I have always been fascinated by the 1990-91 Denver Nuggets coached by Paul Westhead. Sure, they were horrible. But they were horrible in a fascinating way; and one we will probably never see again in the NBA. That season they averaged almost 120 points per game and gave up almost 131. I would like to honor this aberration of a team by creating a league that promotes freewheeling, defense-last basketball.

There will be three main rules to this league:

1) All teams must run an up-tempo offense
2) No player on your roster can have a defense rating above 40
3) Teams will either gain or lose wins at the end of the year based on where they rank in points/game. Hopefully this will encourage owners to try to run up the score The breakdown is as follows:

1st place: +6 wins
2nd and 3rd place: +4 wins
4th and 5th place: +3 wins
6th and 7th place: +2 wins
8th-10th place: +1 win
11th-14th place: no change
15th-17th place: -1 win
18th and 19th place: -2 wins
20th and 21st place: - 3 wins
22nd and 23rd place: - 4 wins
24th place: -6 wins

Cap - 45M
Rookies, WW, clones - NO
Trades - YES

Hopefully I can get enough owners to join this one. I know it's asking a lot for a basketball theme league, but I hope this is a fun and open-ended enough idea to fly.

X1) flyingman
2) rubnsy
X3) dh555
X4) bfhendricks
X5) kinoa1
X6) longtallbrad
X7) iwtfkk
X8) ysw128
X9) hogger0223
X10) jt7king
X11) superrobb420
X12) gerryred
X13) skypilot I
X14) skypilot II
X15) ivnabru
X16) ben_handon58
X17) gobigred I
X18) gobigred II
X19) simpixut574
X20) starship7
X21) redbooda
X22) jcred5
X23) malcranford
X24) knotts 

WAITLIST

1) 2U23L

X = team has already been entered in the league
 

how would you add or subtract the wins?...admin?

Yeah. I've done it before in other leagues. I adjust the records myself and then send a ticket to admin to let them know which teams should be in the playoffs.

Hmm I'll give this league a shot..

Posted by flyingman on 11/19/2014 9:33:00 PM (view original):
Yeah. I've done it before in other leagues. I adjust the records myself and then send a ticket to admin to let them know which teams should be in the playoffs.

oh cool

count me in

I am down for this. 

Awesome. Welcome eleibowitz, dh555, and bfhendricks.

Sounds like a great idea, but I'd kick up the defense up to 35 or 40.  There are not many players with high efg% below 30 and only one with a high assist %.  Kind of defeats the purpose of a high scoring league.  Between 30 and 40 defense you add a ton of high efg% and assist% players to the mix, which will add much more offense than you lose from the increase in defense. Plus you get more diverse teams.  

Kinoa, I agree. I'm happy to up the maximum defensive rating to 40. Can we count you in?

Sure thing.  :)  I'll definitely join.  

Posted by kinoa1 on 11/23/2014 1:22:00 AM (view original):
Sure thing.  :)  I'll definitely join.  

Cool. Let's keep this going.

Having grown up in Denver, I suffered through the Doug Moe years and REALLY suffered through the Paul Westhead years. 

Now that the D ceiling is at 40, I'm in.

I was messing around with this in the draft center. It seems that $48 mill is a little high. Anyone else already playing with rosters? Do you agree or think it's just right? I'm in either way.

I've never been in a league with trades. How does that work?

I think 48m is ok, though I messed around and consistently got close to or over 20k minutes.  I would say 47m would be ideal and 46m would add some challenge.  That said, I'm not opposed to leaving it at 48m.