No, he did it right. You need to state the price range (3-4), and in this case that's a pretty darned good 3-4. You can't say <5 or >7 or the cubed root of infinity or anything like that.

So just to be clear, even though this round you can't pick a player above $5M...someone else later in the round can pick $4-5M Rodman, or $2-3M Rodman since the draft picks only exclusively secure a price range of 1 million for your team.

Question: Since in round 6 you can pick anyone left (no price cap)... can someone pick $10-11M Michael Jordan and then someone else pick $9-10M Michael Jordan? I guess my question is, does the draft pick price range of $1M we secure exclusively for our team apply for picks above $9M as well... all the way up? Could this league potentially have a $9-10M Wilt, a $10-11M Wilt, a $11-12M Wilt, a $12-13M Wilt, and a $13-14M Wilt?

So basically the way I read it is that once a guy is drafted in a particular round (price range) he can no longer be drafted in that round (price range) even if there are 2 or 3 seasons of that player within the price range. Correct? The exception is round 1 where there are several price ranges under 5M. Correct? For clarification sake, lets say you declared a 4-5M Rodman and later you decided a 3M Rodman fits your team better you can't switch because you already declared. However, you could switch from a 4.9M to a 4.1M Rodman if you declared 4-5M Rodman. Correct? As for the above question about Wilt and MJ, I think you'd be over the salary cap if you added a 10M guy at that point wouldn't you?

I thought the ranges were:

0-5
5-6
6-7
7-8
8-9
9+


so so it seems several interpretations...

Posted by coachcroft on 3/30/2019 9:30:00 AM (view original):
So basically the way I read it is that once a guy is drafted in a particular round (price range) he can no longer be drafted in that round (price range) even if there are 2 or 3 seasons of that player within the price range. Correct? The exception is round 1 where there are several price ranges under 5M. Correct? For clarification sake, lets say you declared a 4-5M Rodman and later you decided a 3M Rodman fits your team better you can't switch because you already declared. However, you could switch from a 4.9M to a 4.1M Rodman if you declared 4-5M Rodman. Correct? As for the above question about Wilt and MJ, I think you'd be over the salary cap if you added a 10M guy at that point wouldn't you?

So basically the way I read it is that once a guy is drafted in a particular round (price range) he can no longer be drafted in that round (price range) even if there are 2 or 3 seasons of that player within the price range. Correct? The exception is round 1 where there are several price ranges under 5M. Correct? For clarification sake, lets say you declared a 4-5M Rodman and later you decided a 3M Rodman fits your team better you can't switch because you already declared. However, you could switch from a 4.9M to a 4.1M Rodman if you declared 4-5M Rodman. Correct?

Correct, Correct, and Correct. The price ranges for the middle rounds are self explanatory...the 5-6M round secures your 5-6M player for you, regardless of which 5-6 player you choose. But just like there are several 1M price ranges in the under 5M category.... there are also several 1M price ranges in the above 9M category... and I just wanted to know if the same rules applied in the above 9M category as the under 5M category... or if the league could only draft 1 of each player above 9M, regardless of salary range.

As for the above question about Wilt and MJ, I think you'd be over the salary cap if you added a 10M guy at that point wouldn't you?

Technically, no. In the 6 round draft, the first 5 rounds max would be $4.99M + $5.99M + $6.99M + $7.99M + $8.99M which is only $35milion. So you'd have the cap to draft a $13M player and still have $4M for the remaining 6 players on your squad. It may not be wise to do so cause you might not be able to draft enough minutes...but my question wasn't if you SHOULD draft a $13M player in round 6... it was if you COULD draft a $10-11M Jordan if someone else already drafted the $9-10M Jordan. Do the same $1M range drafting rules apply in the last round as the first round.

Posted by Midge on 3/30/2019 3:38:00 AM (view original):
No, he did it right. You need to state the price range (3-4), and in this case that's a pretty darned good 3-4. You can't say <5 or >7 or the cubed root of infinity or anything like that.

Gotcha. But the 1st and last stated price ranges were; less than 5 and more than 9. So you can see how some of us thought there was no distinction between 1-2M and 4-5M. They're both <5M, which was the listed category.

Posted by pexetera on 3/30/2019 8:45:00 AM (view original):
So just to be clear, even though this round you can't pick a player above $5M...someone else later in the round can pick $4-5M Rodman, or $2-3M Rodman since the draft picks only exclusively secure a price range of 1 million for your team.

Question: Since in round 6 you can pick anyone left (no price cap)... can someone pick $10-11M Michael Jordan and then someone else pick $9-10M Michael Jordan? I guess my question is, does the draft pick price range of $1M we secure exclusively for our team apply for picks above $9M as well... all the way up? Could this league potentially have a $9-10M Wilt, a $10-11M Wilt, a $11-12M Wilt, a $12-13M Wilt, and a $13-14M Wilt?

The first part is correct.

Yes, according to the rules there could be two Michael Jordans above $9 million, like you said, and there could possibly be 3 or 4 Wilts. If you're planning to take a $13 million Wilt with your last draft pick you need to budget for it with your first five picks.

Posted by coachcroft on 3/30/2019 9:30:00 AM (view original):
So basically the way I read it is that once a guy is drafted in a particular round (price range) he can no longer be drafted in that round (price range) even if there are 2 or 3 seasons of that player within the price range. Correct? The exception is round 1 where there are several price ranges under 5M. Correct? For clarification sake, lets say you declared a 4-5M Rodman and later you decided a 3M Rodman fits your team better you can't switch because you already declared. However, you could switch from a 4.9M to a 4.1M Rodman if you declared 4-5M Rodman. Correct? As for the above question about Wilt and MJ, I think you'd be over the salary cap if you added a 10M guy at that point wouldn't you?

What you say is correct, but what pex said is also correct. Like I said, if you want to get any big dollar guy in round six you need to plan for it.

I'll go with Hassan Whiteside (3M-4M)

Posted by tau1624 on 3/30/2019 9:48:00 AM (view original):
I thought the ranges were:

0-5
5-6
6-7
7-8
8-9
9+


so so it seems several interpretations...

The ranges are 1-2 / 2-3 / 3-4 / 4-5 / 5-6 / 6-7 / 7-8 / 8-9 / 9-10 / 10-11 / 11-12 / 12-13 / 13-14. I would assume that maybe one guy is taken in 1-2, and probably only one guy is taken in 12-13, and maybe nobody taken in 13-14. And remember, for example, just because you can take an $8 million guy in round five it doesn't mean that you have to take one. You could draft a second $7 million guy and save the money for round six.

What pexetera stated in his lengthy post is also correct.

Say you spend $42 million on your draft picks, with your remaining $10 million you could get a whole bunch of guys worth $1.6 million or $2.2 million or you could get five $239,000 guys and one guy who is close to $9 million. You have options.

If anyone else has any questions, please ask. Now if we could just make some picks...

Posted by thomcat on 3/30/2019 1:38:00 PM (view original):
I'll go with Hassan Whiteside (3M-4M)

I have a ?! WTF

Is that a question?

I took a good look at $3M Whiteside too, but in the end wanted more than 14 mpg for my first pick.