FBA: Annoyed by tanking? Join new Dynasty League!

[HoopsNerd]

if you agree with Steven A. Smith and Henry Abbott, chances are good that you're just as much annoyed by tanking as I am. After all, what’s the point of sports if up to a third of the teams don’t even try to compete?

The basic idea behind the Fantasy Basketball Association (FBA) is to correct the aspects of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that primarily help owners but at the cost of corrupting true competition.

What will be different in the FBA?
24 teams instead of 30: this will increase competitive balance by reversing talent dilution

rookie draft auction: rookies will be auctioned for draft credits. Credits are given to teams based on the final standing, however the difference between the best and worst team will be rather small. Therefore, there will still be an aspect of talent re-distribution but it certainly won’t pay off to gut your roster in order to have the worst record. Since, we won’t have a lottery it isn’t critical to make one of the last three places. As draft credits can be freely traded and saved for future seasons, it becomes possible for consistent contenders to acquire young talent at the top of the draft. This breaks the necessity in the NBA to first be bad in order to become good in the future. I hope this creates a situation where all well-managed teams can consistently try to win as much games as possible.

no individual maximum salary: when players like LeBron or Durant can make their fair share (ca. $30-40 million), the construction of super-teams becomes practically impossible. This will strongly increase competitive balance.

scoring: will be based on a derivate metric of win-shares. This metric strongly emphasizes efficiency and is therefore highly correlated with wins, hopefully leading to plausible game outcomes. We will even have position adjusted scoring, so that guards are not penalized for their on average lower eFG% (without their floor spacing bigs couldn’t score an eFG% higher than 50%).

schedule: We now have a euro-style schedule format and a Final Four tournament to crown the FBA Champion! Click here for more details.

money league: starting with the upcoming off-season, I’d like to transform this league into a mixed money league, where small market teams with little spending power can still be managed for free but large market teams cost an entry fee, based on their spending power. If you want to participate in the prize pool as a small market team you’ll have to pay a small minimum entry fee.

initial contraction draft: the FBA will start with 24 teams and their original NBA rosters and contracts. The players from the 6 contracted franchises will be auctioned off for draft credits before the start of the FBA regular season (depending on when we fill up the league). In order to achieve comparable starting positions for each franchise, teams with bad players and little salary flexibility will be compensated with extra draft credits that can be used in the initial contraction draft.

The league is set up over at ProFSL: Fantasy Basketball Assocation

9 teams are already claimed!

[HoopsNerd]

now is the time to join the FBA over at ProFSL: Fantasy Basketball Association

I've just announced a new and hopefully exciting system to assign teams. Instead of just picking one on a first-come, first-served basis we'll have a rather sophisticated team auction. The auction currency are draft credits that can be used in the subsequent contraction draft (see above). Each team enters the auction for 20 draft credits and the lowest bid wins. In an efficient market the winning bid for the Pacers would probably end up close to 0, while teams like the Knicks can be had together with maybe 18 draft credits. Sign-up now to name your designated teams early! This way you can make sure that you're in a position to outbid everybody else for your favorite team.