Fantasy Part Two: KEEPER LEAGUE??????

also, what do we have to do with the draft tonight?

AND I'M GONNA WIN!

a keeper league is a league where you get to keep some of your players from year to year. I have never done this but I think it might be fun. indicate interest by typing a random slur against an NBA coach.

TERRY STOTTS? MORE LIKE TURDY STOATS!

haha that does not include me

http://waffleimages.gbsfm.info/files/40/401a9383f7946e89261dc0be49fab5efe8430b97.jpg

(plz shot me)

b. DRAFT IS TONIGHT DO NOT FORGET TO BE THERE OR YOU WILL BE A SQUARE. also, if you can't be there, pre-rank yr players dammit

BY THE WAY: I have changed the league to reflect NBA realities about the flexibility of positioning. In this league no SG PG SF PF designation; you start three guards, three forwards, two centers. Also two utility spots and six bench players. WE ROLL THAT DEEP.

Furthermore: we're back to nine categories.

I have not received an invite, to my knowledge. See below email address.

WE STILL NEED ONE MORE TO DO A HEAD TO HEAD LEAGUE -- I'll just draft a team and someone else can yoink it if they want to later

I have a cool team name now! DUNK CONTESTS ARE BOURGEOIS.

basketball galactica is open for trades for anyone and anything shy of shawn marion

so join up already dude, draft is SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

i might supplement league with my son, if that's the case we might have to change name of team from Zeke's Bitches and Hos to something else

Your kid would just school us all, right? ^)_(^

uh not really, he'll probably take his favorite player in the first round STEPHON MARBURY OH NOEZ

Ok, I'm in as "Artestify" until something reasonable comes to mind. So is this new one a keeper league or just regular old rotisserie?

I think we will figure out a way to make it a keeper league. What say ye, gentlefolk?

i'm cool with it- 2-3 keepers for next year's squad? keepers generally you can throw away all your doodz if they wound up crap, right? (ie if you place last you can toss those fools out and start over next year)

maybe we should do something weird and you can keep two next year, but NOT the top yahoo rated dude from last year? (ie i draft shawn marion and uh...deron williams and monta ellis, next year i can keep deron and monta but not shawn (assuming he stays in like fantasy top 3))

just an idea, it's cool

well, we'll work that shit out later. WE STILL NEED ONE MORE FOOL IN THE LEAGUE THOUGH>

ie i draft shawn marion and uh...deron williams and monta ellis

I didn't draft Matrix lol.

Oh hey, D5, check this out:

If you have played in previous seasons, your League Commissioner can set up the All Time results from Commissioner Tools: Set League History

I think I did this, just now. Don't know where it shows up though. Also don't know why I did it, because I am not that good at fantasy basketball.

PROPOSAL: Dump turnovers as a category.

I could go either way. TOs tend to penalize good players, but it's nice to have like one negative stat. Right now they are in. Convince me otherwise.

hmm. i'm so entrenched in having TOs but it would make lots of middling point guards usable. and hands-of-stone big fellas become useful as well. i can go either way.

i'm still not sure about the two rebound cats?

hey i think the all time results thing = drop down to the right of the league name where it says "season 2007." now i can glory in my tenth place finish two years ago

where is popshots this year, we need one more to fill out to 12!

argh 2003 STILL chaps my ass

i only did that off/def rebounds thing to make it more interesting, if you don't agree LET ME KNOW

we have one vote for TOs: maybe and one emailed vote from sweden saying "TOs: whatever"

TOs were the only stat I didn't dominate last year, so I'll say: GET RID OF IT.

aw now you make me wanna keep it, leee -- why do you always sound like top chef hung when we talk about fantasy sports?

why do you always sound like top chef hung when we talk about fantasy sports?

I unno if that's a good or bad thing. (._.) (Translation: Should I have watched Top Chef?)

a) YES OMG YES you should be watching top chef

b) no not necessarily a good thing but not that bad either -- hung was very conceited and always making snide comments about other people, except in a poker-faced-but-not-very-serious way; he was also the best by a wide margin. OMG LEEEEEEEE IT'S YOU.

omg of course you should be watching top chef

which sparks an idea ==> season 4 top chef fantasy league in about a year

hung rocked, dude took down those chef people hardcore, daaamn

if dale hadn't started the competition stone cold and not done a few space cadet things, it would have been a tough call. he was like shaq, he missed 20 games but he could swing your season after that

plus he had matt barnes' haircut

I don't see any reason we couldn't do a keeper league next year -- just everyone has to denote two Players Who Cannot Be Drafted By Anyone Else, take them in the first two rounds, and then it's on from there.

It was a good draft. I especially liked the parts when I picked Warriors.

I'm sorry I missed the draft and now have a crap team with no rebounding or and no shooting and no passing. I regret this.

you did get three potential breakouts, though, with scola, outlaw and thornton (who is probably going to play a lot of minutes for the clips out of necessity). people are assuming durant will be good. your team rebounding is pretty good (you have some good rebounding guards in josh howard and mo williams) but take it from me, you don't want rasho as anything but a benchwarmer.

(or take it from stephen a. smith, he's happy to tell you the same)

RASHO NESTEROVIC...THAT'S NOT GONNA GET IT DONE

Hey Matt, can I email about a thing? Does your ILX webmail thingy work?

no email me at expresso2222 at gmail dot com

who is sikeddd for basketball games

I just realized that my de facto keepers, even though we didn't do it for this draft, were Okur and Deron Williams! lolomg

acLAW.iv + Hinrich = 1 Assist (total), ergo kill my team now.

In an effort to reshape my three-chucking, non-rebounding, no-blocking team, Okurvil River is no more. Now, I'm a hardnosed team with inside presnece: Z-Bo the Letter!

okurvil river was a perennial contender, rip big man

ps - cant buy blocked shots/fg%/o reb to save my life but i'm still in second, so much for the two centers bs

I believe I shall trade Kobe for Nash, then sign Etan Thomas, Ira Newble, and Adonal Foyle to my team. I won't gain in the standings, but I'll have the right to feel more smug than the rest of the league.

Don't you know? Nash is a cheating jerk now!

He's a gamer and smart! Taking advantage of whatever he can get to make up for his lack of athleticism!

Anyway, that was just me daydreaming about my Social Consciousness team.

Hard to be socially conscious when you are a Canadian hockey goon.*

*Reason for anger = Felton on my fantasy team

wtf who is Capt. Jack again so I can put a hex on you for picking up McCants like an hour before I ducked out w0rk expressly to add him.

oh hellfire, my #1 pick is out for three months

NAAAAACCCCHHHHOOOOOOOOOO!

I am in last place. I'm not used to this, how have you guys dealt with being bottom-dwellers?

Well, there's usually this one guy from the Bay Area who talks a lot of trash to the rest of us, which keeps things lively. Also: Stromilin'.

i can't manage my way out of a paper bag this year!

Who's this trash-talking Bay Arean, boss? Sounds like an oppressive douche, point him out to me and I'll put him in his place.

it took some searching to find our last league thread!

congrats to bigcountryreeves on taking the SWEEP THE LEG BOWEN pole position this year

and shout out to myself ODB style for hopping into number two on the last day of the season

can we use D5's idea and make next year's a keeper version of this one? first two rounds draft your "keeper" picks only?

not sure how we would deal with a new player, maybe take over an old team at random for someone who's not in next year. i've never had a keeper league...duh CP3 but roy? melo? gasol? brand (fantasy beast, don't sleep!)??

omg you cock how did you move 5 points in a day h8 u :(

I all am for a top-two keeper league.

Also I'm pretty proud of my 4th place finish! Way better than my dead last in the league a few buddies of mine and I do every year.

I decided to take a break from kicking your butts this year, instead focusing on handicapping myself with my worst draft ever (worst than the time I drafted Troy Murphy in the second round) so that I could spit and claw my way up to a semi-respectable 6th place. :\