Below is a table listing the positions for 2011-12, update 1. Right now, it is a work in progress. The data has the player's name, the percent of his minutes he spent at each position per 82games.com, and his "82games" position. There are also notes, where appropriate, listing things I flagged such as low minutes and possible 82games mistak...

Here's a question I've been grappling with a lot. Our league has the below 11 guys on max contracts (including LBJ who will see one this offseason). How many of them are worth more than their max contracts? How much are they REALLY worth? Deron Williams, Kevin Durant, Al Horford, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Dwyane Wade ,Derric...

As the sim develops and goes public, I imagine there is a large portion of the general population who might not be interested in the long-term commitment of a theoretically never ending fantasy basketball game. Now, aside from the obvious of offering up just one year leagues for current seasons (which I imagine will eventually be an option,) ...

So, uhh, Blake Griffin did [this][1] tonight. This prompted me to think it might be fun to share my list of the ten best dunks ever, and invite your suggestions as well. 1. [Here's][2] Vince Carter jumping over a Frenchman then coming awfully close to punching out Kevin Garnett by accident. Bonus: vuvuzuela at 0:13. 2. [Here's][3] Leb...

Discussion of player positions, 2011-2012 Update 1. (More after the jump)

Here's the list of players currently on XOD rosters who are eligible for at least 4 minutes and don't have a position assigned: Jan Vesely Kemba Walker Markieff Morris Reggie Jackson Shelvin Mack Norris Cole Jon Leuer Ricky Rubio Brandon Knight Jimmer Fredette Marcus Morris Charles Jenkins Derrick Williams Tristan Thompson MarSh...

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Contents -- * Roster & Cap * Stepien * Development Contracts Roster & Cap -- Each team has 15 roster spots and $60 million in cap space. The two most basic rules regarding your roster and cap space are as follows: 1. Although you may have up to 15 players, only 12 of the players may be active during any game and you must have at ...

Now that the lockout appears to have ended and we've all but wrapped up FA, it's time for a season preview thread! I am going to stick with the tiered approach to my predictions that I used last season even though I think I'm the only one who likes it. As a refresher: Tier 1: 75-100% chance of making the playoffs. It'd be a huge shock if a ...

A place to store useful but hard to find "reference" type items:

A long and somewhat tentative examination of [Derrick Williams][1] at Canis Hoopus includes this interesting fact: > The collegiate shooting efficiency of the top-10 picks over a seven > year period offers no information about those players' NBA shooting > efficiency. This problem holds when only looking at front-court > players, when only...

Contents -- * Free Agency * Gameplay * Roster Management * General Free Agency -- Q: What happens to free agents who don't get any contract offers by the time they accept? A: Restricted free agents will accept their qualifying offers. Unrestricted free agents will be randomly re-assigned a new day in the rest of free agency. Q: ...

Best place to start is what I forsee my depth chart being as of now. Starters PG - Brandon Knight SG - Landry Fields SF - Danny Granger PF - David West C - Demarcus Cousins Bench PG - Eric Bledsoe SG/SF - Paul George PF - Trevor Booker C - Andres Biedrins PG - Chris Duhon SG/SF - Mikael Pietrus PF/C - Anthony Tolliver Inac...

That time of the season again. The draft is a wrap, free agency is over, and we've all clicked on each other's rosters about a thousand times making sure there aren't anymore under-the-radar SF's lurking in the $0.6-$0.7 million dollar range for which we need to propose a deal. While the NBA season revs its engines, we sit tight and wait for t...

Two questions- one broad one that I'm hoping will inform my one specific one: How does the sim work again? I know this was posted before, but how exactly does this sim use the stats on the players page to 'build' an offensive possession and a game. I looked through the forum but couldn't find the earlier explanation. If someone does find ...

(I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, and if it has, please point me to that section.) I'd like to know how players' defensive ratings are calculated and what sites are used to get the data used to calculate the ratings that we use for players in xohoops.

(**Note:** We will be transitioning the wiki to this site as a series of forum posts with the `Wiki` tag. Thanks to Devin for his help in maintaining it!) Welcome to XO Hoops! This guide assumes you've created a team already in a newly forming league. If you've decided to take on the challenge of taking over a previously inactive team, you ...

Contents -- * Draft Lottery * Draft * Contracts Draft Lottery -- Following the regular season, a lottery will be held to determine the order in which the non-playoff teams will pick in the draft. It is a weighted lottery which is scaled so that the team with the worst record has the highest chance of winning, and the team with the be...

Contents -- * Pre-Free Agency * Free Agency Initialization * Free Agency Pre-Free Agency -- 1.1 This phase, from the conclusion of the draft to the initialization of free agency (FA), is to allow GMs time to sign their rookies, make qualifying offers to their restricted free agents (RFA), and make any needed trades before FA begins....

Contents -- * Overview * NPV * Calculator Overview -- Because XO Hoops has GMs, but does not have actual players or agents negotiating contracts, we must have some method for determining the contract preferences of a players. Generally speaking, a player will accept the most money irrespective of any other considerations. In other wor...