Doesn’t that pretty much sum up how everyone feels after the first night? You’re either extrapolating the statistics to a) project how the players you picked are out for their worst season ever or b) figure how you managed the greatest draft of all time.
Don’t forget to contiually repeat “It’s only one game” if you [...]
The season is finally almost here and while SI did a good job with its own list of NBA storylines, fantasy hoops has its own set of plots that are making hard to wait even one more day for the season to start…..
Andrew Bynum teaming up with Fu-Schnickens
OK, so maybe he’s not exactly like Shaquille [...]
Sunday night came my final draft of the season as I took part in the 14-team draft for the RotoEvil challenge. Trying to boil down the rules for the league as simply as possible, here it is:
There are actually two scoring systems at work: a standard eight-category roto league and a points league based on [...]
I had the honor of participating in a 20-team draft run by the guys at Give Me the Rock on Saturday morning, despite it being the last weekend before my impending nuptials. How’s THAT for dedication?!
True, the future Mrs. was carping on how the draft was inhibiting our ability to get out and do the [...]
I hate to seem like I’m picking on a guy who basically pioneered a sect of internet sportswriting and has way more readers/success than I’ll ever hope to have (hell, whining about the Yankees would only get me so much exposure, while whining about the Red Sox makes you famous). Anyway, Bill Simmons has a piece [...]
News is terribly slow in these last few days before the season starts, but…..
Amare Stoudemire discolated his left pinky in a preseason game. While I think this may be just a ploy to make me feel better about not getting to draft him in any leagues thusfar, it appears he’s going to be just fine.
Andrew Bogut [...]
Took part in my longest-running league’s draft tonight. It’s a league of friends and co-workers in about its fifth season or so. It’s always fun drafting in a league full of people you know personally because the level of expertise varies wildly and some of the picks are truly shocking (i.e. Derek Fisher going in [...]
Every sports site on Earth posts it’s list of breakout candidates before a season starts, but I hold John Hollinger of ESPN.com in higher esteem that others, especially based on last year’s list. He predicted Mike Dunleavy’s career season and his only real misfires were Darko and Bargnani.
This season, his All-Breakout Team includes Andray Blatche, Amir Johnson, Jordan [...]
Kevin Pelton at Basketball Prospectus has introduced an NBA projection system he has named SCHOENE, which stands for “Standardized Comparable Heuristic Optimizing Empirical NBA Evolution”. These are not intended for fantasy purposes, but any in-depth analysis can certainly be used to help you build a strong team.
In addition to detailing the method of generating the projections, you [...]
The head-to-head rankings differ from the roto rankings in a couple of fundamental ways although they are not tremendously different.
Firstly, players that contribute heavily in only one category are generally ranked higher because team balance is less imperative in head-to-head. It’s more important to kill your opponent in as many individual categories, making one-cat wonders slightly [...]
After much blood (actually none), sweat (a little) and tears (didn’t cry but felt like it), here are the rotisserie rankings for the upcoming season. These rankings are based on a standard, nine-category (Points, 3-pointers, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, FG%, FT%, TOs) league with 14 teams of 13 roster spots each. Anyone not on the [...]
Finalizing the rankings (and planning a wedding that is 16 days away) has made things a little hectic the last few days, but the rankings (both roto and head-to-head) will be up on Monday morning.
Thanks, FBJ
All previews follow the same format. I’ll be going in depth only on the players worth owning in a standard 12-team league, followed by players who you might consider as injury handcuffs/deep sleepers. As always, it starts with the most valuable player on the team:
Deron Williams (PG)
Helps: Points, Assists, FG%, FT%, Steals, 3-pointers
Hurts: TOs
Williams developed [...]
All previews follow the same format. I’ll be going in depth only on the players worth owning in a standard 12-team league, followed by players who you might consider as injury handcuffs/deep sleepers. As always, it starts with the most valuable player on the team:
Tim Duncan (C/PF)
Helps: Points, Rebounds, Blocks, FG%
Hurts: FT%, TOs
Conventional wisdom says [...]
