Thread for any discussion on fantasy basketball.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:46 (one year ago) link
i'd do it this year if we can get enough folks yeah
― Clay, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:16 (one year ago) link
pencil me in too
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 23:27 (one year ago) link
Uh huh
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:39 (one year ago) link
I also presume Doing Zion Shit will be a category, yes?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:41 (one year ago) link
YESSSS
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:48 (one year ago) link
I am in baby
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:07 (one year ago) link
have never done hoops fantasy and think this might be bad for me so sure why not
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:24 (one year ago) link
― 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.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Thursday, 17 October 2019 05:11 (one year ago) link
I'm in!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 October 2019 12:33 (one year ago) link
Jerami Grant or Taurean Prince?
― Heez, Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:26 (one year ago) link
i think prince will have more opportunity but if millsap gets injured then grant will be huge
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:50 (one year ago) link
thanks. i was put on the spot to pick a team name and choose trae don't huerter. hat tip to you
― Heez, Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:58 (one year ago) link
nice...
Heez, you want in our ILH league?
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:07 (one year ago) link
no thanks. i can only handle one of these
― Heez, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:28 (one year ago) link
when are you sending invites, spotto. I could use a third league
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:51 (one year ago) link
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..........
― Clay, Friday, 18 October 2019 02:30 (one year ago) link
Haha you can use an existing gmail or another account to create a yahoo acct I think
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 03:07 (one year ago) link
it was a minor inconvenience, i ain't exactly spending hour after hour every day on yahoo dot com
― Clay, Friday, 18 October 2019 03:23 (one year ago) link
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
― Clay, Friday, 18 October 2019 03:24 (one year ago) link
Word to the wise: don’t draft Carmelo
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 03:35 (one year ago) link
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.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 18 October 2019 13:28 (one year ago) link
i prefer yahoo to espn for one reason and one reason only: the lightning (start all active players) button.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 15:29 (one year ago) link
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.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 15:39 (one year ago) link
sent
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:09 (one year ago) link
We can always open it up to a few randos at the end if we want a shallower player pool
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:11 (one year ago) link
true true. I am used to 8 team leagues and big rosters i kinda like it like that
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:26 (one year ago) link
Sent!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:15 (one year ago) link
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.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:32 (one year ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:00 (one year ago) link
EST evening sunday will work otherwise i'm mostly screwed
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:01 (one year ago) link
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
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:18 (one year ago) link
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
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:26 (one year ago) link
10 or 10:30 EST Sunday night would be ideal but could start as early as 9 or at the later pacific-friendly time
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 18 October 2019 23:01 (one year ago) link
my yahoo mail is roastingonanopenfire
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Friday, 18 October 2019 23:20 (one year ago) link
ok sending
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 18 October 2019 23:20 (one year ago) link
let's get eight teams in this thing
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:05 (one year ago) link
no extra points for 3s, huh?
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:31 (one year ago) link
down for that, theyre already worth 3 of the points
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:36 (one year ago) link
oh wow that changes my draft strategy immensely, not doing %s either?
― Clay, Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:55 (one year ago) link
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!!!
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:19 (one year ago) link
also the player that most unfairly benefits from this scoring system is westbrook
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:33 (one year ago) link
i think percentages are really important for balance in fantasy hoops and would like to suggest we use them!
― Clay, Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:45 (one year ago) link
i wish missed shots could be a negative value, it would really penalize low-efficiency volume shooting that gets the PPG up
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:47 (one year ago) link
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 PPG26% from RPG16% from APG11% from SPG7% 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)
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:53 (one year ago) link
#analytics
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:59 (one year ago) link
that’s a very injury prone starting five!
― Clay, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:14 (one year ago) link
lol, you should see my backups!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:22 (one year ago) link
role player hollafame candidate Danny green came through last night leading the lakers
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 13:02 (one year ago) link
yeah he balled out. im sure thats sustainable :)
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:05 (one year ago) link
my guys Lowry and Gasol combined for 6/24 from the field last night. Kobe!
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:28 (one year ago) link
championship hangover
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:33 (one year ago) link
having not played fantasy in a few years, the updated game tracker thing is really solid
― Clay, Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:07 (one year ago) link
thanks for sitting giannis against me, sym
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 25 October 2019 00:03 (one year ago) link
Set those lineups boys! lightning button is your best friend.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 25 October 2019 00:21 (one year ago) link
yeah that was pretty smart, forgot I needed to reset after picking someone up
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 25 October 2019 06:10 (one year ago) link
at least I saved myself from Eric Gordon going 4/19
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 25 October 2019 06:14 (one year ago) link
arrrrrrrrrgh, literally two blocks and ONE MISSED SHOT away from running the table this week
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 October 2019 17:34 (one year ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:09 (one year ago) link
half my top ten picks are out, (druss, lowry, vucevic, kyrie, bagley)
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Friday, 22 November 2019 06:09 (one year ago) link
rough. yeah ive been dealing with carrying injured players as well. curry and my 4th pick john collins getting suspended was rough cos i cant IR slot him. just trying to survive a few more weeks til i get him back.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:31 (one year ago) link
hey y'all let's do it
if we are establishing a precedent of multiyear participation, what are ppl's thoughts about keepers?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:57 (one month ago) link
yah for the crew we had last time i auto-renewed the league with the 8 of us. We can add some more so if anyone else wants in let me know. Or if one of the OGs cant do it also let me know.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:29 (one month ago) link
I'm down...keepers might be tough if anybody ever quits, but would be fun. As long as I'm not keeping last season's team
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:41 (one month ago) link
yah i like the idea of keepers but with a transient group it will be hard. think i'll just keep it as is for this league.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:51 (one month ago) link
Works for me. A zoom draft would be cool. I missed the draft night zoom but would love to put some faces (and real names) to all you fine ballers
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 22:34 (one month ago) link
yeah i don't see a renew my team type function but i'm in as well
― Clay, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:32 (one month ago) link
I think i just renewed and it says yall are in again but i'll look more into it soon
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:40 (one month ago) link
i think it's fine! just thought i remembered in previous years each player had to press a "yep, I'm back" button or whatever
― Clay, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:44 (one month ago) link
I think yahoo does automatic renewals now. Down for the zoom draft too.
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:06 (one month ago) link
zoom draft should be good. initial thought is sunday night Dec 20th. Usually the later the better for me but im on MST.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:16 (one month ago) link
we should prob nail down the draft date/time bc apparently the season starts in a week (?!?)
― Clay, Monday, 14 December 2020 03:11 (one month ago) link
Yah I’ll nail it down tomorrow during work
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 05:15 (one month ago) link
Sunday looks good for me! East coast here but 3 young kids so all bets are off with best times. schedule as you will
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:06 (one month ago) link
i'd rather not do keepers but i'll play either way
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:36 (one month ago) link
yah not doing keepers i decided.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:40 (one month ago) link
do we have everyone?
https://i.imgur.com/hGqOetq.png
me, clay, poly, lav, sym have all posted here. need confirmation from bison, forks and evol... are y'all in?
i know voodoo and heez have posted in this thread as well... feel free to join (just use the link) we want at least 8 teams but can take as many as 12. Any other regular ilhors that want in dont be bashful. I'll lock the teams in a few days. https://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/35042/invitation?key=02f5f730e113c315&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=bce2d0654366b787
I set the draft for Sunday night at 830pm pacific time.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 19:23 (one month ago) link
yeah, i'll get in on it tonight
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:02 (one month ago) link
here are the settings: https://i.imgur.com/oxa7TI5.pngif get more than 8 teams i will adjust roster sizes. I usually try to keep it around 150 total rostered players in the league.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 20:02 (one month ago) link
4 injury slots cos of all the weirdness that the rona will cause.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 20:03 (one month ago) link
i’m in. need to sign up when i get home.
― discourse stu (m bison), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:20 (one month ago) link
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:32 (one month ago) link
shit, kinda got a lot going on at the moment so I think it's best if I recuse myself this year, sorry I didn't notify sooner, hopefully y'all still have time to find someone to take my spot
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:19 (one month ago) link
no problem. which user were you again so i can remove?
who's next up?
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:21 (one month ago) link
forks i can do like 30, maybe 45 minutes earlier, that work?
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:22 (one month ago) link
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 02:42 (one month ago) link
i mean, it's better than not
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 03:02 (one month ago) link
I’m gonna pass. In one league already
― Heez, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:40 (one month ago) link
ok. we need one more! voodoo?
― Spottie, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:54 (one month ago) link
Ok moullet has joined the fold we’re a go! Moved the draft to 745 pacific. Sorry I couldn’t do even earlier forks, got a fam thing.
― Spottie, Saturday, 19 December 2020 19:34 (one month ago) link
are we zuming
― discourse stu (m bison), Saturday, 19 December 2020 19:35 (one month ago) link
Feel free to set one up I may be late joining the zoom
― Spottie, Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:52 (one month ago) link
who are the two i need to drop? shows ten teams here but we only have eight.
looks like we have two m@tts?
https://i.imgur.com/QIg0OxX.png
need to cut one of those and evol j but cant remmber which team he is. can everyone check in and let me know which team name you are?
― Spottie, Monday, 21 December 2020 02:35 (four weeks ago) link
1 bogdan = polyphonic2 lamelo = clay3 smudge = sym4 Jrue = spottie5 doncicmacallit = forks6 siakams = lav7 rickys hair = moullet8 lmaolo blol = bison
matts optimal team = bison???so that means caruso is evol j. so ill drop that one and bison which team do you want me to drop of your two?
― Spottie, Monday, 21 December 2020 02:42 (four weeks ago) link
ok dropped caruso and matts optimal team. let me know if you have any issues anyone. draft is in one hour!
― Spottie, Monday, 21 December 2020 02:46 (four weeks ago) link
time to draft suckers
― Clay, Monday, 21 December 2020 03:45 (four weeks ago) link