The Unofficial STR Fantasy Basketball League!!!
by wallywagon11 on Dec 8, 2011 10:26 PM PST
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PrintLove your Kings and want to feel a closer connection to them but can't? On most days, I try to fill that void by doing things like looking at the Clark County Assessor's files on the Palms and laughing at how little that property is worth now compared to how much money was put into it by some guys who only have a 2% interest. Well no need for that now because all you need to do to fill that Kings basketball void is bid bid bid! Yes that's right, the very competitive Unofficial STR Fantasy Basketball League is wrapping up, but hell that was just a lockout exercise. Now it's time for the real thing: The Unofficial Fantasy Basketball League is here and it's going to be an auction league. Hey, you want Chris Paul on your team? Well, you can! The Malindas aren't willing to pay Chandler? Well, you can! Details below but if you are interested, go ahead and shoot me an email at wallywagon11@yahoo.com.
[Edit: just realized I never said it but this is an ESPN league.]
[UPDATE: As of 7:00 pm December 9th we only have three spots left
BASIC SETTINGS
League Name: Unofficial STR League
Number of Teams: 12
Scoring Type: Head to Head Each Category
ROSTER
Current Roster Size: 13 [10 starters, 3 bench & one injured reserve spot]
Starters: PG; SG; G; SF; PF; F; C; UTIL; UTIL; UTIL
No game played limit
SCORING
Points - Blocks - Steals - Three Pointeres Made - Field Goal Percentage
Assists - Rebounds - Turnovers - Free Throw Percentage
TEAMS AND DIVISIONS
12 teams [if I have to will drop it to 10]
Two divisions [by all means if anyone can think of some funny StR themed divisions or Kings related just throw it in the comment section]
ACQUISITION, WAIVER, AND TRADE RULES
Lineup Changes: Daily - Lock individually at Scheduled Gametime
Player Acquistion System: Waivers Season Acquisition Limit: None
Matchup Acquisition Limit: 7 (for 7-day matchup) Waiver Period: 2 Days
Waiver Order: Move to Last Claim, Never Reset Order Trade Limit: No Limit
Trade Deadline: [currently set to February 29th but subject to change to the actual trade deadline for the season]
Trade Review Period: 2 Days
Votes Required to Veto Trade: 6 [if it ends up being a 10 team league I am taking this down to 5]
Keeper League: Yes, two players [Just in case we want to keep this thing going.]
SCHEDULE
Weeks per Matchup: 1 Regular Season Matchups: 12 (Playoffs start Week 13)
Playoff Teams: 4 Weeks per Playoff Matchup: 2 weeks per round
Playoff Seeding Tie Breaker: Head to Head record
DRAFT
Type: Auction
Draft Date: Wednesday, December 21, 10:00 PM ET [7:00 PM PST]
Auction Budget: $200
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Hoping for a competive and fun league. I am a petty bastard and will take great pleasure in attempting to smite you all. Anywho, we will be handing out trophies for things like Best Team Name and have a few stupid polls here and there. I picked the draft date hoping to have it right before the start of the season but at the same time not the same night as the Kings first preseason game yet early enough to hammer out the draft before anyone needs to travel for Christmas.
Oh, and by the way, please note this is an auction draft. It will take quite some time to auction 156 players. And if you have never done an auction, I would suggest doing a few mocks or even maybe trying a real one (given in the mocks there is always a jackass or two jackasses who just max bid for fun). If you are planning on bidding $110 bucks on one player, hope you really know what you are doing or else you are going to be pretty misreable for the rest of the season and I am hoping for active members here (also, just a hint: if you go broke early, don't nominate guys to bid on who are super cheap right away thinking you are going to get them. You aren't and you are going to have to wait awhile. If you are already nominating $2 guys because you spent on 5 guys in the first 11 picks, you are doing it wrong).
Again, if you are interested just email me at wallywagon11@yahoo.com. First come first serve (well, except for the Ziller cat. I have a very strict opposable thumb policy). Hope to hear from 11 of you soon.
[Note: music video NSFW]
(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)
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2 Divisions:
Team Donte, Team Omri.
"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!
by caseycheesecake on Dec 8, 2011 10:37 PM PST reply actions
P.S. I’m not interested.
"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!
by caseycheesecake on Dec 8, 2011 10:38 PM PST up reply actions
One of those FG% categories is supposed to be FT%, right?
Would you consider changing the tiebreak for playoff seeding to “overall winning percentage”?
"He forced it to go in the net, and that's a good thing." -Jerry Reynolds
"He's gonna get a big hug, and I'm gonna hang on for a while." -Duane Kuiper
Sorry yes, one of those FG% categories is supposed to be FT% sorry
and as for tiebreakers, it is automatically overall winning percentage. If it is a tie winning percentage then it goes to head to head.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 9, 2011 12:10 AM PST up reply actions
Right on.
I wasn’t sure if it was head to head record against the opponent with whom you’re tied or overall winning percentage. I’m glad to hear it’s the latter.
ESPN > Yahoo, so good call there.
I’m in. I’ll send you an email.
"He forced it to go in the net, and that's a good thing." -Jerry Reynolds
"He's gonna get a big hug, and I'm gonna hang on for a while." -Duane Kuiper
Although I really like the yahoo leagues and the rules and what not (I love how you can make a stat count twice because if it were up to me I would just make 8 stats, eliminate turnovers, then make points count twice) it’s just a lot easier for me to use espn because of odd work related reasons that I can’t get into.
And sadly I like how ESPN’s leagues look cleaner. Yes that is the most superficial dumb reason but whatever.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 9, 2011 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
I prefer the way ESPN leagues look too.
I’ve used both ESPN and Yahoo for baseball, football, and basketball leagues, and it just seems to me that ESPN is a bit better when it comes to providing updates on players’ health statuses.
Also, ESPN makes it a slightly easier when it comes to evaluating players on the waiver wire.
"He forced it to go in the net, and that's a good thing." -Jerry Reynolds
"He's gonna get a big hug, and I'm gonna hang on for a while." -Duane Kuiper
Sounds like fun
I’m a newb at this stuff, and the auction draft sounds terrifying. I think I’ll give it a go, though, send you an email soon. I’ll start working on team/conference names.
"If you're going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience." -Geoff Petrie
I call dibs on Brandon Roy!
I really think he’s gonna have a huge comeback year.
"If you're going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience." -Geoff Petrie
by AnotherStupidSN on Dec 9, 2011 12:10 PM PST reply actions
Are there rules against one person holding multiple StR Fantasy League titles?
If not, I may consider joining. Just let me know Wally.
"If you can’t make a profit, you should sell your team." - Michael Jordan (Owner, Charlotte Bobcats)
Oh it's on like Donkey Kong
yes, I got your email, you just want me to send an invite right away?
(Hoping everyone else in the football league saw it. My last Leage Manager note mentioned it a few days ago. Was trying to give everyone there a chance to jump in first given everyone except for one team really competed)
by wallywagon11 on Dec 9, 2011 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
I'm just messing with you (well, not on winning the football league, that's just a done deal)
I’ve never done traditional fantasy basketball, and have a feeling I’d probably suck at it.
If you’re short a guy let me know and I’ll give it a whirl. I’ll at least remember to set my lineups and clear my crappy and injured players.
"If you can’t make a profit, you should sell your team." - Michael Jordan (Owner, Charlotte Bobcats)
Can't be worse than my first year
Long as you know bball, you’ll do fine
by LightningStrike5 on Dec 9, 2011 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
May be too late
But in case not, I’m emailing you. Haven’t done auction style before. Sounds tough!
Director of Cracked.com's After Hours and other stuff.
Follow me at... actually, don't... I'm not very insightful.
Unfortunately as of this afternoon I've already sent out all 11 invites
two of them have yet to confirm and if one of them doesn’t I’ll be sure to send you an invite.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 11, 2011 7:56 PM PST up reply actions
Wait...
You own a team and you’re running the league? Where have I heard this scenario before?
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
Good hustle, Wally.
This league filled up pretty quickly.
"He forced it to go in the net, and that's a good thing." -Jerry Reynolds
"He's gonna get a big hug, and I'm gonna hang on for a while." -Duane Kuiper
It was the Zomby music video
or the fact that I planned on posting it the day the free agency would hit and saw how the site traffic was jumping up leading up to it.
Either way, still need to come up with some good conference names and perhaps and championship trophy name as well (anyone in the peanut gallary?). Kings related, Maloof related, Sacramento related landmarks?
by wallywagon11 on Dec 12, 2011 3:38 PM PST up reply actions
for reference sake
In the Unofficial STR Fantasy Football League we had the Thick Creamy Shakes Division and the Rise The Hot Hand Division.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 12, 2011 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
I think weekly Fanposts and league standings will be a must
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
not sure if I am creative enough to make that entertaining for readers for the entire year
but could start with a draft day diary and see what happens. Could easily post it for Christmas Eve.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 12, 2011 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of that league
Prepare to meet your doom wally!
"If you can’t make a profit, you should sell your team." - Michael Jordan (Owner, Charlotte Bobcats)
The Rec'd League and the Everybody Dance Division?
"If you're going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience." -Geoff Petrie
by AnotherStupidSN on Dec 12, 2011 6:27 PM PST up reply actions
Championship trophy
“The Saucy”
“Congratulations to the winner. You’ll get your trophy after the victory shower. Let’s go.”
"If you're going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience." -Geoff Petrie
by AnotherStupidSN on Dec 13, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
The best photoshop ever.
This is my new avatar.
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Thanks, I wish I could think how to add a border around it so that the autocrop doesn't mess it up.
I’ll work on it.
"If you're going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience." -Geoff Petrie
by AnotherStupidSN on Dec 13, 2011 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
Any chance we could move this back an hour?
I work until 7 that night
by LightningStrike5 on Dec 14, 2011 11:51 AM PST reply actions
I'm fine with pushing it back an hour,
but that might be rough on people who leave on the East Coast—ASSN?
"He forced it to go in the net, and that's a good thing." -Jerry Reynolds
"He's gonna get a big hug, and I'm gonna hang on for a while." -Duane Kuiper
Arg sause
I will get home as soon as I can and set my values on all top 100 guys
by LightningStrike5 on Dec 14, 2011 4:15 PM PST reply actions
hope you are able to get off of work a little early or the very least you have a short commute time.
never tried the auto draft with an auction but yeah pretty sure you can set the values higher on what the computer will bid if you really want a guy really really badly.
by wallywagon11 on Dec 15, 2011 8:18 AM PST up reply actions
Sactown to Winters
Bout a 45 minute commute
by LightningStrike5 on Dec 15, 2011 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
I r prepared
Hopefully the game won’t use all my money in the first 10 picks… if it did, I overpaid!
by LightningStrike5 on Dec 15, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
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