ILH Fantasy Talk

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.

oh shit its time for me to lose again

niiiice, how do we feel about thursday the 17th for the draft?

sounds good to me

just dropped it in my ical baby im gettin wemby

noooo

9 days until your draft
Thu Oct 17 8:00pm MST

Draft room will open 30 min before your draft time.

everyone returning from last year?

I will reach out to our defending champion Roundball Rock and see if he is in. Shall we trawl the main thread for any new participants? Would love a bigger league

i try every season but please do it, maybe will work coming from someone else

my friend is still in too

Roundball Rock here. I’m still in.

Queue the music baby

buh-buh-buh-basketball

Welcome to ILH my friend, a world of wonders awaits you!

Before I update my team name and image for a new season I would just like to make a self-indulgent acknowledgment of my team name last season M. Jrue's Holiday. Perhaps this group of hoops fans is not quite as erudite as I imagined, and are not intimately familiar with the ouevre of Jacques Tati and his dry, high-minded sight-gag comedy? Or you generously chose not to mock my crude photoshop skills placing Jrue's head onto M. Hulot's body. Whatever the case, I fondly recall creating that image on draft night last year and giggling in self-satisfaction at the results. Onward!

lmao

I think my team name was Jrue the Damaja in some past incarnation of this pool

draft is at 8 pacific tomorrow right?

Correct!

not the dreaded 8th pick!

maybe wemby will fall to me

oh shit, am i in this?

GAH I fell asleep putting my kids to bed and slept through the draft ;_;

I guess that’s how you end up with a full IL to start the season. Looks like I will ride or die with the health of the Sixers, and both sides of the Randle/KAT trade thriving in their new digs…

Just amazed I didn’t autodraft Kawhi, big ups to whoever took him and spared me

ME ffs

as a spurs fan you have no excuse. fool me once etc

i was also absent from that round of the draft due to undisclosed illness*

*forgetting shit

lol

the new Yahoo app suuucks. The matchups don't even show the players on each team. I suggest next year we switch to Sleeper.

its really bad. seems like such an easy thing to get right but alas. yeah im open to changing it next year.

its only been two days but dejounte broke his hand and all my players shot 12% from the field tonight so im ready to throw it in and try to remember the draft next year

you’ll always have kawhi (out indefinitely)

i *will* always have him (hes untradeable and simultaneously too valuable to cut) now i know how the ballman (ballmer) feels

Boardman gets paid (by ballman) (ballman pays)

if we switch fantasy leagues can we switch to a service that has adhd mode (you never have to set a starting roster ever again)

That “start active players” button is the only thing that yahoo has going for it lol