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You should be pleased. Great job in your 2nd year.

1st - 3rd place get a little "virtual trophy" in Yahoo. Click on your name on the page to see your trophies.

For those interested in a 2nd basketball league, seemed to be an interest in one....

League ID#: 47822
League Name: Over and Back 2
Password: clippers

Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Sat Oct 20 7:30pm EDT [ Add to My Calendar ]

Anyone in yahoo fantasy football, check your individual scores because there are all kind of errors going on. Example - Bethea (Colts) shows no points and no tackles but actually had 8. Yahoo has credited only one defensive player (a sack) from the Colts today so far.

Forgot the draft again. Did the same for baseball.

The other league draft is today.

Looking at your team rusty and I love it! GREAT backcourt. And, of course, you got Kyrie.

Unlike the baseball I did sort of pre rank the players. Baseball I went totally auto this year.

I knew when the draft was and got the e-mail I just started watching the UNC - Duke football game and totally forgot. Age !

My football opponent has 2 players left to play and has 159 points all ready today.

bootleggers Beats Up Golfman, Moves Up to Eighth Place

bootleggers (3-6) 186.15 Golfman (4-5) 83.58


bootleggers logged the highest point total this season to dismantle Golfman 186.15 - 83.58. It was a legendary rout, and the 102.57-point margin of victory was the highest recorded in the league this season. Cam Newton led Golfman with 18.49 points while Reggie Wayne brought in 11.20. bootleggers (3-6, 995.05 points) inches up to eighth place and Golfman (4-5, 899.12 points) drops to seventh place.

bootleggers Smooth Moves

Doug Martin scored a league-high for the most points this season with 44.13 points.
Mikel Leshoure had the third-highest RB score of the week and the ninth-highest RB score in the league this season with 22.67 points.
Brandon Marshall had 26.13 points, the highest WR score of the week and the second-highest WR score in the league this season.
Picked up Calais Campbell, who scored 10.00 points, beating his 6.43-point projection by 55.5%.
Ray Rice scored 12.93 points, which ranked ninth out of all the RBs in the league this week.


Golfman Regret Tracker

Missed out on an opportunity by leaving the 8.47 points scored by DeAngelo Williams on the bench this week. He outperformed his projected point total by 375.8%, the fourth-highest percentage in the league.
Did not start Russell Wilson, who led the team in scoring with 23.26 points.
Picked up Antoine Bethea, who scored 6.00 points against his projected 9.68.
Alfred Morris has scored below his projection in three straight games after scoring 5.07 points against a projected 9.60 this week.
It was not a good week for Golfman at TE, where they were beaten 10.80 - 0.73.


What If

If bootleggers played Golfman every week, they would be 4-5 this season.
bootleggers would have been undefeated if they played every team in the league this week.
bootleggers would be 5-3 if they played the same schedule as Golfman.
If bootleggers had played every team in the league each week, they would be 36-45.
Besides bootleggers, Golfman would have been defeated by seven other teams this week.
Had they played each other last week, bootleggers would have lost to Golfman 103.40 - 85.65.
If they played the same schedule as bootleggers, Golfman would be 2-6.
If they played every team every week, Golfman would be 34-47.
Game Notes

bootleggers had three starters who scored more points than the highest-scoring starter for Golfman.
With 186.15 points, bootleggers had the highest score of any team in the league this season.
The margin of victory of 102.57 points was the largest in the league this week and biggest in the league this season.

This was the first time this season that Golfman lost by the week's biggest margin.
bootleggers got a combined 84.40 points from their RBs, the highest combined scoring output from the RB position for any team this season.
Golfman underachieved for the sixth time this season, including the last three weeks in a row, scoring 83.58 points against a projected 119.37 this week.

The win by bootleggers snapped a six-game losing streak.
Golfman had their three-game win streak snapped in the loss.

Way Too Early Rookie of the Year Contenders




November 13, 2012

By Eric Palutsis



With the first week of the NBA season in the books, fans have finally had the opportunity to see the stars of a talented rookie class make their professional debuts against NBA talent. With only seven games under their belts there is no doubt that this list will continue to change as players struggle through the ups and downs of a rookie season. Here are the top rookies vying for the coveted rookie of the year award at the end of the season.



Damian Lillard

PG, Portland Trail Blazers

The sixth overall pick out of Weber State, Lillard was pegged by many as the best guard in the 2012 class and a potential dark horse candidate for rookie of the year. He has not disappointed, scoring at least 20 points in four of the six games of his young career. In fact, Lillard joined only Oscar Robertson and John Wall as the only players to average at least 20 points and nine assists through his first three games. Compared by many to be a scoring point guard in the mold of Derrick Rose or Russell Westbrook, Lillard has also averaged 7.0 assists per game for a young Portland squad. Leading all rookies in points and assists, Lillard has certainly vaulted his name squarely to the top of the rookie of the year conversation with his electrifying play thus far.



Dion Waiters

SG, Cleveland Cavaliers

Waiters was already viewed as a player drafted much too high and a potential bust before showing up to training camp overweight and struggling throughout the preseason. But the fourth overall pick out of Syracuse has impressed since the games have begun to count, logging just under 17 points per game and forming a very young, talented backcourt with the 2011 rookie of the year, Kyrie Irving. The rookie has already displayed a feel for the big moment, opening his professional career by picking fellow rookie Bradley Beal’s pocket and finishing with a breakaway slam, as well as drilling seven three-pointers to power the Cavs over the Clippers. An exciting, high-energy player, Waiters will have plenty of opportunities to shine for a young Cavalier team lacking depth.



Anthony Davis

PF, New Orleans Hornets

Unlike the first two players on this list, Davis has not had the benefit of flying under the radar coming into his rookie season. However, the presumptive first overall pick since he was in high school has needed no adjustment period, already averaging 8.0 boards and 2.7 blocks per game. No one doubted that Davis’ incredible athleticism and physical gifts would make him a great rebounder and shot-blocker in the NBA, but the pleasant surprise has been games of 21 points or more in two of his three games (Davis missed two games due to a concussion suffered on opening night). If he can continue to develop the offensive side of his game as the season goes on, Davis will undoubtedly work his way back up this list.

Just a heads up.

Should be opening fantasy baseball any day.

OK, I renewed the league from last year so you should have invitations in your emails to return and take back your teams.

Here is the league info:

League ID#: 30288
League Name: Tribe Forum League '13
Password: tito
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Fri Mar 15 7:00pm EDT [ Add to My Calendar ]

So far, it's only a 3 team league.

10 team league now!

Remember, draft next weekend.

Love your draft JR