As you can see I have been quite busy this week, but things are churning along I promise. I have a half day at work today (Labor Day…) but I’ll be dropping SLN and NDL sims and a whole slew of draft profiles (and some draft information for the drafts to come) this evening. But of course let’s get...
Tanking
1. No Inside Offense.
2. Nav Rule (You must sign appropriate players to fill positions on your DC)
3. Start your best players and maintain reasonable option choices. There is room for experimentation at my discretion. No...
I went through the big names in this Free Agency class and provided my perspective on their worth. It's one of the best FA classes we have seen, but there are definite question marks with age and longevity GMs will have to parse through. Still feel like I left a few names off the lists that can be...
19 years into SLN something legendary happened at ESPN, noted Page 2 writer and occasional ESPN the Ocho host, Sill Bimmons, along with fellow ESPN the Ocho host, Pepper Brooks, pitched and developed a new series of documentaries and behind the scenes projects to honor the Sim League Nirvana. This...
It has been awhile since I opened up the house but we are running low on funds until I start my new job in August so I figured I'd try to take some money off the esteemed GMs of the league. (Just kidding, thought this is a fun way to keep the league...
As I sit here patiently for the draft lotto, I decided to do a deeper dive on the draft class so far. It's an exciting draft class (as always thanks to the Sim God). I would say there are 4 tiers for the draft profile players, and interestingly enough, there are no 19 year olds. Without further...
An idea i had at the beginning of the season was to track differentials throughout the season and analyze how teams find their form by playoffs and the changes in league averages as a whole.
Here are the key trends I've identified across the season:
I started writing this day 60 then got sidetracked then had a bunch of travels so did this in transit. Was initially going to insult all 29 teams in opposite fashion of Hoff, but leaving that one up to you Joe! Thanks to Hoff for the inspiration though, we need more content and in your knight in...
Atlantic Division:
Orlando Magic: Jamal Murray is having a Manu Ginobli esque season his first season truly starting at SG; best team in the league differential wise
Boston Celtics: Reed Sheppard is a superstar and a better Jeff McInnis; Jabari Parker having one of the best seasons of all time...
FROM THE SWAMP: Juandissimo Magnifico got toasted off that tub of tequila windshield fluid we found in the parking lot. Now, due to an accidental stroke of magic, culture is bending back into itself. In short, as Ashes' sim time outpaces our real time, our real culture is rewinding across sim time....
Hi guys! I did a smart person thing! Been thinking a bit about the greatest, or most impactful rookie seasons in league history and decided to come up with my own metric to measure.
Juice, short for Jordo’s Ultimate Impact Composite Evaluation evaluates the overall effectiveness and impact of SLN...
*** Note: I listed the teams in order on Friday and started filling in the blurbs before we saw any preseason or opening day sims. So these do not reflect the latest but I still think it will be fun to give me some grief. At the very least some teams will...
Inspired by this morning’s exchange on the groupchat. This hobby is so supremely ridiculous — and it has a collective of (relative) strangers sending me stuff like this. Order is random, unless you want to assign meaning to it, which could be kinda fun:
The 2026 season is upon us and we had another year of big TCs. Here’s this year’s edition of my analysis, with a new set of stat excluding Handles (given the impact of Handles movement can be such a mixed bag), and a deep dive on every rookie’s TC.
Slow work day and I have no horse in this race with a full roster so I thought it would be fun to go through the most interesting leftover FAs on the board per position.
Centers
Naz Reid - he hasnt panned out but he could be an interesting fit in an inside or balanced offense with his B+ inside...
Unproductive Action Tendency (2025-26 Season): How often do players do what we want on offense?
One of the most interesting differences between SLN and real life ball is that assists don’t matter - in fact, passing is actually a bad thing. That makes stats like AST:TO ratio irrelevant. As such, I...
Every year, every GM's got his studs and it's duds, his craftiest moves and most embarrassing flops. For 75RPs, fill out the answers to the following questions and post it in the thread - think of these as your...
TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post! Prob wait til after FA to fill it out but up to you.
In addition to Team Awards, GMs can earn a quick and dirty 125RP by replying in this thread and filling out the below questionnaire - not required, but why not? Copy down the questions in a reply post and...
HELLO HELLO, i am once again going to try and give some tewwible analysis of all your draft picks. Yes i know, 75% of GMs strictly want this to be Heimer rn(yes, we have done the studies on RP giveth and likes given) and thats okay. We here at ClintInc. know you have a choice for your SLN draft...
No one else seems particularly interested in collecting these very generous article boni, so *twiddles fingers like a fat guy looking at a box of free donuts in the office* don’t mind if I do. Bringing back an article I wrote in October of 2023, so this one is original (enough)!
One of my favorite part about NFL/NBA drafts are the market surrounding draft day trades - trade ups, trade downs, etc. It appears our very own draft-day market is officially broken, with late 1sts getting sold for peanuts and the majority of the 2nd round picks getting...
HERE IT IS: THE TOP 25, AT LONG LAST, BEFORE THE WORK WEEK STARTS, WE ARE DROPPING IT AT ASHES-ONLY HOURS (and also Jordo hours if you're Jordo and you are in Greece, sup dude).
No time for intros this time -- let's get into it. Here are the 25 best players in the league with a little extra...
Since I didn’t do my mid-season positional ranks the last couple seasons, I thought it would be fun to point out all the ways JWoo’s implied positional rankings this season were wrong. I should also say, this has nothing to do with my draft pick situation. As follows, are the Points Gained (™)...
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Strengths: Crafty finisher at the basket. Good jump shot and range. Very good vision. Solid handles. Should get a steal or so. Good rebounder. Solid quickness and strength.
Weaknesses: Positional defense is so-so.
Scout's Take: Jan is an interesting wing prospect that provides...
