Fantasy Basketball Update
Oh man, in an amazing run of luck (the only good luck all season), my team, KaleidoStars, managed to sneak into the 4th seed and make the playoffs for fantasy NBA. My last opponent mailed it in completely, and so I was able to vault from 7th place (top 6 make the playoffs) into 4th. Kungfucius’ OSU Buckeyes took 3rd, but that’s a little misleading, considering that he finished 11.5 points/games ahead of me. Currently I’m getting spanked badly by “Don’t Eat Brown Pooh” as the injury bug has continued to torment me. Of my top 5 draft picks (A. Kirelenko, B. Miller, M. Bibby, K. Martin, and R. Jefferson), only one is uninjured and playing now. Of my bottom 5… well, not one is on my roster anymore (due to either season-ending injuries, or a bad case of suckitis). Kirelenko was out most of the season and just when he got back and started heating up, his season ended with a broken wrist. Brad Miller was a stud, but is out for the rest of the season as well (his teamate Kenny Thomas has been good, but isn’t center-eligible). K-Mart has performed as expected, but has battled injuries all season long, and it’s hard to predict when he will or won’t play. And of course RJ was out early with an injury as well. Overall, this has been a terrible fantasy fantasy NBA team, but the silver lining is that this season has been an interesting and captivating one. Waiver diving has become a weekly event for me, and a few gems came out of the rubble. I did manage to completely steal Stephen Jackson (due to his suspension), and Brevin Knight has been an assist machine (when his ankle is working). Josh Howard has been quite good (a lot of rebounds for a wing player) and Brezec has been servicible as a center. Other than that, it’s been a lot of one-week stands with various scrubs who had a good game or two. With all this information, maybe next year’s draft will be a little more successful (and lucky!). I guess I should have taken Dirk with my first round pick, but it seemed like a good decision to go with AK47 at the time.
On the NCAA front, I haven’t done that hot, but Illinois is still in it and I have them pegged to win. As a small consolation, I am guaranteed to not finish last. It might not sound like much, but when you’ve only picked about 28% of the winners correctly and you’ve spent most of the dance at the bottom, you have to take what you can get.
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By Velius, 3/30/2005 @ 12:29 pm
Watch Ong-Bak (*’-')b
By Kungfucius, 3/30/2005 @ 1:11 pm
I’ve had mixed results in my NCAA pool. In my Yahoo league, I’m in a 4 way tie for 8th place out of 13, but in the ESPN league, I’m in 3rd and in the 98.5 percentile for picks compared to everyone else who’s playing on ESPN. All I have to say is UNC better win
I managed to finish in 3rd place in both basketball leagues this year although both leagues had different settings. Our rice league had more micromanagement involved, but in my other league, we just set the lineups at the beginning of the week on Monday and let em play out. Although I liked the micromanagement setting in our rice league a bit better and paid less attention to the other league, I ended up having a better record in the non-micromanagement setting (87-56-4/60.5% win percentage vs 108-78-3/57.9% win percentage). Go figure
AND I did this without making any moves!
By David, 3/30/2005 @ 7:17 pm
Wooo, I’m also pegging U of I to win — it’s probably a toss-up between Illinois and UNC, but I’m biased (^_^)
By Hephador, 3/31/2005 @ 12:39 am
I went 15-1 on the first day of the tourney, the best I’d ever done on a single day. Then everything went to hell lol. Picking Michigan St. to be upset in the first round certainly didn’t help my bracket any either. :-/