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

lol i forgot you're a math teacher ;)

i havent taught math in years, i teach gov/econ and academic decathlon friend!!!!! #update.xls

sorry was away today. lol i hadnt set up the scoring settings yet. bison you are a genius and im sorry you wasted time but we're going with a standard weekly head to head 8 category league.

Ulysses youre the last one to sign up we need you. i sent the email let me know if you didnt get it.

Did we decide on a draft time?

is it possible to do 7 or 9 categories to avoid ties?

Think I’m gonna keep the draft time as is. I’ll mull Over adding another category. I find 8 cat the best. Head to head winner doesn’t matter as much as head to head category record so a tie won’t really matter in the end

We got 8 it’s on

please just don’t change the settings again, I initially assumed it was 8 category then saw yesterday it was points and so I redid my rankings accordingly and so now I learn that was a total waste of time

xpost got it

Sorry evol I dunno how it changed I never set it as a points league so maybe that was the default and I never set it up right. 8 cat will be the way.

no worries, just glad we're all on the same page now.

About an hour til draft time y’all I hope you’re geared up and ready to draft the best team possible.

i am ready to make some bad decisions

so am I correct in surmising that we can adjust our lineups every day in this league? in other words you don't have to use the same lineup for an entire week? I couldn't find anything that would enable me to lock in a lineup for a whole week so I'm assuming this is the case, but maybe I just overlooked something.

correct. but if you want there is a 'start active players' button on the top left (or its the lightning button on the app) which lets you set the active players for the day or for the rest of the week. if you set it and then make a trade or waiver pickup then i think it resets it.

https://i.imgur.com/9KFgei2.png

finally have steph curry on a fantasy team, gonna be a fun season

Starting five are russ, kawhi, lebron, blake and julius randle; i'm goin' to the superbowl

that’s a very injury prone starting five!

lol, you should see my backups!

role player hollafame candidate Danny green came through last night leading the lakers

yeah he balled out. im sure thats sustainable :)

my guys Lowry and Gasol combined for 6/24 from the field last night. Kobe!

championship hangover

having not played fantasy in a few years, the updated game tracker thing is really solid

thanks for sitting giannis against me, sym

Set those lineups boys! lightning button is your best friend.

yeah that was pretty smart, forgot I needed to reset after picking someone up

at least I saved myself from Eric Gordon going 4/19

arrrrrrrrrgh, literally two blocks and ONE MISSED SHOT away from running the table this week

that’s a very injury prone starting five!

half my top ten picks are out, (druss, lowry, vucevic, kyrie, bagley)

rough. yeah ive been dealing with carrying injured players as well. curry and my 4th pick john collins getting suspended was rough cos i cant IR slot him. just trying to survive a few more weeks til i get him back.

hey y'all let's do it

if we are establishing a precedent of multiyear participation, what are ppl's thoughts about keepers?

yah for the crew we had last time i auto-renewed the league with the 8 of us. We can add some more so if anyone else wants in let me know. Or if one of the OGs cant do it also let me know.

I'm down...keepers might be tough if anybody ever quits, but would be fun. As long as I'm not keeping last season's team

yah i like the idea of keepers but with a transient group it will be hard. think i'll just keep it as is for this league.

Works for me. A zoom draft would be cool. I missed the draft night zoom but would love to put some faces (and real names) to all you fine ballers

yeah i don't see a renew my team type function but i'm in as well

I think i just renewed and it says yall are in again but i'll look more into it soon

i think it's fine! just thought i remembered in previous years each player had to press a "yep, I'm back" button or whatever

I think yahoo does automatic renewals now. Down for the zoom draft too.

zoom draft should be good. initial thought is sunday night Dec 20th. Usually the later the better for me but im on MST.

we should prob nail down the draft date/time bc apparently the season starts in a week (?!?)

Yah I’ll nail it down tomorrow during work

Sunday looks good for me! East coast here but 3 young kids so all bets are off with best times. schedule as you will

i'd rather not do keepers but i'll play either way

yah not doing keepers i decided.

do we have everyone?

https://i.imgur.com/hGqOetq.png

me, clay, poly, lav, sym have all posted here. need confirmation from bison, forks and evol... are y'all in?

i know voodoo and heez have posted in this thread as well... feel free to join (just use the link) we want at least 8 teams but can take as many as 12. Any other regular ilhors that want in dont be bashful. I'll lock the teams in a few days.
https://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/35042/invitation?key=02f5f730e113c315&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=bce2d0654366b787

I set the draft for Sunday night at 830pm pacific time.

yeah, i'll get in on it tonight

here are the settings:
https://i.imgur.com/oxa7TI5.png
if get more than 8 teams i will adjust roster sizes. I usually try to keep it around 150 total rostered players in the league.

4 injury slots cos of all the weirdness that the rona will cause.

i’m in. need to sign up when i get home.

I set the draft for Sunday night at 830pm pacific time.

shit, kinda got a lot going on at the moment so I think it's best if I recuse myself this year, sorry I didn't notify sooner, hopefully y'all still have time to find someone to take my spot

no problem. which user were you again so i can remove?

who's next up?

forks i can do like 30, maybe 45 minutes earlier, that work?

forks i can do like 30, maybe 45 minutes earlier, that work?

i mean, it's better than not

I’m gonna pass. In one league already

ok. we need one more! voodoo?

Ok moullet has joined the fold we’re a go! Moved the draft to 745 pacific. Sorry I couldn’t do even earlier forks, got a fam thing.

are we zuming

Feel free to set one up I may be late joining the zoom

who are the two i need to drop? shows ten teams here but we only have eight.

looks like we have two m@tts?

https://i.imgur.com/QIg0OxX.png

need to cut one of those and evol j but cant remmber which team he is. can everyone check in and let me know which team name you are?

1 bogdan = polyphonic
2 lamelo = clay
3 smudge = sym
4 Jrue = spottie
5 doncicmacallit = forks
6 siakams = lav
7 rickys hair = moullet
8 lmaolo blol = bison

matts optimal team = bison???
so that means caruso is evol j. so ill drop that one and bison which team do you want me to drop of your two?

ok dropped caruso and matts optimal team. let me know if you have any issues anyone. draft is in one hour!

time to draft suckers

spottie and me in a close one this week, I think he's gonna pull it out

Good match should come down to the last game or two. This season is hard with all these cancelations

usually this format doesn't lead to super close finishes (compared to fantasy football) but this week most of the categories are like a one-game difference

hey sey yahooo created a new category called IL+ which allows GTD, O and IR eligible players to go into so you can pick up an active player. So I'm going to replace our 4 IR slots with 4 IR+ slots and add one extra IR+... so we'll have 5 IR+ slots available.

I'll do it tonight after the games are done so people can wake up and make changes starting tomorrow morning.

anyone have issues with this?

nope but i have issues with you beating me right now

lol plenty of time left!

wouldn’t let me change the 4 IL slots so I just added two IL+ slots

Thanks Spottie. I think my IL has been full basically the whole season. It’s been a bit of a lost year for the Torch Passers, though Passer-in-chief LBJ and Passee Zion have both been producing at least

The number of centers I've gone through this year is really something. I tried to stock up on them but it wasn't enough.

centers is such a hard position in fantasy. blocks are gold.

FYI I upped the transaction limit to 10 for this 'week' since its ten games instead of the normal 7. Ill switch It back next Sunday night.

Playoffs baby!

The torch is definitely being passed, as Zion is the only one of my first 5 picks playing at the moment. On my IL right now: LeBron, Hayward, Jamal Murray, John Collins, with KAT missing his game today to attend a memorial for his mother. Good luck to my esteemed opponent clay and to all participating.

injuries and missed time have been so brutal this season but thats especially bad

My IL was full for a good chunk of the first half of the season, though not with all top guys like that, and then my team got surprisingly healthy up until the last couple weeks (LeBron was the first domino). It has definitely been a weird year.

shuffling dudes on and off IL and (the blessèd) IL+ has been a part-time job the last couple months

Haha yes same

bkly minny game postponed to add another wrinkle

forks's team is crazy good, they only lost once all season

And he barely made any moves 😤

Dončićmacallit
1. (7) Nikola Jokic (Den - PF,C)
2. (10) Devin Booker (Pho - SG,SF)
3. (23) Deandre Ayton (Pho - C)
4. (26) Donovan Mitchell (Uta - PG,SG)
5. (39) Fred VanVleet (Tor - PG,SG)
6. (42) De'Aaron Fox (Sac - PG)
7. (55) DeMar DeRozan (SA - SG,SF,PF)
8. (58) CJ McCollum (Por - PG,SG)
9. (71) Lonzo Ball (NO - PG,SG)
10. (74) Coby White (Chi - PG,SG)
11. (87) Julius Randle (NY - PF,C)
12. (90) Danilo Gallinari (Atl - SF,PF)

good players with the first 9 picks, then randle in the 11th...

yah pretty much every player there has outperformed their draft position besides coby, gallo and maybe booker who's coming on strong now

auto draft tho so he cant take credit :)

randle that late is the real steal tho for sure

lol autodraft beat us all

Jokic at 7 was a steal too in retrospect

yah i think hes #1 on the seaseon. hasnt missed a game either

i may be wrong but i think i logged on just in time where i can claim intentionally drafting randle!
but yes, the power of my autodraft was strong. Required very little pruning over the course of the season.

D. Wade is balling out! That is Dean Wade of the Cleveland Cavaliers, of course, who had a 21-6-2 line with 3 steals and 5 threes last night in a loss to the Pels. I am noting him in this thread because he is currently at the top of the Transaction Trends, but more because I find it funny that his eligibility is PG/PF/C. He is 6'9" and averages 1.1 APG so maybe the PG thing is just an error but I cannot claim to have watched the Cavs to know for sure.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/req/202104131/images/players/wadede01.jpg

(In contrast Ben Simmons is just listed as a PG)

Ben Simmons could learn a few things from Dean Wade obviously

i don't know if it's enough to save me in this final but i feel pretty good about snagging Hardaway Jr off waivers for tonight

losing D Mitchell was a big hit

Yah that was huge. It’s gonna be tight all the way to the end imo

lol at our current FG% tie breaker

argh at hardaway jr being out for this last day; this is a stupid tight final and i need all the help i can get!

(prob should have strategically stacked players with sat/sun games yesterday but i didnt)

You should win cos you have the tiebreaker

welp vanvleet and derozan are taking the night off so

4-4 on Sunday, gotta love it. Y'all are both champs in my eyes (until one of you is a loser later this evening)

I need to hold points and pull off one of assists or fg%. Both of which are almost out of reach.

we should have a 9th category because winning 4-4 is silly. but it should be a positive category, so not turnovers.

sym you very well might beat me 8-0 for 3rd, i am humiliated

christ, tatum has become such a reliable beast

it was close all week!

we should have a 9th category because winning 4-4 is silly. but it should be a positive category, so not turnovers.

I need 10 assists combined out of Drummond, Flynn and Birch. I don’t think I’m gonna get it but damn this is close!

Congrats forks. The best team won.

what was the tie-breaker?

Reg season record. I feel dumb cos I meant to change it to h2h matchup at the beginning of the season cos that’s how I always do but I didn’t want to change it after the season started.

autodraft is undefeated!
gg, it couldn't have been much closer

congrats forks, thanks for the commissioning spottie

Tatum's giant game almost won it

I’m gonna think about those 7 more assists I needed all summer.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/6234/

(tbf, only 10 players in the league got seven or more assists tonight)

Your team was so stacked. Kelly O was like a top 20 player the last month or so.

iirc the rockets kept him on an extremely short leash and i wondered if they were gonna cut him. then he went from 10/2/6 in miami to 18/8/3.

Congrats Forks, and thanks for making it all happen Spottie.

I liked my team at the outset but the injury bug hit us hard. LeBron going down was the death knell.

I think it'll be a few days before I stop checking my players' stats...sabonis had 32/19/9 and 3 steals and it's doing nothing for me!

Hah same. Withdrawals are real.

Lol I just picked up melo

it’s starting to feel like fall where I live so I thought I’d bump this to see if we wanted to get the wheels in motion for 21-22

im v interested but i want to actually be at the draft this time lol

I want forks to be there too >:(

we shd do a zoom with jay bilas style commentary too

it would be a mistake not to do that

Yah I’m down and I’ll run it again if everyone is cool w that. Yahoo has a new webcam option for drafts so we can do it live baby. Ill set a date as we get closer. Let me know if you’re in on here and we’ll see where we’re at and how many we need to recruit.

auto-drafters will be punished

lol yes i am going to wear my very best draft suit and hire a guy to play adam silver and shake my hand after every pick

i'm in and will absolutely be autodrafting

bison better be on cam w an vintage Bruce Bowen jersey

i have vintage duncan and ginobili, bowen was not a spurs draft pick and also fuck that guy

Ok that will do

If I've never played fantasy of any type, and don't know anything about hoops, would this be fun?

absolutely

Can I have 5 Simmonses? He fills up the box score and I think this is the year he really puts it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw

i'm in

Alright season starts up two weeks from tomorrow. I’m thinking draft Sunday October 17 at night like we did last time, 8pm pacific?

So far we’ve got confirmed:

Spottie
Forks
Bison
Clay
Pkbr
Levator
Polyphonic

Unconfirmed:

Symsymsym
Heez
Evol j
Moullet

that is...p late for the east coast tho, shit i dont think we have any practicing christians do we, just pull this up at 10 AM

yeah 8 pacific is a problem

I'm in

that is...p late for the east coast tho, shit i dont think we have any practicing christians do we, just pull this up at 10 AM

― class project pat (m bison), Monday, October 4, 2021 11:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

thanks, bison. I was going to say I'm too old for that, but didn't want to cause a fuss.

this is why im the mod

I can do 10am on 10/17 but couldn’t start much later than that if we flip to morning. I have a family thing at 12:30.

I’m east coast too so I’m in the 8pm pacific is late camp

Someone want to post a link to the scoring rules?

how about saturday night? that sunday i can only do night and maaaaaybe between 1-3 pacific

PKBR

We do 9 Category (9 Cat) head to head (H2H). so you play against one other ILHer for one week and accumulate all the stats in these 9 categories:

Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, FG%, FT%, 3P made, FG Made

then at the end of the week whoever is winning in each of those categories gets one point for each category. So every week there are 9 potential points to win vs your opponent. your record is your points won and points lost (or tied) and playoff seeding is based on best records (top 6 of 8 teams make the playoffs).

our rosters our built of 16 players. we also have 3 Injury slots.

i work sat nights but not until 8:30ish, could do a 6pm draft or earlier. Sunday afternoon 1-3 works.

Thanks, Spottie. I'm going to have to bow out. I don't have the knowledge or time to devote to this right now and I don't want to figure that out after I've committed. Hope you all have a great time.

no prob. we need a couple more then

sorry i gotta pass. i have enough trouble keeping up with my pay league

if we could nail down a time for this before the weekend i would be grateful!

Spottie
Forks
Bison
Clay
Symsymsym
Levator
Polyphonic

Unconfirmed:

Evol j
Moullet

Out:

Pkbr
Heez

we need one more

my wifes grandma died so this weekend is packed. could we do Monday 7pm pacific? ive got another draft at 830 that night.

ah spottie im so sorry

in light of this news should we just...all auto-draft and be legends?

we are all busy ppl with families who need us and jobs and time zones

very sorry spottie, if it's too turbulent this year we'll all understand

thanks. she had a good run made it to 94.

hell no to auto... we gotta do a live draft :) just gotta find the right time and one more manager. sunday evening could still work as well. friday through sunday afternoon is out for me tho

will do my best to draft the last four picks at least

and sorry to hear about your in-law grandma

condolences spottie

I could do both those times, sunday afternoon would work well

i mean sunday evening

anyone have a friend we can throw in last minute if needs be?

no one loves me

just saying, if we can't get to 8 we could go roto

alright guys looks like yahoo will let us use a manager-less team and it will auto draft and such. so... lets roll. however, im kinda booked up so i say we do the draft next sunday and start our league week 2 of the reg season. will make the draft more interesting since theyll have a week of games/stats to look at.

how does that sound for everyone? next sunday 7pm pacific?

im in

perfect for me

sounds good!

Works for me!

Hey y’all my plans today have gotten sticky. I am probably going to have to auto draft :( I’ll see what i I can do but don’t wait for me

No prob. Everyone else still good for tonight? 7pm pacific

10est right? i'll try and make it.

im planning 2 b there

i def wrote down in my phone calendar that it was on monday so thanks for bumping the thread lol

18 minutes til draft! ive got the 7th pick ouch

get in here u goons

not sure if i like this team better than an autodraft but at least i don't have kyrie

all the headache players went to the robot team, perfect system

Gotta love it lol

Algorithm successfully loaded me up with Celtics but punished me for autodrafting by giving me Harden. Even once he inevitably gets it together and figures out his new schemes I will not enjoy rooting for him. Oh well

hey guys, not in your league, but would you trade MPJ for Booker straight up?

Whoever gets Booker is winning that trade easily

that would be me. thanks spottie!

It depends on your stats. MPJ doesn't foul, which can make a big difference. But it's a fair trade imo

the assist numbers are enough to make a major difference. both are starting the season slow

Clay your team is insane. Your boys are COOKIN

yeah i've been lucky that my top, like, 10 or 12 guys are shredding it right now, and i grabbed cole anthony just after the draft and he's on a crazy heater. i'm sure it'll all stay this way and nothing will change!

that's generally how this works

ugh, I fat-fingered my attempt to drop finney-smith and accidentally dropped maxey. would anyone object to a mod correction?

no objection from me

it's fine

I dropped DFS but it won’t let me add him back until you activate mitch rob off the IR. Let me know when you’ve got an empty roster spot so I can add Maxey back

aight cool i dropped mitch rob

Done

After next week, Week 8, everyone will have played the managerless team once.

I'm fine with leaving things as they are, but it might be fun to have those players in play in the league.

Hypothetically, if we drafted the managerless team onto our rosters, it might look... a little something... like this:

1-1. bison: doncic
1-2. me: beal
1-3. sym: embiid
1-4. dnp: hayward
1-5. spottie: westbrook
1-6. clay: lonzo
1-7. forks: russell
2-1. forks: richuan
2-2. clay: porzingis
2-3. spottie: graham
2-4. dnp: ben simmons
2-5. sym: stewart
2-6. me: kyrie
2-7. bison: noel

that makes me want to start a poll re: who is more likely to play this year, simmons or kyrie

that would be cool

it would be cool if i didn't draft last

haha yeah

Yah I want no part of Russ lol

sooooo that's seven players out...

yeah its rough out there right now.

can sports stop for a couple weeks? the current protocols seem totally unequipped to deal with omicron

I have 12 on IR lol

so I accidentally dropped simons while trying to drop amir coffey, could I get a mulligan?

fine with me but why not just leave him there so i can have him :(

i love him for sentimental reasons

*looks at the lillard-sized hole in my team* *sighs* *kicks a rock aimlessly*

haha this season is madness. ill fix it clay even tho im not buying your story wink wink

ok hes back on your roster now

i am whole again, thank you!

so did matt drop out?

yeah whats up bison!?

i have abandoned my boy fantasy team

i think what ive realized is *mad men music* i only like the beginning of things (drafts), the actual setting lineups and researching players who suck less than mine just feels like work in a way that i do not enjoy, anyone wanna do trades lemme know

i'll take trae off your hands

lets get a bidding war going imo, i will accept ilxcoin

hah no firesale trades

you can just hit that 'start active players for the week' button on every sunday and be set!

i dont even read my work emails what makes u think i can do that with regularity????

its shit like this where im reminded that i probably have adhd

haha

see with me tinkering with my fantasy team is a prime outlet for my adhd when getting distracted from work

injured or out tonight: ingles, gobert, bogdanovic, derozan...

Was gonna call you out on having just picked up an injured Ingles, but I see that his status rapidly downgraded over the past 6 hours. that's rough. but hey you are newly in first place as of today

i think I’ve got seven guys out atm?

i'm also missing olynyk, giannis, herro, seth curry and...um, john wall but just ignore that last one

(the rockets certainly are, mirit)

dont mean to one up yall but one week i had 13 dudes out lol

my team's injuries were devastating last week but less concerning now as this week is a bye (my opponent is "m bison")

yeah at this point our top 6 is locked in so its all about building the team for the playoffs

my team's injuries were devastating last week but less concerning now as this week is a bye (my opponent is "m bison")

I did not mean to drop Scottie Barnes, sigh... stupid dumb fingers

let me know when you have a free roster spot to put him back, says i cant cos you have a healthy guy on the iR

Sorry, busy day. I made the roster space.

done

playoffs start next week!

i tip my hat to clay for reclaiming the coveted 2nd place in the standings just in time for it to mean a 1st rd bye in ye ole playoffs.

my team kinda fell back to earth across the board this past week, but i choose to blame my loss on harden taking his 5th game as a sizer off for load mgmt, bc who doesn't enjoy another reason to gripe about the beard

always blame harden

My 1-2 of Lillard-Davis isn't looking to hot, but nonetheless my team has been fairly scrappy lately.

losing chris paul was a pretty big hit

i lost PG, Nurk and Dray. PG is p much impossible to replace, he was a top 3-5 dude before the injury. rough season for injuries and dudes missing time all around. might get dray back if i make it to the finals (not likely)

well this is a nail biter

when did jonas valanciunas turn into the best player in the nba anyway

Wow yah very close!

it's coming down to field goals made in the last game of the week

i lost PG, Nurk and Dray. PG is p much impossible to replace

you still scored eight billion points this week

Lebron! And randomly got big games from fox and clarkson

Sym i think you have been saved by the ineptitude of the lakers, given that my Suns have no need to play. But a nailbiter it was!

totally, I have a couple suns too, but your guys could have easily won with their regular allotment of minutes

really thought I was gonna blow one of those categories.

i have a huge blind spot in factoring in FG% and FT% to my lineup and add/drop decisions. have been losing those categories consistently all year. anyway, congrats sym, you're moving on to face the Dončićmacallit juggernaut, best of luck to ya

uh oh...

hi dere

not sure if i am gonna get some end of season benchings for key players to rest for playoff runs, you could upend me here

My phone is a-buzzin’ with your desperation moves, forks. Sym going for the double upset Peacock special!

better get my reinforcements in too then. gonna be close!

meh, pulled a bad week

many cheers for the underdogs

Good match clay, 5-4 and ~5 of those categories were close.

i had 3 big contributors (+ myles turner who hasn't played since 2017 afaict) down for the whole week, too much to overcome!

the injury bug was hard to escape this season.

the injury + protocols bug tbrr

Lebron might not win much else this year but at least he has a very good shot at the I Love (Fantasy) Hoops title

Dude is fantasy gold right now

He went late iirc!

4th round 26th pick yup. probably even better for me has been garland who i got 10th round 74th pick.

sym, weve got ourselves a battle. been trying to maximize my moves, ive picked up three players that instantly burned me... got hurt mid-game or decided not to play, seth curry, gallinari and winslow. i only got one game out of lebron in my finals week :( and looks like i wont get any more games from fox who had been on a tear. you lost sabonis and curry in the last two weeks. we're both scrapping. pretty much every category is within reach and we're relying on the tre manns and immanual quickleys of the world lol.

I have two Manns now! I am not sure whether they are related

Is Lebron out for the rest of the week?

only had two games this week and he sat the one out from last night. dont play again til monday

scared of the moment, classic

I only beat one of the top 5 teams once in the regular season...H2H fantasy bball may not in fact be a meritocracy!

theres quite a bit of luck involved especially this season. and it gets even crazier at the end of the season when teams start going into tank mode and sitting their best players and such.

you're welcome for seth btw

im more appreciative for wiggins. only got 12 minutes of seth and no stats :)

fun season yall. til next year!

1st = Spottie
2nd = symsymsym
3rd = Clay

congrats Spottie!

congratulations sir

thanks!

congrats on the win! glad I made it close at least

yeah big ups to spottie! not sure what to do with my life without constantly tooling with add/drops and available player blocks and shooting % averages over the last 14 days

Yah already tapped the app a few times out of muscle memory.

ditto

bout that time... roll call who's in?

happy to come in 3rd or 4th as always!

Always happy to lose at the last moment

here to be league filler

always down

oh ok

ya

how does sunday night work for everyone? whats the latest everyone can start?

Can we try to get an 8th playa and avoid a robo team?

for sure, thats preferred. you know anyone? we try every year on ilh and can never get more than what we have here

trick one of the ilbaseball ppl into it, tell them the nba stands for national baseball association

hahaaa

What if we switched to roto? Then there's no matchups ... the number of players wouldn't matter.

I’ve never done it, is it easy?

roto's way less fun imo

roto's a lot more fair but yeah less fun

fun > fair

um, what happened here exactly? Do we wanna draft tomorrow late night?

oh yeah we should do this tomorrow (night)

ive got another draft tomorrow night. i can do tues or wed, you can still do it after the season starts.

I have a buddy who will be an 8th. What’s the draft plan?

Nice, tomorrow night or Wednesday night after 8 pacific works for me. I can set it up to start games next week. Could also do this weekend if that’s better for folks.

tomorrow or wednesday's great for me, would prefer to do it with as little actual games played as possible

I could also do like daytime tomorrow afternoon like between 3-5pm pacific before games start but I realize that’s prob not optimal for everyone, just throwing it out there

spottie, can you mail the league when you set a time please? I'd push for late night EST if we're doing it this week.

Morning all. 3-5 pacific won’t work for me today or tomorrow. Ideal will be in the 9-12pm eastern/6-9 pacific range, can do that today or tomorrow. Thursday wouldn’t be able to do the first hour of that window but latter two still good.

alright yall, I'm setting it for 8:20 pacific tonight. I'll set the time for each pick a little faster so we should be able to get through it in about 45 minutes. Hope yall can make it.

sounds good!

lavator, send me the email of your friend who wants in to
pop the levels at g mail dot com

and it wouldnt let me do 820 so 815 it is

xp done. Can't wait!

sent! everything is all set. not sure ill be able to do a video chat tonight, i'll be drafting while trying to get kids to bed.

ill be there, im drinking a big red rn to have the caffeine i need to GM may way to glory

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/762164/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif half an hour my friends http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/762164/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif

pick 7 yuckkkkk

only thing worse is....pick 8 lmao

8 is good! you go b2b

mehhh i want (redacted) but he will be gone

I already can't believe I drafted fkin Simmons

Pain. Although he should get better

don't forget to set your rosters for the week starting monday thank u

what happened to the injury spots?

theres 4 of em

Ah, i see now.

BTW, well aware that was a lopsided trade but GET YOUR GUYS and I wanna watch Zubac this year

gotta get your guys

is that the first trade in the history of ilh fantasy ball

it might be!

Hi, I’m Lavator S. and I drafted Ben Simmons.

I accidentally dropped kyle lowry on my phone - and of course he finally has his first good game right after

I can add him back. Just make sure you have a spot open for him

Hi, I’m Lavator S. and I drafted Ben Simmons.

I have created an empty roster spot. thank you! xp

hes back with you now

the shame i feel for wasting another human's time on this...thanks again!

lol fantasy is the best waste of time there is

wait someone in our league dropped lamelo???? was that an accident?

i thought it was lonzo when it happened and didnt think twice about it.

I only jumped on it because the dropper didn’t post an oopsie but if it was a mistake I’m glad to rescind the waiver claim

i dont blame you clay!

lavator, i think it was your pal? do you want to reach out and see if it was a mistake or legit?

Yeah I’ll see. Tbd

Update: Jonathan “Roundball Rock” meant to drop Lonzo, not LaMelo. Spottie, he said he messaged you - i guess through Yahoo?

if this is the easiest thing just tell him to offer me a trade for someone on his team he doesn't care about in exchange for lamelo and i'll take it

i think i can just add him back but clay i can add back whoever you dropped or didint pick up because of the mixup?

don't worry about it, was an extremely marginal guy i was gonna drop anyways. if it's not trouble and you're able could you put my waiver eligibility back to where it was (i think 3?) so the next time someone screws up i can swoop in and cause trouble again?

haha i'll see what i can do. alright i will grab him and put him on roundball rocks team but he needs to clear a spot before i can

i'll tell him

Spottie can you switch LaMelo back onto Roundball Rock for Monte Morris? Or do you need him to drop him

I’ll give it a shot tomorrow morning. Won’t let me tonight since the games already started

All set, clay you got your 3rd waiver spot back. Sorry for the mixup but thanks for being chill about it. I shoulda been paying better attention to which L Ball was being dropped!

so should have the dropper ;)

somehow i completely missed that he was dropped lol

wow spottie with the heel turn

wow

"If the forward indeed re-ups with Charlotte, the expectation is that the league office will hand him a suspension for a yet-to-be-determined length of time."

How long do you want to have this guy fill a bench spot on your roster

also how important is fantasy basketball that the guy who battered his partner is just another player to plug in for stats in the future?

My fantasy players are all upstanding citizens lol

I’m fine dropping and perma banning him

ban durant and kyrie while you're at it ;)

Apologies for a weak moment of lameness, I meant to post about it in here after picking him up but my parents started talking to me and I forgot about it.

weve got a wild trade proposal here!
https://i.imgur.com/GDje0YW.png

being able to add draft picks really changes things doesnt it.

tanking for 23-24, gotta respect it

bison going for wemby irl and ilh fantasy

lol YES my season is fucked, might as well load up for next year

When did we start trading future draft picks? No objection just didn’t know it was an option. Are we becoming a keeper league too?

that started this season, i think it was a default setting

I mostly accepted that trade just to see how it would play out next year lol

huh playoffs start next week, get your guy!

ask me about all my players, will deal for 1rps

trade deadline passed :(

drag

yelloooooo new season awaits

Rollllll callll.

Me n bison is 2

I’m in of course

duh

always

i'm just as nba-obsessed as ever so i am definitely in but ngl the complete lack of acknowledgement of my victory last year left me feeling a little empty. i am aware i did not play my role of gloating either, but to keep things maximum fun would humbly request we up the ante on the chatter this year. i will also check in with my buddy jon who rounded out our octet last year

congrats to:
Big Honey + the Superteam Bums

it seems like it's really hard to see any league history on the site

i checked out completely once it was clear my team sucked ass and i was waiting for the lotto balls to fall in my favor, this year i have two first round picks so im determined to win it

congrats to:
Big Honey + the Superteam Bums

― symsymsym, Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you symsymsym! Aah that feels good

I do feel bad, congrats on the big W and for being the ILH fantasy gold ball owner (for now and for not very long cos I’m coming for the crown)

it was a good team name because it was easy to remember who was on it (also a good team from my hazy memories of the 2022-23 regular NBA season

this year's winner needs to commit to gloating incessantly

yeah my team was full of superteam bums... i think i had both PG and Kawhi? maybe even Russ or Harden, feel like there was another one... i know for sure i had the once and future king a da bums, Simmo the Savage. I think I drafted him in like the 15th round and still instantly regretted it and it haunted the first half of my season. thank god for joker forgiving all my sins and carrying me to the gold in a proverbial horse harness

what're our draft deets? season starts 10/24, should we look at that sunday the 22nd? i have a busy day that day but iirc we try to do fairly late to accommodate the west coasters, i could probably be available from 9pm EST that day

22nd is not a good day for me. earlier or later would be better. maybe Thursday the 19th?

that's good by me

LS, belated congrats on the victory!

thx poly :)

I both heartily congratulate you on the victory and vow to ruthlessly destroy your team in the coming season

i can do either of those days (22nd or 19th), could even do saturday the 21st or monday the 23rd

I have my other fantasy basketball drafts on Sunday Oct 22nd at 8am pt and 11am pt so it would be great if it was not those times for me.

that is some devotion to fantasy hoopin right there

what ludacris asked "whats your fantasy" poly said "2 leagues at the same time" 😎

[ the other ones are for $ :) ]

how we feeling about these days:

Thurs 19th
Sat 21st
Mon 23rd

8 pacific?

i could swing all 3 of those

I’m a dead no on Saturday at 8 (could swing, like, 6) but fine with the other dates

i'd definitely autodraft if it's 6am pacific

i think/hope we were talking pm

lol of course!

Thurs 19th much more doable for me

ok i set it for thursday 815pm pacific for now.

did we lose forks? it shows him as accepted but havent heard from on here in a while.

my buddy jon (nee Roundball Rock) is in!

Attaboy

everyone good for tonight?

oh yeah

30 minute countdown. Wemby Carlos gets the 1 pick, should pick wemby obv

of course

https://imgur.com/a/tL7EJTx

https://i.imgur.com/JpN69ZO.png

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!