Initial Roster

Here is the current roster for the 2010-2011 Lakers in order of seniority based on when they joined the Lakers.

Kobe Bryant	G	6'6"	8/23/1978	7/11/1996
Luke Walton	F	6'8"	3/28/1980	7/9/2003
Lamar Odom	F	6'10"	11/6/1979	7/14/2004
Andrew Bynum	C	7'0"	10/27/1987	6/28/2005
Derek Fisher	G	6'1"	8/9/1974	7/20/2007
Pau Gasol	C	7'0"	7/6/1980	2/1/2008
Shannon Brown	G	6'4"	11/29/1985	2/7/2009
Ron Artest	F	6'6"	11/13/1979	7/8/2009
Steve Blake	G	6'3"	2/26/1980	7/8/2010
Theo Ratliff	C	6'10"	4/17/1973	7/22/2010
Matt Barnes	F	6'7"	3/9/1980	7/22/2010
Devin Ebanks	F	6'9"	10/28/1989	8/12/2010
Derrick Caracter	F	6'9"	5/4/1988	8/13/2010
Joe Smith	F	6'10"	7/26/1975	12/15/2010

Welcome to LIFO Lakers

The goal of this blog is to demonstrate the effects of a LIFO policy (Last-In-First-Out) on a set of employees whose value to their employer is relatively well known.  I will begin with the 2010-2011 Los Angeles Lakers roster as currently composed.  Then going forward I will simply add players as they are added to the real roster, and every time a player is removed from the real roster, I will remove from the LIFO roster whichever player has the least seniority.

(Originally I set out to do this historically but too many player transactions are missing from official sources online)