OK, so I don't think we'll be able to populate an entire conference right away. At first glance, it looks like in Phelan we could find a few conferences in D3 which have only 1 human coached team and a few conference in D2 which have only two human coach teams. So, we'll probably need 10 participants (myself + 9) and therefore 10 different "rules"; one assigned to each coach.
Can only recruit from one designated state. (I think this state should probably not be their home state and should be about 100 recruits deep and preferably pretty far away—maybe Michigan?)
Can only recruit foreign born players. (We could turn this into players outside of the continental US if we wanted HI and AK to be included, I’m pretty unsold on it)
Can only recruit SGs. (It is my feeling that it might be ‘too easy’ if someone got SF here, so I think SG and PF are the two positions that should fill an entire team—you can get versatile ones for sure.)
Can only recruit PFs. (See above)
Must have all starters average over 35 minutes per game (actually, we could make this 37 or 38 minutes, basically everyone must play only 1 deep at all positions—lots of slowdown + high stamina guys needed!).
Must set EVERYONE to +2 (would this be more fun with +2 or -2? I feel like it’d be too easy on +2, I mean you could just set your distro to only guards and recruit role playing big men to rebound, anyone think this is too easy?)
Must recruit only players below a 15 durability: I did some research on this one, it looks like only about 30 or 40 players from each recruit generation will meet this criteria (obviously, he has to practice conditioning, so durability will increase—but each recruit must start with 15 or below). So, he’ll have a small player pool (although that player pool will likely be diverse and possibly even talented) AND it’ll be likely that a bunch of his guys get hurt! (or, as ‘likely’ as that can be, as durability starts to matter more.)
Coach must not practice any O or D (really unsure how big of a deal this is, I feel like in the old engine people used to say that they’d randomly play a different D than that practiced and it worked fine, that’s not that case though anymore, right?).
All FT shooters must be an F (Stone Fs, they could start at a D- but you’d have to practice no FT shooting and not play them until they reached F).
Everyone’s first name and last name must start with the same letter (Self-explanatory; lots of Larry Landers from Sidney, Nebraska! [on all 5 of my teams, Larry Lander is the only player that meets this criteria!])
These are my favorite 10. Does anyone think any of these things are too easy or too hard?