2019-20 Contender or Pretender Pod

[Joe]

Bringing back an old favorite. Matt, Derek, Quady and I discuss recent trades, and who's for real and who's cornmeal as they say.

[heimer]

cool i wasted all that time on my bday for nothing. sending riverside a bill for 250 rp

[SoNicks]

B-

[SoNicks]

I feel like I need to send you guys a fruit basket or something for the holidays. Can’t have you afraid to throw a punch cuz of a little SLN banter.

Also you’re dead to me quady. You’d be too heimer… if I could hear you.

[SoNicks]

Definitely have been trying to trade. It’s a pretty tough market both for players who I need and for buyers.

People who want PGs don’t have a wing or big like I need. also contracts are kinda all over the place rn. Building around a 25mm player is tough

[Wes]

Oh fun another reminder to the Lindsey Hunter contract

[quady]

Definitely have been trying to trade. It’s a pretty tough market both for players who I need and for buyers.

People who want PGs don’t have a wing or big like I need. also contracts are kinda all over the place rn. Building around a 25mm player is tough

definitely takes two to tango

[SoNicks]

Definitely have been trying to trade. It’s a pretty tough market both for players who I need and for buyers.

People who want PGs don’t have a wing or big like I need. also contracts are kinda all over the place rn. Building around a 25mm player is tough

Also I’m cheap AF

definitely takes two to tango

That edit better Senor Quady-ludes?

[pacers]

fun pod! posted this in response to another pod a couple seasons ago re how I think about DC changes:

just finished listening to this one. @Tyler to answer your question on what I'm aiming for in switching DCs every sim (standard disclaimers that this is just my approach, I'm not an expert, etc):
- My goals by the end of the season, in order, are: 1/ to get into the playoffs, 2/ to have enough data to feel confident taking one series off anyone, and 3/ getting a high seed.
- I switch up my DC to get a good understanding of downside variance and upside variance for player x position x setting (trap, press, etc) x matchup combinations. I just dump every box score into my analysis spreadsheet and it cascades out automatically. https://www.simleaguenirvana.com/viewtopic.php?t=1902
- I feel comfortable with a particular player x player matchup after 4 games and a player in a certain position (independent of matchup) after 10 games. So I'll look at the upcoming games, particularly which teams I'm likely to play in the playoffs, see what data I have already (from this season and past seasons), then set the DC.
- Ceteris paribus, I'd rather have more data than one additional home game (unless I have enough data from past seasons to feel good about the different combinations I could run in the series). Obviously sometimes this doesn't work in my favor, - e.g. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten out of the first round last season If I had home court advantage.

So, for example on the above - through the 16-17 regular season I had a good sense that every increased notch in press drops Jrue's PPP by ~0.05 but also suppresses opposing guard volume by a certain amount. So after Jerebko went off in the first sim of the finals as backup PG I increased press and that seemed to solve it.

Hope that answers it!

[mantypas/CavsCzar]

After listening to that pod, I feel bad for Heimer and lebron, in that order