Archive for the 'GMTR Leagues' Category

Day 113 of 124: Two Out of Three Ain’t Too Bad

If you’ve just started your championship week, good luck! Fantasy basketball season is officially over, well at least for those who participated in GMTR leagues. If your fantasy league’s playoffs also ended last night, and you won (or at least placed) then celebrate as well. Give yourselves a pat on the back for a fantasy season [...]

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

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, [...]

Day 160 of 170: Written in the Stars

With 3 critical Championship match-ups on the line last night, I did what any hardcore fantasy hoops aficionado would do… I watched Wrestlemania 27!  Didn’t everyone? We are Give Me THE ROCK, after all, right? Yeah, corny, I know. What are you gonna do about it, choke slam me? Alas, it wasn’t written in the [...]

Get Your Wall Street On

I enjoy a well executed fantasy basketball draft as much as the average bloke. Unfortunately, I’m a tinkerer at heart. I’m in a constant state of wanting to form a better team. I guess that’s why some co-managers sometimes misunderstand the moves I make as “streaming.” While I actually do stream at times, more often [...]

Save Me from Myself: The CBS 30-Man

For the fourth year in a row, I’ve been invited back to suffer pain and humiliation at the hands of the CBS 30-Man League. It’s an expert’s league that consists of (you guessed it) 30 teams, most of them run by people who make a living taking about basketball. After a fairly successfully first season [...]