I put out the Kevin Bacon idea yesterday, but as felonius and a few others stated, draft leagues are too much work for some.   I actually have a better college league idea...but wanted to wait until eleibowitz's sweet college league got off its feet again.   Here is the idea.   Curious as to what people think.   If there is a good response, I will put it out for people to join.

It is amazing how deep and talented the pools are for North Carolina and UCLA in the college leagues here.   Kansas has Wilt, but their depth isn't nearly as amazing as it is for the Tar Heels and Bruins.   Made me imagine----could North Carolina and UCLA win a league that in my opinion was "equal" in terms of depth.   To do that, you'd have to create groups of teams where if you combined those teams and players, it would possibly rival the depth that North Carolina and UCLA enjoy.  

No clones, no waivers, no rookies.....salary cap TBD(I am thinking between 44 and 50)

Pretty simple idea----each owner picks one of the following teams/groups/conferences.    Your players come from the team/group/conference listed.  

I actually had a formula for making the groups, but it would bore all of you too much to explain.  

1. North Carolina
2. UCLA

ACC Groups
3. Group A: Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech
4. Group B: N.C. State, Virginia, Miami of Florida
5. Group C: Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida State

Atlantic 10 Groups
6. Group D: Temple, Xavier, Massachusetts, St. Louis, St. Bonaventure, Richmond, George Washington
7. Group E: LaSalle, Dayton, Duquesne, Rhode Island, St. Joseph's, UNC Charlotte, Fordham

Big 10 Groups
8. Group F: Ohio State and Minnesota
9. Group G: Michigan State, Illinois, Northwestern
10. Group H: Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska
11. Group I: Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin, Penn State

Big 12 Groups
12. Group J: Kansas, Missouri, Baylor, Texas A&M
13. Group K: Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech

Big East Groups
14. Group L: Notre Dame, Providence, Pittsburgh
15. Group M: St. John's, Cincinnati, Rutgers, South Florida
16. Group N: Connecticut, Syracuse, West Virginia
17. Group O: Georgetown, DePaul, Seton Hall
18. Group P: Villanova, Louisville, Marquette

Pac 12 Groups
19. Group Q: Oregon State, USC, Washington, Colorado
20. Group R: Arizona State, California, Stanford, Washington State
21. Group S: Arizona, Utah, Oregon

SEC Groups
22: Group T: Arkansas, LSU, Florida, Georgia
23. Group U: Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State
24. Group V: Kentucky, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Mississippi

25. All of Conference USA
26. All of the Mountain West Conference
27. All of the West Coast Conference
28. All of the Western Athletic Conference

Other conferences just don't have the depth to contend in my opinion, but I wouldn't close off conferences like the MAC, the Horizon, the Sun Belt and etc.

Suggestions and/or opinions welcome :)

ucla is over-rated sim-wise

Very interesting will look at this and choose team.  Think cap should be $47m

Don't spend too much time cause i might change the team combinations based on input

I understand what you are saying felonius...but there are lots of creation tactics with a UCLA over say an Auburn

Out of curiosity, how would either of you quantify the strength of a school in the wis world?

I actually thought about looking at a draft league(like the 52m league) and quantifying each school that way. Or perhaps doing a search that gives me a list of players who either serve as someone who could be a primary scorer, passer or rebounder for a team.

I am in. I want two teams. I want group C and group J

In the "good old days", when every Alumni league did actually fill in 2 or 3 days (really!), we did just about everything imaginable.  We did straight Alumni at various salary caps, we did the add 1's of all varieties (born in state, attended school in state, attended no US college, add anybody but couldn't be highest salary, etc), we did hybrids (all pg-sf from one school and all sf-c from another), we did all schools in a state or a group of states (with CA split), we did Conferences, heck, I think we even did schools that started with the same letter.  All of them were fun, and all of them were extremely competitive.  Love seeing them back.  Hope they continue, in any form.  I know I'm in for whatever, and will help in any way I can.

I'm in

I am probably going to tinker with the groups a little more Sunday and hopefully put the thread out Monday. The formula i was using to make the groups i have already altered some. You guys that already claimed leagues and made posts i will gladly give you first dibs when i get thr groups just as i want. Again, any other suggestions would be welcomed. One cap suggestion already has been at $47m.

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