NBA ReDraft League?

[italstallianion]

Do we have enough teams?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

13's fine I think. Not too jazzed about having to dig up a guy's salary number though.

[yrtb]

Yeah, should I set up the draft order so we can begin?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Do it.

[YanksHater213]

You have to do it by salaries though, because if you didn't it would be so hard to judge who built the better team with just the top 100 players in the league. Using the NBA salary cap will make it much more fun to see who can actually build a real team as opposed to who can pick the best player available each time through.

[yrtb]

Yeah, I'm doing salaries for sure

[WhiskeyBreath]

Should we all use the same website for salary info so we don't have any discrepancies? If so, what site?

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

I say we use the source. As to what site? I really don't know and I don't care as long as it's accurate.

[italstallianion]

I know that Yahoo does a good job with salary information (under team rosters), but I'm not sure at what time it'll switch from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011 salaries.

[italstallianion]

Also, don't most NBA teams have 13 man rosters? Should we also add a headcoach position to make 14 rounds?

[YanksHater213]

http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

[WhiskeyBreath]

Cool. I'm bookmarking that.

[italstallianion]

Does it show the salaries from this past season? From what I saw (albeit a quick look) it looks like it shows salaries going forward.

[YanksHater213]

It has salaries for the coming season and in the future.

[WhiskeyBreath]

Wait, are we using salaries for last season?

[italstallianion]

Yes, but not the past season.

[WhiskeyBreath]

Never mind, we are using this seasons salaries.

[italstallianion]

Ytrb's first post says 2009-2010 salaries.

[WhiskeyBreath]

I thought that as well until I noticed the line just above his sig.

[yrtb]

Yeah, I contradicted myself in the 1st post

 

I mean 2010 - 2011 salaries

 

Use ESPN, hoopshype doesn't have the salaries of all players (for example, they didn't have Raymond Felton)

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Can you post a link ytrb? So I can bookmark it on my ipod.

[YanksHater213]

I see quite a few kinks in this, if the point is to build a team for three years for now, then what is the point of using salaries? Rookies come in and play on a rookie scale, they'll probably have 2-3 times the salary by that point in their career if they're that good of a player, so theoretically you could stack your team early with guys like Wall, et al, who really won't be making much relative to guys like James, Wade, Bryant, and then fill out your salaries later with top players.

[WhiskeyBreath]

I see quite a few kinks in this' date=' if the point is to build a team for three years for now, then what is the point of using salaries? Rookies come in and play on a rookie scale, they'll probably have 2-3 times the salary by that point in their career if they're that good of a player, so theoretically you could stack your team early with guys like Wall, et al, who really won't be making much relative to guys like James, Wade, Bryant, and then fill out your salaries later with top players.[/quote']

 

Risky move to stack your team with rookies. They are obviously unproven players and I would take that into heavy consideration when I evaluate other squads.

[yrtb]

Well, you have to be careful with rookies, they are far from a sure thing and I would pick many proven players in favor of them but you still do have to take risks. For salaries, I just google the player and click on the ESPN link for them to see their salary, use hoopshype if you like to though