MIKE ^^^^^^^^^^ ATOT Fantasy BBall '05 edition in Fricken Bayou, MT!!

[Stark]

ATOT Fantasy BBall ?05


Overview:
This is the third year of the Unofficial ATOT Yahoo Fantasy Basketball league.

Recap:
The inaugural ?03 season was absolutely dominated by jbahseng.
Scoring was head to head. Stat categories included: FG%, FT%, 3PTM, 3PT%, PTS, REB, ST, BLK, AST, TO, A/T, EJCT, FF
I have no idea what the final standings were.

The ?04 league was barely won by yours truly after a battle with Kev that went down to the wire. We picked up a few new managers, most notably Baboon(nospace)Guy who quickly fell to the cellar and remained there all season. ?IMMMA F U GUYS UP NEXT YEAR? was his parting shot, instantly filling the other managers with fear and dread only now able to be confronted. ?Executive League? status was obtained by including a prize payout of Best Buy gift cards. The controversial FF and A/T categories were eliminated.

Final standings (draft pick):
1. Stark (3)
2. Kev (1)
3. prodigy (7)
4. roncarter (6)
5. neovan (5)**
6. Storm (4)
7. DS (2)
8. jbahseng (8)*
9. enjoi (10)*
10. BaboonGuy (9)

?05 promises to be the most comprehensive battle of ATOT basketball brains of all time. AST and TO have been combined in the A/T category and EJCT remains to penalize Ron Artest owners. This year, instead of one ?executive? and one ?free? league, each manager will have two different teams in two leagues fighting for two prizes. The difference in the leagues?

Draft Order*
Unlike the real NBA, where crappy teams are rewarded by David Stern for sucking by getting a better shot at the annual crop of high school players thinking they?re the next KG, this year?s draft is based on how well you did last year. That?s right, final standings now determine the draft. No more hazy ?order based on when you saw the thread and signed up,? it?s all about bragging rights from what you did in the past.

Bragging rights order:
1. Stark ? Angry Shaq
2. kev - TLack
3. prodigy ? NYK-Mengke Bateer
4. roncarter - YaoSter
5. DS ? Phi Slamma Jamma
6. jbahseng - Who cares?
7. CPA - Melo is a BBall God! (unless you're larry brown)
8. keelin - Lamar (Rookie)
9. gleong - GS Warriors in '05 (R)
10. Storm ? Curly Larry Moe **
11. neovan ? WHOA!**
12. BaboonGuy - Tre II

To make sure things are fair, the second league will be the exact opposite order. That means that for sucking last year, BaboonGuy, swai, and jbahseng can draft KG, TMac, or Kobe! Of course, since the #1 pick has never won it all (that second round pick is a looooong way off), BG and I will have our work cut out for us to prove our hoops genius. IMHO, prodigy and jbahseng are in the best spot, but then again I was able to pick KG at #3 last year. I don?t see that happening again.

David Stern Suck-tatious Reverse order:
1. BaboonGuy
2. neovan**
3. Storm
4. gleong (R)
5. keelin (R)
6. CPA
7. jbahseng
8. DS
9. roncarter
10. prodigy
11. Kev
12. Stark

(update: roncarter claims he made the playoffs. prodigy claims he made it to the finals in the winners bracket, which means he was #3 or #6. I'm moving rc to #4. **Neo opted to move down the ladder in L1 to move up in L2. Storm continues the losers bracket boogie by taking the 10/3 spot.)

Prizes:
League 1: $90 in BB Gift Cards
League 2: $90 in BB Gift Cards
Bragging rights: priceless

Draft results:
The draft will be the week before the season starts (10/24-11/1). This will give the most time to research and see who breaks their kneecaps in training camp, and let DS go on a chocolate binge over in Brussels (or Bolivia, same difference).

The bulk of the draft will be conducted via live chat sometime during "draft week." Time and date still TBD. If you agree to the time and don't make the draft, you will get the highest default ranked player for any available spot on your roster. Please try to make the draft!!

Everyone STILL needs to send me an address that you check often that I can add to a distro list with updates throughout the day. If you want a copy of an excel spreadsheet with the default yahoo rankings to keep track of your picks, request it and I?ll mail you a copy.

Team names are locked at least through the draft.

More to come?



Looks like we have our work cut out for us!

 

[Storm]

Btw that baseball champ is a fluke cause our ATOT baseball league was dead 1 month into the season.

Categories from

'FG%,FT%,3PTM,3PT%,PTS,REB,AST,ST,BLK,A/T,EJCT'

to

'FG%,FT%,3PTM,3PT%,PTS,REB,ST,BLK,A/T,EJCT'


We dont have FGM, FTM, AST, my question is why axe FGM & FTM if we have 3PTM?

Also since we only have 10 categories most blow outs will be 9-0-1, with more categories it seems like it allows the badder teams to stay in it.

I'm not so sure I like the current categories but it is 5 offensive and 5 other. IMHO we should either expand it to include FGM, FTM, AST, NO A/T, TURNOVERs like last year?

Or axe A/T put in AST & TURNOVER so that the EJCT is the 11th category and a real wildcard. It would then put 5 offensive categories 5 other categories, and 1 wild category.

What is everyone else's opinion not stated in the two previous threads? Or you can repeat yourself

Edit

I also dont think theres a chance in hell we can draft in 1 week

 

[Kev]

Wow that first post got me excited!

Yeah we need to add the FTM and FGM, I think that might have been a mistake.

I'm still against having TO as a stat though because it rewards awful teams.

One more thing, to move the draft along quickly, we should get the IM name or email of the guy after us and tell them when it is their pick so no long lulls in the draft happen. We should have a good 9 days to finish it.

 

[Stark]

uh, ya...

fixed the oversight and now
FGM, FG%, FTM, FT%, 3PTM, 3PT%, PTS, REB, ST, BLK, A/T, EJCT
are the categories (FGM and FTM were categories in 03 and 04 as well, I'm just retarded)

12 points possible, but most weeks should end up with 11 points split between the combatants.

We have three weeks to figure out our pre-draft rankings, so we should be able to blow through it pretty quick. If it looks really bad that first day, we can institute a time limit on picks, after which the slowpoke gets the next guy on the yahoo list. There are 13 rounds, that's two picks a day per league over the course of a week. If we can't do that we're morons.

 

[Platypus]

your title sucks, edit that.

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
your title sucks, edit that.

ya, and your name sucks, but i don't ask you to change it now, do I? Ever heard of a space bar Mr. Run-on?

(what exactly is it that offends you?)

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
your title sucks, edit that.

ya, and your name sucks, but i don't ask you to change it now, do I? Ever heard of a space bar Mr. Run-on?

(what exactly is it that offends you?)

that was a clever response.

at any rate, it looks ridiculous when compared with the rest of the threads on the page. There was a character limit on my username thus the absence of a space.

 

[Stark]

any better?

the whole point of the ^^^ is to make it easier to spot amongst the 50 "YAGF," "What car should I buy," and "who's hotter, the skank from girl next door, the skank from the disney movies with the implants, or the other skank of the week" threads

I tried to be kind by putting in spaces so it didn't screw up the page, but I still toned it down a little to make you happy.

 

[Kev]

personally I think we need more ^^^ in the title

 

[DeafeningSilence]

Originally posted by: Kev

One more thing, to move the draft along quickly, we should get the IM name or email of the guy after us and tell them when it is their pick so no long lulls in the draft happen. We should have a good 9 days to finish it.

This is a good idea. Actually, we could all exchange email addys / IM names and talk throughout the draft. (It's never too early to trade, right? )

 

[Storm]

We should send Stark another e-mail with our IM name and maybe even cell phones. Its going to be a little difficult for me to be reached during the workday except for lunch... hrmm.

 

[Storm]

Another suggestion for the draft is we could all meet on AIM or in an irc channel to knock off the draft in an hour or two.

 

[Stark]

last call for:

jbahseng
swai
BaboonGuy

Your spots will be given to the waiting list this afternoon!!

 

[Kev]

how is he gonna f us guys up this year if he doesn't join/

 

[Storm]

Originally posted by: Kev
how is he gonna f us guys up this year if he doesn't join/

I honestly think we should extend the deadline a week. If we did it would still give us a week before the week of the 24th.

My Top 5
---------

1.) Garnett
2.) Duncan
3.)Kobe
4.)T-Mac
5.) Dirk

 

[Stark]

bg even responded to my pm's and has the league info. maybe he couldn't handle the early season ridicule.

one note for any newbies: you better have thick skin!! you WILL be made fun of for any and every stupid move you make for the better part of the next year. If you can't handle the heat, and can't grasp that it's nothing personal, please stay out of the kitchen!!



On the last 3 spots -

I already committed to supplying the league info TODAY to three guys who PM'd me. I'll send the league ID's and passwords to them this afternoon. First come, first served!!

roncarter (the houston ho) has a buddy who's coocoo for cocoa puffs and bball, and he may join later today.

I'm going to sponsor a kid from my church that got his feet wet last year in a free league and is now hooked. If he wants in, he'll also get a spot today.

(I'm not worried about anybody "teaming up" and making unfair trades since ALL the managers vote to approve trades.)

Fresh meat is always a good thing.



i like this top ten in the league where i pick last:

1. TMac
2. Yao
3. Kobe
4. Duncan
5. Marion
6. Pierce
7. J. O'Neal
8. Lebron
9. B. Davis

 

[Storm]

Originally posted by: Stark
bg even responded to my pm's and has the league info. maybe he couldn't handle the early season ridicule.

one note for any newbies: you better have thick skin!! you WILL be made fun of for any and every stupid move you make for the better part of the next year. If you can't handle the heat, and can't grasp that it's nothing personal, then please stay out of the kitchen!!




i like this top ten in the league where i pick last:

1. TMac
2. Yao
3. Kobe
4. Duncan
5. Marion
6. Pierce
7. J. O'Neal
8. Lebron
9. B. Davis

Gimme a break...

 

[Storm]

Now that I look at the draft positions...

I dont think I made the playoffs last year...if so I prolly shouldnt be in #6 position.

DS are you sure you didnt make the playoffs last year? Now that I think about it... I think you did.. :/

 

[Stark]

On the last 3 spots -

I already committed to supplying the league info TODAY to three guys who PM'd me. I'll send the league ID's and passwords to them this afternoon. First come, first served!!

roncarter (the houston ho) has a buddy who's coocoo for cocoa puffs and bball, and he may join later today.

I'm going to sponsor a kid from my church that got his feet wet last year in a free league and is now hooked. If he wants in, he'll also get a spot today.

(I'm not worried about anybody "teaming up" and making unfair trades since ALL the managers vote to approve trades.)

Fresh meat is always a good thing.

 

[BaboonGuy]

i neeeeed some passwords

 

[neovan]

sent pm to BaboonGuy.

i'm just wondering if everything is set now?

 

[Stark]

i sent him a pm too. still only 7 signed up...

i'll wait until this evening to send the final PMs then.

 

[Storm]

Tre is in. Now it seems we have 2 spots left.

 

[Stark]

PMs sent.

still need 2

 

[jbahseng]

I'm In! Is there any spot left? I tried the id and password from the PM but i got the password error message.