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I'm tanking the rebound/block categories in a FGM/FG%/FTM/FT%/3PTM/3PT%/PTS/OREB/DREB/TREB/AST/ST/BLK/TO league... not working out so hot. I'm 20 games back, but their is still hope. The leader in my division isn't active anymore.

Here's my squad

PG - Gilbert Arenas
SG - Joe Johnson
G - Jose Calderon
SF - Mike Dunleavy
PF - Rashard Lewis
F - Andre Igodala
C - Matt Bonner
C - Ryan Hollins
Util - Jason Terry
Util - George Hill
BN - Blake Griffin (INJ)
BN - Kevin Martin (INJ)

I honestly think my squad is pretty nice for a 16 team league, but I'm currently 14/16 so I'm obviously doinitwrong. Halp!

really dumb to tank the rebound category since there's OREB, DREB and TREB.
that's already 0-3 for you.

Ch00bi3 wrote:really dumb to tank the rebound category since there's OREB, DREB and TREB.
that's already 0-3 for you.

0-4 actually. Can't win blocks.

I had a bad draft, so I decided to go with this route.

If I make the playoffs I only need to win a majority of the categories to advance, so I'm building a team to win > 50% of the categories. How is that dumb?

Efficiently tanking categories doesn't win you anything. It loses you categories more definitively. There are no bonus points for successfully losing a category week in, week out.

The more categories you tank, the smaller margin for error you have. If you build your team to dominate 8 categories and tank 6, then you will almost certainly lose the 6 you tank, but also still be at risk of losing in one or more of the other 8 categories.

I'm guessing you will lose oreb/dreb/treb/blk/fg% most weeks. That means you have to win 7/9 of the other categories to break even. That also means you probably won't have big weeks such as 10-4, 11-3 etc to help you make up ground.

Tanking can be valuable, but the goal isn't to tank efficiently, it is to field a good team in all the other categories.

MaRcu5 wrote:

Ch00bi3 wrote:really dumb to tank the rebound category since there's OREB, DREB and TREB.
that's already 0-3 for you.

0-4 actually. Can't win blocks.

I had a bad draft, so I decided to go with this route.

If I make the playoffs I only need to win a majority of the categories to advance, so I'm building a team to win > 50% of the categories. How is that dumb?

read andone's response. you won't have big wins if you tank all your other categories, and since you are already at the bottom of the league, it'll be hard for you to get a playoff spot.

PG - Gilbert Arenas
SG - Joe Johnson
G - Jose Calderon
SF - Mike Dunleavy
PF - Rashard Lewis
F - Andre Igodala
C - Matt Bonner
C - Ryan Hollins
Util - Jason Terry
Util - George Hill
BN - Blake Griffin (INJ)
BN - Kevin Martin (INJ)

Your team is a mess. If you're going for certain categories and tanking the rest, then you should get players that give you certain categories while being bad at the cats you want to tank.
Lets say you want to win rebounds, FG% and want to tank FT% and TOs then you'd have to get Bigs and guards that both give you those categories. Eg. Howard, Perkins, Rondo, Kidd... etc

So by the looks of your team, I'd have to conclude you drafted Gil and Joe Johnson the first 2 rounds. Find their strengths and weaknesses.
Gil and Joe Johnson both have high TOs and low FG% while giving you high points, 3s, and asts, so I would draft accordingly.
There is no reason to grab Jose the next round because he is one of the more efficient guards according to last year's trend when you drafted. He has the highest AST:TO ratio. You would have been better off grabbing a high TO, low FG%, high points guy like Ellis, Westbrook, Aaron Brooks, Trever Ariza etc...

anywho, try to see what you want to focus on and trade away the players that specialize in cats that you don't need.

better luck next year.