Comments on: Top Ten For 2012-2013 Fantasy Basketball

By: Fenris-77

Fenris-77 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:30:51 +0000

@ChrisV, I think you’re cukoo for coco-puffs if your plan is to mitigate Howard’s FT%. It’s so bad that even if you draft FT% as your #1 priority you’ll probably just claw your way back to mediocrity at best. With other C’s I agree with you completely, but Howard isn a special case. If you draft him, especially this high, you pretty much have to punt, otherwise you’re losing the implied value a Howard pick has relative to changing your valuation strategy.

I also think I’d rank Paul over Love based on last year’s results, but it’s still a coin flip for the most part.

By: Jif & The Choosy Mothers

Jif & The Choosy Mothers — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:24:02 +0000

I might be missing something. Is there a good place to post this?

I’m a longtime fantasy basketballer, if you will, and a group of excellent owners recruited from Razzball, The Original, three years ago have formed a great new league. We have 12 owners and think we’ll move it to 14.

The league costs $60 and is H2H points. It’s a salary cap league to encourage roster churn. Plan is for 12- or 13-man rosters with 1 IR spot. We’ll keep 7 players each season. Salaries assigned based on rounds drafted.

Scoring categories are simple – points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. Points carry slightly more weight – then rebounds and assists – then steals and blocks.

FYI: The concept of this new league borrows heavily from a 26-year-old league that I joined 15 years ago but am bowing out of now for philosophical reasons – namely I don’t think we should pay for the site that it’s housed on. Waste of $179 every year.

Thanks. If interested, write me about why you want to join at: dw.reds@gmail.com. We have a detailed League Charter already in place.

If it matters, and it probably does, the owners I recruited three years ago (some 25 of us, believe it or not) have stuck together in two money baseball leagues, one free one and fantasy football too. Not everyone is in every league, of course, but turnover has been almost nil.

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:48:19 +0000

@ChrisV, also, folks, you don’t have to punt one category just because your guy isn’t useful in every single category. You’re going to have to balance your draft board. If you take a Center in the first round, you should be focusing on a Guard in the second round, definitely the third round.

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:46:18 +0000

@JP, I agree with you to some extent, but you’re really drafting Ibaka over Howard? Seriously? Ibaka is a blocks juggernaut, absolutely, but they are not in the same league (well, I mean, they are both in the NBA).

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:44:51 +0000

@Shawn, I love that you waste time writing me love songs. Never stop.