Aw I thought this would be some cool NBA-related thread where we say things like... "Buy Stock in Oden. He's about to skyrocket" or... "Time to dump your Anthony Morrow stock... that's about to plummet!"
You guys ever play the Hollywood Stock Exchange? it's like hsx.com. Pretty fun. You'd start with a certain amount of money (like 2k or something) and then you buy stock in different actors/films. The system itself was kinda interesting. Stocks were really just based on how their last 3 movies performed at the box office and how much money a certain film was projected to make. In theory it's kinda cool. Example: You buy a stock in "Blair Witch Project" when it's an unknown project... and then when it way overachieves at the box office it skyrockets. Example 2: You buy a bunch of overpriced stock in Waterworld before it comes out... and then go broke when it flops. Kinda funny.
They could do that with the NBA though. It's just an alternative to fantasy basketball. Has it been done? Here's how I'd do it. Base it off the nba efficiency stat. ((points + rebounds + assists + steals) - missed FG - missed FT - Turnovers) ... pretty simple. Here's the leaderboard on NBA.com:
http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/Efficiency.jsp?league=00&season=22008&conf=OVERALL&position=0&splitType=9&splitScope=GAME&qualified=N&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=All%20Teams ...
LeBron #1 at 31.1
CP3 #2 at 30
Bosh #3 at 29.1
I'd imagine the "NBA Stock Exchange" could use those numbers. Example: Greg Oden efficiency number is currently 13.8... Say you got $2000 bucks to start. You see Greg Oden is currently $13.8 dollars a share. Do you buy a bunch of stock in Greg Oden expecting that number/share price to skyrocket? I sure as heck do.
Anthony Morrow currently is 17.1 If you had a bunch of stock in Morrow at $17.1 dollars a share... wouldn't now be the time to sell?... or do you expect it to continue to go up?
D. Rose at $20 bucks a share. Buy or sell?
KG is $19.5 a share right now. I say buy. That should go up. Then sell when it gets back in the mid 20s...
Bosh at $29.9 a share? Sell sell sell... that aint going any higher...
How many people on this forum are ready to invest their entire 2 grand in Rondo at $13.5 a share? lol...
Anyways... the idea has potential, I think. Could you also invest in teams? Their win% = their share price maybe...?
Lakers are $88 a share... probably sell.
Spurs are a pretty good buy at $50 a share. What's a better deal... Oklahoma at $9 bucks a share... or The Wizards at $10 bucks?
Has it been done? :-P