We have 1 opening for a double season progressive that started with the 1967/68 & 1968/69 seasons, the first two years of the ABA. We will soon be starting season 9,1983/84 & 1984/85. We are currently posting keepers, season 8 ends today after which the playoffs take place. The draft will take place after a replacement owner is found, all keepers are posted and I have completed the available player list. My desire is to start the draft no later than February 18 . Each season you will be able to select which of 2 seasons you want to use for each of your players (assuming they are active both seasons). This season (7) you may use 1979/80 or 1980/81, the following season (8) you will be able to use 1981/82 or 1982/83 etc.

The double season format lends itself to dramatic turnarounds. The Seattle Supersonics went from 17-65 in season 1 (league worst) to 71-11 in season 2 and the league championship (aided by the draft of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). The Supersonics were 68-14 in season 3 and then declined to 28-54 in season 4. My Portland Trailblazers went from 66-16 in season 1 and the league title (led by Wilt Chamberlain) through a steady decline to 28-54 in season 4. The Toronto Huskies went from 19-63 in season 3 to 67-15 in season 4 (their #1 draft pick was Moses Malone). The San Antonio Spurs just went from 54-28 in season 7 to 29-52 (one game still to play) in season 8.

Owners expressing interest will be given temporary access to our private forum, which contains full league rules, where a list of available players for the third season will be posted as soon as all keepers are posted, and which is where the draft will be held.

One concern expressed prior to the start of our first season was whether there would be sufficient minutes available. That proved to be a non-issue. A minimum of 19,680 minutes are required and teams averaged around 23,000 minutes. My 2 teams in season 1 had 29,000 + and 27,000 + minutes.

Rather than managing teams with recent players this is an opportunity to manage teams from an older era.

No rookies, no WW. Trades of players OK and draft picks current season only.

Drafts subsequent to the initial draft will be in inverse order of regular season record, with the tiebreaker being total point differential (points scored less points allowed) with the team with the worse point differential drafting earlier. However, as an anti-tanking provision for the 1st round only there will be a weighted lottery among the 4 teams with the worst record for the first 4 draft positions. The same tiebreaker will be used for these positions.

Since this is a progressive league I do request that you not sign up unless you expect to be able to particpate for at least 5 seasons.

If interested please sign up below and you will be given temporary access to the private forum. You will need to post a keeper list for season 8 as soon as possible after you have reviewed the team's roster and decided which players to keep.

SimLeague Stats

 

Name	GP	GS	Min	Pts	FG%	3Pt%	FT%	OReb	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF
81-82 Mychal Thompson	81	81	36.8	18.6	53.8	0.0	62.3	3.8	12.9	3.6	2.1	0.9	1.3	2.3
81-82 World B. Free	81	81	33.3	17.3	43.3	28.8	72.4	1.5	3.2	5.1	2.3	1.2	0.1	2.0
81-82 Tom Chambers	81	81	32.2	15.6	54.0	0.0	59.6	2.7	7.8	1.9	2.1	0.7	0.7	3.1
81-82 Allan Bristow	81	81	25.4	6.9	41.6	14.3	79.7	1.8	5.1	5.3	1.9	0.9	0.1	2.4
81-82 Freddie Brown	81	81	23.1	10.6	42.5	31.1	86.4	0.6	2.0	3.1	1.0	1.1	0.0	1.3
81-82 Ernie Grunfield	81	0	20.4	10.0	50.6	23.1	83.1	0.6	2.1	2.8	1.6	1.0	0.6	1.4
82-83 Lester Conner	81	0	16.2	4.4	48.1	20.0	68.8	0.7	2.6	2.4	0.8	1.1	0.1	1.2
81-82 Spencer Haywood	81	0	15.7	7.3	47.7	0.0	86.8	1.3	3.9	0.6	1.3	0.4	0.6	1.1
81-82 Steve Mix	81	0	15.6	6.6	52.0	28.6	78.8	1.4	3.2	1.2	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.8
81-82 James Donaldson	81	0	10.9	3.7	55.4	0.0	50.8	0.9	3.8	0.4	0.7	0.2	1.0	0.5
82-83 Bryan Warrick	81	0	10.1	2.2	32.5	7.1	75.0	0.2	1.0	1.4	1.0	0.3	0.1	1.1
81-82 Mickey Johnson	46	0	2.8	1.6	45.6	21.4	94.4	0.3	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
TOTALS	81			104.2	48.1	23.7	72.0	15.6	48.1	27.9	15.7	8.4	5.2	17.3
OPPONENTS	81			105.2	49.3	25.6	77.2	14.5	48.6	26.4	16.2	8.6	6.7	19.4

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  Name	Pos	Usage%	2pt%#	3pt%#	eFG%	OReb%	DReb%	Ast%	Stl%	Blk%
  81-82 Mychal Thompson	C	22.9	51.8	0.0	52.3	9.2	22.9	11.1	0.9	1.9
  81-82 World B. Free	SG	28.0	45.3	18.9	45.1	4.5	5.0	16.3	1.0	0.2
  81-82 Tom Chambers	PF	22.4	52.1	0.0	52.5	8.8	15.3	6.1	0.9	1.0
  81-82 Spencer Haywood	PF	22.4	47.3	0.0	47.6	7.3	13.7	3.6	0.9	1.8
  81-82 Allan Bristow	SF	14.9	44.2	17.7	44.0	6.0	12.5	25.6	1.4	0.2
  81-82 Mickey Johnson	PF	22.9	49.0	15.2	49.2	7.8	17.4	12.4	1.5	1.3
  81-82 Ernie Grunfield	SF	23.1	51.2	15.2	51.2	3.1	7.6	16.1	1.6	1.2
  81-82 Freddie Brown	SG	23.6	46.3	34.0	47.0	2.5	5.4	15.1	1.6	0.1
  81-82 James Donaldson	C	15.5	60.4	0.0	60.9	8.7	20.4	3.4	0.6	4.4
  82-83 Lester Conner	PG	12.5	48.1	0.0	47.9	5.0	11.9	19.5	3.3	0.3
  81-82 Steve Mix	SF	18.3	50.4	26.3	50.8	8.8	11.5	8.3	1.4	0.8
  82-83 Bryan Warrick	PG	15.2	38.8	0.0	38.0	2.2	7.9	20.8	1.2	0.6