How did you do your draft

I'm curious in seeing at the end of the draft how people selected players, decided if they were going to go young, etc. i'll post more on this much later, but I find this very interesting.

Alright let's hear it fellas, the draft is over.

I basically just decided "ok, I want to go for a older vet here" or "ok, I want to go for a young guy here."

Oh man. Maybe I got a little to into this. Or I have too much time on a plane.

I wanted to build a foundation of young players that were complemented by older vets. I decided to make my first few selections young players to build around. In the later rounds, I looked for vets.

I went for defense, inside game, and youth

I basicly assigned weighted numberical values to each player through an Excel macro and created two "Indexes". One for Overall value and one for "Win Now" which is how i did my picks dependant upon need. I kind of created my own formula and appllied it to the draft. Here's the top of the board.

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I went BPA with my first pick (Dirk)
Then the 2 things i know i needed were a defensive minded Center and a well rounded Guard. I got both (Rose and Divac)
I then wanted a young wing player to grow with Dirk so i think on my list i had Darius Miles or Quentin Richardson and i chose Q-Rich. Then i wanted a defensive/3-pt making SF so Rick Fox seemed an obvious choice.
Bench wise i went relatively young guys with room for improvement (Bender and Lewis) and then i wanted someone to run my 2nd unit effectively so i went with veteran PG Charlie Ward.

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Originally Posted by BallSoHard

I basicly assigned weighted numberical values to each player through an Excel macro and created two "Indexes". One for Overall value and one for "Win Now" which is how i did my picks dependant upon need. I kind of created my own formula and appllied it to the draft. Here's the top of the board.

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Originally Posted by BeeBall Reasons

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:hihi:

I went bpa for my first pick then mostly age/potential.

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Originally Posted by BeeBall Reasons

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Lol, don't hate...

Well guys I had no idea what I was doing but my draft came out kinda strong. I'm thinking about having my 2nd pick coming off the bench (Jason Terry) and running hopefully a OKC Thunder type of game with Franchise, Cliff and Terry. Hopefully the draft won't turn out to be the most fun I will have...

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Originally Posted by BallSoHard

I basicly assigned weighted numberical values to each player through an Excel macro and created two "Indexes". One for Overall value and one for "Win Now" which is how i did my picks dependant upon need. I kind of created my own formula and appllied it to the draft. Here's the top of the board.

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Can't be serious lol

That's cool though.

Glad to see Andre Miller on your list!

I went into the draft with the mindset of drafting under 25 year old players with solid stats and good potential. That didn't work out to well as we got later into the draft and my picks were already late in the round. So alot of the guys i was going after got picked up. I was trying to draft young balanced with potential. Just didn't work out for me. BallSoHard had the right idea (and alot of free time,LOL). I'm sure he got the best overall value in the draft.

BallSoHard, that's weak Excel logic. WEAK!!! Haha

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Originally Posted by TrayWithAnA

BallSoHard, that's weak Excel logic. WEAK!!! Haha

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I taught you everything you know on excel!

Up to 7 rounds there was one team with a higher win now index than me but I took the overall value category. The team that had the highest win now also is like -20mill Over the salary cap and I have a million to spare. My goal was to let the first two or three picks almost pick themselves on my board then decide if I should try and win now or build. I happened to get a young enough core to contend for awhile (I hope). I also had trades secured and due to the initial trading fiasco I have to ensure I had around 10 million left in the cap for my trades to go through. There were a lot of "reaches" and very good picks (Stockton and Malone) later in the draft. I think Stockton and Malone were top 10 win now players that fell in the 4th and 2nd.

I just picked people at random ;)

Oh I know, Your team rating shows that. Kidding =p

I put all of my focus on the 8th round pick and trusted lady luck to deliver 11 other players.

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Originally Posted by TrayWithAnA

I put all of my focus on the 8th round pick and trusted lady luck to deliver 11 other players.

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LOL Pray to sweet baby Jesus that Walter McCarthy is the savior of the Pistons.

I wanted McCarty bad.

Tray, who's hating on my spreadsheet now?


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Since the drafts over, I'm finally willing to post here lol

Hard to pick an awesome player with the 25th pick, but ended up with Elton Brand (very happy with), and basically wanted to get a great SG or PG to go with him or pair him with a dominant young center to have a great front court for a few years, HOWEVER Antawn Jamison was still there and was a top ten scorer back then and just kinda filled it after that with some youth to come off the bench (Michael Redd, Bruno Sundov, and Eddie Robinson), and drafted (or auto picked Rodney Rogers...) some vets to come in and start (Marc Jackson, Damon Stoudamire, and Rogers). Overall pretty happy with the way it turned out, hopefully it works

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Oh I know, Your team rating shows that. Kidding =p

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Do we have team ratings already?

I am interested in getting this thing started. Wanna see if this team looks better than it does on paper.

I too wanted McCarty and I think you got him about 2 picks before me. After Webber i kind of tried to target guys in their prime (mid to late 20s) and go for a win now mode for next 3 years or so. And ended up with a rookie Pryzbilla and rookie Eddie house as my only young guys. I also tried to focus on defense and always seemed to change my mind when my pick came up.

I changed the ratings from alphabetical to numerical. (Example A+=1, A=2, A-=3, B+=4, ect.) Summed up everyone ratings and that's what my board looked like. I reached a few times to get some younger guys but basically went BPA on my board the rest of the way.

Only pick I made out of the ordinary was Magloire because the center position is by far the weakest position the next 10 years and he is already a top 10 center who is 22 years old. If I can keep him long term he should stay top 10 to the end of the Simulation.

I did something like this too. Had an excel file with all the players. Tim Duncan had 100 points, Kobe 99 etc.. :) Tried to go BPA + youth over veterans.