2025 CBlog Historical Post-Draft Season: Sim & Voting

[smokeablount]

Without further ado, the winner of the 2025 CelticsBlog Historical Draft Voting is...

Smokeablount's OKC Thunder

I wish someone else was announcing it, but that is how the voting results finished.

I want to thank everyone for supporting my team, and for all the other great teams. Thanks so much for making the commissioner job easy and fun, and for the super fast voting turnaround.

Voting in the end was very close at the top, not only the #1 spot but with only a whisker (0.111) separating #'s 2-4.

The final results and average rank of each team:

GM        AVG Rank
SAB           2.222222222
Who           3.111111111
Jvalin   3.222222222
CFF           3.222222222
Snively   4.888888889
Roy           5
Moranis   5.555555556
Donoghus   6.555555556
RodyTur10   7.222222222
Timdawgg   8.666666667

The exact votes received for the top 4 teams:

SAB - 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5
Who - 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6
JValin - 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 7
CFF - 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6

I'll provide sim updates starting either later today, or this weekend. I have 3 teams done- Moranis, CFF, and Who and I'm simming teams by full season one at a time, by draft order. As each team is finalized, remaining teams' remaining games each decrease by 6 (3/3 home/away vs each team)

Rankings: 

10th - Timdawgg's Philadelphia 76ers!
9th - RodyTur10's Toronto Raptors!
8th - Donoghus's Milwaukee Bucks!
7th - Moranis's Cleveland Cavaliers!
6th - Roy Hobbs's Boston Celtics!

5th - Snively's Chicago Bulls!
3rd T - Celtic Fan Forever's Orlando Magic!
3rd T Jvalin's Indiana Pacers!
2nd - Who's New York Knicks!
1st - Smokeablount's OKC Thunder

[Roy H.]

Congrats, SAB!  You earned it.

[smokeablount]

Congrats, SAB!  You earned it.

Thanks very much! It was a fun exercise, the work wasn?t too bad and I?m happy to host again. Lot of great teams too, including yours. Onto the sim!

[Who]

Congrats, SAB!  You earned it.

Same here. Well deserved. Great squad OKC put together.

[Celtic Fan Forever]

Nice work SAB, I had you pegged as the top team all along. Looking forward to the sim, and eventually the next draft!

[snively]

Thanks for doing all the admin stuff SAB. Had a lot of fun.

[Timdawgg]

Congrats SAB!  Well deserved.  Also Thank you for putting this together.

[RodyTur10]

Congratulations SAB! Thank you for commissioning this draft it was fun.

Now the simulation. I believe we can adjust/maximize minutes when the play-ins/playoffs start?
Any strategies, tactics or specific rotations we can submit?

[Moranis]

These are always fun. Thanks to everyone for participating and of course SAB for doing the most work. 

[smokeablount]

Thank you all very much. I had a weekend with extended family flying in and didn?t get to post this weekend, but will get back on track with the regular season sim. I have completed over half of the teams regular season games and will start to share results

If anyone is up to post some screenshots (I have issues sharing images) PM me. It would be ideal to actually show some key box scores so people can be assured I?m not fudging it

[smokeablount]

The road records in the league aren?t great, winning on the road is hard, and this is making a lot of records that are above average look subpar.

I simmed a 54 game season and am going to add 10 wins to each team for a 64 game regular season. So it?s going to inflate the records to be more normal and if you deduct 10 wins from each team, you will have the actual W-L record in h2h sims

I will share a spreadsheet after the last regular season record announcement that shows each teams sim schedule and results

[smokeablount]

In 10th Place in the 2025 CelticsBlog Historical Fantasy Draft... still a fearsome and dangerous team, and one that I believe could be a potential top 6 team in the sim...


Timdawgg's Philadelphia 76ers!

In the 2025-26 sim regular season, the Philadelphia 76ers finish 37-27, in 4th place!

[smokeablount]

In 9th Place in the 2025 CelticsBlog Historical Fantasy Draft... perhaps the best defensive team in the entire pool with a devastating Kawhi Leonard / Dwayne Wade 1-2 punch...


RodyTur10's Toronto Raptors!

In the 2025-26 sim regular season, the Toronto Raptors finish 36-28, in 5th place!

[smokeablount]

Posting 2 team results a day each AM, regular season complete by Friday AM with playoff matchups revealed, and any change in minutes based on matchups due that day.

[Roy H.]

In 10th Place in the 2025 CelticsBlog Historical Fantasy Draft... still a fearsome and dangerous team, and one that I believe could be a potential top 6 team in the sim...


Timdawgg's Philadelphia 76ers!

In the 2025-26 sim regular season, the Philadelphia 76ers finish 37-27, in 4th place!

So if I'm understanding correctly, Tim finished 27-27 in the 54 game season, which was the 4th best finish?

Tough league!