2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 15

All the cats looked pretty much set by mid-week last week, except the final battle for BLK and TO.  Stupid Rudy Gobert and his 6 blocks on Friday threatened the run, but Dirk Nowitzki coming up swatty yesterday got me 4 blocks, and I won the cat by each of those 4 swats.  Pretty fun win!

…and now, comes the rough part.  I play #3 Scurry this week, as my schedule tightens up as I fight for a bye week.  52-10-1 the last 7 weeks has been a hell of a ride, but it may come crashing down as I get #4 Slim the following week, and wrap up against #2 Yappers.  It’s been a lucky run, I actually had TOO many players, and had to cut a useful-only-in-REL Dante Cunningham to activate KCP for the week.  I just gotta hope to stay healthy through the final push and into the playoffs.

Thankfully this week, I’ve got 4 games from my most pivotal team in OKC, so hopefully I can hold off Scurry.  Good luck to all this week, and if you’re a non-REL member or out of the running, hopefully you’re rooting for your’s truly to get a gold jersey finally!

So let’s see. We have completed a tough stretch of the schedule and are in second second place, 1.5 games behind JB. Looking at the schedule, we have the next three matchups against teams in the bottom half of the standings. Next is a matchup against a good team with terrible injury misfortune with Jokic. And finally an end of season showdown with JB. Quite happy with where we sit, but still room to improve.

So who receives special accolades for last week. Marc Gasol for sure with .569 FG%, .938 FT%, 11 threes, and 7 blocks. In other words he was a key contributor in ratios and two of the very close categories. But for unsung players I think we will go with Spencer Dinwiddie, a FAAB pickup of a few weeks back. At the time I griped about overpaying for him by about $16 FAAB, and at one time he was on my possible drop list. But last week he averaged almost 29 minutes per game with key contributions in both ratios and 11.5 points per game. Good grief he even contributed two blocks in one game. He was good for what Yahoo says is the 93rd ranked player for the week. So now he is off the possible drop list and moved to the probable keep list as a $1 point guard. A very valuable commodity considering the cost of PG in this league.

But I will grumble about Kris Humphries and my stupid acquisition of him last week. A waste of $2 FAAB. At least my pickup of Joe Harris was a freebie (having been way outbid for two players I actually liked but being in FAAB rationing mode for now). Pros: youngish player with upside, schedule for next three weeks allows me to keep an injured player, should receive semi regular minutes when he returns, not a waste of money should someone I prefer come along. Cons: he is injured you idiot, how did your stashes of Lance Stephenson and Festus Ezeli work out, do you really need ..another.. thragnoff?

Our team has disappointed recently and we made some poor roster gambles coming into this season that did no help our cause this year. We have had internal discussions around our likelihood of making the playoffs and the success we can expect if we do reach. We are at a point in the season that we need to fully commit one direction or another. We cannot decide which way to go though.

After a tough matchup this week that decision may be made for us however. Good luck all!

The main developments on my team this week was adding Diamond Stone (who lol) to pair with Brice Johnson as my Clipper frontcourt stash’s right now. The Melo Clipper rumors with the Clippers not wanting to move any of there Big 3 has me thinking both or one of them might be moved in a deal so figured it couldn’t hurt, especially when again I was going to be out bid on bigger targets, but that’s okay because Donatas put up a solid week and continues to trend up with Davis a shutdown candidate so a Phoenix might be rising out of that $58 pile of ash. Lin’s continued injury season has kept Isiah Whitehead in the rotation and he’s starting to look like things are clicking with a solid week so hope that continues, MKG continues to give me great bigman stats on the wing with a 55/75 week to go with 11/7 and 1.8 blks he does exactly what you don’t want out of a standard wing but he fits my teams build perfectly since he just improves upon my big men stats when there getting burn. It helped show the clear strengths of my team this week thanks to a young center busting out in ZUUUUUUUBACCC. 14/10 and 1.5 blk week for Zubac with 100% from the line on 3 attempts a game in 27 minutes. I am so glad I didn’t give up on him after his preseason riding the pine and made sure to not miss him in the draft. I can easily see him putting up Jonas stats (at almost half the REL cost), potentially better even since he seems to have more hunger on the court then Jonas has, probably because Zubac grew up a massive Laker fan wanting to make the NBA to play for the team and everyone on the team seems to like him while Jonas gets crapped on by Casey all the time and seems to have resigned himself to watching Derozan and Lowry take all the shots when he isn’t doing a million useless pump fakes.

Me and No Love No Glove would have had a close match if we played last week and given the upward trend of my team right now if Embiid gets some more games I think I might be able to sneak out a win against a top 10 team. Watch out Scurry and Slim I don’t think it’s looking like I won’t be a cake walk when I play you guys in week 17/18.