i was wonderin if you folks wanted to start a pinned thread just on Fantasy sport talk. I figured since so many of us play and there really isn't a place to talk about transactions and advice, etc. etc., that we can make a place to talk about it. Of course, we can make one for individual sports, but that would be a ton.
Any takers?

Sounds good to me. 20 characters rule there!

Love the idea! I think I'll always have questions

i rule the fantasy sports world. bow down!

Sounds like a good idea to me.

* Pinned *

alright, then let's kick things off, what was your worst basketball draft?
What was your worst pick? which player in which round?

worst pick: j. smith (nba: atl hawks) 2nd round. he is a pretty nice fantasy pick but i shouldve waited till 3rd or 4th round.

Ben Wallace in the 3rd round. His stats are much worse than when he was with the Pistons. Hopefully he will get better.

Amare picked by computer. Don't know which round but whatever it was, it was too high.

grabbing al harrington before jason kidd
at least harringotn got C eligibility

anyway of the four leagues i have im trying to swing a deal in two. i have my personal opinions but id just like to double check
gotta put the thread into use, ya'know?

LEAGUE 1
PG - Gilbert Arenas (PG)
SG - Josh Smith (SG, SF)
G - Tony Parker (PG)
SF - Grant Hill (SG, SF)
PF - Elton Brand (PF)
F - Richard Jefferson (SF)
C - Dwight Howard (PF, C)
C - Mark Blount (PF, C)
Util - Mo Williams (PG)
Util - Deron Williams (PG)
BN - Brandon Roy (SG, PG)
BN - Jason Terry (PG)
BN - Andrew Bynum ©

Pending trade...
Tony Parkers + Jason Terry for Yao Ming

i like the trade, xcept maybe terry's play of late makes me wonder if i'm giving up too much here. plus, this would seriously glut my 3pt production. but then again i dont like the idea of depending on mark blount or andrew bynum to be a consistant 2nd center.

LEAGUE 2

PG - Tyronn Lue (PG)
SG - Jason Richardson (SG, SF) <-- picked wayyy too high
G - Luol Deng (SG, SF)
SF - Shawn Marion (SF, PF)
PF - Tim Thomas (SF, PF)
F - Tayshaun Prince (SF)
C - Andrew Bogut (PF, C)
C - Dwight Howard (PF, C)
Util - Mehmet Okur (PF, C)
Util - Andre Miller (PG)
Util - Kendrick Perkins (PF, C)
BN - Chris Duhon (PG)
BN - Andrew Bynum ©
BN - Luke Walton (SF)

Pending trade...
Dwight Howard for Paul Pierce

I have no point guards which made me consider throwing Howard for Kidd plus Smush or something, but i couldn't resist the chance to grab pierce. the thing is this would ruin my blocks/rebounds since okur isn't exactly the greatest rebounder and perkins/bynum are inconsistant. and i still have no second PG since i expect lue's numbers to crash when claxton comes back in full strength and duhon is on and off. also worth noting... this league is really deep. REALLY deep. 14 teams with an extra util. pretty hard grabbing a dcent PG out of free agency. best PGs there are Kyle Lowry, Gary Payton, and Antonio Daniels

I'm doing good in the fantasy football poll. (2nd) My team name is Boa's Beotch. The funny thing is my all of my QBs and RBs suck. Chad Johnson and my chicago defense have been getting alll the points for me.

shane battier....7th round i think....dunno...just should have never drafted a role player that gets all of 8 and 3 a game. luckily i suckered someone into taking him. muahahahha

That sucker would be me. I am doing perfectly fine without Melo and with Jamison and Battier thank you very much.

I'm in 3 H2H 8-9 cats and 12 man league

Combined record of 50-20-2
1st place in first Soompi league
1st and 2nd place in 2 other league

and 13th place in this 22 man roto league.

I did pretty well in most of my draft, but I think AK got to the worst pick according to me.

1.(4)Dirk Nowitzki
2.(21)Andrei Kirilenko
3.(28)Lamar Odom
4.(45)Brad Miller
5.(52)Richard Hamilton
6.(69)Ben Gordon
7.(76)Josh Howard
8.(93)Andre Miller
9.(100)Nenad Krstic
10.(117)Channing Frye
11.(124)Chris Wilcox
12.(141)J.R. Smith
13.(148)Francisco Garcia
14. (165)Ha Seung-Jin

Picked alot of sleepers.
Free agents pick up-Biedrins, Jack and Walton.

1.(3)LeBron James
2.(22)Dwight Howard
3.(27)Joe Johnson
4.(46)Carlos Boozer
5.(51)Jameer Nelson
6.(70)Al Harrington
7.(75)Josh Howard
8.(94)Channing Frye
9.(99)T.J. Ford
10.(118)Eddy Curry
11.(123)Steve Francis
12.(142)Kevin Martin

Solid draft except for the 5th pick.
Free agents pick up-Nazr Mohammed and Leandro Barbosa

here is my current line-up for 2006-2007:

PG - Chauncey Billups
SG - Kobe Bryant
G - Tony Parker
SF - Carmelo Anthony
PF - Shawn Marion
F - Taysuan Prince
C - Ben Wallace
Util - TJ Ford
Util -
BN - Udonis Haslem
BN - Raymond Felton <--probably my worst... 5th pick
BN - Cuttino Mobley
BN - David Lee

I did pick Nazr Mohammed who started off alright but once I felt the sliding trend I heaved him out for haslem since Shaq is out again.

Traded Dwight Howard, Al Harrington, Ben Gordon
for
Kobe and Melo

Old Notes
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2005-2006 League Champ:

Carmelo Anthony
Kobe Bryant
Steve Nash
Chauncey Billups
Rip Hamilton
Lamar Odom
Kwame Brown
Troy Murphy
Josh Smith
Kenny Thomas
Samuel Dalembert

2004-2005 2nd Place:

Glibert Arenas
Larry Hughes
Tracy MacGrady
Amare Stoudemire
Shawn Marion
Ben Gordon
Kirk Hinirich
Jim Jackson
Chris Kaman
Andre Miller
JR Smith
Wally Szczerbiak
Keith Van Horn

worst pick: picking up mo pete in the 3rd round..

What is your biggest pick up from the waiver wire in any fantasy sports? I picked up Albert Pujols in his rookie year. He was still available in my league at the end of April. The rest is history.

i picked up elton brand off the waiver wire a few years ago when he went down with an injury. he returned two days after i picked him up

also i picked up dwayne wade and chris bosh in their rookie years in the first few weeks of the season.
alston was another good pickup in his miami days

Hmmm ... not sure ....

Primo Brezec was a good sleeper pick for me two years ago.

My team this year is horrible. I don't think I'll even make top 5 for my leagues. >.<

eh i butchered my soompi league team this year
but in my other 3 im in the top2 for em all

the DNPs are killing me (ak47, webber, artest, howard) not to mention a couple of bad trades

biggest pickup from waiver was last year: boris diaw

biggest pickup on waviers this year? MONTA ELLIS! kid's a stud, a STUD i tell you! Made a bet with my friend for some dinner that he would be averaging at least 15 ppg in three months.

Hey all~ i need some advise here~ im playing Fantasy B-ball, i have to pick a PF/C to keep my team in shape... who should i pick between David Lee, Ryan Gomes, or Mickael Pietrus?!

my team:
Ben Gordon
Jason Richardson
LeBron James
Adam Morrison
Eddy Curry
Caron Butler
T.J. Ford
Jason Terry
Stephen Jackson
Larry Hughes
Ryan Gomes*

as u can c, my PF/C positions are weak, thats y im losing OREB, REB & BLK...

well, thx for the help

wow, go grab David Lee fast. he was a beast when frye was still starting, without frye out now, he will see more playing time and will average 11 rpg to help out.

He will be great under Don Nelson.

I had a chance to pick him up but I already had 2 other Warriors on my team (Davis and Murphy). I did not want to load my squad with too many players from a single NBA team. But now Davis and Murphy (been back since) had both missed some games, I am regretting not picking Monta Ellis up.

Biedrins, biggest F.A pickup of this season. He will finish as the top 2 center behide Ming in fantasy basketball.

He will be great if your league is not scoring on FT% (like soompi's league). He is one of the worst free throw shooters in the NBA.

all of my players except 3 shoot above .650 from the line, so is all good

Hey guys, I need a decent backup C since slacker ben wallace is hurt.

which FA should i get?

Kwame Brown? (sharing with Bynum)
Samuel Dalembert? (not doing so hot lately)
SAR? (days are limited for when Brad Miller returns)
Erik Dampier? (Seems to be doing well???)

Any advice would be appreciated thanks guys

herowing: tough choice

kwame is sharing with bynum, dampier showed signs of life 2 weeks ago but he slacked off last week (besides last night) but he also shares with diogu, SAR's value is going down cuz miller's almost back, dalembert is the only one not sharing minutes of the 4 but yeah he hasnt been doing hot. i'd take a chance and go with dalembert, dampier would be 2nd choice.

I didn't know Ben Wallace was hurt. I also had Shaq on my team, so both my starting centers are hurt.

Fortunately, Dwight Howard and Troy Murphy are both center eligible now. But who's going to replace them in their original spot?

* looking at the waiver wire now *

Al Harrington is also center eligible. It's nice to have a reminder like this once in a while that after all, this is still just FANTASY basketball

GAWD!!!! that means i got rid of 2 Cs....

>.<

ridiculous

i took a gamble on Jorge Garbageman (i don't know how to spell his last name)...and i dumped Cwebb, this either is a brilliant move, or this is stupidity and impatience at it's finest.

Garbajosa. I picked him up as well.

i prefer brown, just because he's putting up decent numbers despite sharing, and because sammy's confidence is going to crash if his performance doesnt step up. dampier would be second choice too though

I agree. I like the way kwame is coming along since his return and I guess he'll put up a good fight for starting position. I'm going to see how he does tonight and that will seal the deal.

Prolly drop felton for him. I have too many guards...

ie. billups, tony parker, tj ford, shaun livingston, felton...

drop livingston instead
i have a similar problem like that too. i have like six good PGs; i find it a waste to drop a good PG to get a marginally beneficial center
i found it better to resolve holes through trades so i get something back for those PGs

the reason why i dont like brown is because he's sharing minutes, and jackson just declared bynum as the starting center. no matter what, until one of them gets major min, neither will do any good. imo, sammy has more potential (but also more risk) by not having to share any minutes

Someone drafted Pau Gasol in the first round in my league...hahaha. My worst pick would have to be Dan Gadzuric because Bogut was supposed to be out for about 2 months or so, and Dan would be starting. So Bogut started the season and I just dropped Gadzuric, but luckily someone dropped Andre Miller and I picked him up filling up some assists.

Now someone is asking me for a trade, Michael Redd for Dwight Howard. I don't have any true SGs. I already have Garnett, Udonis Haslem, Antawn Jamison, Jeff Foster, and Nenad Krstic. That should be enough to make up for Howard's rebounds right? Brandon Roy is my only other SG and he's injured. Should I give up 13+ rebounds and 1 block for 3's and fg% and ft%?

I think with cassell out now livingston will be good to keep actually?
and right off the bat livingston has a good game last nite.

As for Brown...i was totally unhappy with his performance last nite...
i think either Sam Dalembert or Erik Dampier (seemingly the safest choice?)

i would, esp since your SG position is going to waste with roy on the bench


hmm maybe
brown did suck yesterday, but im still tossing my lot with brown lol

but eitehr way, releasing felton seems to be a bit

i know dwight's a beast, but u really need SG so trade away. i think it'll help you especially when antawn picks up his slack i have him in my other league and last 2 weeks frustrated me a lot cuz he's been doing horrible

I change my mind...Ben Wallace 4th must be the worst draft pick yet....

btw wat do u guys think of

tony parker + tj ford

for

marcus camby

Camby is injury prone. I won't do it unless you are desperate for a center.

I got ben wallace and picked up dampier as a backup (and he'll soon become starter if ben keeps on being such a bozo)

I think i'm pretty desperate for a centre (and I need more blocks)...but i know this will surely knock me over in assists (and , thus, A/T) as well if I trade.

That guy backed out of the trade...haha, so i picked up luther head. He's making up the 3's I'll miss from Redd. Oh well. By the way, who's that in your avatar?

am i missing something? Some dude just dropped Mo Williams for Rasul Butler in our league...pickup Willams, dump Garbajosa for me...

strained lower back, is day-to-day. butler is a good pickup since peja is already out and is bound to miss more games.

not according to the last game he just played.
Rasul is backing up Peja, Mo isn't backing up anyone.