January 2010
Monthly Archive
No Excuses for Royz Boyz
DaLoot 14 Jan 2010 | : Fantasy Hoops
How good is LeBron James? Currently LeBron James is the #1 ranked fantasy player averaging 46.80 fppg. #2 is Dwayne Wade and Kevin Durant at 41.10 fppg. There is a 5.7 fppg difference between #1 and #2. How big of a spread is that? That is the same difference as there is between #2 and #14 Dwight Howard. It is the same difference as #12 Danny Granger and #36 Josh Smith. Crazy.
The gap (9.4 fantasy points per game) between #1 LeBron James and #10 Chris Paul is the same as #10 Chris Paul and #47 Trever Ariza. It is the same gap as there is between #50 Nene and #150 Kirk Hinrich.
A team definitely needs one of the top players to be competitive in fantasy hoops. There just isn’t enough of a difference between #30 and #50.
Why was I thinking of this? I have Dirk (#8), Deron Williams (#15), David Lee (#17) and Tyreke Evans (#26). Four guys in the top 26 fantasy players should equate to some wins. Any one team should only have four of the top 36. The problem is #26 is Tyreke Evans, averaging 32.60 fantasy points per game. #36 is GUARD (BS) Luol Deng is averaging 29.2 fppg. A difference of 3.4 fppg isn’t enough to win games.
What does this mean? If you draft LeBron James, you really need to try hard not to win the league. I mean, you REALLY have to try hard to lose games. To the point where you’d draft Andre Iguodala and Joe Johnson in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. You’d follow that up by taking Paul Pierce, Josh Smith, OJ Mayo and Rashard Lewis in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th rounds.
The drop from LeBron James to Chris Paul exactly the same drop as Ray Allen to Flip Murray. It’s the same difference between Andris Biedrins and Travis Diener.
We may have to ban LeBron from the league next year. But we all know what happens when we ban a player from the league….
First Trade in Years!
DaLoot 12 Jan 2010 | : Fantasy Hoops
We have the first trade since the late 90′s. I think the last time the league had to worry about a trade Mookie Blaylock was involved.
Dr. Copperfield has traded forward Luis Scola’s ugly hair to DaLoot for guard Trever Ariza’s 37% field goal shooting.
Week #5 – Week #8 Highlights
Just a quick recap of Weeks #5 – Week #8…
- Dirty Sanchez scored 252.5 in Week #5 (beating Royz Boyz, who scored 219.0
- Captain Mo scored 185.5 in Week #6 and had two DNPs
- Chris Paul had 59 points in Week #6 and it wasn’t the high score of the week nor was it enough to beat Dr. Copperfield, who posted a 62 from Gilbert Arenas. Wow.
- DaLoot beat Captain Mo in Week #8 by 60.5. Captain Mo had four DNPs (two starters).
- The Fur also had DNPs from two starters in Week #8
- Through eight weeks there have been 18 individual totals of 50 or more, three of more than 60
- Kevin Durant is fun to watch – In his last 11 games he is averaging 32.5ppm, 6.7rpg, 3apg, 1spg, 1bpg….He turned 21 just before the season started! To put this into perspective, Dirk Nowitzki (31 years old and has just short of 20,000 career points in 875 career games) has 14 career 40+ games. Tim Duncan and Chris Webber have five career 40+ points game each.
- Fore! and Rokers may want to check the boxscores for Week #8 again. As it stands now, the Rokers beat Fore 193.0 – 192.5. Kevin Durant had ZERO assists in his game. That would have made the difference. Of course, the Rokers totaled only eight assists between five combined starters. That is the selfishness you want in Fantasy Basketball. The average assist totals for the other 40 starters in our league in Week #8 was 21.8.
