Groves is an 8? :|

Ryan was a little confused about an NBL salary cap of $A1M - thinking he'd get all of that himself.

How many points are you allowed per team

70 points.
Does anyone know what returning college players get rated at?

interesting to note the players that have requested a ranking. Rush, Nevil and Matty Knight. Rush to the Kings, Nevil to the tigers and Knight to the Wildcats ?

Bradshaw rated higher than Rychart who was club MVP with Cairns and rated higher than Gibson, Vukona, Petrie, Harvey & Hinder??
Typo??

schenscher rated 10 what a joke i would have him 7 dont see him as the elite big man of the league

Wildcats Roster

S.Redage 10
K.Lisch 9
S.Weigh 7
D.Martin 7
J.Wagstaff 6
D.Williamson 6
B.Robins 6
D.Johnson 6 A Perth boy wants to come home
S.Harris 2

Thats 59 points and leaves 11 for anyone we want import or whoever.

Sounds pretty good . I Would go for a Damian Ryan or someone like that who is 7 points so if anyone goes dow with an injury they can be replaced by a 10 point import just like they did with Rogers this year.

Crocs Roster - here's what i'd like

Import 10
Matt Knight 9
Import 9
Hinder 8 (signed)
Hoare 8
Phill Jones 7
Cedar 6 (signed)
Tovey 6
Robertson 5
Blanchfield 1

69 points

1 import has to be a PF and the other a PG

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No depth to the bench when things turn bad who you going to turn to i would rather have P.C in that team coming of the pine.

Rooboy, clearly not a schenscher fan?...

As I mentioned above about Ryan - MEL and ADL had some injuries, last season and looked at Ryan, who was training with MEL, but he wanted some obscene amount of money.
So MEL got Rose and our injuries were not long term.

gotta be honest about this but having a player points system is a joke, it is by far the stupidest thing i have ever seen.

James, I agree. I think the salary cap covers any imbalance of player quality in a team. You are not going to get 10 players rated 10 points each going into one team because the salary cap would not be enough to cover what they are worth. Assuming the salary cap is adhered to strictly, then you don't need a points system. Having said that, guess who is not going to get a job next season with a rating of 8 points?

DJ Rod, you're not a Homicide fan? I would have thought any Crocs fan would lock him in without a second thought!

Assuming the salary cap is adhered to strictly

They can police it as well as any other league in this country. Word has it teams lose their million dollar guarantee if they are caught cheating. If that is true you wont find teams cheating, it s simply not worth it - especially given most guarantees are from government or a supporting business who would be mighty pissed off to lose their money for that reason.

Bean and Rod, I'm wondering if Homicide is leaving the NBL? Or at least told the Crocs he's looking at other options? Otherwise, that's a glaring omission from your list, Rod!

OK, wait - looks like a fallout as a result of Homicide maybe upping his asking price post-MVP win? From Rod on Twitter:

Ian Smythe said in an i'view today that Corey Williams was probably the highest paid player in the NBL this season

Just a thought... If Homicide is such a good marketing tool how come the @tsvcrocs were one of the worst crowd drawers on the road?

Crocs are rational enough to see that while Corey is a good showman and a very good player, he isnt a superstar who will deliver a title but is paid like one.

The reality is the Crocs can get another imprt point guard who contributes a similar amount (ie not as brilliant but more consistent and able to shoot jump shots) for significantly less, which would allow them to fill out the rest of their roster better and compete for a championship.

I assume that we can only offer him so much... it is hard to recruit good players to Townsville and end up having to pay them more to come here. If we put all of our eggs in one basket, the team as a whole becomes poorer. His MVP status has lifted his $ value in Europe.

If another team wants to pay him more just for attendance numbers, then that is their right. I'd say Sydney would be front runners and he would be brilliant for them.

I will then ask you how many games he won for us this season? or last season?

Personally, he is a great guy, is great for the game and a marketers dream but maybe not but what the crocs want anymore.

If he did re-sign I would be happy, but if he left, I wouldn't be pissed either. He loves Townsville and hardly ever carries his wallet around; gets free stuff from everywhere and imagine the trash talk in the media before he comes back to the 'Ville.

paul, is it a fact that teams lose their guarantee if caught cheating the salary cap? I have not heard this. If the NBL say its difficult to police the salary cap, then it would be just as difficult to prove a team to be cheating the salary cap. You would want to be absolutely correct and without a doubt that a team was cheating to take their guarantee away.

I've heard something about the cap and the guarantee. Could be enough to scare teams pretty straight. Have never seen it listed outright as an official league rule though to the public, but there's a lot of stuff shown to clubs but not the public so it wouldn't surprise me.

The Adelaide 36ers were told that the top 4 teams would be fully audited and lose $1M guarantee and spot on the ladder.
So we ain't EVER gonna cheat the salary cap.
We spent $965,000 on players salary.
You have to leave a little bit, in case of roster change.

EC, auditing is apparently being done in conjunction with the Australian Tax Office, so the figures the NBL will be basing any decision on will be sound.

As I said, I very much doubt anyone will be cheating the salary cap in the foreseeable future, for most that penalty would mean going out of existence.

i think some thought in the ole NBL that some teams may have been a little over the $800,000 cap.
I'd doubt with BA newNBL auditing top 4 teams vide Tax office and the like that anyone would be over $1M, these days.

Aw - and I'd put a lot of credit on the even comp to the cap rather than points rankings and that Boti Nagy thinks it's time to upgrade on Chuck and Schensh should be 8 and the like (in todays paper)

Boti on Chuck Harmison:

I could go on, but why spoil you? If Basketball Australia wants the NBL taken seriously, it needs a serious administrator. The days of "near enough" surely have to be over.

I think the point is Chuck is an administrator, not a general manager. I think with Larry as BA CEO able to provide a basketball angle a professional should be sought as NBL GM.