ILH Fantasy Talk

Thread for any discussion on fantasy basketball.

I'm down for doing an ILH league but I'd say we need 8 minimum. Confirm in this thread if you want in and I'll set everything up if we get 8.

i'd do it this year if we can get enough folks yeah

pencil me in too

Uh huh

I’ll play, I’ve only done fantasy hoops like once in the past dozen years so I’m not particularly optimistic about my chances. I hear this Stephen Curry fellow is good at the shooting of basketballs from behind the three point line.

I also presume Doing Zion Shit will be a category, yes?

YESSSS

I am in baby

have never done hoops fantasy and think this might be bad for me so sure why not

I also presume Doing Zion Shit will be a category, yes?

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 7:41 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

zion dunks will be worth 3 points, zion blocks 2, zion steal and fast break dunk 5.

I'm in!

Jerami Grant or Taurean Prince?

i think prince will have more opportunity but if millsap gets injured then grant will be huge

thanks. i was put on the spot to pick a team name and choose trae don't huerter. hat tip to you

nice...

Heez, you want in our ILH league?

no thanks. i can only handle one of these

when are you sending invites, spotto. I could use a third league

Looks like we've got at least 8! for those that said they were in please send me an email (pop the levels at g male dot com) from your preferred email address and I'll get everyone plugged in. If anyone else come into the thread and wants to play you can send me an email as well and I'll cap it at 12.

I'll be using the Yahoo fantasy app so make sure you get that. Draft likely this Sunday or Monday evening. 8 category head to head.

lol i'm having to delete my yahoo account and make a new one for this bc for whatever reason yahoo doesn't have my age information and i can't update it and you have to be 13 to play fantasy basketball. guys i made that account over 20 years ago..........

Haha you can use an existing gmail or another account to create a yahoo acct I think

it was a minor inconvenience, i ain't exactly spending hour after hour every day on yahoo dot com

just did a ten-team mock and ... i am gonna have to do a few more of these, feels like my hoops mind is stuck in like 2015

Word to the wise: don’t draft Carmelo

man, I haven't done a Yahoo fantasy league in years, signing up was a real trip down memory lane. seeing how I participated in a big NCAA tourney pool ten years ago put on by Clay Travis before he went full reactionary dickweed and finished 2nd out of 392.

i prefer yahoo to espn for one reason and one reason only: the lightning (start all active players) button.

ok looks like i still need m bison, lavator and ulysses emails! lets goooooooo. draft is on sunday evening 845

we can hold four more as well if anyone else wants to join in just send me an email.

sent

We can always open it up to a few randos at the end if we want a shallower player pool

true true. I am used to 8 team leagues and big rosters i kinda like it like that

Sent!

damn this draft is at 11:45 EST?! i didn't realize all of y'all were west coasters, it's no biggie but i think odds are very strong that i'll be autodrafting.

I'm east coast too - tbh 8:45 est would be tricky for me anyway putting kids to bed but yeah will probably have to do some autodrafting. I'll try to make it for the first few rounds tho

no auto-drafting allowed (half joking, but like 50% of the fun of fantasy is the draft imo). what time would be work better? I just kind of threw that out for a first time. I could do mid day on Sunday like around 1:30-4pm pacific time or monday evening.

EST evening sunday will work otherwise i'm mostly screwed

Honestly with this being a snake draft it’ll probably go pretty quick so I could possibly swing 1145. An hour or two earlier would be ideal but I can be amenable

yeah my last one took about an hour - 8 teams snake draft 90 seconds for each pick. I changed this one to 60 seconds per pick should go even quicker

10 or 10:30 EST Sunday night would be ideal but could start as early as 9 or at the later pacific-friendly time

my yahoo mail is roastingonanopenfire

ok sending

let's get eight teams in this thing

no extra points for 3s, huh?

down for that, theyre already worth 3 of the points

oh wow that changes my draft strategy immensely, not doing %s either?

so i did some Number Crunching in MicroSoft ExCel (the extra caps in SC stand for Sports Center)

using last year's data, the number one fantasy man per game using spottie's rules is james harden, the second is giannis, wow we got ourselves a mvp debate again!!!

also the player that most unfairly benefits from this scoring system is westbrook

i think percentages are really important for balance in fantasy hoops and would like to suggest we use them!

i wish missed shots could be a negative value, it would really penalize low-efficiency volume shooting that gets the PPG up

altho there arent a lot of ppl other than westbrook who are getting rewarded here, its mostly a reflection of the best talent, though it does reward big men more than it prob should.

the average distribution of a player's Spottie points in this system goes like this (w some rounding):
47% from PPG
26% from RPG
16% from APG
11% from SPG
7% from BPG
-6% from TO/G

big men less likely to have high TO rates and more like to have big REB and BLK so thats why 6 of the top 11 players from 18-19 would be centers (davis 3rd, joel 5th, towns, jokic, drummond, vucevic 8th-11th)

#analytics

(In contrast Ben Simmons is just listed as a PG)

Ben Simmons could learn a few things from Dean Wade obviously

i don't know if it's enough to save me in this final but i feel pretty good about snagging Hardaway Jr off waivers for tonight

losing D Mitchell was a big hit

Yah that was huge. It’s gonna be tight all the way to the end imo

lol at our current FG% tie breaker

argh at hardaway jr being out for this last day; this is a stupid tight final and i need all the help i can get!

(prob should have strategically stacked players with sat/sun games yesterday but i didnt)

You should win cos you have the tiebreaker

welp vanvleet and derozan are taking the night off so

4-4 on Sunday, gotta love it. Y'all are both champs in my eyes (until one of you is a loser later this evening)

I need to hold points and pull off one of assists or fg%. Both of which are almost out of reach.

we should have a 9th category because winning 4-4 is silly. but it should be a positive category, so not turnovers.

sym you very well might beat me 8-0 for 3rd, i am humiliated

christ, tatum has become such a reliable beast

it was close all week!

we should have a 9th category because winning 4-4 is silly. but it should be a positive category, so not turnovers.

I need 10 assists combined out of Drummond, Flynn and Birch. I don’t think I’m gonna get it but damn this is close!

Congrats forks. The best team won.

what was the tie-breaker?

Reg season record. I feel dumb cos I meant to change it to h2h matchup at the beginning of the season cos that’s how I always do but I didn’t want to change it after the season started.

autodraft is undefeated!
gg, it couldn't have been much closer

congrats forks, thanks for the commissioning spottie

Tatum's giant game almost won it

I’m gonna think about those 7 more assists I needed all summer.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/6234/

(tbf, only 10 players in the league got seven or more assists tonight)

Your team was so stacked. Kelly O was like a top 20 player the last month or so.

iirc the rockets kept him on an extremely short leash and i wondered if they were gonna cut him. then he went from 10/2/6 in miami to 18/8/3.

Congrats Forks, and thanks for making it all happen Spottie.

I liked my team at the outset but the injury bug hit us hard. LeBron going down was the death knell.

I think it'll be a few days before I stop checking my players' stats...sabonis had 32/19/9 and 3 steals and it's doing nothing for me!

Hah same. Withdrawals are real.

Lol I just picked up melo

it’s starting to feel like fall where I live so I thought I’d bump this to see if we wanted to get the wheels in motion for 21-22

im v interested but i want to actually be at the draft this time lol

I want forks to be there too >:(

we shd do a zoom with jay bilas style commentary too

it would be a mistake not to do that

Yah I’m down and I’ll run it again if everyone is cool w that. Yahoo has a new webcam option for drafts so we can do it live baby. Ill set a date as we get closer. Let me know if you’re in on here and we’ll see where we’re at and how many we need to recruit.

auto-drafters will be punished

lol yes i am going to wear my very best draft suit and hire a guy to play adam silver and shake my hand after every pick

i'm in and will absolutely be autodrafting

bison better be on cam w an vintage Bruce Bowen jersey

i have vintage duncan and ginobili, bowen was not a spurs draft pick and also fuck that guy

Ok that will do

If I've never played fantasy of any type, and don't know anything about hoops, would this be fun?

absolutely

Can I have 5 Simmonses? He fills up the box score and I think this is the year he really puts it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw

i'm in