#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

Rules for Nominations:(READ CAREFULLY AS THERE ARE CHANGES) Nominate yourself for General Manager of the Year OR someone else for General Manager of the Year that you feel was outstanding and exemplary. You are limited to ONE nomination.

This year there will be a GMOTY award AND a COTY award. Therefore you must consider different things when nominating for these two awards. For this award you are only to judge based on the regular season and results of said regular season(Playoff seedings). You should not allow the post-season to sway your judgement in any way when making a GMOTY nomination. The cultivation of a team's talent boils down to smart management in the front office. From drafting to making good trades to free agency, managing a roster’s skill-set, and managing a salary cap is not an easy job. Though the PBSL is mostly cyclical in terms of the power balance, the best general managers are able to keep their teams in the playoff picture year in and year out through proper management of their salary cap situation and close monitoring of how their team is built and fit together. But maybe some GM was able to completely flip a team, get out of the tax, and avoid a total rebuild while still being competitive. Whoever you feel deserves a nod, just make sure to break down why they deserve it.

So the body of work you should evaluate for this award is from Draft Day to the last day of the regular season. Please break down why your nomination fits this bill and why your nomination deserves this award.

As always there will NOT be any prodding of other GMs or any general bitchassness in these threads. It will be deleted upon discovery.

DUE 4/29 @ 5pm

Much as it pains me to do so, I have to nominate IamQuailman here.

He worked astutely in Free Agency, getting role-players like Bonifaz Wenninger and Aubrey Broomfield on role-player sized deals (i.e., not overpaying but also making sure he didn't use the vet min and leave it up to chance to figure out where they were going).
He navigated TC like a boss, managing to keep his stable of Blue and Purple potentials from dying (insured RJ Barrett, whom he flipped in the next move).
As the season was about to start, he convinced the Raptors to send him Joffrey Baratheon, giving him a true start point guard.
He picked up Thomas Knecht in January, giving himself a legit interior scorer playing on an undervalued contract.
Doubled his win total from last year (25 wins to 50).

I'd like to nominate Eazy_P for GMOY.

His team had one of the best seasons in league history, and he wasn't even there to coach it and make adjustments. That's some good team building!

This may be a year too early but i'm going to nominate Soundwave. He's already got who will be the best player in the league. He gave up a chance to be mildly competitive this year and sent off an expiring 28 year old for a guy could turn into the second best player in the league in RJ Barrett. He not only traded for the better player but he also got another solid guy in Brookins. Wave gave up the chance to lose in the second round to me (like Doug did) for the chance at total dominance later on. (bandit)