Haven't been able to get any interest in a progressive so I decided to see if there would be any interest in this idea. We will replay the 1989/90 season but each team will be able to add 1-3 players from the 2009/10 season, depending on their W/L percentage. Those players can replace any player of your choice from the WIS roster.

The number of 2009/10 players allowed to be drafted per team will be as shown below. The draft order will also be as shown, with teams tied for W/L pct. drafting in alphabetical order. The teams in the first group will have 3 rounds of picks, the 2nd group 2 rounds and the 3rd group only one round. Draft order will be as shown in all 3 rounds.If you choose the New jersey nets, you will draft 1st, if you choose the Lakers you will draft last.

Do you want a bad team with three 2009/10 players to improve your team or a good team with only one 2009/10 player added ? I will make my selection after 11 other owners have entered.

There will be no salary cap, no rookies. If this should prove to be a popular theme, we will repeat with a different replay year and the Championship owner will select the next replay year (any year prior to 1999/2000). Teams shown in bold/red face are taken.

Poor teams-3 draft choices each (8 teams).

Team

Won

Lost

Pct.

New Jersey Nets	17	65	0.207
Miami Heat	18	64	0.220
Orlando Magic	18	64	0.220
Charlotte Hornets	19	63	0.232
Minnesota Timberwolves	22	60	0.268
Sacramento Kings	23	59	0.280
Los Angeles Clippers	30	52	0.366
Washington Bullets	31	51	0.378

Mediocre teams-2 draft choices each (10 teams)

Team

Won

Lost

Pct.

Golden State Warriors	37	45	0.451
Atlanta Hawks	41	41	0.500
Houston Rockets	41	41	0.500
Seattle Supersonics	41	41	0.500
Cleveland Cavaliers	42	40	0.512
Indiana Pacers	42	40	0.512
Denver Nuggets	43	39	0.524
Milwaukee Bucks	44	38	0.537
New York Knicks	45	37	0.549
Dallas Mavericks	47	35	0.573

Good teams-1 draft choice each (9 teams)

Team

Won

Lost

Pct.

Boston Celtics	52	30	0.634
Philadelphia 76ers	53	29	0.646
Phoenix Suns	54	28	0.659
Chicago Bulls	55	27	0.671
Utah Jazz	55	27	0.671
San Antonio Spurs	56	26	0.683
Detroit Pistons	59	23	0.720
Portland Trailblazers	59	23	0.720
Los Angeles Lakers	63	19	0.768

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3. malone 9975-Houston Rockets
4. theyard2-Washington Bullets
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I like this. Give me the bulls

OK imahobbit-thanks for joining. We may be a while filling, so please be patient.

Yes. Theme leagues are mostly doa

Houston Rockets....I think this would do better if there wasn't a draft for the 09-10 player, but instead you pick what works best for your team.  If you do a serpentine draft and look at this purely by money then the Nets would have the 1st, 48th and 49th pick would could translate to Kevin Durant, Aaron Brooks, and John Salmons.   I do not think that is an intriguing team.

The draft is not snake style.

And.. not every team drafts in the second round so the Nets get the 1st pick, the 25th pick, and the and somewhere between the  40th and 43rd pick.  This would make the nets have say...

Lebron James, Deron Williams, and Caron Butler... or Kevin Durant, Nene, and Ray Allen.. (just looking at salary ranges to gauge picks). That nets team already has some decent bigs, a solid backup pg.. and alot of minutes at SF.. could be competitive I think.

If you take my bulls team.. I have Jordan, Pippen, Grant and then the relatively solid Paxson/Cartwright.. and only 1 pick that will be around 20th in the draft. That could be someone like Tim Duncan, Lemarcus Aldridge, Nene, or Gasol.. I don't think that is much better than the Nets.

Posted by imahobbit on 3/4/2011 9:28:00 AM (view original):
Lebron James, Deron Williams, and Caron Butler... or Kevin Durant, Nene, and Ray Allen.. (just looking at salary ranges to gauge picks). That nets team already has some decent bigs, a solid backup pg.. and alot of minutes at SF.. could be competitive I think.

If you take my bulls team.. I have Jordan, Pippen, Grant and then the relatively solid Paxson/Cartwright.. and only 1 pick that will be around 20th in the draft. That could be someone like Tim Duncan, Lemarcus Aldridge, Nene, or Gasol.. I don't think that is much better than the Nets.

Exactly-that's why I did the 1-2-3 scheme and didn't do serpentine. I understand malone9975's point but will stick with the current plan at least for now.

I would love to see this as a multi-season league (we have quite a few of this type in sim league baseball) but we'll see if this initial foray flies.

Great idea, dont change anything, be patient...I'll take the Washington Bullets

Posted by theyard2 on 3/4/2011 4:48:00 PM (view original):
Great idea, dont change anything, be patient...I'll take the Washington Bullets

Thanks for joining and for the support.

I'll take the sonics

Posted by felonius on 3/8/2011 10:23:00 AM (view original):
I'll take the sonics

Thanks for joining. Interesting-so far the choices are 1 good, 2 mediocre and 1 bad team.

I'm anxious to get to 12 in for 2 reasons-we would be halfway home, and I could pick a team. My 1st choice is still on the board.

Atlanta

Posted by logain on 3/9/2011 11:47:00 PM (view original):
Atlanta

Thanks very much & welcome !