ILH Fantasy Talk

Thread for any discussion on fantasy basketball.

I'm down for doing an ILH league but I'd say we need 8 minimum. Confirm in this thread if you want in and I'll set everything up if we get 8.

i'd do it this year if we can get enough folks yeah

pencil me in too

Uh huh

I’ll play, I’ve only done fantasy hoops like once in the past dozen years so I’m not particularly optimistic about my chances. I hear this Stephen Curry fellow is good at the shooting of basketballs from behind the three point line.

I also presume Doing Zion Shit will be a category, yes?

YESSSS

I am in baby

have never done hoops fantasy and think this might be bad for me so sure why not

I also presume Doing Zion Shit will be a category, yes?

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 7:41 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

zion dunks will be worth 3 points, zion blocks 2, zion steal and fast break dunk 5.

I'm in!

Jerami Grant or Taurean Prince?

i think prince will have more opportunity but if millsap gets injured then grant will be huge

thanks. i was put on the spot to pick a team name and choose trae don't huerter. hat tip to you

nice...

Heez, you want in our ILH league?

no thanks. i can only handle one of these

when are you sending invites, spotto. I could use a third league

Looks like we've got at least 8! for those that said they were in please send me an email (pop the levels at g male dot com) from your preferred email address and I'll get everyone plugged in. If anyone else come into the thread and wants to play you can send me an email as well and I'll cap it at 12.

I'll be using the Yahoo fantasy app so make sure you get that. Draft likely this Sunday or Monday evening. 8 category head to head.

lol i'm having to delete my yahoo account and make a new one for this bc for whatever reason yahoo doesn't have my age information and i can't update it and you have to be 13 to play fantasy basketball. guys i made that account over 20 years ago..........

Haha you can use an existing gmail or another account to create a yahoo acct I think

it was a minor inconvenience, i ain't exactly spending hour after hour every day on yahoo dot com

just did a ten-team mock and ... i am gonna have to do a few more of these, feels like my hoops mind is stuck in like 2015

Word to the wise: don’t draft Carmelo

man, I haven't done a Yahoo fantasy league in years, signing up was a real trip down memory lane. seeing how I participated in a big NCAA tourney pool ten years ago put on by Clay Travis before he went full reactionary dickweed and finished 2nd out of 392.

i prefer yahoo to espn for one reason and one reason only: the lightning (start all active players) button.

ok looks like i still need m bison, lavator and ulysses emails! lets goooooooo. draft is on sunday evening 845

we can hold four more as well if anyone else wants to join in just send me an email.

sent

We can always open it up to a few randos at the end if we want a shallower player pool

true true. I am used to 8 team leagues and big rosters i kinda like it like that

Sent!

damn this draft is at 11:45 EST?! i didn't realize all of y'all were west coasters, it's no biggie but i think odds are very strong that i'll be autodrafting.

I'm east coast too - tbh 8:45 est would be tricky for me anyway putting kids to bed but yeah will probably have to do some autodrafting. I'll try to make it for the first few rounds tho

no auto-drafting allowed (half joking, but like 50% of the fun of fantasy is the draft imo). what time would be work better? I just kind of threw that out for a first time. I could do mid day on Sunday like around 1:30-4pm pacific time or monday evening.

EST evening sunday will work otherwise i'm mostly screwed

Honestly with this being a snake draft it’ll probably go pretty quick so I could possibly swing 1145. An hour or two earlier would be ideal but I can be amenable

yeah my last one took about an hour - 8 teams snake draft 90 seconds for each pick. I changed this one to 60 seconds per pick should go even quicker

10 or 10:30 EST Sunday night would be ideal but could start as early as 9 or at the later pacific-friendly time

my yahoo mail is roastingonanopenfire

ok sending

let's get eight teams in this thing

no extra points for 3s, huh?

down for that, theyre already worth 3 of the points

oh wow that changes my draft strategy immensely, not doing %s either?

so i did some Number Crunching in MicroSoft ExCel (the extra caps in SC stand for Sports Center)

using last year's data, the number one fantasy man per game using spottie's rules is james harden, the second is giannis, wow we got ourselves a mvp debate again!!!

also the player that most unfairly benefits from this scoring system is westbrook

i think percentages are really important for balance in fantasy hoops and would like to suggest we use them!

i wish missed shots could be a negative value, it would really penalize low-efficiency volume shooting that gets the PPG up

altho there arent a lot of ppl other than westbrook who are getting rewarded here, its mostly a reflection of the best talent, though it does reward big men more than it prob should.

the average distribution of a player's Spottie points in this system goes like this (w some rounding):
47% from PPG
26% from RPG
16% from APG
11% from SPG
7% from BPG
-6% from TO/G

big men less likely to have high TO rates and more like to have big REB and BLK so thats why 6 of the top 11 players from 18-19 would be centers (davis 3rd, joel 5th, towns, jokic, drummond, vucevic 8th-11th)

#analytics

hahha what

who can deny that jimmy butler has teeth, which may impact his ability to play basketball

forks hasn't accessed his team since the league renewal went out in September, btw. I think he's likely a ghost team.

wonder if i can switch him to a bot managed team

ITEM! Wiggles adds Wiggins, rest of league wigging out!

OK I may be a little stoned right now as that notification popped up on my phone, but I do think it would be an excellent idea for Hoopshype to write all their rumor headlines in the style of an Old Hollywood gossip column

hot scoop!

ITEM! Wiggles adds Wiggins, rest of league wigging out!

do we need someone to take over the ghost team? a friend of mine is willing to do it

do we need someone to take over the ghost team? a friend of mine is willing to do it

I'm not commissioning a hoops league but in football there's a Transfer Team option under "manage other teams" in the commissioner menu

ok i figured it out. can you send me their email address? you can send through ilxor mail or drop it here in hidden text with broken formatting.

sent

nice, sent his way

Why is it that Miles Bridges was deemed untouchable when Spottie picked him up last year but this year it's okay?

didnt see who picked him up, he should still be in free agent hell 4ever

Yah I don’t think we stated anything explicitly but it was an unwritten thing. Looks like Jrues Holiday got him

admittedly I picked him up in my other league because I have bad values lol

Uhh yeah i picked him up. It was like I was just sitting there in the experiment room staring at the marshmallow. I know, I’m going to hell

based on me telling my friend league rules don't allow him to pick up Bridges, I vote for Bridges being turfed.

the IST will play havoc with fantasy this week, players need to win to get more games...

xp I will cleanse my soul and drop Bridges if others agree w sym

fuck miles bridges all my homies hate miles bridges

You’ll be blessed for your decision

it is done

i feel a great weight lifted

the IST will play havoc with fantasy this week, players need to win to get more games...

no way, love the chaos element

IST championship game does not count for fantasy if I read the thing correctly

looks like theyre showing up on the mobile app but not on web version

it appears that miles bridges is back on a roster...

Clay is that your boy?

? not sure what I’m implicated in here!

I can’t remember who roundrock bball is, thought it was your friend but I must be mistaken

It’s lavators mate I think

Sorry for stray clay :)

Ya my friend. I’ll set him straight on the moral standards of this here community

Happy new year y’all!

HNY ILH Fantasy crew

i'm cooked... lost trae, ja and now kat. fire sale im open for business if anyone wants any of my players im looking for draft picks for next season.

snuck into the playoffs, and now I'm going to lose the week by like 20 points unless Ivica Zubac has the game of his life.

Tough, good battle

Hauser and Portis killed me

It all boils down to this, me vs. Roundball Rock... who tbh is kicking my ass but it's only Friday!

You got a chance in FT% and maybe rebounds or assists

I want to believe

i need the world to know that the battle between spottie and i for 3rd place was closer than the 7-2 score would have you believe

Yah man that was so close lol. Separated by two fgm, ONE point, three rebounds

congrats to roundball rock... just too tough

Grats to RR. Until next year fellas.

Roundball Rock Jon sends his gracious thanks to all for welcoming him into the league and falling prey to his victory. Next year I will try to get him to join ILH!