16,000 Challenge - free team available! Topic

I just won an open league with 15,883 minutes. I went 68-14 in the regular season and 12-3 in the playoffs. So here's the challenge:

I will give a FREE TEAM to anyone who can beat my 68-14 record and win a championship with less than 16,000 minutes in an open league.

There's no catch. Go 69-13 or better and then win a championship and a free team is yours! If someone beats my record then in order for another person to get a free team you have to beat the new record. If you win at least 50 games, you go on the leaderboard. Sitemail me to let me know if you have beaten the record or deserve to be on the leaderboard.

Updated: the new record to beat is 72-10


Leaderboard:
1 benhoidal 72-10 CHAMPIONS
2 benhoidal 69-13 CHAMPIONS
3 benhoidal 68-14 CHAMPIONS
4 benhoidal 67-15 CHAMPIONS
5 benhoidal 66-16 CHAMPIONS
6 benhoidal 66-16 CHAMPIONS
7 benhoidal 62-20 CHAMPIONS
8 jpeterson 62-20 Semi-Finals
9 benhoidal 61-21 Semi-Finals
10 ashamael 59-23 Finals
11 benhoidal 57-25 Semi-Finals
12 ncmusician_7 53-29 1st round
7/26/2018 1:41 PM (edited)
Updated to include ncmusician_7's team
10/30/2017 2:42 PM
Updated to include ashamael's 59 win finals team
12/28/2017 9:49 AM
Updated
2/19/2018 11:25 AM
I re-purposed some open source optimization tooling. First, I built a bunch of constraints around certain performance metrics, set a setPlayerCount to 12 and maxMinutesPlayed to 16000. I set an objectiveFunction to maximize sumScore (which was an aggregation of the metric scoring I created) with the cap at maxOpenLeagueSalary. I didn't set a minSalary. I ran it against the full player database to see what kind of team it would build for your 16,000 minute challenge.

I pasted the team at the bottom of this message.

I don't think I will run the team, just because I hate the day to day maintenance of trying to keep up with the fatigue. The solver I built is flawed in a pretty minor sense in that it doesn't know about minute stretching, such that certain guys lose value in scenarios like the playoffs from minute stretching. I tried to build in some logic to prevent it from being too easy to gameplan against but that is about the extent of coaching based logic I can build into it. I also didn't build any positional effectiveness into it, so it could honestly create critical flaws at the wing positions just based on those players generating less value. It also is pretty light on iterations so I am sure if I wanted to commit more runtime I could get better solves.

Anyway, I thought I would share the results in case you found it interesting.
Name Year Team Pos Min Per% Mid% Pnt% Usg% 2pnt%# 3pnt%# eFG% TS% Oreb% Dreb% Creb% Ast% A/T Stl% TO% Blk%
Paul, Chris 16-17 Clippers PG 1921 38 35 27 24.4 51.1 40.9 55.5 61.4% 2.3 14.1 16.4 35.7 3.8 2.8 14.05 0.2
Griffin, Eddie 04-05 Timberwolves PF 1492 39 32 29 19 42.6 32.7 45.1 47.4% 9.5 22.6 32.1 4.6 1 0.7 9.00 4.6
McGee, JaVale 16-17 Warriors C 739 1 18 81 23.8 65.2 0 65.2 64.2% 14.8 18.7 33.5 2.6 0.4 1.1 9.81 4.9
Chamberlain, Wilt 69-70 Lakers C 505 0 10 90 26.4 57 0 56.8 55.4% 14.7 25.4 40.1 10.5 0.9 0.7 15.91 5.7
Wright, Brandan 11-12 Mavericks PF 983 0 34 66 17.1 62 0 61.8 63.2% 8.4 15.0 23.4 2.2 0.6 1.3 7.46 4.7
Kidd, Jason 05-06 Nets PG 2980 44 30 26 19.2 44.4 35 48.1 52.6% 3.2 18.8 22.0 32.1 3.5 2.4 15.94 0.6
Mourning, Alonzo 00-01 Heat C 306 1 39 60 30.8 52.5 0 51.8 53.6% 12.8 24.1 36.9 5.8 0.4 0.6 14.49 6.4
Rogers, Roy 99-00 Nuggets PF 355 1 36 63 14.2 40.4 0 39.8 42.0% 9.6 13.7 23.3 3.3 0.9 0.2 8.62 6.1
Jones, Terrence 12-13 Rockets SF 276 20 39 41 18.2 50.5 26.2 48.4 51.2% 11.0 13.9 24.9 6.9 1.2 1.9 11.36 3.9
Brown, Kedrick 01-02 Celtics SG 245 39 26 36 16 42.1 18.5 36.4 40.0% 4.6 16.7 21.3 8.5 2.1 3.3 8.16 1.7
Malone, Moses 82-83 76ers C 2922 0 33 67 26 49.8 0 50.1 57.8% 16.7 25.2 41.9 3.8 0.4 1.2 13.78 2.9
James, LeBron 09-10 Cavaliers SF 2966 25 39 36 33.7 55.6 33.2 54.5 60.4% 2.9 17.4 20.3 28 2.5 2 12.26 1.5
SumSal
$ 41,865,076
SumMin
15690
You could probably swap out someone like Kendrick Brown for someone with slightly more minutes with the remaining dough. It also looks like it might favor usage more than it should, but that might not be a bad problem with as heavily as rookies are going to be used.

It was a fun exercise to build it anyway.
3/9/2018 1:50 PM (edited)
Another issue I don't mention here... to make my data set easier to use for drafts/progs, when a player has a number of different entry for the same season (eg. traded), I default to the highest salary one. So I lose a small number of optimal seasons for players but it is pretty trivial.
3/9/2018 2:24 PM
That’s pretty cool thanks! <16,000 is tough and you really have to be on top of things. But if it’s done right can lead to an unbeatable playoff team.
3/9/2018 2:52 PM
Updated to include jpeterso’s son’s 62-20 team. 7th best record!
5/10/2018 6:34 PM
Updated
7/26/2018 1:53 PM
What’s the salary cap on this?
7/26/2018 2:23 PM
Join any open league with under 16,000 minutes. If you win 50 games you make the leaderboard. Best my record and I’ll buy you a free team!
7/26/2018 2:51 PM
16,000 Challenge - free team available! Topic

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