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Maryland Maurauders
- Last Season: 6th, won relegation 2-1
- Salaries: $155k
- Changes: sold Giovanni Obhart (34yo $71k PF), Ba +$7k, Posch +2k
Survived the gauntlet to win the 6th place relegation series last season. But team anchor Obhart is gone, there's no solid training pipeline to replace him, and the conference doesn't have any obvious weak links after getting two well stocked promotees. Likely would stay up easily in the Weak 8, but he has the misfortune of playing in the Great 8

- Prediction: 8th

Playoff Predictions
Big 8
Lion Rebels d MORNINGZZZ
Motor City Machines d Midwest Bulldogs

Lion Rebels d Motor City Machines

Great 8
Mos Eisley Imperials d Eugene Register-Guard 2.0
Tulsa Tomatoes d Ewoks

Mos Eisley Imperials d Tulsa Tomatoes

Finals
HCA from playing in the softer conference proves decisive, Lion Rebels d Mos Eisley Imperials

Thanks to everyone for their analyses and predictions! I’m halfway between looking forward to this season and worrying about it and I’m not sure which is more prominent.

Regardless, this is my first season in five tries at the D3 level winning the first game of the season, so already doing better than the past four. Still some work to do revamping my team, but hopefully for the better.

Good luck everyone!

Inspired by the OP and totally not just to try to make my own team look good, here's my take on a power ratings metric:
- Calculate minute-weighted team salary and DMI (defined as player's MPG in league games / 36 * Salary or DMI respectively)
- Rank from 1 to 14 (excluding the bot and WCH)
- Score 14 points for rank 1 down to 1 point for rank 14. Combine the scores as 2*DMI rank score + 1*Salary rank score

Current standings (weighted salary and weighted DMI in parenthesis):
1. Mos Eisley Imperials ($312,453, rank 2; 2.98M, rank 1) - 41 points
2. Lion Rebels ($305,424, rank 3; 2.96M, rank 2) - 38 points
T3. 84th Street Hoopers ($318,392, rank 1; 1.90M, rank 6) - 32 points
T3. Midwest Bulldogs ($210,820, rank 7; 2.07M, rank 3) - 32 points
5. Motor City Machines ($202,892, rank 9; 2.06M, rank 4) - 28 points
T6. Coolsville Comets ($187,378, rank 10; 2.01M, rank 5) - 25 points
T6. Hemet Hooligans ($215,074, rank 6; 1.84M, rank 7) - 25 points
T6. Tulsa Tomatoes ($255,139, rank 4; 1.78M, rank 8) - 25 points
9. Eugene Register-Guard 2.0 ($219,117, rank 5; 1.54M, rank 9) - 22 points
10. Ewoks ($203,957, rank 8; 1.27M, rank 10) - 17 points
11. MORNINGZZZ ($178,307, rank 11; 1.02M, rank 11) - 12 points
12. Chicago Trojans ($116,066, rank 13; 0.78M, rank 12) - 8 points
13. Maryland Maurauders ($118,879, rank 12; 0.75M, rank 13) - 7 points
14. Celtic Saints ($50,812, rank 14; 0.22M, rank 14) - 3 points

This is great - I hadn't thought about using DMI. Thanks for sharing!

I’m not sure DMI would really be of much value pre-season. In season, I think it’s a good proxy for GS management and hence why I have it weighted more heavily than salary.

Oh of course - I was just thinking of it from the power rankings aspect.