ILH Fantasy Talk

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 :)

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

11 of my guys are listed as injured today

The duldrums

clay and i in a battle of attrition this week.

My team was decent, until Wemby and then Jalen Brunson went down

yeah that'll do it

lol didn't we do this last year spottie

we played in the 3rd place game and it was insanely close in like 4 categories
https://i.imgur.com/4hzTE5N.png

lol that's right that's was so absurd

i beat Matt in total moves 101 to 2

our matchup ain't playing out this week like it did last year lol

so far but a a handful of those categories could flip

it's funny how the fantasy playoffs coincide with the goofiest rosters of the season

They don't call it the silly season for nothing

congrats to spottie!!

congrats, commish

are you insinuating some sort of frozen envelope situation

haha

thanks ilhf crew! fun and silly season for sure.

congrats spottie! i was dead in the water here missing the draft and ending up with all the creaky injured vets

my roster MVP for the full season was easily Dyson Daniels. Picked him up off waivers after the first game I believe, and he basically won me a single category every week + a little bit of everything else.

my playoff mvp was avdija, 14th round pick putting up like 1st-2nd round value for the last three weeks and no games missed.

fun to look back at who we drafted vs what we ended up with