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Fantasy Challenge: Follow your own tips!

November 29, 2008

Another week is over and once again, my team finished somewhere in the top half of the “middle-of-nowhere” range. Across the board, my players performed well (8 out of 10 were between 9.9 and 22.0) but none went for an extraordinary MVP-level performance. But I have to say that I am happy with the trades I made: Bringing in Zoran Planinic and Nikola Pekovic were good moves, as the two combined for 35.2 ranking points instead of the 0 I would have gotten without the changes.

On the other hand, I don’t know what happened to Emir Preldzic, who made a nice 0 and Mirza Begic who threw up came up with 9.9 ranking points in just 4 minutes of play. I would suggest to Mirza that he be sick a bit more often but play 40 minutes despite throwing up constantly. I have to think on my forward rotation a bit this weekend, as Immanuel McElroy seems to be on the downturn as well. We will see what comes up.

If you check on who I advised you to sign last week, I can only say, “Christophe, why do you tell the guys out there who to sign but don’t take the guys yourself?” Carlos Jimenez (23.1), Mike Hall (18.7) and Charles Smith (27.0) were three names I mentioned. And I didn’t pick up any of these three, despite having an unused trade. No wonder I have a new favorite song:

Luckily, the standings still show that I’m not doing everything wrong. I am currently ranked at the edge of the Top 10 and so I’m still in the race for new K1X shoes or some Euroleague goodies. At the top of the table is still the fight between djalix and EVICROCK, separated by only 0.5 points. Looks pretty tough at the moment and neither player has given up on winning those Euroleague Final Four tickets.

And because I was so harsh on myself before when I was talking about the moves I did not make, I would like to mention my current good ranking in two other fantasy leagues. In the league hosted by our friends at Basketsession, I am currently ranked 4th, which may sound nothing special, but I am in front of French Euroleague fantasy guru Bricko and his CSKA Brickowski team. Additionally, another 4th place is in the books for me in the Interbasket Private League, which I also consider a nice performance.

Have a nice weekend…

Nov 29, 2008ballineurope
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Comments: 4
  1. Dankans
    16 years ago

    Hey, can I know in which place You are in overall statistic ? Or how many points You have at the moment ? Or what is Your full team price ? 🙂

    Thanks.

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  2. Dankans
    16 years ago

    Sorry for double-post, but maybe anyone knows why Begic played only 4 minutes ?

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  3. Christophe
    16 years ago

    @Dankans
    Begic played only 4 minutes because he was sick
    I am currently ranked somewhere around 1400 in Total Standings

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  4. Dankans
    16 years ago

    Oh, but the press didn’t write anything about his sick. Damn it. ;/ I am ranked 24 in overall and I am very lucky with this. I have a good team price and I wish to know is it really good or people in ~1400 place have the same. Could You tell me about Your team price ?

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