Who is your WHEEL NEMESIS? (497 views)

[Ankly]

As we know, there are 29 teams in the league but 30 slots in the wheel, so this leads to one team getting an extra 1.1 during a 30 year cycle as a "vacant" team would get the 1.1 in the year that lucky team had their 1.2.

Most recently, ward's warriors were contracted, and dump opted for expansion. This resulted in Delap LOSING his extra 1.1, and Bankz was lucky enough to get an extra 1.1 because his WHEEL NEMESIS Ward left the league.

So with that context, who is your WHEEL NEMESIS??? See the chart below:





Find your name in the 'GM' column and see your 'Nemesis'. This is the person you'd love to see fail and leave the league in tatters. It's nothing personal, it's just an extra 1.1 pick! You can also use this chart to see when your next natural 1.1 will be. 2030 for the Knicks woof.

Top 5 GM-Nemesis Combo's

1. Ian vs BK - I hesitated to even post this article after seeing this pairing. We're all going to have to hear a lot about race-based engineering awards as Ian continues to try to push BK out of the league.

2. kc vs pointyegg - I feel like there's animosity here boiling underneath the surface. Neither GM could be reached for comment to deny that.

3. Odin vs Ankly - Wow really questioning whether I should join Odin for that concert. Who knows how far he'll go to get an extra 1.1.

4. Sap vs Bankz - Won't be the first turd Sap tries to cut lmao

5. Majic vs Yawn - Hockey shout vs FM shout. God help us all.

[TinyTimPig]

I've actually been curious about this exact thing, so I'll up my vote a bit.

15,000.

[delap]

14k

But! I should be Top 5 with dump because ours is the only rivalry to result in a change thus far.

You butthole.

Edit: for clarification, dump is the butthole

[Handsome Pete]

So I've gotta get Soup to quit within the next few seasons....

I FULLY SUPPORT ALL OF ERIC'S CHANGES

LUKA DONCIC IS NOT AS GOOD AS PEOPLE THINK

GBG WAS THE SOLE REASON FOR THE THUNDERMAVS DYNASTY

BANKZ HAS BEACHFRONT PROPERTY IN SOUP'S HEAD

[Handsome Pete]

30k not enough meat to earn a full article but I want you to pay chap back

[Chaps]

Jun 9, 2021 19:06:53 GMT -5 Ankly said:

2. kc vs pointyegg - I feel like there's animosity here boiling underneath the surface. Neither GM could be reach for comment to deny that.



4. Sap vs Bankz - Won't be the first turd Sap tries to cut lmao

Lmao

[eric]

Jun 9, 2021 19:18:11 GMT -5 TinyTimPig said:

I've actually been curious about this exact thing, so I'll up my vote a bit.

15,000.

[20s]

Pretty excited for that 1.1 in 3037

[20s]

20k

[Trofie]

One of the better articles I've ever read 50k

[Yawn of the Dead]

1k

[jhb]

I need to start being meaner to middle of the pack Delap

[jhb]

25k

[dump]

30k

[jhb]

Hey dump

[Majic]

I will never understand why we do not use a 29 team wheel format?

35k

[Druce]

15k

[Herby New Year!]

This is information I wanted to know and in the abstract may be worth a full 50k. But Ankly is on record saying that we overvote articles and I don't want to make him feel like he's taking advantage of the system.

So 25k

[Ankly]

yeah these votes are bullshit. Actual useful information gets shit on.

Except Trof. You're cool.

[jhb]

Jun 10, 2021 8:02:17 GMT -5 Majic said:

I will never understand why we do not use a 29 team wheel format?

35k

You don't understand because you don't understand how the wheel is built.

You'd have to rebuild a 29 team wheel. The one built for the NBA has 30 slots. You can't just take the 30 slot out of the existing wheel and use that because then it super-unbalances a 6 year stretch of picks for teams because it's based on breaking up the 30 picks into 5 tiers of 6 picks.

So design a new, balanced one yourself. 

[Ankly]

I guess I don't understand why you can't just remove slot 30. There! 29 Team wheel!

Although there is benefit to the 30 team wheel so that someone like dump isn't forced to take a team that may have traded all their wheel picks.

[jhb]

Jun 10, 2021 10:04:28 GMT -5 Ankly said:

I guess I don't understand why you can't just remove slot 30. There! 29 Team wheel!

Although there is benefit to the 30 team wheel so that someone like dump isn't forced to take a team that may have traded all their wheel picks.

It hugely shifts the balance of the wheel.

[Ankly]

Jun 10, 2021 10:07:14 GMT -5 jhb said:

Jun 10, 2021 10:04:28 GMT -5 Ankly said:

I guess I don't understand why you can't just remove slot 30. There! 29 Team wheel!

Although there is benefit to the 30 team wheel so that someone like dump isn't forced to take a team that may have traded all their wheel picks.

It hugely shifts the balance of the wheel.

On second thought, it would be better to remove slot 28 since it follows #3.  Still a shift but more palatable.

[jhb]

The wheel mirrors your picks so that when you get one super high pick you balance it with a low pick the next year. If you take 30 out of the existing wheel then after your #1 pick you then have 19 instead of 30. So when your #1 pick comes along, that now four year cycle instead of 5 year cycle you get super charged picks.

You can't switch to that now because it would severely disadvantage everyone who has already had their #1 pick and we already have a team occupying the #30 slot

[jhb]

So if we were to change the wheel midstream now, how would you:

1. Compensate the GM's that are disadvantaged because they've already cycled their now overpowered stretch of picks
2. Deal with expansion/contraction when a GM quits since that system is much cleaner with an extra slot? What happens when a new GM wants to expand but acquires a team where the GM has sold out a bunch of their future picks like Ward has done?

[Majic]

I guess my question is why we couldnt take the logic of the 30 team and build out a 29 team wheel.

However, I agree that having the extra slot does help in making it easier for expansion purposes.

[jhb]

Jun 10, 2021 10:44:50 GMT -5 Majic said:

I guess my question is why we couldnt take the logic of the 30 team and build out a 29 team wheel.

However, I agree that having the extra slot does help in making it easier for expansion purposes.

It's based on 6 groupings of 5 picks that have similar overall value and then balance over the cycle. It's a lot harder to balance when you take one out because then one grouping of four has to match the others and then several teams are on a smaller cycle than others...29 isn't an easy number to divide and split into groupings.

[dump]

Jun 10, 2021 6:59:25 GMT -5 jhb said:

Hey dump

Hopefully eric makes your sim life a living hell with unnecessary changes

[Yawn of the Dead]

Well I wonder what it's like to be a sim maker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the sim
I'd store it in box scores with little yellow tags on every one
You can come and see them when I'm ... dump
When I'm dump

I wonder what it's like to be a Billy King
I wonder where I'd go if I could lie to everyone, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high on running arguments
Boy, I bet my friends will all be ... stunned
They're stunned

Yeah!

Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here?
If I was some other GM would it all fall apart?
Strange, where were you when we started this sim?
I wish the wheel world would just stop hassling me

Do you?
Do you?
And me

Well I wonder what it's like to be the head SimLord
I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said (just what I said)
Well I'd shout out an order "I think we're out of this, man, get me some
Boy, don't make me want to change my tone
My tone

Yeah!

Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here?
If I was some other GM would it all fall apart?
Strange, where were you when we started this sim?
I wish the wheel world would just stop hassling me

Please don't change
Please don't break
Well the only thing that seems to work at all is Eric
Please don't change at all
For me to you
And you to me, yeah

[Yawn of the Dead]

Also. BIG fan of Troy leaving