90's-00's Draft (Fantasy Idea)

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Commissioner:

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Co-Commissioner:

TBD

Team Owners:

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Panelists:

TBD

[Donoghus]

One idea in terms of drafting players, stolen from
Bill Simmons, you draft the 1995 Penny Hardaway. In other words, you can only have one version of the player in the league but the drafter gets to pick which one.

That is a good idea.  So if you draft 1993 Michael Jordan, someone else can't draft 1996 Michael Jordan, correct?

[nickagneta]

One idea in terms of drafting players, stolen from
Bill Simmons, you draft the 1995 Penny Hardaway. In other words, you can only have one version of the player in the league but the drafter gets to pick which one.

That is a good idea.  So if you draft 1993 Michael Jordan, someone else can't draft 1996 Michael Jordan, correct?

No Michael Jordan is off the board. It stops arguments about which MJ you drafted so that as interpretations of the team comes up someone can't argue that he has Michael's early athleticism with his later ability to hit jump shots with his MVP years caliber defense.

Each player definitely has periods in his career where he is better at one thing than another, this will stop arguments about what specific levels of competence that player has as a player on the team.

[nickagneta]

I would add that a team owner would not have to determine which year he is choosing as a player until rosters are frozen. This way someone can't trade 1999 Tim Duncan and he has to stay the 1999 Tim Duncan. He can be switched to another year.

[Donoghus]

One idea in terms of drafting players, stolen from
Bill Simmons, you draft the 1995 Penny Hardaway. In other words, you can only have one version of the player in the league but the drafter gets to pick which one.

That is a good idea.  So if you draft 1993 Michael Jordan, someone else can't draft 1996 Michael Jordan, correct?

No Michael Jordan is off the board. It stops arguments about which MJ you drafted so that as interpretations of the team comes up someone can't argue that he has Michael's early athleticism with his later ability to hit jump shots with his MVP years caliber defense.

Each player definitely has periods in his career where he is better at one thing than another, this will stop arguments about what specific levels of competence that player has as a player on the team.

Wait, so no Jordan despite the fact he played in the 90s or no picking one individual year for the player?  

Does the player have to have actually been drafted in the 90s so a guy that was drafted in the 80s but also played in the 90s is outta play?

[nickagneta]

Any person who played in the 90's is eligible to be drafted, but when rosters are frozen, the owner has to pick which year of that player he wants representing his team AND that year has to be a year that is between the 1989-90 season and the present season

[nickagneta]

So picture this...with the second pick in the draft you chose Shaquille O'Neal because he played in the 1990's and 2000's. Once the draft is over and rosters frozen, you have to choose which year of Shaq's you want on your team.

[Donoghus]

Ah....got it now.

[nickagneta]

So someone could actually choose Robert Parish even though he was drafted in 1976 but when rosters were frozen he would need to be designated Robert Parish from one of his final 8 seasons, 1989-90 through 1996-97. 1990-91 Parish was STILL a hell of a center putting up 14.9 pts and 10.6 rebs, 1.3 blks and 0.8 stls.

[Roy Hobbs]

If this gets going, I'm open to being a panelist.

Of course, it's going to take some fairly poor drafting from whoever gets the #1 pick for me not to vote their team #1.  There have been a lot of great players, but 90s era Jordan stands above all of them by a fairly significant margin.  That includes 90s Magic, Kobe, and Lebron.

[nickagneta]

I have set up a rules and info thread and direct people to that thread to join the fun:

http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=36817.msg729045;topicseen#new