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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Speaking of recruiting, this story about a prep HS whose only students are 11 kids who live in a house owned by a rich guy and who attend a K-8 school that teaches them under a different name...inspired me to track some players in a parallel dynasty story because it'll meld my whole interest in following recruits, with a D3 universe that won't be easy to connect otherwise.
Let's see if it works. Findlay Prep: A Top High School Basketball Team, With No School |
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12-05-2013, 11:44 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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So I'm going to add the following players to the game for this upcoming college season. I'll sim that college season and then we'll start adding recruits specifically from our elite prep high school program (we'll start with one..) and we'll track their careers from high school through the pros.
Actually, I'll add one kid this year from our super school to this pool of elites. We won't have a huge class of stars every year, but it'll just give us players to follow and track. Specifically from our elite super HS but maybe other platyers who are in thir class as well. Anyway, here's the added group for the Class of 2013. P.S. If you'd like me to someday feature a player from a high school of yours or a favorite high school, do list the school in here and I'll add the school to my rotation. CLASS OF 2013 Saywuan Addams (3*) New Jersey Dominic Dickerson (3*) New York Tyler Goldsmith (3*) Nevada Demarious King (5*) Ohio Lucas Mills (5*) Colorado Satnam Singh (3*) India Detrelle Williams (3*) DC Kendrick Butler (5*) Wyoming (Boynton) We'll learn more about them once they sign and stuff. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-06-2013 at 12:13 AM. |
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12-05-2013, 11:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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We're going to base our ridiculous prep AAU team in Jackson Hole, WY at the Jackson Hole Community School, we'll call it Boynton Prep. At least JHCS is a real high school unlike our friends at Findlay Prep in NV.
Let's see if Boynton can produce any BAA stars. |
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12-06-2013, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I'll do a few years of college recruiting, with a target timeline of hitting the pro league in earnest in a few seasons. It's hard now not having many players to follow there, but we'll fix that and then try to make it a proper story.
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12-06-2013, 01:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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CLASS OF 2013 RECRUIT LANDING SPOTS
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12-06-2013, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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CLASS OF 2014 RECRUITS
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When I create recruits, I almost always just do the potentials and leave their main stats are 0-zeroed out or very low because it's just annoying to do it for each one. Plus it gives the game a chance to decide whether they'll develop or not. I don't want it to be completely predictable. |
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12-06-2013, 11:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Only five additions for CLASS OF 2015
NEW RECRUITS Joe Curtis (3*) South Carolina PG Callum Glover (3*) Wyoming (Boynton Prep) Harold Potter Jr. (5*) Iowa Chris Bird (5*) Pennsylvania This gives us three classes, so next year we can start to follow certain guys into the pros. SCAC WE HARDLY KNEW YE.. The Southern Collegiate Athetlic Conference is disbanding. Colorado College is heading to the more regionally appropriate Intermountain Conference, Centenary is headed to the SAA. The remaining six members went to the American Southwest Conference to turn that league into an 18-team superleague. ANOTHER SUPERLEAGUE? Hunter (CUNYAC) Somersworth State (SUNSET) Stevens (Empire8) Southbridge State (MASCAC) SUNY Harlem (SUNYAC) Sloatsburg State (SUNSET) Coupled with the three of the five independents: St. Joseph's, Maine Presque Isle and Pratt Institute will make up a new league. For Somersworth, it was a desire to be in a league of their own and being paired with their former rival Southbridge State into a league of their own. SUNY Harlem was the dominant program of the SUNYAC since leaving the SUNSET and administration now regretted that long ago move to league the top league for their state university league that just doesn't offer the competitive games they need to go deep into a tournament. Sloatsburg has long been the forgotten big dogs of the SUNSET and want to recapture lost glory. Since the SUNSET wasn't expanding, this was the best alternative for this collection of schools to start their own upstart super league. This new league has not yet been named, but plans to begin play starting next season (2015-16) |
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12-07-2013, 02:43 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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What do you do when you have to start an entire program from scratch? I wondered this. Even when you create a school, you end up with a bunch of walkons and it's not the same as having 13 full scholarships that you need to fill to create an upstart program.
Hetfield College is located in Central New Jersey. They'll play one season as an independent and then they'll join the new Blue Sky League startup (borrowed this name from an Izulde dynasty) that begins next year as the 10th team. Layton Black is their 34-year old first-time head coach. They start with a 16 prestige. My goal mostly is to see what kind of team you can recruit when you have that many scholarships at your disposal, but a very limited budget ($109,923) to work with. It's good to be in a talent rich state, but...I still wonder what kind of roster you end up with and how that team will end up performing in a bloodbath of a new league next year. My goal of course, is to see if we can pick up a few gems along the way, but realistically with that much roster turnover, the goal is to ensure we have the key positions we need. I realize it'll create a weird situation with having to redshirt some people to ensure I don't have a huge loss every couple of years but...right now, I'm more interested in the startup aspects of this and what it ends up looking like. |
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12-07-2013, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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The thing about recruiting a season for a school that has 13 scholarships is that you have to be tactical. Look, you're clearly not going to get everyone you want. But you'll get someone.
In our case, there was a really talented guard that was interested in us. Well there were two. In the end, we lost out on the one. But I decided intentionally to go hard after both because I thought if we could land one that it'd be a pretty huge boon to our program no matter who else we got around him. But it's almost February and now I need to start making hard decisions. I'm going to go hard after my top guy for one more round into February and then we'll see we stand. The way I see it, there will be players leftover anyway and we'll then be able to go out and sign whoever is left. I'm not entirely convinced we have to fill the entire slate of 13 scholarships in one go of it anyway, initially that was my goal, but I've decided instead to maybe go with making sure I fill with 6 scholarship guys year one, redshirt my elite players and then go hard after new guys next year once the team has switched into its new conference. Here's the target player I'm referring to. He's a game-changer and the only reason I got on him is because he had no offers initlally, we offered him one and that raised us up his list. Code:
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12-07-2013, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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So we managed to sign our first three players for next year. I got the two bigs I wanted and we managed to get our main man Kermit Parker as well.
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12-07-2013, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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On the eve of Selection Sunday, decided to test out mirroring a more D3 way of doing conference bids. Auto bids will be given to any league that has a "Lock" or "In" designated in Bubble Watch by the last weekend before Selection Sunday.
This frees up 12 bids for at-large teams, which means I expect the 2014-15 NCAA Tournament to be the most competitive we've ever seen. If the model works -- and we'll do a run through of the tournament -- then we'll do this every year. Going to experiment with tournament run throughs since it's college and no one cares about the regular season anyway. I'll highlight important players or games worth noting and maybe try to arrange/schedule some big time matchups in the non-conference, but we'll use the tournament as our bread and butter. Then after a few years, once we have some more draft classes built up and know the players, we'll head to the pro game and see how these guys perform. Then we'll do them parallel to each other, just not yet. Maybe by 2020 can be the target. |
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12-07-2013, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Thoroughly enjoy your dynasties. You really bring color to your stories and provide inspiration for me to get back to writing another one.
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12-07-2013, 09:40 PM
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Glad to hear that! It's the 2014-15 NCAA Tournament Here goes: 2014-15 TOURNAMENT PREVIEW TOP SEEDS As per usual, all four top seeds are Sunset Conference teams: Quote:
With the new rule, let's see what conferences didn't get ANYONE in the NCAAs this year, but earned NIT/CIT bids instead depending on the team/league. Quote:
In all, that's TEN at-large bids that were freed up to schools in leagues with better SOS/RPI. I'm starting to dig this rule & we're going to keep it. I'm going to play NCAA Pick 5 and try to beat my own score each post-season and also do a NCAA Starting 10 lineup. This helps me get to know players and teams better, especially outside of the Sunset Conference where I'm pretty familiar with everyone. Goal is to beat my previous year's scores, but really it's just a function of figuring out the rest of the league a bit better rather than just speeding through the God mode thing every year. |
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12-07-2013, 11:40 PM
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Here's the Pick 5 Roster:
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So now that we know the rules, gonna pick my team with a sentence on why I picked each one. 4) UC Merced (26-5) (West Region) First year in their new conference. Have long been a really good independent team that managed to get into the tournament without an automatic bid, so I'm rooting for them to go deep in the tournament. 3) Stevens (30-2) (East Region) Probably one of the best non-SUNSET teams in the country, which is why they're leaving for the Blue Sky League after this season. Undefeated in their conference too and if there's a non-SUNSET team that's gonna win a title, it'd be these guys. 7) Western Connecticut (27-5) (South Region) In the bottom of the bracket in the South. They might get stalled by Florida Poly the 2nd seed in this bracket but...I'm willing to give them a chance. 12) Maryland-Hagerstown (20-11) (South Region) A underseeded SUNSET team should be able to get to the Sweet 16. No guarantees, but...I'm willing to put a bit of money on them. 3) Whittier (26-4) (west Region) Probably the best team on the west coast this year. I don't know a lot about them, except they've never been to a Final Four before. They were 5-1 against Top 50 teams this year, are a pretty good defensive program too and I think they've tapped enough California talent to be able to break through in the West. HERE'S MY STARTING TEN BALLOT. Actually, for simplicity sake and since I'm not playing against anyone we'll make it a "Starting Five" game where I just pick five players. 1. David Trevino, SG, Rutgers-Camden (14 seed) Led the nation in PPG this year as a junior (31.8 PPG) and I anticipate he'll go pro after this year. They might not last more than a game, but the 14 seed was too much to resist if they manage to pull the upset. 2. John Kirkland, SF, Mass-Dartmouth (6 seed) He's a senior averaging (25.6 PPG) this year. 3. Bernard Satterfield, SG, Hunter (11 seed) True freshman averaging 13.3 PPG this season I almost picked them as one of my Top 5 teams but opted against in the end. 4. Conrad Deutsch, SG, Florida Poly (2 seed) A junior averaging 18.6 PPG and 7.1 RPG, so I think he's a fundamental piece of their offense. If they're going far, he'll be a big part of it. 5. Reid Amey, C, Pearl River (2 seed) Averaging 11.5 PPG, but thought we needed a big man in the rotation in case the guards get double teamed. |
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12-08-2013, 12:29 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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UC-Merced (L, 75-84 to Covenant)
Stevens (L, 88-91 to Rutgers Camden) West Conn (W, 79-74, Christopher Newport) UMD Hagerstown (L, 84-82 Colby) Whittier (W, 105-73 Albion) AFTER FIRST ROUND So losing three teams in the first round isn't what I had in mind at all. WCSU is a 7 seed, Whitter is a 3 seed, so that's 10 points after one round. After for my performance in Starting Five, I fared much better only losing UMass-Dartmouth's John Kirkland in Round 1. Thanks to a first round upset by Rutgers-Camden where David Trevino pitched in 37 points, I finished the first round with 822 points. AFTER SECOND ROUND Western Connecticut drops to Florida Poly in Round 2, leaving me with only Whitter in Pick 5. My picking skills weren't all that great this year, because I went too upset heavy. Meanwhile in Starting Five, I knew I'd end up losing the loser of Rutgers-Camden and Hunter, but it was a game between an 11 and a 14 seed, so I wasn't too worried. Camden loses, Trevino pitches in 20 points and gives me a huge boost. Satterfield pitched in 13 for his own effort and still has another game to go. Deutsch had 25 in round 2, while Amey only gave me 7 points. Still heading into the Sweet 16 with three guys is not bad at all, especially with one of those teams being a low seed. I finished Round 2 with 1796 points. SWEET 16 First off, Sayre was the first #1 seed to drop in the last round. This tournament was full of upsets. The West region as a 13 seed, the Midwest has a 10 vs 11 (Hilton Head is that 10th seed) and a 9 vs a 4. The South has 5 and a 6 and the East has a 5, 10 anda 11. So needless to say this year's Final Four might have a very different flavor than we're used to see if this keeps up. I came into this round with three guys left. Our target numebr is 2,725 points. That's about half the number of points that it took to win Starting Ten this year, so if we're past that number then we've done well. Thanks to our low seeds we're close, but it appears I could've done better with picking this year given how crazy it's been. Anyway, 11th seed Hunter College knocked off 10th seed Johns Hopkins and will head to the Elite 8. Satterfield scored 13 points again. Whitter, my only team left in Pick 5 (I won't do that game next year in this dynasty...it's anti-climatic with no one to play against..) knocks off Pearl River and ends Reid Amey's season. He contributes 17 more points to the bottom line. My other 2nd seed, Florida Poly also lost. Conrad Deutsch gave me 16 points, leaving me with Hunter's Satterfield as my only guy left. After the Sweet 16, I'm at 2423 points, so sitting in pretty good shape to at least get close to our milestone of points. ELITE 8 Hunter loses to 5th seeded Centenary and Satterfield gives me a whopping 7 points, but it's enough to help me finish this year at 2,731 points. Not bad for my first year and far better than I've ever done in the real life version of this game. |
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12-08-2013, 12:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Final Four this year is stranger than ever before. SUNSET dominance is clearly coming to an end, only one SUNSET team in the Final Four. Hillman emerged, as did 3rd seeded Whittier, 4th seeded UT-Dallas and 5-seed Centenary.
2010 (Western Connecticut over Stevens) and 1997 (Kean over Emory) are the only times since 1973 that there wasn't at least one SUNSET team in the Championship game. But this year won't be one of them, as Hillman beat Whittier and will take on Centenary in the final. And by take on, I mean, blow them out 102-73 to rebound after losing the title last year -- in their 5th Final Four appearance in the past six years finally claim their first NCAA title since 2001. It's their 5th national title in school history. |
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12-10-2013, 05:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Excited to start the 2015-16 season, because it's the new start of the most anticipated league since the beginning of the Sunset League, which itself wasn't anticipated highly since it's been around since the 1950s.
The Blue Sky League will emerge immediately as the biggest and baddest contender to the league's national dominance. Imagine for a second as if a regional league emerged to challenge the dominance of the SEC and was actually able to do it. That's what this move is like. The pre-season rankings for the Blue Sky League look like this: Code:
Meanwhile, the Sunset didn't replace the two teams it lost, going with a ten-team lineup instead. Here's the pre-season rankings in the traditional big bully. Seven teams in the Top 25 is nothing to sneeze at. Code:
Now there's talk of more defections from the power league. Florida Poly is exploring the possibility of forming a "national" league with schools as far west as Texas and Illinois, as well as northern schools such as NJAC member Kean, the latter of whom is petitioning hard to get admitted to the Sunset. There's no word yet on whether this movement will get off the ground or not, but the talk will continue depending on the success of the Blue Sky and whether it's able to affect the dominance of the Sunset League. The Continental Divide Conference has renamed itself the Pacific West Collegiate Association. |
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12-11-2013, 01:18 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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CLASS OF 2016 RECRUITS
Matthias Bauer (3*) Belgium Iwao Horikawa (1*) Japan Percy Lefevbre (3*) France Jontarius McFarland (5*) West Virginia Carter Stevens (2*) California Jerome Stout (4*) Indiana |
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12-11-2013, 01:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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This season is the first year the recruits I created three years ago are eligible for the draft. We'll see if anyone decides to leave, but...now we'll start to have steady classes coming out.
Going to sim through the season to the tournament and see where the year ends up. |
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12-11-2013, 03:27 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2016
Kendrick Butler, Hillman* Lucas Mills, Colorado College* Both declared early. DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2017 Tony Garner, Hillman Yegor Bykov, Sloatsburg State Tanner Marshall, Hendrix Jabril Marques, Hillman Doug Moore, Richard Stockton LeVon Tribbett, Marywood Keyvon Sheldon, Pearl River Bryce Smart, Somersworth State Harrison Quinn, UW-Stout Saywuan Addams, Manhattanville (SENIOR) Detrelle Williams, Marymount (SENIOR) Dominic Dickerson, Colby-Sawyer (SENIOR) Tyler Goldsmith, Washington (STL) (SENIOR) DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2018 Joe Curtis, Hilton Head Institute Chris Bird, Somersworth State Callum Glover, Casper State Harold Potter, Jr., Hillman \DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2016 Kendrick Butler, Hillman* Lucas Mills, Colorado College* DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2017 Tony Garner, Hillman Yegor Bykov, Sloatsburg State Tanner Marshall, Hendrix Jabril Marques, Hillman Doug Moore, Richard Stockton LeVon Tribbett, Marywood Keyvon Sheldon, Pearl River Bryce Smart, Somersworth State Harrison Quinn, UW-Stout Saywuan Addams, Manhattanville (SENIOR) Detrelle Williams, Marymount (SENIOR) Dominic Dickerson, Colby-Sawyer (SENIOR) Tyler Goldsmith, Washington (STL) (SENIOR) DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2018 Joe Curtis, Hilton Head Institute Chris Bird, Somersworth State Callum Glover, Casper State Harold Potter, Jr., Hillman DRAFT ELIGIBLE 2019 Jonatarius McFarland, Sayre Jerome Stout, Hillman Matthias Bauer, Union Percy Lefevbre, Mary Washington Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-11-2013 at 12:05 PM. |
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12-11-2013, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Funny how forgetting to save and getting rolled back a season makes you lose your steam. That's where we are at the momentum.
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12-11-2013, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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DRAFT ELIGIBLE RECRUITS 2019
Jonatarius Lewis (5*) West Virginia Jerome Stout (4*) Indiana Matthias Bauer (3*) Belgium Percy Lefevbre (3*) France Carter Stevens (5*) California Iwao Horikawa (5*) Japan The good news is, I redid the lower level prospects I made. If they're too bad, they don't signed by anyone when I leave the game to its own devices, so...I have to make them better so someone picks them up, even if the design is they'll not necessarily be elite. I had to redo this group though. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-15-2013 at 05:54 PM. |
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12-11-2013, 04:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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2015-16 NO BID CONFERENCES
(Conferences rated too low before Selection Sunday) Rather than use the bubble watch thing, I'm going to start to use Conference RPI as the cutoff mechanism. There are currently 47 conferences. We're going to go with 24 autobids this year only, because the screen wasn't printing, I wanted you all to see it. Next year, we'll probably increase it something like 30. But for this year, just the top 24 conferences will get autobids. Here they are: |
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12-11-2013, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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So clearly doing what I did with ditching so many auto-bids has worked WONDERS for the tournament.
This year's tournament is full of upsets, probably by underrated teams who get low seeds due to crappy leagues. Just get a load of the insane West Region this year: The Final Four was 12th seeded Gustavus Adolphus v. 11th seeded Rutgers-Camden, whose ascent might just keep the NJAC together with rumors that some NJAC teams were exploring a merger with the Little East. Meanwhile, Hillman was the only SUNSET team in the Final Four where they met Blue Sky dominant team Somersworth State, who claimed their fourth title in seven years over Gusatavus Adolphus. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-11-2013 at 05:34 PM. |
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12-15-2013, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Conference Map of the rebranded Big Nine (formerly Sunset) Conference.
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12-15-2013, 05:54 PM
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Here's the 2020 Class:
Kaje Chukwukere, Poland (5*) Augustin Dalca, Romania (5*) Daquille Warner, Wyoming (5*) Callum Buring, Australia (4*) Reece Yates, Illinois (4*) Dike Ojiofor, Nigeria (3*) Rahim Garahanow, (5*) Turkmenistan Patrick Fisher, (3*) Alaska DeGiovanni Yates (5*) Alaska Ricky Sharpe (5*) Alaska Alvin Hendrix (2*) Vermont Denny Harper (3*) Vermont Lucas Carlyle (3*) Vermont |
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12-15-2013, 06:30 PM
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The Sunset split with the original members of the league -- Pearl River, Sayre, Stony Point, Milford and Hillman -- splitting off to form their own league with four other upstart programs. It's no accident that all of those programs -- minus Florida Poly -- are the only ranked members of the league remaining. The southern expansion began to grate on the rest of the league and the founding schools believed it needed to be a more regional league with small schools with similiar academic standards in the vein of an Ivy-type league with more successful athletics.
Florida Poly, SCF, Southern Kentucky, HHI, UMD-Hagerstown kept the Sunset name and invited UT-Dallas, Rust and Centenary to the new Sunset Conference. The original schools renamed themselves the "Big 9 Conference" but keep the original history of the Sunset Conference, so the offshoot is actually a "new" conference. Four schools from the American Southwest Conference will join and the new Sunset Conference will end up with 12 teams when the new year begins. So that pretty much ends that. The new members joining the Big Nine are: Quote:
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12-15-2013, 06:38 PM
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HOW MUCH DOES COACHING MATTER?
I wonder a lot about when hiring assistants whether there's a true difference in how the coaching works between a poorly rated coach and a highly rated one. I'd like to take a few teams at different phases of this dynasty -- say, a low-rated one, medium one and a high one -- or two programs in the same prestige and see how they do over time. Not exactly sure what to measure. Probably prestige, recruiting rankings and tournament performance to determine whether they're good or not. I think to level the playing field, I'd release everyone from their scholarship the year before, so the new coach is working with 13 full scholarships and every player belongs to him, so we can truly judge him and his staff on what they do. |
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12-16-2013, 01:31 AM
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Kaje Chukwukere, Poland (5*) (Fitchburg State)
Augustin Dalca, Romania (5*) (Trinity CT) Daquille Warner, Wyoming (5*) (Southern Kentucky) Callum Buring, Australia (4*) (Pearl River) Reece Yates, Illinois (4*) (Southern Kentucky) Dike Ojiofor, Nigeria (3*) (Penn State York) Rahim Garahanow, (5*) Turkmenistan (Southern Kentucky) Patrick Fisher, (3*) Alaska (UMass-Dartmouth) DeGiovanni Yates (5*) Alaska (Southbridge State) Ricky Sharpe (5*) Alaska (Somersworth State) Alvin Hendrix (2*) Vermont (Vergennes) Denny Harper (3*) Vermont (Johnson State) Lucas Carlyle (3*) Vermont (Castleton State) |
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12-16-2013, 03:14 PM
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Only created one recruit for this upcoming year. I did so because I have enough guys to follow into the pros for the next few years now and also, I wanted to see what the game produced without my intervention.
Oliver Queen (5*) New Jersey (MILFORD) Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-16-2013 at 07:33 PM. |
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12-16-2013, 03:17 PM
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Even with the conference changes, the 2016 Final Four looked pretty familiar. We had Sayre, Hillman, Stony Point and Somersworth State in the Final Four. Three are Big Nine teams, with Somersworth -- a former member of the Sunset Conference -- representing the Blue Sky League.
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12-17-2013, 11:44 AM
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I want to exile a D1 FBS program to D3 for some reason or another. Going to find one. Mississippi College moved up to D2 in real life, so I need to rename that program as someone else and I'm thinking of candidates, as this story needs a familiar name to inject some...thing into it, to go with all of the unfamiliar.
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12-18-2013, 07:34 PM
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CLASS OF '23
Peter Negrescu, PF Romania |
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12-19-2013, 03:31 PM
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Yates City High School did the unthinkable in Illinois this past year, en route to an imprompable run to a state title. With no less than four players on the roster aiming for college basketball, a number of the players made a pact to play together at the college level. It was up to a coach who had a vision to bring these small town players together for the same cause to bring their dream to fruition. Yates City High School did the unthinkable in Illinois this past year, en route to an imprompable run to a state title. With no less than four players on the roster aiming for college basketball, a number of the players made a pact to play together at the college level. It was up to a coach who had a vision to bring these small town players together for the same cause to bring their dream to fruition. Tiny Yates City claimed the 1A IHSA state title in Illinois three straight years thanks to their band of star athletes who were surely going to go on to big things at the college level. Except, they wanted to play together. Could they find a school that would offer them all a chance to play at the highest levels? Or would the dream end? We're going to follow the story of these boys from Yates City as they embark on a path towards a 4th straight state title, a chance at greatness and taking their talents to the next level of the college ranks. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-20-2013 at 04:48 PM. |
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12-19-2013, 05:38 PM
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From 1963 to 1989, John Murr was one of the game's best head coaches. He led Sayre College to six national championships including three straight from 1963-65 and took Union College to the title game in 1961. He finished with 846 career wins, good for 13th on the all-time list.
His son, Brian, followed in his dad's footsteps as a basketball coach after attending Sayre, graduating and spending about half a dozen years on Wall Street before deciding to quit and head to the coaching ranks. "It's in my blood, what can I say?" He's not looking to follow in his father's footsteps, literally. "While I love Sayre with all my heart, I grew up in that town and at that school. I don't want to coach there. I'd love to build my own legacy elsewhere." That legacy begins at Mount Carroll University, a small private liberal arts college in the Western Illinois community of Mount Carroll. The Flaming Smelts have not had an athletic program, but the Board of Trustees has authorized one upon the donation of an anonymmous and famous alumnus who upon visiting the campus asked "are there any kids here doing anything other than hiding in the nooks and crannies of the library?" And donated the resources to finance an athletic program for both women and men. So Brian Murr was moving himself to this outpost, believing the position to be well-financed for his level and would giveh him a chance as a new coach to stake out his own claim to a program of his own as the first head coach in the histry of Mt. Carroll University basketball. The year is 2019-2020. The Flaming Smelts have been invited to join the Midwest Conference (MWC) along with Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin member Augustana College, another Western Illinois school to make the Midwest a 14-team league of liberal arts colleges from Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Code:
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12-21-2013, 01:11 AM
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CLASS OF '24
Kirbee Afdahl, PG Drezen Rosenhaus, SF Gavin Holmes, SG Dylan Schlereth, C Juan Monterroso,, C Xayvion Mapp-Butler, SF Evan Travis, PG CLASS OF '25 Tayveon Hawthorne, SF Matt Mitchell, PF Jens Verhoeven, SG Dion Maes, PF Frank Curry, SG Devyon Mercer, C Tristan Rimsley, SG Darius Lopez-Cauley, C While the 2020 Tournament is the only thing standing n the way of Mount Carroll's highly anticipated class of next season which boasts all three Top 100 rated members of the 4-time Class 1A state champion Yates City squad's players -- once in a lifetime talents playing at the lowest level of IL basketball -- are all staying at home at a school that would let them play together and Mount Carroll, a school that's just able to offer scholarships now was able to accommodate them. With ten scholarships and a desire to fill it with local talent, the team managed to do that and more. Code:
This year's Mount Carroll squad won 21 games and at press time was projected to be the last team out of the field of 68. The Midwest Conference is a bit lowly rated, it earned an automatic bid but with automatic bid Macalester earning a 6th seed and #2 team Augustana earning a 10 seed, it appears the only way Mount Carroll would get in is as a 15 or 16 seed. It appears more likely the team will make its post-season debut in the NIT this year. When the dust settled, I'm correct and we're headed to the NIT as the top seed in the West region of that tournament. It's probably better for this team to have a chance to win a game in a lower tournament than to end up being a 1 and done in the NCAAs anyway. Here's how the understaffed roster at Mount Carroll stacks up: Code:
The Smelts 2nd round NIT matchup is against 9th seed Bluffton who knocked off Haverford in the 1st round. As I anticipated, we lost 72-69 to Bluffton who move to 23-11 on the year. We end the year at 21-14 and prepare happily for next year where the expectations will be through the roof. At least there's a solid core to work with and should help the newcomers adjust. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-21-2013 at 01:11 AM. |
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12-24-2013, 09:02 PM
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For 2018, I folded the BAA and switched to a 34-team NBA setup mostly because I wanted familiar teams. I might bring the BAA back as an NBA feeder, though.
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12-27-2013, 10:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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One of the intriguing things about being able to track guys from recruiting them in college which I've been more actively involved in since creating new recruits + schools, is seeing how guys end up panning out in the pros. Much like looking back at Top 100 recruiting classes in the real world, I'm always astounded to see what underrated guys make it big and what guys who were highly tauted who never make it farther than the Euro leagues.
In this league, I've added the Romanian, Russian, German, Australian, Chinese, Argentine, Spanish and soon, a Norwegian League. The D-League is actually the Canadian league now too and I might activate the D-League as a lower-tier US league for prospects who don't want to leave the states. Anyway, the idea is to see how low certain guys end up and when they do, how much a "star" player makes in insert random country and like...what kind of random dudes are stars of these smaller leagues. So far, it appears that the highly ranked guys who never amounted to much in college end up bouncing around to the foreign leagues after a cup of coffee -- if anything -- in the NBA. The BAA setup seemed to be more forgiving and I'm not exactly sure why -- maybe the money -- but so many guys who would've panned out now aren't doing so. I turned on import randomization too, intentionally, as I wanted guys to flop and I didn't want to know who. |
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12-27-2013, 11:08 PM
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This is for me, not really for you. Otherwise, I forget which players to track in the pros.
CLASS OF 26 Skender Pavlenco Ion Silivasi CLASS OF 27 Emilian Dinescu Cornel Marandici Lucas Sharma Marshon Shuttlesworth CLASS OF 28 Jay Capozzi Svanur Hagalinsson Anbar Mansor Dario Susec CLASS OF 29 Tarquarius Malcolm Evan Peden Trevor Trinkle Keel Dunhart-Schmidt CLASS OF 30 Ola Nysaether Scott Marshall CLASS OF 31 Grant Riker III Larry Coleman Jr. Corey Chancey Brett Fleury, Jr. Kendrick Brooks (II) Natrick Lovell Jr. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-28-2013 at 12:58 AM. |
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12-28-2013, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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CLASS OF 32
Alvin Goddard Jr. Harry Malone Jr. Roscoe Scott Holloway Ricky J. Scheffler Teddy Enriquez Moses Carter Abbott Trent Goodall Brady Hurley, Jr. Ketil Aagaard (No NBA parent) Felipe Costa Pereira (No NBA parent) Quynh An Kinh ("") I've gone back to the archives to look at retired NBA/BAA guys and insert their kids as new recruits purposely to see how the kids do in the pros versus their parents. Not all are the progeny of hall of famers either. |
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12-29-2013, 11:48 AM
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CLASS OF 33
Lamonte Fryer Forrest Hayes-Harris Arild Karlstrom |
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12-29-2013, 07:36 PM
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CLASS OF 34
Odbjorn Granberg Michael Irvine Tyler Blake Nicolas Welsh Jake McClouthgry Shonn Farmer A.J. Serrato Val Carrasco Ziyardi Gairbekov |
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12-30-2013, 12:22 AM
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CLASS OF 35
Harrison Walker Ali Southwick Sammy McDonald Raekwon Feldman Alfonso Mason Leroy Riker Melre Vaccaro Reed Blair J.C. Abbott Rocco Springer Jamaal Spence Fortunato Viggiano Deshawn Owens Chris Rodarte Anthony Bailey Korey Southerland Ike Henry Kevin Bancroft Bud Holt Ryu Oohara Marquis Brown Chris Moskowitz Alonso Jones Aki Daijou Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-30-2013 at 12:22 AM. |
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01-02-2014, 04:25 PM
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CLASS OF 36
Sheldon Gray Logan MacKenzie Jaquarius Townsend Chase Hoddler |
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01-02-2014, 11:57 PM
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CLASS OF 2013
Here's how the Class of 2013 fared in terms of who made it to the NBA or played professionally overseas. Quote:
Saywuan Adams, Dominic Dickerson, Lucas Mills, Satnam Singh and Kendrick Butler are all in the NBA. Tyler Goldsmith is an all-star in Germany and Detrelle Williams and Demarious King never went pro.
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Current dynasty: OOTP25 Blitz: RTS meets Moneyball | OOTP Mod: GM Excel Competitive Balance Tax/Revenue Sharing Calc | FBCB Mods on Github Last edited by Young Drachma : 01-02-2014 at 11:58 PM. |
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01-03-2014, 12:52 PM
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CLASS OF 2013
Grr...I keep trying to put the [code] tag in here and it will often delete everything. It's annoying. I'll revisit these guys once they've ended their careers, so we can take a true look back and see how they've done. Or I'll come up with another format. I dunno yet.
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01-03-2014, 12:58 PM
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Meanwhile in college, we've had eight straight years of different champions after a while of dominance from teams from the Big Nine/Blue Sky/Sunset cabal. Things have settled down considerably in the college league, but this past year we had some veteran coaches retire, some younger guys switch teams and so, it's really really interesting times in the bracket now. Also, I turned off auto bids for every conference, so it's resulted in a much more interesting tournament than in the past.
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01-03-2014, 01:14 PM
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ALL-TIME SCORING LEADERS IN COLLEGE
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Bolded are my created guys who are in the Top 50 all-time list for scoring. |
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01-03-2014, 08:05 PM
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For the NBA, players can get 7.5% per year raises for signing with their existing team, free agents can only make 4% so there's a huge incentive to sign long-term deals with your home club. I did that on purpose because it makes it easier for me to track guys seeing them on the same clubs through their careers, etc.
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01-05-2014, 12:06 AM
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Somehow I forgot to add this class, so adding them now. I took a break for the years last listed to now.
CLASS OF 44 Stephen Arrendondo John-Paul Montefiore Nasean Wright Gregory Wicker Anfernee Lewis Kasmir Walsh Milo West Last edited by Young Drachma : 01-08-2014 at 11:03 PM. |
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