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Day 170 of 170: The World Ends

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Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Indiana Pacers
Posted on: April 17th, 2008

It’s actually kind of appropriate I guess, that I was reading this story about the world being torn asunder when I was pinged about today being 170 (or rather yesterday being 170, and today being the day recapping 170).

Line of the Night: Mike Dunleavy Jr. with a world-ending 6.04. See, this is the kind of crap that happens when the fantasy playoffs go until the end of the regular season. Not to down MDJ, but Ramon Sessions was #4 last night. Is he really going to average 18 assists a game next season?

You will be seeing a petition here soon (maybe) for the standardization of fantasy basketball, and I hope that you will help me in refining it to get everything just right so we can send it to the Yahoo’s at Yahoo who won’t let you change the end of the season for your fantasy leagues.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Um, it’s over dude. There’s no more waiver wire.

The Biggest Loser: I’d be tempted to say the Miami Heat, but really, they’re going to get a good draft pick and hopefully have a healthy D-Wade and Shawn Marion next season, so things aren’t all that bad. Really, I guess it goes to the Warriors whose 48 wins would have put them at the number 4 seed in the Eastern Conference (not to mention that in the East, they probably would have won more than 48 games).

Yeah, I know I need to do some sort of season recap, and even though I don’t feel like it right now, this is pretty much the only chance I will get to talk about it, so here goes…

GMTR Readers League: Champion: I Heart Chris Paul, managed by Patrick of GMTR. Patrick won the Championship by a single turnover because he is the awesomest manager there is. Interesting to wonder what would have happened if it had ended up a tie…

DroppingDimes Experts League: Champion: GiveMeTheRock – Nels, managed by Nels of GMTR. No offense to most of the people in the league, but this one actually seemed less competitive than the GMTR Readers League. But, I always say (or have been known to say at least once) people who love basketball and people who are good at fantasy basketball are not necessarily the same people. I can’t gloat much really, though, because I finished 9th in the Readers League. I was also 10th in another league, and I can’t even figure out what in another league because NBA.com’s playoff bracket doesn’t work, but I was probably 10th there too.

Reader S. Bibby sent this to prove that it truly is the end of the world as we know it.

Chad’s Nuggets

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  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    That is the greatest picture in the history of the world. No debate.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    And props to the GMTR Readers League and everyone who played. As I think I mentioned before, that was probably the most competitive league I have ever been a part of, which must mean we have some kick ass readers. Congrats to the league runner-up, The Scrantons, who put up a hell of a fight in the finals. In the end, the power of Mikki Moore and his 9 turnovers was too much for any team to compete with.

    And forever I now get to say that I crawled to a championship despite having Mikki Moore as my starting center. Not a bad deal.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    I’m pretty sure it was really Chris Paul and his Assist-to-Turnover ratio of Infinity that won it for you. I mean, when you have only 15 turnovers and Infinity Assists, you’ve pretty much got 2 categories locked up right there, no matter what kind of damage Mikki Moore does.

    Maybe we should have a poll for best starting C tandem. Cause you had Mehmet Okur in there with Moore, while I was starting Nick Collison and Al Horford for the entire year in the DroppingDimes League.

  • http://givemetherock.com seanlb

    i’m so happy about that picture. i keep chad in my heart at all times.

    major major props to nels and patty (and rachel?) for keeping it real over the last 170 days.

  • Bonafide

    Good season guys, hope to join again next year! have a good off season!

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    Off season? There is no off season!

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    @ Nels, at least Nick Collison and Al Horford are serviceable centers. I’ll have to check… yep, Moore finished the week with more turnovers (9) then assists (6), steals (1) and blocks (1) combined. Combined! But you are right, I did have the force of Chris Paul on my side, and he (as well as Jason Richardson, surprisingly) were able to counteract the suckiness of Mikki Moore and then some.