EASTERN CONFERENCE

Team	W-L	PCT	GB	L10	STRK	Owner
New York Knicks	69-13	0.841	-	9-1	L1	eleibowitz
Washington Bullets	56-26	0.683	13	7-3	L2	seapilots
Charlotte Hornets	47-35	0.573	22	6-4	W3	robusk
Rochester Royals	36-46	0.439	33	0-10	L10	skypilot
Miami Heat	33-49	0.402	36	5-5	W2	MVG99
Philadelphia 76ers	31-51	0.378	38	3-7	W1	iccoachb

Team	W-L	PCT	GB	L10	STRK	Owner
Memphis Grizzlies	61-21	0.744	-	9-1	W6	cea8010
Cleveland Cavaliers	49-33	0.598	12	8-2	W1	mark102857
Indiana Pacers	28-54	0.341	33	6-4	L1	wetz64
Toronto Raptors	25-57	0.305	36	2-8	L4	shaggyno9
Chicago Bulls	22-60	0.268	39	2-8	W1	deathproof
Milwaukee Bucks	18-64	0.220	43	3-7	L1	bfhendricks

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Team	W-L	PCT	GB	L10	STRK	Owner
Utah Jazz	67-15	0.817	-	8-2	L1	ff09
Kansas City Kings	56-26	0.683	11	6-4	W2	hoopsrus
St. Louis Hawks	53-29	0.646	14	6-4	W1	zizzo24
Dallas Mavericks	39-43	0.476	28	6-4	W4	dskantor
San Antonio Spurs	37-45	0.451	30	4-6	L4	robusk
OKC Thunder	0-82	0.000	67	0-10	L82	cjok1051

Team	W-L	PCT	GB	L10	STRK	Owner
LA Lakers	59-23	0.720	-	8-2	W8	slamdaham61
Sacramento Kings	48-34	0.585	11	7-3	W1	thohoops
Phoenix Suns	47-35	0.573	12	5-5	W2	seapilots
Denver Nuggets	46-36	0.561	13	5-5	L1	oram13
Golden State Warriors	41-41	0.500	18	5-5	L2	dasfile4776
Portland JailBlazers	16-66	0.195	43	0-10	L17	jhsukow

TIEBREAKERS
Phoenix tied season series vs Charlotte (+7 point differential)
Washington tied season series vs Phoenix (even point differential, 8.4 to 9.5 overall point differential)

SITEMAIL LIST
eleibowitz; robusk; seapilots; MVG99; iccoachb; deathproof; shaggyno9; wetz64; mark102857; cea8010; bfhendricks; zizzo24; hoopsrus; ff09; cjok1051; oram13; dasfile4776; thohoops; skypilot; slamdaham61; jhsukow; dskantor;

DRAFT RULES & INFO
- All times listed are Eastern Standard Time.
- Do NOT pick before you're time slot unless ALL picks before you have already been made.
- If you will not be available during your time slot send a proxy pick to the person(s) selecting after you. I AM USUALLY AVAILABLE TO POST PROXIES.
- Trades are always welcome, however are subject to review by the commissioner to ensure fairness to both parties and the league as a whole.
- If you make an uneven trade (2 for 1, 3 for 2 etc.) keep in mind the team that gains a player will essentially lose a draft pick. Do NOT make an uneven trade if it will cause your roster to go over the maximum allowed active player total of 12.
- Please post any trades in this forum so that all owners can see them.
- Trades involving draft picks can only include the current draft season.
***************************************************** EXTREMELY IMPORTANT *****************************************************
ALL TRADES MUST BE FAIR TO BOTH PARTIES AND STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT i.e. RENT-A-PLAYER TRADES ARENOT ALLOWED
- YOUR KEEPER ROSTER WILL BE FROZEN ONCE THE FIRST SELECTION IS MADE.
- YOU MUST LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE MADE A CHANGE TO YOUR KEEPER LIST AFTER YOU POSTED. In addition, you cannot change your draft needs unless it is done via a trade. You will not be permitted to hold onto players, thus keeping them from being on the "available players" list, then dropping them when someone on the draft board is more to your liking. You can however drop any player(s) that have been on your roster for 1 entire season for any undrafted player(s) once the draft is completed. You cannot dump players if you are under 19,000 total team minutes unless you are adding minutes.
- Some teams don't need their 1st or 2nd round picks because their rosters are full. However, the draft choices are still valuable commodities that may be traded for next season's draft picks or players, etc. For that reason, picks will not be deleted from the draft schedule - even if no one uses them. That way, if there is a last minute trade made involving those picks, no one is able to pass them until their draft windows expire. Once the draft window expires and your roster is full that pick no longer can be used.
- The lottery selection and draft dates and time
Again we will use the New York lottery system. It's basically a keno draw where 20 random numbers are chosen between 1-80. There are 351 draws - every four minutes starting at Midnight and ending at 11:56 PM. We will select one days worth of drawings. Each team will be assigned a certain amount of drawings (time specific). The number of drawings each team will receive is closely based on the actual NBA lottery percentages circa 1996 (details can be found in the draft lottery times) based on each teams respective 2014-15 regular season record. Then once ALL the NY lottery selections have been made I'll add up each set of twenty numbers and the team with lowest combined total wins the 1st draft spot and so on. In the event of a tie I will compare each set of numbers starting with the lowest number in each selected set until one team wins. For example if two teams have a total of 621 and one set of the lowest numbers is (1, 2, 4, 7, 12 etc.) and another group has (1, 2, 3, 8, 14 etc.) the 1's cancel out, the 2's cancel out, and the 3 is lower than 4 so the 1, 2, 3, 8, 14 etc. set of numbers wins. I'm sure this sounds confusing but it's actually pretty simple. Again the advantage to using this system is we get the lottery selection process done in one day - speeding up the draft and giving owners more time to make trades and analyze the players in draft - plus there is no dispute like there could be using something like random.org.

Once the lottery selections have been determined that owner may pick at any time and so on without skipping other owners.
Draft times will be posted below. There will not be any time slots for the lottery picks - unless we are not making any progress. I will assign draft days and times and sitemail everyone with at least 48 hours notice - probably closer to a week. Most time slots will be one hour in time for all 1st round selections. All subsequent rounds will have 30 minute time slots. I will post the league number sometime during the draft.

*********************************************** THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ***********************************************
PLEASE SITEMAIL THE NEXT TWO OWNERS SELECTING AFTER YOU once you have made your selection so we can keep the draft running and hopefully avoid any skips.

- After ALL teams have completed their draft you may drop any player(s) that have been on your roster for 1 entire season for any undrafted player(s) once the draft is completed. It will be first come - first serve for these undrafted players AKA free agents. You must post who your taking and dropping in the draft forum.

The reasoning is we don't want an owner drafting a player, then cutting him after the draft in exchange for another player as it prevents that player from potentially be drafting and kept by another owner. Basically you drafted the player for a reason so use him. There's only been a few players that have been acquired in this way. We don't anticipate any problems with this as the undrafted players went undrafted for a reason.

LEAGUE RULES

- If you have a shortage of RL minutes at a given position you may use the eternal players from the 50's/60's that is/are designated to play that position ONLY.

- If you are under 19.5K minutes you can use an eternal scrub, replacing a real life player on your roster. You will still retain the rights to your real life player if they have any future seasons.

- Owners are not permitted to purposely play ANY players out of position. While the commissioner understands that franchises are cyclical, owners are still required to play to win regardless of the talent level of their roster.

I hope this all makes sense. If you have any questions, concerns, comments let me know.

Thanks everybody!

Good luck and happy drafting.

- Z

THE DRAFT LOTTERY WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY MAY 15TH

Lottery Numbers - The percentages are closely based on the NBA percentages from the actual 1996 draft lottery.

#1 Oklahoma City Thunder (cjok1051)…... 87/351 = 24.8% (18:12 - 23:56)
#2 Portland Trail Blazers (jhsukow)…....... 70/351 = 19.9% (13:32 - 18:08)
#3 Milwaukee Bucks (bfhendricks)…........ 55/351 = 15.7% (09:52 - 13:28)
#4 Chicago Bulls (deathproof)…............... 43/351 = 12.3% (07:00 - 09:48)
#5 Toronto Raptors (shaggyno9)…............ 32/351 = 9.1% (04:52 - 06:56)
#6 Indiana Pacers (wetz64)…................... 23/351 = 6.6% (02:44 - 04:48)
#7 Philadelphia 76ers (iccoachb)…........... 16/351 = 4.6% (01:40 - 02:40)
#8 Miami Heat (MVG99)…....................... 10/351 = 2.9% (01:00 - 01:36)
#9 San Antonio Spurs (robusk)…............... 6/351 = 1.7% (00:36 - 00:56)
#10 Dallas Mavericks (dskantor)…............. 4/351 = 1.1% (00:20 - 00:32)
#11 Golden State Warriors (dasfile4776)….. 3/351 = 0.9% (00:08 - 00:16)
#12 Denver Nuggets (oram13)…................ 2/351 = 0.6% (00:00 - 00:04)

TRADES EFFECTING 15-16 PICKS
SACRAMENTO OWNS NEW YORK'S 2ND ROUND PICK

NEW TRADE DETAILS
NEW YORK ACQUIRES C MASON PLUMLEE
PORTLAND ACQUIRES C COLE ALDRICH

SACRAMENTO ACQUIRES '15 2ND ROUND PICK
NEW YORK ACQUIRES SF DANTE CUNNINGHAM

DRAFT BOARD

ROUND 1 - UNTIMED
1. Portland Trail Blazers - jhsukow -
2. Chicago Bulls - deathproof -
3. Oklahoma City Thunder - cjok1051 -
4. Milwaukee Bucks - bfhendricks -
5. Toronto Raptors - shaggyno9 -
6. Indiana Pacers - wetz64 -
7. Philadelphia 76ers - iccoachb -
8. Miami Heat - MVG99 -
9. San Antonio Spurs - robusk -
10. Dallas Mavericks - dskantor -
11. Golden State Warriors - dasfile4776 -
12. Denver Nuggets - oram13 -

ROUND 1 - TUESDAY MAY 24TH
13. Rochester Royals - skypilot - 11AM
14. Charlotte Hornets - robusk - 12PM
15. Phoenix Suns - seapilots - 1PM
16. Sacramento Kings - thohoops - 2PM
17. Cleveland Cavaliers - mark102857 - 3PM
18. St. Louis Hawks - zizzo24 - 4PM
19. Washington Bullets - seapilots - 5PM
20. Kansas City Kings - hoopsrus - 6PM
21. Los Angeles Lakers - slamdaham61 - 7PM
22. Memphis Grizzlies - cea8010 - 8PM
23. Utah Jazz - ff09 - 9PM
24. New York Knicks - eleibowitz - 10PM

ROUND 2 - WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH
1. *Oklahoma City Thunder - cjok1051 - 11AM
2. Portland Trail Blazers - jhsukow - 1115AM
3. Milwaukee Bucks - bfhendricks - 1130AM
4. Chicago Bulls - deathproof - 12PM
5. Toronto Raptors - shaggyno9 - 1230PM
6. *Indiana Pacers - wetz64 - 1245PM
7. Philadelphia 76ers - iccoachb - 1PM
8. Miami Heat - MVG99 - 130PM
9. *San Antonio Spurs - robusk - 140PM
10. *Dallas Mavericks - dskantor - 150PM
11. Golden State Warriors - dasfile4776 - 2PM
12. Denver Nuggets - oram13 - 230PM
13. *Rochester Royals - skypilot - 245PM
14. Charlotte Hornets - robusk - 3PM
15. *Phoenix Suns - seapilots - 310PM
16. *Sacramento Kings - thohoops - 320PM
17. Cleveland Cavaliers - mark102857 - 330PM
18. *St. Louis Hawks - zizzo24 - 340PM
19. *Washington Bullets - seapilots - 350PM
20. Kansas City Kings - hoopsrus - 4PM
21. Los Angeles Lakers - slamdaham61 - 430PM
22. Memphis Grizzlies - cea8010 - 5PM
23. Utah Jazz - ff09 - 530PM
24. New York Knicks - eleibowitz - 6PM

ROUND 3 - WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH
1. Portland Trail Blazers - jhsukow - 630PM
2. Toronto Raptors - shaggyno9 - 7PM
3. Denver Nuggets - oram13 - 730PM
4. Cleveland Cavaliers - mark102857 - 8PM
5. Kansas City Kings - hoopsrus - 830PM

ROUND 4 - WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH
1. Toronto Raptors - shaggyno9 - 9PM
2. Denver Nuggets - oram13 - 930PM
3. Cleveland Cavaliers - mark102857 - 10PM
4. Kansas City Kings - hoopsrus - 1030PM

ROUND 5 - WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH
1. Toronto Raptors - shaggyno9 - 11PM

* - PICK NOT REQUIRED FOR 12 MAN ROSTER

SCRUBS
G - 67-68 ANDY ANDERSON (1992 MINUTES)
G - 67-68 HAL HALE (1794 MINUTES)
G/SF - 57-58 AL BIANCHI (1619 MINUTES)
SG/SF - 57-58 LOU TSIOROPOULOS (2072 MINUTES)
SF - 53-54 VINCE BORYLA (1734 MINUTES)
PF - 75-76 STEW JOHNSON (1693 MINUTES)
C - 52-53 NOBLE JORGENSEN (1565 MINUTES)

LOTTERY RESULTS

PORTLAND = 519 - 17:16
CHICAGO = 551 - 09:16
OKLAHOMA CITY = 628 - 23:32

Karl-Anthony Towns

Going to need minutes so I'll trade some of my shorter minute players for minutes. Namely Cole Aldrich and Joakim Noah. Would prefer a player who is 100% at power forward

Please sm me with offers

PF Porzingis, Kristaps

C-Nikola Jokic. Please SM

J. Okafor - please SM