09/24/2016 – “I Think I Have Some Sort Of Freudian Attraction Going On”

September 24, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 20 Comments

We’re back with a brand new edition of the Razzball Hoops Pod as we move to weekly episodes! On today’s show, we hit on the incredibly somber news of former fantasy stalwarts in Milwaukee and Miami and the opportunities their absences create, then commence our yelling about my Top-75 and Top-100 ranks. Only minimal quibbles, we need more quibbling! I hope to hear from a lot of you commenters about Slim’s thoughts on Denver’s frontcourt… Here’s our latest edition of the Razzball Basketball Podcast:

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2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Orlando Magic

September 21, 2016 | Team Previews | 36 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

As we prepare for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, I’ll be taking a look at each NBA team with their major adds and drops to see if we can pan for any surprise rotational gold. This open is especially witty for the Nuggets… We’ll be counting down from worst NBA regular season to the best, mainly because I’m still figuring out how to rank the Warriors…

Orlando Magic (35-47)

magic

Key Acquisitions:

F Serge Ibaka

C Bismack Biyombo

F Jeff Green

G D.J. Augstin

F/C Arinze Onuaku

G C.J. Wilcox

Key Losses:

G Victor Oladipo

F Ersan Ilyasova

G Brandon Jennings

F Andrew Nicholson

C Dewayne Dedmon

C Jason Smith

G Shabazz Napier

SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILES!

Wooooo, get this Skiles fool out of here! We get to turn the page on this franchise, and finally get some fantasy excitement going – – only to have them then hoard big men like they’re the Sixers. There’s only ONE PF and ONE C spot, Orlando!

A lot of the Magic’s turnover happened around the trade deadline last year, and some “key losses” were only in Florida for a hot, swampy minute. It’s hard to say if they really got any better or worse – losing Oladipo hurts anyone – but I’m excited to see what new frontman Frank Vogel can get out of the band. Here’s how their roster is shaping up:

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Rankings, Complete! Top 200 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

September 16, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 37 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

We did it! YES WE CAN!! Make rankings great again! Oh man, I’m ready for election season to be over… But I’m even more ready to have my top 200 out into the world!

So I don’t really have a sound philosophy for these final ranks… We do all of our rankings for 12-team, 9-cat H2H, since that’s how we play our Razzball Commenter Leagues. Shameless promo time! We need more RCL Players out there in Razzball Nation! Just follow that link and either start up or join an open league today! Anywho, in a 12-team RCL league (13 roster spots), you’re only drafting 156 players, so most of these ranks are guys you’re not drafting. Do I rank guys all as sleepers for your final pick? I’m not sure that really helps anyone. So the final ranks here are a blend of sleeper potential, and possible last-roster-spot-usability for a specific build. Is Arron Afflalo REALLY going to be your last pick? Meh, probably not, but maybe he has a hot month and it could be the first month! You never know… If you’re still catching up, check out all our ranks in the Top-10, Top-25, Top-50, Top-75, Top-100 & Top 150 which you can also find linked above in the 2016-17 Ranks menu. Here’s our final big rankings post, the Top 200 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

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09/15/2016 – “That’s A Hard Noooo!”

September 16, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 18 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

(This episode is playing now, sorry about it not loading this morning! Accidental technical fubar. But you can hear our sexy voices now!)

With the dog days of Summer slowly counting down and some of the leaves beginning to fall, it means it’s nearing basketball time! The seasons change wayyyyy too fast in North Carolina, it stays too hot, there’s once nice week, then it’s effin’ cold again! That’s why I prefer my sports indoors… On today’s show, Slim and I catch up on some pieces of news including updates on two key Heat players and the Jrue Holiday situation, then continue our debates through my Top-50 and Top-75 ranks. Our quibbles of course don’t get us through too much, so we’ll be back at the same time next week! New Pod will be up next Friday morning as well! Here’s our latest edition of the Razzball Basketball Podcast:

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JB’s Random Commenter League Draft Recap

September 14, 2016 | Razzball Commenter Leagues | 68 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Say whaaaaaa?! It’s draft season?! Hell yeah, let’s start some early-drafting for hoops, who ISN’T bored of fantasy football already?! I keed, I keed, but fans of the Rams might be ready for a new sport already, amiright?!

If you’re jonesing for some early fantasy basketball action in the dopiest of dope fan leagues around, it’s time to join us an play in the 2016-17 Razzball Basketball RCL Leagues! 100% free, fun prizes, shame me in a Youtube video, and take a stab at joining the illustrious few who have made it into the RCL Hall of Fame. Is it narcissistic that I want to make it into my own site’s Hall of Fame?! Man, it would be awesome to have my name on there!

With that fantasy basketball fever enveloping us all, start up your very own new RCL league and set an early draft time (takes 2 minutes tops to launch a league) and challenge the masses for the overall RCL title. But if you only have 5 seconds, that’s fine too! Tons of leagues are open, so clickity click the link above and join an open league. Start up as many teams as you’d like to make a run at RCL infamy!

Enough tomfoolery! Wait, I mean JBfoolery, my name isn’t Tom! It’s time to start looking at how RCL drafts are playing out! We just had our first RCL draft last night in the inaugural RCL of the season. Here’s how my team came together:

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Rankings, Con[something]! Top 150 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

September 9, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 104 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

It’s late-round magic time! And by late-round Magic, I’m not talking about Stephen Zimmerman! Who? Exactly…

As we hit the trip-digs in picks, it’s time to go all-out for your guys. In standard leagues, you’re hoping to maybe hit a home run on one of your final 3-4 picks, and the others flame out immediately. Why? Because you want to know for sure who you need to hold on to and have quick cuts for the first wave of wire gold. Maybe I’m overly pessimistic, maybe you’re hoping for 2 to work, but all we really want to know is “answers”. I still do my ranks as best as I can to signify “seasonal-value”, but I might get a little crazier with risk than stick with the status quo come draft day and the clock winding down.

If you’re catching up, check out all our ranks in the Top-10, Top-25, Top-50, Top-75 & Top-100. Now it’s time to get into the fun sleeper land. Here’s the Top 150 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

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2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Denver Nuggets

September 7, 2016 | Team Previews | 15 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

As we prepare for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, I’ll be taking a look at each NBA team with their major adds and drops to see if we can pan for any surprise rotational gold. This open is especially witty for the Nuggets – and hey, look! We’re at the Nuggets! We’ll be counting down from worst NBA regular season to the best, mainly because I’m still figuring out how to rank the Warriors…

Denver Nuggets (33-49)

Nuggets

Key Acquisitions:

G Jamal Murray (Rookie)

G/F Juan Hernangomez (Rookie)

G Malik Beasley (Rookie)

Key Losses:

F/C Joffrey Lauvergne

Can still having Manimal on your roster count as a “key loss”?

Well, a team doesn’t HAVE to bring in any free agents, amiright?! No seriously, am I right? They didn’t bring in any FA of note? Weird. And just not much of an overhaul on this team at all!

Beyond that little nugget (too much fun!), Denver is assembling quite the young team. We obviously LOVE their front line (minus Manimal), Mudiay still has upside, and mmmmmm, those wings! I like the wings wayyyyy more than the drumsticks. And you gotta get bleu cheese. Ranch is sacrilege! Wait, where is this going?! Can you tell I wrote this while mad hungry?! There’s more than one reason why I have an insatiable appetite while writing about Denver’s team! Here’s how the Nuggets roster is coming together:

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2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Sacramento Kings

September 3, 2016 | Team Previews | 24 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

As we prepare for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, I’ll be taking a look at each NBA team with their major adds and drops to see if we can pan for any surprise rotational gold. This open is especially witty for the Nuggets. We’ll be counting down from worst NBA regular season to the best, mainly because I’m still figuring out how to rank the Warriors…

Sacramento Kings (33-49)

Kings

Key Acquisitions:

G Arron Afflalo

F Matt Barnes

G Ty Lawson

F Anthony Tolliver

C Georgios Papagiannis (Rookie)

G Garrett Temple

G Malachi Richardson (Rookie)

F/C Skal Labissiere (Rookie)

G Isaiah Cousins (Rookie)

Key Losses:

G Rajon Rondo

G Marco Belinelli

G Seth Curry

G James Anderson

F Quincy Acy

The last remaining semblance that this organization had anything under control…

Man, hard to believe the laughing stock of the West had at least a bearable record. I thought they were a sub-30 win team! I guess Rondo is worth a few wins above replacement… Dammit, I’m still in baseball mode!

Let’s not cut corners – this still looks like a pretty brutal squad. Especially when you factor in a suspension to one of your key guys, his backup has bad suspension issues of his own, and your option B scorer is just trying to burn bridges on the way out, hoping and praying for a trade before the season. Lord give me strength! Here’s how the Kings roster is coming together (or falling apart…):

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Rankings, Confluencing! Top 100 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

September 1, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 82 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

We’re officially at a crossroads! We push all the way to the triple-digits and protrude into the late rounds. That’s a weird word, protrude. Sounds like a scene title from the Anchorman DVD when Will Ferrell complains about the pleats… Hey, I’ve written 100 ranks now, don’t act like you’re not impressed!

Get ready to be impressed by links! Here’s my Top-10, Top-25, Top-50 & Top-75 if you’re still catching up. Ranks, ranks, ranks! And with us now getting to the top 100, I’m sure we’re going to start seeing a lot of comments about guys that fell off the horse. I just double-checked myself looking at Yahoo’s ranks for the first time, and they have someone top-40 that I didn’t even rank yet! Lunacy… Here’s the Top 100 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

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08/30/2016 – “They’re Gonna Wanna Play Tyler Zeller His 7 Minutes!”

August 30, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 24 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Even though we promised to be prompter, we got lazy! Sorry for the Pod delay, but we’re back on the airwaves! On today’s show, no frills or magic whistles – it’s rankings debate time! We go through ranks 11-40 (Top 25 Post, Top 50 Post) where Slim grills me where I’m wrong. It’s like an audio version of the comments! Haha, just messin’. Here’s our latest edition of the Razzball Basketball Podcast:

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Rankings, Coalescing! Top 75 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

August 30, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 56 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

It’s all starting to come together!

50-75 always feels like that nebulous range where we get out of the sure things and start veering into the mess that is the sleeper-range, but don’t want to go too nuts for your guys. There’s just a little too much value on the table to reach for a potential superstar like Patrick Patterson! Hah, I keed, but you know what I mean.

Hopefully you’ve checked out my Top-10, Top-25 and Top-50 as we start getting into the late-middle rounds. Things are starting to get hairier in the comments too! But give me all your thoughts and quibbles you have, because I’m just one idiot that gets to pose my thoughts to the smart collective. Together as a think tank, Razzball Basketball is going to own the hoops-o-sphere! Just need to pay more attention when we play stupid Chris Liss in the Yahoo F&F Final… Ugh! Here’s the Top 75 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

(you can also put your quibbles with my ranks to the test in the 2016-17 Razzball Basketball RCL Leagues, now open and 100% free to join, start a league and sign up now!)

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2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Milwaukee Bucks

August 24, 2016 | Team Previews | 8 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

As we prepare for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, I’ll be taking a look at each NBA team with their major adds and drops to see if we can pan for any surprise rotational gold. This open is especially witty for the Nuggets. We’ll be counting down from worst NBA regular season to the best, mainly because I’m still figuring out how to rank the Warriors…

Milwaukee Bucks (33-49)

Bucks

Key Acquisitions:

F Mirza Teletovic

F Thon Maker (Rookie)

G Matthew Dellavedova

G Malcolm Brogdon (Rookie)

Key Losses:

G Jerryd Bayless

G O.J. Mayo

G Greivis Vasquez

Jason Kidd going on power trips and DNPing Giannis

Not a ton of turnover for the Bucks, who don’t lose much and don’t gain much, player wise. They DO gain a full season of ridiculous play from Giannis, so that definitely counts for something! I don’t know how much further they could go than barely squeaking into the playoffs, but anytime you have a Freak like Greek, your franchise is going in the right direction. Here’s how the rest of the roster is looking around him:

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09/24/2016 – “I Think I Have Some Sort Of Freudian Attraction Going On”

2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Orlando Magic

Rankings, Complete! Top 200 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

09/15/2016 – “That’s A Hard Noooo!”

JB’s Random Commenter League Draft Recap

Rankings, Con[something]! Top 150 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Denver Nuggets

2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Sacramento Kings

Rankings, Confluencing! Top 100 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

08/30/2016 – “They’re Gonna Wanna Play Tyler Zeller His 7 Minutes!”

Rankings, Coalescing! Top 75 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

2016-17 NBA Team Previews: Milwaukee Bucks