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

yeah, i'll get in on it tonight

here are the settings:
https://i.imgur.com/oxa7TI5.png
if get more than 8 teams i will adjust roster sizes. I usually try to keep it around 150 total rostered players in the league.

4 injury slots cos of all the weirdness that the rona will cause.

i’m in. need to sign up when i get home.

I set the draft for Sunday night at 830pm pacific time.

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

no problem. which user were you again so i can remove?

who's next up?

forks i can do like 30, maybe 45 minutes earlier, that work?

forks i can do like 30, maybe 45 minutes earlier, that work?

i mean, it's better than not

I’m gonna pass. In one league already

ok. we need one more! voodoo?

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.

are we zuming

Feel free to set one up I may be late joining the zoom

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?

1 bogdan = polyphonic
2 lamelo = clay
3 smudge = sym
4 Jrue = spottie
5 doncicmacallit = forks
6 siakams = lav
7 rickys hair = moullet
8 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?

ok dropped caruso and matts optimal team. let me know if you have any issues anyone. draft is in one hour!

time to draft suckers

spottie and me in a close one this week, I think he's gonna pull it out

Good match should come down to the last game or two. This season is hard with all these cancelations

usually this format doesn't lead to super close finishes (compared to fantasy football) but this week most of the categories are like a one-game difference

hey sey yahooo created a new category called IL+ which allows GTD, O and IR eligible players to go into so you can pick up an active player. So I'm going to replace our 4 IR slots with 4 IR+ slots and add one extra IR+... so we'll have 5 IR+ slots available.

I'll do it tonight after the games are done so people can wake up and make changes starting tomorrow morning.

anyone have issues with this?

nope but i have issues with you beating me right now

lol plenty of time left!

wouldn’t let me change the 4 IL slots so I just added two IL+ slots

Thanks Spottie. I think my IL has been full basically the whole season. It’s been a bit of a lost year for the Torch Passers, though Passer-in-chief LBJ and Passee Zion have both been producing at least

The number of centers I've gone through this year is really something. I tried to stock up on them but it wasn't enough.

centers is such a hard position in fantasy. blocks are gold.

FYI I upped the transaction limit to 10 for this 'week' since its ten games instead of the normal 7. Ill switch It back next Sunday night.

Playoffs baby!

The torch is definitely being passed, as Zion is the only one of my first 5 picks playing at the moment. On my IL right now: LeBron, Hayward, Jamal Murray, John Collins, with KAT missing his game today to attend a memorial for his mother. Good luck to my esteemed opponent clay and to all participating.

injuries and missed time have been so brutal this season but thats especially bad

My IL was full for a good chunk of the first half of the season, though not with all top guys like that, and then my team got surprisingly healthy up until the last couple weeks (LeBron was the first domino). It has definitely been a weird year.

shuffling dudes on and off IL and (the blessèd) IL+ has been a part-time job the last couple months

Haha yes same

bkly minny game postponed to add another wrinkle

forks's team is crazy good, they only lost once all season

And he barely made any moves 😤

Dončićmacallit
1. (7) Nikola Jokic (Den - PF,C)
2. (10) Devin Booker (Pho - SG,SF)
3. (23) Deandre Ayton (Pho - C)
4. (26) Donovan Mitchell (Uta - PG,SG)
5. (39) Fred VanVleet (Tor - PG,SG)
6. (42) De'Aaron Fox (Sac - PG)
7. (55) DeMar DeRozan (SA - SG,SF,PF)
8. (58) CJ McCollum (Por - PG,SG)
9. (71) Lonzo Ball (NO - PG,SG)
10. (74) Coby White (Chi - PG,SG)
11. (87) Julius Randle (NY - PF,C)
12. (90) Danilo Gallinari (Atl - SF,PF)

good players with the first 9 picks, then randle in the 11th...

yah pretty much every player there has outperformed their draft position besides coby, gallo and maybe booker who's coming on strong now

auto draft tho so he cant take credit :)

randle that late is the real steal tho for sure

lol autodraft beat us all

Jokic at 7 was a steal too in retrospect

yah i think hes #1 on the seaseon. hasnt missed a game either

i may be wrong but i think i logged on just in time where i can claim intentionally drafting randle!
but yes, the power of my autodraft was strong. Required very little pruning over the course of the season.

D. Wade is balling out! That is Dean Wade of the Cleveland Cavaliers, of course, who had a 21-6-2 line with 3 steals and 5 threes last night in a loss to the Pels. I am noting him in this thread because he is currently at the top of the Transaction Trends, but more because I find it funny that his eligibility is PG/PF/C. He is 6'9" and averages 1.1 APG so maybe the PG thing is just an error but I cannot claim to have watched the Cavs to know for sure.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/req/202104131/images/players/wadede01.jpg

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

Ben Simmons could learn a few things from Dean Wade obviously