the team who scored the most through the 10 games gets HCA and the teams will play an 11th game, winner take all.

Once the finalists have been decided, I will sim a third placed playoff between the losing semi-finalists. Then I'll sim the final and that gives us a winner, 2nd place, 3rd place and 4th place.

What you guys need to do is tell me your Whatifsports user name and your team name. You also need to set your rotation, which you can do by selecting your team in the dream team section and selecting "edit depth chart". I'll give you guys until Tuesday 7pm ET to do this. If not, I'll assume that whatever rotation you have is final. If you don't list your team name and I can't find it, I'll assume you're no longer interested in participating, so your team will be eliminated.

Feel free to also post a write up of how your team would play, your strengths and weaknesses. Please note this isn't mandatory and is completely hypothetical.

[Lebron23]

Lebron23ISH my team name


PG Isiah Thomas
SG Tracy McGrady
SF Giannis Antetokounmpo
PF Karl Malone
C Wilt Chamberlain

My starting 5

[dankok8]

Sounds good. I can help you sim some games as well. Do you want me to RNG the conferences?

My team name is Djoker's Annihilators.

[Cold soul]

I’m down to play this! It sounds like a lot of fun.

[KobesFinger]

Sounds good. I can help you sim some games as well. Do you want me to RNG the conferences?

My team name is Djoker's Annihilators.

I wasn't planning to do conferences but would you be happy simming like half the games?

I’m down to play this! It sounds like a lot of fun.

Hmm, we did have a guy drop out. He drafted Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant then stopped posting. Obviously by this point, nearly all the great players are gone, however there are still some good players left if you'd be happy to take over his team? Have a look in the draft thread to see which players are available.

[dankok8]

I wasn't planning to do conferences but would you be happy simming like half the games?



Hmm, we did have a guy drop out. He drafted Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant then stopped posting. Obviously by this point, nearly all the great players are gone, however there are still some good players left if you'd be happy to take over his team? Have a look in the draft thread to see which players are available.

I say let's do two conferences of six teams each.

[iamgine]

[2much_knowledge]

@2Muchknowledge

CHAMPS INC

[hangintheair]

Owner: Skyway

Team name: Hangintheair

[KobesFinger]

I say let's do two conferences of six teams each.

The reason I wasn't gonna do that is because of the numbers, and also how do you decide who is in which conference

[iamgine]

My team name is Selltickets

[Gotterdammerung]

My team is Gotzendammerung.

Some fakkit has been playing against me unbeknownst to me.

[dankok8]

The reason I wasn't gonna do that is because of the numbers, and also how do you decide who is in which conference

Just use an RNG to generate random numbers from 0 to 1 for everyone. The six highest numbers go in one conference and the others in the other conference.

[KobesFinger]

Right so I had a look on WIF and none of these guys have made their teams. Would you guys be happy to remake their teams on your own accounts? We need:

AlternativeAcc (Bird, Barkley, Dwight Howard, Stockton, Vince Carter, Arenas, Pau Gasol, AK47, Artis Gilmore, )
SouBeachTalents (Hakeem, DWade, Jerry West, Havlicek, Sheed, Jimmy Butler, Walt Frazier, Eddie Jones, Marc Gasol, Paul Millsap)
1987_Lakers (Kareem, Dirk, Rick Barry, Harden, Chauncey Billups, Embiid, Bobby Jones, Jason Tatum, Klay Thompson, Mark Price)
Manny98 (LeBron, CP3, Bill Russell, Reggie Miller, Manu Ginobili, Khris Middleton, Shawn Marion, Mutombo, Kyle Korver)

Cold Soul can take over warriorfan's team which had Durant and KG on it if he wants to. We're at 11 teams if he doesn't in which case the top 3 seeds get a bye, with seeds 4 through 11 play in the first round.

[Manny98]

I'll do mine in a minute