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New NBA season = new NBA FFA draft!
Instead of simply picking players straight up like a fantasy draft, this one will have an extra layer of complexity. We’ll be using the players’ actual NBA salaries and operating under a salary cap to fill out our rosters.
Teams will draft 15 players. You are not allowed to leave any roster spots open - all 15 spots must be filled and drafters must leave enough salary to fill out the roster with at least minimum salary players.
I am planning on using a $150,000,000 salary cap ($10 million average per player).
We are treating this as a one year league, not a dynasty or keeper league. Teams will be judged solely on their performance in the 2022-2023 season, not based on any future projected years. All salaries are considered fully guaranteed and are considered expiring contracts. It doesn’t matter how much players are under contract for in future years.
I plan on building out a google sheet using a list of all player salaries that we will draft from. I will be using the salary information on HoopsHype.
Players salaries are based on how they impact NBA salary caps this year. Players that were bought out from their original contracts will have a salary they are fully owed for the year, not just what their new team is paying them. For example, John Wall will have his full $47M salary assigned to him, not just the $6M the Clippers are paying him. Also, since my understanding is that two-way players don’t count against the cap, they will not be draftable unless that player is given a regular contract.
Players who sign new deals after the draft has started can be picked at any time. We’ll just have to add them to the master list.
The draft will be serpentine with a third round reversal. You can trade draft slots once we create a draft order, but this needs to happen prior to making your first pick and no trading draft picks separately during the draft. Players can be traded at any time as long as teams are still compliant within the 15 player and $150M limits.
We’ll do the following to rank / evaluate teams after the draft. 1) a preseason ranking where everyone will rank the teams and I’ll consolidate results. 2) I’ll set up a free fantasy league with our rosters and do a basic 8-category roto format (full rosters, so no maintaining starting lineups or add-drops). 3) we’ll either do a postseason ranking like the preseason one, or we’ll use the roto results from #2 to seed teams and we do a head to head tournament with voting.
Draft Workbook
Instead of simply picking players straight up like a fantasy draft, this one will have an extra layer of complexity. We’ll be using the players’ actual NBA salaries and operating under a salary cap to fill out our rosters.
Teams will draft 15 players. You are not allowed to leave any roster spots open - all 15 spots must be filled and drafters must leave enough salary to fill out the roster with at least minimum salary players.
I am planning on using a $150,000,000 salary cap ($10 million average per player).
We are treating this as a one year league, not a dynasty or keeper league. Teams will be judged solely on their performance in the 2022-2023 season, not based on any future projected years. All salaries are considered fully guaranteed and are considered expiring contracts. It doesn’t matter how much players are under contract for in future years.
I plan on building out a google sheet using a list of all player salaries that we will draft from. I will be using the salary information on HoopsHype.
Players salaries are based on how they impact NBA salary caps this year. Players that were bought out from their original contracts will have a salary they are fully owed for the year, not just what their new team is paying them. For example, John Wall will have his full $47M salary assigned to him, not just the $6M the Clippers are paying him. Also, since my understanding is that two-way players don’t count against the cap, they will not be draftable unless that player is given a regular contract.
Players who sign new deals after the draft has started can be picked at any time. We’ll just have to add them to the master list.
The draft will be serpentine with a third round reversal. You can trade draft slots once we create a draft order, but this needs to happen prior to making your first pick and no trading draft picks separately during the draft. Players can be traded at any time as long as teams are still compliant within the 15 player and $150M limits.
We’ll do the following to rank / evaluate teams after the draft. 1) a preseason ranking where everyone will rank the teams and I’ll consolidate results. 2) I’ll set up a free fantasy league with our rosters and do a basic 8-category roto format (full rosters, so no maintaining starting lineups or add-drops). 3) we’ll either do a postseason ranking like the preseason one, or we’ll use the roto results from #2 to seed teams and we do a head to head tournament with voting.
Draft Workbook
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