BenchBrawl
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Ideally every team's remaining cap space would be updated and published daily, so there's full transparency.
But the question of what to do when teams run out of money needs to be resolved (see post #78). I'll give that some thought.
I think we'd need to decide if we want a predetermined order, or a random order.
If it's predetermined, it makes sense to rank the players and put them up for auction in (approximate) draft order. Someone (possibly me) can calculate the average ranking of the top 500 (?) players over the past 3-7 drafts. (The more drafts would give you more meaningful data, but it would also start becoming out of date due to the deserved climb in the rankings of Crosby, Ovechkin, etc). This would be published in advance.
If it's a random order, I think the population would need to be defined (ie anybody picked in the top 500 in the past five ATDs or MLDs). Then somebody (possibly me) can make the random selections on a daily basis.
My preference (at least for the first time we're trying this) would be the predetermined order. It would be new and exciting enough. Though part of me wants to see someone steal Gretzky for like $2.5M if he randomly comes up in the final round.
Agreed with both bolded.
No need to go back 5 drafts to take the average IMO, just use 2018 and 2017, maybe 2016 and just ignore the 2016 score for the few obvious ones like Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Kane, Keith, Doughty, Karlsson, Getzlaf, Bergeron.But taking only 2018 and 2017 would be fine IMO.I don't see any big deal with even taking only the 2018 list and going with it.