Start reading at post #21 of this thread!

5 PM is good for me tommorow (Friday). Also do we need a yahoo email address to sign up because i tried to sign up for for a yahoo league before, and I needed a yahoo email address.

I'm ready now. Any time works for me. The sooner the better. I'm not certain of my schedule for next week yet. I'll keep you posted.

5 PM is good for me tommorow (Friday). Also do we need a yahoo email address to sign up because i tried to sign up for for a yahoo league before, and I needed a yahoo email address.

you just need a generic yahoo account which consequently comes with a yahoo email account as well. Once you setup a yahoo account you can then register to the fantasy b-ball league with any email address.

I can do it anytime after 530. Is there anything that needs to be done before the draft??

whatever time you set is fine with me. i'm across the other side of the world so i'll either work around your time or pre-set my picks.

Is there anything that needs to be done before the draft?? Everyone should have a Yahoo ID.

Sign Up Here (http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=us&new=1&.done=http%3A//www.yahoo.com)

Keep in mind that you can use your "everyday email address" in the league as notification of trades are sent to you by email.

Anyone worried about spam, don't be. I played last year and Yahoo sends me about 1 email a month about Sports News which I UNsubscribed from after 6 months and never heard from them again. I am sure you can set up your account not to send you any extra yahoo mails.

Looks like evenings are best.

Does anyone have an issue with Sunday evening?

I cannot make it until after 6:30pm at the earliest.

you just need a generic yahoo account which consequently comes with a yahoo email account as well. Once you setup a yahoo account you can then register to the fantasy b-ball league with any email address.

thanks man, i'll do that right now.

Looks like evenings are best.

Does anyone have an issue with Sunday evening?

I'm clear at the moment. That could change when I get my schedule. It looks like I won't know until tomorrow.

So are we going in a private league on yahoo?

So are we going in a private league on yahoo?
Once we set a date and time, I will establish the league.

All players should sign up (I will provide details) at Yahoo.
Yes, it will be a private league.

How many rounds? I heard 12 & also 13. Either one correct?

Im open anytime except Sunday

Sunday is out. D-Tater, please keep us apprised of your schedule. Looks like next week may be best rather than rushing now.

How many rounds? I heard 12 & also 13. Either one correct?

13 rounds.

yes sunday eve would work for me.

can I get in on this?

i ususally do pre rank so whenever is fine with me.

can I get in on this?

i ususally do pre rank so whenever is fine with me.
Maybe. My list of people who want to play is shrinking. Please PM me an email address so that I can send an invite on short notice.

@everyone else, please do not PM me (see first post) with questions or time constraints. Post them here so that others are not saying such and such time is good and you have told me privately that time would not be good for you.

There is a method behind the madness of a public thread. Everyone on the same page getting the same info.

In the meantime, please send me the email address that you want the league invitation sent to by PM. But please post anything else here. If I don't receive your email address by Sunday evening I will assume you are out and grab players from my replacement list.

If we cannot work out a good time for a live draft (it will be impossible to accommodate everyone), we will autodraft next weekend.

Disregard all information I have supplied before this post.

Everyone who wanted "in" has PM.

Here is a recap of the PM and this is the MASTER information for this league.

Here is what I need.

If you are in, send me an email address to send the invite to. You can PM THAT ONLY. Don't PM me with questions or comments. POST THEM HERE please.

I'm moving the join up cutoff to Monday evening. After that time, I will be scrambling to add players to complete the league and you may be on the outside looking in. Unfortunate, but I can't hold up the group for a couple people.

Draft. I've talked to Motown and basically the reason I am rapidly balding is the different schedules trying to matchup for a live draft.

We are going autorank/automated draft. This puts everyone on equal ground as too much time has already been lost trying to accommodate a live draft.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/hoops/hoo...prules-08.html (http://help.yahoo.com/help/hoops/hooprules/hooprules-08.html)

The cutoff for pre-ranking is Thursday evening 9:00 PM EST. Because it can take 72 hours for the computer to draft, I will manually trigger it at this time. Once you join the league (see above for instructions on PMing me your email address) you can start pre-ranking.

League setup follows.

Draft Type - Auto Draft
Scoring Type - Head to Head
Max Moves - 100
Max Trades - No maximum
Trade Reject Time - 2
Trade End Date - March 2, 2006
Waiver Time - 2 days
Trade Review - League Votes
Post Draft Players - Follow Waiver Rules
Weekly Deadline - Daily - Tomorrow
Start Scoring on - Week 1
Roster Positions - PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN, IL, IL
Stat Categories - FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, TO

An additional rule. Name your team something related to your PF.com username so that fellow players know who you are in the fantasy league.

One more thing, don't quit. Everyone will be in the playoffs, regardless of record. The time requirement is small once you get the hang of changing rosters, and the objective of this league is to have fun and learn about fantasy bball.

Some tips for pre-ranking (if you choose to do it).

Important note: You can only pre-rank 156 players. Don't go over that limit or you will lose your changes (I already did it).

The first thing I do is eliminate players that are injured or are not going to play a second. You can do that by moving them to the exclude list.

Amare Stoudemire for instance is off my draft list.
Fran Vasquez is playing in Europe.

If you aren't up on everyone, that's ok. Not many of the outside players are ranked very high anyway, and you will be able to drop them later and pick up a serviceable replacement.

How the positions work.

We are drafting 13 men per team to fill the following positions except IL (injured list).

PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN, IL, IL

If you see two player you think are equal in value, the tie breaker could be flexibility. Some players are listed as PG+SG. This means they can play 3 positions. PG, SG and G. Whereas a PG can only play PG and G. The same for F/C (forward centers) and SF+PF. These players can swing to fill spots in your lineup and do not have to stay within one slot. Flexibility is GOOD.

This is particularly important when it comes to big men. Each team needs 2 decent centers. While some of the best fantasy centers are pure C(s), a forward who is a F/C is handy if one of your centermen go down.

Why is that?

Your competing lineup must have a PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, and two Utility players. Injuries or other external factors could mean that you have to go to your bench. You might want to keep 1 guard, 1 forward and 1 center on the bench. But do you really want to pass up a second great bench guard to keep a crappy spare center?

A couple weak tips from me.

If you don't know what you are doing, let the pre-ranked players ride. You are still going to end up with great players and I imagine there will be lots of player movement during the first 3 months of the season.

If you don't want to fuss too much with re-ranking everyone, just exclude players that suck, are rookies and you don't get a good feeling about them or are injured.

If you are going to bother to re-rank players for a custom draft list, make sure you have some big men near the top. Although their fantasy value may be lower than Lebron James, they are a scarcer commodity than productive shooting guards or small forwards. No sense grabbing 3 small players early and being left with Boniface N'Dong as your starting C (ok, I'm exaggerating).

One more thing. Read everything by jdmiser and Motown Pride in this forum. You'll get a good grip on some strategies and approaches to take.

head to head: is this per week? is there a max limit of games over the season?

head to head: is this per week? is there a max limit of games over the season?

Head to Head:

is this per week?

Head to Head is per week. There is a schedule section on your Yahoo fantasy b-ball league page where you can check out who your opponents will be and for what time period for the entire season.

is there a max limit of games over the season?

There is no max limit of games in a head to head play. The max limit option normally pertains to a Rotisserie style of play where stats are accumulated throughout the season to determine a winner. The beauty of the head to head format is that every week you start off with a clean slate (as far as stats are concerned). So with a good trade, a nice free agent pickup..bammm!!! you're back in the race! The object of head to head play is to win more categories than your opponent for the week. The categories you win and lose become your record.

So if you win in PTs, FT%, STLs, 3PTs, ASTs and lose in FG%, REBs, BLKs and TOs.

You win the matchup with a record of 5-4.

I'm all pre-ranked and ready to draft.

I'm all pre-ranked and ready to draft.

Me too.

I'm pre-ranked and ready to go.

I'm preranked too. I got to take on Superstarovs team on the first week from Oct. 31-Nov. 6.

you know what? i'll have a samuel jackson as well.


ah, i mean, i'm pre-ranked and good to go too....

I'm pre ranked and ready. This could be a disaster. Seems I don't really care for "stats" guys, and I found myself passing on the big number scorers, and looking for the hardworking defense guys. I might end up with a roster full of Lindsey Hunters and D. Mutumbo types. :doh:

You know you can rechange it until the deadline (Thursday).

Maybe I will win the blocked shots, steals, and technical fouls catagory. A whole new fantasy system. If I start winning, I'm going to go on and on about "playing the right way" :eyebrows:

We had the expert league live draft on Sunday night. It was a lot of fun and much more challenging than I thought it would be.

There were definately some interresting picks. Some guys went much earlier than expected, while some top names fell well down into the middle to late rounds. I won't get into specifics so as not to influence your draft in any way.

My 1 piece of advice is to have several choices ready for each round because your guys will get snatched up pretty quickly. You'll want to have several back-up plans ready, otherwise if you run out of time the computer will autodraft that selection for you and you may not like what you get.

Good luck!

Maybe I will win the blocked shots, steals, and technical fouls catagory. A whole new fantasy system. If I start winning, I'm going to go on and on about "playing the right way" :eyebrows:
:laugh: Good luck with that.

I'm going to draft for the future! Piss poor stats but man, what an upside.

I'm pre ranked and ready. This could be a disaster. Seems I don't really care for "stats" guys, and I found myself passing on the big number scorers, and looking for the hardworking defense guys. I might end up with a roster full of Lindsey Hunters and D. Mutumbo types. :doh:
linwood, just make sure you draft for categories that you can win like TO/steals/blocks/rebounds etc.

You don't need high scorers per se. Made 3 pointers and points only account for 2 categories we are competing in.

Just a quick reminder guys, the pre-rank deadline is fast approaching.

I won't be issuing another reminder, and will post when the draft is triggered so please make your final changes now!!!

When is the actual draft?(date and time)

Trying to figure out how to get to draft.

Its an auto draft all you have to do is pre draft. If you have not already done that you have very little time if any micro said you had to get predrafted quickly about an hour ago... Its okay if you don't because yahoo already logically ranked the players it's only if you think some decisions are better than others.

that sucks I like live draft

you have gotten pre-drafted though? Yeah live draft is better, but it was hard for the people who organized this to get everyone on the same page let alone gatting everyone to be able to draft on the same day. Good luck on your picks (hope mines better though).

yeah, I understand that but I am a very good live drafter, but don't know about this kind. However, just make it more challenging during season.

I barely know crapp about making intelligent picks so great for me. I'm very new at this I only have been in a fantasy league once before this, and that was only a month ago because I wanted to learn the rules.

i never knew pre-drafting would be so hard. how are you supposed to differentiate between players 100-156??

its like, do you prefer eating dirt or woodchips?

I just stuck with what they they had for the late picks. Oh crapp I just thought of a pick I should change...

The problem with live drafting was exclusion of some. It's difficult to find a schedule that works for 12 people and time was running out.

Autodraft was announced several days ago along with the league settings anyone can view at yahoo. Not to mention the TWO emails I have sent from yahoo with league news updates.

@himat. It would be beneficial if you read my earlier post in this thread for the draft time info. Read first, then ask please.

wow somebody had a tough day? I read e-mails just thought the predraft was the list of players you want to make draft go fast. Didn't know there was another kind. However, I do understand it is hard to get 12 people with a family and job in the same place.

I always make that mistake, man. Sorry to bother you. (found the time 9:00 PM today).

wow somebody had a tough day?
Not really. Well, not any tougher than the usual I suppose. ;)

Organizing people for a league has been a little harrowing with my other workload. There is one person in the league that I don't even know who they are!

I know it's not easy, but email communication and/or checking this board are key to participating. All I can do is make announcements (PM reminders to re-up for the league, notification of info updates to this thread etc). Whether people read them is out of my hands...

Is it possible to have a novice league trash talk thread? I know after my amazing success and good fortune in this draft, I will be ready for some serious smack talk. Too bad none of you guys are me!:eyebrows:


Linwood Allstars, Baby! :hail:

Hey, who'd you guys "exclude"?

I excluded Shaq, Kobe, Vince Carter, Artest, and Kidd.

I can't stand any of those punks.

Hey, who'd you guys "exclude"?

I excluded Shaq, Kobe, Vince Carter, Artest, and Kidd.

I can't stand any of those punks.

Hahah, you're just like me Super. I excluded some guys in the Expert league that I just can't stand. Great players, but guys I could never actually chear for.

I excluded Carter, Shaq and Artest as well. I'm not a huge fan of Kidd's but I don't dislike him enough to exclude him.

I was going to exclude Stephan Jackson as well, but I ended up drafting him in one of the later rounds. As much as I hate the guy, he killed me head to head last year. He was the best combo G/F left and I wanted the versatility.

The draft is done. I think it just finished because my team wasn't listed a few minutes ago.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I knew I didn't do that right. I got Lebron, Ray Allen and Carter but the rest looks like a NBADL team.

on second look, I kind of like my roster.

Despite a heroic effort to draft the Serbian Swat Machine, The Darkonaughts came up shorter than the Miami Heat in last years title run. Slippy's Darkonaughts have since changed their name to the Darko-Nots. Said GM Slip: "Its hard to be the Darkonaughts without Darko." When asked where he would put the Pistons X factor on a roster already laden with questionable centers, Slippy said frankly: "He could play the three. IT COULD HAPPEN! Now I have to pray to God that Shaun Livingston can play at least half a season."

hmm. interesting. thats the only problem with an auto draft, if you start getting skinny in a certain position you can't bump up some guys in the draft order from that position. looks like i'll be putting some trades out there once i analyse my team fully.

is there any way to see what the draft order was by pick?
this is gonna be cool. lets get this thang started!

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sweet. found the draft order. i got number 1. way to win the lottery!

I'm loaded at point guard. I have Wade, Arenas, Bibby, A.Miller, Hinrich and Payton. They won't do me any good on the bench.

I want to improve at Center and also need a small forward (I don't have any).

You can reply here, PM me, or propose a trade through the yahoo site if you are interested in wheeling and dealing for the above or anything else you think I may be interested in. :eyebrows:

Well, now is the time to drop guys or trade to adjust your roster.

Novice League Draft results can be found HERE (http://www.pistonsforum.com/xmicro/novicedraftresults.htm)

Just putting out some feelers on the trade/waiver wire. Looks like the Linwood Allstars could use a good point guard... might have a first rate small forward to trade. :confused: Really not sure how this works/ is going to work. If this was a real team, I would be thrilled, but I seem to have a good rebounding, scoring, and shotblocking team, but not very good with the assists, 3 point, or free throws. (I got shaq).

Also, I have some questions about the bench. How does the bench score? Would it make sense to have an all star coming off the bench if you have two similar players at the same position?

Just putting out some feelers on the trade/waiver wire. Looks like the Linwood Allstars could use a good point guard... might have a first rate small forward to trade. :confused: Really not sure how this works/ is going to work. If this was a real team, I would be thrilled, but I seem to have a good rebounding, scoring, and shotblocking team, but not very good with the assists, 3 point, or free throws. (I got shaq).

Also, I have some questions about the bench. How does the bench score? Would it make sense to have an all star coming off the bench if you have two similar players at the same position?

Bench players don't score. You only get points from your starting position slots PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util. To use a player on the bench you simply need to assign one of your starting players to the Bench and move your bench player to one of the starting positions. Consequently, the Util spot can be used for any player.

So I could start RJeff, and put Artest in the utility spot, and get production from both?

So I could start RJeff, and put Artest in the utility spot, and get production from both?

absolutely.

Hell yeah my teams sweet (at least I think).

-Chris Paul
-Kobe Bryant
-Manu Ginobili
-Peja Stojacovic
-Jermaine Oneal
-Kyle Korver
-Andrew Bogut
-Stromile Swift
-Josh Howard
-Donyell Marshall
-Raymond Felton
-Jim Jackson
-Joe Smith
-Michael Finley
-Corliss Williamson

In real life this would probably not work out, but fantasy wise I think it will. I don't have any pistons though... I also have to get some good rebounders too.

I have two questions. I can't see the results of yesterdays game. I saw parts of it live when the game started but its all blank now.

Also, whats the deal with the waiver wire? I thought that when you pick a player, you get sent to the end of the line. I picked a play and got sent back but other have picked up players since then and retained their placement.

I have two questions. I can't see the results of yesterdays game. I saw parts of it live when the game started but its all blank now.

Also, whats the deal with the waiver wire? I thought that when you pick a player, you get sent to the end of the line. I picked a play and got sent back but other have picked up players since then and retained their placement.

It's messed up for me too. I also saw the results but everything is gone now.

The waiver thing...did they pick up a free agent or a guy on waivers. If it's an F.A. it won't affect the waiver list.

A guy is only on waivers after someone drops him or all players initially not drafted (for a couple days only).

So if someone picks up an undrafted guy today, for example, it won't affect his waiver status. But if I drop a player today, and someone claims them on waivers (it takes 2 days to get him) then the person drops to the bottom of the list.

The stat thing is finally working now. :)

Oh, I see it now, You were making like you didn't know how this all works. I'll be wary of every trade you offer. :D

Actually, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

It's messed up for me too. I also saw the results but everything is gone now.

The waiver thing...did they pick up a free agent or a guy on waivers. If it's an F.A. it won't affect the waiver list.

A guy is only on waivers after someone drops him or all players initially not drafted (for a couple days only).

So if someone picks up an undrafted guy today, for example, it won't affect his waiver status. But if I drop a player today, and someone claims them on waivers (it takes 2 days to get him) then the person drops to the bottom of the list.

thanks for pitchin' in bro. You're beginning to sound like an expert. :)

Can anyone tell me how I check the status of my team? My first week head to head is against the Sausage Kings... how can I check my progress so far?

Oh, I see it now, You were making like you didn't know how this all works. I'll be wary of every trade you offer. :D

Actually, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

LOL, I only know that from the football league. I'm innocent. :laugh:

Can anyone tell me how I check the status of my team? My first week head to head is against the Sausage Kings... how can I check my progress so far?

Go to yahoo sports. In the upper right hand corner click fantasy. In the middle right hand corner it will say your team name and pistonsforum.com-novice.

Clicking on the pf.com novice part will show you all 12 teams matchups. It will have a number by each. That number shows how many categories you lead in right now (or trail in). It updated around noon today. As of today Sausage was up 4 categories to 3...so you were tied in 2.

If you click on "Linwood" it will show you how you did on any given day. Just click on the day you want and you'll see the stats.

Thanks! I'm on it!

dont check it today cuz I squeeked one out by ya (glad my guys can make free throws and dont turn the rock over)

dont check it today cuz I squeeked one out by ya (glad my guys can make free throws and dont turn the rock over)

Enjoy the victory. The Linwood Avenue Allstars are currently struggling with the loss of Shaquile O'Neil. When asked about losing the big Aristotle, forward Richard Jefferson replied:

"Not only do we miss him in the middle, but his presence in the lockeroom is badly needed. Without Shaq, this team lacks an identity and a direction"

I must have the most turnover prone team in the league. :doh:

I don't know if its a yahoo thing or me but I can't log into the league. I can get to the fantasy home page and it lists the league and my team but it saiys I'm not authorised. :confused:

i got the same thing i even signed out and tryed to sign back in without any luck yahoo must be messed up at the moment

i got the same thing i even signed out and tryed to sign back in without any luck yahoo must be messed up at the moment

its not working for me either. it says that the yahoo sports server is performing service maintenance, and to wait till later.:ohwell:

Yahoo is back up. Set your lineups if you have not already done so ASAP people!

I will approve any reasonable trade.

crud. i put melo on the bench for today because he was injured.

that was before the yahoo meltdown. i just looked and it reverted back to an old lineup with him at SF.

yahoo has some serious splainin to do... :mad:

I had mike miller instead of d. mason and found out miller was out till the end of the week. Didn't make it in time to change my line up....mason goes for 26/7:doh:

crud. i put melo on the bench for today because he was injured.

that was before the yahoo meltdown. i just looked and it reverted back to an old lineup with him at SF.

yahoo has some serious splainin to do... :mad:

It may not have been Yahoos breakdown that caused your problem.

Did you make a pick up (trade, free agent or claim someone off waivers) within the last couple of days? If so, your future lineup automatically changes to whatever it is set for on the first day that player is eligible to play (or within one day of that, I'm not certain). So for example, you drop and add a player today (Thursday), so he is eligible to play Friday. Therefore even though you set Saturday & Sundays lineups to be different than Friday's they will appear the same as Friday's even though the players may not have a game that day.

Does that make sense? It's kind of hard to explain. lol.

It may not have been Yahoos breakdown that caused your problem.

Did you make a pick up (trade, free agent or claim someone off waivers) within the last couple of days? If so, your future lineup automatically changes to whatever it is set for on the first day that player is eligible to play (or within one day of that, I'm not certain). So for example, you drop and add a player today (Thursday), so he is eligible to play Friday. Therefore even though you set Saturday & Sundays lineups to be different than Friday's they will appear the same as Friday's even though the players may not have a game that day.

Does that make sense? It's kind of hard to explain. lol.

yep, i know what you're talking about, haha, but i didn't make any recent changes. i made a change last night but that was after the fact.

so for now i'm going to blame it on yahoo. i'm not too mad though cos i had replaced melo with fisher who only went 3/10 for 10 points.