No Excuses for Royz Boyz
Posted by DaLoot on 14 Jan 2010 at 12:54 pm | Tagged as: 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….
What a dick.
As the Fighting Red C*cks of Skyline say, “numbers don’t lie.” I am only reporting facts. If you get LeBron James instead of Dwayne Wade or Kevin Durant, you only need Andrew Bogut instead of Deron Williams. To put in terms of numbers…LeBron James + Andrew Bogut is greater than D-Wade + Deron Williams. Amazing.
LJ + AB > DW + DW
Holy Crap dude……. how much caffeine have you had today.
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Wow….. right now I’m picturing Stanley Roberts drinking one and having wings.
I grew up up in Chicago watching the great bkateabsll rivalries develop – the Jordan vs Barkley vs Miller vs Ewing vs anyone else who wanted a ring during those years – so I really, really hate this “Let’s get my ass to a team that is guaranteed to win because every player is a superstar” mentality that is so prevalent in the NBA now. It’s no longer about the one guy, the one star, making the players around him step up their games and become better players and work as a team. So as a Chicagoan who misses those rivalries and who totally wishes Derrick Rose had a Scottie Pippen to his Michael Jordan, I say – fuck you, douchebag LeBron. I’m not normally a bandwagon fan, but I am for the next few weeks for Dallas, and Nowitzki better bring it.
The Miami Heat. The New York Yankees of basketball. The team with the best pryleas. I love it when that team happens to be my team. Heat in 6, again.ps. We need to root for the Canucks to win the cup, for JLS.