Pick a Player NCAA Tournament Style Rules and Chat!!!!!!!

[roseorbust]

Hey Guys, I was looking in a thread in the 76ers forum, made by the sixers fixer, and it inspired me to create this thread.

With the greatest tournament in sports going on, I decided to try to settle the whole arguement of who is the greatest overall player in the NBA by setting up a large tournament, in the NCAA tournament style. I'd like to apoligize to the many fans who feel a player will have gotten snubbed, or someone didn't belong on the list, but I and a few others did my best to pick out the 64 active players that were the greatest overall. I'd like to thank Raptorzong in particular, he was a great help and here is the list of the 64 players, not full names for a lot of them. Do not worry about the order, just because Rasheed Wallace is a higher number then Gilbert Arenas does not mean he is a higher seed. The 64 participators in the tournament are.....
1. Lebron
2. Kobe
3. Dwight
4. Paul
5. Carmelo
6. Yao
7. Wade
8. bosh
9. Iverson
10. Garnett
11. Deron Williams
12. Duncan
13. Jefferson
14. Boozer
15. Brand
16. Dirk
17. Pierce
18. Ray Allen
19. Kidd
20. Tony Parker
21. Manu
22. Billups
23. Rasheed
24. Tmac
25. Vince
26. Joe Johnson
27. Nash
28. Marion
29. Amare
30. Iggy
31. David West
32. Josh Smith
33. Gasol
34. Redd
35. Jason Richardson
36. Emeka Okafor
37. Odom
38. Durant
39. Arenas
40. Jamison
41. Butler
42. R Jefferson
43. Rashad Lewis
44. Brandon Roy
45. Granger
46. Ellis
47. Kirilenko
48. Kevin Martin
49. Baron
50. Biedriens
51. Camby
52. Tyson Chandler
53. Horford
54. Dalembert.
55. Rudy Gay
56. Artest
57. J O neal
58. Kaman
59. Barbosa
60. Howard
61. Andre Miller
62. Hamilton
63. Calderon
64. Bynum

The Voting procedure is as follows I will post one regional(revealed tommorrow) a day, every day. That will replace the list of names i'm teasing you with now. their will be a thread for each matchup, and you will have one day to vote. If your vote is not in by the end of that 24 hour period, it will not be counted. As soon as the 24 hours are up, a moderator will lock the thread, so this doesn't clam up the Player Comparisons Board forever.

Bolded means advancing

Southern Bracket
1.Tim Duncan alive in 3rd
2. Chris Bosh alive in 3rd
3. Deron Williams alive in 3rd
4. Gilbert Arenas lost in 2nd
5. Paul Pierce alive in 3rd
6. Jason Kidd lost in 2nd
7. Vince Carter eliminated by David West
8. Baron Davis lost in 2nd.
9. Josh Smith eliminated by Baron Davis
10. David West lost in second.
11. Kevin Durant Eliminated by Jason Kidd
12. Rasheed Wallace Eliminated by Paul Pierce
13. [Andrei Kirilenko Eliminated by Gilbert Arenas
14. Ron Artest eliminated by Deron Williams
15. Tyson Chandler eliminated by Chris Bosh
16. Samuel Dalembert eliminated by Tim Duncan

Northern Bracket
1. Kobe Bryant alive in 3rd
2. Dwayne Wade alive in 3rd
3. Kevin Garnett alive in 3rd
4. Elton Brand alive in 3rd
5. Amare Stoudamiere
6. Manu Ginobili
7. Tony Parker
8. Kevin Martin
9. Micheal Redd
10. Monta Ellis
11. Antawn Jamison
12. Jason Richardson
13. Rudy Gay
14. Chris Kaman
15. Leandro Barbosa
16. Jermaine O'Neal

Brackets
Eastern
1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller -- LeBron over Gasol
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum --Paul over Johnson
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard -- Yao over Boozer
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby -- Billups over Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

Western

1. Dwight Howard v. Andre Biedrins -- Howard over Okafor
2. Dirk Nowitski v. Jose Calderon -- Nowitski over Jefferson
3. Steve Nash v. Rashard Lewis -- Nash over Marion
4. Tracy McGrady v. Al Horford -- Anthony by a hair over TMac
5. Carmelo Anthony v. Lamar Odom
6. Shawn Marion v. Richard Jefferson
7. Andre Iguolada v. Al Jefferson
8. Rip Hamilton v. Emeka Okafor

[J~Rush]

in the tournament "are"

Looks cool, you might want to bold somewhere where it says this is not one on one.

[Cammo101]

No Hedo? Crime.

[roseorbust]

No Hedo? Crime.

He lost the play in game, and Joe Johnson won the NIT

[Datruth345]

i dont understand these polls

who would you rather have
who do you think is better

are 2 completley diffrent questions

who would you rather have brings age into account...the kevin durant jason kidd poll for instance is affected by this

are we voting who is better or who would we rather have?

[roseorbust]

Who you would rather have if you were trying to win a championship this year.

[Datruth345]

ok

[Jack wore plaid]

No Aldridge is a crime as well. He should be there instead of both Jermaine and Biedrins.


Fun game though, Thanks

[TrueLAfan]

Unfortunately, this is taking up far too much room on the Player Comparisons board. At any given time, there are 8-16 threads open...which simply takes up too much of the first page space for threads.

In the future, just use one thread per bracket. You won't be able to have a poll, but posters can still vote for who they want. You'll probably get more conversation about the players in the bracket as well.

Thanks for your help.

[roseorbust]

shut down, geuss Real GM couldn't handle a extra 32 threads over 4 days. Neither could thier mods figure out how to lock a thread, to gurantee it doesn't get to gummed up for a long time.

Some of the greatest ideas never make it.( Mash potato and Gravy smoothie)

[dockingsched]

post each bracket in one thread like truelafan suggested. like the daily game thread on the general board, people list their winning picks. the only drawback is you have to manually count the votes. the positives, however, far outweigh the negatives.

[roseorbust]

yeah, but after I did 16 threads, worked hard on them, and then they tell me I'm only allowed to do one thread? it's like come on, if I was doing Kobe threads, no one would look twice. But because someone put time and effort into their posts and it was a good idea.. it was locked.


I mean honestly, what's so horrible about these threads? Yes I know. duncan vs. Dalembert blah blah blah. But still, there were only one or 2 threads that wern't at all really intriguing

I Asked THREEE times.[size=12][/size for the threads of the southern bracket to be locked, I tried to make the forum as un"spammed" as possible, but because it was a few extra threads and it was official and a good idea, it was blocked. If people made 8 more Kobe threads, no one would even care. The problem ws my threads were linked.
No offence to mods, just a bit of venting..
/rant

[randomhero423]

should have just made it down to 16 players.

[TrueLAfan]

What you're basically saying is that the moderators have to step in and lock threads for a project that you started and instigated pretty much immediately (we could have told you that having 8 or more threads open at one time is pretty much a lousy idea) because you don't want to insert a post that says--"Time's Up! Voting is Over!" It's not the job of the moderators to clean up for you. Doesn't matter how often you ask. Why didn't you just stop the threads yourself by saying "We're Done"?

As for the "All my hard work to start these threads!"...c'mon, man. You wrote a couple of sentences about each player. And if you didn't want to do the work, why did you do it in the first place? And why are you complaining about not having to do it now?

Finally, this was NEVER shut down. (For God's sake, this thread is still stickied.) You started a project that took up a quarter to a half of the front page threads without asking the mods (or other users) if that was cool or if they minded, didn't want to have the work of stopping the voting, and don't want to continue the project in the completely reasonable way suggested to you. And you're even complaining about the work you had to do!

You had your vent; I've had mine. That's what we're allowed here--one vent session. So that part of this is over. If you want to continue this project in the reasonable way recommended--and you've been encouraged to do so, and had this thread stickied--by all means do so. If you don't...don't. Whatever you choose, stop complaining.

[roseorbust]

I would like to say that I did request the help of 2 of the PC mods at the start with locking the threads, and yeah, I never thought of saying voting over.

[roseorbust]

Bracket is coming up.

[penbeast0]

And we have our winners in the Eastern Bracket as we have more upsets and the highest seed so far falling.

Looking forward to the Western Bracket, Rose.