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The Jamal Murray discussion got me thinking - why not have a 2024 draft with no FGA limit, but you can only choose five guys who were primarily starters? If we still think that's too loaded, we could limit it to one conference. It would open the door to some players like Murray, Zion, etc.

Might want to limit teams if it's one conference.

West alphas

Nikola Jokic
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Kawhi Leonard
Luka Doncic
Kevin Durant
LeBron James
Paul George (?)
Anthony Davis
Victor Wembanyama (?)
Stephen Curry

Laimbeer wrote:The Jamal Murray discussion got me thinking - why not have a 2024 draft with no FGA limit

Was just thinking of that as well! My idea was a draft with a very shallow talent pool to compensate for the unrestricted FGAs. For instance, players who never played college ball in the US or international pairs draft (pairs from same country, only 1 USA pair allowed per team) or something along these lines. I like your idea a lot as well!

I like the do FGA limit draft would be fun.
It would also be a fun one to do in an nba season that doesnt include any of the currently overused selections. Like 1975 or something. lol


Also perhaps since we have playoffs going for no recent champs, might as well do an only recent champs one, Just the teams we didnt use on the last one, slightly longer period of time, maybe 1990-2024.

''No college ball in the US'' draft. No FGA limit since it's a very shallow talent pool. Here are some notable players who never played college basketball, in random order:

• LeBron
• Kobe
• KG
• Jokic
• Giannis
• Dirk
• Luka
• Moses
• T-Mac
• Dwight
• Manu
• Wemby

plus the majority of international players

8 participants would probably be ideal. Maybe 10 tops? Wonder whether players like Kobe and T-Mac will see their draft stock rise as a result of the unrestricted FGAs. Likewise, will players like Manu or Gobert (=FGA bargains) see their draft stock fall?

Any objections / feedback regarding this idea? I could create the singups thread as soon as the current playoffs end. Don't think we should start a new draft with 2 other games in progress.

flaco wrote:''No college ball in the US'' draft. No FGA limit since it's a very shallow talent pool. Here are some notable players who never played college basketball, in random order:

• LeBron
• Kobe
• KG
• Jokic
• Giannis
• Dirk
• Luka
• Moses
• T-Mac
• Dwight
• Manu
• Wemby

plus the majority of international players

8 participants would probably be ideal. Maybe 10 tops? Wonder whether players like Kobe and T-Mac will see their draft stock rise as a result of the unrestricted FGAs. Likewise, will players like Manu or Gobert (=FGA bargains) see their draft stock fall?

Any objections / feedback regarding this idea? I could create the singups thread as soon as the current playoffs end. Don't think we should start a new draft with 2 other games in progress.

Why do I feel like we did this fairly recently?

Edit: It was last January but we included an exception.

Im less interested in games without FGA limits truthfully.

Snakebites wrote:Im less interested in games without FGA limits truthfully.

Same. No matter how small the pool, it tends to lead to some pretty stilted teams.

Fadeaway_J wrote:

Snakebites wrote:Im less interested in games without FGA limits truthfully.

Same. No matter how small the pool, it tends to lead to some pretty stilted teams.

It’s not even just that.

Without that added element of challenge there just isn’t enough to do in these games.

Should we wait with opening a new draft until at least one playoffs end?

durantbird wrote:Should we wait with opening a new draft until at least one playoffs end?

Yes

wackbone wrote:

durantbird wrote:Should we wait with opening a new draft until at least one playoffs end?

Yes

I agree, although funnily enough that's exactly what we just did and we're still in this position now.

Fadeaway_J wrote:

wackbone wrote:

durantbird wrote:Should we wait with opening a new draft until at least one playoffs end?

Yes

I agree, although funnily enough that's exactly what we just did and we're still in this position now.

The No Recent Finals one should be over now.

Another randomly random draft?

70's
80's
90's
00's
10's
20's
Current Season

Each round we randomize the order and each round we randomize the year we can select from
You'd get one "cheat" where you pick any round you want

MadNESS wrote:Another randomly random draft?

70's
80's
90's
00's
10's
20's
Current Season

Each round we randomize the order and each round we randomize the year we can select from
You'd get one "cheat" where you pick any round you want

If we had eight drafters and eight rounds then everyone could have pick one in a given round, pick two in a given round,etc. I'm afraid otherwise the luck element in this game would just get to be too large.

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durantbird wrote:One playoff series are all set, we can do a pairs draft of the round 1 series:

Boston (Miami/Bulls)
Knicks Philly
Bucks Indy
Cavs Orlando
Lakers Denver
OKC (Kings/Pels)
Minny Suns
Dallas Clippers

This idea was probably too deep.

Another similar concept idea is Round 2 teams only:

Boston Cavs Indy Knicks OKC Dallas Minny Denver

Early Cancun Draft: all teams not making the playoffs this year -
Pistons Wizards Hornets Toronto Nets Hawks Bulls Portland Spurs Grizzlies Jazz Rockets Warriors Kings

Only recent champs draft?

All the teams that was excluded from the earlier no recent champs draft?

Speaking for myself, I'd like to occasionally see drafts with a twist as opposed to just finding ways of excluding certain teams.

Laimbeer wrote:

MadNESS wrote:Another randomly random draft?

70's
80's
90's
00's
10's
20's
Current Season

Each round we randomize the order and each round we randomize the year we can select from
You'd get one "cheat" where you pick any round you want

If we had eight drafters and eight rounds then everyone could have pick one in a given round, pick two in a given round,etc. I'm afraid otherwise the luck element in this game would just get to be too large.

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How about four with conferences? Gives us eight groups for eight rounds.

2020s East
2020s West
2010s East
2010s West
2000s East
2000s West
1990s East
1990s West

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I think I already wrote it somewhere. I won't participate in any draft with random order because it will make it difficult for me to leave options for next pick