Just redone!!! Thanks for all the help. League is nba37296. 49 mill cap no rookies. 6 player drafted from the year you where born and 6 players drafted from the year you graduated highschool. For example me; born in 77 so I used 1977-1978, Graduated 1996 used 1995-1996 season.

The "1980" season is considered 79-80.  Only 2 months of the season is played in the "first" year.  4+ in the second.

Just trying to figure out the rules.

It appears that you are new.  So I would like to earnestly help you so you understand what it takes to fill a league.

1.  Sell your league.  Get people excited.  One line descriptions don't sell the sizzle.  FIND A HOOK.  The two season thing might be interesting with an expanded player pool, but you don't have to do that.  Find a way to be different, and have a team that will be a fun concept to build. 
2.  Good Idea (which I think you have the beginnings of)
3.  Clear Cut Rules.  I could have put my team in and I wouldn't have known about the question I asked, the salary cap, or whether or not clones are allowed.  Plus I don't know if you are allowing rookies.  This is a huge deal in drafting because then I will know whether I need to draft close to the 19,680 Mins or 18,000 Mins.
4.  Lastly, and least important...gain a little more cred before trying to fill a league.  You have been playing in an OL for about a week now, but no one knows you in the theme league universe.  Play some other theme leagues before trying to fill your own league.  You may have a 100 Mil Cap on this league, and you think that a starting lineup of Magic, MJ, Bird, Duncan, and Wilt at their most valuable seasons is the best team to go with, and then you are going to get your *** handed to you by someone with a Kidd, Brent Barry, LBJ, Rodman, Wilt lineup that focuses more on unique skillsets than brute strength in terms of salary.  Chances are you may not have learned that in this sim you have to throw away much of what you know about the NBA.

For all I know you may be a long time player that felt the need to switch ID's, and if that is true forgive me, but don't think that people are going to flock to your league if you haven't first done the same for others.  Again I am not trying to be a douche, but as a long time player I tend to understand the atmosphere here.  If you can crystalize the first three things I mentioned, the fourth may not be as big of a deal.

I'm a little intrigued by this, but am on vacation and need to do some research when I get back on what kind of team I could put together.  Two reactions, though -

1) $90 mil is really high.  Anything more than $57 mil and I find it pretty much impossible to use all the minutes I end up drafting.
2) As ashamael says, the league (if it fills) could be pretty imbalanced since the kind of strengths the sim really favors are most often found in more recent players.  On the other hand, how many regular (read: skilled) owners here will be fielding teams later than 1990?  If this flies we could get to see some rarely used combinations of rarely used players.  

Taking all of that into consideration I'd at least suggest lowering the cap to $47.  That should allow more of a level playing field across eras.

$57M is really only useful in a completely open scenario.  With any limitations, it becomes an extremely unbalanced league.  Anything higher than that is a waste unless you're going to try pulling some shenanigans (read:  can be done).  $47M is an awesome cap for the current salary structure.  I'd recommend making OLs $47M and doing away with the retardedness of the current rookie system.

Im interested in this too but have we decided on what is the birth year?  In Malone example he's born in 1975 so are we using 74/75 or 75/76?   Or can we use both?  And yes 90m is way too high, $47m seems about right.

I put together a test team and 47M was enough.  90M is too, too much.    

i like the birth year concept.  but i would prefer the year you graduated high school.  I wasn't watching basketball the year I was born, but most of my favorite players were playing when I graduated high school.  it still separates owners by age.  and if you didn't graduate high school, then you can't play. 

A cool concept would be a combination... I was born in October of 1980, so I'd use the 80-81 season and graduated in May of 99, so I'd use the 98-99 season.  That'd allow for some generational separation & more balanced teams.  Still, anybody who graduated before the mid 90s is probably going to get reamed pretty hard.

good god, man... my team would consist of: pettit, arizin, dolph schayes, neil johnston, yardley, john kerr, bob cousy... pass.

I like ash's idea...using 75 and 93 would be fun

at least then old farts like scud would have a chance

I like it.  I would get mega Wilt and rookies Magic and Bird.

God your old Glen...lol