Sim League Nirvana

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market is officially broken, with late 1sts getting sold for peanuts and the majority of the 2nd round picks getting rescinded.

Without trying to sound condescending, I am going to sound extremely condescending: the RP market isn't broken (it's actually working perfectly...scarcity is the point!!!), but the decision-making is.

The only way to rationalize several of these RP-for-pick deal is that camps are being disproportionately overvalued while draft picks are being way undervalued. I can't even count how many RP's I've forked over due to dumbass camps. Camping someone you should not is the equivalent of drafting someone who busts. But the upside of drafting a steal is way higher than the upside of a reward camp panning out. In the grand scheme of a rating, "+8" - the max you can camp someone - isn't going to do as much as organic development. Anyways, I think 800 RP is a decent benchmark for what a pick in the mid 20's should go for in a typical draft. Using that as a guide, I made a terribly unscientific draft day chart to help people use as a potential resource during future drafts:
Points that I think are worth making:

-19 (!!!!!) teams have available spots on their NDL squads. Many of these teams are still trading their draft picks for peanuts or rescinding 2nds. So you are storing up some RP to presumably camp players, instead of taking a chance at a potential valuable asset and...by the way...having a chance to incur +6 +7 +11, etc. gains naturally that would be worth more than a camp anyway. And these guys get potential boosts!

-Good players, great players....elite players....have all been taken after 20!

-In a Hard Capped league, rookie contracts can be helpful to build sexy teams

-In a hard capped league, $332K contracts can be even more helpful to build sexy teams! (pick 30>29? Prob)

-I understand needing to trade your pick if you are under the cap and trying to save cap space for Free Agency. I feel bad you aren't getting more sweet, sweet cash for your pick. Let's fix that!

-No one is forcing you to use the RFA tag. You will still retain your FA as the incumbent 70% of the time. In many years -- the ones where 2-3 teams have cap - you may even get a better deal on a player if you don't tender him.

-Give ashes' drafts the attention he puts into them!

YAYYYYYY

just HAD to post this before I could successfully buy a lotto in one of these drafts for 800RP

A case for the Second Round:

ATL: Marcus Fizer, Richaun Holmes
BOS: Jordan Hamilton
CHA: Semi Ojeleye and Primoz Brezec
DEN: Jason Hart, Tacko Fall
IND: Will Barton
LAL: Ratfuck
ORL: Cory Joseph, Dwight Powell, Jordan Poole, countless legends
POR: Darius Bazley
SAC: John Konchar
TOR: Malik Allen, Jerian Grant
WAS: Udoka Azubuike

Isaiah Jackson

What if I desperately wanted to preserve my max slot to possibly poach a FA

Jordo wrote: May 30th, 2025, 3:37 pm What if I desperately wanted to preserve my max slot to possibly poach a FA

Overrated, especially this year, no good FAs

as a potential seller of my later picks could not agree more with the chart. Was tough having GMs point to the low prices and decided I was just going to take a swing at 21 and 24 rather than getting a half camp or less

Merv wrote: May 30th, 2025, 3:34 pm LAL: Ratfuck

Word

Jordo wrote: May 30th, 2025, 3:37 pm What if I desperately wanted to preserve my max slot to possibly poach a FA

from article
-I understand needing to trade your pick if you are under the cap and trying to save cap space for Free Agency. I feel bad you aren't getting more sweet, sweet cash for your pick. Let's fix that!"
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GX. wrote: May 30th, 2025, 4:07 pm

Merv wrote: May 30th, 2025, 3:34 pm LAL: Ratfuck

Word

Won like 5 titles?