2024-25 West Cross Standings Draft - Discussion

[durantbird]

Draft Rules:

1. All NBA seasons from 1989-90 to 2024-25 are eligible, subject to the restrictions outlined below.

2. You will be required to draft a total of 8 players in 4 rounds. Each of your players must play a minimum of 8 minutes in your rotations. Any player chosen in a season that is pre-merger will have a multiplier of 0.85 applied against their actual fga, rounded to closest 0.1.

3. Your team will be allowed a combined total of 88.0 FGA with a minimum of 3.0 FGA per player corresponding with the specific seasons indicated for each player. NOTE: You may pick a player whose actual FGA number was lower than 3.0, but you still be charged 3.0 for that player.

4. Each player you select must have played at least 50% of regular season games in the season selected. He needs to play at least 50% of his games for an eligible franchise.

5. In each round, you may pick two players who each played at least 50% of their games in the chosen season for different sides of the following franchise pairs: Thunder - Jazz, Rockets - Pelicans, Lakers - Spurs, Nuggets - Trail Blazers, Clippers - Suns, Timberwolves - Mavericks, Warriors - Kings, Grizzlies - Grizzlies.

Each pair should have at most one player who ever won All NBA First accolade in his career.

6. We will be doing a modified snake draft. It will go like this: ABBA.

7. Players will get a maximum of a 2-hour window to make their selection when they are on the clock. If you still have not chosen a player by then, or if the player you have chosen is ineligible, you will be skipped. Also, if you know ahead of time that you won't be available to make your pick on the clock then please PM your selection to another participant. NOTE: If you miss one pick and have failed to make it by the time your next pick comes around, you will be skipped.

8. The clock will be turned off between 12 midnight and 9 AM EDT.

9. Draft order will be completely randomized.

10. After you have made your draft selection, please quote and/or PM the person that goes after you so they will know that it is their turn and they are on the clock. You may not change your pick after it has been made, even if the next person in the order has not picked yet. Please note that the clock starts whenever the previous drafter has either made their pick or their two-hour window has expired, even if the next person is not quoted.

11. The winner of the draft will be determined by polls. AI will be used as a single vote when a matchup is tied and stuck.

Team Roster Page Rules:

You will be responsible for creating a roster page for your fantasy team. Here are the things that you will be required to include on your roster page:

. Players
. Rotations
. Draft selections
. The most important of all, you must show the total FGA per player on your roster AND a total sum of each players FGA to display that it is under the required 88.0 FGA

-All of the above must be completed before playoffs/rankings


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durantbird
Snakebites
lilroddyb
Larry_Russell
MadNess
Laimbeer
Fadeaway_J
GeorgeMarcus
Dr Positivity
uberhikari
iamgine
wackbone

[Snakebites]

In

[lilroddyb]

In

[Larry_Russell]

In

[MadNESS]

Yes

[Laimbeer]

yuuuuuuuuuup

[Fadeaway_J]

In

GeorgeMarcus asked to be added as well

[Snakebites]

Hmm. Everyone note that the time frame in this one is not the same as the other one. It’s 99-00 to present.

I have no opinion about this, just putting this out there so folks plan their boards accordingly.

[Dr Positivity]

K

[uberhikari]

in

[Laimbeer]

I count ten with George

[iamgine]

I'll do it again

[MadNESS]

Why did we change the time frame? It should be the same as the EAST game

[Snakebites]

Why did we change the time frame? It should be the same as the EAST game

West 99-00 is still deeper than East 89-90. The conferences are that lopsided.

I suspect that's why.

[wackbone]

I will join. Hopefully no roadblocks this time.

[Snakebites]

That's 12.

How many would we need to consider expanding the time frame?

[Fadeaway_J]

With 12+ drafters we should go back to the 90s. Some of these pairings get pretty blah with only the 2000s and on to choose from.

[durantbird]

Upon reviewing the board with 90s and on, and 12 drafters, changing it to the wider timeframe sounds reasonable.

I'll change to 90s and on.

[durantbird]

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Notice timeframe changed to 90s and on.

There were 12 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Dr Positivity
lilroddyb
uberhikari
durantbird
wackbone
Larry_Russell
GeorgeMarcus
iamgine
MadNess
Fadeaway_J
Snakebites
Laimbeer
IP: 46.210.131.253
Timestamp: 2025-04-28 12:43:01 UTC

Clock will start 9am EDT tomorrow regardless of when the first round ends.

up first

[Larry_Russell]

middle of the pack might actually be OK in this one.