Right, looks like the auto-week close hit, so we can continue the draft here!!
N.B IT’S YOUR PICK IN THE 20TH ROUND SCSS
TS Trading Games Supercoach League
Posted by anthak on January 26th, 2012
I was asked to do this writeup way back on August 30th, and I have always had it in the back of my mind that I would have to get it done by the end of January at the latest – As the new season of Supercoach will open on Feb 1st and we will lose all the data from the 2011 season. So here it is… I have left it until pretty late, but better late than never they say, yeah? The first idea was to do it during the final week of Supercoach, but I did not feel comfortable with that as we were celebrating the seasons of Impromptu, Yamum and Shagga at that time, so I thought it a bit inappropriate to join in on that… but Walesy, myself and others involved do believe that this was a really interesting exercise and definitely worthy of its own writeup.
Leading up to last footy season, it was proposed by eckie that we set up a TS Supercoach league where everyone starts with the same side, so that we can level the playing field and see who reigns supreme by doing best trades etc. We got 16 interested people very quickly and we set about organising the rules and starting team.
The basic/main rule was that we all had to have the same 33 players for round 1. Three league members gave proposals of a starting team and we had a vote for which one we went with, with the winner being the following team that was proposed by LiQuiD_SiXx:
Quote from LiQuiD_SiXx on March 16, 2011, 21:00
Backs: Goddard, Gibbs, Deledio, H.Shaw, Grimes, Otten, Heppell (Duigan, Toy, Lower)
Mids: Swan, Judd, Montagna, D.Swallow, Conca, Harris (Hibberd, Pittard, Bewick)
Rucks: Sandilands, Cox (Z.Smith, Keeffe)
Fwds: N.Riewoldt, Franklin, Rioli, Goodes, Sylvia, A.Krakouer, Prestia (Matera, Richardson, Darling)
$5400 in the bank
Now, over the break you’ll be able to find how the season panned out:::::::
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Wednesday night NBL
Posted by anthak on January 25th, 2012
Thanks to Stowie for the reminder, in last weeks thread, that there is an NBL game tonight. The 36ers are travelling to Townsville for this midweek game against the Crocs, and it kicks of a run of 4 games in 11 days for Townsville, which is nowhere near as hectic as what we are seeing in the NBA at the moment, but its pretty full on for the NBL – especially considering there’s a trip over to Perth in amongst it for them. But it is a good prompter to get a couple of Crocs into your Dreamteams with your two trades this week. I have made my two trades this week and now have both the Ceder boys, as well as big Elvin Mims as my Round 17 captain.
Looking at our TS league, our best performer is still Parasite, who is sitting within the top 30 still. Underachievers is now our only other league member in the top 100, and our league ranking has dropped right back to 16th of 464, but we are carrying a couple of teams that dont seem to be setting their rosters week to week.
Join me over the break for our recent results, the current H2H ladder and the Round 17 schedule,
****** and remember that lockout is at 8:30pm AEDT tonight!!!
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TS Fantasy NBA
Posted by anthak on January 25th, 2012
Matchup 4 finished Monday as usual, and matchup 5 is already under way. After 4 games, we still have 5 teams that are undefeated and 5 teams still waiting for their first success. Out of all 36 teams, Heaver has scored the most points so far averaging 1664 per week, followed closely by fez and minis – in that order. Rodgo took over Sainters team at the end of last week and has made a few changes to the team and he should start to see the rewards soon. He was up against Steve this week and I need to fill you all in on a little back story that will help you when reading Steve’s Div2 review later. After I sent an email to the emergencies to see if they were hypothetically interested in taking over Sainter’s team, I sent the email to the Div2 LMs to show what was in it, but I added a line that I had not actually sent to the emergencies that read: “And you will have the easiest game of the season in matchup 4 if you decide to take over this team.” 
But Steve had the last laugh with a W against the newly named Nahla Vs LittleDee.
Also want to point out that voting for the NBA All Star game closes in about a week, and you can place votes once a day. I reckon we should all be on there voting for Bogut each day… and maybe even Kyrie Irving?? What are your thoughts? If you want to place your vote, head over here and follow the steps.
Only 1 team broke the 1700 barrier this week and that was smokinjoemisiti with his team – SmokinJoe Misiti in Div2 – scoring a massive 1778, which was close to 100 points better than the next best, and almost 150 better than the next. The lowest score for this week was 968 by CK Nicks in Div1, coached by Costak, who copped a few injuries – none bigger than Derrick Rose. We had a very tight game in Premier Division this week with Kings of Karlos (coached by karlos and lethal) beating Ruddy’s Cavaliers (coached by Ruddy) by just 5 points. And the highest scoring loser for Round 4 was easily Robert Sarver’s Handbag (coached by chris88 & Smittys07) who have the honour for the 2nd time this season already. Their score of 1562 was actually the 5th highest score out of all 36 teams! Its been talked about at length in the comments, but its worth mentioning again that they have had terrible luck this season so far, as they are going well – points wise – being ranked 2nd on the Premier League ‘points for’ ladder, but giving up the most points against – 480 more than 2nd – which has unfortunately translated to just the 1 win thus far. But its surely gotta change sooner or later if the high scores keep rolling in, so keep up the good work guys.
Now, same as usual, over the break will be the review for each individual league. I will write the Premier League review, Steve the Division 1 review and smokinjoemisiti will write the review for Division 2:::::::
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Outer Regional Fantasy Football League (Part two)
Posted by Hornsy on January 23rd, 2012
Right, looks like the auto-week close hit, so we can continue the draft here!!
N.B IT’S YOUR PICK IN THE 20TH ROUND SCSS
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Splitting the Season
Posted by walesy on January 19th, 2012
One interesting this I like to do at this time of the season, is to look back at last year and get a quick refresher on exactly who dominated on the road home – Was there a role change? An injury which helped them out, or perhaps they managed to improve their game naturally?
Regardless, over the break, I’ve taken a closer look at the top 20 players who improved their averages in the second half of last season over the first (Only taking into account guys who played 5 games min in both halves of the season)
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TS Fantasy NBL
Posted by anthak on January 19th, 2012
OK, I stuffed up last week and never got around to writing the post… and if i dont do a quick one tonight, I may end up in the same situation this week as I’ve got a busy week this week again. So Im not gonna write much this week, but I will give updates of our fantasy league over the break.
One thing I want to mention though, is the situation at the Tigers regarding the sacking of Ubaka. Did everyone hear about that? Full on! I read an article in the local paper over here in Perth about it, but if you want to read more about it, head over to Andthefoul.net where they have covered it and also the aftereffects here and here. Basically, the Tigers owner stormed into the dressing room after their last game and fired Ubaka on the spot while Gleeson was at a press conference and had no idea about.
And just before we head over the break, I also want to remind everyone that the lockout for NBL Dreamteam is tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:30 AEDT
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Training Report 18 Jan (GWS, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide)
Posted by walesy on January 18th, 2012
There’s 5 reports today, cause well, 2 of them are a bit of a no show!
I would love to hear the things that you guys are hearing- so drop in and leave us a comment!
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2012 Prospectus.
Posted by walesy on January 17th, 2012
Looks like the prospectus is arriving.
Well, not for me cause I’m in the office, but for others. Fingers are crossed that it’s sitting there when I get home though.
Regardless though, I reckon we need a place to discuss all the fun little tidbits that we find from that marvellous tome that is the Prospectus.
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TS Fantasy NBA
Posted by anthak on January 17th, 2012
Now that Dwight Howard has scored 94 in a game and is officially off the table according to Dabombers, I can be a bit more open about my thoughts about him. Truth is, I would have drafted him with pick #2 if I had’ve had it, but i didnt. I had pick #9 and I was really hoping that he would fall to there, but I realistically didnt think it was possible, so I threw out trade offers left right and centre trying to upgrade my first pick, including a last ditch attempt that tempted Dabombers to swap 1st round picks the day before the draft (there was also an upgrade of a 12th round to a 6th round in it for him – or something like that)… But i couldnt get a deal done, and then I had to stick to hoping and hurry up and wait for my 1st pick to come around. I was getting so nervous when Howard was still available with only Dabombers to pick before me – and then the rest is obvious… he was snapped up and I missed him. Before the season, I actually thought Howard could have ended up our highest scoring player this season, but I would never have taken that risk in the draft if I had #1 pick. I do not think that anymore, as LeBron has started off brilliantly; and Howard has been a little slow out of the blocks… But I still reckon Howard will be one of the top 3 players come the end of the season. Ever since the day after the draft, I have been proposing trades to Dabombers to try and get him, and I even sent a solidarity email to Crossy who drafted Howard at #3 in Div1. Even though I think we may have been relatively close at times, I dont think we ever really got close in Dabombers’ mind as he obviously rated Howard really highly as well. A lot hinges on his FT shooting – if he can manage to improve it a bit, then he will easily be the best under our scoring… But thats a BIG if. There are rumours every pre season that Howard has been working on his FT shooting and he is improving, but it never actually pans out that way. As it stands, under our scoring this year, he currently has the 7th best average in the league. The top 10 are as follows: LeBron James 64.7, Kevin Love 56.7, Kyle Lowry 53.3, Kobe Bryant 53, Chris Paul 51.7, Kevin Durant 49.8, Dwight Howard 49.1, Derrick Rose 48.3, Marc Gasol 45 & Carmelo Anthony 44.9. So the much maligned LeBron James is by far and away the best so far this season under our scoring, Love is also keeping up a healthy average; but there is not much really between Lowry at 3 and Rose who is 8th. While Im discussing the scoring, FWIW, I reckon its much better this year than last.
We have now completed 3 rounds of our fantasy leagues and there are only 6 teams out of the 36 that are still undefeated, and there are also 6 teams still waiting for their first win. Team HEAVER! coached by none other than Heaver himself, scored the highest score of the round with a massive 1782 in Premier division – and to put that into perspective, there were only 5 teams that scored over 1600. The Lowest score was by Hawthorn OKC Magic coached by Cobra_Magic in Division 2 with just 979 and he was absolutely thumped by one of only 3 teams that scored 1700+. Sorry to rub it in mate, but that is a news worthy margin! The smallest margin was in Premier League between ant hak (anthak) and Westside Hardcore (mick) with the difference just 45 points. While the title of highest scoring loser this week went to The Bucks Fizz coached by spm67 in Division 1 with a score of 1519 – which only just topped the 1512 posted in a Premier League loss by Jasmine’s Mob (Jasmine) against last weeks highest scoring loser.
Now, once again, over the break will be the review for each individual league. I will write the Premier League review, Steve the Division 1 review and smokinjoemisiti will write the review for Division 2:::::::
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Training Report 16 Jan (Essendon, Fremantle, Geelong, Gold Coast)
Posted by walesy on January 16th, 2012
My my, the NAB cup just keeps getting closer, doesn’t it!
But until then, let’s keep looking around the training reports to see what we can gleen.
Up today is the Bombers, who have been doing their darndest to keep info inside the club, Fremantle, who for mine will be very fantasy relevant this year, Geelong who’s first open session will be in a few days, and the GC boys who were oh so delicious last year.
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