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04-20-2013, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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In free agency, we're not really going after any big contracts because our cap space isn't where it needs to be. But I might resign PG Elysia Pastor (13.5 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 2.3 APG, 15.8 PER last season) in a sign & trade situation, because she was useful, I just have youngster who can play that spot for a lot less money, especially since she's 33.
We have just under $2.5m in cap space. Here's the players we have under contract for next year. It'll give you a sense of where the salaries in the league are right now. (I have inflation off for now.) Code:
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04-20-2013, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I managed to offload Pastor in a sign and trade to Milwaukee along with one of our 2nd rounders, for a future 2nd from them and C Cassandra Baker, who I'd be surprised if she made our team.
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04-20-2013, 01:54 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Most of the AI trade offers suck, but Sacramento offered me SF Marianne Solis, who is 34 and a future 1st for SF Jordan Davis.
I love Davis. She's 28 and has been a real linchpin to my offensive situation this year. But she's also going to be making $6m next year and I'm not entirely convinced she's one of the 5 best players in the league, which are the only players making in excess of $6 million in this league right now. Soooo...I'm tempted to do it, if only for the 1st rounder that I probably won't be able to pry from someone later on. But Davis makes us a better team and ditching her probably makes us vulnerable. This deal has made me sure I need to trade her by the deadline more than likely. Meanwhile, I dealt Miranda Albanese, a free agent to be to Boston along with a 2nd, in exchange for a future 2nd and a bit player. She was a sparkplug and I liked her, I just knew she wasn't going to play much for us, we're not going to resign her and so, to get something for her rather than having her walk seemed to make sense to me. Well and I picked up a point guard who was a former 2nd overall pick a decade ago and who was pretty solid in New York. Not sure why she got released other than probably we have such a glut of guards in this league that she was viewed as not useful. Anyway, she came cheap and I think she'll be more useful in the end anyway, so I flipped Albanese. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-20-2013 at 01:56 PM. |
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04-20-2013, 03:29 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Finished the year 29-19, 3rd seed in the East. Lost in the 1st rounder to Washington, who ended up winning their first title since 1958.
Meanwhile, we're going to add 4 more teams again this year. Stick to the 4 division format, no expansion draft (there's just a lot of random talent floating around the league that teams need to sign) again because it's 4 teams which would put us at 28 teams and we'll probably stay there. We're going to a 54 game schedule now. (See it's even!) Expanded the playoffs to 12 teams, from 8, because I somehow forgot that we only had 4 slots in each conference. Four new teams will be: Vancouver Vixens New Jersey Gems Detroit Currents and one more eastern team that I haven't yet decided on. Thinking a smaller market though, a "basketball crazy" city that may will add to the storyline. Not sure where tho. Also the Sacramento Monarchs are moving to Anaheim to become the Anaheim Amigas. Their only title came in the pre-pro era of 1906, they've never won a title in the modern years. After making the WNBA finals in '64, they've missed the playoffs every year since. |
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04-20-2013, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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In the end, I went with Des Moines, Iowa and the Iowa Cornets, who were a real team that you can read about.
Here's the alignment for next year. I moved the Fury to the Atlantic. The schedule turned out to be 56 games and like I said, we're bringing 6 teams in each conference to the playoffs now rather than just 4 in each. Eventually that might go to 7, but not right now. Code:
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04-20-2013, 03:51 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Lessee here... you have 24 teams, right, with what, four divisions of six? 4x own division for 20 games 3x other conference division for 18 games (three opponents 2-for-1 at home, three other opponents 2-for-1 away) 1x each team in other conference for 12 games That'll give you an even 50. (Then again, I have no idea what flexibility you have in setting schedules, so this is just spitballing an idea based on your numbers.) Edit: Never mind. Miscounted the teams. Looks like you have 28 teams now. Last edited by Wolfpack : 04-20-2013 at 03:56 PM. |
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04-20-2013, 03:58 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Yeah 28 now. The game gives no flexibility at all. Just allows you to select a number all the way up to like 84, I think. |
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04-20-2013, 04:09 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Hm, okay. And just because I can't help myself, here's an NBA-pre-30-team four-division realignment if you want to reconnect to some of those old rivalries: EAST Atlantic: Boston, Conn, NY, NJ, Philly, Washington, Orlando Central: Chicago, Milwaukee, Indiana, Detroit, Cleveland, Charlotte, Atlanta WEST Midwest: Tennessee, Iowa, Minnesota, Tulsa, Houston, SA, Colorado Pacific: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, SJ, LA, Anaheim, Phoenix |
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04-20-2013, 06:20 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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That's quite helpful. What I decided through free agency right now is that I actually just want to restart this league with the same player base, but with a new save starting in 1974. What's nice about it is I get rid of all of that old history when I wasn't paying attention, but also, I can create minor leagues and add foreign leagues to the mix too because I'd like to see more players get a chance to get PT and right now, there's not as much opportunity for that.
Haven't decided whether I'll just launch a Women's D-League or if I'll activate some foreign leagues and have them play overseas (the latter seems likely since it mirrors real life...) |
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04-21-2013, 12:46 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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So I did precisely what I said I would do. I took Wolfpack's realignment and used it to make a new WNBA in a new save game. Same players, but I activated the D-League (With the same teams for now...because I don't really care.) so WNBA players could get more playing time. I've got various foreign leagues showing at different times, mostly to diversify the player pool a bit, since I'll lose the D3 league soon (so many more schools in D3 than D1) and end up with the D1 league starting to feed the universe starting in 1980.
I've taken over the Fury again, but for all intent and purposes outside of the same players it's a "new league." At least the records and so forth will work better this way. I'll probably go crib a few other dynasties and see if I can't deliver this one a bit more organized. |
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04-21-2013, 06:56 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here's how the '74 regular season shook out.
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We took on the Mystics in the 1st round of the expanded playoffs. |
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04-21-2013, 07:04 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Award Winners from '74
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04-21-2013, 07:14 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Our roster from this year and depth chart. We had injuries earlier in the year, so I decided that our stars were playing too much and decided to go with a deeper rotation.
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04-21-2013, 07:23 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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We swept the Mystics in 3 straight, now that the playoff rounds are all best of five. We had a few days off while the other Eastern Conference series had to finish between Atlanta and Cleveland.
WESTERN CONFERENCE 1. Seattle 2. Minnesota 3. Houston 4. Los Angeles 5. San Antonio 6. Anaheim (Look at that, they move to a new city and the playoff drought ends. Funny how that goes.) EASTERN CONFERENCE 1. Connecticut 2. New York 3. Atlanta 4. Philadelphia 5. Washington 6. Cleveland LA def. San Antonio 3-1 Anaheim def. Houston 3-1 Philly def. Washington 3-0 Cleveland def. Atlanta 3-2 So both #6 seeds advanced to the Conference semis and we'll get Connecticut next up. We split the season series with them this year, so it'll be a crapshoot. Looking at team stats....just to see where we match up and we're apparently the 3rd highest scoring team in the WNBA this year. We give up the 3rd most points of any team though, so lock-down defense we're not. The Sun give up the 3rd fewest points of any team in the league, so...it'll be a tough go. Code:
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04-21-2013, 07:28 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here's the gameplan I constructed to go against the Sun.
 I also moved Sarah Northup into the starting lineup since she's a bit taller. Here's the team's scoring averages for this year. We'll see how it goes. Code:
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04-21-2013, 07:34 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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1974-75 WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS
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04-21-2013, 07:52 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Madison, WI
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Go go! And games are 48 minutes now?
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04-21-2013, 08:13 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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One of the perils of moving files is I forgot to bring the coaches from the old league over with me. Since I started this universe in the pre-season, we didn't end up getting to hire these people, it's just what the game gave us. I hadn't even looked at them until just now.
But I did go ahead and fix the coaching situation a bit to figure out who would be doing what. Not sure if it'll help, but figured it was worth doing anyway.  In the Western Conference, Minnesota beat Anaheim in 5 games and LA knocked off the Seattle Storm in 5. 1974-75 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS It's against our nemesis the New York Liberty. They're still good and so, if we'll get back to the Finals, we're going to have to earn it.
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Yeah, no more 40 minute games. Thought it was better this way. |
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04-21-2013, 08:34 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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The Spoiler tags are mostly to keep this from visually looking like such a stat dump.
If you hadn't read above, we are in the Finals for the 2nd time in 3 years. We're facing the Minnesota Lynx. They are led by Lucy Dinkelmann (35.7 PPG) and Dayana Felton (29.7 PPG) a lethal 1-2 combo as exists anywhere in the WNBA. Dickelmann was league MVP this year, which probably explains why they're here. She was all All-League 1st team defensive team as well as All-WNBA 1st team. She is not playing with you fools. I bet the real advantage we have outside of just gameplan and that we're really hot right now, is the fact that we have so much depth. We have lots of ways to beat you. It's clearly I'll need to start implementing some house rules or just starting playing with worse teams. But in the meantime, we'll rock and roll with what we have. I made some modest adjustments to our rotation, mostly getting Teresa Cribbs, a former Finals MVP more involved because she's been not getting much PT from me. She's old, but she can be valuable. 1974-75 WNBA FINALS
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04-21-2013, 08:43 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Sidenote, here's the contract situation for next year. It's good I came back this year to run them, because most of the party will be broken up next year.
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Still this team has been a lot of fun. Kayleen Wallace will still be here, there's money to bring back any number of the others. I'd surely have to find a suitor to take Cribbs away, as she's finished in my mind. So many of our role players will probably want a lot more money than they're making now, though I have no idea. Jordyn Davis had a team option for next year, but I wasn't really convinced she's worth Top-5 player money, when she's not even the best player on her own team. So I declined it and she'll be gone. I don't think it'll be a rebuilding job, per se, but it'll be a challenge to really have the pieces come together as they did this past couple of years. Especially since there was no way of predicting what this team was capable of at the start of the post-season. I was just hoping not to choke in the 1st round, so a Finals appearance is beyond my wildest expectations. |
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04-22-2013, 01:30 PM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Inland Empire, PRC
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On the last page, I was just thinking what awesome use of the spoiler tag to keep things clean. One minor suggestion maybe is in the playoff series always have 5 sets of spoilers regardless of how many games, otherwise the answer are given up. If that made sense. --t |
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04-22-2013, 05:07 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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So I went ahead and started to sim to the next season. Looks like this upcoming year, we have the Argentine, French and Turkish leagues all joining the fray.
I am tempted to leave the WNBA behind for a while and see if we can't build a dynasty in a foreign league somewhere and coming back to the states later. I imagine that'll generate a challenge for sure. |
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04-22-2013, 06:44 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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In terms of straight cash homey, the Turkish league is more prosperous than the French or Argentine leagues both of which have a cap at about $3m. The Turkish league has a cap of $5m. Weirdly, the French league has teams with higher paid players on the whole.
So it looks like for starters, I'm probably headed to either Turkey or France for this first year trip in foreign lands. The goal is simple -- win a title -- and I stay in the country until goal is achieved. No matter how long it takes. The goal being to rack up titles in multiple countries. With the foreign teams boasting entirely different rosters than what I've grown accustomed to, it'll be a whole different challenge winning in these countries. In a way, the basketball will be more conventional since it's not using my import draft files, but...it'll be different for me since I won't have a clue who I'm getting until we play. So maybe I'll narrow it down to 3 or 4 clubs and you all can help me decide. |
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04-22-2013, 07:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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So I've narrowed it down to these three teams, each in a different league.
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04-23-2013, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Partially because I'm curious, going to fold one of the WNBA teams and create an expansion team in their place. I just want to see whether the dispersal draft actually happens as it's supposed to or not.
Now just need to decide who I'm nuking. |
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04-23-2013, 09:54 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Ok, so here's the deal.
We'll move Vancouver to Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Tulsa will be dissolved and a new franchise will be created in their wake, so there will be a dispersal draft if it works right and then we'll do an expansion draft for the new team that comes in, as well. Rather than go to Europe this year, I'm going to take the job running the new expansion team after being offered a huge contract to go build a new club from scratch. Foreign will happen, just not this season. |
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04-23-2013, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Ok, our new team is the Tampa Bay Shock. Probably no real need for a 2nd team in Florida, but ...for whatever reason I liked the idea.
I'm not in the mood for staff hiring right now, so I'm letting the AI handle it under the guise that there is a Team President working over my head, who is the son of the owner. The salary is nice, but he meddles and this is just one way he's doing so. We'll see if it comes back to bite me later. There is no dispersal draft, because HR said that was broken and he'll fix it in the next patch. No big deal. We'll still go ahead and proceed anyway. Next up is the expansion draft. I'm going to go make dinner and figure out if I want to apply any house rules in the expansion draft, because I think last time I ended up so good out of the gate due to good expansion drafting and so, I'd prefer to hobble the team a bit and make it more like a real expansion team. That won't be "fun" but it'll be interesting to see how to build a real team using women players since the Philly experiment was kind of easy. As far as realignment, Indiana took Tulsa's place in the Midwest division and Tampa is in the Central. Vegas will remain in the Pacific for now. |
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04-23-2013, 11:29 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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On second thought, the expansion draft was pretty shitty this time around. Maybe because the last time I expanded the league didn't have 28 teams. I forgot that would probably have a huge impact on the available talent.
Anyway...here's the players I picked. I will probably trade to make some deals, since I'm not entirely sure about all of these players.
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 Lots of youngsters, like I said. We also have the 4th pick in the draft. My normal strat would be to trade down. But maybe I should suck it up and pick someone. |
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04-26-2013, 02:20 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here's the draft pool for this draft:
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I think as a bit of a new house rule, I think rather than relying on ratings, I'm going to evaluate/play based on stats only. It's a common OOTP playing way, but in FBPB where there is so much data, seems like a good tactic and a more challenging way to play. So we'll start using it that way and see what it yields. As mentioned earlier, we have the 4th overall pick in this draft. |
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