WS Fantasy Basketball 2013-14

[Ghetto Anthony]

Important Message From Your Beloved Commissioner, David Stern:

It comes with great sadness that I must announce that as of February 1st, 2014 I will be stepping down as commissioner of the WS Fantasy Basketball league. I took over this league a couple of years ago and built it into the greatest fantasy basketball league of all-time (single-handedly), but all good things must come to an end at some point. Deputy-Commissioner Adam Silver will be taking my place and at that time I will give him full commissioner privileges and let him run the league as he sees fit. Thank you.

- David

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This is the WS Fantasy Basketball Thread for the 2013-2014 NBA Season. Hype thread can be found here.

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League FAQ:

This is a deep category head to head league. We run 14-cat H2H each category. FGM, FG%, FTM, FT%, 3PTM, 3PT%, PTS, OREB, DREB, REB, AST, ST, BLK, TO. Each category is good for one win a week. This setup slightly favors larger line-ups so plan accordingly.

Each team has 13 slots. PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN.

Lineups are set daily. If you don't have time to check your team every single day then set your lineups for each day at the start of every week. Very few of our owners ever have players riding the bench and missing a start. Repeated failure to set your lineups will result in loss of ownership. We don't want teams getting free wins.

5 Maximum waiver wire acquisitions per week with a 1 day waiver wait time. Streaming is encouraged but we don't want entire teams being streamed everyday so there is a 5 move per week cap. Grab the hot player for a few extra FGM at the end of the week, but don't be surprised when the asshole destroys your FG% and turns the ball over 6 times. (see: Jrue Holiday, Monta Ellis)

We don't do veto's here. Occasionally a trade may be denied for BASKETBALL REASONS, but for the most part if two parties agree to a deal it's going to be put through. There is no governing board, nobody to police this shit. The aftermath may cause a stir in the thread, some bitching perhaps, and team ownership may be revoked if you're a moron and purposefully try to ruin the competitive balance of the league. It hasn't happened yet, and we've had our share of morons...but it could happen...maybe. Moral of the story, don't be a homer smurf and trade away half your team for DWIGHT HOWARD.

Yahoo/ESPN's draft boards are based off of 5x5 standard roto leagues. Our league setup is extremely different which means our draft board is as well. Here are the final player rankings from LAST YEAR and THE YEAR BEFORE based on our league setup.

We shitpost a lot in the thread throughout the season. Join us. Respond to PMs/visitor messages, actively trade and shop players, and don't settle for a loss or give up because you've lost a few weeks in a row. You're not going to win the league anyway: This is GA's year.

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Sign-Ups:
1. Ghetto Anthony* (David Stern)
2. PHX*
3. PSYCH (Deputy-Commissioner Adam Silver)
4. Brandon
5. Ben
6. SAL
7. chico
8. Showtime
9. KIF
10. IYF
11. Notorious
12. Stacks
13. Aid
14. Cwalker

Reserves:

*= League Commissioner

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League Info:

League URL: TBA
Yahoo League ID#: TBA
Password:

Western Conference
1. SAL
2. IYF
3. Ghetto Anthony
4. Stacks
5. KIF
6. Showtime
7. Notorious

Eastern Conference
1. Aid
2. CWalker
3. Brandon
4. chico
5. PHX
6. PSYCH
7. Ben

Division winners get top 2 seeds, after that playoff ranking is decided by overall record. Top 8 teams make the playoffs.

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Initial Draft Order:

Draft order:
1. Showtime
2. Stax
3. IYF
4. KIF
5. PSYCH
6. Ben
7. BRJP
8. SAL
9. chico
10. GA
11. Brandon
12. AID
13. PHX
14. Notorious

Important League Dates:

Divisions Randomized via random.org: As soon as league is filled
Draft Pick Order Randomized via Yahoo!: TBA
Draft Pick Trading Deadline: 1 hour prior to Draft
Draft: TBD

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Proposed Rule Changes:

- League contraction down to 12 teams. VETOED
- Reverting back to 12 roster slots by removing 1 BN spot. VETOED
- Removing TREB as a category. AMENDED

Feel free to submit your own ideas/opinions on proposed rule changes.

 

[SAIYANS]

: Your new COO

 

[Ghetto Anthony]

Hi Adam.

 

[SAIYANS]

Finalize the papers David :

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I can't fuckin' wait now that I know I'll have time for this.

 

[Ghetto Anthony]

Finalize the papers David :

What do you have in mind for your regime?

 

[SAIYANS]

Playoffs a week earlier, so cats won't be sitting out. Back to 12 spots, the end of trebs, and an auction draft to screw with Chico

 

[Ghetto Anthony]

We moved the playoffs back a week last year if I recall and people were still sitting out. Will do the same this year of course.

Why do you want 12 roster spots again?

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Was that damn DWIGHT line for me? I don't even like the guy, he is a no passion hack.

Now, I might trade my entire team for James Harden...

 

[SAIYANS]

We moved the playoffs back a week last year if I recall and people were still sitting out. Will do the same this year of course.

Why do you want 12 roster spots again?

I can do 12 with 14 teams or 13 with 12 teams. It depends to me. Waiver wire was a bit dry, but some of that is just people who wouldn't answer trade requests so we saw less people dropped and shuffled. We will see how many teams there are

 

[PHX]

Seems like most of seem to be in agreement that we can drop the total rebound stat and just have OREB and DREB and :n: on PSYCH being future commish, lol.

Was that damn DWIGHT line for me? I don't even like the guy, he is a no passion hack.

Now, I might trade my entire team for James Harden...

I'm sure you'll reach for Harden anyways in the draft.

 

[SAIYANS]

Now look here Shane, you can't be bringing your ass back from China and expect a seat the table again

 

[SAIYANS]

Yahoo better fix that fucking app. Hate that damn thing. I got got at least 4x last year when it said they were actively sat and weren't

 

[PHX]

I never use that thing so I wouldn't know how screwy it is anyways. I just set my stuff on my cpu or using the browser on my phone.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I guess I must have improved vastly last year since nobody is offerin' to co-manage my team.