Tobias moment
SixersPain
joined 1 year ago
I was not familiar with your game, Marcus.
For those wondering about the full season stats, Embiid had 149 FGA and 64 FTA through the first 7 games of the season.
And yet neither the guy who lead the league in attempts (Giannis), nor the guy who made the most (SGA) won it.
You might have luck betting the over on points for in season tournament games. Head to Head is the first tie breaker, but after that its all about point differential, so you might see teams really try to run up the score in some of these games.
I mean if this list is only based on the 10 games this season and nothing else factored in it's not as bad, but this just feels like typical bait to get people fired up and generate traffic/clicks.
It depends on what the ultimate goal is for the tournament. If they want it to eventually have meaning/stand alone than having it's prize be for something else doesn't really help them there. Plus with how volatile the league is the team that wins it might look completely different come playoffs. Imagine if the Nets won it when they still had Harden/KD/Kyrie or in Haliburton's case if the Kings had won it before he was traded. I get these aren't the most common situations, but in your proposal that Nets team would've been the #1 seed.
I don't think this tournament prize should have any impact on the playoffs, since every game but the final one are just regular season games anyhow, but I do think there is room for improvement on player incentives. In addition to the cash prize you could add an automatic all-star spot for someone on the roster. They could expand the all-star roster by a spot and it could even add extra incentive to the return of East vs West since whatever team wins their conference would get an extra player. Now a trade like the Haliburton one still kinda breaks it because he'd be on the west in this scenario but a player of his tier is already gonna make the team so now someone else from the Kings would get a shot.
Damn we really got a whole ass quarter left.