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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1766646" data-attributes="member: 2013">Thanks.  Hopefully we can "Talk this up" and get some more people in here over the next 10 days.Well, here's what I had in mind... for alternate starters, I would simply pick the combination that put the "best ten players possible" on the floor based on Yahoo's rankings for the current season (or the last month, if we can't see that).  The only reason I qualify the "ten best players possible" is that it may be impossible to put the top 10 players on due to player positions; e.g., a team with 5 of their top ten players as PGs would be unable to field their top 10 because there are only 4 spots where PGs can play (PG, G, Util, Util); in that case, the 4 top PGs would play and the "11th best" man would be moved into the lineup in lieu of PG number 5.  Does that make sense? I think that's the least subjective way to do it.  I might have to shuffle a roster a bit (e.g., moving a FC from the PF slot to the C slot in order to put the 10 ten players on the floor), but I think that's the best way to do it.As far as bolstering the roster from Free Agency (if need be), I think the best way to do that is to select the "highest ranked player over the last month" to fill a hole, using similar criteria to the above; I pick the highest-ranked player that can actually get shoehorned into the lineupwith the team's other "top 9 players" and drop the lowest-rated player from the roster (if the team has only one active player that can play at C, I wouldn't try to pick up a SG, for instance; though if the team can move a FC from the F spot to fill the hole at C and then a GF from the SG spot to the now-empty F spot, and the best player available is a SG, I *would* pick the SG since there is a way to get him into the lineup).Fair enough on both fronts.  The amount of interest this has (not) drawn tells me that I may have trouble so much as filling 12 teams. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Would you prefer an extra three days (on the theory that nobody will be busy for all three days) or no extra days (you have to make your trades before the NBA trade deadline comes and goes)?  I myself lean toward 3 extra days - I think it's important to let people react to what actually happens rather than have some teams get shafted/rewarded for "guessing right" about a trade... here I'm thinking of someone like Antoine Walker getting traded right at the deadline and going from primary offensive option to 6th man or vice versa for a similar situation - the team that "guesses right" as to if and where he's traded gets a huge bonus (or penalty); though most trades won't be as drastic, I think it's important to give people a little time to react to a major change in a player's role... I know I would appreciate it if I *wasn't* the commish.I sure hope so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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