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It is always fun to lose when you have the third highest score of the week.  Always fun.  DaLoot would have beat everyone with the exception of The Rokers (on fire!) and 36DD.  That is especially fun when Troy Murphy decided he wanted the night off.  In Murphy’s next game he had 29 fantasy points which would have been enough for DaLoot to win.

The Rokers are peaking at the right time.  It always helps to have “the best player from Spain” (Pau Gasol) go off for 58 fantasy points.  It also helps having a bench go off for 46.5 fantasy points. 

David Copperfield fell quicker than any team in Fantasy League history.  His 152.5 fantasy points is the story of the past month.  This includes The Sword (Baron Davis) scoring 36 fantasy points. 

LeBron James (David Copperfield), Mrs. Carmela Anthony (DaLoot), Dwight Howard (Dirty Sanchez) and Kobe Bryant (Captain Mo) are all out in the first round. 

Studs: Paul Gasol (58), Mrs. Carmela Anthony (56)

Duds: Troy Murphy (dead), Stephen Jackson (dead), Corey Maggette (dead), Chauncey Billups (16), (Nate Robinson (13), Jeff Green (19)

Here are the matchups for the semi-finals:

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This will have to serve as a recap for Weeks 16 – 20.  I apologize.  36DD and DaLoot both had a hectic last month or so and the site simply didn’t get updated. 

Week 16: The Fur lost to David Copperfield by 14 points and The Fur didn’t realize Amare Stoudemire was out for the year so he registered a “0” as a starter.  Someone could have scored 15 for The Fur.  Also, for David Copperfield, LeBron went off for 69 fantasy points. 

Week 17: DaLoot recorded his only HIGH SCORE of the year with 232.0 including 31 bench points from Shaq (that would have been 62 as a starter).  There is a reason this squad is not very good and it started on draft day and carries through to not knowing how to manage a team.

Week 18: David Copperfield managed only 93 points.  The injury bug simply caught up to Mr. C.   Even the players that did play didn’t play well.  Chris Duhon, Andre Kirlenko and Chauncey Billups all scored less than 20 fantasy points.  Add that to Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson and Caron Butler being dead and that is a 93 point week.  Even LeBron only scored 33 fantasy points. 

Week 19: The Rokers beat up on Dirty Sanchez 239 – 209.5.  LeBron James had 69 fantasy points which helped David Copperfield beat Captain Mo 199.5 -  186.5.  LeBron’s 69 was not the highest total of the week.  D-Wade took that honor with 75.  Yes, you read that correctly, 75 fantasy points.  Amazing.  50 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks. 

Week 20: In a matchup of 1^st vs. 2^nd place Dirty Sanchez beat David Copperfield 162.5 – 163.5.  Really?  Two of our top two teams couldn’t score more than 165?  Look out in the playoffs!  More importantly, this loss cost David Copperfield sole possession of 2^nd place as DaLoot beat 36DD.  The Average also ended tied for 2^nd place.  Wow.

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If we were getting ready to do the seeding for the NCAA tournament teams like Fore!, DaLoot, and The Fur would get moved higher than their records show whilst teams like Captain Mo, David Copperfield and 36DD would get that #5 seed (vs. a #12 never a good thing). 

Fore! got high score of the week (251.0) for the second straight week.  Congratulations. 

Hopefully the teams took the All-Star Break off to rest their legs and to clear their minds.  With five weeks left on the regular season schedule Dirty Sanchez has a lead of two games in the loss column over 36DD, David Copperfield and Captain Mo who are all technically in THIRD place because, believe it or not, the AVERAGE is in second place.  Check out the standings.  I’m pretty sure we have never had the Average in second place through 15 weeks of the season before. 

HUGE week from Al Jefferson.  68 fantasy points.  Unfortunately for Fore! and the Minnesota Timberwolves, this was his last fantasy game of the season after suffering a torn ACL. 

The kick in the shorts of the week goes to David Copperfield who had an unannounced DNP by Caron Butler and then lost by 10. 

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 15 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

Al Jefferson – 68

Dirk Nowitzki – 59

Zach Randolph – 49

Brandon Roy – 47

Kevin Martin – 45

Yao Ming – 43

Allen Iverson – 43

Tim Duncan – 42

Dwight Howard – 42

Deron Williams – 42

Danny Granger – 41

Antawn Jamison – 40

Duds:

Caron Butler, Joe Johnson, Chris Bosh, Chris Paul, Michael Redd – Dead

Jason Terry – 14 (you need 20 as a starter)

Randy Foye – 17

Andre Iguodala – 19

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What a week.  Not one of the four teams with the best record won in Week #14.  Dirty Sanchez escaped with a tie (vs. DaLoot).  That’s right, it took 14 weeks to record our first time of the season.  I am not sure which is more amazing, the tie or The Fur winning (vs. Rokers).  Looking at the standings, Dirty Sanchez stands alone with only four losses.  36DD, David Copperfield, Captain Mo and THE AVERAGE all have five losses.  Strange year.

The kick in the teeth of the week goes to Royz Boyz, who has more points than Captain Mo, but has four more losses. 

Fore! had four starters in the STUDS list.  Impressive.

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 14 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

Al Jefferson – 53

Dwight Howard – 48

Chris Paul – 46

Kevin Durant – 43

Kobe Bryant – 43

Deron Williams – 42

LeBron James – 42       

David Lee – 42

Al Harrington – 41

Dirk Nowitzki – 41

Antawn Jamison – 41

Duds:

Tracy McGrady, Michael Redd – As many as a dead man

Josh Smith – 17 (you need 20 as a starter)

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After a “players only” meeting after Week #5 Fore! has been on a tear averaging 213.5 fppg.  DaLoot had a season high 213 in Week #13, but he played Fore!, who had the high score of the week with 242.5.  Helped by Kevin Durant’s 68!  Yes, 68 fantasy points.  That is the high for the any individual for the season.  David Lee previously had the high with 64.  Kevin Durant had 46 pts, 15 rbs, 4 ast, 2 st, 1 blk.  Amazing.  Congrats to Fore!  I’m not sure if any knows this, but DaLoot was pretty upset on draft day when the name Vincerod Carter came out of his mouth instead of Kevin Durant.  In Week #13, it made the difference.  Kevin Durant had 68, Vincerod had 36. 

Captain Mo STB with 153.5, that is a Fur’ish score. 

Four teams scored less than 170 points this week. 

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 13 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

Kevin Durant – 68

Tim Duncan – 54

LeBron James – 54

Gerald Wallace – 48

Caron Butler – 47

Brandon Roy – 46

Al Thorton – 44

Nene Helario – 43

Paul Milsap – 42

Dwayne Wade – 42

Al Jefferson – 41

Danny Granger – 41

Duds:

Jamal Crawford, David West – As many as a dead man

Steve Nash – 10 (you need 20 as a starter)

Richard Jefferson – 10

Yao Ming – 13

Allen Iverson – 14

Paul Pierce – 14

OJ Mayo – 16

Steve Nash – 16

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One thing we can say about Captain Mo is that he drafted well.  He hasn’t made a transaction and I’m not sure he has changed his lineup.  He did, however, get high total for the week in Week #12 with 236.0.  Congrats to Captain Mo. 

It was nice to have Lawrence Frank make a statement to his two best players (Vincerod Carter and Devin Harris) on Friday night and bench them after the first quarter.  Harris and Carter both ended with nine fantasy points.  Roughly 25 less than their averages. 

The kick in the teeth of the week goes to Royz Boyz who had two players with 50+ (Gerald Wallace and Dirk Nowitzki) and still lost to the Rokers. 

I apologize for the late posting.  I got busy and simply never got around to writing anything. 

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 12 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

LeBron James – 54

Kobe Bryant – 54

Gerald Wallace – 53

Michael Redd – 51

Dirk Nowitzki – 50

Dwight Howard – 49

Dwayne Wade – 47

Chris Bosh – 44

Corey Maggette – 43

Jameer Nelson – 42

Antawn Jamison – 42

Kevin Durant – 42

Deron Williams – 41

Duds:

Josh Howard – As many as a dead man

Devin Harris, Vincerod Carter, Rudy Gay – 9 (you need 20 as a starter)

Steve Nash – 16

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Something I do not have statistics on, but I believe has never happened before.  There were 11 starters who all played and scored, but totaled < 20 fantasy points this week.  EVERY team in the league had at least one starter with < 20 fantasy points.  Nine additional starters had 25 or less fantasy points.  That means 20 of the 45 starters in fantasy basketball this week had 25 or less fantasy points.  I can’t ever remember that happening.  The Fur had four starters score 25 fantasy points or less.  That is really bad.  It is amazing The Fur totaled 159 fantasy points.  The beauty of this is that he played Fore! who had two starters with < 20 fantasy points. 

Fantasy sports is evening things out.  After losing with 200+, Fore! was able to find a win with 184.  It helps when you play The Fur (159).  Congrats to Captain Mo for high score of the week (203.5).  That is 1.5 points more than 36DD had.  It helps to have Kobe Bryant go for 57 fantasy points. 

Captain Mo has somehow worked the scheduling Gods into an 8-3 record, tied for the best record in the league.  This is despite averaging the third lowest points per week.  The point leader, Dirty Sanchez?  They are sitting one game back of first, in fourth place. 

DaLoot did the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the inexcusable….DaLoot put Kevin Garnett on his bench for Week #11.  The rationale was that the Celtics are really limiting his minutes and when you don’t play, you can’t score.  DaLoot also did not play Shaq (late scratch from the starting lineup because he was questionable with back spasms).  KG ended up with 36 fantasy points, Shaq had 37 fantasy points.  Paul Milsap, also in the starting lineup for DaLoot, has been averaging 35 fantasy points over his last 15 games.  He got hurt and scored 20 fantasy points.  Worth mentioning DaLoot lost by 15.5. 

The kick in the teeth of the week goes to Dirty Sanchez.  Devin Harris had a DNP (bum hamstring) on the bench for the Dirty Sanchez.  David Copperfield won by only 11.  Devin Harris is averaging 34.62 fantasy points for the season.   Dirty Sanchez outrebounded David Copperfield 40.5 – 30. 

All transactions, standings, rosters, etc. are current.

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 11 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

LeBron James – 58

Kobe Bryant – 57

Dwayne Wade – 57

Chris Bosh – 47

Vincerod Carter – 46

LaMarcus Aldridge – 41

Tony Parker – 40

John Salmons – 40

Duds:

Devin Harris – As many as a dead man

Josh Smith, Al Harrington – 10 (you need 20 as a starter)

Al Thorton – 14

Gerald Wallace – 15

Deron Williams – 16

OJ Mayo – 16 (becoming a pattern?)

Joe Johnson – 16

Paul Pierce – 17

Rodney Stuckey – 17

Chris Duhon – 18

Caron Butler – 18

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We reached the half way point of the 2008-2009 Fantasy Basketball schedule.  Four teams are tied for first at 7-3. 

Fore! continues his hot streak scoring 200+ (223.5) for the 5^th straight week.  That squad is solid when healthy.  Royz Boyz (3-7) has the fourth most points this season (just behind the Average), but sits in 8^th place.  Fore! (4-6) is just ahead of him in the standings and three points behind him in total points. 

There will be no gripe by DaLoot this week.  As I look at the standings I notice that I have the second fewest points in the league, but I sit tied for 5^th at 5-5. 

There was an NBA first on Friday night.  All 30 NBA teams played on Friday, January 2^nd, 2009.  That has never happened in the history of the NBA.  That is partly because there were an odd number of teams in the league for a long time. 

There was a first Saturday night as Royz Boyz became a father for the first time.  Congrats to Ol’ Brad! 

Rokers drew the Old Maid card by scoring 200.5 and losing to Dirty Sanchez, who had the high week for the third time this season (227.5). 

There were some interesting scoring nights on Friday evening.  Dwayne Wade had 47 fantasy points with two minutes left in the third quarter.  He finished with 49 fantasy points.  Mrs. Carmela Anthony had nine first half fantasy points.  He finished with 44.  Shaq had three fantasy points in the first half, but finished with 30. 

The Fur had a chip and a chair in Week #10 vs. 36DD.  It was a close game, but OJ Mayo “shat the bed” and only delivered 16 fantasy points (Josh Howard didn’t help with only 20).  The Fur lost by nine. 

Captain Mo won again still not realizing Corey Maggette has been out for the past month or so.  He’s back now, but logged a “dead man.”   The victim this week was David Copperfield who was the recipient of an unannounced “bruised tailbone / trade me” injury. 

Danny Granger’s consistent year continues…last six fantasy games?  45, 11, 55, 0, 39, 35….He put two decent weeks together finally.  Nice.

All transactions, standings, rosters, etc. are current.

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 10 on the right or clicking here.

Studs:

Kobe Bryant – 54

Dwayne Wade – 49

Kevin Durant – 49

Marcus Camby – 48

Dirk Nowitzki – 46

Al Jefferson – 46

David Lee – 45

Mrs. Carmela Anthony – 44

Devin Harris – 43

Brad Miller – 42

LeBron James – 42

Troy Murphy – 41

Duds:

Corey MEgette, Baron Davis – As many as a dead man

Derrick Rose – 7

JR Smith – 7

Tracy McGrady – 9

Rudy Gay – 15 (you need 20 as a starter)

OJ Mayo – 16

Mo Williams – 17

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Life in fantasy sports is not always fair.  After losing with 220 one week and 224 the next week, Fore! gets the high total for Week #9 with 216.  Congratulations Fore!  Well overdue.  Fore! didn’t have a starter with less than 32 fantasy points.  You will win most weeks if that happens. 

The game of the week was clearly Captain Mo vs. Royz Boyz.  Phoenix didn’t play until Monday night.  At 5pm Monday, Royz Boyz must have been feeling good.  They only needed four fantasy points from Steve Nash.  Unfortunately for Royz Boyz, after nine minutes, and two fantasy points, Steve Nash headed to the locker room with back spasms and did not return.  Steve Nash, “pitched a deuce,” if you will.  If it is any consolation, Captain Mo only had six players log a fantasy point this week (Corey Magette / Mehmet Okur scored as many points as a dead man…combined). 

With a 12 (potentially 13 man roster) it is hard to get in a situation where you simply can’t play eight healthy players.  However, DaLoot was barely able to put that together this week.  Injured and unable to play were TJ Ford, Mike Dunleavy and Troy Murphy, all on the Pacers, also on the shelf were Mrs. Carmela Anthony and Paul Milsap. 

It is hard to believe Golden State couldn’t find a place for Al Harrington, a 6’9” guy who is averaging 22+ ppg, 6+ rpg.  He is chucking 7.2 three’s up per game.  That is brilliant for a fantasy owner. 

The standings have some interesting numbers.  Captain Mo has the third lowest point total for the year, but finds himself tied for second place in the W/L columns.  Captain Mo has scored 200+ twice, DaLoot has only broken the 200 point mark once, Fore! has scored 200+ five times.  Captain Mo has six wins.  DaLoot has four wins, Fore! has three wins.  The Rokers have the exact same point total through nine weeks as Fore!.  The Rokers have only cracked 200 once.  Fantasy sports is simply not fair. 

Dirty Sanchez has the most 200+ weeks with seven. 

David Copperfield is averaging 202 fantasy points per week, he had 127 vs. the Average this week.  It certainly didn’t help that Caron Butler and Zach Randolph equaled a dead man, combined. 

Danny Granger’s consistent year continues…last five fantasy games?  45, 11, 55, 0, 39.  Just a model of consistency.

Only in the NBA:

Stephen “Me So Crazy” Jackson has said he would welcome Baron “The Sword” Davis back to Golden State.  It sounds like BD is wanting to go back to the Warriors since life in LA doesn’t seem to be what he had hoped.  Baron Davis is shooting 36% for the year.  29% from three (and he chucks 6+ per game). 

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 09 on the right or clicking here.

Last week there were 16 players with 40+ and seven with 50+.  This week there are nine players with 40+ and only one with 50+. 

Studs:

Joe Johnson – 54

LeBron James – 49

Shaquille O’Neal – 44

Brandon Roy – 43

Tony Parker – 43

Kobe Bryant – 42

Chris Paul – 42

Al Jefferson – 41

Nate Robinson – 40

Duds:

Corey MEgette, Peja Stojakovic, Mehmet Okur, Ron Artest, Caron Butler, Zach Randolph – As many as a dead man

Steve Nash – 2 (“pitched a deuce” – you need 20 as a starter)

Michael Redd – 8

Richard Jefferson – 12

Derrick Rose – 17

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I’ll make recap short as it is over a week old.  Simply put, the internet service in Esko, MN is not exactly “cutting edge.” 

Congrats to Dirty Sanchez bouncing back from a loss to win high point total of the week. 

The Fantasy Hoops season has not been kind to Fore!.  They lost with a total of 220.  This is after losing last week with a total of 224.  Simply unfair.  Especially unfair considering DaLoot found the slow fat kid to beat up (The Fur) 176.5 – 110.5.  Royz Boyz also had bad luck losing when scoring 215+ to Dirty Sanchez 249 – 215.5.

Dwayne Wade is playing really well.  This isn’t news to anyone I’m sure.  But he is now knocking down jumpshots.  Scary.  I just saw that Amare Stoudemire spells his name “Amar’e Stoudemire.”  Is this new?

Danny Granger’s last four fantasy games?  45, 11, 55, 0…Just a model of consistency.

As always, you can view all of the scores by clicking Week 08 on the right or clicking here.

A long list of studs and duds this week.

Studs:

Devin Harris – 60

Zach Randolph – 56

Al Jefferson – 56

Chris Paul – 55

Allen Iverson – 53

LeBron James – 51

Vincerod Carter – 51

Dwayne Wade – 49

Deron Williams – 43

Yao Ming – 43

Chris Bosh – 42

Tony Parker – 42

Amar’e Stoudemire – 42

Rip Hamilton – 41

Baron “The Sword” Davis – 40

Boris Diaw – 40      

David Copperfield starters – 211

Duds:

Stephen “Me So Crazy” Jackson, Corey MEgette, Danny Granger, Marquis Daniels, Peja Stojakovic – As many as a dead man

Ramon Sessions – 6 (you need 20 as a starter)

Ben Gordon – 11

OJ Mayo – 11

Jamal Crawford – 15

Mrs. Carmela Anthony – 17

The Fur’s starting lineup – 79 …Devin Harris had 60 for Dirty Sanchez

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