Suns Board Fantasy Leagues Discussion Thread

[Kerrsed]

I also found it kind of funny, going through the player list, Derek Fisher is still on there. Any chances of him getting pissed at his team and suiting up for a game or two?

[Kyler Murray]

Kinda OT. I'm playing a 13-man, 8cat, 2 centers roto league. My current squad is

Guards - Bledsoe, Holiday, Harden, Korver
Forwards - Deng, Markieff, Caroll, Antetokounmpo
Centers - Jefferson, Horford, Sullinger

Any suggestion for my last 2 bench spots? I know I severely lack in blocks and I'm thin on PGs.

2 center league, well you probably want another center with that last pick...your blocks are kind of light and you probably aren't getting 164 games out of Jefferson & Horford anyway (Sullinger's weak on blocks so far).

And definitely another PG too that's going to get some assists. That can be tricky this late in the draft, maybe a flyer on Kendall Marshall? I assume Jameer Nelson and Calderon are gone already, I'd take either of them before Marshall. Stuckey could be there but IDK how many assists he will rack up (though in all fairness, IDK how many minutes Marshall will get).

Just my basic opinion, I didn't spend a ton of time analyzing stats here.

Nor should you. I'm just posting for general opinions, and appreciate the effort. There were A LOT of reaches on PGs, that's how I ended up with only 2. There's not a single starting PG left, so either Marshall or Nash or trade I'm targeting Dalembert, Sims, Miles, Asik, Henson with my next picks, unless Gallinari falls onto my lap on 12th round, can't resist not taking him

[Kyler Murray]

Kinda OT. I'm playing a 13-man, 8cat, 2 centers roto league. My current squad is

Guards - Bledsoe, Holiday, Harden, Korver
Forwards - Deng, Markieff, Caroll, Antetokounmpo
Centers - Jefferson, Horford, Sullinger

Any suggestion for my last 2 bench spots? I know I severely lack in blocks and I'm thin on PGs.

Dalembert. He should get lots of minutes in NY and should be a great source of rebounds and blocks since both their PF's (Amare & Andrea) lack both of those skills.

Thx m8, he's on my short list actually

[Phystic]

My two favourite teams in the Premier League is

TASTICS and Mirv's.

TASTICS: Loving the backcourt of Harden and Bledsoe and Holiday. I think theyll be tough to beat because theyre all really efficient too. Drummound is going to beast this year, and Harden helps cover his FT%.If Giannis breaks out this season, and Reggie Jackson has the season I think he will, then I dont see anyone beating Team TASTIC.

Mirv:

Westbrook, Klay, Parker, and Matthews. Yikes! That's just insane. As well as Noah and Asik who gets the boards and blocks at elite rates... and the Big Fundamental still going strong. That's a tough team to beat. No significant weaknesses at all either.

Here is where it gets fuzzy for me. In Mirvs team, that awesome backcourt is "either or" right? If he plays Westbrook and Klay he has to sit Parker and Matthews, so you loose their stats for that round. Sure, you get protection case of injuries, but you basically picked great players you might not even actually use instead of picking for other positions where you were still not that strong.

Every day you can play a PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, UTIL, UTIL, UTIL. With Guard being either a PG or SG, and F being either SF or PF. So with Westbrook, Parker, Klay and Matthews you have PG(Parker), Guard(Westbrook), SG(Klay) and SF/UTIL(Matthews).

I think you may be thinking that you have a starting lineup and a bench. But that's not how fantasy(or atleast not most fantasy leagues) work. In most standard leagues you play up to 10 of your 13 guys per day. But there are GP(games played) limited in all formats. Roto has 82 games per position for the year and H2H(head to head) usually has like 40 games per week.

[spanishninja]

My two favourite teams in the Premier League is

TASTICS and Mirv's.

TASTICS: Loving the backcourt of Harden and Bledsoe and Holiday. I think theyll be tough to beat because theyre all really efficient too. Drummound is going to beast this year, and Harden helps cover his FT%.If Giannis breaks out this season, and Reggie Jackson has the season I think he will, then I dont see anyone beating Team TASTIC.

Mirv:

Westbrook, Klay, Parker, and Matthews. Yikes! That's just insane. As well as Noah and Asik who gets the boards and blocks at elite rates... and the Big Fundamental still going strong. That's a tough team to beat. No significant weaknesses at all either.

Here is where it gets fuzzy for me. In Mirvs team, that awesome backcourt is "either or" right? If he plays Westbrook and Klay he has to sit Parker and Matthews, so you loose their stats for that round. Sure, you get protection case of injuries, but you basically picked great players you might not even actually use instead of picking for other positions where you were still not that strong.

Every day you can play a PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, UTIL, UTIL, UTIL. With Guard being either a PG or SG, and F being either SF or PF. So with Westbrook, Parker, Klay and Matthews you have PG(Parker), Guard(Westbrook), SG(Klay) and SF/UTIL(Matthews).

I think you may be thinking that you have a starting lineup and a bench. But that's not how fantasy(or atleast not most fantasy leagues) work. In most standard leagues you play up to 10 of your 13 guys per day. But there are GP(games played) limited in all formats. Roto has 82 games per position for the year and H2H(head to head) usually has like 40 games per week.

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

[aIvin adams]

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

that's interesting. i started playing in a league that used GP limits a few years ago, but since then i've grown fond of it. it allows you to play different teams week to week. last year i traded midseason for Drummond in a GP-limit league and I didn't even use him in week one of the POs because I didn't need to. being able to platoon certain players for particular categories makes matchups less predictable. and i like that.

[spanishninja]

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

that's interesting. i started playing in a league that used GP limits a few years ago, but since then i've grown fond of it. it allows you to play different teams week to week. last year i traded midseason for Drummond in a GP-limit league and I didn't even use him in week one of the POs because I didn't need to. being able to platoon certain players for particular categories makes matchups less predictable. and i like that.

that option is still possible using standard H2H system, if you micromange correctly. For example, last season I've encountered many instances in leagues I was in where I wanted to make sure that I didn't lose slim leads on the percentage categories on sunday games and blow the week, so I recall cases where I would bench players that could compromise me, like drummond and rubio for example.

[aIvin adams]

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

that's interesting. i started playing in a league that used GP limits a few years ago, but since then i've grown fond of it. it allows you to play different teams week to week. last year i traded midseason for Drummond in a GP-limit league and I didn't even use him in week one of the POs because I didn't need to. being able to platoon certain players for particular categories makes matchups less predictable. and i like that.

that option is still possible using standard H2H system, if you micromange correctly. For example, last season I've encountered many instances in leagues I was in where I wanted to make sure that I didn't lose slim leads on the percentage categories on sunday games and blow the week, so I recall cases where I would bench players that could compromise me, like drummond and rubio for example.

yah that makes sense. but the platooning is going to be much less drastic unless there is a relatively low GP limit, like 25-32 GP depending on how many positions and players you use.

[spanishninja]

that's interesting. i started playing in a league that used GP limits a few years ago, but since then i've grown fond of it. it allows you to play different teams week to week. last year i traded midseason for Drummond in a GP-limit league and I didn't even use him in week one of the POs because I didn't need to. being able to platoon certain players for particular categories makes matchups less predictable. and i like that.

that option is still possible using standard H2H system, if you micromange correctly. For example, last season I've encountered many instances in leagues I was in where I wanted to make sure that I didn't lose slim leads on the percentage categories on sunday games and blow the week, so I recall cases where I would bench players that could compromise me, like drummond and rubio for example.

yah that makes sense. but the platooning is going to be much less drastic unless there is a relatively low GP limit, like 25-32 GP depending on how many positions and players you use.

a limit like that would be really difficult to manage. one thing i learned last year. big name teams play on thursday a lot more often than small market ones, and you need enough players from those teams to counteract the logjam on wednesdays when typically you're forced to bench people who have games that day. so even simply counting number of games played per week is not enough.

[aIvin adams]

a limit like that would be really difficult to manage. one thing i learned last year. big name teams play on thursday a lot more often than small market ones, and you need enough players from those teams to counteract the logjam on wednesdays when typically you're forced to bench people who have games that day. so even simply counting number of games played per week is not enough.

yup

[Phystic]

Here is where it gets fuzzy for me. In Mirvs team, that awesome backcourt is "either or" right? If he plays Westbrook and Klay he has to sit Parker and Matthews, so you loose their stats for that round. Sure, you get protection case of injuries, but you basically picked great players you might not even actually use instead of picking for other positions where you were still not that strong.

Every day you can play a PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, UTIL, UTIL, UTIL. With Guard being either a PG or SG, and F being either SF or PF. So with Westbrook, Parker, Klay and Matthews you have PG(Parker), Guard(Westbrook), SG(Klay) and SF/UTIL(Matthews).

I think you may be thinking that you have a starting lineup and a bench. But that's not how fantasy(or atleast not most fantasy leagues) work. In most standard leagues you play up to 10 of your 13 guys per day. But there are GP(games played) limited in all formats. Roto has 82 games per position for the year and H2H(head to head) usually has like 40 games per week.

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

Well, it's a league setting I believe. But most leagues I've been in have had a 40 game max per week. Where if you hit the cap, 40 games in this example, during the week you can't play any more games. But you can go over the 40 games that day. I'm sure that doesn't make sense so a common example is someone will end Saturday with 39 games and have 8 players on Sunday(the final day of the week) and you can play all of them and end with 47/40. But if you ended Saturday with 40(or more) games then all games Sunday would be voided.

Maybe it just so happens that the leagues I play in use the limit.

[spanishninja]

Every day you can play a PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, UTIL, UTIL, UTIL. With Guard being either a PG or SG, and F being either SF or PF. So with Westbrook, Parker, Klay and Matthews you have PG(Parker), Guard(Westbrook), SG(Klay) and SF/UTIL(Matthews).

I think you may be thinking that you have a starting lineup and a bench. But that's not how fantasy(or atleast not most fantasy leagues) work. In most standard leagues you play up to 10 of your 13 guys per day. But there are GP(games played) limited in all formats. Roto has 82 games per position for the year and H2H(head to head) usually has like 40 games per week.

I've played H2H leagues for almost a decade and I don't remember ever seeing a limited number of games per week for that format. Limited number of moves, sure.

Well, it's a league setting I believe. But most leagues I've been in have had a 40 game max per week. Where if you hit the cap, 40 games in this example, during the week you can't play any more games. But you can go over the 40 games that day. I'm sure that doesn't make sense so a common example is someone will end Saturday with 39 games and have 8 players on Sunday(the final day of the week) and you can play all of them and end with 47/40. But if you ended Saturday with 40(or more) games then all games Sunday would be voided.

Maybe it just so happens that the leagues I play in use the limit.

sounds complicated, especially for people like me who prefer to set all seven days lineups once a week (i'm in 8 leagues)

[Phystic]

sounds complicated, especially for people like me who prefer to set all seven days lineups once a week (i'm in 8 leagues)

That could also be a reason, I usually play daily leagues instead of weekly. I've never been a fan of weekly leagues I don't like the idea of starting someone that gets injured and my team loses because of it.

[spanishninja]

sounds complicated, especially for people like me who prefer to set all seven days lineups once a week (i'm in 8 leagues)

That could also be a reason, I usually play daily leagues instead of weekly. I've never been a fan of weekly leagues I don't like the idea of starting someone that gets injured and my team loses because of it.

yeah I don't mean weekly as in setting one lineup for the week. yahoo now allows you to set the next several days' lineups in advance and make changes to each. that's how I usually do it.

[Phystic]

sounds complicated, especially for people like me who prefer to set all seven days lineups once a week (i'm in 8 leagues)

That could also be a reason, I usually play daily leagues instead of weekly. I've never been a fan of weekly leagues I don't like the idea of starting someone that gets injured and my team loses because of it.

yeah I don't mean weekly as in setting one lineup for the week. yahoo now allows you to set the next several days' lineups in advance and make changes to each. that's how I usually do it.

Oh, never been in a yahoo league before. ESPN lets you set any days lineup you want right off the bat. I usually set the first month or 2 right away

[Qwigglez]

So all this talk about the premier league, who do you guys got for the D-League?
I like whoever B-ball forever is, his team looks pretty solid across the boards. Miklo also has a solid team.
My team is really relying on Kobe coming back to his former self, and hoping his assist hovers around 6-7 a game. Lance Stephenson I'm hoping wasn't just a contract player (I feel like he is) and I hope he contributes in Charlotte. If he can have the same number of rebounds with the Hornets as he did the with the Pacers I'll be happy. Reggie Jackson also might take over for Isaiah Thomas in the utilities spot if he takes a starting roster spot in Oklahoma.

[b-ball forever]

The D-League draft was very strong. Actually better quality drafting in the d-league than in the premier league IMO, where for example Wade dropped to pick 69, or Iguodala dropped to pick 125!

Wheezy is the guy to beat in the D-league IMO. Obviously getting Durant with the 1st is a huge benefit, but he also rounded out his team nicely with a solid follow up, including a couple steals with D.Lee @72 and T.Parker @73.

I like my team a lot, even if injury risk is gonna be very high

[batsmasher]

including a couple steals with D.Lee @72 and T.Parker @73.
I like my team a lot, even if injury risk is gonna be very high

I passed on TP in one of my leagues at 90-something. He wasn't a top 100 player last year but has shown he has the potential to be a fantasy stud.

I dunno, I wouldn't exactly call him a steal at 73. Pop pulled back his minutes and his numbers suffered.

David Lee on the other hand

[b-ball forever]

including a couple steals with D.Lee @72 and T.Parker @73.
I like my team a lot, even if injury risk is gonna be very high

I passed on TP in one of my leagues at 90-something. He wasn't a top 100 player last year but has shown he has the potential to be a fantasy stud.

I dunno, I wouldn't exactly call him a steal at 73. Pop pulled back his minutes and his numbers suffered.

David Lee on the other hand

Parker is still top 60 on stat averages without counting turnovers over the past couple years despite the off-performance by him last season.
This year he took the summer off, and should be a lot fresher after countless summers playing for the French team.

As for the premier league, I like the look of teams : DRK, Kerrsed, Mirv, KJG, and Gaspar best

[Qwigglez]

Do we have last year's final placements BTW? I think I came in 7th or something lol.