Fantasy Basketball

[BATTLES]

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.

[El Presidente]

If enough people would be interested I'd definitely play.

[Mike Ockizitchy]

Ditto. I've always thought about getting into fantasy NBA, this would be a good reason to. I'm assuming especially with the NBA, you don't need more then like 8-10 teams.

[livid]

Count me in. (Y)

[Your Mom]

I would do it. Gives me more of an excuse to watch hoop.

[BATTLES]

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.

[Mr Evil Guy]

I'll join.

And ESPN is fine.

[Your Mom]

I have only ever used Yahoo for Fantasy drafts but I guess I can get an ESPN thing

[BATTLES]

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

[Your Mom]

I dont know. They are easy to use and get stats from and thats all that matters to me really

[Essa]

I'll play. Nobody take any of my Knicks on me.

[BATTLES]

So by my count, that's about 7 people so far.

Two questions:

1. ESPN or Yahoo?

2. Can we organize a live draft?

Edited September 26, 2008 by BATTLES

[JStarr]

Count me in, and I have a couple of non-EWB-type folks who are hoop junkies if we need extras.

I'd been considering starting an ESPN league this year, thinking that it was eligible for their "Uber" all-games challenge thing they do...but strangely, it's not. Golf and NASCAR, yes, basketball, no, unless it's a paid premium league. Extortionist bastards.

Two big differences between Yahoo and ESPN leagues:

1. It's easier to talk shit back and forth on Yahoo. ESPN's league boards are organized in thread form rather than Yahoo's format of a long string of posts. So, if talking trash is important, Yahoo would likely be easier.

2. A lot of ESPN's advice-type columns are for Insiders only...again, they want money. Yahoo has most of that free. So, if you read advice columns for tips, Yahoo would win again. To fight the power, I'll usually read Yahoo columns and use the info in the ESPN leagues.

As far as live drafts, love 'em. But it might be a pain in the balls to set one up if we start getting, say, an Australian or English member interested. Even me, I go to work most days at 6 AM, so I'm not up until all hours of the night, except for Friday/Saturday. If we can get one, awesome. If not, I won't be surprised.

Edited October 1, 2008 by Sinistarr

[Pooker]

I'd be willing to join.

[Trey]

I too am interested, especially if it is a Yahoo league. That's where I do my football so the idea I can do it all in one fell swoop is a nice idea.

[Slogger]

I'll join, Even though I am an Aussie, I'll probably be awake for the live draft anyway due to this god forsaken heat, I'd prefer Yahoo.

[BATTLES]

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)

Edited October 4, 2008 by BATTLES

[JStarr]

Posted a suggestion on the league page.

Thanks for hooking it up, Battles.

[Mr Evil Guy]

I joined. (Y)

[Trey]

I to have signed up to join in on the fun. I haven't been in a fantasy basketball league in years.