Just about the only highlight of the simulation, from a Raptors perspective, was to see DeMar DeRozan get selected for the all-star game in Toronto. The largest reason why the Raptors did as poorly as they did in the simulation is all the defensive stoppers they got in the off-season didn’t seem to do anything as the team allowed a league-worst 111.3 points per game.Īs a result of the poor performance, a lot of interesting things went down with the team including a big trade that saw the team acquire Andre Drummond from the Detroit Pistons for Jonas Valanciunas (full details on Toronto’s activity in the simulation in the month-by-month look).
To put into context how putrid this showing is, Toronto’s worst-ever season was a 16-66 horror show in 1997-98 – the team’s third season in existence.
Toronto finished the season a dreadful 17-65 and finished with the worst record in the league by a large margin (the second-worst team, Denver Nuggets, had 11 more wins than Toronto did). The many changes Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri made to the roster certainly did not pan out in the simulation. Note: The rosters at the beginning of the simulation were up-to-date as of Oct. We’ve broken the simulation down into a number of sections: The season summary, how each month of the season went and a complete round-by-round breakdown of the playoffs.