Thanks to Darth's ....enthusiasm :boink: ... we're going to open up the call for Novice Fantasy League participants.

We will be doing the same format (Yahoo head to head) as last year except with a live draft.


The purpose of novice league is to introduce people to fantasy basketball, develop comeraderie, and get folks more interested in the players they follow. If you really want to show off your GM skills, you may want to consider the Advanced league.
Preference will be given to people with higher post counts in Pistons threads.

If you are interested, post to this thread by saying "I won't quit if my team sucks.". I will add the tentative participants to this post. We will discuss the details of the rules and draft as we go along.

Current Franchises Owners:
Slippy
Darth Tater
Linwood
dba
warthog*
AuroraKMW
M4babbie
Professor
himat
MCRrox
twotimesRalph
dlev59
16 mile
BballJay


Please notify me early if you are switching to the ADv. League so we can make room for others.

Thanks to Darth's ....enthusiasm :boink: ... we're going to open up the call for Novice Fantasy League participants.

We will be doing the same format (Yahoo head to head) as last year except with a live draft.


The purpose of novice league is to introduce people to fantasy basketball, develop comeraderie, and get folks more interested in the players they follow. If you really want to show off your GM skills, you may want to consider the Advanced league.
Preference will be given to people with higher post counts in Pistons threads.

If you are interested, post to this thread by saying "I won't quit if my team sucks.". I will add the tentative participants to this post. We will discuss the details of the rules and draft as we go along.

Current Franchises Owners:
Slippy
Darth Tater
Linwood

I won't quit even if Slippy's team sucks and Linwoods is in the intensive care unit.

I'm in commissioner Slippy, unless they want to put me in the other league.

I won't quit if my team sucks. Though I reserve the right to move them to Oklahoma City.

The Sprockets are ready to leave small indentations on the opposition as they roll over them.

If I knock around on Yahoo, will I find rules and procedures documents so I can figure out how it all works?

I won't quit if my team sucks. Though I reserve the right to move them to Oklahoma City.

The Sprockets are ready to leave small indentations on the opposition as they roll over them.

If I knock around on Yahoo, will I find rules and procedures documents so I can figure out how it all works?

Yes, they do explain how the whole thing works (drafts, waiver waiting periods, etc.) but I poked around and couldn't find it. I don't know if you have to wait until the league is up but they will have all of the general rules posted as well as any specific settings the commissioner chooses for your particular league.

But if you have questions along the way people are always willing to help and you won't need to wait long for your answers.

I was looking too and couldn't find anything through the Yahoo pages, but then just did a search and come up with this link. Looks like the right stuff...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/basketball/

Is this conference call never going to end?

I won't quit because I won't suck. I'm not a hardcore fantasy player, I just draft well. :)

I won't quit because I won't suck.

I played in the Advanced league last year finshed 7th out of 12 teams. Maybe I need to step back in the novice league and learn a few more moves or just play both to keep me busy.

I was wondering... since we are doing a live draft, is there a lotta for the first three picks? Since I finished 2nd to last last year, I think I should be in.

I promise NOT to take Darko if I get the 2nd pick in the draft. :nod:

i wanna play in one of the two leagues. last year was my first season of fantasy, but i think i could manage the advanced. i'll take either one though :D

I need to learn how to proof read. I meant Lottery. Like, do the lowest 3 from last year get the first three picks? How is that going to work?

Can I trade 2 second round picks for a 1st round pick?

@ linwood - NO.

Maybe and I really mean MAYBE, we will look at doing a keeper league for PF Season 3.

@Roscoe. Thanks for answering that. I didn't think Slippy was ever going to get back with me.:laugh:

@Slippy. I would like to file a grievance with you as the commissioner against YOU as the commissioner for not answering my questions fast enough. :eyebrows:

@Darth. Go ahead and order that championship banner in green, since I did go to Wayne State.:nod:

I am the new commish. Slippy has already been penalized 3 draft picks and LADre/Warthog have been fined for violating the new dress code.

Whoever was doing it last year did a good job so keep it up I guess.

I would like to enter my franchise for competition next season. We already bought a new Organ and hired a dance team.

Good to see that there are people even more addicted to Fantasy ball than me!

Having survived the Advanced League last year, I'd say we desparately need to liven things up there. We often went weeks without posting. There was no life there at all, although the quality of play was very good. I'd like to see a few of the good novice guys who are true hellions challenge themselves against the best (albeit the quietest) and try to spice things up in the A-leagues.

I won't quit if my team sucks.

interested fantasy basketball GMs sign up by next week please. We will be looking to coordinate a live draft so we need folks to sign up (that haven't already). Thanks.

p.s. The murder game will go into drydock during the season as we devote time to cheer on our favourite team so sign up with fantasy bball and have something else to chat about (on the boards...not in the chat room!) when you've exhausted your "Why isn't Delfino getting any PT" posts.

Do you want us to sign up in a seperate thread or do it here?

here is good.

since most have already done so. I just need more suckers, I mean participants...and also I need to weed out the ADv. league-ers that troll here.

i won't quit if my team sucks

or, in the immortal words of my favorite band, Yo La Tengo, in the title of their new album: I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your A**

y'all be careful... i'm gonna work some dharma juju and some karma mojo and mebbe even a little jedi mind trick...:stirthepot:

Who's running the advanced league anyway? You "Novices" have all the fun.

Motown.

Motown.

Oh, cool.

I thought I remember him saying a while back that he wasn't going to run it again this year.

@ Motown

Lets get a move on pal, I'm not paying you to stand around! :director:

Nah, I'm here my friend.

Advanced league news to follow shortly. :)

I'll go for fantasy b-ball again.

Advanced vs Novice.

I will go wherever there is more of a need.

After a year in Novice for all of us I am not so sure advanced is that much more advanced anymore but I could be wrong.

I won't quit if my team sucks. So...is that all I have to do then?

right on. We'll stick you on the list.

I have a question... is it a point based league or a roto/auction based league?

Point based head to head.

I won't quit if my team sucks because I'm prepared for the worst and I'll be happy about every little success!

TwoTimes,
The best part about fantasy basketball is drafting delfino somewhere and having him contribute. A lot of pistons or ex pistons are good x-factor types that are worth a late round pick. Darko. Delfino. Even Nazr and Murray. it will be cool to see their little stat lines contributing. and if they hit their stride and become a bona fide star...:dancingparty: it adds another dimension to the whole season.

I won't quit if my team sucks, but I will sulk.

Looking forward to having the Serbian Gangster win the league for me.

not if I grab him first. lol.

I had him on my squad at the end of last year and he did ok. I wouldn't mind getting him again.

I think my strategy will be drafting Darko and Delfino ahead of BBall Jay, and then holding them for ransom!

Maybe I will try to get Zaza and Okur as well.

it's funny how some people are going to try to cover their desire to draft darko with jokes. everybody knows darko is a highly coveted draft pick. he'll go # 2 just like in the real draft.

it's funny how some people are going to try to cover their desire to draft darko with jokes. everybody knows darko is a highly coveted draft pick. he'll go # 2 just like in the real draft.


Jay...don't do it.

You'll be very sorry. Seriously.

i won't quit even if my darkodesire goes unsatisfied

i won't quit even if someone takes darko #1 before i get the chance to

Novice league is full.

If we have any more sign ups, Mo's Experimental League still needs people I believe.

it's funny how some people are going to try to cover their desire to draft darko with jokes. everybody knows darko is a highly coveted draft pick. he'll go # 2 just like in the real draft.

I hope I get the #2 pick.

I hope I get the #2 pick.

Does that mean Darko will get injured if you do?

Does that mean Darko will get injured if you do?


LMAO! Maybe I should use the #2 pick on Arnie!

LMAO! Maybe I should use the #2 pick on Arnie!

:pound::rofl:

League is registered. PM me your email addresses and I'll send you the invite and password.

When you sign up, please include some form of your pf.com username so that other GM's know who you are.

I.e. Linwoods coal burning ovens
or Tater tots.

the Pugnacious Profs are registered and ready to rumble (or, if not, at least to ramble).

the Pugnacious Profs are registered and ready to rumble (or, if not, at least to ramble).

That's cool. But the team we are all waiting for is the Linwood Memorial Coal Burning Ovens.

LMAO. I DARE Linwood to use that name. I DOUBLE dare him!

Novice league members. If you have not signed up for the league, please do so by the end of Monday Oct. 2nd. If you haven't PM'd me with your email information please do so this week.

If you are not signed up before tuesday, you will forfeit your slot.

Draft date is targeted for OCT.22nd 6PM EST. PM me if you have an issue with that.

bump to keep on top

It's going to be very interesting to see who'll land Darko :MusicBigGrin:

yes it will. I'm sure he'll do good.

My money is on Jay.

Yeah, I think Darko will do pretty well. I liked having him on my team at the end of last year. It was weird. I enjoyed watching his stats. You remember, Slippy. Both of us were drawn to watching his stats like a couple of moths attracted to a bright light (SIZZLE).

I can't explain it.

I'm truly sorry he's gone as much as I make fun of him and the DHOF.



Slippy. Isn't it about time you changed your signature???

warthog, babbie, dlev, jay

if you haven't gotten an invite, PM me with your email address.

bball jay, I got your email, let me know if you haven't received invites.

Signup for novice league is closed.

Draft for Novice league is this sunday. make sure your computer can do the draft by clicking on the link on your team page.

wow, 1015- that means 0415 in the morning for me; it's tough to be a fantasy GM :MusicBigGrin:

There has been a $#%$#-up with the scheduling of the draft. When I checked this morning, it said 4 EST and not 6 EST. I swear I put it on 6 EST but thats what it said.

THE DRAFT TIME REMAINS 6 EST as that was the voted on time and what has been advertised.

Sorry for any problems this is causing people.

So the exact time is 0600pm, not 1015pm as written in the mail? Correct?
This is getting to be more complicated as I expected:yellowprison:

ralphi, check your timezone in the notice. Yahoo adjusts for the time zone automatically. 5:15 CDT. do the adjustment from that.

If its 6pm Eastern in the US it will be midnight for you ralphi. (+6)

I got it- I simply got confused because of the first mail with a different date (0415) mentioned. Now I got the 2nd mail- see you guys at the draft!
:)

Good job sorting it out Slippy! :thumb:

Linwood is graciously giving his spot in novice league to Warthog.

Warthog, welcome aboard.

Linwood, I'll punish your team in trial league since I failed miserably in hockeyleague.

A big welcome to Warthog. I'm happy to see you in the league. :nod:

On the other hand, I'm very sorry to see my buddy Linwood leave.:pout:

A big welcome to Warthog. I'm happy to see you in the league. :nod:

On the other hand, I'm very sorry to see my buddy Linwood leave.:pout:

Oh, you'll see enough of me in trial league.. :gun1:

I just thought that it would be nice to let someone else play too. I'm already going to dominate two leagues, I don't need to dominate 3.

Plus, it will give the Warthog something to do when he isn't polishing his corvette. :)

lol :) it's only gonna be polished one more time and then in a week or two it's getting put away for the winter.

thanks for the spot linwood. i'm gonna have to do a crash course in preparation with the little time that i have heh...i had flag football this morning and i've got softball at 2:30. it'll feel like college cramming all over again. :D

Thanks to everyone who participated in the live draft....For those of you who did auto-draft...it looks like your teams did well.
Please have your lineups set by tip-off time.

IF YOU FAIL TO SET YOUR LINE-UPS IN THE FIRST WEEK YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED MIA. PM me to tell me why your line-ups were not set (i.e. didn't want to play a certain player or was on a trip in Africa).

The league requires you to participate for it to be fun for everyone so if I see deadbeats, I will give your team to someone else.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the live draft....For those of you who did auto-draft...it looks like your teams did well.
Please have your lineups set by tip-off time.

IF YOU FAIL TO SET YOUR LINE-UPS IN THE FIRST WEEK YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED MIA. PM me to tell me why your line-ups were not set (i.e. didn't want to play a certain player or was on a trip in Africa).

The league requires you to participate for it to be fun for everyone so if I see deadbeats, I will give your team to someone else.

Yeah. And another thing. Now that we rollin'.

When you wrote in your own cyberblood as a binding contract to your fellow GMs "I promise not to quit" this is what you REALLY meant.

1. You swore to set your lineups:reading: before game time. Daily, weekly however you do it. Just do it.
2. You swore to replace season-ending injured players:crutch: instead of playing them.
3. You swore to read :ranger: and/or post :typing: in the Novice League Threads (Novice League News and Novice League Banter) during the Fantasy Basketball Season.

If all of us Novice GM's do these 3 things, our league will be both fun and fair. :cheerlie-GOAL:
Participation. Participation. Participation. :grouphug:

Yeah. And another thing. Now that we rollin'.

When you wrote in your own cyberblood as a binding contract to your fellow GMs "I promise not to quit" this is what you REALLY meant.

1. You swore to set your lineups:reading: before game time. Daily, weekly however you do it. Just do it.
2. You swore to replace season-ending injured players:crutch: instead of playing them.
3. You swore to read :ranger: and/or post :typing: in the Novice League Threads (Novice League News and Novice League Banter) during the Fantasy Basketball Season.

If all of us Novice GM's do these 3 things, our league will be both fun and fair. :cheerlie-GOAL:
Participation. Participation. Participation. :grouphug:

Nice Aurora. Nice. :p_welldone:

I noticed that it's quite difficult to put your players in the line-up (for instance, if ALL of your centers play and also too many others so that you can't put them in the "Util" status)- but it's going to work.
Please excuse me if there are any mistakes with my line-ups (I didn't add Kwame Brown yesterday because he's injured anyway), I blame it on my rookie status :)

I noticed that it's quite difficult to put your players in the line-up (for instance, if ALL of your centers play and also too many others so that you can't put them in the "Util" status)- but it's going to work.
Please excuse me if there are any mistakes with my line-ups (I didn't add Kwame Brown yesterday because he's injured anyway), I blame it on my rookie status :)

Don't worry Ralphi. People are going to make mistakes. Nobody cares about that.

Aurora is referring to people who give up. Hopefully, we don't need to deal with it this year, but my understanding is that Slippy is going to use the molasses treatment on them. I.E. a very short leash and low tolerance for sandbaggers.

IMPORTANT!!!

I have contacted yahoo support to replace the manager of Awesomeness...I hope with Linwood.

The current manager had not had any league activity since Sept 21.
the user MCRrox has not made a post since sept 12 with a post count of 2.

The change should be completed in a few days.

Thanks

IMPORTANT!!!

I have contacted yahoo support to replace the manager of Awesomeness...I hope with Linwood.

The current manager had not had any league activity since Sept 21.
the user MCRrox has not made a post since sept 12 with a post count of 2.

The change should be completed in a few days.

Thanks

Linwood? Wouldn't the team do better WITHOUT a manager? Oh, same difference.:pound:

OK, I have no room to talk. :redface:

the bad part is i might lose to awesomeness next week - he has a pretty good team there, and his players have a lot more games than i do next week