March Madness Starting Five (2017)

[Young Drachma]

PAST WINNERS
Season 1 (Starting Eight) (2012) Winner: Britrock88 (3816 pts.) (MOV: 52 pts.)
Season 2 (2013) Winner: Britrock88 (5449 pts.) (MOV: 74 pts.)
Season 3 (2014) Winner: Ramzavail (5998 pts.) (MOV: 261 pts.)
Season 4 (2015) Winner: Billy Madison (5022 pts.) (MOV: 32 pts.)
Season 5 (Starting Ten) (2016) Winner: Britrock88 (7557 pts.) (MOV: 46 pts.)

This year's rules are slightly different:
1A. You pick a roster of any 6 players from the NCAA tournament field.
1B. One of your 6 players has to be designated as your Powerball (bench) guy. Your bench player gets added to your team in the round after you go under 5 players. (e.g. in the first round you lose 3 guys, in the 2nd round, your bench guy gets added to your roster and starts scoring points for you.)
2. You score as many points as each of your drafted players scores in the NCAA tournament.
3. You get a multiplier for the seed of his team. (i.e. if Jordan Washington of 14th seeded Iona scores 18 points, you would earn 252 points.)
4. "First Four"/play-in round games do not count towards the players point total.
5. Deadline is tip-off of the first games on Thursday.
6. There's a multiplier to each round the player scores points in.

So the 1st round (of 64) is just x1, each round after adds a x1 so:

Round of 32: x2
Sweet 16: x3
Elite 8: x4
Final 4: x5
Championship: x6

So if you have a guy who is a 1 seed who scores 20 points in the sweet 16, it'd be worth 60 points. If he's was on a 2-seed team that'd be 120 points and so forth. If you pick this year's VCU and manage to get them to the Final Four? Jackpot. But what's nice is, a 18 point game from a 3-seed in the Elite 8 is worth 216 points (18 x 3 x 4) which will make up a lot of ground from the guy who scored 288 points for his 16-seed who had a guy scoring 18 points in their one-and-done game. Make sense?

There is no draft, you just pick a roster of 6 players that you want. Make any changes you want up through the deadline, any edits after that will not be counted. Make sure to indicate your bench guy or else, I'm going to assume that the 6th guy you list is automatically the Powerball.

EXAMPLE ROSTER:

PLAYER 1
PLAYER 2
PLAYER 3
PLAYER 4
PLAYER 5
BENCH: PLAYER 6

[Young Drachma]

I wasn't going to bring this back, but I decided it's too much fun not to try. We're going to pair the number of players you get to choose to just 5 (with a bench player #6) just to make keeping track of things easier (and hopefully to encourage people to pick different players.)

If there's not enough interest, then that's fine, we won't do it. But given this isn't a draft game, just a pick your roster game, it should be relatively easy to load up a squad if you're already picking teams for brackets anyway.

So....even if you're gonna wait until Thursday to pick your team, just indicate interest so I know if we're even doing it.

Holla, etc.

[murrayyyyy]

I didn't want to step on your toes here but I have one gong on reddit also at /r/spotsbook. I probably should have started it here but I thought you were going to.

Starting 10 2017 : sportsbook

link to the spreadsheet
2017 Starting 10 - Reddit - Google Sheets

Got 45 different entries so far (lucky me).

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by murrayyyyy

I didn't want to step on your toes here but I have one gong on reddit also at /r/spotsbook. I probably should have started it here but I thought you were going to.

Starting 10 2017 : sportsbook

link to the spreadsheet
2017 Starting 10 - Reddit - Google Sheets

Got 45 different entries so far (lucky me).

Damn! #RESPECT I'd still run a FOFC-only game if people want one. But I might join yours over at reddit too. Love that you ported it elsewhere.

[britrock88]

Mmkay, I see a split here.

Here's a 5+1 for YD:
Markis McDuffie, Wichita State
Jawun Evans, Oklahoma State
Semi Ojeleye, SMU
Jock Landale, St. Mary's (CA)
Trevon Bluiett, Xavier
plus Malik Monk, Kentucky

for murrayyyyy (sry I don't have a reddit account):
Markis McDuffie, Wichita State
Jawun Evans, Oklahoma State
Semi Ojeleye, SMU
Jock Landale, St. Mary's (CA)
Trevon Bluiett, Xavier
Jacorey Williams, Middle Tenn.
Marcus Marshall, Nevada
Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
Monté Morris, Iowa St.
Sindarius Thornwell, South Carolina

[murrayyyyy]

No problem Noah, if anyone else just wants to put it here, I'll update in this thread also (as long as YD doesn't mind)

The 5-1 for me:
Jawun Evans OKST
Sindarius Thornwell SOo CAR
Marcus Marshall NEV
T.J. Cromer ETSU
Jaylen Barford Ark
+1 Foster CREIG

[jbergey22]

1. Markis McDuffie(Wichita St)
2. KeVaughn Allen(Florida)
3. Esa Ahmad(W Virginia)
4. Caleb Swanigan(Purdue)
5. Jacorey Williams(M Tenn St)
6. Dwayne Bacon(Powerball) (Fla St)

[muns]

Dillon Brooks- Oregon
Jevon Carter- WVU
Dwayne Bacon- FSU
Mike Daum- South Dakota St
JaCorey Williams- Middle Ten

Bench
Johnathan Motley- Baylor

[Ramzavail]

1. Marcus Marshall Nevada
2. Jawun Evans OKST
3. Lonzo Ball UCLA
4. Mike Daum SDST
5. Keon Johnson Winthrop
6. Bam Adebayo Kentucky (PowerBAM)

[kingfc22]

Semi Ojeleye, SMU
Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
Jacorey Williams, Middle Tennessee State
Jawun Evans, Oklahoma State
Lauri Markkanen, Arizona

BENCH: Bryce Alford, UCLA

[Vince, Pt. II]

1. Semi Ojeleye, SMU
2. JaCorey Williams, Middle Tennessee State
3. Jock Landale, St. Mary's
4. Dillon Brooks, Oregon
5. Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
BENCH: Malik Monk, Kentucky (POWERBALL)

[Chief Rum]

1. Jacorey Williams, MTSU
2. TJ Leaf, UCLA
3. Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
4. Donovan Mitchell, L'ville
5. Semi Olejeye, SMU
BENCH: Dwayne Bacon, FSU

[B & B]

Khadeen Carriington, Seton Hall

Jacorey Williams, MTSU

EC Matthews, URI

Semi Olejeye, SMU

Markis McDuffie, WICHSt

POWERBALL
Isaac Hamilton < UCLA

[wade moore]

C.J. Bryce, UNCW (12)
Melo Trimble, Maryland (6)
Dillon Brooks, Oregon (3)
JaCorey Williams, MTSU (12)
Kelan Martin, Butler (4)

Bench
Luke Kennard, Duke (2)



To add for Reddit if you are able to use mine there:

Devonte Cacock, UNCW
Marcus Foster, Creighton
JeQuan Lewis, VCU
Monte Morris, Iowa State

[Butter]

Keon Johnson, Winthrop
Luke Kennard, Duke
Josh Hart, Villanova
Melo Trimble, Maryland
Charles Cooke, Dayton

BENCH:Malik Monk, Kentucky

[henry296]

Jawun Evans, OK state
TJ Leaf, UCLA
Dillon Brooks, Oregon
Trevon Bluiett
Caleb Swanigan, Purdue

Bench - Malik Monk, Kentucky

[Young Drachma]

Jimmy Hall, Kent State
Travion Bluiett, Xavier
Brandon Goodwin, FGCU
Keon Johnson, Winthrop
Miles Bridges, Michigan State
Johnaton Motley, Baylor (Bench)

[murrayyyyy]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Shout out to murrayyyy having done the work in his massive spreadsheet, all I had to do was copy and modify for our very modest setup this year.

2017 Starting Five (FOFC) - Google Sheets

I color coded this year just to make things easier on the right if anyone wonders. Grey was a player not taken out of 59 teams. Red is dead.

[Young Drachma]

I had to redo the scoresheet because the reddit game doesn't play with a Powerball, but we should be all set now.

2017 NCAA Starting 5 - Google Sheets

[Young Drachma]

AFTER ROUND 1

Young Drachma	1286	2
murrayyyyy	1032	2
Ramzavail	960	1
britrock88	811	3
B&B		754	3
henry296	648	3
kingfc22	634	2
muns		601	3
Vince Pt. II	544	3
Chief Rum	451	3
wade moore	424	3
jbergey22	388	3
Butter		368	2

Powerballs take effect starting next round. Murrayyyy is the only one to have lost his powerball before their points count.

[murrayyyyy]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

AFTER ROUND 1

Young Drachma	1286	2
murrayyyyy	1032	2
Ramzavail	960	1
britrock88	811	3
B&B		754	3
henry296	648	3
kingfc22	634	2
muns		601	3
Vince Pt. II	544	3
Chief Rum	451	3
wade moore	424	3
jbergey22	388	3
Butter		368	2

Powerballs take effect starting next round. Murrayyyy is the only one to have lost his powerball before their points count.

I went for it all with the powerball guy and was down to him or Semi as I wanted that 12* second round game and took Creighton instead. Either way I was wrong.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Third column is players remaining, correct? Are we sure it is calculating correctly?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

Third column is players remaining, correct? Are we sure it is calculating correctly?

There was an error. I fixed it. Powerball not counted in the total players remaining. So it's n + powerball if you have one.

Young Drachma	1286	2
murrayyyyy	1032	2
Ramzavail	960	1
britrock88	811	3
B&B		754	3
henry296	648	4
kingfc22	634	3
muns		601	3
Vince Pt. II	544	4
Chief Rum	451	4
wade moore	424	3
jbergey22	388	4
Butter		368	2

[Vince, Pt. II]

Cool, I couldn't figure out where the error was at a glance. Thanks, by the way, for running this - it's one of my favorite annual games

[Young Drachma]

Henry clearly in the drivers seat with 4 players and a powerball left, should be able to make up that 750+ point deficit in the next few rounds.

Young Drachma	2434	1
britrock88	1871	1
henry296	1682	4
B&B		1640	0
muns		1621	2
Vince Pt. II	1620	2
murrayyyyy	1512	1
kingfc22	1434	2
jbergey22	1368	3
Chief Rum	1353	2
wade moore	1214	2
Ramzavail	1120	1
Butter		506	0

murrayyy, jbergey, chief rum and wade all without a powerball now.

[Butter]

That couldn't have gone much worse.

[Young Drachma]

Henry and I both have Bluiett, so that offsets. So he needs Malik Monk, TJ Leaf and Dillon Brooks to make up about a 400+ deficit. And that's minus whatever I can get from Baylor's Motley for as long as they last (he's my powerball.)

SCORES AFTER 3/23

Young Drachma	3259	1
henry296	2831	3
britrock88	2696	1
muns		1981	1
Vince Pt. II	1944	1
kingfc22	1704	0
jbergey22	1692	1
B&B		1640	0
Chief Rum	1569	1
murrayyyyy	1512	1
wade moore	1322	2
Ramzavail	1120	1
Butter		506	0

[Vince, Pt. II]

Not my best showing, but it ended up better than it initially looked, that is for sure.

[Young Drachma]

Young Drachma	3421	1
henry296	3110	2
britrock88	2822	1
muns		2143	1
Vince Pt. II	2070	1
murrayyyyy	2016	1
kingfc22	1776	0
Chief Rum	1722	0
jbergey22	1692	1
B&B		1691	0
wade moore	1514	1
Ramzavail	1204	0
Butter		632	0

[Young Drachma]

Henry has nearly caught me, my only hope was that Oregon would've lost the other night and that'd have secured victory for me. No one has a Powerball left. Another close finish is likely, which is really all I care about with this game.

Young Drachma	3861	0
henry296	3850	1
britrock88	3358	0
murrayyyyy	2744	1
Vince Pt. II	2370	1
muns		2347	1
kingfc22	1776	0
Chief Rum	1722	0
wade moore	1718	1
jbergey22	1692	0
B&B		1691	0
Ramzavail	1308	0
Butter		728	0

[murrayyyyy]

Final scores from the starting 10 we had @ Reddit. Brit finished 2nd and I finished 3rd. Should have installed the powerball!

reddit name Total Players Left
Symphonize 7320 0
britrock88 6919 0
murrayyyyy 6526 0

[Young Drachma]

FINAL SCORE

henry296	4000
Young Drachma	3861
britrock88	3358
murrayyyyy	3269
Vince Pt. II	2520
muns		2497
wade moore	1868
kingfc22	1776
Chief Rum	1722
jbergey22	1692
B&B		1691
Ramzavail	1308
Butter		728

[Young Drachma]

138 was the final margin of victory. Congrats to henry on the victory and thanks to everyone for playing again this year on short notice even.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by murrayyyyy

I didn't want to step on your toes here but I have one gong on reddit also at /r/spotsbook. I probably should have started it here but I thought you were going to.

Starting 10 2017 : sportsbook

link to the spreadsheet
2017 Starting 10 - Reddit - Google Sheets

Got 45 different entries so far (lucky me).

Apparently, someone riffed on Starting Ten and Vice did a story on it?!?

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...fantasy-league

[murrayyyyy]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Apparently, someone riffed on Starting Ten and Vice did a story on it?!?

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...fantasy-league

If you only knew where my named ended up because of that subreddit. At one time I know my name was floated around some Croatian news site because of my NBA gambling for a while. Some one kept asking me questions and I didn't realize it was them interviewing me for an article.