Considering that he played six months of basketball last year without ever posting, I'd be happy with once. :p

Isn't the posting at least half the fun? Otherwise, why not just join a public league and play with strangers?

seriously, DB, I'm sure we'd all like to at least meet him. Maybe on draft day......

He's actually told me that he tried to register once to say hello, but his work computer has the message board blocked. With no computer at home - no opportunity to register. It was pretty difficult for him at times last year - my sis-in-law would get frustrated sometimes because my bro would drive all the way to work to change his team at 11 pm Sunday night.

Sounds like your brother and plaw would be best buddies.

I guess he doesn't leave his team all week then, like me?

I think he missed maybe one day at most last year, maybe none.

In baseball, where the teams play almost every day, it's not a total disaster if you don't change your team, unless you get stuck with a horrible pitcher.

But in basketball, teams usually don't play on consecutive days, so missing a day in salary cap can ruin your whole season.

What's good about the way the Yahoo game works is that the way it's set up, you don't really have to worry about missed days until the end.

See, the season lasts about 180 days, but with a maximum of 82 games at each position, if one of your players is off on a given night.....

Never mind. Just read the previous posts. If you have any questions, DB will be happy to answer them.

I just realized I have a class at the time of the draft. Is there anyway we can change it?

Late class, huh DMC.

What classes are you taking these days?

yeah it's 6:40 to 8:00pm I work part time from 9-1 so I take afternoon classes. I prefer afternoon/night classes since their are way more adults than kids there.

I'm taking all gen-ed courses, calc (for the second time) cities in american history, religions of the western world (for diversity) and Astronomy (don't have to take Biology )

It wasn't clicking that the draft was on a thursday, I thought it was wednesday and I would be home in time.

Let's do it Wednesday then?

Better for me, too.... UNLESS the Yanks are playing Game 7 of the ALCS then y'all can go f-(ight it out) yourselves :p

Monday/Wednesday/Friday or the weekends are good for me. Tuesday/Thursday are not

They didn't have any evening hours available for Wed the 19th, so I changed it to:

Monday, October 17th, 7:00 PM Eastern

Hope that works for everyone. If not, lemme know ASAP; the dates and times for drafting seem to be filling up.

Thank you plaw

I really hope this new time is okay for everyone.

I don't understand how time slots "fill up" when there's no human intervention on Yahoo's part anyway. Trying to tell me their web servers can't handle it? Blah. It's not like it's ESPN we're talking about here!

Anyway - Yeah, it's good for me. If I play. :p

Plaw - If you look at the allowable stats, you can see there are options for "Field Goals Made (FGM)" and "Field Goals Attempted (FGA)". Same stats also for three pointers and free throws. You can use these similarly to the ESPN game to make higher field goal shooting percentage players more valuable.

Anyway, it's just a suggestion.

I saw that option, DB, when I first did the settings.

But they don't allow for a differentiation between attempts and misses.

So let's say we make FGAs a -1.

If a guy has a great night, and shoots, say, 14-20, his net points will be only +8, but under the ESPN scoring system he's +22

If a guy shoots 10-20, his net points will be zero, but in the ESPN game he would be +10.

If he shoots 9-20, his net points will be -2, while in the ESPN game he's still +7.

I guess if we assign -1 to a FGA and +3 to a made FG, and -1 to a FTA and +2 for a successful free throw, it would work out.

Whaddya think?

I guess what I'm saying is that we have field goals and free throws made and attempted in addition to the points, rebounds and other stats, not in replacement of those stats.

Is there anything wrong with the ESPN scoring system?

(PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK) - ((FGA - FGM) + (FTA - FTM) + TO)

In this formula, PTS = points scored, REB = total rebounds, AST = assists, STL = steals, BLK = blocked shots, FGA = field goals attempted, FGM = field goals made, FTA = free throws attempted, FTM = free throws made and TO = turnovers.

1 point each for pts, reb, ast, stl, block, FGM, and FTM
-1 point each for FGA, FTA and TO

You're right, DB. I was being dense.

If we make points scored +1 each, FGAs & FTAs -1 each, and FGs and FTs made +1 each, we'll wind up with the same scoring as ESPN, right?

(plus the +1 for RBs, assists, and steals, and the -1 for TOs)

You add in +1 for blocks above and we're at ESPN scoring.

Right, blocks. I knew there was one I forgot.

OK, that's what I'm gonna do.

REMINDER:

Live Draft is this Monday, October 17th, at 7:00 PM

I modified the stat values so that a missed free throw or missed field goal is now a minus one point, and a made filed goal or free throw is plus one.

That, along with a plus one for each point scored, rebound, assist, steal, and block, along with a minus one for each turnover, should make the scoring system exactly the same as the one used in the ESPN Salary Cap game.

Also, I increased the bench size to 5 players.

With a maximum of 82 games at each position, this gives you the opportunity to have a bench player for each position (if you so choose) so that if one of your starters misses a game, you have a player on your bench at that position to make-up the game lost.

Remember, though (and this is a key point):

With a maximum of 82 games at each position, you generally do not want to use a bench player to fill in for a starter on a starter's day off.

Again, for example:

If one of your PGs is Jason Kidd, you presumably want to get all 82 games from him.

If you substitute for him every time the Nets have a day off, after 82 days or so into the season - a season which lasts about six months - (assuming your bench PG or PGs are playing on days when the Nets are off) you will have used all 82 games available at Kidd's position, but used Kidd himself in only the number of games the Nerts actually played during those first 82 days or so.

On the other hand, if Kidd is injured and misses a game, then the maximum number of games that you can get from him is now only 81, so at some point you want to substitute for him on a day the Nets are off so as to make sure that you get the full 82 games at his position.

I hope that's clear....I keep trying to come up with a simple way of explaining this, and this is the best I can do.

I'm assuming I have this right. DB, please correct me if I'm wrong or misleading in any way.

REMINDER:

Live draft is tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern

Also, one slight modification in the scoring system:

The separate category for 3 Pt FGAs & 3 Pt FGMs has been eliminated, as they are already counted once as part of the overall FGA/FFGM stats.

DMC - Get your ass in the draft - it's in 5 mins!

That was fast...37 minutes to pick 102 guys.

22 seconds per pick

Good draft guys... Good luck this season.

Should be fun. It was nice finally talking to your brother, DB.

Anyone want Marvin Williams? lol

Pretty soon, you guys will figure out I just made him up. :p

It's too bad though... He was looking forward to the draft. I bet it was a java problem.

Tell him to register here just to say hello.

Wait....I said that last year.

Next time he comes over to my place, I'll make him register.

That's what you said last year. :p