Opening Day Pairs Draft - Discussion

Jon_3232 · Post #21 » by **Jon_3232** » Mon Oct 6, 2025 2:06 pm

I’m in

durantbird · Post #22 » by **durantbird** » Mon Oct 6, 2025 8:09 pm

I need to review the pool again to decide whether to go with 80s or 90s to now timeframe with 9 participants

Will update tomorrow

Maybe we'll get ten by then

Post #23 » by **Snakebites** » Mon Oct 6, 2025 9:04 pm

durantbird wrote:I need to review the pool again to decide whether to go with 80s or 90s to now timeframe with 9 participants

Will update tomorrow

Maybe we'll get ten by then

Yeah. These franchises are picked for Opening day for a reason. They are more likely to have rich histories, many good teams, and a depth of both high end talent and role players.

durantbird · Post #24 » by **durantbird** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 10:45 am

Ok upon further review, I think we'll still stick to 80s to now. Yeah, the top end talent is deep, but I think:

1) In both cases, bottom teams get pretty great one two punch. Difference is, in 90s to now the second round talent is likely to dry out quickly, which may make it less balanced. In the 80s version the cores are expected to be more balanced at least.
2) The overall depth for later rounds will also be pretty thin in rounds 3 and on for the 90s version, I prefer the looks of it in the 80s version.

Before we start, I'll wait a bit on comments on this

Larry_Russell · Post #25 » by **Larry_Russell** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 12:03 pm

durantbird wrote:Ok upon further review, I think we'll still stick to 80s to now. Yeah, the top end talent is deep, but I think:

1) In both cases, bottom teams get pretty great one two punch. Difference is, in 90s to now the second round talent is likely to dry out quickly, which may make it less balanced. In the 80s version the cores are expected to be more balanced at least.
2) The overall depth for later rounds will also be pretty thin in rounds 3 and on for the 90s version, I prefer the looks of it in the 80s version.

Before we start, I'll wait a bit on comments on this

agreed

durantbird · Post #26 » by **durantbird** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 1:27 pm

There were 9 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Mr Ringer
Laimbeer
durantbird
lilroddyb
Dr Positivity
MadNess
Snakebites
Jon_3232
Larry_Russell
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Timestamp: 2025-10-07 13:15:38 UTC

Mr Ringer wrote:up

Clock starts tomorrow at 9am EDT

Post #27 » by **Snakebites** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 6:50 pm

Off to a flying start!

durantbird · Post #28 » by **durantbird** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 7:52 pm

Laimbeer wrote:I'd rather do polls and know I'm getting a wider range of opinion than three people to win (with the last vote probably being dragged out of someone after multiple quotes or maybe done by A.I.). The old method resulted in some conflict between coaches and wasn't always fun. We all lose match-ups we didn't think we should, it's natural.

In any case, going back isn't practical simply because, as said, people weren't voting.

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durantbird · Post #29 » by **durantbird** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 8:22 pm

Snake has my options

Laimbeer · Post #30 » by **Laimbeer** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 8:37 pm

durantbird wrote:
Laimbeer wrote:I'd rather do polls and know I'm getting a wider range of opinion than three people to win (with the last vote probably being dragged out of someone after multiple quotes or maybe done by A.I.). The old method resulted in some conflict between coaches and wasn't always fun. We all lose match-ups we didn't think we should, it's natural.

In any case, going back isn't practical simply because, as said, people weren't voting.

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Mr Ringer · Post #31 » by **Mr Ringer** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 8:52 pm

lilroddyb wrote:In

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lilroddyb · Post #32 » by **lilroddyb** » Tue Oct 7, 2025 10:39 pm

Dr Positivity wrote:Ok

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Dr Positivity · Post #33 » by **Dr Positivity** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 12:53 am

MadNESS wrote:In

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Post #34 » by **MadNESS** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 2:23 am

Snakebites wrote:Well it was my idea.

I’m in.

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Post #35 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 6:06 am

Jon_3232 wrote:I’m in

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Jon_3232 · Post #36 » by **Jon_3232** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 9:54 am

Larry_Russell wrote:up

Larry_Russell · Post #37 » by **Larry_Russell** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 1:16 pm

Got lucky with my draft spot, and kind of surprised that the Shaq and ANT pairing didn't go a little sooner, 2 MVP level talents to be able to be picked together.

Laimbeer · Post #38 » by **Laimbeer** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 2:38 pm

Curry Shaq and ANT is pretty crazy. It looked like the bottom was going to be the place to be and it is playing out that way. Gulp

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Post #39 » by **MadNESS** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 2:45 pm

Laimbeer wrote:Curry Shaq and ANT is pretty crazy. It looked like the bottom was going to be the place to be and it is playing out that way. Gulp

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Thought about it, I didn’t want to have 40+ FGA’s on my frost 2 players and then only get stuck with high FGA’s guys on the swing back

Jon_3232 · Post #40 » by **Jon_3232** » Wed Oct 8, 2025 3:14 pm

Well I rushed to make a pick while trying to get back to work and forgot I had Draymond when I made the OG/Tatum pick. Small ball with Green at C I suppose

Thought about Shaq/Ant with my first too but have had Shaq a couple times recently so went with Kobe