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RR NBA Dynasty League - S3
But since we are in the big picture discussion mood, two thoughts of my own.
First is the absenteeism of some owners. Now I can understand that someone in jbml's position (loads of injuries, bottom of the standings) has hard reason to check as frequently as some of us do. But the fact that trade offers get zero responses from some owners is not acceptable to me. At the very least, every owner needs to ensure that their email address set for their team is a) one they check regularly and b) not filtering yahoo messages to the junk folder. You don't have to check RR every day, and some won't check yahoo every day, but I find it hard to believe that people don't check at least 1 personal email per day. If they at least do that, then they will see the offer, and perhaps become more engaged, but at least respond. This is doubly important for the non-RR frequenters who need the yahoo generated messages to see important notices from the commishes.
Second, a consideration I brought up last year but don't think made any dent in the discussion (except mcHappy, but he comments on everything). Overseas players draft rights as assets. If someone wishes to use their rookie draft pick on a rookie we know won't be coming over this season, they should own that players draft rights (thus becoming a tradable asset). The player would not count towards their cap total as they hadn't yet signed their rookie deal but would be noted the same way traded draft picks are on the cap sheet. Once the player arrives to the NBA (if in some cases) then the owner has to sign them within their cap space. If the owner has no cap space or simply wishes to not sign the player, the player would go into the auction/waiver pool (depending on when the player comes to NBA but I think most would be offseason decisions so auction).
Last year, Dario Saric would have been the player that this would have likely happened to if possible. Now he's a UFA but not worth the cap space, but if his rights were owned, that would add a nice option in the draft (especially for a team with multiple picks), plus another tradable asset for our league (a possibly good player in the future with no cap space sounds good to me).
But since we are in the big picture discussion mood, two thoughts of my own.
First is the absenteeism of some owners. Now I can understand that someone in jbml's position (loads of injuries, bottom of the standings) has hard reason to check as frequently as some of us do. But the fact that trade offers get zero responses from some owners is not acceptable to me. At the very least, every owner needs to ensure that their email address set for their team is a) one they check regularly and b) not filtering yahoo messages to the junk folder. You don't have to check RR every day, and some won't check yahoo every day, but I find it hard to believe that people don't check at least 1 personal email per day. If they at least do that, then they will see the offer, and perhaps become more engaged, but at least respond. This is doubly important for the non-RR frequenters who need the yahoo generated messages to see important notices from the commishes.
Second, a consideration I brought up last year but don't think made any dent in the discussion (except mcHappy, but he comments on everything). Overseas players draft rights as assets. If someone wishes to use their rookie draft pick on a rookie we know won't be coming over this season, they should own that players draft rights (thus becoming a tradable asset). The player would not count towards their cap total as they hadn't yet signed their rookie deal but would be noted the same way traded draft picks are on the cap sheet. Once the player arrives to the NBA (if in some cases) then the owner has to sign them within their cap space. If the owner has no cap space or simply wishes to not sign the player, the player would go into the auction/waiver pool (depending on when the player comes to NBA but I think most would be offseason decisions so auction).
Last year, Dario Saric would have been the player that this would have likely happened to if possible. Now he's a UFA but not worth the cap space, but if his rights were owned, that would add a nice option in the draft (especially for a team with multiple picks), plus another tradable asset for our league (a possibly good player in the future with no cap space sounds good to me).
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