Shaggy Fantasy basketball

[Goo Punch 4275]

4 minutes ago, RCRanger03 said:

Melo Yelo was sniping my deep in the rankings picks ALL NIGHT LONG. 

This. I thought for sure i'd get Prince and Isaac.Also Porzingis. Multiple trade offers incoming.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Goo Punch

[NOMAAA 1696]

Haha. That’s me. I was gonna take luka way early. 

[Swearengen 17]

I might not be a nba gm, but im smarter than the Atlanta Hawks

[NOMAAA 1696]

Ha I have no idea what I am doing. If you get a bad offer from Sports Team, take it easy on me I’m new. Now, who wants Dwight Howard?

[Goo Punch 4275]

i'm no.1 on the waiver order and i'm trying to add isaiah thomas but it's telling me that i have to drop someone in order to add thomas even though he's on the IR. Can we all just make a gentleman's agreement that nobody will add the player that i drop in order to add IT? i wish espn would fix this problem.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Goo Punch

[NOMAAA 1696]

what 

[Bobby Light 76]

i'm no.1 on the waiver order and i'm trying to add isaiah thomas but it's telling me that i have to drop someone in order to add thomas even though he's on the IR. Can we all just make a gentleman's agreement that nobody will add the player that i drop in order to add IT? i wish espn would fix this problem.

You can't add a player from FA directly to your IR spot. Works the same way in Yahoo.

[Bobby Light 76]

[quote EDIT: duplicate post

[Bobby Light 76]

Melo Yelo was sniping my deep in the rankings picks ALL NIGHT LONG. 

Felt lucky to get KAT with #5 and guys were reaching all draft so had to go for the guys I wanted asap

[Goo Punch 4275]

1 hour ago, Bobby Light said:

 

You can't add a player from FA directly to your IR spot. Works the same way in Yahoo.
 

 

that's what i'm saying. it's stupid. i have to drop a player so that i can send someone to the IR for weeks or even months. there's no sense in that. whenever IT comes off IR i'll have to drop someone in order to play him, but i shouldn't have to drop someone to add a player to the IR.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Goo Punch

[Goo Punch 4275]

but fuck it, if that's the rule that's the rule, it's just a stupid rule. also, i think that next year we could do with adding another bench spot. much like football there's so much olaya le talent everywhere that it would make sense to add another bench spot, especially if we don't expand to a 12 team league. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

did the draft go as planned? I was looking at the other draft picks trade and went to see who the players ended up being, and it says that picks 3 and 83 were traded for picks 6 and 66, but then when i go to those teams it says that they didn't have those picks. I am on the app, so maybe thats where the issue lies, but for example it says that Freak was taken 4th (not 3rd) and that Jokic was taken 7th (not 6th). Is there just a typo somewhere?

[RCRanger03 1049]

I’d be open to next year to converting one of the IR spots into a plain bench spot. Most of us use it for a pseudo bench/stash anyways so it would be the same just with less restriction.

It would also end up with more players on rosters, less high quality streaming available to abuse games played, and might also lead to more trades


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[BigOrange1 6442]

4 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

did the draft go as planned? I was looking at the other draft picks trade and went to see who the players ended up being, and it says that picks 3 and 83 were traded for picks 6 and 66, but then when i go to those teams it says that they didn't have those picks. I am on the app, so maybe thats where the issue lies, but for example it says that Freak was taken 4th (not 3rd) and that Jokic was taken 7th (not 6th). Is there just a typo somewhere?

there is a typo somewhere.  i had the 3 pick and took giannis.

[RCRanger03 1049]

I'm open to trade offers if anyone's looking.

[BigOrange1 6442]

as far as adding a bench spot next year, i'd definitely be ok with that if we stay at 10 teams.  i'm just now looking over the waiver wire and there is a ton of talent on it.  which i both like and don't like. 

derka, the move was to draft IT with your last pick, put him on IR and then fill the spot with someone from the waiver wire.  I almost did that myself. 

[Bobby Light 76]

1 hour ago, BigOrange1 said:

derka, the move was to draft IT with your last pick, put him on IR and then fill the spot with someone from the waiver wire.  I almost did that myself. 

 

Yeah, this was the move, I did that with Porzingis

[Swearengen 17]

I drafted Boogie, put him on the IR, but couldn't add another player to my bench. I assume this is a espn problem?

[Radical Larry 28640]

So you’re the asshole who did that right before I could do it.

[BigOrange1 6442]

i'm assuming you'll be able to start adding guys for your IR'ed guys when the waiver period ends tomorrow.

[Bobby Light 76]

I definitely entered a waiver claim last night and it didn't go through and someone else picked him up as a FA this morning. WTF

[Goo Punch 4275]

ranger has a ridiculous team. 

[RCRanger03 1049]

ranger has a ridiculous team. 

It was good night for sure although I’m really bad at sticking with something even when it’s working so I’ll screw it up shortly I’m sure


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[Bobby Light 76]

Can I add that ESPN sucks ass for fantasy? I know it's my first year with this league, but I would strongly suggest a move to Yahoo next year.

[BigOrange1 6442]

they changed their shit up this year and yeah it really sucks thus far.

[Goo Punch 4275]

yeah luckily for me i'm exclusively mobile, which didn't get the same overhaul as the online version. 

[Swearengen 17]

On 10/16/2018 at 3:04 PM, Radical Larry said:

So you’re the asshole who did that right before I could do it.

I'll entertain trade offers. 

 

 

And even the app is sucking shit though. 

 

[Goo Punch 4275]

such a shame, as espn has been money for so long. i hate yahoo fantasy compared to espn, and i don't understand why espn felt the need to completely overhaul what didn't need any kind of major changes. i couldn't even look at last year's player rater from our league, which is arguably the most important tool used for studying for a custom fantasy league draft. the player rater was completely inaccessible. so stupid. 

Edited October 18, 2018 by Goo Punch

[RexWilson 1348]

Yep, I hate the new format.

[Radical Larry 28640]

Also hate the new format.

[Goo Punch 4275]

fwiw espn has a fantasy customer service line that i've called a couple times when i've needed help running a league, and they always answered and were helpful. hopefully they're getting a bunch of calls from people asking what the hell theyre thinking. espn needs to scrap this new design, it's ridiculous. 

[RCRanger03 1049]

They are getting hammered across the board. They had an easy out by just leaving a classic format option. My guess is that gets introduced but next year not this season


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[Capn81 373]

The only thing I can say about the app is that it no longer crashes on me. Which is nice.

Oh yeah, I also forgot that I hate triple doubles as a stat category.

[BigOrange1 6442]

yeah i don't really like it either.

[Goo Punch 4275]

last year 31 different players got triple doubles. it's becoming a more relevant stat every year. 

[Capn81 373]

We will see how this year goes, but I do hope that it becomes more frequent for fantasy sake. Nothing like losing a stat category, or knowing you will lose, due to one single event. I guess for me it is that is a low probability outcome.

[RCRanger03 1049]

4 hours ago, Capn81 said:

We will see how this year goes, but I do hope that it becomes more frequent for fantasy sake. Nothing like losing a stat category, or knowing you will lose, due to one single event. I guess for me it is that is a low probability outcome.

I'm fine with Triple Doubles, they can be a save when all seems hopeless. More often than not they are a wash anyways. It does change the value of players a bit (like Westy, Simmons, and Payton) The only thing I don't like is that it's a double dipper category. In my opinion it should be counted as double double until it's a triple double, but not counting in both. 

[Capn81 373]

I'm fine with Triple Doubles, they can be a save when all seems hopeless. More often than not they are a wash anyways. It does change the value of players a bit (like Westy, Simmons, and Payton) The only thing I don't like is that it's a double dipper category. In my opinion it should be counted as double double until it's a triple double, but not counting in both. 

I think that wash part is why I am not a fan. A toss-up category, or a category owned by a few players, should not have a full win weight.

[RCRanger03 1049]

1 hour ago, Capn81 said:

 

I think that wash part is why I am not a fan. A toss-up category, or a category owned by a few players, should not have a full win weight.

 

It does give a little power back to the guards/small forwards (who are the bulk of the people getting the triple doubles), given that our league definitely shades a lot of overall value to big men. I can see the argument either way. We use to vote on the categories before the season, maybe we bring that back next year

[Swearengen 17]

Just cause you don't value a category doesnt mean it doesnt have merit. There are many ways to build a team and you aren't going to win every category every week. My team completely disregards 3s. 

 

The more stats the more strategy. If you don't want to get beat in triple doubles draft a player capable of providing you one. Let's not turn into a bunch of pussies. 

 

Having said that Im going to get curb stomped this week and TDs are one if my few wins. So, maybe I'm biased.

[Capn81 373]

Just cause you don't value a category doesnt mean it doesnt have merit. There are many ways to build a team and you aren't going to win every category every week. My team completely disregards 3s. 
 
The more stats the more strategy. If you don't want to get beat in triple doubles draft a player capable of providing you one. Let's not turn into a bunch of pussies. 
 
Having said that Im going to get curb stomped this week and TDs are one if my few wins. So, maybe I'm biased.

Who is turning into a bunch of pussies? A low probability stat category turns into a random event. Not sure how there is strategy in having triple doubles.

[Swearengen 17]

Same thing for free throws. Those are random events dictated by referees. Let's get rid of those too. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

to me the TD category isn't too dissimilar to stolen bases in fantasy baseball. granted steals are a bit easier to come by in baseball in that there's always some guy on the WW batting .200 who can get you 2-3 SB in a week, but both categories are dominated by a few guys at the top, and just having a guy who gets them with semi regularity can win you the category most weeks. 

Edited October 21, 2018 by Goo Punch

[Goo Punch 4275]

also, ben simmons is hurt!

 

[Goo Punch 4275]

man espn is fucking up this year. i'm trying to add a player right now but it won't let me because it says i've reaches my limit...except that this week is over, and i should have been able to start adding players as soon the first game of the day tipped off. i don't know what the hell got into espn but they have fucked this fantasy basketball season up so far. ridiculous. 

[Capn81 373]

Same thing for free throws. Those are random events dictated by referees. Let's get rid of those too. 

If you cannot comprehend the probability of such events, I cannot help you understand. Clearly, we just need to agree to disagree.

[Swearengen 17]

So, since triple doubles don't happen enough, in your opinion, then they dont have any merit as a measurable statistic? That's asinine.

[Capn81 373]

So, since triple doubles don't happen enough, in your opinion, then they dont have any merit as a measurable statistic? That's asinine.

Measurable statistic in the real game? Sure. In a league where most weeks it leaves matchups with a pointless tie? No.

[Goo Punch 4275]

in less than one week of nba basketball we've already had two centers named nikola record triple doubles. 

[RCRanger03 1049]

Check yall's lineups my dudes, I see at least 1 team that left a shit load of quality stats on the bench. Skews things in the standings and this league is always super close when playoffs come around.

Edited October 23, 2018 by RCRanger03