If you follow one of those teams closely you have an opportunity to be a Rep! Our rankers communicate throughout the ranking periods and try to be as knowledgeable as possible about their rankings. We want someone who would be very interested in this process.

Examples of power rankings can be found here. Before submitting an application as a comment below please read over the below rules and responsibilities of the reps.

Rules & Responsibilities:

  • Rankings will take the users as long as the users feel necessary, I imagine an hour might be spent doing this every two weeks. In some cases more, in others less.
  • Rank every team in order once every 2 weeks (this will be done on a spreadsheet so you should have some very basic knowledge how to operate one)
  • Provide a short paragraph about your team. Keep it two a sentence per game or less. Ideally you would talk about what is happening with the team instead of how they played in a game. The write up should be no more than 400 characters
  • Ranks will need to be submitted on Monday before 12 PM EST (noon)
  • Missing 2 consecutive voting periods or 3 over the course of the year will remove you from voting.

Application:

  • Write a couple sentences about what you like about /r/nba and what is something you would change?

  • Where would you currently rank the your team (must have flair) in a Powerrankings today?

  • How often do you come on /r/nba?

  • How many games of your team do you watch on average per week during the season? How many other NBA games?

  • If you weren’t selected, who would you select as a representative?

This thread will be in contest mode. PM me direct for answers to any questions you may have. Comments other than applications will be removed.

  • not-a-potato-head@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. r/NBA is one of the best and worst places for NBA discussion online. On the positive side, it’s the largest collection of fans from every team, and that alone makes it a valuable environment for discussion. Most of the time, discussion tends to be more tied to reality rather than in team subs where hype trains all too often get off the tracks. However, there reaches a point where discourse turns into a hot-take-fest, and at that point it’s off to the races. This is more of an issue with reddit more than with r/NBA, but other sports subs do seem to have it a bit more under control. As for something that’s a lot easier to implement, I’d go with improving clips by requiring replays (either in the main clip itself or in a pinned comment) and actually enforce it so that people follow it.

    2. 16th overall, 7th in the East. I haven’t given the overall ranking too much thought at the moment (if I had to give a range they’d be somewhere between 13th and 19th), but Atlanta seems pretty solidly the 7th best team in the east at this moment.

    3. I usually end up on r/NBA a few times a day, but almost always in the evenings to check the post-game threads of any games I didn’t get to watch live

    4. I do my best to watch every Atlanta game, although I do miss ~5 on average over the course of a season due to having a life outside of basketball. I try to watch every team at least once a month (I’ve actually planned out which games to watch in past seasons in order to do this), but could probably up that to watching every team at least once every two weeks.

    5. If I could pick any person on earth, Brad Rowland. Dude is arguably the most knowledgeable person about the Hawks that doesn’t currently work for the Hawks, and he tends to have the most objective takes on the Hawks I’ve seen from a beat reporter. If I had to choose among reddit users, probably u/gmzeno. They’ve been writing up really in-depth summaries of every preseason game so far, and he’s been rather blunt with his analysis.