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OK everyone, I'm in Australia so hopefully I've used the time-zone converter correctly to figure out the best time. But I've set the draft for this coming Thursday the 23rd at 9PM Eastern. Sorry for the late notice. The more people who can make the draft the better, but that time's obviously not going to work out for everyone. If you don't think you will be able to make the draft, you can pre-rank your players before hand. We're at 13 teams right now, so we need either one more or three more. Starr, if you know two people that are interested, tell them both to join up and I'm sure we'll be able to find someone to fill out the league. Off the top of my head I think Essa left a comment saying he'd join but hasn't signed up yet so maybe I should give him a buzz. If anyone has any questions feel free to reply here or through the league message board on Yahoo.

I can confirm that nobody in our league has any players yet (Y) The season is 11 days away now, so I will try and have a confirmed date for everyone over the next few day. Stay tuned folks.

Has anyone got any preferences for when the draft should be? I'm reluctant to confirm a date when only one person has suggested when they would be available. But I guess if nobody replies, then Starr, the draft will definitely suit your schedule as you're the only one that's replied (Y)

Just in case anyone's looking at this thread and wondering if it's worth joining or up and running .. The league is up and running, we just need at least three more people to join before we decide on draft details.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I've changed the scoring to H2H now with just your basic categories: Points, rebounds, steals, assists, blocks, turnovers, 3Ps made, FG%, FT%. Seven teams have joined up so far, so hopefully we get a few more over the next few days and then we can start looking at a time to organize a draft.

Well it seems like there's more than enough interest, so I've set up a league. I went with Yahoo, as that seemed the more popular choice. We'll try and organize a live draft if we can. I'd say 16 teams is probably a good number in terms of how deep the draft will be. Here are the details to join: the ID# is 46051 and the Password is headbangers. If anyone has any suggestions about certain rules or scoring or anything like that (Y)

So by my count, that's about 7 people so far. Two questions: 1. ESPN or Yahoo? 2. Can we organize a live draft?

What's Yahoo like? I wouldn't mind giving that a try ..

Let's do this thang. On the ESPN site the average league has 10 teams, so I think that would be a good minimum. With 10 teams the draft is very shallow, you end up with some very good players left when it comes to drafting your bench. So if more people are interested, higher than 10 would be ideal .. but it can definitely work with 10. We've got 5 people here so far, I'm sure there are at least another 5 people on EWB who follow NBA Does anyone have a preference on which site we could organize it through? The only one I have used is ESPN, which is pretty good.

So I just saw the fantasy hockey thread, has there been an EWB NBA league before? Would there be people interested in one? .. I haven't given any real thought as to how it would work, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

Arcade Fire Birthday Party Can Dinosaur Jr. Echo & The Bunnymen Futureheads Gang of Four Howling Bells Iggy Pop Joy Division Kings of Leon Les Savy Fav My Bloody Valentine New York Dolls Oasis Public Image Ltd. Queens of the Stoneage Raconteurs Sonic Youth Television - Velvet Underground White Stripes X-Ray Specks You Am I - ... most of my favourite bands seem to start with the same letter.

Somewhat off topic now, but this is the first time I've seen PIL mentioned on EWB. PIL > Sex Pistols The first two PIL albums (Metal box particularly) are among the finest albums of all time. The bass on that bad boy is fucking insane. The later, 80s style, dance-esque PIL does suck hard though.

Best Stripes album in a long time. It crosses over so many genres and it just plain fucking rules. I love the spoken word shit of Rag & Bone, I love the bagpipes and Meg's vocals on St. Andrew ... fuck, I love it all. Bone Broke has that awesome, grungy early Stripes vibe. I'm Slowly Turning Into You & 300 MPH etc. are also really, really good.

As some have mentioned, Ziggy Stardust is a must have. Definitely hit these - The Stooges - Velvet Underground - MC5 I don't think anyone's mentioned the New York Dolls, they're worth a look for sure. Like The Rolling Stones, but a fuck load cooler. If you're open minded and want to try something a bit different, check out the following: - Captain Beefheart - Suicide - Television