Fantasy Mailbox

Just a topic for fantasy questions to be answered.

Great.

I was going to great Fantasy Sports section, but it's obviously too late. We'll just keep it here.

What does Fantasy mean in connection with basketball?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_basketball

You could read all that on Wikipedia, but I'll sum it up for you. Basically there are 8-9 categories. Points, Rebounds, Assists, Blocks, Steals, FG %, FT %, 3 pointers made and sometimes turnovers. So you decide to play in a league. Leagues can have from 4-30 teams, 10-16 teams on average. You become the gm. Your league will have drafts, via live drafts or by email. Your goal is to draft the best all around players that fill up many categories and don't hurt you much in any categories. Shaq in his prime would be a very good fantasy asset, but because of the fact that he can single handily kill you in FT%, he is not a fantasy stud. Players that help you out in rare categories are. You have to factor out real life comparisons. Shaq or Josh Smith? In real life probably Shaq. In fantasy, Josh Smith. He helps you out in points, rebounds, not a bad passer, and helps you out a lot in two rare categories with steals and blocks.

Jason Kidd isn't too bad also. Guys like Marion, Garnett, LeBron, Kobe, Dirk all go in the top 10.

Thanks.

Do you play fantasy basketball? Is there a possibility to enter your game?

I think the yahoo fantasy basketball game is locked up now.

I don't think you can enter leagues and such now.

Yeah all the leagues are locked up now. Ill let you know when the next fantasy league starts. They usually start with the NBA season.

Here are the top fantasy players last year :

http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/Fantasy.jsp?league=00&season=22005&conf=OVERALL&position=0&splitType=0&splitScope=COMBINED&qualified=Y&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=0&sortOrder=9&statType=FSPI

I don't think this years is really accurate because of injuries.

For those of you who understand fantasy, I need some help. I'm current in a 12 team, 8 cat, roto league. After a couple of months of being in second due to injuries on my squad (Carlos Boozer, Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming), I was trailing first place by 1-2 points. Now T-Mac and Boozer are back and I am in first place by usually 1-2 points. Here are my categories and my rank :

Points - 1st (very comfortably)
Rebounds - 1st (comfortably)
Assists - 5th (not close to being 4th, not close to being 6th)
Steals - 2nd (not close to being 1st, not too far from being 3rd)
Blocks - 1st (semi-comfortable)
FG % - 6th (extremely close to being 5th)
FT % - 6th (semi-close to being 5th, semi-close to being 7th)
3PM - 3rd (semi-close to being 2nd)

Roster :

Point Guard Gilbert Arenas
Shooting Guard Josh Howard
Guard Tracy McGrady
Small Forward Ron Artest
Power Forward Carlos Boozer
Forward Chris Bosh
Forward Center Al Jefferson
Center Emeka Okafor
Utility Rafer Alston

Bench Steve Blake
Bench Raja Bell
Bench Speedy Claxton
Bench Alonzo Mourning
Bench Yao Ming (+)

My dilemma is the person in second is currently only one point back, and when Yao comes back he won't help me have any separation because he only helps in blocks, rebounds, and points where I am already first. I'm thinking he may help me in FG% and FT% but that would only add a couple points whereas I'm looking for at least 5 points separation from second. Any ideas?