'25-'26 Dynasty - H2H format, keepers, new rules p94, draft oct 14

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Will take a look and see who's available...

[bwgood77]

Will take a look and see who's available...

Having a Snickers while you are at it?

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I am just lost as to who to take lol

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Jaden McDaniels. Such a toss up

[bwgood77]

I guess there really wasn't a rush. Terovibe is up in both drafts and he usually sends me his picks for Premier but didn't. It's like 5:45 am there. Unless he's a really early riser it will likely be at least a few hours unless he sent him pick to someone else.

[bwgood77]

Jaden McDaniels. Such a toss up

At least you got a good second round pick. I would have given up my first round pick for Vuc, but of course Slim pulled a James Jones and just took the first offer, getting a 2nd and sending you a later pick.

At least he didn't quite go so far as Jones to give you a 2nd roun pick to take Vucevic off your hands though.

[Slim Charless]

Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and Vuc are all available for the right price. LMK

You guys should've paid closer attention to this post. It was up for almost a week before the deadline to set keepers......

[bwgood77]

Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and Vuc are all available for the right price. LMK

You guys should've paid closer attention to this post. It was up for almost a week before the deadline to set keepers......

Yeah, it was probably one of those things where I thought the price for Vuc would be higher and with Jokic, trading my keepers who I thought you might deal him for were not worth it.

I would have given you my 2nd round pick for sure and probably my first. Or at least one of my keepers...maybe 2.

But I suppose I do need to be aware of how little it takes to get top notch players these days for rebuilding teams.

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Jaden McDaniels. Such a toss up

At least you got a good second round pick. I would have given up my first round pick for Vuc, but of course Slim pulled a James Jones and just took the first offer, getting a 2nd and sending you a later pick.

At least he didn't quite go so far as Jones to give you a 2nd roun pick to take Vucevic off your hands though.

I got sunskerr 2nd round pick which is better than mine. I would have traded that one if Slim didn't take my initial offer and took yours instead. Also I don't think it matters too much since probably the guy I grab with Sunskerr pick would have been there where my pick is at anyway.

[Book1Nation]

Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and Vuc are all available for the right price. LMK

You guys should've paid closer attention to this post. It was up for almost a week before the deadline to set keepers......

Yeah I didn’t even see that post.

The problem is you can’t trade a 1st and have 8 keepers. I coulda given you my 2nd and forfeited my 1st I guess. Or not kept Gary Trent Jr who I traded for in the waining hours before the deadline.

I ended up drafting Harris with the 9th pick and still have my 2nd. Works out better that way.

[bwgood77]

Jaden McDaniels. Such a toss up

At least you got a good second round pick. I would have given up my first round pick for Vuc, but of course Slim pulled a James Jones and just took the first offer, getting a 2nd and sending you a later pick.

At least he didn't quite go so far as Jones to give you a 2nd roun pick to take Vucevic off your hands though.

I got sunskerr 2nd round pick which is better than mine. I would have traded that one if Slim didn't take my initial offer and took yours instead. Also I don't think it matters too much since probably the guy I grab with Sunskerr pick would have been there where my pick is at anyway.

Outside of the first few picks the draft is pretty much a crap shoot and not very good players left. We are in round 9 of premier and there are still better players left there and it feels like it's hard to choose because there isn't really anyone that great. Though I did get Desmond Bane in the 4th round last year. I was shocked he wasn't protected and then I almost took him in the 2nd round and then the 3rd but kept thinking maybe people are not realizing he is there or just don't think he is that good.

[bwgood77]

Jaden McDaniels. Such a toss up

At least you got a good second round pick. I would have given up my first round pick for Vuc, but of course Slim pulled a James Jones and just took the first offer, getting a 2nd and sending you a later pick.

At least he didn't quite go so far as Jones to give you a 2nd roun pick to take Vucevic off your hands though.

I got sunskerr 2nd round pick which is better than mine. I would have traded that one if Slim didn't take my initial offer and took yours instead. Also I don't think it matters too much since probably the guy I grab with Sunskerr pick would have been there where my pick is at anyway.

I guess at least I got the guy you traded who I guess would have been your 7th keeper had you not traded him for Vuc? In some ways he might work out better for me because blocks and rebounds (especially blocks) were my worst and FT% I think I was 1st or 2nd.

If Poeltl shot just 70% from the line he'd probably be like top 40. And he's still pretty young.

[sunskerr]

Outside of the first few picks the draft is pretty much a crap shoot and not very good players left. We are in round 9 of premier and there are still better players left there and it feels like it's hard to choose because there isn't really anyone that great. Though I did get Desmond Bane in the 4th round last year. I was shocked he wasn't protected and then I almost took him in the 2nd round and then the 3rd but kept thinking maybe people are not realizing he is there or just don't think he is that good.

I think Bane was the guy I wanted but iirc you got him 1 pick before me. Didn't have a 3rd rounder last year unfortunately. I know you liked him as a prospect going into the 2020 draft, and I remember people laughing at me for saying he should be rostered in our dynasty league his rookie year. Part of the reason I enjoy dynasty more than redrafts is that a huge part of dynasty is scouting and evaluating a player's actual real-world talent.

Would've been nice to have him on the Suns lol. We've been missing another shot creator since, well, forever.

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At least you got a good second round pick. I would have given up my first round pick for Vuc, but of course Slim pulled a James Jones and just took the first offer, getting a 2nd and sending you a later pick.

At least he didn't quite go so far as Jones to give you a 2nd roun pick to take Vucevic off your hands though.

I got sunskerr 2nd round pick which is better than mine. I would have traded that one if Slim didn't take my initial offer and took yours instead. Also I don't think it matters too much since probably the guy I grab with Sunskerr pick would have been there where my pick is at anyway.

I guess at least I got the guy you traded who I guess would have been your 7th keeper had you not traded him for Vuc? In some ways he might work out better for me because blocks and rebounds (especially blocks) were my worst and FT% I think I was 1st or 2nd.

If Poeltl shot just 70% from the line he'd probably be like top 40. And he's still pretty young.

I was actually even considering drafting Poeltl if he was still around. But yeah his FT% actually really hurt my team in combination with other poor FT shooters I had so I had to get rid of him. If he shot even 60-65% I think he's a really solid player. I mean after the all-star break he was putting up solid stats with 14 points per game, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.8 blocks and shooting 56% from the FT and I believe he was posting top 50 numbers for the last couple of months. My biggest concern was again, Spurs maybe looking to move him somewhere in a trade and that would hurt his fantasy numbers. Perhaps I should have kept him as my 8th keeper, but I wanted a chance at drafting some other players who got dropped. For instance I would have taken Harris if he fell to me or one of the rooks that was already taken.
McDaniels probably doesn't put up good numbers but I wanted to roll the dice on someone I felt could have a breakout year and I'm hoping he can average maybe 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks per game. I assume with Gobert and Towns in the middle, McDaniels might be able to get weakside help blocks.

[Slim Charless]

Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and Vuc are all available for the right price. LMK

You guys should've paid closer attention to this post. It was up for almost a week before the deadline to set keepers......

Yeah I didn’t even see that post.

The problem is you can’t trade a 1st and have 8 keepers. I coulda given you my 2nd and forfeited my 1st I guess. Or not kept Gary Trent Jr who I traded for in the waining hours before the deadline.

I ended up drafting Harris with the 9th pick and still have my 2nd. Works out better that way.

I actually was close to offering him to you with my 1st for Gobert but I decided against it.

[Terovibe]

Isaiah Jackson, the tall dude from indiana. Iam an indiana fan boy as it seems....

[bwgood77]

Outside of the first few picks the draft is pretty much a crap shoot and not very good players left. We are in round 9 of premier and there are still better players left there and it feels like it's hard to choose because there isn't really anyone that great. Though I did get Desmond Bane in the 4th round last year. I was shocked he wasn't protected and then I almost took him in the 2nd round and then the 3rd but kept thinking maybe people are not realizing he is there or just don't think he is that good.

I think Bane was the guy I wanted but iirc you got him 1 pick before me. Didn't have a 3rd rounder last year unfortunately. I know you liked him as a prospect going into the 2020 draft, and I remember people laughing at me for saying he should be rostered in our dynasty league his rookie year. Part of the reason I enjoy dynasty more than redrafts is that a huge part of dynasty is scouting and evaluating a player's actual real-world talent.

Would've been nice to have him on the Suns lol. We've been missing another shot creator since, well, forever.

I like the scouting real world talent part except it doesn't always exactly translate. I actually searched for Okongwu because I thought you had mentioned you will have to drop him to only keep 7...but I guess you kept 8. Anyway, I was looking at him and it's so hard. I am curious because I saw a projection for him at 2 blocks a game, and it seems he'd be great if Capela wasn't there. But he is. I think fantasy sometimes isn't as much about real world talent all the time as being good at accumulating stats. Like steals for example. Or blocks. Are those true measures of talent/defense? Now it's safe to say I am anchored by D Murray and Smart and do well in steals AND they are both good defenders but that's not always the case. Same with blocks (Whiteside for example).

One thing about playing fantasy is you really learn how bad so many players are at shooting, but at the same time, sometimes it's hard to tell if they are mostly shooting 3s.

It almost feels like they should have categories of 2pt FG% and 3pt FG%. Because if you have a guy who shoots 50% from 2 but 40% from 3 and shoots twice as many 3s as 2s so his overall FG% is like 43.3%, I feel that is very misleading and it is a bad fantasy FG% even though you have a stud shooter.

Non fantasy - it's a pet peeve of mine when people say a players splits are 45/38/88 or whatever. Now I know the 45 is overall FG% but it's largely meaningless if you don't know how many shots out of total shots are 3s. You are not "splitting" the first number at all.

I would much prefer splits have 2pt% for the first #. It would be much more meaningful. That's why you may see a lot of my posts referring to TS% since when people talk about how bad someone's FG% is it may simply because they shoot almost all 3s....or at least in large part or even some part due to that.

[Slim Charless]

Are we doing the draft in here?

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Isaiah Jackson, the tall dude from indiana. Iam an indiana fan boy as it seems....

Gonna be honest, I initially had no clue who this person was. So I looked him up and he might be the starting center of the Pacers soon if they get rid of Turner. Good pick on a player with a lot of upside.

[Qwigglez]

Outside of the first few picks the draft is pretty much a crap shoot and not very good players left. We are in round 9 of premier and there are still better players left there and it feels like it's hard to choose because there isn't really anyone that great. Though I did get Desmond Bane in the 4th round last year. I was shocked he wasn't protected and then I almost took him in the 2nd round and then the 3rd but kept thinking maybe people are not realizing he is there or just don't think he is that good.

Based off of Bane's rookie stats, he wasn't necessarily a lock to keep. I don't think anyone predicted he'd go from averaging 9.2 points points per game to doubling it while remaining efficient, and also being able to lock defenders up. Typically I assume players will have a sophomore slump and expected Bane to shoot a lot more poorly from 3 after getting more scouting, but the dude has put in the work.
You seem to have a lot of swiss army knife like players on your roster with Smart, Bane, Middleton, Jrue, Murray. It's funny because I feel like all of those players you thoroughly enjoy their game too. I'd say for myself, I do draft based on who I enjoy watching too.