SSBA

2009    183    Cavs    Sign PG Leandro Barbosa for $8,782,656 over one year.
2009    183    Grizzlies    Sign SG Kerry Kittles for $4,500,000 over one year.
2009    183    Magic    Sign PF David West for $5,400,000 over one year.
2009    183    Suns    Sign PG Eric Snow for $1,000,000 over one year.
2009    183    Heat    Sign PF Ricardo Tsakalidis for $4,641,000 over 4 years.
2009    183    Nuggets    Sign C Zaza Pachulia for $11,340,000 over 2 years.
2009    183    Heat    Sign PG Ivan Piatkowski for $4,641,000 over 4 years.
2009    183    Bucks    Sign SF DerMarr Johnson for $778,350 over one year.
2009    183    Heat    Sign C Don Long for $4,641,000 over 4 years.
2009    183    Bucks    Sign SF Jordan Henderson for $540,850 over one year.
2009    183    Nuggets    Sign PF Hector Strom for $1,440,000 over one year.
2009    183    Hawks    Sign SF Gerald Wallace for $3,000,000 over one year.

Cavs, you're a bastard.  I had a multi-year deal to Leandro before you swept him away at the last minute.

ok, since i'm running these at some weird times, the s&t rule for the remainder of free agency will be within 24 hours.  I am disregarding the "or when the next sim is run, whichever comes first" part.

In Barbosa's case, apparently that 98 greed overcame the 99 play for winner :)

I'm definitely ready to get this season going.  2 new starters to boost the offense and a bench full of defensive role players.  This should definitely be the best team I've fielded in the soon to be 5 seasons.

Just great. Tsakalidis with 87 play for winner skiped the Kings (57 win ratio) 4.500,000 offer to play for Heat (46) for 1 million a year?! Whole lot of logic in that one...

I'll admit, I'm confused as hell with what the Heat are doing.

Long, Tskaldis, Ward and Piatowski are 4 guys that would have been around after Fa, able to sign for the min.

I could see him wanting to lock them up long-term because of their potential, but they all just have B.

Plus, he could have just taken a free 2nd round pick and got a better player.

Kings, I'm with you on that one.  Kittles passed up my MLE offer for the Grizzlies, even though I have a slightly better win rating and there are 3 guys on Memphis listed at SF who could also play SG.  Kittles would have instantly been my starter at SG.  Very hard to figure these things out.

Same thing happened last year when Mikel Chamberlain passed up my MLE to sign with the Sixers, which really screwed me this year with Boykins leaving.

Kings, you may want to take a closer look at the Tsakalidis that signed with the Heat (Ricardo) and the Tsakalidis that you made a bid on with your MLE (Jake)

Well, it's just another proof for me (i know alots of guys will disagree on that) that these ratings doesn't mean a thing. Sometimes? Sometimes yes. In extreme situtation, like the Hawks who has one the worst win ration or something like that. But overall it really means nothing.

What? Let me see that...

Kings MLE offer:


Heat signing:

Ooops, my bad i admit.

We have 2 Tsakalidis in league??

We have 2 of ALOT of players in this league.

The computer has about a 25 last name cache, and they just pull them out of there ;)

Actually, believe it or not there are 667 last names in the file.

Yeah i know, but Tsakalidis is just...so rare name and not a great player either so i really haven't noticed.

lol, and we have so many repeats.

Well, all the names in the last name list are former players.

and we do bring in over 100 draftees per year.

Sorry Nets, but I wasn't going to let a player I was after slip past me again. I saw that you could only offer something like 3.7 mil to start, and long-term or not, I gave him an offer that he simply couldn't refuse. So there ya go...