Ramblings of an AngryBanana: Point Revenue Sharing
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:51 am
Hello everyone,
Before I even begin, please excuse this article if it is discombobulated at all. I’m just thinking while writing because I want to make sure I catch every idea related to this. Additionally, I want to point out that this is something that has come up before in PBSL history. On April 1, 2015 this article was dropped by PrepP. viewtopic.php?f=90&t=476. It was not very fleshed out, but was none the less talked among the GMs at the time. I decided to read through the article and I felt that there was a lot of good points brough up on both sides. I also think that PBSL is a very different game then it was in 2015. Over half the league has gone through a GM change. With that in mind I think it is a good time to bring this back up.
We have also only seen certain GMs that have remained at the top of the pyramid. Grizzlies, Lakers, Bulls, Pistons, Pelicans, Bucks, Spurs. From 2038-2039 season to this last season these are the only teams to make it to the finals. That is in the last 14 years, only seven GMs have been able to make it to the finals. This can cause a problem with balance in the league. Where better performing teams, with a bigger market, always perform better in UFA then the ones struggling. It was part of the reason I moved from OKC to Boston (I wanted the large market). This also creates another advantage for the GMs, POINTS.
While I know that it costs a lot of points to go into tax for several season, that has not kept Garbageman from going under 30 points in a season since at least the 2041-2042 season. While yes, Josh is a very good GM, that has the ability to manage his books at a very high level, he also can rack up big bills and know that he will be able to pay it off.
So anyways, here is my suggestion for how to help teams, for instance like the Raptors, Rockets, Cavs, or Trailblazers, who are all indifferent situations, be able to compete and bring some diversity to this league. It will also help keep these points I mentioned before in circulation instead of them going away forever.
Here is how I am initially thinking it will play out. Every year there is a tax bill. Lets take the bill from last season to work on some hypotheticals. That seasons total bill count was 613 points (interestingly enough it has increased every of the past six years I have looked into it.). Of those bills, 351 points were paid out for that particular season (I don’t feel like seeing what other previous bills were paid lol.) There were There are also 12 teams that do not make the playoffs. Option one would be to break up the points evenly to each team that did not make the playoffs and do not have a pending tax bill (or we include them as a way to also answer our tax relief program.) In this situation we would break up the 351 points by 12. This would equate to 29 points per team. I round down in this situation because I do not want to also create points through this, just use what is already here. The other option would be to scale the points at a percentage basis either by the win loss record or by cap. In this situation. However, that would require more work and I am not willing to do it, nor do I think whoever would take this over would want to do as well. So the initial works best I think.
There is one other option. You could also change the number of teams receiving the total points to teams under the cap. Here, there would only be six teams that would fall into this category. Where each team would receive 58 points per team. I think that while this may also work, it also would hamper teams trying. The first option is still more optional because it wouldn’t completely promote tanking because you could still take chances (where a team like the Mavs this season wouldn’t be completely out of luck for taking a chance at winning.)
This very well still might go anywhere. Who knows. But I think it could be a way to promote parity in this thing and would be something that I think everyone would agree would be good (no one wants to see another Pistons.)
Regarding some of the concerns of the previous attempts at this. The first one is that teams are going to try to tank. This has long been a concern here. However, as someone that has tried to tank before, it is not as easy as it appears. Ask the Spurs GM. He has been trying to build up a young core for a few seasons, but is still met every year with challenges when trying to get the top draft pick. I also think we have not seen anyone go to extreme lengths to tank, to include clearly fielding inadequate teams. However, this can also be avoided I think. Where at the end of each season, if majority vote decides that a certain team does not deserve the points due to actively over-tanking (playing o/o players for instance) and not just being inactive, then they would be removed from the pool as well. Another good point was to have a salary floor. That could also help if players that are below y/y are not able to be signed above vet min deals. Hell, even REALLY bad teams like the Sonics still had a few wins. I also do not think that perfect DC participation is needed, as we all have had points of taking a back seat here.
Anyways this is just some thoughts of a rambling mind that saw a good opportunity to get some points. Please post below your thoughts so that maybe we could then further hash this out to a point of being able to vote.
Before I even begin, please excuse this article if it is discombobulated at all. I’m just thinking while writing because I want to make sure I catch every idea related to this. Additionally, I want to point out that this is something that has come up before in PBSL history. On April 1, 2015 this article was dropped by PrepP. viewtopic.php?f=90&t=476. It was not very fleshed out, but was none the less talked among the GMs at the time. I decided to read through the article and I felt that there was a lot of good points brough up on both sides. I also think that PBSL is a very different game then it was in 2015. Over half the league has gone through a GM change. With that in mind I think it is a good time to bring this back up.
We have also only seen certain GMs that have remained at the top of the pyramid. Grizzlies, Lakers, Bulls, Pistons, Pelicans, Bucks, Spurs. From 2038-2039 season to this last season these are the only teams to make it to the finals. That is in the last 14 years, only seven GMs have been able to make it to the finals. This can cause a problem with balance in the league. Where better performing teams, with a bigger market, always perform better in UFA then the ones struggling. It was part of the reason I moved from OKC to Boston (I wanted the large market). This also creates another advantage for the GMs, POINTS.
While I know that it costs a lot of points to go into tax for several season, that has not kept Garbageman from going under 30 points in a season since at least the 2041-2042 season. While yes, Josh is a very good GM, that has the ability to manage his books at a very high level, he also can rack up big bills and know that he will be able to pay it off.
So anyways, here is my suggestion for how to help teams, for instance like the Raptors, Rockets, Cavs, or Trailblazers, who are all indifferent situations, be able to compete and bring some diversity to this league. It will also help keep these points I mentioned before in circulation instead of them going away forever.
Here is how I am initially thinking it will play out. Every year there is a tax bill. Lets take the bill from last season to work on some hypotheticals. That seasons total bill count was 613 points (interestingly enough it has increased every of the past six years I have looked into it.). Of those bills, 351 points were paid out for that particular season (I don’t feel like seeing what other previous bills were paid lol.) There were There are also 12 teams that do not make the playoffs. Option one would be to break up the points evenly to each team that did not make the playoffs and do not have a pending tax bill (or we include them as a way to also answer our tax relief program.) In this situation we would break up the 351 points by 12. This would equate to 29 points per team. I round down in this situation because I do not want to also create points through this, just use what is already here. The other option would be to scale the points at a percentage basis either by the win loss record or by cap. In this situation. However, that would require more work and I am not willing to do it, nor do I think whoever would take this over would want to do as well. So the initial works best I think.
There is one other option. You could also change the number of teams receiving the total points to teams under the cap. Here, there would only be six teams that would fall into this category. Where each team would receive 58 points per team. I think that while this may also work, it also would hamper teams trying. The first option is still more optional because it wouldn’t completely promote tanking because you could still take chances (where a team like the Mavs this season wouldn’t be completely out of luck for taking a chance at winning.)
This very well still might go anywhere. Who knows. But I think it could be a way to promote parity in this thing and would be something that I think everyone would agree would be good (no one wants to see another Pistons.)
Regarding some of the concerns of the previous attempts at this. The first one is that teams are going to try to tank. This has long been a concern here. However, as someone that has tried to tank before, it is not as easy as it appears. Ask the Spurs GM. He has been trying to build up a young core for a few seasons, but is still met every year with challenges when trying to get the top draft pick. I also think we have not seen anyone go to extreme lengths to tank, to include clearly fielding inadequate teams. However, this can also be avoided I think. Where at the end of each season, if majority vote decides that a certain team does not deserve the points due to actively over-tanking (playing o/o players for instance) and not just being inactive, then they would be removed from the pool as well. Another good point was to have a salary floor. That could also help if players that are below y/y are not able to be signed above vet min deals. Hell, even REALLY bad teams like the Sonics still had a few wins. I also do not think that perfect DC participation is needed, as we all have had points of taking a back seat here.
Anyways this is just some thoughts of a rambling mind that saw a good opportunity to get some points. Please post below your thoughts so that maybe we could then further hash this out to a point of being able to vote.