Fantasy Basketball!!!

[Trombonus]

Hey guys, I'm trying to start up a fantasy basketball league. If you think you might be interested, check out the main thread here!

 

[Trombonus]

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[Trombonus]

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No I haven't given up yet.

 

[koalabear]

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[EdmondDantes]

I was the commissioner for our fantasy hoops league until a couple of years ago. It didn't end nicely. What do you envision for this? Is it purely stats based? If so, which categories? What online service to you plan to use? Will the draft be online as well?

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[Trombonus]

Well, I'm just looking for interest in the idea at the moment. If we don't have at least ten people by the end of October I won't bother doing this.

As for the set up for the league, I'm thinking along these lines:

~ We'd be playing on ESPN.com
~ We'd have a league set up as opposed to a salary cap
~ We'd have points scored on individual stats, not categories
~ Each week we'd have head-to-head match-ups
~ I don't think we'll make it a keeper league
~ Yes I would very much like to organize a live draft.

I'm a total newbie to this sort of thing, but we're using a very similar set up in our fantasy football league and it seems to work very well. I am open to suggestions though.

 

[EdmondDantes]

Well, I'm just looking for interest in the idea at the moment. If we don't have at least ten people by the end of October I won't bother doing this.

As for the set up for the league, I'm thinking along these lines:

~ We'd be playing on ESPN.com
~ We'd have a league set up as opposed to a salary cap
~ We'd have points scored on individual stats, not categories
~ Each week we'd have head-to-head match-ups
~ I don't think we'll make it a keeper league
~ Yes I would very much like to organize a live draft.

I'm a total newbie to this sort of thing, but we're using a very similar set up in our fantasy football league and it seems to work very well. I am open to suggestions though.

We used Yahoo my last year in the league. I think they still do. I don't like salary caps for fantasy, so that's good. We did stats in categories, ten players a week, two center, four forwards, four guards. Ten categories to be agreed upon. We didn't do head to head; I'm not sure I like that. Yeah, I'm not in favor of a keeper league either; never done it, but not sure I'd like to. Live draft would be fun. Unfortunately, that was the high point of the season and it went downhill from there.

I'm not sure head to head works with hoops. Football is a sixteen game season. Basketball is 82. Some times, the number of games the players play is uneven; Stoudamire may have four games, but LeBron will only have two. Simply because I'm familiar with it, I'd prefer categories. That allows people to juggle lineups to take into account games played.

 

[Trombonus]

We used Yahoo my last year in the league. I think they still do. I don't like salary caps for fantasy, so that's good. We did stats in categories, ten players a week, two center, four forwards, four guards. Ten categories to be agreed upon. We didn't do head to head; I'm not sure I like that. Yeah, I'm not in favor of a keeper league either; never done it, but not sure I'd like to. Live draft would be fun. Unfortunately, that was the high point of the season and it went downhill from there.

I'm not sure head to head works with hoops. Football is a sixteen game season. Basketball is 82. Some times, the number of games the players play is uneven; Stoudamire may have four games, but LeBron will only have two. Simply because I'm familiar with it, I'd prefer categories. That allows people to juggle lineups to take into account games played.

That's a great point, I didn't think of it that way. How is scoring done with a category system?

 

[EdmondDantes]

If I remember correctly, the categories were: FG%, FT%, 3P%, Off. Reb., Def. Reb, Steals, Blocks, Assists, Points...and one other one that escapes me right now. Weekly, a team's ten players' stats are added into the team totals for the year. Then, within each category, the first place team got ten points, the second place team nine points...on down to the last place team, which got one point. Assuming the best case scenario, a team could have 100 points if it led in every category. This never happened, but we did have owners in the 60's and 70's. There was also one season where final place was determined by one owner's team getting one more offensive rebound than the next team.

The key is how you draft. Anyone with functioning grey matter can pick LeBron, Kobe and Wade. Knowing whether a rookie is going to pan out, or whether a guy's in his contract year, or whether Joe Johnson can play the point or only the 2 is the key.

 

[Cathleen]

I'm from Boston, reality is better!

Just funning ya.

 

[EdmondDantes]

I'm from Boston, reality is better!

Just funning ya.

Well, you can't really argue with that...