Give Me The Rock
this is fantasy basketball
Not everything works out as planned. Sisqo planned to be a pertinent part of the rap game for more than one week, Pee Wee Herman did not plan on anyone busting in on his “party” and you thought just drafting Yao Ming would be enough to make you competitive for the league lead in Field Goal Percentile.
So right now you are sitting in the middle of the FG% war when you thought you had taken care of it on draft day. Well, the best way to work out of this situation is through trade. You have to pick someone who is resting comfortably ahead of you and try to bring them down. Some of the general concepts of inseason FG% games…
1. Trade away low FG% for high FG%. The most simple concept, remember, trading KG .479 for Lebron .481 does not do alot for your field goal percentage. It does help because Lebron takes close to 200 more shots than KG, but it won’t affect your percentile enough to outweigh having Jamal Crawford or Mike Bibby.
2. Determine the mean FG% in your league and aim to destroy that number with your new acquisitions. Here are the numbers from some leagues to give you some ideas.
First, the last league is my friend’s league. I asked him to screenshot the page and send it to me. Included in the screenshot was his winamp window… and well look at what was playing, conversely to his John Mayer, I put up what I was listening to. By the way, anyone else feel that John Mayer is just going to dump Jessica Simpson in a few months to cause drama in his life and give impetus to write a new album? I can’t blame him, I think after awhile I would do the same thing just so I could brag that I dumped Jessica Simpson, either way expect a song entitled “You Are To Dumb For My Heart” or “Your Plastic Don’t Fit My Mold.” Something awful like that.
3. Aim high. Sure Carmello is having a career year at .477 and Kobe is taking “quality shots” shooting .461. But, these percentiles are not enough to make a point gaining jump in your numbers.
If you are below the league mean, then you can obviously see how adding a Kobe or a Lebron helps alot, but you recognize that if they were capable of pulling the team up to their season FG% you would still not challenge for the top 2 or 3 spots in the category.
Essentially, it is necessary to aim for players with FG%’s over .500 that have taken at least 650 shots so far this year.
4. Break the mold, trade Big for Small. The classic conception is that big players have better field goal percentage than small players. Thus, you have to move big for small to see increases… not true.
The league is a melting pot and there are guards and forwards that have high field goal percents. Inversely, there are also bigs with low FG%’s. Some anomalies you should eye.
Smalls (Relatively)
Luol Deng – .521
Tony Parker – .518
Shawn Marion – .516
Kevin Martin – .496
Bigs
Zach Randolph – .464
Jermaine O’Neal – .447
Al Harrington – .450
Mehmet Okur – .457
5. From this point on in the season you have about .008 percentile points to move at most. In some leagues .008 percentile points can gain you up to 5 points. Make the most of this change by giving discount prices on players to someone slightly above you in the FG%. Are you in fourth place? Good find someone in the top three within your point grasp and start giving them some discount rates. Sure Elton Brand or Carlos Boozer are not comparable tender for Gilbert Arenas, but they are when you can gain 5 points and bring one of your opponents down in points.
6. Finally, always remember that players that shoot more affect your percentiles more. Taking Gilbert Arenas kills your FG% because his .419% comes with a league leading 1,289 shot attempts. Here is a list to show you the top 25 players in FGA matched with their FG%. This is as good as it gets when trading for FG%.
Yea, pretty much I just told you to trade Gilbert Arenas. Hey, the Wizards are running all 12 men every night now, if you need more encouragement.
Actually, this is all under the assumption that you are not playing Viva Pinata all day. *looks at Nels*
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