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

oh ok

ya

how does sunday night work for everyone? whats the latest everyone can start?

Can we try to get an 8th playa and avoid a robo team?

for sure, thats preferred. you know anyone? we try every year on ilh and can never get more than what we have here

trick one of the ilbaseball ppl into it, tell them the nba stands for national baseball association

hahaaa

What if we switched to roto? Then there's no matchups ... the number of players wouldn't matter.

I’ve never done it, is it easy?

roto's way less fun imo

roto's a lot more fair but yeah less fun

fun > fair

um, what happened here exactly? Do we wanna draft tomorrow late night?

oh yeah we should do this tomorrow (night)

ive got another draft tomorrow night. i can do tues or wed, you can still do it after the season starts.

I have a buddy who will be an 8th. What’s the draft plan?

Nice, tomorrow night or Wednesday night after 8 pacific works for me. I can set it up to start games next week. Could also do this weekend if that’s better for folks.

tomorrow or wednesday's great for me, would prefer to do it with as little actual games played as possible

I could also do like daytime tomorrow afternoon like between 3-5pm pacific before games start but I realize that’s prob not optimal for everyone, just throwing it out there

spottie, can you mail the league when you set a time please? I'd push for late night EST if we're doing it this week.

Morning all. 3-5 pacific won’t work for me today or tomorrow. Ideal will be in the 9-12pm eastern/6-9 pacific range, can do that today or tomorrow. Thursday wouldn’t be able to do the first hour of that window but latter two still good.

alright yall, I'm setting it for 8:20 pacific tonight. I'll set the time for each pick a little faster so we should be able to get through it in about 45 minutes. Hope yall can make it.

sounds good!

lavator, send me the email of your friend who wants in to
pop the levels at g mail dot com

and it wouldnt let me do 820 so 815 it is

xp done. Can't wait!

sent! everything is all set. not sure ill be able to do a video chat tonight, i'll be drafting while trying to get kids to bed.

ill be there, im drinking a big red rn to have the caffeine i need to GM may way to glory

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/762164/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif half an hour my friends http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/762164/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif

pick 7 yuckkkkk

only thing worse is....pick 8 lmao

8 is good! you go b2b

mehhh i want (redacted) but he will be gone

I already can't believe I drafted fkin Simmons

Pain. Although he should get better

don't forget to set your rosters for the week starting monday thank u

what happened to the injury spots?

theres 4 of em

Ah, i see now.

BTW, well aware that was a lopsided trade but GET YOUR GUYS and I wanna watch Zubac this year

gotta get your guys

is that the first trade in the history of ilh fantasy ball

it might be!

Hi, I’m Lavator S. and I drafted Ben Simmons.

I accidentally dropped kyle lowry on my phone - and of course he finally has his first good game right after

I can add him back. Just make sure you have a spot open for him

Hi, I’m Lavator S. and I drafted Ben Simmons.

I have created an empty roster spot. thank you! xp

hes back with you now

the shame i feel for wasting another human's time on this...thanks again!

lol fantasy is the best waste of time there is