OK guys, all feedback is appreciated. I am not married to any idea OTHER THAN the basic theme, meaning we keep the max salary at $6 million per player (thus the $6 million dollar man league--what can I say, I was a big fan of Lee Majors)

Other than that, what would everyone rather see next year? I am leaning toward a $37 million cap with NO blacklist. In other words, if you want Moses, Nash, Allen, Rodman or Peja, you can get em but you may not be able to get as many of them as you used to with a $42 or a $47 cap.

Do you LIKE that idea, or do you really want to stick with the current $47 mill cap or would you rather go back to $42?

Thoughts and reasoning are/is appreciated.

id like to try the 37....should be a fun challenge....if i had to choose between 42 and 47...then def 42....47 makes it too easy to draft exactly who you want

I think 37/ no blacklist is a good idea, will create a new challenge. It seems like owners (myself included) are going to the same players...which defeats the purpose of the blacklist. Lets test it out!

I liked the idea of 5 mil per player proposed in the league forum as well. Of course, that keeps it from being the 6 mil league. It could be the Joe Austin league, Steve's less capable and originally damaged cousin.



Maybe he could be an evil cousin... Who is the brain of the moon rover... Wait that would make him more damaged. How can we get Lindsay Wagner into this?



But 37 mil sounds great to me.

I love the $37 million cap. And, I would prefer a $5 million max salary. However, this will be a great challenge.

would def. jump back in w/a lower cap. 37mil would be awesome.

i say 5mil max and blacklist glen rice only. his 96-97 season is obscene.

however, if you keep it at 6mil max and lower the cap to 37 i'd back as well.

but the blacklist DEFINITELY needs to stay if we stay at 6 - sub rice in for ray allen.

The reason that I would like a ban on players over $5 milllion is that most of us, in the current $6 million version, are pretty much just using different combinations of the same players that are between $5 million and $6 million everytime.

If $5 million is the highest salary allowed than we will have to get a lot of different players on our rosters and we will have to rethink our strategies.

As redman pointed out in the league classifed forum vancem, the $37 mill cap would eliminate many of those players anyways. If a team owner drafts five guys near the $6 mill cap, they are with $7 or $8 mill for 7 other players, which IMO will be tough to get enough quality minutes from to have enough depth.

I think most owners will be forced to pick 2 or maybe 3 of the "usual suspects" that they like the most and feel could help them most at what they are trying to do, but then will have to draft 3 other starters who are at a lesser salary in order to get enough depth bench minutes.

Thats why I was thinking no blacklist, because it would really force most guys to decide which couple guys would help them most, but they wouldnt be able to afford them all. If they tried, they would probably be in minutes hell halfway thru a season.

37 mil no blacklist will bring me back in.

I think that most of us will find a $37 Million cap very tough and challenging. I tend to clutter my roster with high priced starters and backups that belong in the $20 Million league. Then my teams win about 40 games.

One of the biggest goals for me in this SIM is to figure out how to build a great team in a lower salary league.

This will be a great and unpredictable league, at $37 Million, that's for sure.

OK, I just put together a team with a $37 mill cap. It wasnt that hard but minutes could be a problem for some teams.

The main thing I noticed was that Steve Nash was a pretty big "no-brainer" choice at PG. He has like three VERY good seasons between $5 and 6 mill. At every other position, there are MANY more choices other than the usual five blacklisted players.

Therefore, I am thinking we leave Nash on a blacklist for this league, and free up Peja, Allen, Rodman, and Moses. I just think 75% or more of the teams will have a Nash on it. A lower percentage will have the other four.

I'd like to get some feedback on this before I proceed and get a league #, sp please tell me what you think also.....

I disagree that Nash is a "no-brainer" at least anymore than the other people on the blacklist. I have made up a couple of sample teams that do not include Nash. That is not to say that I will not end up with Nash, but if I were to pick a "no-brainer" from the list, I would choose Rodman. I think that it is a matter WIS philosophy, and many to most teams will have at least one of the traditional black-listed players, but I predict that each will be chosen close to 5 times (3 to 7 times maybe?) in a league made up of 24 people.

I haven't used nash for any of my possible teams, however I can see your point that he does have many seasons that fit well. My vote would still be no blacklist, but I would play either way. Maybe this initial season would be a good gauge whether or not to continue at 37 mil, and also then whether to add a blacklist or cap.

I like the original blacklist even at the $37 million level.

Right now I have 4 dream teams and the one team with, 3 of the banned players, has the best record at 30 wins and 23 losses. The other 3 teams are all around 50/50% wins and losses.

As far as a ban I think that if you just banned Nash, Rodman, and Rice that would be best.