I’m interested (and clueless when it comes to fantasy sports), but I am concerned the impact the fantasy angle will have on the blog and the postings that show up on it. If it’s added postings, great. If it’s going to take away from the posts that we’ve all grown to love, then I’m highly tentative.

That said, I’m in.

Since I kept my opinions about how we should do this out of the post above, I thought I’d share ‘em here. As a few others suggested in previous posts, I’d prefer that we do head-to-head play in a Yahoo league…

@Aaron:
It’d be totally independent of DBB, managed on a different website (yahoo, nba.com, etc), and from my understanding it wouldn’t effect any of the content on this blog.

It’s a great idea. Unfortunately I’m already in a couple leagues and if I want to still have my job by the end of the season I need to avoid joining another one. Next year I’ll be in though.

in. head-to-head, don’t care what site.

last year, we had a dbb league and it was not at all commented upon on dbb itself. it will not detract from the “is kwame a bum” or “is amir the second coming of kevin garnett” arguments. guaranteed.

we’re going to do a live draft right?

@JD: I’d like to try to coordinate a live draft, but it’ll be tough guaranteeing everyone can show up at the same time. We’ll see after we’ve gathered a general consensus here on this thread.

I’d be interested. I prefer yahoo and roto, but neither are dealbreakers.

Thank God McGrady isn’t a Piston.

In again, but would prefer espn/yahoo to nba.com.

I played in the NBA.com league last year (which was kind of whacked and I’m not saying that just because my team sucked), I’d play this year, I like Yahoo roto style (head-to-head is too intense I think). Yahoo is very easy to use, especially with free private leagues.

I’m in the Need4Sheed league too and that is TOTALLY WHACKED. There are like a million settings. I’m the GM of the Celtics in that league. I’ve pretty much traded everybody but Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo. But it’s kind of cool. Definitely unique with the GM & agent angles.

Would love to be in, don’t normally comment but I do own a ginobili shirt.

Will say that if you use a roto league, I think a position cap would be nice so that there wouldn’t be too much streaming.

I’d be down & would like to give ESPN’s fantasy league a try. I’m currently a Yahoo guy but have heard good things about ESPN’s fantasy settings. One in particular is that ESPN gives free stat tracker, which basically gives a live update of player stats. Yahoo does not.

User Preference: 1.ESPN 2.Yahoo
Format preference: Roto

@Craig: I’m joining every league your in this year for the sake besting every fantasy team you pretend to manage.

I’m in, and I’m down with head to head and Yahoo. And unlike last year, I promise to stay active all year long.

I would play, but suggest something other than Yahoo to organize. They don’t do live updates without charging, which I think is wack!

Q Dog

PS: I went to the first Blazers pre-season game last night. Two R.O.Y. candidates!

definately I am a fan of fantasy sports it keeps an active interest in sports when your teams suck (i.e. The lions). My vote would be ESPN.

By “pretend”, i assume that you’re referring to my dbb team last year, where i drafted agent 0, then puked in my mouth when he went down for the season? Or is it the yahoo roto that i took last year? hmmmm.

I’m in. I usually play yahoo but have never played roto. Usually its just points but I’m fine with head to head or roto.

And I guess I cant pick Amir late in this league. He’ll be gone by the 3rd round :P

Last year was fun but the style of the league was something I’ve never played before, (I think it was roto). And I really didn’t like the service NBA.com provided either and if I’m not mistaken, their draft was really funky.

If I had to choose a service provider, it would have to be yahoo.com, in a head-to-head league.

And if you haven’t notice, I am interested.

i’d be in. yahoo would be preferred.

I’m in, prefer yahoo and roto. Yahoo is less strong a preference, roto is a stronger preference…

Also, can we include that Celtics fan who got into flame wars with LB?

“I’m interested (and clueless when it comes to fantasy sports), but I am concerned the impact the fantasy angle will have on the blog and the postings that show up on it. If it’s added postings, great. If it’s going to take away from the posts that we’ve all grown to love, then I’m highly tentative”

I don’t ever remember anyone talking about the Fantasy League last year, through the course of the entire season. It might of been mentioned once or twice (beginning and end) and that’s it.

I’m in.

H2H

Prefer ESPN. Yahoo charges for live-stat updates, and Sportsline can be glitchy. I can’t imagine anyone wants to relive the nba.com fiasco.

Just a note. If you want to be the commish, you should find a draft time very soon. Otherwise we’ll be drafting at 4a EST, or sometime in the 4th week of the season.

Hey Kevin,
re: draft time— noted. I offered to take as much of the burden off of Matt as possible, so I’ll likely be setting up the league as commissioner. As soon as tomorrow, once we’ve been able to find a common consensus here and get an idea of interest, I’ll set up a league. Then we’ll work out a draft time. Hopefully we’ll find something that works for everybody, even our international pals.

I’d like to play but it sounds like there’s already a lot interested. What’s the max on participants? I’m in a Yahoo H2H league already and that would be my preference. I call dibs on Stuckey.

Hey Garrett,
Once we get a list of people interested in playing, then we’ll decide a final number. Who knows, maybe we’ll have to split this up into two separate leagues. I prefer playing H2H in groups of 10 with two guards, two forwards one center, one util and three bench (for a total of 9 players per team). But since we have a big group, that number is out of the question, unless we split it up. Who knows, we’ll see what happens…

(to clarify I didn’t mean playing in my other league is my preference, I just meant Yahoo H2H is my preference)

What’s the list up to now?
Mike Payne
Aaron
JackDutch
Something More Productive Like Roscoe
Craig
joejoejoe
Jason
DaveJ-AA
Matt Watson
QDog
TreyJ
Matt Gibson
Diablo
tedwick
Forty
kevin s.
Garrett

I’d love to get in on it too. Yahoo, head-to-head, and live draft are all what I prefer as well.

I’d love to try and get into a fantasy basketball league. Did one last year and did ok, but it wasn’t really meaningful enough to keep me all that interested, because I didn’t know anyone in the league with me. I’d say ESPN just because its free scoring and h2h or roto doesn’t make much of a difference to me.

I’d like to throw my hat into the ring. I vote for Yahoo, prefer H2H, and demand that everybody have a laugh-out-loud funny team name.

“demand that everybody have a laugh-out-loud funny team name.”

MateenCleavesAllStars09, good enough?

THE CHAMP IS HERE.
Last year’s returning champion humbly requests the opportunity to defend his crown.
I don’t care that much, but I’d prefer yahoo head to head as well. The NBA’s league kinda blows.
-Tiny

I haven’t posted much but I am a regular everyday reader of this site. Put my name down for the fantasy league if there’s still room please. I’ll play any type of league, but I do prefer the head-to-head match-ups.

wait, tiny is buddha’s fade away? i still have no understanding of how i lost to you. and yes, i’m still bitter.

seems like you’ve got a lot of names, mp. might have to split into 3 leagues. or even 4. it should be like divisions. we could even base it on geographic location! tight!

and then, hear me out, top 4 teams reseed and REDRAFT for nba playoffs to determine UBERDBBCHAMP.

Last year was my first taste of fantasy and I really liked it. It really keeps you interested in even the crappy teams (last year I had Marbury & Randolph). I wasn’t that impressed with NBA.com’s site but anything will work for me. “Sheed’s Baldspot v2.0”

I’d like to give it a shot. I think I’d be up for any of the options, but I guess I’d like it on espn rather than yahoo (boo for fees).

Yes Mr. Dutch,
I was team ‘Fade Buddha Fade’. I can see why you would want to forget. BURN! (Considering how many of these I play and how infrequently I win, I have to really milk it when I do.)
As for people who are worried about fees, you only have to pay fees to yahoo if you want to see live scoring. I’m cool with anything except for the NBA service. That weekly lineup crap is lame.
I say the more teams the better. Let’s have a mega-league with 30 teams. No wait, that’s too many. If we do that, a lot of the teams will be unwatchable. Maybe if we somehow regulate the dress code…

“THE CHAMP IS HERE.
Last year’s returning champion humbly requests the opportunity to defend his crown.”

O so you are one of the those guys who came out of no where and stole my number 1 spot? X-( I should of won last year, seriously. I had the lead for more than 3/4s of the season and then all of sudden, you and one or two more guys stole my spot.

If we have to split our DBB group into 2 or 3 leagues, I demand that I’m in the same league with last year’s guys. I want my redemption. :D

I’m down for some fantasy bball! Samb’s World!

I read DBB every day but I have never posted anything. I’d love to be in the fantasy league. Add me to the list if you can.

I’ve never played before, but I’d be down to play with the DBB crew.

any news on the fantasy league?