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Team Record Cats Won
It's All One Big Division!
Herro Ball 2-0 13
Team Steam 2-0 12.5
Coach Lamont Carr 2-0 11
zach e.d. 1-0-1 12.5
Moron Mountain 1-0-1 10.5
Sir, This is a Wemby's! 1-1 11
Tom Brinklow 1-1 7.5
Mo Money Mo Bamba 1-1 7.5
Deniz Kilicli, The Istanbull 0-2 6.5
Rick Flag 0-2 6
Mental Health Fast Break 0-2 6
Retired basketball addict 0-2 4

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Terrence Shannon Jr. MIN G $2 Nov 4, 2024 7:40 AM

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Date Team Player Transaction
Nov 4, 2024 7:40 AMTom BrinklowTerrence Shannon Jr. MIN G $1 cut
Nov 3, 2024 3:49 PMTom BrinklowJonathan Mogbo TOR F $1 add
Nov 3, 2024 1:59 AMRick FlagMax Christie LAL G $1 cut
Nov 3, 2024 1:59 AMRick FlagTaylor Hendricks UTA F OFS $3 cut
Nov 3, 2024 12:04 AMRick FlagJalil Bethea MIA G $1 add
Nov 3, 2024 12:02 AMRick FlagMiles McBride NYK G $2 add
Nov 2, 2024 12:52 PMMo Money Mo BambaSteven Adams HOU C GTD $2 cut
Oct 31, 2024 2:39 PMTom BrinklowNoah Clowney BKN F/C $1 add
Oct 30, 2024 11:45 AMzach e.d.Taurean Prince MIL F $1 add
Oct 29, 2024 2:37 PMTom BrinklowKofi Cockburn ILL C $2 cut
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  • I got some realllllly good news boys. The season starts today. Set your lineups and check those boxscores! Leegggooooooo
    zach e.d. at Oct 22, 2024 10:16 AM
  • Fellas,

    The draft is tonight at 8:30 pm. I have trouble getting into the draft room with Google Chrome, so try a different browser if that isn't working for you.

    Scott
    zach e.d. at Oct 8, 2024 2:13 PM
  • In the interest of transparency, I am changing the trade review period from 48 hours to 24 hours. People have complained about this in the past. If anyone super-duper objects to this, let me know.
    zach e.d. at Sep 25, 2024 3:47 PM
  • We've gotten two very good excuses as to why they can't do the week of the 15th. Both individuals asked to push it back to the preceding week. Benevolent dictator that I am, I obliged them. The draft will now be on Tuesday, October 8, at 8:30PM. Please let me know if you have any real objections to this.
    zach e.d. at Sep 25, 2024 12:38 PM
  • What's up everybody!

    That fantasy basketball season is just around the corner! That means we need to have our auction draft. I've set it for October 15 at 8:00 PM EDT. Let me know if this absolutely does not work for you. Otherwise, I'll see you all there for what should be a rollicking good time.
    zach e.d. at Sep 23, 2024 11:11 AM
  • The reason you're seeing some of the more seasoned Ottoneu players dropping guys right now is because the keeper deadline is this Sunday, September 15, at 11:59 PM EDT. This is the last chance for you to drop players without a cap hit, and your last chance to trade players before the draft. You also need to be below the cap by this point - looks like everyone except Kyle and EJ have legal rosters however, so good on y'all. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to trade me a really good player on a cheap contract.
    zach e.d. at Sep 12, 2024 10:18 AM
  • Grade the Trade

    HERRO BALL trades Bogdan Bogdanovic ($10) to LIFEGUARD KELLY for Jared McCain ($2)

    This is a pretty simple trade, one-for-one, lottery ticket for stable asset. I’ve already talked about Bogdan, who’s already been traded once this season. He produces, and should produce more with Dejounte in The Big Easy, but his ceiling is limited. $10 seems fair, more or less. Lifeguard Kelly has more than enough cap space to take on other people’s problem contracts, so any move that makes him better without meaningfully affecting his cap is going to look shrewd. In all likelihood, Jared McCain isn’t going to be anything worth rostering, and he’ll look back on this deal as a nothing-for-something coup.

    That doesn’t mean this was a bad deal for Herro Ball. On the contrary, he’s picking up a (near) lottery pick while saving $8; this move actually gets him a legal roster going into the draft, though I’m sure he’s looking for more than $4 in space. For all the talk about 2024 being an all-time weak draft, a heady point guard getting first-round draft capital for the 76ers is a great situation. There won’t be a lot of volume, but it’s a shallow team, and he could carve out enough of a role to make his value skyrocket in year one. Do I think this will happen? No. But it seems like a fine enough gamble when you’re shaving salary at the same time.

    GRADE FOR HERRO BALL – B
    GRADE FOR LIFEGUARD KELLY – B
    zach e.d. at Jul 16, 2024 1:01 PM
  • Grade the Trade

    JONATHAN KUMINYA trades Tristan da Silva ($2) to LIFEGUARD KELLY for Dalton Knecht ($7)

    Wow, what a great deal for Lifeguard Kelly! He gives up the 17th overall pick for the 18th overall pick, moving down only one spot, and saves $5 in the process? That alone is a steal.
    Dalton Knecht plays small forward; his new team, the Los Angeles Lakers, already have a small forward. You may have heard of him. His name is Lebron James. Only the greatest player of our generation. He’s pretty redundant for them, and at $7, just isn’t worth it. Plus, the Lakers SUCK.

    On the other end of the deal, the Orlando Magic got their 3-and-D stretch forward they so desperately needed. Spacing was a huge issue for them last year. De Silva will spread things out for them without sacrificing form their all-world defense. Fits like a glove!

    GRADE FOR JONATHAN KUMINYA – F (What an IDIOT!!!)
    GRADE FOR LIFEGUARD KELLY – A+ (What a GENIUS)
    zach e.d. at Jul 3, 2024 12:50 PM
  • Grade the Trade

    COACH LAMONT CARR trades Karl-Anthony Towns ($54) to RICK FLAG for Kyrie Irving ($49) and T.J. McConnell ($4)

    First thing’s first, T.J. McConnell probably isn’t a keeper at $4. He is only really playable when Haliburton is out, and in such cases (12 games), T.J. put up 11/7/3 in 2024. That’s a pretty mid best-case scenario. He’s a backup with okay short-term upside no long-term upside, the type of guy you get for $1 at the end of an auction.

    This is really a KAT for Irving swap. The salaries are pretty equal. Both guys have reliability concerns, but Kyrie’s are more staggering. KAT puts up better numbers overall, I think, and is four years younger. At the end of the day, it depends on what you need, and Coach Lamont Carr just traded nothing for an elite center, so I guess getting guard help is nice.
    At the end of the day, KAT is more valuable now and has the potential to be a reasonable deal for the next four years, while Kyrie, at 32 years old with the mind of a 7-year-old on PCP, has virtually no chance of being a long-term keeper, so I have to give the edge to Flag.

    For the record, both Kyrie and KAT suck so hard, you guys.

    GRADE FOR RICK FLAG – B
    GRADE FOR COACH LAMONT CARR – C-
    zach e.d. at Jul 3, 2024 10:52 AM
  • Grade the Trade

    COACH LAMONT CARR trades Daniel Gafford ($15) and Mo Wagner ($4) to DENIZ KILICLI, THE ISTANBULL for Jarrett Allen ($31) and Isaiah Hartenstein ($4)

    This one is actually pretty easy to evaluate. The only reason this is going to get multiple paragraphs is because I want to make fun of an idiot.

    Coach Lamont Carr had some offseason cap space and he did exactly what one should do in such a situation: he robbed a cap-logged team blind. Sure, Daniel Gaffe-ord is $16 cheaper than Jarrett Allen, but Jarrett Allen was top 10 in rebounds per game and chipped in 16.5 ppg, a block, and a killer shooting percentage. He’s one of the best centers in the league and on a reasonable contract. Plus he gets Isaiah Hartenstein. Let’s do a player comparison here.

    PLAYER A – 21 minutes per game, 11 ppg, 7 rpg, 1.6 apg, 0.7 spg, 2 blocks, 78% FG%
    PLAYER B – 25 minutes per game, 8 ppg, 8 rpg, 2.5 apg, 1.1 spg, 1.1 blocks, 64% FG%

    It’s close, but Player A is a little better. Only a little. Player A is Daniel Gafford as a Maverick, and Player B is Isaiah Hartenstein, who is $11 cheaper and just got paid to be his team’s only bona fide inside presence on a high-octane offense. And before you point out that said team also has Chet Holmgren, remember he’s a perimeter player on O. Plus, Gafford has a younger, sexier version of himself breathing down his neck in Dereck Lively, who might also just be better, too. I honestly think there’s a good, if not probable chance that Isaiah Hartenstein produces better numbers than Gafford this year, and for $11 less. And that’s before you remember that Coach Carr is getting Jarrett Allen in this deal as well!!!!!!

    Mo Wagner is in this trade too. The team just paid one of its backup centers $8+ million a year, already has Wendell Carter, and can play its new $84 million man (Jon Isaac) at the 5. There aren’t a lot of minutes for Manic Mo on this squad. Best case scenario is injuries plague the Magic and he gets 11 ppg and 4 rpg for your team on the bench. Otherwise, we’re talking about a rich man’s Thanasis.

    Bonus Negative Points for the fact that Jarrett Allen is one of Jim’s favorite players and he just traded him away. Only good thing I can say about his side of the trade is he saved $16.

    GRADE FOR DENIZ KILICLI, THE ISTANBULL – D
    GRADE FOR COACH LAMONT CARR - A
    zach e.d. at Jul 3, 2024 10:39 AM