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Looks like you might be #18. I'll send out passwords and info to all those who are waiting tomorrow or Monday when I have a few minutes.Can I come join please.
Looks like you might be #18. I'll send out passwords and info to all those who are waiting tomorrow or Monday when I have a few minutes.Can I come join please.
18 = Woot. Love deep leagues. Only so many times you can draft LeBron or Melo before it gets old. Trying to fill out a roster wiht Spencer Hawes or Jarret Jack is much more amusing.
This league is pretty much full with 18 players, although if another person shows up who wants to play I'd be willing to bump it up to 20. The BigDog or Avis league might still be looking for people, though, I'd read through those threads to find out.I would love to play. But, I don't know how to & how to get started as well.
This league is pretty much full with 18 players, although if another person shows up who wants to play I'd be willing to bump it up to 20. The BigDog or Avis league might still be looking for people, though, I'd read through those threads to find out.
Since I see you already have a Yahoo account from the Pick 'Em thread, to play fantasy basketball you just join the league on Yahoo after the commissioner gives you the ID and password. You can also join a public league with random people, which is probably a good idea to get your feet wet assuming you don't get in here or in one of the other leagues here that hasn't drafted.
As far as how to play, basically each fantasy player drafts a "team" of NBA players. Each NBA player can only be on one fantasy team, so part of the skill is deciding who to grab for your team at the start of the year. Then each fantasy team competes based on the stats of the NBA players. These leagues are head-to-head, so that means each week your fantasy team plays another fantasy team. The stats for the players on each team are accumulated and compared, and you get a point for each category where your team's points are higher. For example, I might play Bricklayer's team in the first week. Since Bricklayer likes big players, maybe his team has more rebounds and a higher field goal percentage than mine, but mine has more assists, three pointers and free throw percentage. So I would win that week 3-2 (there are actually 9 or 10 categories in our league).
So each week you decide who starts and who is on the bench for your fantasy team. Maybe the Spurs only play two games all week so you sit Duncan, or maybe the Kings are playing at home against Cleveland, Memphis and Golden State and Carl Landry is injured so you start Jason Thompson. YIou also need to watch out for players that nobody drafted in the beginning but that play well, and replace players on your team who are injured or don't play as well as you expected. I'm starting to get into too many details here, but hopefully you get the gist. It's a lot more complicated than the pick'em game, but a lot more fun as well.
I'm willing to be #20 if it's still available.
Alright, since MoneyMike and you have both shown interest, I'll send you both the password and we'll be back to 20 again this year.Thank you very much. I get the gist of it. I am sure it will make more sense once I start it up. Could you or anybody give me a link to your league so I can join and get the ID & Password? It would be very much appreciated.
Way back in 2001 there were 20 teams and 14 players per team, but then in 2002 they bumped it up to 15 players each even though they still had 20 fantasy teams. The rules have been the same since. I'd be willing to remove one bench position if a couple other people post here by Friday night that they would support the change, but I don't have a problem leaving things just the way they've always been. That's part of the charm of the league.Loving the 20 team league. Should we reduce the number of bench players with so big a league. We're at 300 total players which is really scraping the bottom of the barrel and basically removes all of the even halfway decent free agents.
Way back in 2001 there were 20 teams and 14 players per team, but then in 2002 they bumped it up to 15 players each even though they still had 20 fantasy teams. The rules have been the same since. I'd be willing to remove one bench position if a couple other people post here by Friday night that they would support the change, but I don't have a problem leaving things just the way they've always been. That's part of the charm of the league.![]()
Yeah, that was fun.Great draft! I'm guessing with a 20 team league, the "% owned" and "% start" numbers mean absolutely nothing?
I'm not sure. I've seen that happen in a fantasy league before, but I don't remember if it was a Yahoo league.Question: Can proposed trades expire before they're responded to?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sp...ops-35.html;_ylt=ArTuY2by8_r4V6zP.Ay_bgKM2XhGIf no action is taken in 10 days, the offer is automatically canceled.