The "ORIGINAL DRAFT LEAGUE" 63rd SEASON

The Ultimate $47M Challenge in SIM Basketball in its 62nd season.

Salary Cap - $47M

Rules

1. No clones, rookies or waiver wire.

2. The team owner is responsible for drafting and managing a team that remains in compliance with the league rules and is not forced into any rules violation.

3. Each owner is responsible for verifying compliance with league rules of their opponent. If a rules violation takes place, it must be reported to the league commissioner by sitemail within 3 games of the violation taking place. Violations greater than 3 games back are not subject to review by the commissioner.

4. 7 exclusive drafted players, plus 5 non-exclusive undrafted players. The 5 non-exclusive undrafted players may be any player not selected in the draft.

5. Draft Sequence..ABABAB. 1 pick rounds 1-5 and 2 picks in round 6.

6. Draft order: The returning owners that did not make the playoffs will be in a NBA-style draft lottery. The lottery will determine the first three picks. The other returning owners will then be placed behind them in order of regular season record from worst to best, with the league runner-up and champ placed at the end. New owners will be then placed behind everyone in order of who joined first.

Owners will now have the option to choose their draft slot (however, "closer to 2-6" or "closer to 19-23" is prohibited. if you want those slots, you must select closer to 1 or closer to 24). This will be done in draft order. So if the owner with the top pick chooses to draft in the 24th spot, the 2nd overall pick can choose any draft spot besides #24. This will continue until all the spots are filled.

Tie breakers are decided by head to head, then conference record, then division record, then point differential for head to head. New owners are seeded after returning owners by order of entry. It is assumed that an owner wants 'closer to 1', unless stated otherwise.

7. A posted pick is final. No editing or removing posted picks. A second, separate, post should be made to correct any and all errors. Violation of rule 7 will result in......actually, I'm open to debate on this one. Proposal: you can change the pick until the next pick is posted, and if there's conflict, the changed pick has to change back to whatever it was before the next pick was posted.

8. Divisions. Once the league fills, I will do a random realignment. If you have a championship caliber team, you will win the title regardless of who is in your division, right?

9. During the draft, sitemail the next 2 owners on the schedule after making your pick..or state that you cannot sm and somebody will take care of it.

10. The "Commissioner" may take control of any team refusing to comply with the ODL league rules. A warning will be issued in the league forum and a sitemail, after which the owner has 3 games to comply. All games in violation are 'losses'. Any owner invoking rule XII will be banned from future ODL's.

11. Commish: bds9992

Sitemail List:

Mikee1; cjok1051; 98average; beachhouse; copernicus; Jhsukow; dh555; midzim; eleibowitz; Jkaye24; Jt7king; Uptowngbv; Benhoidal; Jcred5; Banditone; ysw128; bds9992; thomcat; ashamael; bkbillups; milest; scudmissle; rjk2781; coachcroft

Thanks for participating in a WhatIfSports.com SimLeague!

Playoff Recap
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In the Western Conference, Dre Dray Cray feat The Beard survived against Great White Mamba in 7 games. While over in the East, Bangkok PotatoBread overpowered Sultans of Shot in 5 games.

In the SimLeague Finals, Bangkok PotatoBread answered the call against Dre Dray Cray feat The Beard in 6 games.

Here are the final standings for your league:

Eastern Conference - Atlantic
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Bangkok PotatoBread (51-31) ... Owner: milest (6657)
The Low Usage Minute Fillers (45-37) ... Owner: beachhouse (5252)
Ours Is The Fury (40-42) ... Owner: uptowngbv (6007)
Colossus of Rhodes (39-43) ... Owner: bds9992 (5806)
My Salsa (36-46) ... Owner: jt7king (6349)
Scrap Heap (15-67) ... Owner: banditone (4378)

Eastern Conference - Central
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Ashlanta Mustangs (51-31) ... Owner: ashamael (7995)
Sultans of Shot (48-34) ... Owner: scudmissle (6415)
Extra Crispy (45-37) ... Owner: midzim (6956)
McHalesNavy (39-43) ... Owner: dh555 (6158)
Wormhole (37-45) ... Owner: mikee1 (5925)
Bubble Boy (35-47) ... Owner: copernicus (6202)

Western Conference - Midwest
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Dre Dray Cray feat The Beard (58-24) ... Owner: jkaye24 (6142)
TropicalPunch&Vodka (thxScud!) (44-38) ... Owner: jcred5 (6130)
Ol Dirty Bastard (43-39) ... Owner: 98average (5627)
Bird Oscar over Okrafor (39-43) ... Owner: eleibowitz (6199)
Jones, Jones, Moses and Brand (35-47) ... Owner: thomcat (5840)
the bigs: shot and fundamental (33-49) ... Owner: ysw128 (6207)

Western Conference - Pacific
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Great White Mamba (51-31) ... Owner: benhoidal (5850)
Dr. J is SERGE-ical (45-37) ... Owner: jhsukow (6085)
Reigning in the Matrix (45-37) ... Owner: bkbillups (6735)
G & G Hoops Factory (42-40) ... Owner: all3 (6346)
The Package (40-42) ... Owner: cjok1051 (6745)
Every minute, every game (28-54) ... Owner: amerk1180 (5937)

Owner	Slot Preference	Final Draft Slot
banditone	24	24
ysw128	1	4
thomcat	1	3
copernicus	1	2
jt7king	1	5
mikee1	1	6
eleibowitz	24	23
bds9992	1	7
dh555	1	1
cjok1051	1	8
uptowngbv	24	22
jcred5	1	9
bkbillups	1	10
jhsukow	1	11
beachhouse	1	12
midzim	24	21
scudmissle	24	20
ashamael	12	13
benhoidal	1	14
jkaye24	24	19
milest	1	15
rjk2781	24	18
666ace	1	16
coachcroft		17

Lottery

Below is how the lotto will work. I will post the results here on 12/21. I will also sitemail the results to everyone.

Lottery Date: 12/21

Lottery Details:
We will use the New York lottery system. It's basically a keno draw where 20 random numbers are chosen between 1-80. There are 351 draws - every four minutes starting at Midnight and ending at 23:56 EST. We will select one days worth of drawings. Each team will be assigned a certain number of drawings (time specific). The number of drawings each team will receive is closely based on the actual NBA lottery percentages based on each teams respective regular season record. Then once ALL the NY lottery selections have been made we'll add up each set of twenty numbers and the team with lowest combined total wins the 1st draft spot and so on for the first three picks. After the first three have been determined, the remaining picks will be in inverse order from the previous season's win total with new owners drafting their slot after everyone else. In the event of a tie we will compare each set of numbers starting with the lowest number in each selected set until one team wins. For example if two teams have a total of 621 and one set of the lowest numbers is (1, 2, 4, 7, 12 etc.) and another group has (1, 2, 3, 8, 14 etc.) the 1's cancel out, the 2's cancel out, and the 3 is lower than 4 so the 1, 2, 3, 8, 14 etc. set of numbers wins. Non-playoff teams from the previous season whose owners are not returning will be left blank. Any questions just ask.

Below are the lottery teams, the number of draws for each slot, the percentage of winning the #1 pick, and each team's time slots.

#1 87/351 24.8% banditone 18:12 - 23:56
#2 70/351 19.9% vacant 13:32 - 18:08
#3 55/351 15.7% ysw128 09:52 - 13:28
#4 43/351 12.3% thomcat 07:00 - 09:48
#5 32/351 9.1% copernicus 04:52 - 06:56
#6 23/351 6.6% jt7king 02:44 - 04:48
#7 16/351 4.6% mikee1 01:40 - 02:40
#8 10/351 2.9% eleibowitz 01:00 - 01:36
#9 6/351 1.7% bds9992 00:36 - 00:56
#10 4/351 1.1% dh555 00:20 - 00:32
#11 3/351 0.9% cjok1051 00:08 - 00:16
#12 2/351 0.6% vacant 00:00 - 00:04

	Draft
	Round 1
1	dh555	Wilt Chamberlain
2	copernicus	LeBron James
3	thomcat	Stephen Curry
4	ysw128	Moses Malone
5	jt7king	Michael Jordan
6	mikee1	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
7	cjok1051 (via bds9992)	Karl Malone
8	cjok1051	Charles Barkley
9	jcred5	Shaquille O'Neal
10	bkbillups	Dennis Rodman
11	jhsukow	Kevin Garnett
12	beachhouse	Kevin Durant
13	ashamael	Chris Paul
14	benhoidal	Dwight Howard
15	milest	Larry Bird
16	666ace	Magic Johnson
17	coachcroft	John Stockton
18	rjk2781	Jason Kidd
19	jkaye24	David Robinson
20	scudmissle	Dwyane Wade
21	midzim	Tim Duncan
22	uptowngbv	Draymond Green
23	eleibowitz	Anfernee Hardaway
24	banditone	Anthony Davis
	Round 2
25	banditone	Kevin McHale
26	eleibowitz	DeAndre Jordan
27	uptowngbv	Ben Wallace
28	midzim	Scottie Pippen
29	scudmissle	Steve Nash
30	jkaye24	Julius Erving
31	rjk2781	Mookie Blaylock
32	coachcroft	Hakeem Olajuwon
33	666ace	Marcus Camby
34	milest	Chauncey Billups
35	benhoidal	Kawhi Leonard
36	ashamael	Artis Gilmore
37	beachhouse	Hassan Whiteside
38	jhsukow	Gary Payton
39	bkbillups	Bill Russell
40	jcred5	Terry Porter
41	bds9992 (via cjok1051)	Oscar Robertson
42	bds9992	Alonzo Mourning
43	mikee1	Deron Williams
44	jt7king	Bill Walton
45	ysw128	Dikembe Mutombo
46	thomcat	Bob McAdoo
47	copernicus	Manu Ginobili
48	dh555	Derek Harper
49	dh555	Klay Thompson
50	copernicus	Andre Drummond
51	thomcat	Tyson Chandler
52	ysw128	Elton Brand
53	jt7king	Donyell Marshall
54	mikee1	Shawn Kemp
55	bds9992	Walt Frazier
56	bds9992 (via cjok1051)	Chris Webber
57	jcred5	Shawn Marion
58	bkbillups	Ray Allen
59	jhsukow	Joakim Noah
60	beachhouse	Patrick Ewing
61	ashamael	Tracy McGrady
62	benhoidal	Rudy Gobert
63	beachhouse (via milest)	Rajon Rondo
64	666ace	Horace Grant
65	coachcroft	Serge Ibaka
66	rjk2781	Kobe Bryant
67	jkaye24	Clifford Ray
68	scudmissle	Jerry Lucas
69	midzim	Marques Johnson
70	uptowngbv	James Harden
71	eleibowitz	Clyde Drexler
72	banditone	Maurice Cheeks
	Round 4
73	banditone	Larry Nance
74	eleibowitz	Robert Parish
75	uptowngbv	Carlos Boozer
76	midzim	Mark Price
77	scudmissle	Bobby Jones
78	jkaye24	Charlie Ward
79	rjk2781	Gerald Wallace
80	coachcroft	Jerry West
81	666ace	Bo Outlaw
82	milest	Larry Sanders
83	benhoidal	Brent Barry
84	ashamael	Andrew Bogut
85	milest (via beachhouse)	Andrew Bynum
86	jhsukow	Tom Boerwinkle
87	bkbillups	Dirk Nowitzki
88	jcred5	Jose Calderon
89	bds9992 (via cjok1051)	Buck Williams
90	bds9992	Cory Alexander
91	mikee1	Andrei Kirilenko
92	jt7king	Kevin Johnson
93	ysw128	Nate McMillan
94	thomcat	Dana Barros
95	copernicus	Emeka Okafor
96	dh555	Amar'e Stoudemire
	Round 5
97	dh555	J.R. Smith
98	copernicus	Arvydas Sabonis
99	thomcat	Joel Przybilla
100	ysw128	Jamaal Tinsley
101	jt7king	Kris Humphries
102	mikee1	Jason Terry
103	cjok1051 (via bds9992)	Kyrie Irving
104	cjok1051	Mark Jackson
105	jcred5	Omer Asik
106	bkbillups	Jameer Nelson
107	jhsukow	Wes Unseld
108	milest (via beachhouse)	Charlie Edge
109	ashamael	George Hill
110	benhoidal	Marvin Williams
111	milest	Tim Hardaway
112	666ace	Dominique Wilkins
113	coachcroft	Brandan Wright
114	rjk2781	Mark Eaton
115	jkaye24	Ryan Anderson
116	scudmissle	A.C. Green
117	midzim	Bismack Biyombo
118	uptowngbv	Kyle Lowry
119	eleibowitz	Chris Gatling
120	banditone	Chris Mullin
	Round 6 (pick two)
121	banditone	Goran Dragic & Johnny Green
122	eleibowitz	Lamar Odom & Eric Bledsoe
123	uptowngbv	Manute Bol & Sergio Rodriguez
124	midzim	Anderson Varejao & Kyle O'Quinn
125	scudmissle	Charles Oakley & Jrue Holiday
126	jkaye24	Jamario Moon & Al Horford
127	rjk2781	Pau Gasol & Shawn Bradley
128	coachcroft	Ed Davis & Carmelo Anthony
129	666ace	Baron Davis & Kevin Porter
130a	milest	Jonas Valanciunas
130b	beachhouse (via milest)	Enes Kanter
131	benhoidal	Michael Redd & Toni Kukoc
132	ashamael	Boban Marjanovic & Michael Smith
133	beachhouse
134	jhsukow
135	bkbillups
136	jcred5
137	cjok1051
138a	cjok1051 (via bds9992)
138b	bds9992
139	mikee1
140	jt7king
141	ysw128
142	thomcat
143	copernicus
144	dh555

Alpha list
Abdul-Jabbar	Kareem
Alexander	Cory
Allen	Ray
Anderson	Ryan
Anthony	Carmelo
Asik	Omer
Barkley	Charles
Barros	Dana
Barry	Brent
Billups	Chauncey
Bird	Larry
Biyombo	Bismack
Blaylock	Mookie
Boerwinkle	Tom
Bogut	Andrew
Bol	Manute
Boozer	Carlos
Bradley	Shawn
Brand	Elton
Bryant	Kobe
Bynum	Andrew
Calderon	Jose
Camby	Marcus
Chamberlain	Wilt
Chandler	Tyson
Cheeks	Maurice
Curry	Stephen
Davis	Anthony
Davis	Ed
Drummond	Andre
Duncan	Tim
Durant	Kevin
Dragic	Goran
Drexler	Clyde
Eaton	Mark
Edge	Charlie
Erving	Julius
Ewing	Patrick
Frazier	Walt
Garnett	Kevin
Gasol	Pau
Gatling	Chris
Gilmore	Artis
Ginobili	Manu
Gobert	Rudy
Grant	Horace
Green	A.C.
Green	Draymond
Green	Johnny
Hardaway	Anfernee
Hardaway	Tim
Harden	James
Harper	Derek
Hill	George
Holiday	Jrue
Horford	Al
Howard	Dwight
Humphries	Kris
Ibaka	Serge
Irving	Kyrie
Jackson	Mark
James	LeBron
Johnson	Kevin
Johnson	Magic
Johnson	Marques
Jones	Bobby
Jordan	DeAndre
Jordan	Michael
Kanter	Enes
Kemp	Shawn
Kidd	Jason
Kirilenko	Andrei
Kukoc	Toni
Leonard	Kawhi
Lowry	Kyle
Lucas	Jerry
Malone	Karl
Malone	Moses
Marion	Shawn
Marjanovic	Boban
Marshall	Donyell
McAdoo	Bob
McGrady	Tracy
McHale	Kevin
McMillan	Nate
Moon	Jamario
Mourning	Alonzo
Mullin	Chris
Mutombo	Dikembe
Nance	Larry
Nash	Steve
Nelson	Jameer
Noah	Joakim
Nowitzki	Dirk
O'Neal	Shaquille
O'Quinn	Kyle
Oakley	Charles
Odom	Lamar
Olajuwon	Hakeem
Okafor	Emeka
Outlaw	Bo
Parish	Robert
Paul	Chris
Payton	Gary
Pippen	Scottie
Porter	Terry
Price	Mark
Przybilla	Joel
Ray	Clifford
Redd	Michael
Robertson	Oscar
Robinson	David
Rodman	Dennis
Rodriguez	Sergio
Rondo	Rajon
Russell	Bill
Sabonis	Arvydas
Sanders	Larry
Smith	J.R.
Smith	Michael
Stockton	John
Stoudemire	Amar'e
Terry	Jason
Thompson	Klay
Tinsley	Jamaal
Unseld	Wes
Varejao	Anderson
Wade	Dwyane
Wallace	Ben
Wallace	Gerald
Walton	Bill
Ward	Charlie
Webber	Chris
West	Jerry
Whiteside	Hassan
Wilkins	Dominique
Williams	Buck
Williams	Deron
Williams	Marvin
Wright	Brandan

Closer to 1

Closer to 1. I will be interested in trading for another 1st round pick.

Closer to 1

in... closer to end of draft

closer to 1

trading my 1st, 5th and first 6th to cjok1051 for his 2nd, 3rd and 4th

Closer to 24

I am going to wait to say my selection. This will be my final ODL. So you'll have an opening for sure next season.