how is that irrelevant? last year was your FIRST year being top 3 in a league. Last year I finished top 3 in THREE different leagues. So tell me again what makes you such a great manager? The fact your team is shit most of the time most must not have a lot to do with it, otherwise you certainly wouldn't be considered a good manager.
I'm not a great manager, lol. If I was I wouldn't have lost to PHX last year. I think I'm alright, certainly better than you.
2009 was my first year ever playing fantasy basketball or any fantasy of any kind. No idea what I was doing and I doubt I even kept my lineups up to date. 2010 I lost to PSYCH in the first round by like .004 FG% (I would have won the tiebreaker then chico woulda raped me in round 2). Massive improvement for year 2 in the league. 2011 2nd place.
You want to know what the difference was between this league and those leagues? I DRAFTED in those leagues.
True, true. I get it, you didn't draft your team last year and it is really, really, really fucking hard to trade in this league and flip your team to your liking. It's almost impossible to get trades done here.
Not improving my team? I traded Boris Diaw for the guy that went 15th this year in the draft. Yeah, that's not duping, I fucking destroyed you in that trade and THAT trade is why I got into the playoffs, not because of those three players you love to bring up.
...no. I'd wager a guess that you'd still have made the playoffs without Lawson. Those 3 auto-picks were insanely good. Monroe went in round 4, lmao. Lawson going 15th overall this year was a terrible pick, imo. Way too early. Yahoo O-ranks (which haven't been updated since September 1st) strike again.
So yeah, you continue getting owned by me, or just admit that I know what I'm doing and actually know quite a bit. I suggest the latter because you're losing this argument almost as badly as you lost that Boris Diaw trade.
I am so absolutely tired of this Blue shit. I will not admit you know what you're doing, go fuck yourself. Your success has been an absolute fluke, and this season is no different. Getting the 5th overall pick =/= mean you "know quite a bit". Beat me in the standings (and no our matchups don't matter for shit) and I'll give you props. Until then fuck you for this constant LOLBORISDIAW shit.
Good manager don't buy into the hype. It's Boris fucking Diaw.
And he was Ty Lawson. Coming off a season where he averaged 11ppg/5 assists. Platooned with Andre Miller and shot fucking 3-13 from the field the day before I traded him. I make one poor trade all season and it's the end of the world... wtf? It didn't EVEN MATTER. Time and time again I've told you guys I turned Diaw/Jamison into Dwyane Wade, and the trade made absolutely no impact on my 2nd place finish.
this is actually a different argument, GA. Usually we're arguing about how good of a manager I am, when I just happened to realize that you're quite the shit manager yourself. like shit smurf, last year was the first time you did well in a league. how can you even call yourself good?
Are you Sherlock Holmes? Doing some major investigative work tonight. Your results last year are not scientific at all, there is absolutely no way of knowing who you had in your league you could have signed up for the special Olympics private league last year or the "We never check our rosters 2012 NBA Fantasy League". Impressive.