Fantasy hoops keeper league

[Tracer Bullet]

I pm'd the other 3 returning guys and asked them to name their keepers here. Not sure what IMB's availability is going to be today and for the next few days.

[Flames24Rulz]

Tim Duncan, Elton Brand, and Chris Paul are my keepers.

[Tracer Bullet]

Well...keepers probably won't be done by today. Crap.

 

Ok, to keep things moving, in case I don't check back in at the right time, cheapseats and PlayPie - I'm going to pick a number between 1 and 10 (I'll PM Mark_R the number). The closest one gets first pick in the 3-round "mini-draft" to get you guys caught up. It'll be a snake draft (1-2-2-1). Once IMB and Dobson name their keepers (or before, if you don't want any of their players), just post your picks in this thread.

 

Once those guys are done, we'll figure out how we're doing the main draft.

 

I have the number selected, so you can each post your guess and I'll let you know who goes first (and PM you both so you know).

[Flames24Rulz]

Take Brand off and put Deng in. I forgot that he was going to be out until March.

[Productive Outs]

hey, sorry, i had a big physics test yesterday and have been busy most of the day today. my keepers:

 

Kobe Bryant

Josh Smith

Baron Davis

 

i couldn't decide between jermaine o'neal and davis... jermaine's knees scare me moreso than baron's , though

[Tracer Bullet]

IMB is keeping Wade, AI and Kidd, he just pm'd me.

[Vanilla Ice]

Am I getting Truffle's team? If so, I'll keep Garnett, Ming, and Carter

 

If I am getting Wolf's team, I'll keep Arenas, Bosh and Iguodala (couldn't decide between him and Mcgrady)

 

If I get first choice I will take Truffle's team

[Tracer Bullet]

Alright, we'll just have the 2 new guys pick either Wolf's or Truffle's team.

 

PlayPie - pick a number between 1 & 10 to decide who gets to pick a team first. cheapseats picked 5, so pick a different number.

 

Everyone - let's schedule an online draft, since this is taking forever. I propose Sunday, during the afternoon (I'm pretty flexible). Please remember that early Sunday morning is daylight savings, so remember that for the draft.

 

Does 2:30 EDT work for everyone?

[cheapseats]

 

Does 2:30 EDT work for everyone?

 

It should.

[Mark_R]

How about like 6:30? It gives people time to finish watching NE/Indy and those of us who work to get home in time...

[Tracer Bullet]

How about like 6:30? It gives people time to finish watching NE/Indy and those of us who work to get home in time...

 

Sunday evening doesn't work. I can do just about any time from 11 EDT to 4 EDT (I mean, the draft starts between one of those times).

Edited November 2, 2007 by yanrslatr

[Vanilla Ice]

Alright, we'll just have the 2 new guys pick either Wolf's or Truffle's team.

 

PlayPie - pick a number between 1 & 10 to decide who gets to pick a team first. cheapseats picked 5, so pick a different number.

 

Everyone - let's schedule an online draft, since this is taking forever. I propose Sunday, during the afternoon (I'm pretty flexible). Please remember that early Sunday morning is daylight savings, so remember that for the draft.

 

Does 2:30 EDT work for everyone?

 

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[Tracer Bullet]

Number was 10 - Play Pie wins. You get Truffle's team.

 

cheapseats - pick your 3 "keepers" from Wolf's team please.

[Andy]

Sunday evenings are bad until 7:30 because I host a radio show from 6-7. I can do prerankings if post-7:30 doesn't work for people though.

[cheapseats]

I'll keep Arenas, Camby, McGrady.

[Tracer Bullet]

Sunday evenings are bad until 7:30 because I host a radio show from 6-7. I can do prerankings if post-7:30 doesn't work for people though.

 

I just checked Y! If we want the draft Sunday, it has to be at 10 am EDT. Otherwise, we can do basically anytime any day after that. Apparently all other times this weekend are booked.

 

10 am/9 am on Sunday work? I'd really like to get this thing done before we get another week into the season.

[Mark_R]

That's fine, I'll do a pre-rank. However, how will it work with all the guys who have been tabbed as keepers? Will yahoo allow you to pre-rank all the players who were not kept?

[Tracer Bullet]

That's fine, I'll do a pre-rank. However, how will it work with all the guys who have been tabbed as keepers? Will yahoo allow you to pre-rank all the players who were not kept?

 

I'd prefer for everyone to go into their pre-rankings and put every other team's keepers in the "Exclude Players" list. My understanding is players on the Exclude Players list won't be drafted at all by your team. Also make your keepers your top 3 picks in your list of My Players. So the real draft won't start until Round 4. If someone forgets and doesn't do that, I have the ability to edit rosters, but it's going to throw off that team's draft (any maybe other team's drafts).

 

Another option is to do a draft "online" but not on Y! (via email or nsbb at a designated time). I can then enter the results of the draft on Y!. But that's going to be difficult to do as I can't do a draft during evenings/nights and I imagine most people can't commit to doing a draft during the day Monday through Friday. So that leaves us this Sunday morning/afternoon as the earliest time and some probably can't make it then either.

 

I'm open to other ideas, but I'd like to get this thing done ASAP.

[Tracer Bullet]

Excluded players:

 

Here's the list of excluded players. Please make each of these guys (except your team's 3 keepers) "Excluded" in Y!, so that you don't draft them if for whatever reason you can't make the draft.

 

Kevin Garnett

Gilbert Arenas

Kobe Bryant

Shawn Marion

Dirk Nowitzki

Steve Nash

Jason Kidd

Yao Ming

Dwyane Wade

Chris Paul

Amare Stoudemire

Tim Duncan

Josh Smith

Marcus Camby

Paul Pierce

Allen Iverson

Tracy McGrady

Dwight Howard

Baron Davis

Luol Deng

Vince Carter

LeBron James

Pau Gasol

Al Jefferson

[cheapseats]

Sunday evenings are bad until 7:30 because I host a radio show from 6-7. I can do prerankings if post-7:30 doesn't work for people though.

 

I just checked Y! If we want the draft Sunday, it has to be at 10 am EDT. Otherwise, we can do basically anytime any day after that. Apparently all other times this weekend are booked.

 

10 am/9 am on Sunday work? I'd really like to get this thing done before we get another week into the season.

 

Definitely can't do that time on Sunday morning, but I can prerank.

[Vanilla Ice]

Sunday evenings are bad until 7:30 because I host a radio show from 6-7. I can do prerankings if post-7:30 doesn't work for people though.

 

I just checked Y! If we want the draft Sunday, it has to be at 10 am EDT. Otherwise, we can do basically anytime any day after that. Apparently all other times this weekend are booked.

 

10 am/9 am on Sunday work? I'd really like to get this thing done before we get another week into the season.

 

Definitely can't do that time on Sunday morning, but I can prerank.

 

I cannot either, and I am heading out of town on short notice (like right now), so I can not pre-rank

[Tracer Bullet]

Play Pie was able to prerank this morning, but I had already changed the draft time last night. I've sent a few emails to the league trying to keep everyone up to date on the draft, but I haven't seen any responses, either here, via email or on the message board at the Y! page.

 

Can everyone who's in this league let me know if Monday afternoon works at all. At some point, I'm just going to schedule the darn draft and we'll just have to go with it. But if 2:00 Eastern Monday is bad for everyone, I'll try rescheduling again.

[Vanilla Ice]

I can't do it either, but I have already pre-ranked so, It's fine for me.

[Mark_R]

Monday afternoon isn't good for me. But I have about 50 pre-ranks with exclusions done.

[Tracer Bullet]

Can others let me know if this time works for them. Most of you have been pretty quiet, so I don't know if I'm to assume the time works, it doesn't, or you just don't care. I don't really want to have a "life draft" if I'm the only one that shows up.