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hands down the most fun. they do go through staffing/financial problems now and then, but it's the most fun format.
It's set up in head to head format. Game 1 of the fantasy season concludes when every NBA team has played it's first game, Game 2 of the fantasy season concludes once every NBA team has played it's second game, etc. Due to the differences in schedule, each "fantasy" game takes place over a few days.
The format for each "game" is very simple.
You add up the "Good" for each player (Pts, Rbs, assts, stls, blks,) and subtract the "Bad" (TO's, Technical fouls), to get a player's "fantasy points". You have to set your lineup in order of how you want your players to contribute, because minutes and position count too: you get 96 guard minutes, 96 forward minutes, and 48 center minutes per game. duel position players are either GF or FG, your choice; the minutes they play would count toward the first position first then excess ones go into the next position. A typical box score would look like this:
G/F/C = minutes counted toward a specific postion
PFP = Player's total fantasy points
FP = Fantasy Points toward team total.
Player Team Pos
Rb As bl st pt to tf min G F C PFP FP
Wade MIA G 5 7 1 3 41 3 0 47 47 0 0 54 54
Jamison WAS F 11 1 0 2 12 1 0 41 0 41 0 25 25
Hawes SAC C DNP: Not on Active Roster 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okur UTA CF 11 2 0 2 20 2 0 33 0 0 33 33 33
Love MIN CF 15 2 1 0 16 2 0 23 0 8 15 32 32
WestbrooOKL G 6 9 1 1 22 4 0 42 42 0 0 35 35
Wallace CHA GF 6 3 0 4 23 1 0 41 7 34 0 35 35
ChalmersMIA G 4 4 0 1 13 1 0 41 0 0 0 21 0
Miller MIN GF 4 3 1 1 8 2 0 22 0 13 0 15 8
Outlaw POR F 3 1 1 0 14 1 0 34 0 0 0 18 0
Boone NJN CF 6 2 2 0 9 2 0 25 0 0 0 17 0
Young PHI F 2 2 0 2 10 2 0 33 0 0 0 14 0
Total points: 223
Each of the above player's stats are taken from his teams' 35th game of the season. This way each matchup is not affected by playing games at different frequencies.
So you can see that Wade used 47 guard minutes and westbrook 42, meaning there were 7 left over. the next guard on the roster was Wallace, so he chipped in 7 minutes at the guard position and the rest went to the forward spot. Once you get down to Miller, you see he played 22 minutes but there were only 13 left at his position, so he contributes a proportional amount of his point total toward the team's total. This particular team did not waste any minutes, but if there are injuries or your roster is stacked with players that are very productive per minute but don't play a lot of minutes you end up wasting minutes. On the other hand, stacking your roster with players who play a lot of minutes but don't do a lot of things also hurts you.
I think this is the most fun and clever set up I've used for basketball.
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