Saturday, April 21, 2007

Season Recap

Well, the 2006-07 fantasy basketball season has finally concluded. In what was probably the craziest year I can remember, I had the following finishes:

Standard 12 man public Yahoo! Roto League: 1st
Standard 12 man public Yahoo! Roto League: 1st
Private 8 man Yahoo! H2H League: 1st
Private 14 man Yahoo! H2H League: 2nd

Obviously, injuries totally marred this fantasy season from beginning to end. Rare was the player who didn't miss more than a game or two due to one malady or the other. Furthermore, the rampant tanking in the final few weeks of the season leads me to consider a solution to the problem. Clearly, fantasy basketball is in need of a similar system to what they use in fantasy football--that is, move the finals up one (or even two) week(s) in order to reduce the impact of tanking teams/playoff teams restings its stars. My 2nd place team had Terry, Billups, Camby, Garnett, and Redd, all of whom missed time in the final week for one of those two reasons.

I have a rather ambitious plan for the next few months. I plan on putting up a series of articles that guide you, step-by-step, through the process of building your own draft board via Excel spreadsheet. Hopefully I can help you learn a thing or two, and I am very keen to hear how my methods can be improved upon. Expect my first installment in a few days, with installments posted twice or three times a week.

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