Since it’s been pointed out in the comments already (although, I first got the notice the morning from my Google Alert), Yahoo is now open for fantasy basketball business. And as such, now would be a great time to announce the GMTR Reader’s League 2008.

Here’s how this will work: if you want to be in the Readers’ League, please either leave a comment or email with your suggestion as to what sort of contest we should have to pick the people to be in the league. That’s right, the best we could come up with was a contest where you tell us what the contest should have been. Maybe we’ll use your idea next year. For the actual decision-making part, the most innovative and/or humorous ideas will move to the head of the class. People were way too serious about the last contest, so try to spice it up as much as possible this time.

As a side note, Patrick has offered himself up to be in 2 leagues if there is enough interest, so don’t worry, you probably have pretty good odds of getting in to one or the other, and since Patrick will be in both of them you’ll have a chance to beat him either way.

As you know, last year’s Readers’ League was pretty much the most competitive from end-to-end that both Patrick and I have ever participated in (of course, we don’t usually leagues with money at stake, so maybe that explains that). Anyway, Patrick suggested that, if there were sufficient interest, we take the cutthroatedness to a whole new level, and have a really, really big league. Like, 20+ teams big. Yahoo will let you have up to 30, so don’t think we’re kidding around here. If you’d be interested in the Ginormous Massive Tremendous Redonkulous Reader’s League, please add that to your comment or email. It would still likely be 9-category H2H, if that makes a difference to anyone.

Finally, just to be clear, you can be in both a normal Readers’ League and the BIGOL Reader’s League, so don’t let your desire to just play some standard fantasy basketball get in the way of also trying something new and different (and probably legally insane).