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Archive for April, 2011

The Fantasy Basketball Year In Review

Posted by Patrick on April 30th, 2011 filed in Author: Erik, Author: Nels, Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball

It may be a couple weeks post due, but we’re wrapping up the basketball season by handing out some fantasy awards. Erik and I went over most of our lists in the last podcast, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to elaborate more on my picks and get Nels to participate as well. At [...]

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I’m an Expert: At Badly Mismanaging Fantasy Basketball Drafts

Posted by Patrick on April 26th, 2011 filed in Author: Patrick, GMTR Leagues

Both Erik and I participated in The Basketball Jones Fantasy Experts’ league this season. The league was commished by Dennis Velasco, who writes a weekly column called The Fantasy Jump Off for the Basketball Jones (or TFJO on TBJ for those of you into acronyms). The league featured writers from ESPN, SI, Yahoo!, SLAM, Dime, [...]

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GMTR Podcast #22: Fantasy Basketball Recap of the Year Spectacular

Posted by Patrick on April 20th, 2011 filed in Author: Erik, Author: Patrick, Podcast

Erik and Patrick wrap up the fantasy basketball season by (what else) handing out some make believe season awards: MVP, ROY, Breakout of the Year, Disappointment of the Year and an bunch of other stuff. We also briefly discuss how our personal fantasy teams this year and the big revelation is that Erik joins fantasy [...]

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Day 171 of 170: Going Through the Motions

Posted by Patrick on April 14th, 2011 filed in Author: Patrick

Alternative Title: We Haz Math Skillz That’s it. El Final. El Fin. O Fim. La Fine. Das Ende. The NBA regular season is over my friends. We are done with fantasy basketball (other than playoff fantasy basketball). We are done with these daily posts (which we love, but are a slog after 170… wait, 171 [...]

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Day 170 of 170: We’re Only Off By One

Posted by Nels on April 13th, 2011 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, LA Lakers

With (according to a slight miscount on our part) the season officially over, I was considering just writing this post last night when I’d had a couple of beers in me, but I figured I would not be able to adequately and accurately make use of the Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement meme. [...]

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Day 169 of 170: Cattle Call

Posted by Patrick on April 12th, 2011 filed in Author: Patrick

Line of the Night: Congratulations if you got yourself a piece of Jared Dudley (2.31) over these last few weeks of the season. With Vince Carter relegated to light duty off the bench (and out entirely last night) Dudley has been starting for Phoenix and has averaged nearly 16 points, 6 boards and 2.5 steals [...]

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