Living the Fantasy
A few months back, somebody asked me through an instant messenger, "Anong online game ang nilalaro mo ngayon?"
I answered back with "fantasy basketball!", which was enough for him to reply with "o_O".
Yes, this is my first time to join such. I was invited by some of my classmates in a Yahoo! fantasy basketball league that doesn't have to involve exhausting money on my wallet (Usually, my classmates have a "betting league" where they each put down money and the winner at the end of the season gets all the prize, I think).
The first league that I joined in got fucked up through rampant cheating (for example, the number 1-ranked team as of date has... prepare for this... Shawn Marion, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett and Agent Zero - all 6 All-Stars of them - IN A 16-TEAM LEAGUE).
So now I would like to share my team from the second, cleaner league. Though it's a big deal since there are only the four of us playing it right now (the others abandoned their team), I would like to share how much my team has improved.
During the drafting, I got to start on the 5th pick. I wasn't able to participate in the live draft, so I had to settle with the automatic drafting. After a few adjustments on my pre-draft ranking, I ended up with this:
Roughly four months later, after scouring the free agents and waivers list (purely pick-ups, no trades involved), enduring injuries, man-handling excess games played, and reading through analysis after analysis after analysis, I now have this:
It's a close fight for the four of us that are left playing in this league, with only 1 point on average separating each other. I am currently tied at the #1 spot, but a few mishaps from my team and the players of other teams get amazing statistics (say, Carlos Boozer gets 200 rebounds), the other guys rejoice.
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PS. Pardon for the lack of creativity for the title. Living the Fantasy is the title of Rick Kamla's, a fantasy basketball analyst, column at NBA entertainment and on the NBA's website.
I answered back with "fantasy basketball!", which was enough for him to reply with "o_O".
Yes, this is my first time to join such. I was invited by some of my classmates in a Yahoo! fantasy basketball league that doesn't have to involve exhausting money on my wallet (Usually, my classmates have a "betting league" where they each put down money and the winner at the end of the season gets all the prize, I think).
The first league that I joined in got fucked up through rampant cheating (for example, the number 1-ranked team as of date has... prepare for this... Shawn Marion, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett and Agent Zero - all 6 All-Stars of them - IN A 16-TEAM LEAGUE).
So now I would like to share my team from the second, cleaner league. Though it's a big deal since there are only the four of us playing it right now (the others abandoned their team), I would like to share how much my team has improved.
During the drafting, I got to start on the 5th pick. I wasn't able to participate in the live draft, so I had to settle with the automatic drafting. After a few adjustments on my pre-draft ranking, I ended up with this:
Roughly four months later, after scouring the free agents and waivers list (purely pick-ups, no trades involved), enduring injuries, man-handling excess games played, and reading through analysis after analysis after analysis, I now have this:
It's a close fight for the four of us that are left playing in this league, with only 1 point on average separating each other. I am currently tied at the #1 spot, but a few mishaps from my team and the players of other teams get amazing statistics (say, Carlos Boozer gets 200 rebounds), the other guys rejoice.
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PS. Pardon for the lack of creativity for the title. Living the Fantasy is the title of Rick Kamla's, a fantasy basketball analyst, column at NBA entertainment and on the NBA's website.
posted by Irwin at 7:09 PM
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