Slow draft basketball league. Predictions inside!

[Sublime 2]

13.3 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, SG, DET

[heybrad]

They think he might return in December, so...

13.4 Danilo Gallinari SF Denver

[korme]

It's flyer time!

13.5 Patrick Beverly PG HOU

[The Jackal]

Beverley was one of the guys I was looking at, hm

[The Jackal]

13.6 Giannis Antetokounmpo - SF - Milwaukee

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

yahoo and thread updated.

Please take a look at your team on the following link to make sure I didn't make any mistakes. Once the final pick is made, I will finalize the rosters.

http://basketball.fantasysports.yaho...?drafttab=team

[QuikSand]

13.7 John Henson, C/F Mil

[QuikSand]

This is why I joined this league... I barely follow the NBA, but now John Henson is my new favorite player. Hadn't heard of him until a day or two ago. Now I regret not naming my son after him. Love it!

[TLK]

13.8 C Kelly Olynyk, BOS

[Chief Rum]

13.9 SF Carlos Delfino, MIL

[Lathum]

13.10- Terrance Ross

[Chief Rum]

Sorry Zinto, you are way over time.

If my read on the Yahoo list is correct...

13.11 SG Marcus Thornton, SAC

I am PMing LWSFS

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Thanks Chief for taking care of that.

With the final pick of the draft, Nietzsche's Ubermen select

13.12 Trevor Ariza SF

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Great job everyone!!!! We got done about a week early.


Beers are on me!

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to make sure everything is accurate and I will finalize the rosters tomorrow if there are no changes to be made.

[Suicane75]

Jello shots are good

[korme]

Originally Posted by Lathum

13.10- Terrance Ross

I wish I remembered this today. Yesterday I watched him light up a preseason game and think I could be sleeping on him... would rather have taken a flier here.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by korme

I wish I remembered this today. Yesterday I watched him light up a preseason game and think I could be sleeping on him... would rather have taken a flier here.

I just took him because I wanted a Husky.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

The league is now live! You can set up your starting lineup and anybody who wasn't drafted is on waivers until Oct 26. I had to edit the waiver order so it was the reverse of our draft order. Remember yahoo does allow you to set up your lineups at least a week in advance so if you don't want to check things daily you can still set up your daily lineup once a week.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Reaches according to Fantasypros

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Best Value Picks according to Fantasypros

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Apparently my team is all reaches with no value

[The Jackal]

Was the Greek Freak not on that list or something?

[korme]

Can I use that draft analyzer on my local league or did you purchase something?

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

I purchased it. Fifteen bucks.

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I have wasted my money on worse things

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

What is the Draft Score based on?
We score the draft based on total value over replacement player (VORP). Essentially, how much more value does your roster have over the players that are readily available on the waivers after your draft. The Draft Score is the sum total of fantasy points over the replacement team on the waivers.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

This is going to be bulletin board material for my team.

I do enjoy that my bench score is a 2.

[Lathum]

my basketball knowledge is shining through. I wonder how much I get dinged for Westbrook being out.

[heybrad]

Will the Purple Penguins be giving everybody a free 9 points by keeping their entire team on the bench or just Quiksand in Week 1?

[QuikSand]

So, this is proving to be a deeply uninteresting experience for me. I made a few free agent moves early in the season, but at this point all i do is occasionally log in and then zombie-click my team through a few weeks of the "start active players" button.

I had thought that playing in a fantasy league might trigger some actual interest in the NBA. So far, no dice.

So, are we basically doing this right? Is this setup basically what fantasy NBA is all about, and it's just not going to be for me? or are there things we could change that might make this a different sort of experience?

Cash money? Weekly transactions? Ditch the head-to-head? Different sort of scoring system?

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

So, this is proving to be a deeply uninteresting experience for me. I made a few free agent moves early in the season, but at this point all i do is occasionally log in and then zombie-click my team through a few weeks of the "start active players" button.

I had thought that playing in a fantasy league might trigger some actual interest in the NBA. So far, no dice.

So, are we basically doing this right? Is this setup basically what fantasy NBA is all about, and it's just not going to be for me? or are there things we could change that might make this a different sort of experience?

Cash money? Weekly transactions? Ditch the head-to-head? Different sort of scoring system?

My experience in my other basketball league is much more interesting to me than this one, and it is a "free" or "playing for pride" league as well.

Two things that immediately stand out to me is that the players there are more active, and we use ESPN.

The first part is not a surprise, as it is somewhat of a keeper league, and I personally know two of the other players, and I know most of the others virtually through other fantasy leagues (baseball, football). So it is possible this something that turning into a keeper league and letting things play out over time might help. But that is asking for a lot of investment.

The second part is big for me. On droid products, Yahoo does not have an effective basketball app, and so I go to the site on my phone browser (work blocks fantasy sites), and Yahoo's recent re-design of its fantasy sites is a collosal screwup and not fun to maneuver around. So being on Yahoo in this league really cuts down on my research there. Fortunately, I have drafted well (or luckily), and I have been able to do well with very limited moves.

In my other, more interesting league, ESPN has a very handy basketball app which makes navigating my team and setting lineups and reviewing waiver wire players much more palatable on my phone.

So maybe a switch to ESPN would help in the future? I am down for spicing things up with some sort of entry fee, too, as that always helps a little at least.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Korme messaged me about renewing this for the current season. I really enjoyed the league last year, but it seems like a lot of people got bored or were uninterested. Given that opening day is a week away, I don't know if there is time to get a slow draft done. Although I suppose a live draft through yahoo is an option too.

Unfortunately,I now live in Asia so I would be unable to be commish this year and oversee this thing. If there is interest in the league and someone wants to be commish, I can renew the league in yahoo to keep the history and make the person commissioner through yahoo as well.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

By the way I love looking back at the whole Kobe Bryant discussion

[Chief Rum]

I wouldn't be against playing again, but yeah, we would have to get on it quick and figure things out.

[The Jackal]

I'd be open to playing again

[Sublime 2]

I'd definitely be back.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Like I said, I don't have the time to be involved or commissioner so if someone wants to step up let me know and I can set you up as commissioner on yahoo to keep the history or you guys can just start fresh. I would recommend someone starting a new thread to drum up interest.

[samifan24]

I'm interested in joining if you start again. I'm available for a live draft too.