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Old 04-20-2013, 11:08 AM   #51
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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.)

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Philadelphia Fury Contract Player 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kayleen Wallace $4,474,049 $4,538,270 $4,602,491 $4,666,712 $0 $0 $0 Megan Barnes $3,358,813 $3,440,736 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Jordyn Davis $2,979,664 $6,068,034 $6,156,403 $0 $0 $0 $0 Teresa Cribbs $2,909,100 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Miranda Albanese $624,180 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Harley Milo $613,519 $1,000,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Jennifer John $565,109 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Mary Lauderdale $509,553 $565,604 $631,846 $703,183 $0 $0 $0 Rachel Chamberlin $389,550 $398,825 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Sarah Northrop $375,000 $515,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Sarah Harlow $363,297 $392,753 $451,666 $467,376 $0 $0 $0

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Old 04-20-2013, 12:24 PM   #52
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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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PLAYER DETAILS #22 PG Elysa Pastor - Does ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Height: 6-1 Weight: 200 DOB: 11/10/1939 (33) College: Keystone Hometown: Aranjuez Exp: 10 Attributes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current: C C+ B- B C- C- C D+ D C C D A- C- A- A+ Potential: C C B B D D C D D C D D Health: Good Status: Active Roster Salary: $2,248,118 Length: 4 Stat Averages: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 44 44 25.1 13.5 1.6 4.3 2.3 1.4 1.66 1.4 0.2 3.5 1971 WNBA PHI 42 42 25.2 18.3 2.4 7.1 2.6 1.8 1.48 1.1 0.2 4.1 1970 WNBA COL 42 42 23.6 18.7 2.1 6.8 2.8 1.3 2.13 0.8 0.1 3.5 1969 WNBA COL 42 42 25.1 23.2 3.8 9.3 2.7 1.4 1.92 1.3 0.1 3.6 1968 WNBA COL 42 42 29.3 25.9 3.1 9.3 3.6 2.6 1.42 1.3 0.1 3.5 1967 WNBA COL 42 42 23.0 21.3 2.9 7.3 3.1 1.5 2.16 1.4 0.1 3.9 1966 WNBA COL 42 42 23.6 18.2 2.5 7.6 3.4 1.5 2.22 0.9 0.2 4.1 1965 WNBA COL 42 42 24.1 17.5 2.5 7.2 2.7 1.3 2.05 1.0 0.1 4.0 1964 WNBA COL 42 42 23.6 20.2 2.4 6.7 2.5 1.6 1.56 0.9 0.1 4.2 1963 WNBA COL 42 42 26.2 18.9 2.2 7.1 3.2 1.8 1.82 1.0 0.1 4.3 Career 422 422 24.9 19.5 2.5 7.3 2.9 1.6 1.82 1.1 0.1 3.9 Shooting Averages: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% InsM InsA In% JsM JsA Js% 3PM 3PA 3P% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 4.8 9.5 .511 2.4 3.5 .677 2.2 3.8 .594 1.2 2.6 .474 1.4 3.1 .442 1971 6.0 13.9 .430 5.1 7.5 .674 3.5 5.9 .599 1.2 3.5 .349 1.2 4.5 .272 1970 6.1 14.6 .420 5.1 7.9 .645 3.4 5.8 .580 1.4 3.4 .401 1.4 5.4 .258 1969 7.9 16.9 .465 5.7 9.0 .626 4.2 6.7 .625 1.8 4.6 .396 1.8 5.6 .329 1968 8.8 18.7 .471 6.3 10.0 .628 5.1 8.2 .621 1.6 4.8 .342 2.0 5.7 .361 1967 7.2 16.5 .437 5.2 7.9 .667 4.1 6.9 .592 1.4 4.7 .301 1.7 4.9 .350 1966 6.1 14.4 .428 4.6 7.3 .629 3.9 6.6 .583 1.0 3.3 .292 1.3 4.5 .298 1965 5.9 14.0 .423 4.3 7.1 .603 3.9 6.7 .572 0.8 3.0 .258 1.3 4.2 .303 1964 6.8 14.9 .454 5.3 8.5 .623 4.2 6.7 .623 1.2 3.4 .350 1.4 4.8 .292 1963 5.7 14.3 .396 6.5 9.7 .677 3.5 6.8 .517 1.1 3.4 .322 1.0 4.1 .256 Career 6.5 14.7 .443 5.0 7.8 .643 3.8 6.4 .591 1.3 3.7 .347 1.5 4.7 .314 Stat Totals: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF +/- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 44 44 1105 592 69 189 103 62 60 8 152 239 1971 WNBA PHI 42 42 1059 767 100 297 111 75 47 9 173 216 1970 WNBA COL 42 42 993 786 89 287 117 55 35 3 148 30 1969 WNBA COL 42 42 1053 975 158 390 115 60 55 3 150 -98 1968 WNBA COL 42 42 1229 1089 131 390 153 108 56 5 149 -17 1967 WNBA COL 42 42 964 896 121 308 132 61 57 4 162 295 1966 WNBA COL 42 42 993 765 106 318 142 64 39 9 174 50 1965 WNBA COL 42 42 1011 733 103 301 113 55 42 4 168 83 1964 WNBA COL 42 42 990 850 99 282 106 68 39 4 176 -103 1963 WNBA COL 42 42 1102 795 91 299 135 74 43 6 181 43 Career 422 422 10499 8248 1067 3061 1227 682 473 55 1633 738 Shooting Totals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 213 417 105 155 61 138 1971 251 584 213 316 52 191 1970 257 612 214 332 58 225 1969 330 709 238 380 77 234 1968 370 786 263 419 86 238 1967 302 691 220 330 72 206 1966 258 603 193 307 56 188 1965 249 589 181 300 54 178 1964 284 626 223 358 59 202 1963 238 601 275 406 44 172 Career 2752 6218 2125 3303 619 1972 Efficiency: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G TS% PPS AST TO USG ORR DRR RR PER VA EWA +/- OEFF DEFF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 44 .610 1.42 15.8 9.5 20.3 6.5 11.3 8.9 15.8 79.2 2.6 5.4 117.3 107.5 1971 WNBA PHI 42 .531 1.31 12.2 8.3 30.2 6.0 11.3 8.7 18.8 122.6 4.1 5.1 102.8 96.9 1970 WNBA COL 42 .518 1.28 12.6 5.9 35.6 5.5 11.8 8.7 17.7 99.7 3.3 0.7 99.2 97.5 1969 WNBA COL 42 .557 1.38 10.9 5.7 38.1 9.3 13.5 11.4 23.7 199.4 6.6 -2.3 99.6 101.6 1968 WNBA COL 42 .561 1.39 12.4 8.8 37.6 6.8 12.9 9.9 21.1 185.6 6.2 -0.4 101.5 101.2 1967 WNBA COL 42 .536 1.30 12.8 5.9 39.6 8.1 12.2 10.2 22.7 168.4 5.6 7.0 107.7 96.6 1966 WNBA COL 42 .518 1.27 15.0 6.8 35.0 7.2 13.0 10.2 18.1 105.7 3.5 1.2 102.6 99.8 1965 WNBA COL 42 .508 1.24 12.7 6.2 32.2 6.5 12.0 9.3 17.6 100.3 3.3 2.0 103.4 100.0 1964 WNBA COL 42 .542 1.36 11.1 7.1 35.9 6.0 11.6 8.8 20.0 132.6 4.4 -2.5 95.1 97.5 1963 WNBA COL 42 .510 1.32 13.7 7.5 33.3 5.3 11.4 8.5 16.6 91.3 3.0 1.0 96.9 94.5 Career 422 .538 1.33 12.8 7.1 33.7 6.7 12.1 9.5 19.2 1284.8 42.8 1.7 102.4 99.2 Playoff Averages: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 11 4 22.8 12.7 1.2 3.5 2.1 1.6 1.28 0.9 0.1 1.8 1971 WNBA PHI 8 8 29.3 23.4 2.6 9.0 5.4 2.6 2.05 0.8 0.1 4.5 1967 WNBA COL 9 9 24.7 24.3 1.4 5.9 3.0 1.8 1.69 0.7 0.3 3.2 1965 WNBA COL 3 3 18.3 13.3 1.3 2.3 2.0 1.0 2.00 1.3 0.0 4.0 Career 31 24 24.6 18.9 1.6 5.5 3.2 1.9 2.00 0.8 0.2 3.1 Playoff Shooting Averages: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% InsM InsA In% JsM JsA Js% 3PM 3PA 3P% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 4.2 8.5 .489 3.0 4.0 .750 1.3 2.5 .519 1.5 2.6 .586 1.4 3.5 .395 1971 6.5 14.9 .437 9.3 14.4 .643 4.5 6.6 .679 0.9 4.4 .200 1.1 3.9 .290 1967 8.0 18.1 .442 6.0 8.7 .692 4.2 7.0 .603 1.4 4.8 .302 2.3 6.3 .368 1965 4.0 10.7 .375 3.3 4.7 .714 2.0 4.7 .429 0.0 2.0 .000 2.0 4.0 .500 Career 5.9 13.2 .446 5.5 8.1 .681 3.0 5.1 .599 1.2 3.6 .327 1.6 4.5 .370 Playoff Totals: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF +/- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 11 4 251 140 13 39 23 18 10 1 20 -19 1971 WNBA PHI 8 8 234 187 21 72 43 21 6 1 36 -10 1967 WNBA COL 9 9 222 219 13 53 27 16 6 3 29 -12 1965 WNBA COL 3 3 55 40 4 7 6 3 4 0 12 -27 Career 31 24 762 586 51 171 99 58 26 5 97 -68 Playoff Shooting Totals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 46 94 33 44 15 38 1971 52 119 74 115 9 31 1967 72 163 54 78 21 57 1965 12 32 10 14 6 12 Career 182 408 171 251 51 138 Playoff Efficiency: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season LGE TEAM G TS% PPS AST TO USG ORR DRR RR PER VA EWA +/- OEFF DEFF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 WNBA PHI 11 .619 1.49 14.9 11.7 21.0 5.7 10.9 8.3 11.3 1.2 0.0 -1.7 115.1 120.8 1971 WNBA PHI 8 .553 1.57 18.4 9.0 33.0 5.3 12.8 9.1 16.5 19.3 0.6 -1.3 100.6 102.1 1967 WNBA COL 9 .558 1.34 11.3 6.7 42.0 4.1 10.4 7.6 14.5 11.8 0.4 -1.3 102.8 103.6 1965 WNBA COL 3 .526 1.25 12.8 6.4 31.9 4.9 3.7 4.3 11.1 0.1 0.0 -9.0 100.6 115.7 Career 31 .566 1.44 14.7 8.6 31.6 5.0 10.9 8.1 13.8 32.3 1.1 -2.2 105.4 108.7 Career Highs: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Playoff 44 6 15 9 4 1 5 14 29 18 28 7 14 Career 46 10 23 10 5 2 8 17 33 18 28 7 14 Awards & Achievements: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season Award ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Player of the Game: 63 Total Player of the Week: 1 Total Championships: 1 1972 Women's National Basketball Association Champion 1964 WNBA Rookie Game Participant 1963 WNBA All-Rookie First Team 1963 WNBA Rookie of the Year 1963 WNBA Rookie Game Participant 1962 Conference Player of the Year (Colonial States Athletic Conference) 1962 1st Team All-Conference (Colonial States Athletic Conference) 1959 Walked on at Keystone 1959 High School: Rated **** and #35 overall by the FBCB scouting service.

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Old 04-20-2013, 12:54 PM   #53
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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.

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Old 04-20-2013, 02:29 PM   #54
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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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Old 04-20-2013, 02:49 PM   #55
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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.

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1973 WNBA Standings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- Sun 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Fever 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Liberty 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Rockers 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Does 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Blizzard 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Currents 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 ---------------------------------------------------- ATLANTIC W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- Dream 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Mystics 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Sting 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Smokies 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Fury 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Miracle 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Gems 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 ---------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- Sky 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Lynx 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Silver Stars 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Shock 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Comets 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Peaks 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Cornets 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 ---------------------------------------------------- PACIFIC W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- Sparks 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Mercury 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Storm 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Amigas 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Thorns 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Hustle 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 Vixens 0 0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Old 04-20-2013, 02:51 PM   #56
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This is why I keep you around. I'll go to 48? But not until next year, because my sleepy self simmed already past the off-season part where we could tinker.

And chances are, we'll be expanding again in a few years anyway, so we won't stay at 48 probably through 1980 when we switch from D3 players to D1.

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.

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Old 04-20-2013, 02:58 PM   #57
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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.

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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Old 04-20-2013, 03:09 PM   #58
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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.

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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Old 04-20-2013, 05:20 PM   #59
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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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Old 04-20-2013, 11:46 PM   #60
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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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Old 04-21-2013, 05:56 PM   #61
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Here's how the '74 regular season shook out.

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1974 WNBA Playoff Standings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- *Sun 38 16 .704 21-6 10-2 22-4 Liberty 36 18 .667 21-6 9-3 21-5 *Dream 27 27 .500 18-9 8-4 13-13 Fury 35 19 .648 21-6 9-3 19-7 Mystics 28 26 .519 19-8 6-6 14-12 Rockers 27 27 .500 18-9 7-5 13-13 Sting 26 28 .481 20-7 6-6 15-11 Sky 25 29 .463 19-8 7-5 12-14 Gems 23 31 .426 14-13 2-10 12-14 Miracle 20 34 .370 15-12 4-8 10-16 Currents 20 34 .370 15-12 6-6 10-16 Fever 16 38 .296 13-14 6-6 8-18 Blizzard 14 40 .259 11-16 2-10 8-18 Does 9 45 .167 6-21 2-10 5-21 ---------------------------------------------------- WESTERN W L PCT HOME DIV CONF ---------------------------------------------------- *Storm 42 12 .778 24-3 7-5 20-6 *Lynx 42 12 .778 22-5 9-3 19-7 Comets 39 15 .722 21-6 8-4 16-10 Sparks 37 17 .685 23-4 7-5 17-9 Silver Stars 35 19 .648 24-3 8-4 16-10 Amigas 34 20 .630 20-7 7-5 16-10 Smokies 33 21 .611 18-9 9-3 15-11 Mercury 31 23 .574 19-8 8-4 14-12 Thorns 30 24 .556 19-8 6-6 14-12 Peaks 29 25 .537 17-10 2-10 9-17 Cornets 19 35 .352 13-14 3-9 6-20 Hustle 18 36 .333 14-13 5-7 7-19 Vixens 12 42 .222 8-19 2-10 7-19 Shock 11 43 .204 6-21 3-9 6-20

We took on the Mystics in the 1st round of the expanded playoffs.
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:04 PM   #62
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Award Winners from '74

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1974 WNBA Season Summary Awards Award Pos Name Team PPG RPG APG SPG BPG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GM of the Year: Shania Forbes Lynx Coach of the Year: Tabitha Brown Storm Most Valuable Player: PG Lucy Dickelmann Lynx 35.7 5.3 6.3 2.9 1.7 Rookie of the Year: PG Reagan Rao Fever 18.6 6.4 4.7 1.8 0.3 Defender of the Year: SF Marianne Soris Amigas 20.4 9.6 5.2 1.4 3.7 6th Man of the Year: SG Jessica Stancil Miracle 16.5 3.1 3.1 3.1 0.2 Most Improved Player: SG Alina Dede Bayhawks 10.8 3.6 1.4 0.6 0.8 All-League 1st Team: C Kayleen Wallace Fury 24.0 9.3 3.9 0.5 1.2 All-League 1st Team: PF Sabrina Wethington Silver Stars 28.7 6.7 2.3 0.5 1.3 All-League 1st Team: SF Amy Lewis Peaks 23.0 7.1 5.8 3.7 0.8 All-League 1st Team: SG Ilona Cuvelles Mercury 23.8 6.4 3.1 0.4 0.7 All-League 1st Team: PG Lucy Dickelmann Lynx 35.7 5.3 6.3 2.9 1.7 All-League 2nd Team: C Erika Torres Comets 22.0 8.0 4.5 0.9 2.5 All-League 2nd Team: PF Ashley Blakney Comets 21.9 9.5 4.4 2.0 2.8 All-League 2nd Team: SF Marianne Soris Amigas 20.4 9.6 5.2 1.4 3.7 All-League 2nd Team: SG Emilia Kuznetsov Miracle 28.2 5.2 2.8 0.4 0.6 All-League 2nd Team: PG Chloe Paugh Liberty 30.2 9.6 11.6 2.4 0.8 All-League 3rd Team: C Jennifer John Rockers 23.8 6.5 1.7 0.5 1.6 All-League 3rd Team: PF Alivia Hiers Mystics 16.9 7.4 2.3 1.7 1.4 All-League 3rd Team: SF Megan Firth Sparks 27.7 3.9 2.1 0.6 0.4 All-League 3rd Team: SG Esme Masters Sky 16.0 4.1 4.4 4.0 1.1 All-League 3rd Team: PG Amirah Edwards Sun 25.6 6.8 9.8 3.9 0.7 All-Defense 1st Team: C Ashley Stricklin Currents 11.9 8.5 2.2 1.0 3.9 All-Defense 1st Team: PF Melissa Stlouis Lynx 10.2 9.5 3.4 1.8 3.6 All-Defense 1st Team: SF Marianne Soris Amigas 20.4 9.6 5.2 1.4 3.7 All-Defense 1st Team: SG Ashley Lindsay Sun 15.8 7.5 2.4 1.3 4.3 All-Defense 1st Team: PG Lucy Dickelmann Lynx 35.7 5.3 6.3 2.9 1.7 All-Defense 2nd Team: C Sophie Linder Sparks 8.8 7.6 3.7 1.2 3.3 All-Defense 2nd Team: PF Ashley Blakney Comets 21.9 9.5 4.4 2.0 2.8 All-Defense 2nd Team: SF Alessandra Tucker Rockers 9.1 9.4 3.2 1.2 3.7 All-Defense 2nd Team: SG Esme Masters Sky 16.0 4.1 4.4 4.0 1.1 All-Defense 2nd Team: PG Amirah Edwards Sun 25.6 6.8 9.8 3.9 0.7 All-Rookie 1st Team: C Amanda Lohr Sting 10.2 2.4 1.3 0.2 0.4 All-Rookie 1st Team: PF Callie Segura Vixens 18.4 7.3 1.6 0.5 0.9 All-Rookie 1st Team: SF Ava Meraz Thorns 15.9 6.9 3.8 1.1 0.6 All-Rookie 1st Team: SG Destiny Duren Cornets 10.5 6.4 3.1 1.9 1.3 All-Rookie 1st Team: PG Reagan Rao Fever 18.6 6.4 4.7 1.8 0.3 All-Rookie 2nd Team: C Amanda Workman Fever 6.5 7.4 1.4 0.6 0.9 All-Rookie 2nd Team: PF Mackenzie Webber Dream 11.9 4.3 1.0 0.4 0.2 All-Rookie 2nd Team: SF Whitney Davis Dream 16.4 6.3 1.8 1.3 0.9 All-Rookie 2nd Team: SG Kathryn Doyle Comets 8.1 3.4 1.8 2.3 0.3 All-Rookie 2nd Team: PG Lilly Dawson Currents 20.7 4.3 2.9 2.2 0.3
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:14 PM   #63
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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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Old 04-21-2013, 06:23 PM   #64
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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.

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1974 WNBA Team Stats Leaders # Team Pts Orb Drb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Pf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Lynx 141.9 12.8 36.1 48.9 29.8 14.3 11.4 23.4 18.4 2 Storm 141.9 15.5 32.9 48.4 32.6 13.1 6.4 21.2 15.7 3 Fury 141.8 14.7 33.2 48.0 33.9 12.6 6.6 19.5 17.1 4 Liberty 140.2 15.5 33.7 49.3 37.9 10.4 5.4 21.3 16.8 5 Silver Stars 138.4 14.4 33.6 48.0 32.7 13.4 4.9 19.6 16.4 6 Mercury 136.4 16.5 32.3 48.8 35.1 11.2 5.8 19.9 18.7 7 Mystics 135.4 15.2 32.7 47.9 37.4 8.6 5.2 19.5 17.1 8 Peaks 135.0 15.5 30.1 45.6 34.4 14.1 5.6 18.6 17.2 9 Sparks 134.2 15.1 35.5 50.5 35.2 9.7 10.9 20.1 17.9 10 Smokies 133.7 15.4 33.2 48.6 34.0 13.6 6.0 19.6 17.1 11 Thorns 132.5 14.7 29.9 44.5 35.9 12.6 3.7 19.2 17.1 12 Sun 131.9 16.7 32.7 49.4 32.6 14.4 8.3 21.3 17.4 13 Sky 131.4 15.1 29.4 44.5 30.1 15.9 6.9 19.6 17.0 14 Comets 129.8 14.4 33.0 47.4 32.1 12.2 10.3 19.1 17.0 15 Gems 128.7 14.4 30.6 45.1 30.8 13.1 7.3 19.8 17.6 16 Sting 128.6 13.2 31.0 44.2 29.3 12.1 5.1 20.0 17.3 17 Amigas 127.6 14.1 36.8 50.8 34.2 9.9 10.3 21.3 17.4 18 Dream 127.0 15.7 31.4 47.1 28.4 14.6 5.9 20.5 17.1 19 Miracle 126.2 12.0 30.1 42.2 33.4 10.7 2.9 19.0 17.6 20 Rockers 126.1 15.7 32.4 48.1 29.8 13.1 7.4 19.5 18.0 21 Fever 125.4 13.2 35.5 48.7 32.4 9.2 7.4 21.4 17.1 22 Blizzard 123.0 13.6 30.3 44.0 25.0 10.1 4.4 21.8 19.2 23 Cornets 122.1 13.8 31.3 45.1 29.2 15.1 7.5 22.9 19.1 24 Shock 120.3 13.2 29.4 42.6 30.2 10.1 4.7 20.5 17.9 25 Hustle 120.0 12.8 30.4 43.2 26.0 8.7 6.7 20.6 18.4 26 Does 119.1 13.6 29.9 43.5 24.0 9.7 5.3 22.3 18.5 27 Vixens 117.6 14.5 29.9 44.5 24.9 10.0 4.7 21.0 17.5 28 Currents 117.1 13.3 31.5 44.7 27.0 9.5 7.2 21.5 16.5 League Average 129.8 14.5 32.1 46.6 31.4 11.9 6.6 20.5 17.5
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:28 PM   #65
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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.

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Philadelphia Fury Averages Player Pos Gm Gs Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-test test test test test ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harley Milo SF 54 54 33.0 24.0 1.5 7.1 2.7 0.9 0.8 2.6 2.3 5.3 Jordyn Davis SF 54 54 32.2 15.4 1.9 5.8 4.8 2.9 0.6 1.9 2.1 4.7 Kayleen Wallace C 54 54 30.3 24.0 4.4 9.3 3.9 0.5 1.2 1.7 2.4 5.6 Teresa Cribbs PG 54 54 29.9 17.2 1.1 5.5 7.6 1.8 0.1 3.9 1.8 5.1 Sarah Northrop PG 48 33 30.3 18.0 1.6 3.5 3.3 1.1 0.9 2.0 1.8 3.1 Megan Barnes SG 31 21 26.4 17.5 2.1 6.2 3.6 1.1 1.2 2.0 0.7 5.3 Michelle McGee C 54 0 18.3 7.8 1.3 4.6 2.2 1.1 0.5 1.2 2.1 3.7 Sarah Harlow SF 46 0 16.9 4.9 0.4 2.8 1.1 0.9 1.1 1.0 1.2 4.8 Rachel Chamberlin SG 54 0 14.3 8.5 0.6 2.2 3.3 1.4 0.4 2.3 1.1 4.2 Jennifer Centeno PG 53 0 11.7 9.2 0.4 1.7 1.7 1.1 0.5 1.2 1.1 1.9 Jessica Eskew C 47 0 7.6 2.2 0.3 1.8 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.5 0.9 1.2 Mary Lauderdale PG 21 0 9.5 4.9 0.5 1.2 3.0 0.2 0.1 1.3 0.0 0.9 Laure Segard SF 18 0 10.1 4.2 0.3 1.4 0.7 0.6 0.1 0.3 0.2 1.9 Nadia Ambrose PG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:34 PM   #66
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1974-75 WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:52 PM   #67
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Go go! And games are 48 minutes now?
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Old 04-21-2013, 07:13 PM   #68
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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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Go go! And games are 48 minutes now?

Yeah, no more 40 minute games. Thought it was better this way.
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Old 04-21-2013, 07:34 PM   #69
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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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Old 04-21-2013, 07:43 PM   #70
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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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Philadelphia Fury Contract Player 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jordyn Davis $6,068,034 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Kayleen Wallace $4,538,270 $4,602,491 $4,666,712 $0 $0 $0 $0 Teresa Cribbs $3,499,430 $3,586,916 $4,674,402 $4,761,887 $0 $0 $0 Megan Barnes $3,440,736 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Harley Milo $1,000,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Michelle McGee $689,303 $715,814 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Mary Lauderdale $565,604 $631,846 $703,183 $0 $0 $0 $0 Sarah Northrop $515,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Jennifer Centeno $451,666 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Rachel Chamberlin $398,825 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Sarah Harlow $392,753 $451,666 $467,376 $0 $0 $0 $0 Nadia Ambrose $369,533 $410,181 $458,220 $509,955 $0 $0 $0 Jessica Eskew $217,978 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Laure Segard $149,246 $217,978 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

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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Old 04-22-2013, 12:30 PM   #71
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The Spoiler tags are mostly to keep this from visually looking like such a stat dump.

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.


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Old 04-22-2013, 04:07 PM   #72
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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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Old 04-22-2013, 05:44 PM   #73
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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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Old 04-22-2013, 06:24 PM   #74
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So I've narrowed it down to these three teams, each in a different league.





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Old 04-23-2013, 08:41 PM   #75
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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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Old 04-23-2013, 08:54 PM   #76
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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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Old 04-23-2013, 10:04 PM   #77
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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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Old 04-23-2013, 10:29 PM   #78
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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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Old 04-26-2013, 01:20 PM   #79
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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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