Fantasy NBA Action Take One

Mostly as a way to get up to speed on who's-playing-for-who I've entered a couple $1 basketball contests this week. I ended up 9th on Tuesday but came back with a 2nd yesterday. The early part of the season is kind of goofy but entertaining as you try and figure out how guys are going to fit in.

The NBA is offering their broadband League Pass for free through November 3rd. The Pistons - GriZZZlies game was blacked out so I watched some of the Thunder-Kings game instead. The picture quality is really really good and if I had a slightly more robust internet connection - and money to fritter away - I'd definitely sign up for this. I watched some of the LOLakers - Clippahs game on Tuesday via the TNT website and that wasn't bad either.

No action tonight as I think there are only two games on the schedule and I'm not a fan of small player pool days.

Basketball results: 2 contests entered (10 player); 1 cash; amount risked: $2.00; amount won: $3.00; net: +$1.00; ROI +50.0%

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Week 7 Results

I got a pleasant surprise when I checked results this morning. I thought I was set to finish 3rd in one of my 10 player contests but didn't look real carefully - the fourish additional points Steve Smith picked up late in the Sunday night game actually bumped me to first.

The theme of the week was receiver FAIL. Bad picks there. The rest of the rosters were fine, but if it involved a player catching the ball then UGH.

First in a Speaker Special, first in a late games multi, everything else was a bust. I did manage to beat Dr. Pauly's score so I have a 2 week streak there.

My regular fantasy team is getting squashed, so I'll be 2-5. So bad.

Games watched: Parts of the late games, mostly LOLBears-Cincinnati, half of the Giants-Cardinalzzz.

Sunday results: 5 contests entered (4 - 10 player, 1 - 3 player); 2 cashes (2, 0); amount risked: $21.90; amount won: $30.00; net: +$8.10; ROI: +37.0%

Week 6 Results

Well that's a little more like it.

I certainly didn't expect a 59-0 beat down, but I liked the Pats against the Titans' pathetic pass defense. Right call. Brady + Moss = a whole lot of win. Taking Jones-Drew and DeAngelo Williams didn't hurt either. I actually went over 200 points in one contest which is crazy.

If only I'd entered more contests. If only.

Yeah right.

I was so 'with it' when making my picks that I entered an uncapped contest on accident. Smooth.

Anyway, as usual I didn't get to watch a whole lot yesterday - I saw exactly one play in the early games: Greg Jennings (who I had on my rosters) dropping a TD pass. Thanks, Greg. I watched a few minutes of the Pats/Titans game before CBS switched over the morass of suck that was the Jets/Bills game. Also caught the first half of the Bears/Falcons night game.

I didn't get around to answering Zeem's question about strategy in the 25 player contests (sorry), haven't given it much thought. SwDP was back to smaller contests this week, don't know what'll happen going forward.

Sunday results: 4 contests entered (2 - 10 player, 2 HU), 4 cashes (2, 2); amount risked: $18.80; amount won: $47.00; net: $28.20; ROI +150.0%

Edit: As part of my ongoing effort to find a dark lining in every silver cloud, I finished with the 2nd best SwDP score of the week and of course the guy with the best score was in my contest costing me $20. Blah blah blah. (No, I'm not serious). On the other hand, my scores put me right back into contention for two of the prizes - best single weekly score (2nd, duh) and best single weekly blogger score (1st).

Week 5 Results

Not paying attention is not doing me any favors. Another terrible week.

I got home well into the second half of the late games and just about the first thing I saw on the stats crawl was Miles Austin's huge game for Dallas. Dammit. When I saw that Roy Williams was out I noted Austin as a good option and even had him selected at one point, but then I talked myself out of it figuring Dallas wouldn't have too much trouble with the LOLChiefs. Too much thinking.

Then again, never in a million years would I have guessed that Roddy White would torch the 49ers, so it's not like I have a crystal ball or anything.

On a more positive note, my regular fantasy team won this week and 2-3 puts me back into the thick of things. My roster still sucks, though.

Sunday results: 6 contests entered (2 - 25 player, 3 - 10 player, 1 HU), 1 cash (0, 1, 0), amount risked: $22.90; amount won: $2.00; net: ($20.90); ROI -91.3%

Week 4 Results

Blah blah blah. I put in three minutes of preparation this week, I read through the schedule of games. I watched about five minutes of the Dallas-Denver game. There are just way too many life distractions right now.

Four contests. SwDP and three dollar multis. Finished 10th in the 25 player SwDP, won the early games multi and was a non-factor in the other two. I did beat Dr. Pauly's score for the week so I have a one week streak (you need 3 straight to get into the tournament of champeens).

In my regular FFB league I'm 26 points down with Favre and Driver going tonight. I'm pretty much resigned to being 0-4.

Week 4 Results: 4 contests entered (1-25 player, 3- 10 player), 1 cash, amount risked: $14.00; amount won: $5.00; net: ($9.00); ROI -64.3%