2, check the spreadsheet.

Might have to send our scouts to prepare for the Championship game

Will end game 2's with Spurs @ Blazers once this Hornets-Wizards game is finished

Knicks @ Warriors

Wizards @ Hornets

Thriller Spurs @ Blazers

Exciting Spurs/Blazers game. Never thought I'd be annoyed at simulated NBA officiating.

How much did I win by?

Lol at anyone even competing with us at this point.

I knew McLovin and I had the best team, just didnt realize it was this much better than everyone else.

Yea both teams couldn't stop scoring on the end of the games possession. Was mad KD missed that ft to tie the game. Lol at KD passing the ball to Vuc for a 3 on the last shot

Spreadsheet will tell you

Not that I think this reflects at all on your drafting skill because we've already talked about the overatedness of your team but yea the Wizards look dominant so far. Harden being guarded by Avery Bradley and TP guarding Curry makes it tough. Can't imagine what it'd have been if I hadn't dropped Kobe, Zbo and Gay

+1

lol Harden

enjoyed watching the game. westbrook was incredible but good team effort. Favorite plays were the BAZZ offensive rebound and put back right before the half and cousins blocking kyrie with about a minute left in the fourth quarter. Wish I could change my strat now, but will if i advance to the next round.

Couldn't stream today but we're still pn pace to finish round 1 in one week as I initially planned, will do the deciding game 3 (4 of them) tomorrow.

By the way, I stated in the OP :

Reflecting on this, I think this is a bit too overwhelming. The idea of playing several games is good to decrease variance and be able to compare at least 2 games together to have better understanding of the values of each team but having 5 and 7 is a bit pushing imo. Of course this also means more work for me but that's not the primary reason. We don't want this to get too long and become too boring, we need a balance between enough excitement/enjoyment and enough basketball so I think best of 3 is good for all rounds. I can't imagine watching your team plays the same team for the 4th time being too exciting especially when a game isn't exactly very short.

So I'm proposing to keep best of 3 format for every round and maybe adjust the minutes (5,6,7,8) for round 1,2,3 and 4. what you guys think?

Need best of 5 at least...3 is too high variance

Cina, you're the one doing the work so imo whatever you decide should be fine.

you're god damn right. would only affect the SF and F anyway.

I will be streaming the first two game 3 starting in 5minutes : Clippers @ Pelicans followed by Hawks @ Suns.

Remaining two will be some time later tonight

www.twitch.tv/cinarocket

Clippers @ Pelicans

Hawks @ Suns

Both of these are the correct response. The only reason to go less than 5 is the work necessary, which is sufficiently enough of a reason no one should begrudge you if you want to switch things up even if that's not what most of us would prefer.

Yep

High variance is better than no games and it's a lot of work to do this

When you run this again at the end of the season with updated player rankings I'll advance with ease

Current rankings underrate my players like DENNIS

Final 2 games of round 1 starting in 5 minutes :

Warriors @ Knicks

Blazers @ Spurs

win or go home

Warriors @ Knicks

Blazers @ Spurs

Coach pop playing garbage seconds

RUSS

Will update bracket in spreadsheet later but the matchups are

Suns-Wizards
Knicks-Spurs
Sixers-Pelicans
Grizzlies-Timberwolves

you have the possibility to edit strategies until the beginning of the round. I'm going to give you until 3PM EST tomorrow. If i receive tactics from two teams before then i'll likely play a game since I have a day free tomorrow and am free for the later part of the day today and wouldn't wanna waste that.
You don't need to resubmit tactics just tell me the parts you want to change if any based on what you saw from your team in the previous round/adjustment to your opponent. For the record, when I listed players priorities I forgot the priority Midrange so if you want to add it to one of your players priorities now is the time.

TuT wait till i PM mine to someone else before sending yours

LeBron James 48 minutes