14 Team H2H (just drafted)

McFurious1 · Post #1 » by **McFurious1** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:52 am

14 Team H2H
Cats - FGM, FG%, FTM, FT%, 3PM, 3P%, BLKS, STLS, ASST, TO, PF, RBDS

PG - John Wall
SG - Eric Gordon
SF- LeBron James
PF- Javle Magee
C - Marc Gasol
Util - Ricky Rubio
Utli - Nicolas Batum
BN - Jamal Crawford
BN - Samuel Dalembert
BN - Lou Williams
BN - Kris Humphries
BN - Joans Jerebko
BN - Kendrick Perkins
BN - Josh Howard

aaa · Post #2 » by **aaa** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:27 am

You play with fouls? That's gotta be pretty lame, I don't even like TO's.

Doesn't that skew things toward guards?

McFurious1 · Post #3 » by **McFurious1** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:36 pm

aaa wrote:You play with fouls? That's gotta be pretty lame, I don't even like TO's.

Doesn't that skew things toward guards?

It doesn't because there's also TO's to keeps things honest.

How do you like my team? Any cat. I'm weak on?

Apathy · Post #4 » by **Apathy** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:08 pm

Playing with fouls isn't lame. Why, just because it's different? Fouls are a huge part of the game.

It doesn't make that big of a difference. It does help balance the TOs, because TOs do massively favor big men. And it weakens someone like Amare, who turns it over and fouls a ton. That's a realistic portrayal of real-life because he's not an elite player (top 15), yet is drafted like it in fantasy.

Your team's poor. You have poor knowledge of sleepers so half of your team is trash. Howard, Perkins, Williams, Humphries, Crawford... They're not so hot. I don't hate them all but they have limited upside. Your highest upside player is... Javale McGee? Ricky Rubio? Nicolas Batum?

What can you do to improve? I would trade Wall, Gordon and LeBron for 1-for-2 trades. You shouldn't have a problem doing that because studs trade, and every smart owner tries to set up a 2-for-1. You can drive a hard bargain.

Depth is life blood in H2H. Assuming your league has daily transactions, any half-decent H2H squad needs to go 12 deep with quality players getting 30+ mpg. You have half of that.

McFurious1 · Post #5 » by **McFurious1** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:49 pm

Apathy wrote:Your team's poor. You have poor knowledge of sleepers so half of your team is trash. Howard, Perkins, Williams, Humphries, Crawford... They're not so hot. I don't hate them all but they have limited upside. Your highest upside player is... Javale McGee? Ricky Rubio? Nicolas Batum?

What can you do to improve? I would trade Wall, Gordon and LeBron for 1-for-2 trades. You shouldn't have a problem doing that because studs trade, and every smart owner tries to set up a 2-for-1. You can drive a hard bargain.

Depth is life blood in H2H. Assuming your league has daily transactions, any half-decent H2H squad needs to go 12 deep with quality players getting 30+ mpg. You have half of that.

Crawford, Humphries, Dalembert are all free agents all have upside and a chance to start with whoever signs them. Crawford to the Bulls/Knicks/Minny? Dalembert Dallas/Rockets?

Rubio - starter
Perkins - starter
Jerebko - starter
J. Howard - to the Spurs?

So everyone pretty much starts except D. Williams who has a chance too, Lou Williams, and Josh Howard who'll have a fresh start.

I'm not trading LeBron. Players like LeBron don't grow on trees. Wall was the best PG available and with most upside, and again good point guards are rare.

It's not my favourite team, but last year I loved my team and I came in last due to injuries.

Apathy · Post #6 » by **Apathy** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:03 pm

-shrugs- you asked, I answered.

Like I said, I don't hate any of guys in a vacuum, but there's no doubt you lost when it comes to opportunity cost. Howard, Perkins, Humphries, Dalembert and Crawford are veteran retreads, and of that group only Humphries has a modicum of upside. But even that said, Humphries was great last year, but why couldn't he get PT on Toronto, next to Bosh? On Dallas, a sabermetrically-inclined team?

Lou Williams is decent but he's your classic undersized 2-guard. He presents massive defensive issues if you start him, and Doug Collins is not having it. He's buried under Holiday, Iggy and Turner. Zero upside save for an injury. He's getting phased out by Jodie Meeks...

Rubio has atrocious translates from Euroleague. He's boom-or-bust, likely a bust considering he can't shoot. Jerebko has to deal with a re-signed Tayshaun Prince, not to mention Austin Daye (who started to begin last year, to show you how fickle -- to put it nicely -- Detroit is as an organization) and Charlie Villanueva.

Even Batum is a problem considering he's limited by the presence of Marcus Camby. He's decent but he's no lock for a great season.

I didn't mean to offend you.

McFurious1 · Post #7 » by **McFurious1** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:31 am

You didn't offend me at all. Thanks for the points.