Who wants to play Fantasy Basketball next year? Is anyone interested in being a commish?

I'd like to give it a shot. I've never participated seriously in a full season league before so I'm sure there are lots of rookie mistakes to be made, and I'm the guy to make them.

i played for the 1st time last year...not on pistonsforum, but with friends. it's a lot of fun! so i'm in

Who wants to play Fantasy Basketball next year?
Are you kidding? I'm already planning my draft strategy! :laugh:

If there is sufficient interest are you considering expansion (like an "intermediate" league, or something)?

I promised Slippy I'd assist him with his commisioner duties next season.

I'm down. I'll commish if needed as well.

Looking forward to matching up with the NOVICE champ - Darth....



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Should be alot of fun next year. :)

I'm down. I'll commish if needed as well.

Looking forward to matching up with the NOVICE champ - Darth....

LOL.:laugh: A rose by another name would smell as sweet.



Bring it on! The season is months away, but it's never to early to talk trash!:boxing: Especially for the "expert" leaguers...you guys could use the practice. :caked:

I'll play and commish novice league if I don't kill myself or have a nervous break down.

lol @ darth re: trash talking.

it would be fun to have some sort of chat open while the live drafts go on so people can chat and pick their players.

We can use Chat for a live draft but it will make more work for the commish'es to set the rosters.

#1, you got fresh avatar. LMK if it is ok.

it would be fun to have some sort of chat open while the live drafts go on so people can chat and pick their players.

Yahoo has a chat while drafting, but the PF.com chat would be better.

its just so people can talk about their picks while they do their drafting. you know...you draft rip hamilton you leave and come back..."yessir!" c'mon yahoo chat can't do that.

i´m down for playing. revenge year. hopefully yahoo will sort the playoff problems that occurred this season gone.

also would be keen on a live draft.

its just so people can talk about their picks while they do their drafting. you know...you draft rip hamilton you leave and come back..."yessir!" c'mon yahoo chat can't do that.

There is a chat available through yahoo. While you draft you can chat. But there isnt much to it...

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Thanks Roscoe...I feel much better now.

I'll go for it again. Is there a playoff fantasy basketball on yahoo? I know they do that for some sports.

I had been waiting in yahoo lobby for next draft

I'm totally in! I had lots of fun this year - except for the playoffs. My vote is for live draft all the way.

Seems like you have several commish options already, but if I can help in any way, just let me know. As long as I get one of those cool title thingys on my posts too. :wink:

P.S. Hats off to Motown for a great job as commish this past season. He kept everyone in the loop and was able to maintain the peace despite a potentially problematic trade issue early on. :hail:

You can count me in. Linwood Ave Allstars are looking for revenge! :mad:

I'm totally in! I had lots of fun this year - except for the playoffs. My vote is for live draft all the way.

Seems like you have several commish options already, but if I can help in any way, just let me know. As long as I get one of those cool title thingys on my posts too. :wink:

P.S. Hats off to Motown for a great job as commish this past season. He kept everyone in the loop and was able to maintain the peace despite a potentially problematic trade issue early on. :hail:

Thanks Jammer.

We didn't have the entertaining bravado that the novice league had unfortunately, but there is no denying the class exhibited during the season by the managers minus a couple of hiccups. ;)

Whatever league has any combination of slippy, linwood or DarthTater will have plenty of banter. ;)

Whatever league has any combination of slippy, linwood or DarthTater will have plenty of banter. ;)

AKA: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".:D

AKA: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".:D

I guess I fall into the Bad catagory.

its more like: the Hurt, the More Hurt, and the winner. :P

linwood if you come to live draft, I'll hand you some complimentary bandages.

Who wants to play Fantasy Basketball next year? Is anyone interested in being a commish?

i'd love to play.

i'd hate to be commish.

Yes I will play. I am about 99% certain of it - maybe more.

i'd love to play.

i'd hate to be commish.
We would love to have both dba and yourself play. You fellas will have a blast because you both like looking at the minutae of stats and performance. Fantasy sports is pretty much the superbowl for fans who are pseudo-intellectuals. :D

I smell a setup in the air. Is this like when someone says, sure, join the game, we only play poker for fun..

Not at all. I'm not promising that if you are a sports geek you will do well, just that Fantasy Basketball is so engrossing. You watch stats, you watch your players. You watch the players you want on other teams or are in free agency. You watch the schedule. When you are in a tight weekly battle, you start analyzing who to play, how they play on Saturdays, on a back to back, traditionally against that opponent.

It's really pretty wild how "into it" you can get (or not). And all of that obsessing doesn't necessarily help you win, but you do it anyways because we are all closet GMs with micromanagerial tendencies.

Trust me. It's fun. I finished 9th this year, and playing with friends in 05, I finished 11th. But I still like to play, because Bonzi Wells should be playing with Jason Kidd, Eddy Curry, Mo Pete and Zaza Pachulia for the Sandwich Microwaves.

I'll probably play again it was fun and it made me more in tune with what other players were doing even more than past years of just watching the NBA.

I'll probably play again it was fun and it made me more in tune with what other players were doing even more than past years of just watching the NBA.
And that is why it is such a good fit for a forum like this. It's nice to be able to discuss more than the Pistons because at times, they are terribly boring. Boringly good.

We would love to have both dba and yourself play. You fellas will have a blast because you both like looking at the minutae of stats and performance. Fantasy sports is pretty much the superbowl for fans who are pseudo-intellectuals. :D

My only complaint is that total points should count for twice as much as any other stat. Steals, boards, To's do not always result in a score. Lets say they do 50% of the time and do away with the 3-pt col altogether since you already get credit for the 3 points under total points. I actually used that to stock up on 3-pt shooters since you get double credit for each 3-pt made. Although it will decrease your FG%.

Simply mutliplying total points by 2 should balance things out.

Maybe Yahoo can look into this?

The scoring system I use in the articles tries to value non-points production based on what typically happens - a turnover removes a possession from your team and gives an incremental possession to the other team so I subtract twice the average value of an NBA shot (percent of shots that are twos times the average shooting percentage times two plus the percent that are threes times the average shooting percentage times three).

Similar sorts of calculations for other non scoring production. For scoring I count points but subtract the average value of twos and threes missed.

The average percentages, etc. come from 82games.

The commishes can set the categories and scoring. I'm not sure how flexible it is but there is room to penalize for fouls and TOs. I don't know if points value can be doubled. Basically we took a common scoring system and kept it standard between the two leagues last season.

Motown hasn't been around much but he was talking about maybe playing through CBS Sportsline next year. I'd be all for that unless Yahoo overhauls their basketball league like they have done with baseball. You wouldn't believe how much better Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is. Very slick, the daily updates are fast and furious, player info is very rich. I got sick of fantasy basketball updates coming days after a player got injured. Not everyone has the time or resources to invest in premium fantasy research.

After the 2006 playoffs, we'll figure out how many core guys we have, how many leagues, draft dates, scoring system, league location, commishes, etc. and go from there.

We should set up a money league too. Just 10-20 bucks a person or something. It would definitely make the league more competitve and there would be less people quiting.

We should set up a money league too. Just 10-20 bucks a person or something. It would definitely make the league more competitve and there would be less people quiting.
Could you link or copy paste some rules from other money leagues? To do something like that, we'd need to set it up properly. It's worth investigating, so.... help us out with the leg work!

PS, I got something coming next season to fulfill gambling fetishes, play money though. ;)

Pistons Monopoly.

Park place and Broadway = Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace

own the monopoly of the three guard rotation: Isiah, Joe and Vinnie
stack it with chamionships.

Rick mahorn, bill laimbeer, rodman: bad boy monopoly. Chance cards can say you got sent to the floor by Lambs...sign him if he's availble or pay the owner.

Grant Hill, Darko milicic. The high draft picks.

The palace...the silverdome = utilities

Dantley, aguirre,

LB, FLip, Cola, dumars = the rail.

Who knows flash?

Could you link or copy paste some rules from other money leagues? To do something like that, we'd need to set it up properly. It's worth investigating, so.... help us out with the leg work!

PS, I got something coming next season to fulfill gambling fetishes, play money though. ;)


Well, I wish I was more familiar w/ it. But as far as going through a company to handle the money I think they pocket 25% or something like that. It looks like CBS takes even more than that.

Here is some info...

http://basketball.sportsline.com/splash/basketball/spln/single/getting-started

http://basketball.sportsline.com/splash/basketball/spln/single/faq


So, I would think, for us, the best thing to do would be to have someone handle the money through PayPal and just keep it simple with 1st place getting most of the money.

This league looks pretty good.

link to the rules...

http://www.cfslsports.com/BASKETBALLRULE.htm

Motown hasn't been around much but he was talking about maybe playing through CBS Sportsline next year.

Yeah, unfortunately the new job is kickin' my rear end. but I'm still here bruh...believe that! Silent but not invisible. ;)

After playing my first season using CBS Sportsline.com I can tell you that they do an excellent job. There are plenty of options with built-in ability to play for dollars. I came in 2nd place in a money league. There is also a free option.

I hope to give more details when things settle down a bit here at work. My only concerns are that the interface adapts the look and feel of the CBS Sportline website, which I think is a little less user friendly than the Yahoo system I have played with for the past 5 years.

The rules are quite a bit different, but entertaining nonetheless.

Personally, the most attractive option I am looking for in a b-ball league is eliminating the playoff round or ending the fantasy basketball season before the final weeks of the regular season. This in my opinion makes for a more fair and less "Las Vegas" approach to crowning an overall champ.

I personally prefer the points system to head to head match ups myself.

I personally prefer the points system to head to head match ups myself.
The only problem with that is that it is very easy to fall behind early.

It might be worthwhile for the adv. leagues but the novices would create too big a gap from the get go and spoil the exercise.

Just my 2 cents. Canadian currency.

I do believe that I'll be in to wreak more havoc next year.

MainMan

aka

FD