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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 20:02:16
December 22 2009 19:58 GMT
#961
Assuming you guys are playing Roto, every position has a max # of games played in a season (usually 82). That means if you've been rotating players in one position, then you're simply on pace to using your star player for 50-60% of the total games. If you'd been patient with one player, you'd be able to play him for all 81 games. The risk of sticking with one player is 1) bad matchups 2) injuries (so you end up not being able to use all your games) 3) player being taken out once the season draws closer to an end and the team wants to rest him for playoffs etc. which goes back to the risk in #2.

He's implying that a few people have been rotating players, inflating their numbers for now but putting themselves at a disadvantage later in the season when someone fills up 82 games of Ray Allen compared to someone playing Earl Boykins 10 Jamal Crawford 30 Sebastian Telfair 42 or something stupid like that.
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XaI)CyRiC
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4471 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 20:03:09
December 22 2009 20:01 GMT
#962
It means that for each roster position (i.e. PG, SG, SF, PF, F, etc.) you only get to play 82 games. For example, if you had one player sitting in a roster spot all season long and they didn't miss any games, you'd max out the amount of games available for that roster spot perfectly. However, you can sub that player out in case of injuries or if they're in a bad matchup (i.e. vs strong defensive teams like BOS), and put another player in that spot to make up for that game. Ultimately, you can only have 82 games played per roster spot and you want to reach that point if at all possible.

What tenbagger is talking about is how people are rotating in their bench players for every game they play, resulting in a roster spot being continuously filled by more than one player. Note that there are 82 games per player per season, so if you're rotating in players without sitting them out at the same rate, you'll end up hitting that 82 game limit for a roster spot before the season is over. This may be less than ideal if you're blindly subbing players in each day, as opposed to strategically picking which games and which players you want.

Example:
You have Kobe Bryant as your SG and he's sitting there. If he plays all season long and doesn't miss a game, you'll max out your 82 games at your SG spot perfectly. However, let's say you have J.R. Smith on your bench and are constantly rotating him into the SG spot whenever he plays in place of Kobe like you would in H2H. Now you're going to have two players' worth of games played in a single roster spot, which is way more than is allowed. Thus, every game that J.R. plays a game at the SG spot, is one less game that Kobe will be able to play in that spot. If neither player misses any games, then you'll max out the 82 games for your SG spot halfway through the season and left trying to find another roster spot for the rest of Kobe's games.
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tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 20:35:40
December 22 2009 20:35 GMT
#963
edit: nevermind:D
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
December 22 2009 21:06 GMT
#964
On December 23 2009 05:01 XaI)CyRiC wrote:
It means that for each roster position (i.e. PG, SG, SF, PF, F, etc.) you only get to play 82 games. For example, if you had one player sitting in a roster spot all season long and they didn't miss any games, you'd max out the amount of games available for that roster spot perfectly. However, you can sub that player out in case of injuries or if they're in a bad matchup (i.e. vs strong defensive teams like BOS), and put another player in that spot to make up for that game. Ultimately, you can only have 82 games played per roster spot and you want to reach that point if at all possible.

What tenbagger is talking about is how people are rotating in their bench players for every game they play, resulting in a roster spot being continuously filled by more than one player. Note that there are 82 games per player per season, so if you're rotating in players without sitting them out at the same rate, you'll end up hitting that 82 game limit for a roster spot before the season is over. This may be less than ideal if you're blindly subbing players in each day, as opposed to strategically picking which games and which players you want.

Example:
You have Kobe Bryant as your SG and he's sitting there. If he plays all season long and doesn't miss a game, you'll max out your 82 games at your SG spot perfectly. However, let's say you have J.R. Smith on your bench and are constantly rotating him into the SG spot whenever he plays in place of Kobe like you would in H2H. Now you're going to have two players' worth of games played in a single roster spot, which is way more than is allowed. Thus, every game that J.R. plays a game at the SG spot, is one less game that Kobe will be able to play in that spot. If neither player misses any games, then you'll max out the 82 games for your SG spot halfway through the season and left trying to find another roster spot for the rest of Kobe's games.


with an extra guard slot and 2 utility slots I thought we wouldn't have to worry about pace of games so much
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
December 22 2009 21:26 GMT
#965
ya that's what i'm wondering O_O!
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Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
December 22 2009 22:09 GMT
#966
On December 23 2009 00:16 Southlight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 22 2009 10:10 Judicator wrote:
Well what are the alternatives for Redd?


Nothing great, but Redd's killing me with his 40+ missed games a season :|


Then I'd say keep him until he gets hurt again this year. The Bucks are looking pretty good right now (compared to previous seasons) so no reason to dump him unless you got better options readily available.
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Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 22:16:58
December 22 2009 22:16 GMT
#967
On December 23 2009 06:26 Xeris wrote:
ya that's what i'm wondering O_O!


It's easy to overplay a position for first time roto/fantasy basketball players. This is one of the reasons why I decided to not do fantasy basketball with TL because it requires more attention/management than I would like. Because people see one player on the bench playing and the starter not, you instinctively want to stick the active player in for that night. Then there's that justification that "it all evens out in the end" which is an actual pitfall because like Cyric's example, 70 games of Kobe and 12 games of whoever is not the same as 40-30-12 mix of Kobe-x-y.

That being said I ended up doing one with friends anyways and am annoyed at myself for paying so much attention to it.

Edit: Should have edited my previous post. :\
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XaI)CyRiC
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4471 Posts
December 22 2009 22:20 GMT
#968
On December 23 2009 06:06 Ace wrote:with an extra guard slot and 2 utility slots I thought we wouldn't have to worry about pace of games so much


Well if you already have players in each of those spots, and are rotating players from your bench in for them, at least some of them are going to max out earlier than you'd like. Just look at it this way, would you prefer scenario A or B below:

Scenario A:
PG: Brandon Jennings (76 games); Andre Miller (6 games)
SG: Kobe Bryant (79 games); Dahntay Jones (3 games)
G: Gilbert Arenas (72 games); Aaron Brooks (10 games)

Scenario B:
PG: Brandon Jennings (38 games); Andre Miller (36 games); Mario Chalmers (8 games)
SG: Kobe Bryant (40 games); Dahntay Jones (34 games); Larry Hughes (8 games)
G: Gilbert Arenas (37 games); Aaron Brooks (36 games); Jonny Flynn (9 games)

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Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
December 22 2009 22:23 GMT
#969
I'm annoyed there aren't as many random uninformed Laker fans like last year for me to argue with (remember people trying to convince me Farmar > Rondo?)

I feel like I have no mission in life

I can't even complain about Milwaukee being underrated this year either. Fuck.

Last year's rookie class, which was better than anyone would have guessed is possibly (low probability) going to be surpassed by this year's draft. Double Fuck because I was hoping Eric Gordon would get to hog some more spotlight.

Well Detroit still sucks which kinda makes me feel good and bad on the inside: they won't be in Boston's way for a title but they also won't be in Lebron's.

What a bad season
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
December 22 2009 22:24 GMT
#970
so each of the positions has 82 possible games... and utility has like 150 or something? so if you play all 82 games you just basically can't do anything for the rest of the season (assuming you get 82 before the season is over?)
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Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
December 22 2009 22:30 GMT
#971
On December 23 2009 07:20 XaI)CyRiC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 23 2009 06:06 Ace wrote:with an extra guard slot and 2 utility slots I thought we wouldn't have to worry about pace of games so much


Well if you already have players in each of those spots, and are rotating players from your bench in for them, at least some of them are going to max out earlier than you'd like. Just look at it this way, would you prefer scenario A or B below:

Scenario A:
PG: Brandon Jennings (76 games); Andre Miller (6 games)
SG: Kobe Bryant (79 games); Dahntay Jones (3 games)
G: Gilbert Arenas (72 games); Aaron Brooks (10 games)

Scenario B:
PG: Brandon Jennings (38 games); Andre Miller (36 games); Mario Chalmers (8 games)
SG: Kobe Bryant (40 games); Dahntay Jones (34 games); Larry Hughes (8 games)
G: Gilbert Arenas (37 games); Aaron Brooks (36 games); Jonny Flynn (9 games)



A obviously ^_^

I was looking at it more like: I have a ton of PFs and Cs. I can play them all freely between my spots and not worry until mid season about maxing out games since instead of 82 slots I have 164. I can max out 1 player easily and still have the remaining 82 to divvy up between everyone else. Worst case scenario I end up using both Forward/PF slots along with both Center slots and I still have 2 utility slots which is another 164 at best but really like another 40 since it's shared by all positions.

I was also thinking playing more games now is better just so that I wouldn't have to worry about end of the season benching of playoff bound teams which cost me a a win last year. (albeit in H2H Points)
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 22:39:40
December 22 2009 22:33 GMT
#972
On December 23 2009 07:24 Xeris wrote:
so each of the positions has 82 possible games... and utility has like 150 or something? so if you play all 82 games you just basically can't do anything for the rest of the season (assuming you get 82 before the season is over?)


yes. Except it's not that easy to hit all 82 for a single position since we have Guard/Forward/another Center slot and 2 utility slots. Then again I didn't think anyone had that many games being played where it was even possible to be on pace to overboard in 2 slots like utility/guard and have no chance of fixing it.

edit: nevermind, just looked at everyone's paces for the first time. Looks like a few people really did have schedules that allowed them to play a ton of early games.
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-22 22:42:16
December 22 2009 22:40 GMT
#973
Basically, if you are 1 to 3 over the max for any position, you're looking pretty good. At least that's what my veteran fantasy buddy tells me. But I drafted Forwards/Centers more than I did Guards so my Fs and Cs will be over, it just depends on who gets more of the 82-pie.

And one of guards is Caron Butler, FMFL.
Get it by your hands...
Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
December 22 2009 22:46 GMT
#974
at least you don't have Michael Redd.

whoops ^_^
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
December 22 2009 22:55 GMT
#975
I think I'm like 3-6 games over every position.
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
December 23 2009 04:51 GMT
#976
On December 23 2009 07:46 Ace wrote:
at least you don't have Michael Redd.

whoops ^_^


I did have Redd. Also, apparently I have the touch of death with my pickups/drafted players. Redd dies on me (not surprised here), TJ Ford dies on me early (not really surprised either), then Tony Parker gets dinged up for a time, Chris Paul out for a period of time, Kirilenko goes out literally a game after I pick him up, Duncan and Douglas-Roberts does too.

So far I have made like 12 moves, about 8 for injuries and the rest are for performance and balancing out my roster.

This is after I get Caron Butler relatively early in the draft cause there was no one better.

Anyways, OKC up on LAL, hope they pull it out.
Get it by your hands...
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
December 23 2009 05:44 GMT
#977
BASICALLY

each slot = 82 games limit
returns upon momentous occasions.
tiffany
Profile Joined November 2003
3664 Posts
December 23 2009 09:28 GMT
#978
On December 23 2009 14:44 HonestTea wrote:
BASICALLY

each slot = 82 games limit

lol

guys, just go to my team and it's on the bottom left. no need for speculation

also, lol at xeris
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-23 09:38:07
December 23 2009 09:34 GMT
#979
lol at me why ?;p

oh lol man, I'm fucked.
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33599 Posts
December 23 2009 13:41 GMT
#980
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4766708

So Pryzbilla ruptured his kneecap, similar to the Oden injury. Both out indefinitely -_-. They need to drink more milk up in Portland

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