Posted by pharrop on 8/6/2020 12:24:00 PM (view original):
To change the decision now on 19-20 players seems unfair. Before I made my pick, I scanned through the threads to find the statement that we will use 19-20 seasons if they come out before the draft ends.
it is on page 1 of the rules. Now people want to change it?
I agree it would be unfair to now declare we aren't using them. I want to use them. Which is why I would prefer that we just say we're going to use them and the league won't start until they come out. Which will be little, if any, delay. What I think is counterproductive is creating a scenario where some people have serious incentive to drag the league out as long as possible because it will have a real benefit to their team. Not to mention the general concept of a draft where we don't even know what the player pool is until it's over (or at least until the very end). We're basically telling everyone to gamble on something entirely out of our control (when WIS releases the new players; and to some extent what the seasons look like - i.e., defensive ratings, which won't be finalized until all-defensive teams are announced, what position eligibility will be, and how WIS chooses to apply the pro-rating effect.
Take Giannis for example. If we're in the 10th round and have no player seasons yet, his owner doesn't know whether he needs a backup to his amazing, high-usage 19-20 season or something entirely different. He doesn't know which positions his new season will be 100% at. He doesn't know what the D rating will be (and good luck predicting that). He doesn't even know how many minutes the season will have in the database. How are you supposed to draft for that at the end of the draft? We can't use anyone outside the 12 guys we pick, so you're looking at potentially having to burn 2 draft picks, 1/6 of your draft, to cover for two drastically different possibilities, one of which has a variety of other minor different possibilities built in. '
It's just a crazy amount of uncertainty. If we just say now that we're using the seasons, the only uncertainty is whether the league starts immediately after the draft or we wait a few days. But who cares? It will take a few days for everyone to get their teams in anyway. If we have to choose between uncertainty between when the league starts and uncertainty about who is in the player pool, I'll choose the former every time.