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

im planning 2 b there

i def wrote down in my phone calendar that it was on monday so thanks for bumping the thread lol

18 minutes til draft! ive got the 7th pick ouch

get in here u goons

not sure if i like this team better than an autodraft but at least i don't have kyrie

all the headache players went to the robot team, perfect system

Gotta love it lol

Algorithm successfully loaded me up with Celtics but punished me for autodrafting by giving me Harden. Even once he inevitably gets it together and figures out his new schemes I will not enjoy rooting for him. Oh well

hey guys, not in your league, but would you trade MPJ for Booker straight up?

Whoever gets Booker is winning that trade easily

that would be me. thanks spottie!

It depends on your stats. MPJ doesn't foul, which can make a big difference. But it's a fair trade imo

the assist numbers are enough to make a major difference. both are starting the season slow

Clay your team is insane. Your boys are COOKIN

yeah i've been lucky that my top, like, 10 or 12 guys are shredding it right now, and i grabbed cole anthony just after the draft and he's on a crazy heater. i'm sure it'll all stay this way and nothing will change!

that's generally how this works

ugh, I fat-fingered my attempt to drop finney-smith and accidentally dropped maxey. would anyone object to a mod correction?

no objection from me

it's fine

I dropped DFS but it won’t let me add him back until you activate mitch rob off the IR. Let me know when you’ve got an empty roster spot so I can add Maxey back

aight cool i dropped mitch rob

Done

After next week, Week 8, everyone will have played the managerless team once.

I'm fine with leaving things as they are, but it might be fun to have those players in play in the league.

Hypothetically, if we drafted the managerless team onto our rosters, it might look... a little something... like this:

1-1. bison: doncic
1-2. me: beal
1-3. sym: embiid
1-4. dnp: hayward
1-5. spottie: westbrook
1-6. clay: lonzo
1-7. forks: russell
2-1. forks: richuan
2-2. clay: porzingis
2-3. spottie: graham
2-4. dnp: ben simmons
2-5. sym: stewart
2-6. me: kyrie
2-7. bison: noel

that makes me want to start a poll re: who is more likely to play this year, simmons or kyrie

that would be cool

it would be cool if i didn't draft last

haha yeah

Yah I want no part of Russ lol

sooooo that's seven players out...

yeah its rough out there right now.

can sports stop for a couple weeks? the current protocols seem totally unequipped to deal with omicron

I have 12 on IR lol

so I accidentally dropped simons while trying to drop amir coffey, could I get a mulligan?

fine with me but why not just leave him there so i can have him :(

i love him for sentimental reasons

*looks at the lillard-sized hole in my team* *sighs* *kicks a rock aimlessly*

haha this season is madness. ill fix it clay even tho im not buying your story wink wink

ok hes back on your roster now

i am whole again, thank you!

so did matt drop out?

yeah whats up bison!?

i have abandoned my boy fantasy team

i think what ive realized is *mad men music* i only like the beginning of things (drafts), the actual setting lineups and researching players who suck less than mine just feels like work in a way that i do not enjoy, anyone wanna do trades lemme know

i'll take trae off your hands

lets get a bidding war going imo, i will accept ilxcoin

hah no firesale trades

you can just hit that 'start active players for the week' button on every sunday and be set!

i dont even read my work emails what makes u think i can do that with regularity????

its shit like this where im reminded that i probably have adhd

haha

see with me tinkering with my fantasy team is a prime outlet for my adhd when getting distracted from work