NBA.com will be be putting us out of business in 5, 4, 3, 2 and…

Categorized as: DroppingDimes 06, Fantasy Basketball, FantasyBasketball.com, GMTR Leagues
Posted on: September 8th, 2006

This update on the Premier Fantasy League doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m not getting in. I might have a better chance than some uncreative Australians.

And according to this one NBA.com will have 3 updates a day regarding fantasy basketball (as opposed to only 1 last season). I think that might be in addition to the daily matchup analysis. It sounds like they’ve concocted some pretty good fantasy tools over there as well. Perfect for the stat freak in all of us.

And in the interest of full disclosure, there is now another site that is competing directly with GMTR (in more than one way), run by some guys I worked with at FantasyBasketball.com last season, called Dropping Dimes. There is a request in the comments to provide updates about how the league is going on the site (presumably their site, but I’ll do it here to give my perspective). That puts me at 2 leagues so far. The other one, in case you’ve forgotten, is the Paris Hilton Sex Tape League over at the Kentucky Fried Basketball Association.

I usually like to limit my participation to 2 leagues per season, but I was chatting with a friend this past weekend who mentioned that he’s doing a “loser league” in fantasy football. This basically consists of trying to pick the worst players that actually play possible. I’m working on a fantasy basketball scoring system for that, and so far my Top 20 look like this (the rankings are their “actual” fantasy rankings from last season):

(183) Antonio Mcdyess
(124) Donyell Marshall
(188) Eddie House
(264) Maurice Evans
(278) Sasha Vujacic
(260) Carlos Arroyo
(232) Damon Jones
(241) Jarrett Jack
(279) Orien Green
(283) Dan Gadzuric
(325) Jacque Vaughn
(215) Marvin Williams
(327) Michael Ruffin
(155) Matt Bonner
(246) Matt Carroll
(330) Brian Scalabrine
(107) Speedy Claxton
(220) Damien Wilkins
(207) Brent Barry
(274) Devin Brown

Would anyone else be interested in trying to pick the most inefficient players in the league for some fantasy basketball madness? By madness, of course, I mean innovation. I mean, how much fun would it be to sit there at the bar next to a guy who’s going “Yesss!” every time LeBron makes a bucket, while going “Yesss!” every time Donyell Marshall misses another three?

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