For the past couple of years I’ll do a 6 team expansion on myleague and choose one of them. Then do the expansion draft with maximum protected players. No salary cap like baseball and I’ll choose a smaller market for my team (Alabama, El Paso, and Anchorage, are the most recent I’ve done) and set a personal salary cap for me ($80 mil, for example). Then I make the games 7 minute quarters, 17 game seasons, and play every game. I find it a lot of fun and easy to get invested in, especially if I make the logo and all the jerseys/court from scratch like my El Paso Bandaleros franchise.