Posted by robusk on 6/13/2020 11:30:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dh555 on 6/13/2020 11:09:00 PM (view original):
Posted by longtallbrad on 6/13/2020 10:12:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dh555 on 6/13/2020 6:08:00 PM (view original):
copernicus...one of the episodes would need to feature the nash/allen/peja/rodman/moses era...maybe get an interview with sly about his unoriginal bastards team
And before that, before the advanced stats hit the scene, there was a long stretch where open league regulars included legends like Gerald Govan, Julius Keye, and Ron Boone. (And everybody used Bill Russell all the time.) And a shorter chapter when Karl Malone and Troy Murphy were 100% effective at SF, and Swen Nater was a mediocre defender.
Somewhere in between those phases, an owner whose name I can't remember seemed to hack the code and put together a starting lineup that couldn't lose. I think he named his teams the Five Horsemen or something like that. Any other long-timers, feel free to correct me but his starters went something like Russell-Thurmond-Pippen-Moncrief-Kidd. He proclaimed that he would keep fielding the same lineup until he lost. After his sixth open league title in a row, I beat him in the finals. Never saw him again after that.
i remember troy murphy and his 96 d at sf...but karl malone at sf? thats crazy...was he dominating?
~2007 when blk% was op and every open league team had multiple Manute Bol’s was when I played a single open league season and then didn’t play SimLeague basketball again for a few years until I discovered progs. It kind of soured me on OL to this day. That was a wild era of the sim.
Wow, I had clean forgotten about the Bol craze. I haven't played in an open league for about a decade...since whenever they changed "rookies" from being useless, fictional chumps you didn't actually want to have on the floor to being modeled after actual player seasons. This led to all kinds of calculated monkeying with minutes drafted and I lost interest.
And yes, the Mailman at SF was a weird wrinkle which led to a lot of overuse since it provided a rebounding edge.
Thinking again back to the pre-advanced stats days, defense was more important than efficiency, which is why Thurmond was a popular choice in open leagues. And a rebound was a rebound, so obscure schmoes like Govan and Keye were bewilderingly everywhere. There was also a fad of using a tandem of Glen Rice and Purvis Short at the wings, since they were cheap offense and the sim didn't seem to value assists as heavily as it does now.