Yeah, I'm really scared. :rolleyes:

You should be scared. As long as I can avoid the DNP's...

Shoot.

Tracy hurt me. He's had an injury, but he's been sort of on and off from what I can tell, so I gambled with him. When he's in, he's good. And, as luck would have it, Yao was great...and we still lost.

It's never good to tell others about an injury, they could always make the same mistake that you did
-plaw Jr.

If you could see me now, you'd be able to see me shaking. :rolleyes: :p

If you could see me now, you'd be able to see me shaking myself. :rolleyes: :p [/b][/quote]Don't you EVER take a break from that :p

Can you possibly twist my words around any more? :rolleyes:

But to answer your question - why would I want to shake myself less? :p

Shakin ye--

Wait, nevermind. Plaw said it already.

DM

SP :p

JG

PL

JL

GG

LZ

TM

PP Too soon to tell

DB

Whoops.

Well, it's not like it matters for me, anyway, right? I'm just a chick. :p

I was just trying to make conversation - this thread needs the spice that BBC had.

18 from Murphy and a NY loss

Sure it is, DM. Except you misspelled "Trish." It's spelled W-I-L-L-Y. :p

I don't friggin' believe this.....

I am .5 over the cap today

Three years of baseball - maybe 540 or so days - two years of basketball - another 360 or so - and that's the first time ever.

In fact, for any and all of us who have played either game in Gangster BB history - probably 7000 or more daily entires submitted, I remember this happening only twice. TWICE.

JG did it once in baseball two years ago I think, and SP did it once last year in basketball.

Well, I just spotted you guys about 100 points or so. So much for winning by "a lot". I guess I'll have to really start playing now, settle in for a long struggle, and winning by just a little.

Sure it is, DM. Except you misspelled "Trish." It's spelled W-I-L-L-Y. :p [/b][/quote]I never was a good speller


Plaw I can't believe that happened, I don't like the new setup on the homepage, if you are over the cap it just shows the cap in red rather than giving a big sign saying "YOU ARE OVER THE CAP"

Yikes, PL!

Well one thing I've noticed is that after playing BBC, the values on this are really hard to get used to because there's so little difference between player values. But then there can be so few of them actually playing on a particular day. So you start out thinking that you've got a LOT of room, and then one little thing puts you over the limit. And when you go to fix that, since there are fewer players, it's hard to even it out without sacrificing a lot of points.

How important is the coach, in regards to getting us points? And how are those points calculated? Is it just based on win/loss? I think I still have never gotten any points for my coach pick. :rolleyes:

You get 5 points if the "coach" wins.

You get 5 pts for a win, and 0 for a loss. That's it. It's up to you to determine how much salary you want to pay for 5 pts max.

Thanks guys, good to know, good to know.

Is he just on the list for sentimental reasons, or is there a chance he'll join us?

Gangster BB Fantasy Star Placed on Suicide Watch
plawrence Has Belts and Sneaker Laces Taken Away
By Neal Pulcawer

Gangster BB Fantasy Sports Star plawrence was placed on a suicide watch late this afternoon when it was found that his ESPN Fastbreak team for Sunday was .5 over the salary cap.

Mr. plawrence, who goes by one name as does rock star Prince, made the discovery Sunday afternoon when selecting his team for Monday.

plawrence, who has won two major championships in baseball and basketball as well as several minor ones in other fantasy games, was in fourth place in the Gangster BB league at the time of his costly error, but trailed leader DonMichaelCorleone by only 28 points at the time.

The popular ESPN game involves selecting a team of five NBA players and a coach each day. Players are assigned a salary cap value, and the aggregate total of each team may not exceed 100. In the event that their salary cap value exceeds 100, participants in the game earn no points that day.

Mr. plawrence was discovered seated at his computer, mumbling and dribbling, at approximately 5:00 PM Sunday just prior to making a mad dash for his 9th floor terrace and attempting to climb its railing.

After being forcibly restrained by an unidentified member of his household, he was placed in bed, tied down, and divested of his belt and sneaker laces. His neckties were also removed from his closet, and a vial of blue pills which he takes for an undisclosed medical condition were taken from his possession.

Mr. plawrence could not be reached for comment.

Well, since I know how much this game means to you, and you made an honest mistake, I'm willing to let your points count (minus the 5 coaching points that put you over the cap, if applicable). We both picked the same team today too, except I took the lowly Knicks to stay under the cap. If everyone else agrees, it's OK with me.

There is something a little strange about this Neal Pulcawer guy, so I decided to do some research.

I looked over all news reporters in the area and found this picture:

Awww! You're such a good guy, Lou.

Though I suppose anyone would be when their MWA is giving suicide threats...

If my opinion counts for anything, I think it's fine y'all count it. No use letting something stupid like cap value decide a close race. And I agree with DM - it's much harder to tell you're over in this game than in BBC with the huge alert.

You okay, Plaw?

If anyone should be talking suicide, it's me. I was a couple of
points away from winning a trip to Hawaii in "Best Balls", and blew it in the final week to go from #2 overall, to #37. The only bright spot is I'd rather finish #37, than #2. #2 would have REALLY SUCKED!

I appreciate the offer, but I must decline.

First of all, I doubt if anyone would be a sonuvabitch and not agree to it, even if they don't want to.

Second of all, it's really no different than missing a day. It's a mental error, and part of the game.

Third of all, I figured I'd win the first half by about 200 points, so while I'm certainly not saying that I don't care, I'm certainly not giving up, nor am I tremendously worried yet.

Finally, there have been a few instances in these games over the years when we discussed the possibility of making scoring decisions which were contrary to the "official" scoring of ESPN.

There was one case in the 2003-04 season, I believe, when ESPN failed to account for leap year's February 29th or something - I don't remember the details, but I'm sure you can find them in the old thread.

Anyway, I think that we had scores for that day, but ESPN ruled that they wouldn't count or something, and we had a whole discussion about whether they should or not.

I argued that they should, because we had them and the fact that ESPN wasn't counting them didn't mean that we shouldn't either.

I think I had high score that day, or second high score, but I was quite busy assuring people that my opinion was absolutely not based on my own self-interest, as it won't be here.

Well if you put it that way, I take back the offer.

I'm a S.O.B., so never would've agreed to that. I just know Plaw is WAY too proud to accept handouts -- and I wouldn't want him to feel degraded. :p

Then again, he got a nice handout playing TL in football this week. :rolleyes:

At what time does ESPN update the points in the main score? An hour and 43 minutes after the thing locked up, they're still not updated... do they usually wait until the next morning?