Fantasy Basketball...

My favourite lookup site has failed me...  Look at what is written on Wikipedia.Org for Fantasy Basketball...  Lame-O!!  Makes me feel like I lead a very very sad existence...

Fantasy League Basketball was popularized during the 1990s after the advent of the Internet. Those who play this game are sometimes referred to as General Managers, who draft actual NBA players and compute their basketball statistics. The statistics usually follow the traditional category of points, rebounds, blocks, steals and assists, which is called the 5 Cat Stats. Later it expanded to include 3 point field goal, field goal% and free throw% becoming the 8 Cat Stats. Some leagues add turnovers as a statistic, bringing the total to 9. Leagues can be played head to head every week or in a rotisserie form throughout the season.

The game was popularized by ESPN Fantasy Sports, NBA.com, and Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Other sports websites provided the same format keeping the game interesting with participants actually owning specific players. Yahoo Fantasy NBA offers free leagues for participants to enter, whether it be rotisserie or head to head. Rick Kamla, an NBA expert for NBA TV, has pioneered fantasy basketball with his show, 'NBA TV Fantasy Hoops'. 'NBA TV Fantasy Hoops' is an hour long informational show dedicated to fantasy basketball. Mr. Kamla's show airs daily on NBA TV, during the NBA season.

Some recent players regarded as top fantasy players are Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, Shawn Marion, Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, Gilbert Arenas, Paul Pierce, Elton Brand, and Andrei Kirilenko.

We could be plotting a revolution or ogling naked women on the internet (oh shit I do do that ). There are lamer things to do........but not many........

i don't see KFBA mentioned in that blurb! colonel, make an edit to that wiki entry!

colonel wrote:

My favourite lookup site has failed me...  Look at what is written on Wikipedia.Org for Fantasy Basketball...  Lame-O!!  Makes me feel like I lead a very very sad existence... Fantasy League Basketball was popularized during the 1990s after the advent of the Internet.

Anybody else used to play by post? I did a league by post when I was but a wee teenager, came 2nd too! Isiah Rider was my man!

i know i definitely did in high school before i'd ever dealt with the internet. xavier mcdaniel was a key for me!

but i really got into it with the internet...but i miss the old baseball  strat-o-matic league i used to be in!

I played APBA baseball almost 40 years ago, but nothing else until Yahoo and then KFBA two years ago.  Started 5 teams, renewed two, but one of the leagues failed (well, four of the five did).  KFBA management took good care of me, and I seem to have gone rather nuts with the whole thing.  Still do Yahoo, but it's very much secondary now.

last year was my first in fantasy basketball and football, started with football, got drug into a fantasy salary league and hated it, and wound up in yahoo , won that and found it interesting, but wanted more, so looked up keeper leagues in google and was led to the KFBA, and now i have 11 teams and spend all waking hours on here.  Football has become secondary, but im in a keeper league there that i have built so solidly im going to have to stay on.  I have given up on yahoo leagues and now am down to just 2 football keeper leagues, and 11 in the KFBA.  But i am going to reduce my teams for next year, to many seems like i have the whole NBA, not just some of the players.  But we will see, i said that coming into this year and added like 5 teams and got rid of none.  But i will be here as long as the KFBA is up and running i will be here , its my favorite and best.

osupatrick wrote:

last year was my first in fantasy basketball and football, started with football, got drug into a fantasy salary league and hated it, and wound up in yahoo , won that and found it interesting, but wanted more, so looked up keeper leagues in google and was led to the KFBA, and now i have 11 teams and spend all waking hours on here.  Football has become secondary, but im in a keeper league there that i have built so solidly im going to have to stay on.  I have given up on yahoo leagues and now am down to just 2 football keeper leagues, and 11 in the KFBA.  But i am going to reduce my teams for next year, to many seems like i have the whole NBA, not just some of the players.  But we will see, i said that coming into this year and added like 5 teams and got rid of none.  But i will be here as long as the KFBA is up and running i will be here , its my favorite and best.

I intended to cut back this year, even dropped a few teams.  Wound up picking up replacements.  It's an addiction.

I used to always play CDM fantasy basketball, but it was too exspensive, and in that roto style, everybody wound up with the same players. I even set two season records that still stands, putting me in their hall-of-fame (most 2pt FGs and most pts. in a season)
Now that I am in KFBA, CDM is over. But I won't be back next year, I don't dig crack cocaine (sic).   

i started with the internet in 97, private keeper league called trsba which is still running after 10 years..tried some yahoo leagues but found them utterly boring. Tried Kfba and came back for another year.

I did a league called "Big Apple Sports" back in '94-'96.  They ran leagues and sent out weekly updates.  We had to call people to make trades.  Lots of people from all over the country that you got to know from the league....was pretty fun, but over $100 a year if I remember right.