Comments on: So What Do We Do Now?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:57:59 +0000

I run a H2H league with average stats. This takes unbalanced schedule out of the equation. It also removes the abstract “umm..my team just won with 185 assists!”. Instead, my team wins with 8.5 asst/game! Doesn’t that make more sense? Bball is a sport of averages.

As for ending date, we ended about 10 days before the end of the season.

By: Francesc

Francesc — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:47:30 +0000

Ok, let’s give my 2 cents on this one.
I play in a customized 12-team league, with 15 players per team. We use a budget system to sign our players, and can lock them for up to 3 years with some restrictions.
We play a roto regular season, consistent on 17 weeks, and then go on to a H2H play offs, that last for 6 weeks (3 rounds of 2 weeks each), so we ended our season on April 8.
Two seasons ago we reduced the regular season so we could end our play offs earlier, because we felt that some day it could be unfair to finish the season with the stars of the finalists sitting down just to rest for the play offs. I’d say it was quite a nice decision.
You’ll never rule out some injuries, just as this year, when my team lost Arenas for the final week, although Josh Smith and Gerald Wallace went to the rescue to earn me a title.
I know it’s not perfect, but to leave 10 days to the end of the season helps a lot, and also, winning the regular season on a Roto system (which i didn’t do) gives you a good amount of respect from others.

By: Nels

Nels — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:52:21 +0000

bv,

You’re definitely on the right track. I think the only problem is that, IIRC, the big fantasy sites like Yahoo don’t let you customize the league to the extent that would be required to implement the above solutions. I think if you have H2H, most sites force you to have playoffs. I know with CBS, they let me select when I wanted the playoffs to be, but I still messed up the timing of it.

I think the lower games limit option is probably the best one. That way, someone like Dirk can dominate 75 games and rest the last 7 and you don’t have to worry about it. It would probably be best to apply that to Roto leagues with daily lineup changes, but - now that I think about it - it might be interesting to do it with H2H leagues with daily lineup changes. Then you could “rest” guys in weeks that you’re dominating, and “save” their games for another week. And the limit would prevent people from piling on games during the week as happens when someone decides that H2H with daily changes and no games limit is a good idea.

By: Nels

Nels — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:45:02 +0000

@Jensen, just so you know JBFC is just a spam commenter here. Once you know that, it’s kind of amusing to see him comment after nearly every post. Unfortunately for the real John Basedow, I’m sure the spammer isn’t actually John Basedow. I like making fun of Johnny Boy as much as the next guy, but it is kind of malicious to create a spam bot in his name.

By: Jensen

Jensen — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:15:20 +0000

How is this thoughtless?

I told you I totally agree with all his proposals…

I can totally feel for people who have just lost their entire team to injuries in the final week…Its my third year playing fantasy basketball, so its really my first time seeing a teams get destroyed at the very end.

Anyway, please keep your douchy comments to yourself,

By: John Basedow FC

John Basedow FC — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:20:10 +0000

A disgraceful, thoughtless post. Please delete immediately.

By: Jensen

Jensen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:50:55 +0000

Yes I totally agree with your rules…

I only play Roto games, but it must me ass to have dominated the league up till the final weeks and have guys sit out at the last minutes…

I’m not sure where I can comment on this next…But can you write an article about how it is more competitive and hard to play in leagues of size 12 than leagues of size 16-18.

Of course most it all depends on ur league mates, but I still find it harder to compete in 12 man leagues because over the course of the year you will not have to rely on major sleepers to help ur team. This increases the chance of teams remaining in the hunt for the majority of the year and thus interest in leagues, which means more people competing for better players.

I played in a 17 man league this year, and as soon as Nenad Krtic went down my other center was Kwame Brown. I totally gave up when Kwame went down and my choices as my second centers were Lamarcus Aldridge(3 months beofre he exploded and injury prone kendrick perkins) Obviously I was out of the race by January.

However in a 12 leaguer, it was much easier to find injury replacements…as my Yao Ming went down, but I found guys like Mark Blount, Nene, and even Troy Murphy who helped keep us in.

Injuries are all part of the game, but one or two injuries shouldn’t sink ur whole team without being able to find at least half adequate replacements

Anyway …just my two cents

By: Zikai

Zikai — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:43 +0000

Hi, i didn’t try H2H this year, but i can imagine managers pulling their hairs out now trying to figure out which players would get dressed for the next game.

I remember earlier this season, a post talked about finishing the games early for roto, i guess that strategy has worked well for me. I’m leading the league by 3 pts, and would probably win it, not because i have the best stats but because other managers can’t finish their games quota.

As for H2H, my opinion is that this dilemma calls even more for managers to be ruthless, like dropping Iguodala, Jefferson, or even Nowitzki and Howard. I guess a shallower league would help if there are good FAs in the pool, rather than a 16 team league with the best player out there being someone like Calderon or Justin Williams.

By: Terrance

Terrance — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:34:03 +0000

yr on it!

my co commish and i have been thinking of ways to remedy the problem with H2H. We only do H2H to compete directly against each other. But I dont like the luck side of H2H, i’m suggesting a move to roto. i finished 6th in our league standing this season, but 2nd overall in roto. Isnt fantasy basketball all about stats!

Theres really no reason to do H2H other than being with a group of friends. Even then, the end of the season ruins any fun and dominace you had over yr friends. Nothing like being able to talk sh*t all season long becauseyou won the league by 10-15 games and then get ran in the 2nd round by the 4 or 6 seed!

I have no solution to solve the problem, but im hoping to convince the rest of the league to finally make the jump to roto.