Fantasy sports thread: Talk about your teams, ask for trade advice, etc

deadonthestreet

Edit: This used to be the thread for doing our fantasy hoops draft. Now it's a place to talk about your fantasy teams, basketball or otherwise. Talk about your team, complain about how injuries are screwing you, ask for trade advice, stuff like that.

Join:

http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/register/joinprivateleague_league_select?.scrumb=
League ID : 8514
Password : wang

This is where we'll be drafting. Rules:

1. You have 24 hours to pick, except on weekends when it is 48.
2. Try to make it faster than that.
3. PM the person picking after you so they know they are up.
4. If you know you will be away, PM someone some proxy picks so they can pick for you so we aren't slowed down.
5. If you miss two picks in a row I reserve the right to give your team to someone else.
6. Trash talk is encouraged.
7. Pictures to go along with your picks are encouraged.
8. Comments from non-participants are encouraged.
9. This is not the thread for general NBA discussion.

Results will be kept on a google spreadsheet. PM me your email address if you want permission to edit it so I don't have to enter all the picks myself.

Positions: PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, Util, BN, BN, BN
Stats: Field Goal Percentage (FG%), Free Throw Percentage (FT%), 3-point Shots Made (3PTM), Points Scored (PTS), Offensive Rebounds (OREB), Defensive Rebounds (DREB), Assists (AST), Steals (ST), Blocked Shots (BLK), Turnovers (TO)

Stats can be changed, if enough people want to.

Draft Results so far!


Draft order (determined by random.org):
1. BubbaT - BubbaT
2. Frosteey - I want to play : D
3. Cauld - Cauld
4. tinyfist - LeBron's Ego
5. FirstComradeStalin - Ron Ron's Psych
6. sportzboytjw - LeBrons are back!
7. deadonthestreet - dots
8. clownfood - Zombies
9. yotes - Troubled Gryffindor
10. fortis - fortis
11. Eat It. Eat it, You Nasty Pig. - Eat It. Eat it, you nasty pig.
12. dlinfiniti - sp00ns
13. TheBigEasy - TheBigEasy
14. Phonehand - meeeee
15. Namel3ss - Namel3ss
16. Bergy - me.

dlinfiniti

booooooo i demand a re-random
how much did bubba pay? I'll double it
i call shenanigans

BubbaT

Woot!

Are we starting now?

dlinfiniti

don't you dare take my boy

Phonehand

14? shiiiiiiit

deadonthestreet

Sure we can start now if you want.

dlinfiniti

i'm so excited about yao ming, you should probably take yao
he will write you checks

Phonehand

TRACY MCGRADY COMEBACK YEAR

BubbaT

With the #1 pick, the Bubbas select...



BBM said Kevin Durant was the #1 player according to our categories last year. Which is awkward, since I was in the other NBA thread saying Lebron was better for fantasy even minus 5 ppg. Oh well.

dlinfiniti

terrible bubba
terrible
just so everyone knows what you're talking about here it is:

BubbaT wrote: »

dlinfiniti wrote: »

clownfood wrote: »

dlinfiniti wrote: »

also, does this tank those 3's fantasy ratings as they'll be stealing stats from each other now?

is it bad that this was my first question when i heard LBJ went south for the winter?

seriously, wade's stats might not take too much of a hit but lebron's new role as chief ball handler on a team with 2 other scoring machines will basically make him a higher scoring crappier passing steve nash which essentially drops him to at least #7 under (durant, bryant, paul, nowitzki, wade, howard) possibly further cause hes really not going to jack up any one or two stats up to the point where you really don't have to worry about it anymore with your other players and can focus elsewhere.

All their stats are going to take a hit. Don't forget, they're going to be spending plenty of 4th quarters watching the bench mop up in blowout wins.

Boston's big 3's stats all dropped their first year together. Kobe stats dropped after the Lakers got Pau.

Lebron will probably stay in the top 5, though he's no longer the undisputed #1 overall (though I'd still take him there, not trusting Paul's health). Even if you take away 5 ppg from his numbers last year, he's still a top 5 player.

Wade probably drops out of the top 5, and definitely does if he's not the primary ballhandler. He's more reliant on Pts and Ast for his value than Lebron, since he doesn't have the impact Lebron does in FG%, 3pm, and Reb.

I think Bosh drops out of the 1st round (top 12). I expect his scoring to drop more than Lebron's or Wade's, and he doesn't have the multi-cat impact of the other 2 to absorb that loss. He doesn't block shots, and less FGA will mean less value in both Pts and FG%, since FG% is weighted by FGA. His saving grace is a good FT% for a big man, but he can't compete with Pau/Lee at the top of the non-Dirk big man charts anymore. He's more on the Boozer/David West level.

BubbaT wrote: »

Bulls reportedly signed Kyle Korver. Is he going to start at SG? They need the shooting, but Korver's defense...

dlinfiniti wrote: »

why wouldnt you take durant at #1? their stats last season were pretty much identical with the exception of assist which lebron brought in significantly more
theres no reason to think durants would change and he's only getting better whereas lebrons will pretty assuredly take a hit
or are you trying to play mind games with me so i screw up my first round leaving durant to you
i see what you're doing
your tricks don't work on me

Just straight up, 5 ast are worth more than 5 pts. 25/8/8 is worth more than 30/8/3. And making up 5 ppg is extremely easy in the later rounds, while making up 5 apg is extremely difficult. Getting Ast in later rounds usually means taking on a player with signifcant drawbacks, like Brandon Jennings' FG% or Andre Miller's lack of 3pm.

Especially when you consider that those 8 ast are coming from a non-Ast producing position, SF. It means you basically have 1 more PG in the lineup than everyone else. It's the same thing that makes Josh Smith's 2 blk more valuable than a C's 2 blk, because Smith's are coming from SF. So Lebron's value, even minus 5 pts, is greater not just overall, but positionally as well.

what a dick
thats right
i can wait
you can't leave until you eat the rest of your shoe
including the laces

Frosteey

Can I really embrace the Lebroncalypse : (

dlinfiniti

Frosteey wrote: »

Can I really embrace the Lebroncalypse : (

yao is still available
he's a steal at #2

BubbaT

dlinfiniti wrote: »

what a dick
thats right
i can wait
you can't leave until you eat the rest of your shoe
including the laces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw


also, everybody remember to PM the person with the next pick after you pick.

Frosteey

It might have been nice to just send out a blanket PM alerting everyone that this thread exists! I had no idea : (

It's not too late dots!

Frosteey

I woke up this morning, and made my decision. The Decision. This fall, the upcoming fall, I've decided to take my fantasy basketball team-building talents to Frosteey's 2010 Lebroncalypse featuring first round second overall pick, Lebron James. It was a tough decision, but I am looking forward to the endless stream of statless fourth quarters which Lebron will no doubt provide in the pursuit of yet another non-championship season for the so-called king.

Here is a picture of Lebron looking quite cross with Delonte West, presumably after receiving that type of silent disappointed rebukation that only a father is capable of.



However, I am not disappointed in you and will never rebuke you or your high school friends or mother or shoe line or terrible taste in shirts, Lebron. Please don't leave my team so I'm stuck building around a core of Anderson Varejao and Antawn Jamison or, worse, Amar'e Stoudemire : (

BubbaT

LOL, can you lime a font?

Cauld

Woah, we're not waiting around are we? I have absolutely no idea who to take. Nice Banner Frosteey, I like it.

Edit: How big are the rosters?

deadonthestreet

11 players. 1pg 1 sg 1 generic guard 1c 1sf 1pf 1 generic forward 1 utility player and 3 bench slots.

Cauld

1 starting pitcher?

deadonthestreet

Cauld wrote: »

1 starting pitcher?

I tell you man this league is gonna be crazy

Cauld

I had the 2nd pick last year and that didn't go so well....



So, I've done a lot of research this year. A lot of meditating on the choices out there.



I guess what I'm trying to say... is, Chris Paul, Will you join me by taking your talents to Tatooine?



I just noticed I'm taller than my 1st round pick.

deadonthestreet

Draft results from last year, btw

http://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/nba/2009/98101/draftresults

Or here
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqN4aZ4nzcX8dFpHTlViYkpCeWJ5NGw2ajVfREoxTGc&hl=en#gid=0

Vapid

Chris Paul should've gone before Lebron.

yotes

Oh shit, it's on already. Coulda said something in the main thread.

tinyfist

I'm going to try building my team around a big man (since I always end up with the worst):

Mr. Dwight Howard, please save me!

FirstComradeStalin

White people, gather around!

Are you tired of watching black athletes who don't look like you dominate in a sport that you'll never be good at?



Yes!!!

Are you tired of watching commercials during NBA games featuring black athletes that make your racist old grandmother shout at the screen?

How do we know which sunscreen to buy?

Well rejoice, because one of the few draftable white men in the league has come to the #5 pick and is joining Ron Ron's Psych (btw, did you know Ron Artest is from Queensbridge?)

Dirk Nowitzki





Now watch as age finally catches up to him / he flees to Australia again this season and I get screwed!

dlinfiniti

omg omg omg omg hurry up and get to my pick
i want to pick already

Namel3ss

Who won last year?

Also, its painful being 15th and watching everyone get snatched up.

/whine

Phonehand

man my fantasy team was like the cavs last year
dominating regular season horrible playoffs

dlinfiniti

Namel3ss wrote: »

Who won last year?

Also, its painful being 15th and watching everyone get snatched up.

/whine

well you get 2 picks in a row so you can get yao ming AND tmac
what a bargain

Namel3ss

dlinfiniti wrote: »

Namel3ss wrote: »

Who won last year?

Also, its painful being 15th and watching everyone get snatched up.

/whine

well you get 2 picks in a row so you can get yao ming AND tmac
what a bargain

How did you know what I was planing? . . . Unless. . . Those would be bad choices? You're just trying to trick me. Yao ming is the tallest, he has to be the best.

Phonehand

are we doing the "don't talk about undrafted players" rule still or whatever

FirstComradeStalin

First rule of NBA fantasy draft

Don't talk about NBA fantasy draft

clownfood

Goddammit! Dirk was MINE!!! you will suffer, Stalin. You will suffer beneath the big black boot of the Zombies!

FirstComradeStalin

For reference, as anyone in last year's ffootball league can attest to, I am always willing to take (fair) trade requests

sportzboytjw

Hmm. Sorry, I'm thinking still.

sportzboytjw

I can't believe I'm doing this but. Pau Gasol?[/COLOR]



Yes, I am stunned also.

dlinfiniti

omg omg omg awwwww yissssssss its almost time

Bobble

Comments from non-participants are encouraged.

Let me just say, that under no circumstances would I expect a thread devoted to strangers doing a fantasy draft to be entertaining. I subbed to this thread after reading page 1.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

11th again, huh. I guess it worked out okay for me last year.

Now, to figure out what all crazy positional eligibility yahoo is assigning to players this year.

dlinfiniti

Eat It. Eat it, You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

11th again, huh. I guess it worked out okay for me last year.

Now, to figure out what all crazy positional eligibility yahoo is assigning to players this year.

i swear if you ruin this for me, i will not rest until your season record is shattered
consider yourself warned