The legendary auction league, The Kevin McHale Cup returns for it's eighth season.
Managers please confirm your return in this thread.
Rules and end-of-season rosters to follow.
Owners (Confirmed):
Badga
Billy the Kidd
Bostonian (Gus P)
Breezy21
Bugsy Mogues
Deeman87
Moo
Nick
Pie Legend
Rampantstatks
Theseventhhamster
Tony Richo
Owners not returning
Rocco
Gridlocked
Cameron K
Badga (Heath) - Kramerica
Team Contracts
Dirk $8,500,000
KJ McDaniels $825,309
Development Contracts
Trey Burke $3,282,821
James Harden $2,441,406
Mirza Teletovic $1,031,635
Qualifying Offer
Carmelo Anthony
Billy the kid (Billy the kid) - The Kidd's Crew
Team Contracts
DeMarcus Cousins $11,950,100
Development Contracts
Eric Bledsoe $2,500,000
Gordon Hayward $3,937,500
Terrence Jones $2,000,000
Sleeper Contract
Kris Middleton $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Derrick Favors
Bostonian (Gus P) - Green Machine
Team Contracts
Marcus Smart $904,403
Amir Johnson $500,000
Deron Williams $1,500,003
Development Contracts
Stephen Curry $2,929,689
Brandon Knight $1,875,004
Jeff Green $914,663
Qualifying Offer
LeBron James
Breezie21 (Brendon) - Purple Haze
Team Contracts
D. Howard $6,999,000
E. Gordon $1,675,000
Development Contracts
G. Dragic $3,125,000
C. Bosh $1,125,000
T. Mozgov $2,437,500
Sleeper Contract
Donatas Motiejunas $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Russell Westbrook
Bugsy Mogues (Bugsy Mogues) – The Dark Nique
Team Contracts
Paul George $3,210,095
Draymond Green $2,355,250
Development Contracts
Kyle Lowry $2,441,406
Nikola Vucivic $2,500,000
Jonas Valanciunas $2,367,189
Reggie Jackson $2,000,000
Sleeper Contract
Hassan Whiteside $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Jimmy Butler
Deeman87 (Eric) - Dante's Devils
Team Contracts
Andrew Wiggins $6,500,000
Rudy Gobert $740,000
Development Contracts
Damian Lilliard $6,835,951
Klay Thompson $2,875,694
Kenneth Faried $3,437,519
Jeff Teague $2,187,500
Sleeper Contract
C.J.McCollum $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Paul Milsap
Moo (Moo) - Sooby Moos
Team Contracts
DeMar DeRozan $6,800,900
Al Horford $10,500,000
Development Contracts
Isaiah Thomas $2,225,000
Tyreke Evans $1,761,390
Sleeper Contract
David Lee $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Al Jefferson
Nik5354 ( Nicholas) –Uncledrew
Team contracts
Juius Randle $650,000
Jabari Parker $6,100,000
Bradley Beal $7,100,000
Development contracts
Doug Mcdermott $1,600,000
Sleeper contract
Mo Williams $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Marc Gasol
Pie Legend (?) - The Birdmen
Development Contracts
Kevin Durant - $14,016,796
Anthony Davis - $9,850,279
Michael Carter-Williams - $2,412,306
Team Contracts
Rudy Gay - $5,346,767
Aron Afflalo - $2,145,579
Sleeper Contract
PJ Tucker $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Dayne Wade
Rampantstatks (Neil) - - 12 hour Delay
Team Contracts
Joel Embiid $2,206,000
Jared Sullinger $2,310,000
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope $1,499,000
Development Contracts
Derrick Rose $6,864,258
Ricky Rubio $5,859,376
Giannis Antetokounmpo $2,000,000
Kawhi Leonard $3,906,273
Sleeper Contract
Jordan Clarkson $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Nikola Mirotic
theseventhhamster (theseventhhamster) -Milwaukee Hamsters
Team Contracts:
Dante Exum $4,200,000
Nicolas Batum $8,744,443
Development Contracts
Chandler Parsons $2,500,000
Kyle Korver $4,250,000
Steven Adams $2,500,000
Qualifying Offer
Danny Green
Tony Richo(Tony Richo) - - Fubar inc.
Team Contracts
Blake Griffin $9,800,003
Development Contracts
Andre Drummond $781,313
Ty Lawson $2,441,406
Nerlens Noel $662,500
Sleeper Contract
Wesley Matthews $1,600,000
Qualifying Offer
Chris Paul
The Rules
Roster Positions PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN
Stat Categories:Field Goal Percentage (FG%), Free Throw Percentage (FT%), 3-point Shots Made (3PTM), Points Scored (PTS), Total Rebounds (REB), Assists (AST), Steals (ST), Blocked Shots (BLK), Turnovers (TO)
The off-season
I. Following the end of the season or prior to the next seasons’ auction, owners may extend a “qualifying offer” to 1 of their players. This gives them the right to see the highest bid for that particular player in the upcoming draft, and then match if they wish to.
II. Following the end of the season or prior to the next seasons’ auction, owners may extend a “Sleeper Contract” to 1 of their players. This player will be kept for the next season at $1.6 mil. Sleeper contracts can only be awarded to players who were valued at $1.5m or less at auction the previous year or FA acquisitions during the season.
III. Players going into the second year of Team, Development or Sleeper contracts are removed from the draft pool, and their “cost” is subtracted from the 50mil budget before the draft.
The draft
I. Every team begins the draft with a “budget” (or salary cap) of 50 million.
II. Players will be auctioned off in groups of 6.
III. Groups will consist of players of similar fantasy value, using a “cheat list” off a pre-agreed fantasy site.
IV. Players on qualifying offers will be auctioned in their own group and independent of Free agents. Managers will make bids on all QO players in the group. A manager may match the highest bid on their player. Any player not accepted by the current manager will be won by the owner of the highest bid. Only the highest bidder is relevant. A manager cannot win more than 2 players. Any players not won are no longer QO players and will enter the next auction group with other Free Agents. Assuming the possibility a manager will win 2 players in the group, the maximum bid will be in line with your remaining budget and players to be drafted . For example, if you have 10 players left to draft and $40m budget remaining, you can make a maximum bid of $18m / player allowing the minimum $500k for the remaining 8 players..
V. If you have the highest bid for a particular player, the amount you submitted is what you’ll pay. So, if you offered 18 million for Chris Paul, and the next highest bid is 9 million, you will still pay 18m, not 9.5m or 10m (i.e. it’s not E-bay!)
VI. An owner cannot successfully bid on more than one player in any group of 6. So, even if you had the highest bid on both Cousins and Favors, if they are in the same group, you will only get one of them – specifically, the player that you bid more for.
VII. Except for the Qualifying Group, if an owner successfully bids on a player in 2 consecutive groups, he must “sit out” the next group.
VIII. The minimum bid allowed for any player is half a million.
IX. Each team will be required to draft 15 players.
X. Once the draft is completed, owners are allowed to nominate players who they wish to grant a “Team Contract”. These players will be kept for the next season at exactly the same price. Team contracts can only be awarded to players who were not contracted the previous season. Those teams finishing in the bottom half of the final standings of the previous season may allocate 3 Team Contracts, those teams in finishing in the top half may allocate 2.
XI. Once the draft is completed, owners are also allowed to nominate players who they wish to grant a “Development Contract”. These players may be kept for the next season at this seasons’ price plus 25%. All teams may allocate 4 Development Contracts.
The season
I. Standard 9-category roto scoring, free Yahoo! League.
II. Moves restricted to 20 for the season - It is the commish’s belief that leagues should be won through good drafting and trading, not by being the quickest to pounce on every available free agent.
III. Waiver wire waiting period will be 1 day.
IV. Trades will be made independent of “budget” implications – but note that Team and Development Contracts will carry over to the off-season and remain associated with players regardless of team changes or trades. If players are dropped to free agency, contracts are no longer valid. Players on Team contracts can only be dropped prior to the All-star break
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