this surprises me

I gotta say that I've quite enjoyed my first bball fantasy league experience. it's definitely a shame that there isn't any money involved but still having fun.

THIS THIS THIS

yeah yeah.

looks like ozi and me is gonna battle till the end this week.

zap.

If this still applies, I'm in.

yeah, faded hard there.




welcome.

I wish I could find the quote where you said "wait till the playoffs" or what ever it was. How does it make you feel that the favorite to win the playoffs has probably watched 1/20th the NBA you have this season, and wasn't there for the draft?

what makes YOU the favourite? I just snatched Ginobilli and Crawford from waivers in late season AND I haven't watched a single full game this year. my campaign is completely built on media updates and voodoo

ok I lie. just voodoo.

my number 1 seed?

well played sir

*note: for some reason I thought USS Nadir was SuitedAces. so much for observation skills good thing there's still voodoo

BigD, looks like it's you and me for the championship!

Good luck sir.

you sneaky devil you...you gave me the bad luck masquerading as good luck.

I just lost Ginobili who was gonna be my steal since I picked him up off injury waivers a month ago. ughh...that one guy just gave you a 6-3 lead.

Manu's been crappy all year, he wouldn't have made the difference.



Thanks for playin' boys

for day 1 results it would've made a difference for sure.

i'm down by 13 pts, 2 assists, 1 blk and FT% would keep me close with Ginobili. if i just get an average day by Manu I'd be leading in pts and assists for a 5-4 lead.

Looks like you're going to win anyway, unless I can have a miraculous comeback.. GG everybody, thanks fo rplayin' this year.

don't you jinx me you bastard!!! let's play fair!

I'm praying I hold on...would be so great to win my first ever fantasy basketball league.

but we really have to put some money on this next year. I'll sponsor SuitedAces if he needs one to make this happen.

I'm not putting money on it, unless we reset the league. With two teams obviously bailing, I think it would be better to just reset.

this newb just won his first fantasy basketball league. YAY ME!

thx suitedAces for setting it up

gg everyone

Not so fast, my friend! I thought you won too, but I checked the schedule, and the game doesn't end until the middle of this week, on the last game of the season ( wednesday, I think? ) Be sure to set your line ups!

yeah, the finals keep going.

and post your keepers in here, whenever. you get 8. any 8.

Keepers

Dirk Nowitski

Chauncey Billups

Tim Duncan

David Lee

Caron Butler

Gilbert Arenas

Paul Pierce

Ray Allen

Congrats to the pork buns, for squeaking out a narrow win ( I lost by 2 steals! Do ma!)

did I really win now or what? I'm confused...my name isn't under the "Champion" icon

isn't there a parade or hot chicks supposed to be knocking on my door? can I at least play with your stripper??

Official Keepers:

SuitedAces21:

Dwayne Wade
Kevin Durant
Tony Parker
Dwight Howard
Andrew Bynum
Carlos Boozer
Russel Westbrook
Al Thorton

BigD:

Dirk Nowitski
Chauncey Billups
Tim Duncan
David Lee
Caron Butler
Gilbert Arenas
Paul Pierce
Ray Allen

the week doesn't officially end till sunday, but there are no more games...

Keepers for Macau Poker Buns!

PG-Deron Williams
SG-Brandon Roy
SF-Lebron James
PF-David West
C-Andrea Bargnani

G-Michael Redd
F-Andre Iguodala
C-Brook Lopez

Jesus christ. No wonder you won.

according to Artest, Roy is better than Kobe and Wade LOL

I gambled a big. D-Williams was injured to start the year and Roy hadn't blown up yet but I loved how the guy was progressing. Bargnani is my Roy pick for next year basically.

but seriously, let's get some money into this league. If SuitedAces is broke lets find some sponsorship for the guy...he DOES run the league and has a good record. shouldn't be hard to find buyers. I'd invest myself if it wasn't a conflict-of-interest.

I'm not putting any money into any league I didn't get to draft my own team on.

you were the no. 1 seed and you got to pick your keepers! you literally lost by 2 steals dude...do you really hate your team??

No, it's not an issue of that. IT's an issue of I feel little connection to this team. I'm glad that I did well, and want to be competitive with it, but I'd never feel about this team, the way I would about a team I actually drafted. Also, it's a really old team, that If I committed to backing for years for money, I would start doing very poorly with.

ya, I hear you but each year you'll be transforming that team.

with the exception of Duncan you've still got 2 good years out of your current keepers and chances are you'll find a gem during the draft who's younger and with more upside. Arenas may turn up to be the greatest steal of the year in 09-10 season for ya.

are we doing this again?

I'm going to start my own keeper league. Question. What is the best Keeper League out there?

I thought the Yahoo seemed pretty easy to use but thought I'd ask.

If you start one, holla at me.. I'd be interested.. also, is this league on again? Are we ditching inactive players? SUITED WE NEED ANSWERS

i dont have time anymore.

lol?

its no joke. homework is killing me.

and i'm moving out here soon. so yeah.

tight keeper league.

it's okay bigD. if you REALLY can promise to play for more than a year (so it's an actual keeper) then I think I have a spot on my new Keeper league for you. even tho having u ups the competition quite a bit.

give me til Monday as I promised some guys that I'd give them time to decide. Gonna be 10 team league and I have 6 confirmed so good chance ur in.

Okay, my keeper league is expanding from 6 to 10 teams this year. I still get to keep four players.

Clearly Kobe and CP3 are keepers...who are the other 2? I'll strike those I'm not considering. Standard H2H Yahoo format.

Marcus Camby
Jeff Green
Devin Harris
Nene Hilario
Joe Johnson
Chris Paul
Zach Randolph
John Salmons
Marcus Thornton
Anthony Tolliver
David West
Mo Williams
LaMarcus Aldridge
Andray Blatche
Kobe Bryant

According to recent ESPN rankings...it should be like this. Overall rank is brackets. Is this right?

1. Chris Paul (2)
2. Kobe Bryant (6)
3. Joe Johnson (25)
4. Zach Randolph (36)
5. Devin Harris (47)
6. Marcus Camby, Nene Hilario, Mo Williams, David West, Jeff Green, Andray Blatche (51-58)

I was leaning towards taking Johnson from the beginning because he also fills a lot of positions besides being a fantasy stud. But Zach? I'd rather have a healthy Camby than Zach but that "healthy" part is a tough one.

Caveat: I don't know anything about fantasy.


Camby will get you a bunch of rebounds and blocks, but you might need to put a little consideration into the fact that Greg Oden is coming back for Portland and will take some minutes away from him. Since both are injury prone (to say the least) Portland will probably want to limit their minutes, but they also want to prove Oden is worth the #1 pick, so he'll get every chance to steal time from Camby.

Aside: I'd love to see what a Camby/Oden/Aldridge frontcourt would look like. Just long arms everywhere.

my strat is to load up on power forwards and point guards (preferably that can shoot 3's). SO I'd go Kobe, CP3, Harris and randolph. Joe johnson is a better Real life player, but the sg/sf positions are so easy to fill, unless I had someone redic like kobe, I wouldn't keep a sg/sf.

Harris is pretty terrible at 3pt range. maybe terrible is strong but not great anyhow. His injuries really worry me on top of the fact he's only had one really great season.

I'm quite curious as to how big a role Mo will play without Lebron in CLE and how Blanche will do as the premiere big in Washington. Problem is I really like my core starting 4 to have a pretty solid reliability factor. I'm still trying to decide how much gamble is there.

ya, I agree Camby is too much gamble to make as keeper. but how many guys outside of dwight can randomly get 20 rebounds, blocks in a night? I'll pray he's around come the 6th round of drafting.

If you keep joe, I'd target a pg or PF with the next pick, without a doubt. I think randolf is a no brainer, as he's a fantasy machine, much more valuable in fantasy than he is in real life. Harris is probably not good enough to keep over johnson

I think I would lean towards Randolph as well provided he doesn't go to jail. See Visit My Website

I've got 3 more weeks before I have to submit my Keepers but the legal problems worry me for sure. Distracted players are not usually productive unless their name is Kobe.

I'm thinking Blatche has so much upside but again...I'd hope that he's available in 6th round or so.

Yeah but who else is going to put up numbers for memphis? someone has to. Randolph is a master of churning out good fantasy numbers on bad teams. He also usually has playability at C.