What do yall think about couple of playoff games for those of us who wont have teams that go all the way to finals


I got a couple ideas. Respond below and let me know if you wanna be in for example

if you wanna be in player pool

1) In
2) In
3) out


1) Player Pool- will work like the NFL and NCAA. NBA provides another intriguing factor---Yu could Draft Lebron and he goes to the Finals--but they could sweep everyone so you would get less games than say--Kevin Durant who may get to the Finals but has 6-7 games per series.

We can do pts, rebs, asts(maybe blocks and stls) and -1 for turnovers?

Since its the first year I say we go cheap at $10-$15 per to start.

10-12 teams with 7 players

16 teams make the playoffs with about 7-8 man rotations so this should work.


2) NBA Game prediction challenge- We can do this several ways but I think the easiest is whoever wants to play puts in $10-$20 and we just do a straight pick em(no point spreads) for each game. At the beginning of the series you can predct how the series will fall (i.e Spurs beat Lakers 4-2) if you hit that you get 3-5 bonus points.

Since we dont know how long each series will go we'll keep a running post and say the Lakers Play the Spurs tonight--you just have to get your pick in (timestamped) before tip off.


3) Stretch run western conference predictor challenge
We can do this one for free since we have to start soon but itd actually be fun to play for pts, money. We can add Dallas in too. For this game you have to predict all the Ws or Losses beforehand. Those arent my projections below. I just copied the schedules from another site. But yea every game is worth 1 point if you get it right.

GAME-BY-GAME PROJECTIONS

Projected 6th Seed WARRIORS

W Wed, Apr 3 New Orleans Hornets vs New Orleans
W Fri, Apr 5 Phoenix Suns @ Phoenix
L Sun, Apr 7 Utah Jazz vs Utah
W Tue, Apr 9 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Minnesota
L Thu, Apr 11 Oklahoma City Thunder vs Oklahoma City
W Fri, Apr 12 Los Angeles Lakers @ LA Lakers
L Mon, Apr 15 San Antonio Spurs vs San Antonio
W Wed, Apr 17 Portland Trail Blazers @ Portland

Projected 7th Seed LAKERS

W Tue, Apr 2 Dallas Mavericks vs Dallas
L Fri, Apr 5 Memphis Grizzlies vs Memphis
L Sun, Apr 7 Los Angeles Clippers @ LA Clippers
W Tue, Apr 9 New Orleans Hornets vs New Orleans
W Wed, Apr 10 Portland Trail Blazers @ Portland
L Fri, Apr 12 Golden State Warriors vs Golden State
W Sun, Apr 14 San Antonio Spurs vs San Antonio
W Wed, Apr 17 Houston Rockets vs Houston

Projected 8th Seed HOUSTON
W Wed, Apr 3 Sacramento Kings @ Sacramento
L Fri, Apr 5 Portland Trail Blazers @ Portland
L Sat, Apr 6 Denver Nuggets @ Denver
W Tue, Apr 9 Phoenix Suns vs Phoenix
L Fri, Apr 12 Memphis Grizzlies vs Memphis
W Sun, Apr 14 Sacramento Kings vs Sacramento
W Mon, Apr 15 Phoenix Suns @ Phoenix
L Wed, Apr 17 Los Angeles Lakers @ LA Lakers

UTAH

W Mon, Apr 1 Portland Trail Blazers vs Portland
L Wed, Apr 3 Denver Nuggets vs Denver
W Fri, Apr 5 New Orleans Hornets vs New Orleans
W Sun, Apr 7 Golden State Warriors @ Golden State
L Tue, Apr 9 Oklahoma City Thunder vs Oklahoma City
W Fri, Apr 12 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Minnesota
W Mon, Apr 15 Minnesota Timberwolves @ Minnesota
L Wed, Apr 17 Memphis Grizzlies @ Memphis