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Had two ideas for National Team info.

1. I'd like to see a depth chart or ranking list for all players deep enough in the NT system by position. Something like top 20 PG, SG, SF, PF, C to see how players really stack up. You wouldn't even have to list skill levels or anything just to see how players stack up on a relative level because after all, you need 5 unique players to play a game.

2. I wonder if the off-site forum would be better suited as a blog or website style with comments rather than posts? Most of the information being put out there is more of a press release style and I think it may be easier for the casual user to pop over and see what's new rather than searching through forums and trying to differentiate between different users posts. It would also allow more flexibility with the information presented and how it is presented.

Just my 2 cents.

The only problem with #1 is that a single list per position isn't all that useful. If we just make a list of the top PGs, it's unlikely the #10 really ever has much of a shot for the team. What you'd really want is top 5-10 per position for age 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22+. But, that's a lot of lists.

#2 is an interesting idea. Just have to make sure we can still restrict access to USA owners.

The final list of players that we will be tracking, including 18 y/o, are now listed in the first post.

I will be contacting the owners of these players to inquire about training plans. You may contact me directly if a player is on your list as well, obviously.

For reference, here are the 18 y/o we are tracking:

92. James_Benson
93. Chuck_Coy
94. Warren_Dixon
95. Clyde_Diehl
96. Moses_Olsen
97. Edgar_Iverson
98. Roy_Barney
99. William_Vinson
100. Demetrius_Long Injured for 1 week(s)
101. Zachariah_Lapointe
102. Daniel_Jensen
103. Bryon_Mahoney
104. Hernan_Tuarez
105. Eugene_Ross
106. Christopher_Rivera
107. Lorenzo_Himes
108. Alex_Watts
109. Ross_Phelan
110. Marshall_Patton
111. Jame_Stratton
112. Gedion_Pimentel
113. Richard_Eason
114. Jean-Michel_Daveluy
115. Doug_Strange
116. Dave_Ellis
117. Paul-Arnaud_Proulx
118. Vincent_Newberry
119. Mike_Wise
120. Delain_York
121. Ed_Wade
122. Mark_Deniega
123. Huey_Oglesby
124. Lowell_Boyd
125. Mike_Watts
126. Israel_Miller
127. Warren_Lopes
128. Roscoe_Broughton
129. Al_Harlow
130. Joseph_Whittington
131. Joseph_Baughman
132. Martin_Coy
133. Ken_Quinn
134. Lyle_Strong
135. Hugo_Aldrich
136. Felix_Hernandez
137. Virgil_Akins
138. Willis_Lundy
139. Jerry_Hamlin
140. Booker_Cathey
141. Alexander_Hendrickson
142. Joe_Bronson
143. Rodney_Casey
144. Fidel_Leal
145. Liao_Conghui

Last edited by Edju at 4/20/2009 1:52:08 PM

Puerto Rico tonight, our enthusiasm is roughly .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

All owners with NT candidates have been contacted, and we're basically in cruise mode until the Worlds now.

All the owners of candidates have been contacted, and we've already heard back about 53 players out of 171, about 31%, which is pretty damn good for less than 24 hours.

You said I didn't have to send updates until the 27th :(

Right, as far as player skills go.

We do, however, need to know if a player will be trained or not so we can decide to keep tracking him or not.