GM a Team 2010 - Rules & sign up

[roc]

Welcome to 'GM a Team 2010'

RULES:

1. No trades allowed unless your roster page has all player and team salaries for both 2010 and 2011. Each roster page must be kept up to date with transactions, assets, waived players, pick restrictions, and any money owed on what may appear an unguaranteed contract or I will not approve proposed trades.

2. There will extensions but with a twist. EVERY extended player will be BYC - 1/2 $ for outgoing & full $ for incoming. Extended player will not be allowed to be traded for 1 week. This rule will reapply after each trade. Same rules will apply to all 2010 FAs. This way you have to be truly vested in acquiring said player.

3. Newly acquired players via trade will have to wait 48 hours from joining new team before being traded again unless stipulated in the original deal. This does not cover players from rule 2.

4. The draft will be in hyper-speed. Every team will have to send a list and there will be only 15 minutes between picks in the 1st round and 10 minutes in the 2nd round. Everyone will get to help figure out the best time of day and what day to run the draft so as many GMs as possible will be able to be online and make trades if desired. This may be split over a period of 3-4 days so we can make it easier for most GMs. We may switch this up to something longer if absolutely needed.

5. There will be 2 categories for judging 'win now' and 'rebuild' both will be broken into conferences. The 2 teams that win each category will go head to head for their respective title. ie East 'win now' v West 'win now' and East 'rebuild' v West 'rebuild'.

6. Exorbitant team salaries, Injury riddled players, youth v experience v too old, will play a part in voting as will overall improvement towards each GM's desired goal.


TIMETABLE:

Oct 1st start extensions
Oct 24th end the season
Oct 27th all votes should be in and results posted for rankings.
Oct 28th Draft starts
Nov 4th draft should be over
Nov 4th FA starts
Nov 24th end of trading/signings
Nov 28th write ups due
Dec 1st votes must be in/emailed to me
Dec 3rd Winners announced

Dates may vary slightly if need be...

[Miller4ever]

I like the roster page restriction the best. I think every GM should also have any protection on picks (I got two picks taken away from me because GM's neglected to tell me protection on draft picks. It's not my responsibility to check with the original team either when I'm getting the pick from a different team. As soon as you get the pick and you know its protections, you're supposed to include that in the deal. Also, some people only put one year of their players' contracts on the roster page. That was obnoxious.

[Gremz]

Works for me. I like the look of this one already.

Throw my name in the hat. OKC for me if possible.

[roc]

OKC it is Gremz.

I will make a roster page once more people get on board.

and

Yes, GMs will have to have EVERYTHING up to date and that includes pick protections.

[BIRDMAN BIRDMAN]

Finally, I can join in this thing.

I'm tempted to take Miami, seeing how I know them pretty decently and their cap figures are tasty for free agency, but screw that.

I'll take Orlando.

Good luck running this, homie.

Oh and EDIT - I was part of last version's game, and was extremely active and I originally signed up on the original sign-ups but they cut me when my PC joked up for a month - I've repeated this several times and asked several times on when the new game will start, so hopefully, im considered as those who can get first dibs. Cheers

[bryant08]

I'll take Toronto. I'm not high on the no extensions thing, I mean the game loses so much when it isn't realistic. We can definitely try to be make it harder to extend players.

[sterncohen]

I'll be in - Utah, please.

[SamBone]

I'll take the Magic this time around

[LeQuitterNotMVP]

I'll take the Bulls.

I like this general idea, but I think the draft thing won't work. Taking two weeks to do the draft isn't so bad - we just have to make sure the time limits are enforced. Trying to do it in a few hours won't work.

[Garmfay]

I'll take Wolves Please. Thanks

[Miller4ever]

Man, I thought that this was a brainstorming session. I wanted Orlando also. It's been requested twice. Can we fight for it?

[roc]

All current GMs that have completed this go round get 1st dibs on choosing a team. After that, other possible GMs can make their case for one of the remaining teams.

Finally, I can join in this thing.

I'm tempted to take Miami, seeing how I know them pretty decently and their cap figures are tasty for free agency, but screw that.

I'll take Orlando.

Good luck running this, homie.

Oh and EDIT - I was part of last version's game, and was extremely active and I originally signed up on the original sign-ups but they cut me when my PC joked up for a month - I've repeated this several times and asked several times on when the new game will start, so hopefully, im considered as those who can get first dibs. Cheers

"Completed" being the key word.

I will let the GMs that have already signed up make the call on this. If they say "yes", you can get in right now but SamBone gets Orlando, if not, then you will get 1st dibs on any team remaining after the GMs that "completed" the last game. There will be no leeway for not keeping up to date and being punctual as has already been stated.

I know you had computer issues hence the possibility for leeway here. I also noticed that you took your time getting your roster up for the other game you are in so...

Should Booz get in right now or should he have to wait?

voice your opinion GMs...

[roc]

Man, I thought that this was a brainstorming session. I wanted Orlando also. It's been requested twice. Can we fight for it?

I am giving SamBone Orlando since he was the 1st GM that completed last game to request them.

and

we are doing both... brainstorming and picking teams

[roc]

I'll take the Bulls.

I like this general idea, but I think the draft thing won't work. Taking two weeks to do the draft isn't so bad - we just have to make sure the time limits are enforced. Trying to do it in a few hours won't work.

I mos def want to shorten the draft up. That 2 weeks was obnoxious as all hell IMO.

Feel free to come up with an alternate solution.

[roc]

I'm not high on the no extensions thing, I mean the game loses so much when it isn't realistic. We can definitely try to be make it harder to extend players.

Thing is, the game isn't realistic already considering many players get moved multiple times and superstars move as well. I want Free Agency to have more excitement and teams that clear cap space have a valid shot at landing a player.

The other thing I don't like about extensions is they can sign on thinking they will be playing with a certain team and then get traded or watch there team change drastically around them.

which brings me to another idea or 2...

1. Any FA signing can not be traded for the 1st week after signing(S&T can still happen).

2. Traded players can not be re-traded for 48 hours unless specified as a contingency in original trade.

[roc]

bryant08 can you unsticky the old roster thread and sticky the new one? Thanks.

[vege]

If the game is honest this time i would like to play again, if it's going to be a bs game like the last one i have no interest in play. Also i think should have some kind of control about the votes i think some really terrible teams ended up at the top and some much better teams ended up behind them. (too old players like you pointed got totally ignored, players at their prime vs too young vs too old vs too injury prone vs serious injuries etc got ignored)

I think it's hard to vote, i believe would be better to make a comission (4-5 ppl who are not involved in the game and have no interest, friends and whatever involved in the game) to vote at the end, results would be more accurate imho.

As for Exorbitant team salaries i think if a team goes out of control you should force them to make trades to cut salary, as the owner of the team would probably do, and you should consider the team's policity irl to decide when to force a team to trade to cut salary or not. For example exorbitant salary for LAL or Boston would be a lot less relevant than Atlanta or LAC for example. Teams like Detroit or Utah should avoid paying LT at all costs, that kind of stuff would make the game more real.

Oh and lastly i don't think the GM should decide if a player wants to demand a trade (Dwight situation last game) the comissioner should step in and decide if a player is unhappy with the team's direction and demand a trade. Also players like Bosh, Amare and Wade shouldn't be extended 1 year before they hit the market. And if possible only active ppl should join the game, we had too many inactive ppl.

If you think those things can change count me in r0cd0gg if not save us both the trouble because i will be a pain in the ass and you will get pissed off.

If LAC is available and if you assure no intentional biased trades will happen i could take them, if someone really wants LAC i would be ok with SAS or Washington.

[bcortell]

You might want to edit your OP so the GM's that have participated before know which teams have been taken. I definitely think the guys who finished last game should get first dibs.

Don't like the new draft idea personally.

[roc]

That would be a fun twist vege... making a team put a dissatisfied player on the block.

Unfortunately you can't force a team to agree with a deal they don't like. I could see that player being stuck in limbo for quite some time LOL. I suppose if enough GMs want this added we could. We would have the team with dissatisfied player get put on the block for 1 week and then I(and any other co-commissioners) will decide who offered up the best deal/reasoning. I doubt this will float with other GMs though.

As for a GM deciding what a player wants... what it comes down to is a GM can move whomever he wants as there is a veto system in place. That Dwight deal you mentioned was posted for almost 4 days before skorff got back from vacation and nobody sent him a veto during that whole time-frame.

If nobody vetoes a deal and I think it is sketchy I will re-post the deal and give an additional 12 hour for teams to send in a veto. I will not ask for teams to veto though, I will just re-post the trade so it will be fresh in people's minds that a deal is on the table and has an additional 12 hours before approval.

As for teams going too far over the cap and not in a city that can support said salary...

Utah is over the cap by a lot right now. They could have just let Milsap walk if they were so stressed about it. I do agree that some limits need to be in place though and possibly a way to force a GMs hand if he becomes excessive in his spending. This is something I would very much like other GMs to weigh in on.

and

Good luck pissing me off, I will not be invested in a team and will only do my best to keep the game fair for everyone involved so...

I will put you on the roster page with LAC as your team. If you decide not to play, no biggie, I will put them back on the list of available teams.

My number one goal in this game is to make it as fair and streamlined as possible and hope everyone has fun while playing.

[roc]

You might want to edit your OP so the GM's that have participated before know which teams have been taken. I definitely think the guys who finished last game should get first dibs.

Don't like the new draft idea personally.

I will add a link to the Roster Thread page.

And noted on the draft. I would very much like to speed it up though. Any ideas?