Comments on: Team Preview: Phoenix Suns http://www.fantasybasketblog.net/2006/09/24/team-preview-phoenix-suns/ A Fantasy Basketball Blog. Surprise. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:22:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Peja http://www.fantasybasketblog.net/2006/09/24/team-preview-phoenix-suns/#comment-1107 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:20:25 +0000 http://www.fantasybasketblog.net/2006/09/24/team-preview-phoenix-suns/#comment-1107 I agree with Rook. How can you justify penalizing Shaq, Tony Parker and ..Bo Outlaw by including FT% and not include turnovers. Regardless, I think it evens the playing field more and decreases the massive dropoffs in the draft by making D-Wade, Nash, Kobe and Lebron that much worse. I agree with Rook. How can you justify penalizing Shaq, Tony Parker and ..Bo Outlaw by including FT% and not include turnovers. Regardless, I think it evens the playing field more and decreases the massive dropoffs in the draft by making D-Wade, Nash, Kobe and Lebron that much worse.

]]> by: Rook http://www.fantasybasketblog.net/2006/09/24/team-preview-phoenix-suns/#comment-1106 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:39:01 +0000 http://www.fantasybasketblog.net/2006/09/24/team-preview-phoenix-suns/#comment-1106 Do you see Marion's FG% rise tied to Amare's absence at all? I'll take the turnover bait. I think having them is fun for three reasons: 1. It makes basketball sense. Jason Kidd and Andre Miller had almost the same number of assists per game last year -- but surely, by turning the ball over .7 times more per game, Miller lessened the positive effect of those assists somewhat. 2. It makes (most) big men more valuable. In 8 category leagues, guards tend to have the advantage in FT%, AST, STL, and 3PT. Big men only tend to do FG%, BLK, REB. So 4 categories to 3. TOs give big men more parity with the guards, making drafting less predictable. 3. It makes trades more likely! The extra category means there's another wrinkle to each player's value. In my league TOs were definitely the tiebreaker in getting me to agree to a few trades. I understand your annoyance with the category. In my league last year the top 4 overall fantasy teams finished pretty badly in the TO category, because the better overall teams had more of the featured players. But TOs made the league standings closer, and made a friend's high-%, low-TO strategy possible. Which was interesting, and unpredictable. Do you see Marion’s FG% rise tied to Amare’s absence at all?

I’ll take the turnover bait. I think having them is fun for three reasons:

1. It makes basketball sense. Jason Kidd and Andre Miller had almost the same number of assists per game last year — but surely, by turning the ball over .7 times more per game, Miller lessened the positive effect of those assists somewhat.

2. It makes (most) big men more valuable. In 8 category leagues, guards tend to have the advantage in FT%, AST, STL, and 3PT. Big men only tend to do FG%, BLK, REB. So 4 categories to 3. TOs give big men more parity with the guards, making drafting less predictable.

3. It makes trades more likely! The extra category means there’s another wrinkle to each player’s value. In my league TOs were definitely the tiebreaker in getting me to agree to a few trades.

I understand your annoyance with the category. In my league last year the top 4 overall fantasy teams finished pretty badly in the TO category, because the better overall teams had more of the featured players. But TOs made the league standings closer, and made a friend’s high-%, low-TO strategy possible. Which was interesting, and unpredictable.

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