Here's what I got from Jason. I've edited some sections with his
approval for clarity.
1) He would put together a constitution for the league to ratify, and
after playing one season the league would vote on rule changes heading
into the second season.
2) All teams would cut down to 8 players after the season. This would
force coaches either to protect "win now" players or "rebuilding"
players and not both as easily compared to protecting 10 to 11
players. It would allow rebuilding teams to turn their teams over
quicker drafting at the beginning of each of the seven rounds.
3) There would be a rule restricting the number of superstars a team
could accumulate. A team cannot have two players from the First and
Second All-NBA Teams (possibly the Third Team as well) on their roster
with a possible exception that if a team drafted the two players with
their own draft picks.
4) If the number of returning teams is small, he would want to redraft
the league.
5) The league would be structurally aligned into Western and Eastern
conferences with static playoff brackets. He would consider each team
playing 4 games against in-conference foes and and 3 and 2/12 against
non-conference foes in a full 24-team league.
6) The free agent pool would consist of undrafted players with rings
removed and and eligible to be picked up during the regular season with
the understanding that those players could be used in gameplans and
games when their regular eligible players' minutes were exhausted.
Overusing free agents would lead to penalties.
7) Once the season officially starts, teams would be eligible to trade
the current season draft picks and one season ahead.
8) All coaches will participate in the dispersal draft each new season
upon joining the league casually through email or a one night chat. The
rookie/free agent draft would be a 7-day time slot draft where coaches
would know well in advance when they pick and can email where they can
make other arrangements if they cannot pick within that half-hour time slot.
9) They would be 5 monthly blocks with gameplans likely due the 10th of
every month and games the last day of every month.
10) He would get input from the coaches regularly and have guys help out
with different tasks (i.e. run a dispersal draft, draft a team in it,
update draft boards and league files, compile the league stats,
ect). For trades he simply veto them myself if he felt they are not good
for the league and seek input on trades that involve him before he
agrees to them.
For public discussion please reply all to this email, and for those who
are considering returning next season, please email me in private your
vote on whether you accept Jason's conditions by next Monday.
-Charles
