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...
Here we are, post frenzy in the great crusade for RP to make my hopefully #1 picks great! Today’s entry, league pass rankings. There are a few completely arbitrary and unclear criteria to figure out this order. So here we go.
I started a group chat with the hopes of gaining intel on my fellow tankers, instead I came up with 6 questions(Mantypas came up with 1) so we could all make some RP for the long road ahead.
7 questions for tankers:
1. If Jokic goes #1, do you take Embiid at 2 or the field, why?
Decided to run a statistical correlation earlier in the season this year to give teams a chance to adjust to what is working in this edition of SLN. Hopefully, I will have time this weekend to put together the correlation history of the league to see how the league has evolved from a team building...
With the news of Akira Toriyama’s passing today, I thought there was no better way to honor his legacy by comparing a group of legendary to GMs to his legendary characters.
Nice guy disclaimer, I hope no one takes any offense to these comps, I fucking love all of these characters. I also really...
Another column back after hiatus. On the eve of free agency, let’s show some love to people who crushed last offseason. I’m hoping for a better offseason this year because the FA moves didn’t exactly pan out last year.
5 Best FA Signings
#1. Ben Gordon - $28.5M over 3 years to the Cavs...
I need RP for this tank and there’s a frenzy going on. Why not make another entry in SLN GMs as (Insert Blank). Today’s entry, Hated College Basketball Players. Take nothing personal, this is all in good fun and everyone is the best!
I teased it in Jwoos article so I said fuck and and wrote one up. Enjoy!
The article everyone wanted. Some of us win. Some of us try to win and win. Some of us try to win and lose. Some of us try to lose but end up winning. Some of us try to lose, and lose. Those that want to lose and lose are not...
We're back, after a year's hiatus, MERVALYTICS IS HERE! Did someone say content frenzy? Because your boy has a free weekend and might make a lot of content. There's a rebuild going on down in Orlando, we need the RP and we need to properly market our players unlike some of this propaganda that is...
Was taking a look at the resignings in my division, so figured I'd write about it. I stuck to more notable players here. Don't worry, I'm not turning this into four articles in order to game the system, this took me too long to do 4x lmfao.
Loyalty, Greed, Winning, and Re-Signing: Part 1
Re-signing risk is one of the biggest swing factors in the game, and from my perspective as a new GM, one of the things that's been hardest things to figure out. Whether a player re-signs or not has a huge impact on a team’s future and that player’s...
Salary Concentration Part 2: How many contenders had significant contributors on rookie contracts?
For my 100th post of this content frenzy, I’m back with another analysis, this time a follow up to my prior analysis on salary concentration and competing. In the thread, Merv posted a really...
Salary Concentration: Can you win with a ton of your hard cap tied up in a small number of players?
Inspired by the conversation on the latest Many Men pod and Joe 's question on the thread, I’ve analyzed the rosters and salary construction of each champion and runner up from creation to now to...
Getting this up before TC! I went back in and re-ranked and re-blurbed the Top 100 players in SLN — very unscientific but just a fun exercise to update every few seasons. We can now embed Google Sheets which saves a ton of time lol.
My process is basically going through my old list, updating,...
I had a real internal debate about whether to retire from doing Power Rankings forever after last year's total debacle. I decided not to do that. So here's the list.
I've added a confidence level element this time so I can better express how good or not good I feel about placing teams in certain...
TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post! Prob wait til after FA to fill it out.
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 fill 'em out....
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...
Ol’ Joey’s back in the swing of things for the 13-14 season. Just did my taxes (right at the buzzer, hold your applause), and my dumbass company underwithheld me so I owe greedy Uncle Sam some money. My first instinct was, of course, to write some SLN content to earn...
Since there was no pod, I thought to make it a over under check in article because ya boy needs some RP and its also a fun pulse check on everyone’s teams. Well everyone that answered the pick’em at the beginning of the year. Let’s dive in.
Bucks - 52 wins. Current record – 37-25 – on pace for 49...
At risk of giving away all my deepest team-building secrets, I've been thinking about putting together some totally observational, dorky as fuck SLN positional philosophy to help us all think about roster construction, roles, and how the game works.
I thought it would be fun to sim the 2013 SLN Finals on 2K and see if the 76ers would come out on top this time. When I first set out to do this, the thought was that I'd do the entire playoffs, but it just takes surprisingly long. This is a super imperfect comparison, but I tried my best to make...
No, I’m not getting lazy with the Big Board names, I just keep writing these articles before I’ve had second dinner. This one is a bit of a mess outside of the top 4 guys or so – this is definitely not the first time someone has used the adjective...
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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...
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...
