Basketball is tougher to have competitive balance because superstars make
such a difference compared to other sports and when a team gets multiple
super stars, they become dominant for awhile. We get a lot of multiple
champions and even dynasties with teams winning 3 or 4 titles in a row. I
used to be in two basketball leagues but quit one of them because for over
10 years, only two coaches won the title every year and no one else even
had a chance for over a decade. I almost started a new league with the
goal of trying to prevent dynasties and Jason was even an interested
member. I had about 11-14 interested parties but never had enough time to
flesh out all the details and make a constitution. It is fun to build a
roster and keep the same players year after year to follow them, but then
in basketball that is where dynasties occur. So I don't really mind if we
keep our players next year or do a redraft since SOMIBA has always been a
keeper league and probably not enough coaches would be interested in
radical changes to this league. But I also understand if we get a bunch of
new members that if they join with bad or mediocre teams and then a few
teams are so much better than all the rest, they may not join or stick
around.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:46 AM Dale Ripley <marillion9@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Charles!
Item #4 is a pretty big item to me. Lots of us have been in SOMIBA for
many years and to have to start over from scratch with an entirely new team
erases all the hard work and dedication we have all put into building our
rosters and drafting/trading for our favorite players over the years. So,
I'm not sure what is meant by "number of returning teams is small".
I'd also be interested to see how item #3 works.....if a team currently
has 2 "superstar" players, would they be required to trade one away? Not a
huge fan of this one.....even if I had no superstars, if a coach has done
their homework (or gets lucky) and drafts or trades for a superstar, I'm
not a fan of forcing them to trade one. I drafted Giannis around 5th
overall...so I got lucky. But to make a coach trade away or lose a
superstar because they drafted or traded well seems restrictive.
The other items seem reasonable to me....I'm curious to hear what the rest
of you think, especially regarding redrafting the entire league.....
Thanks Charles!
--- Dale (Lexington)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Walter" <scottsdalestars@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "league" <somiba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1:03:48 AM
Subject: [somiba] SOMIBA next season
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
