re: TDBBL - SOTU - Referendum #1: League Structure Vote

i'm into there being X number of franchise guys you have bird rights. they're not keepers per se. and they still cost.

i just want continuity.

1-3? Limit it to three years?

I also don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the superstars are the one that gets franchised. It's more likely to be someone gotten at value.

More I think about, the more an auction keeper/redraft is a great compromise and would be a fun league.

Maybe we do something similar to what Redd did with the big baseball league. A few of us get into an email chain and out rules and Constitution.

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Maxing it at 3 extensions would help with idea of a redraft every year.

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if you make the "keeper cost" big enough, this will work itself out over time. i mean if it's $5, in year 3 the bonus alone will be 15% of your cap (not even thinking about the underlying cost). this will create value in rookies and young players b/c during the annual auction, nobody will want to let an ingram go for little/no money and open the door for somebody to get him for $1 and keep him long-term

i mean your top-shelf guys, in a $100 league, will probably be in the 20s (if we make rosters big enough). after 3 years the bonus cost alone will push that player into that rage, making him expensive to keep long-term. i just think it will work itself out, and it will only apply to great picks (and not superstars). i think leaving it uncapped is a good incentive to draft well each year and allow teams to get potential young studs (if they're aggressive enough) every year

the auction format will eliminate "future" deals (like with picks). trading cap space in the next draft = illegal. that is the primary issue with "selling out" and altering the landscape of the league

the auction format will also incentivize in-season trading for bad teams, b/c young players with cheap drafting costs will have supreme value, while the super stars and their high cost will be less viable (not a long term option).

one issue is if you have to trade salary for salary. in my irl FFB league that does this, you have to trade for value. actually, you have to pay the cost of the players you acquire, too, to build the pot. i don't think we need to do that (it gets really complicated with the accounting). salary for salary will help curtail one-sided sellout deals. it won't eliminated it, b/c an expensive guy who gets hurt can skew a deal, but even then that's how real basketball works so i'm fine with that (if your superstar is seriously hurt you're fricked and this helps you get out of that and hurts the other team who has to take on the "bad contract")

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Maybe we do something similar to what Redd did with the big baseball league

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now THIS I can fap to.

I'd like to try and mirror it more like IRL NBA.

Say everyone has a $250 initial auction budget for the draft, but then that turns into a salary cap. Can't trade for players that put you over the $ cap (prevents someone trading a $1 value keeper contract for a $70 Steph Curry contract that will expire at the end of the year). Or more money goes into the pot if you go over the salary cap.

Makes trades more strategic, since you have to make salaries work like IRL NBA.

Have plenty of more thoughts/ideas.

That's a bit much eh

enjoy a downvote

So an auction redraft with the ability to "protect" player(s) by taking a hit against the cap.

Need to determine auction amount, how many players you can protect and what the penalty is.

Im setting up a mock league on fantrax now just fricking around.