Sry amerk I forgot you didnt do a Off the clock first round with good cause. When I was commish i suggested 30 min slots and first round on the clock. And was immediately shot down by the majority vote of owners in the DDL. I took a vote because the DDL was originally built on consensus for the first 7 seasons. When you took over that phase was over, you closed voting booth, and weren't bound to a consensus
like I was and it allowed you finalize the DDL. The original $10.5m salery cap was raised but that was one of the rules I put on place with out vote as was the no trading rule. Being sick of bad trades..instead of having to review a ton of trades I said no trades at all we work hard to level the playing field so tou can win it all from any spot in the draft to have trades...unlevel it. The no carry over draft was huge..credit DH555 for that. The no reason to tank rule..we would said all you get for losing in the DDL is laugh at. The basic idea was to build a league that didn't have a salery cap..by limiting the player pool instead and forcing liability on a teams after the 3rd round we were out of the players use by to build the all hof teams. By the 7th round we were killing each other for players that you've never seen used any where. That where the "if they were great in their day, they're great again in the DDL came from. We use more players than any other league. In the DDL you have liabilities and develop stratagies for dealing with it. Lastly we build teams that are like real teams in the NBA and this makes for a more accurate feel of coaching an nba/aba, there have only been a few 60 win teams in 28 seasons. Amerk I think you did a great job finalizing the DDL onto what we envisioned when we started this project in 2013. We beat the odds and have a top league on the basketball sim. There are still owner that don't play here because we don't have a salery cap..they have never understood that we cap the player pool and achives better results wrt building realistic teams...that all 24 teams are trying to win the ship and have a chance. This is fierce competition like no where else on the basketball sim. Amerk you made the changes that made a 12 player draft workable. Great contributions and outstanding stewardship. Thanks for your hard work and insight...hope you commission the DDL for another 20 seasons.