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QuikSand
10-17-2006, 08:11 AM
After having a pretty good time with the fantasy baseball league this season, I am going to run a fantasy NBA league as well. I will post the details below for the Yahoo! league that I have established -- we will allow up to 12 teams to play.

This will be a real money league, each team entry will cost $50. All league entry fees (net of any transaction charges) will be paid back to the winners.


If you have questions, you can ask them by PM or post in this thread. I set up Saturday afternoon right before the regular season starts as the time for the live draft to try to be as accommodating for work schedules and time zones as possible.

Also, you may be interested to know that I personally am a complete sucker, and my money is almost completely dead here. I haven't watched an NBA game in probably five years, and other than occasionally paying attention to college players on draft day, pretty much all I know about the NBA is gathered from wqatching PTI, which is to say not very much at all. I have played fantasy basketball leagues before, and am willing to apply basic strategy, but it won't be based on any sort of real knowledge. Take that for what it's worth.


I have set the scoring to "points only" but I really don't have a strong feel for what works best. Once we have a critical mass, I will poll the confirmed owners and we may switch to head-to-head. If that is a make-or-break issue for your participation, please let me know. I don't have enough experience with this sort of thing to really make a well-informed judgment.



League Setup Information

League Settings
Setting Value
League ID#: 119076
League Name: Front Office Hoops
Password: (contact QuikSand by FOFC PM to receive password)
Draft Type: Live Draft
Draft Time: Sat Oct 28 5:00pm EDT [ Add to My Calendar ]
Max Teams: 12
Scoring Type: Points Only
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 1
Trade End Date: March 15, 2007
Waiver Time: 2 days
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: League Votes
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Games Played: No maximum
Weekly Deadline: Weekly on Monday
Start Scoring on: Monday, Oct 30
Roster Positions: PG, SG, G, G, SF, PF, F, F, C, C, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN
Stat Categories: 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, TO, PF
Stat Modifiers: 3PTM (1), PTS (1), REB (1), AST (1), ST (1), BLK (1), TO (-1), PF (-1)

Ramzavail
10-17-2006, 08:53 AM
any chance this could be a keeper league?

QuikSand
10-17-2006, 09:01 AM
No chance.

kurtism
10-17-2006, 09:56 AM
Sure, I need to donate $50 to a new cause. Count me in. :)

Subby
10-17-2006, 09:57 AM
In...

Eaglesfan27
10-17-2006, 02:35 PM
I'm interested in joining if there is still space left.

Subby
10-17-2006, 02:39 PM
great...a doctor, a lawyer and a mainframe computer.

help me, lord...

kurtism
10-17-2006, 03:04 PM
great...a doctor, a lawyer and a mainframe computer.

help me, lord...

On the bright side, it probably means that none of us have time to actually follow the NBA...

QuikSand
10-20-2006, 08:19 AM
Bump. It looks like we have four or five owners so far... my best guess is that either 8 or 10 is a better level to make things interesting.

Any more takers?

rewissick
10-20-2006, 10:25 AM
I might be interested (and have a friend that might like to join as well). How would payment of league fee be handled? Thanks.

QuikSand
10-20-2006, 10:38 AM
I can accept payment via PayPal, or I'm sure we could work out another arrangement -- send me a check or m/o, or somesuch. I paid my basbeall winners by a combination of personal checks and PayPal, based on their preferences.

Icy
10-20-2006, 10:57 AM
If I can pay by paypal count on me, else it will be hard because i'm outside USA.

Eaglesfan27
10-20-2006, 11:01 AM
If I can pay by paypal count on me, else it will be hard because i'm outside USA.

Re-read the post above yours :)

mtolson
10-20-2006, 02:21 PM
count me in if you still have space.

Fouts
10-20-2006, 03:46 PM
I'll join if you need more.

QuikSand
10-22-2006, 09:32 AM
Bah. Family plans have made me unable to be there for the draft.

I don't imagine there's any way to adjust it to, say, Friday evening without losing people who have already signed up?

Assuming there's no easy way out, I will just prepare a list for an autodraft setup, and make do with that. Not like I really know what I'm doing in a draft here anyway. *sigh*

Eaglesfan27
10-22-2006, 11:49 AM
I don't know about others, but I can do the draft just about anytime next weekend including Friday night.

QuikSand
10-22-2006, 11:58 AM
Looks like I'm available again... so false alarm there.

Subby
10-22-2006, 10:18 PM
I can't do it Saturday at that time - so I am out - apologies.

QuikSand
10-25-2006, 07:56 AM
I think we have 7 members signed up... with SUbby dropping out, down to 6.

What say we? If wwe just go with the total points scoring, it's not a problem to have an uneven number of teams, so that's not a hurdle. I'm guessing that with rosters that go this deep (including the bench positions) that we can get by with a fairly small number of teams, though it won't be quite as challenging to do so.

Any thoughts? Abandon ship? Play for free like cowards? Keep banging the recruiting drum? I'm open...

rewissick
10-25-2006, 08:19 AM
When I was trying to recruit owners for my baseball league I used a few messageboards that were dedicated to roto/fantasy players. I was actually able to replace 5 owners using that system in short fashion. I don't have the sites here at work, but could look them up when I get home (and post about the openings) if you'd like?

On the other hand, if we want to just limit involvement to FOFC I'm ok with running with a reduced number.

msf518
10-25-2006, 10:51 AM
I'll know later today if I'm free Saturday or not, but if I am free, I'll get in this, sounds like fun.

Eaglesfan27
10-25-2006, 05:14 PM
I'd prefer not to go to the random roto/fantasy boards for a variety of reasons. Hopefully, we get one or two more people at least from here, but I'd prefer to go with a smaller number of teams than introducing a few random elements from a roto board.

For now, my vote is to keep banging the recruiting drum on here..

QuikSand
10-25-2006, 08:02 PM
:: bangs drum ::

QuikSand
10-28-2006, 08:31 AM
Looks like we have six teams right now... if we don't get any more participants, my inclination will be to lengthen the rosters a bit and we'll go forward from there.

Maybe add one more G, one more F, and one flex position? And a couple more bench spots?

Eaglesfan27
10-28-2006, 09:25 AM
Seems like a reasonable solution to me.

Eaglesfan27
10-28-2006, 03:49 PM
A little over 10 minutes until the draft is scheduled to begin.

msf518
10-28-2006, 04:50 PM
Good luck everyone!

Eaglesfan27
10-28-2006, 04:51 PM
Ditto. Should be quite fun.

Fouts
10-28-2006, 06:43 PM
Bummer that I missed the draft. I'm not disappointed how my team came out. Whether they are competitive or not is another question.

QuikSand
04-20-2007, 08:42 PM
Well, after that THRILLING season, here's how things worked out:

Rank Team Points Pts Change Waiver Moves
1. Bob Loblaws Law Blog 25709 196 6 18
2. Fouts' Dunkers 25523 217 7 8
3. Chesapeake Chaingang 24680 204 2 6
4. Philly Ballers 24448 167 5 2
5. Big Bangers 22774 182 3 1
6. Gored Foxes 21575 187 1 3
7. Spanish Linces 19291 145 4 -

Thanks to those who played... and most especially to those who paid.

Congratulations to kurtism on his mighty victory! It was really a two-horse race most of the season, and then 3rd/4th turned into a battle late.