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[IamQuailman]

Media Announcements for All-Star Break:

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[WigNosy]

League file zip for nodes and HTML updated with moves to this point to make lineup-inputting easier.

[IamQuailman]

Round 2 Games 1 & 2 are up. Games 3 & 4 sim due tomorrow (4/20) @ 5pm

[Darth Vegito]

Diagnosing Mesothelioma in Women
The specific mesothelioma diagnosis is given based on where the cancer originally developed.

Most women who develop the cancer are diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lining of the lungs. In men, pleural mesothelioma occurs five times more frequently than peritoneal mesothelioma, which develops in the abdominal lining.

In women, this ratio is skewed.

Pleural mesothelioma occurs only twice as frequently in women as peritoneal mesothelioma. Pericardial mesothelioma, the third most common type, develops in the lining of the heart. These three types of mesothelioma are almost always associated with prior asbestos exposure.

In exceptionally rare cases, some individuals have developed mesothelioma without ever coming into contact with asbestos. These patients are often young women who develop very specific types of the cancer.

Well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma (WDPM), for example, is usually found in women in their 30s and does not have a strong connection to asbestos exposure. Although it mostly occurs in the peritoneum, it has been diagnosed in other areas such as the pleura.

Those diagnosed with this cancer usually have a better prognosis than average mesothelioma patients. WDPM patients have life expectancies ranging from three years to more than 10 years.

Similarly, the earliest cases of deciduoid peritoneal mesothelioma only affected the peritoneums of young women with no histories of asbestos exposure. This rare variation of epithelial mesothelioma has only been documented in 45 cases.

Although deciduoid mesothelioma has since been observed in men and older women, it is typically diagnosed during pregnancy or at the time of a cesarean section.

[IamQuailman]

Award nomination threads are up. Nomination period closes 4/29 @ 5pm

[ballsohard]

All-

Draft lotto will be tomorrow at 5PM. I;m delaying it because i believe we have a big decision to make.

We've talked about league realignment a lot recently. I've been left with 2 options concerning it. I'm leaning heavily on option 2 sop we can have a shake-up now rather than later.


1. Create a league vote for the following 3 things and get fa final result and it will take a season to implement.
A. Should we Realign
B. How should be realign
C. How Often should we realign

2. Move forward with Wig's suggestion of the following divisions and take a vote on how we should do realignment going forward.

The logic: Did a little semi-random division reshuffle experiment, putting my fingers on the scale to make sure (a) each division had only one or two low-activity owners and (b) no division had multiple teams from the old division in it and came up with the following

DIVISON 1
Golden State Warriors
Milwaukee Bucks
Toronto Raptors
Utah Jazz
Washington Wizards

DIVISON 2
Boston Celtics
Charlotte Bobcats
Cleveland Cavaliers
Minnesota Timberwolves
New Orleans Pelicans

DIVISON 3
Dallas Mavericks
Detroit Pistons
Los Angeles Clippers
Orlando Magic
Philadelphia 76ers

DIVISON 4
Brooklyn Nets
Denver Nuggets
Houston Rockets
Indiana Pacers
Los Angeles Lakers

DIVISION 5
Miami Heat
New York Knicks
Oklahoma City Thunder
Sacramento Kings
San Antonio Spurs

DIVISION 6
Atlanta Hawks
Chicago Bulls
Phoenix Suns
Portland Trailblazers
Vancouver Grizzlies

What im calling for is any major drawback people have from shaking things up now. Any major concerns or people who just hate it?

[false9]

I’m ok with this, with or without a vote.

[Soundwave]

I approve

[TheSyndicate]

I’m good with this, too. Seems like fairly fair divisions.

[letsplayhorse]

also good with the realign

[Eazy P]

I am cool with the realignment posted above.

My Question is.....How will the Playoffs be formatted ?

Divisions 1-3, 5-6 being it's own conference and choosing top 8 from each conference or will it be decided by overall record no matter the division.

I am cool with the conference format

[garbageman]

I prefer complete randomness to forced parity, but ultimately I'm fine with whatever.

I just don't want the shake-ups to obscure an actual problem in that we care even less about how to handle inactive GMs if we split them up so they're not all in one division.

[RPF]

im a hater of everything, so therefore i approve of this idea.

[WigNosy]

I agree that we don't want it to obscure the inactivity problem, though that is probably a separate discussion.

I should note that I hadn't really thought about conference alignments, was just trying to come up with relatively fair divisions (in terms of GM activity, obviously different teams are at different points in their lifecycles so some divisions will be "weaker" than others to start out in terms of team performance). Doing a "Divisions 1-3" as Conference A and "Divisions 4-6" as Conference B is fine with me... or perhaps to maintain the element of randomness, the divisions can be randomly placed into Conferences A and B (this "Division Lotto" reveal could be done right before the Draft Lotto ).

I do think the two-conference format with 8 teams from each in the playoffs is the best way to go because that's the least-disruptive move; it preserves the all-star festivities as they currently are.

[IamQuailman]

I'm good with the proposed idea of Wig's new divisions... would also be good if we went the route of a random draw for teams in a division (using a randomizer like this: https://www.randomlists.com/team-generator ) and had a reveal one by one

[78#]

I prefer random generator


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[Wombataholic]

I prefer a random mix too.

[ballsohard]

So it looks like most are good with the format as is and when we vote on realignment that randomness should be the method from there forward ?

[78#]

I change my mind. I’m ok with Wig’s option.


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[JNR]

I am good with realignment and want Wigs divisions to stand

[NickMalone77]

I’m good with whatever.

[NOLa.]

Good with Wig's method, and all aboard the realignment.

I would love it if we do this every X number of seasons so we would be able to keep things fresh.

[Eazy P]

So it looks like most are good with the format as is and when we vote on realignment that randomness should be the method from there forward ?

I am good Wigs setup starting this season and then random every 5 seasons.

[AngryBanana]

Good with Wig's method, and all aboard the realignment.

I would love it if we do this every X number of seasons so we would be able to keep things fresh.

The only problem I have with this is that it can really hurt your long term planning. Hypothetically, I might base the way I build my team off of how I forecast the Northwest as a weaker division two seasons from now. Where if I get thrown into another division next season, I might wind up in another loaded division again.

[Eazy P]

Good with Wig's method, and all aboard the realignment.

I would love it if we do this every X number of seasons so we would be able to keep things fresh.

The only problem I have with this is that it can really hurt your long term planning. Hypothetically, I might base the way I build my team off of how I forecast the Northwest as a weaker division two seasons from now. Where if I get thrown into another division next season, I might wind up in another loaded division again.

True. This is a good point.