Shaggy fantasy hoops 2021

[RexWilson 1499]

I am now playing for next season. I'm open to trades before the deadline. I'll give up anyone on my roster for a valuable keeper.

[RCRanger03 1049]

Apologies to this league, I've been a shit league member this year, but it has just found itself way below family, work, home reno, and stock trading this year. Probably my last season anyways, so will not firesale as to not cause turmoil. If anyone watching from the sideline wants to take over the team they can ride free the rest of the way on my entry (or rather BO's lol) and prepare a team for next season. PM me if you're interested

[ztejas 44114]

I dont think I ever paid my entry. What was the amount? Is it those same instructions on our league home?

Also - I just realized this this morning (to my chagrin) - but for anyone still battling for playoffs - it is top 4 records overall - not top 2 from each division. 

Edited March 22, 2021 by ztejas

[BallamaticBevo 56]

I can haz my trade approved please? No longer shows as pending yet players are not on my roster?

[shadow_operative 15932]

trade was supposed to process at 12:05, and instead we got this:

 

that's a new one for me. no clue what happened. 

Edited March 24, 2021 by shadow_operative

[RexWilson 1499]

Is there a way  @BigOrange1 to manual adjust? I did send the trade to Ballamatic again in the meantime.

[BigOrange1 6607]

what happened exactly?

[RexWilson 1499]

Ballamatic and I did a trade on Monday. When it was supposed to execute today, it didn't. Went from pending to nothing. No impact in the games but just weird it disappeared.

[BigOrange1 6607]

that is super weird.  is it the same trade that is now pending?  i don't know if i can force it through or not but i can try if it's the same trade.

[RexWilson 1499]

Yes same trade that is now pending.

[BigOrange1 6607]

i don't know if that did anything, but it might not have worked because lamelo ball is on IR.

[shadow_operative 15932]

it didn't work. Unknown Event again. the IR theory might be correct.

[RexWilson 1499]

BallamaticBevo adjusted his roster so it should work now.

[BallamaticBevo 56]

I guess you can't trade players who are on IR. We were both trading dudes who were on IR so I thought it would take it. I think it's good now as we moved all players in the trade off IR. Should go through tomorrow I guess

[shadow_operative 15932]

i've got Nurkic returning tomorrow and no one whom i'd particularly like to drop to activate him. feel free to send me 1-for-2 offer if interested. two of my guys for one of yours. 

Edited March 25, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

i really hate this revelation that we can't trade players who are on IR. i have a guy coming off the IR, and i'd like to make a 2-for-1 trade to bring him back into my lineup and i can't even make an offer without first dropping someone. i do not have anyone worth dropping. very sloppy and stupid from ESPN. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

my three lowest rostered players:

Kevin Porter Jr

Robert Williams III

Jusuf Nurkic

 

i am not trying to drop one of those guys so that my direct competition can then use them against me in the playoffs. i've already done that 2-3 times recently and i'm frankly tired of it. super weak that i can't even propose an offer as long as someone is on my IR but healthy, and that i wasn't able to make any offers involving the three guys who all recently came off IR for me, while they were on IR.  

if anyone sees two of my players that they like then feel free to send me a 2-for-1 offer, and maybe we can figure something out.

Edited March 28, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

wrong thread 

Edited March 29, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

this league is my first experience doing keepers, so i have zero references for how it may be done better/worse. i will say though that in talking about turning the shaggy baseball league into a keeper league, it's been decided that if we do go in that direction that we will *not* be using the same rules we are here in this league, which imo is a good thing. i mean the guy who is second place in this league essentially just went and added Drummond and Ibaka off the FA pile right before the playoffs. that's not exactly cool in my eyes. i'd definitely like to discuss changing some of the keeper rules in the offseason.

Edited March 29, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

when is the final day of the regular season again? i've looked at the schedule but i can't remember if the last scheduled week is actually the first week of our playoffs. 

[BallamaticBevo 56]

22 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

this league is my first experience doing keepers, so i have zero references for how it may be done better/worse. i will say though that in talking about turning the shaggy baseball league into a keeper league, it's been decided that if we do go in that direction that we will *not* be using the same rules we are here in this league, which imo is a good thing. i mean the guy who is second place in this league essentially just went and added Drummond and Ibaka off the FA pile right before the playoffs. that's not exactly cool in my eyes. i'd definitely like to discuss changing some of the keeper rules in the offseason.

wtf are you talking about? I traded 2 guys to VMware (RexWilson) for 2 of his. How is that essentially FA? Drummond was an unknown outcome I was willing to gamble on for LaMelo who's out for the season but a great stash and keep next year. Also we swapped THJ for Ibaka. Ibaka's is maybe? better than THJ  but his back is busted and there's no telling when he gets back. THJ can go for 20 any and every night. 

One team in win now mode and one planning for the future. That's honestly the beauty of keepers. If you've got no shot this year build for the future. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

normally when one of your best players gets hurt that also hurts your team. instead you swapped a guy who's out of the year + a JAG for a perennial top 5-10 overall player in this league + Ibaka, two weeks before the playoffs start. as someone who's competing with you, i fail to see the beauty in that. i've been doing fantasy sports since 1995, and i've seen a lot of stuff, but i've never seen anything like that. i'm definitely voting to change those rules next year. 

[ztejas 44114]

2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

a perennial top 5-10 overall player in this league

Stop.

[shadow_operative 15932]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Stop.

Andre Drummond has factually been a top 5-10 overall player in this league for four if not five years now. i should know, as this is the first year in five that i wasn't able to draft him.

Edited March 30, 2021 by shadow_operative

[BallamaticBevo 56]

You act like I fleeced him or something. People value keepers at certain positions and I had arguably the only PG not named Luka or Harden that is a TD threat nightly. He’s going to get 35 minutes a night next year and have an offseason to get stronger and smarter. His passing is already at an elite level.

I tried trading you too for some rebounding help. I thought those were fair trades. I also had a few other offers tossed around but couldn’t make them work. Trades are available for everyone just like the waiver wire. Me I’ve never had too much luck with FA so I build through the draft and trades. I knew I would want to trade Melo when I drafted him. Just sat on him until he blossomed

[RexWilson 1499]

I received exactly one offer after I posted I was planning for next year, and I took it.

You view this as unfair because you are still in the hunt. Drummond no longer had value to me. He hadn't played in weeks. I am not making the playoffs. And I could not keep him.

Ibaka for a thj was whatever. Ibaka was out, I am a Mavs fan so figured why not another guy I have a rooting interest for.

[shadow_operative 15932]

this upcoming week is the final week of the regular season, correct? 

[ztejas 44114]

Looks like 2 more weeks. Playoffs start Apr 19th. 

Playoff dream fading but not dead yet, dammit.

[shadow_operative 15932]

2 hours ago, ztejas said:

Looks like 2 more weeks. Playoffs start Apr 19th. 

Playoff dream fading but not dead yet, dammit.

i see that in the schedule, but iirc we always use that last week of the regular season as round one of the playoffs. the commish manually sets the matchups so that 3 plays 6 and 4 plays 5. but maybe i'm thinking of our baseball league? can't remember.

[shadow_operative 15932]

@BigOrange1 one week or two weeks left in the regular season?

[BigOrange1 6607]

2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

i see that in the schedule, but iirc we always use that last week of the regular season as round one of the playoffs. the commish manually sets the matchups so that 3 plays 6 and 4 plays 5. but maybe i'm thinking of our baseball league? can't remember.

oh damn, you are right.  good catch.

just to clarify the playoff thing: divisions are meaningless.  top two records at the end of the regular season are 1 and 2 seed.  then the next 4 teams are seeded 3-6 and play in a one week "wild card" round before the playoffs.  highest remaining seed from the WC round plays the 2 seed, lowest plays the 1 seed.

[Capn81 396]

One more week until the playoffs? The late season start has thrown my timeline off.

[ztejas 44114]

If there's another week I'm going to be moderately pissed because I kind of checked out this week. 

[BigOrange1 6607]

3 will play 6 and 4 will play 5 starting tomorrow.

[ztejas 44114]

24 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

3 will play 6 and 4 will play 5 starting tomorrow.

Good stuff.

I'll be taking Ant Edwards in the 11th round next year. It's on after that, motherfuckers.

Also - I still owe you my entry fee?

Edited April 12, 2021 by ztejas

[shadow_operative 15932]

5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Good stuff.

I'll be taking Ant Edwards in the 11th round next year. It's on after that, motherfuckers.

Also - I still owe you my entry fee?

re: entry fees, it's easier for us to just wait until the end of the season and then individually venmo our entry fees to the winners, since we don't know who all will be cashing out until then. 

[BigOrange1 6607]

if any of the four teams who didn't make the playoffs want to send me their money and be done with it, i can hold it.

[shadow_operative 15932]

36 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

if any of the four teams who didn't make the playoffs want to send me their money and be done with it, i can hold it.

two of them are my buddies, and since i won the regular season i can just get it from them. speaking of which, what are the payouts again?

[BigOrange1 6607]

perfect.  $75 entry x 10 players = $750 prize pool.

$150 - regular season winner

$300 - 1st place

$225 - 2nd place

$75 - 3rd place (keep entry fee)

 

that work for everyone?

[Radical Larry 28814]

That works for me.

[BigOrange1 6607]

so it is written, so it shall be.

[RexWilson 1499]

On 4/12/2021 at 9:12 AM, BigOrange1 said:

if any of the four teams who didn't make the playoffs want to send me their money and be done with it, i can hold it.

Venmo?

[shadow_operative 15932]

man, one of these matchups is a total toss up that's gonna come down to the very end tonight. shit is gonna be close. as for the other matchup...kinda hard to compete when Zion is left on the IR and a retired player is still in your starting lineup. 

i really doubt it would have mattered anyway. congrats to RL, and good luck to the other two competitors. shit is gonna be tight!

[shadow_operative 15932]

looks like the matchups are set. good luck everybody. 

[BigOrange1 6607]

just updated the playoff bracket.  that look right to everyone (aside from the seeds being wrong as i can't adjust those)?

[shadow_operative 15932]

yup, looks good. these are two-week matchups, correct?

[BigOrange1 6607]

yep, april 19 - may 2

 

[shadow_operative 15932]

holy shit what a sweat that was. that's the closest playoff matchup i ever recall having in this league. GG to Dame's Dames. that was a ridiculously close matchup. 

also, congrats to BO. looks like you and RL had a pretty close matchup as well. i believe y'all's matchup was still up in the air as of earlier today. crazy shit. these are four very good teams, and this semifinal round was about as tight as it could have been. congrats to everyone who made it this far. may all teams stay healthy, and may the best team(s) win. good luck guys. 

[Capn81 396]

Congrats Derka and Great matchup for sure. This will be my last year doing this, so hopefully whoever takes over Dames Dames can win one.

[BigOrange1 6607]

12 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

holy shit what a sweat that was. that's the closest playoff matchup i ever recall having in this league. GG to Dame's Dames. that was a ridiculously close matchup. 

also, congrats to BO. looks like you and RL had a pretty close matchup as well. i believe y'all's matchup was still up in the air as of earlier today. crazy shit. these are four very good teams, and this semifinal round was about as tight as it could have been. congrats to everyone who made it this far. may all teams stay healthy, and may the best team(s) win. good luck guys. 

looking forward to our battle.  pretty sure i've never won this before.