This is my second year playing fantasy basketball and it hits the sweet spot for me in terms of fantasy sports – less rigorous and attention-demanding than fantasy baseball1 (where everybody plays almost every day and roster decisions tend to be insane in terms of amount of attention required), and less annoying than fantasy football (both because I don’t like football, and because fantasy football people have a tendency to be really, really irritating about fantasy football, whereas fantasy B-ballers in my experience tend to recognize the essential absurdity of what they are doing and are willing to make riskier choices in the name of fun).
Anyway, this is to say that the one MetaFilter-based league I’m in right now is, I think, not quite enough to whet my fantasy B-ball appetite. Therefore, I have created a second league for MGK readers (and well, whoever really). I’ve capped it at 16 teams but we can go with as few as 8. Head-to-head weekly matchups, scoring by categories (free throw percentage, field goal percentages, points, threes, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, and turnovers), live draft (tentatively for Saturday at noon EST).
League is here. To join go here – league number is 157832, password is “mgkisthebestest”. So… come on! Lots of room!
UPDATE 11:00 A.M. EST: Half full already!
UPDATE #2, 4:00 P.M. EST: We’re at twelve teams and I have locked it so as to make sure we don’t have an uneven number of teams going into the draft. If you want to play and aren’t in yet, email me (mgk@mightygodking.com), and when I have a set of two people who want to play I will send both of you invites.
- Discussion of the apathetic failure of the previous MGK-based fantasy baseball league is OFFICIALLY DISCOURAGED. [↩]
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100% in.
Okay, I can’t believe I’m the first person to come up with “Latverian Ponies” as the team name.
I haven’t checked yet, but I’m assuming that “Riverdale Improved Archies” is taken.
If only I knew a damned thing about basketball. Hey MGK, if the NHL strike ever ever ends, might you start up a fantasy hockey league?
I am, amazingly, one of the six Canadians who simply does not give a damn about hockey when it is not an Olympic gold-medal game featuring Team Canada.
Shame as I’m an NBA diehard and would love to join but I definitely wouldn’t be able to make the draft so what’s the point? Good luck though MGK.
Autodraft and trade!
You don’t know how close you came to having a team simply named “Ball.”
I keep thinking I should rename my team “Team Rhodes Ballers.”
Actually, hell with it, I’m renaming my team that.
You guys should form a league! 🙂
BUT I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE DOING HERE
Fantasy Football is only fun when you’re in a league that requires pun based team names
@MGK
I despise auto-draft. Machines mimicking a man is the plot of way too many dystopian sci-fi movies for me. But, I’d love to follow the official MGK league. Maybe updates from time to time here on the blog?
@Trace
They also have to be totally inappropriate. Like “Donald Drunk Driver”. Or “Ben There, Raped That.”
I know that discussion of the MGK-based fantasy baseball league is OFFICIALLY DISCOURAGED, but for what it is worth I would love to have a go at it when the baseball season starts up again.
Its the year of the Duckburg Greenbacks, motherEFFERS.
I am also a Canadian who is apathetic towards hockey. But that is less due to any specific grudge against the sport and more due to a general apathy regarding sports in general.