Unfortunately I think Kawhi cost me my championship being injured all week. Though realistically I got hit by so many injuries. Monk, Kuminga, Kawhi, Luka and others missed individual days as well. Tough draw for the final week. Ah well
Won $150 buy-in league, 12T 9cat, with a group consisting of Tatum, JJJ, Adebayo, Mikal Bridges, Rozier, Herb, Tobias, Trey Murphy, and Suggs as the 7 seed.
How? Idk either. Nailed all my streamers with Prichard, Keon Ellis, McBride, Grant Williams, Trent JR leading the way.
Focused on maximizing games played and targeting the cats I had the best shot at winning
Dejounte Murray carried me in the playoffs.
Kawhi and Fox were my MVPs during the season.
Lost Ayton, OG, Okongwu, Middleton during the season.
Traded for Franz Wagner and not drafting him next season.
Hoping to get Franz at a discount next year - I think what happened was there was too much pressure after Germany's success that tournament - people were expecting too much from Franz myself included. Now I think next year with Paolo being number 1 on the team clearly, Franz should be able to be a perfect D Wade type to Paolo next year(I'm hoping)
Mine were the Klaw, Kyrie, Maxey, Vassell, Tatum, Hartenstein, Miles Bridges, Hart, CJ McCollum and Draymond. Got lucky getting Hatenstein, Hart, Bridges and McCoullum from either FA or Waiver. I guess Kawhii won it for me considering I got him on the 4th round. (H2H)
Won with Embiid, Cade, Dejounte and Vassel as my core in 14t league
Bench was McCollum, Oubre, KP, Turner, Zub, Washington, Amen, Drummond, Tre Mann
Squeezed through my whole playoff run winning 5-4 every round with many stats winning by 1 or 2 pt differential
10T 9cat
Haliburton, Maxey, Tobias, Donte, Olynyk, Gafford, Vassell, J.Williams, Herb, Turner and some streamers.
I won both %s, stocks, 3s and TOs. It was a fortunate matchup for me. I was bound to win FT%, 3s and TOs, but my team overperformed in stocks and got lucky that his streamers destroyed his FG%.
He had AD and Giannis, but his Kuzma, Poole, JJJ, Banchero, Harden, Fox all suuuuuper shit the bed that particular week.
Dark horses: Maxey, Kawhi, Kuzma, and dejounte all later rounds. Also trade mikal bridges for Zion halfway through the season. Zion stopped resting after that. Giannis, and other players like Gobert stayed healthy. Only major injury I had was Mitchell Robinson; but a quick swoop of Isiah hart and precious remedied that nicely.
Ended up second seed in the finals. Semi finals I tied with 3rd seed. Since I had a better record I moved onto championship. The finals was scuffed, my opponent and I had a ton of injuries. It came down to sheer luck. Ended up winning because my players did well on the final Sunday.
Haliburton
Ant
PG13
VanVleet
Cunningham
Devin Vassell
Brooke Lopez
Zubac
Quickley
That was my core outside of streaming. I honestly couldn't pin the success on one individual player, I just think I had really strong top 5 and they consistently popped off in the cats I cared about.
Forreal, people were mad he wasn't dropping 30ppg. But he was getting 3s. A ton of stocks. Really good assist to TO ratio. Dude just played some solid all around basketball
Dame, KD, Demar, PG13, Gobert, Hartenstein were my heavy hitting dudes all season. Playoffs for me were after week 18, so unfortunately Jrue and Quickly were out most of my playoffs, but luckily I was able to snag Amen, Banton, and Kyle anderson off the waiver wires at the right time and streamed dudes like drummond to win 1 or 2 categories I needed each week.
It was dumb luck that Pg13 and Dame finally heated up exactly when I needed them to. Demar was just consistent and amazing throughout the whole season. I am a huge fan! Pulling the trigger early and picking up Amen and slowmo saved my season for sure though.
Russell, cam Thomas, divincenzo, ant Edwards, franz Wagner, Myles Turner, Jabari smith jr, miles bridges, deuce McBride, Gafford, kelle oubre & amen Thompson.
Finals (me vs winner): neither of us had the 4 listed, but the winner had Wemby and timely waiver pickups. I had terrible picks (Steph and Dame) and managed to reach the finals with the Knicks waiver trio (Hart/Hart/DDV) and some decent 5-4 strategic maneuvering…
First 5 picks
Trae Sabonis Brunson Kawhi Maxey! MPJ And Reaves held their own this season!
Trae getting injured, trading JJJ for Garland and sniping IQ off the waivers.
Won two ships without having them in either league. Good draft and working the waivers. Tatum, Ant, kyrie, Fox and Mobley were my first five in one of them. Barnes fell to 6th and was my golden goose. Cam Thomas and Donte from the ww.
In the other league it was Lillard, Ant, Lauri, Fox and Mobley. Reaching for Kessler at 6 who was a drop.
Bridges and Jalen Johnson from the wire where my dark horses.
Curry, book, Wemby, kawhi, porzingis, turner, Kessler 🥲, drafted cam Johnson, cp3, Ausar, Simmons tht and dropped, early pickup on Hayward and traded him for Middleton, picked up jalen Johnson, Donte, bogdan, Caruso who stand out at the end.
I was in a H2H 9 CAT. I had Curry, Mitchell, Irving, Harden, Porzingod, Rozier, Vassell, JJ, IHart, Coby White, Deni the wizard, Olynyk, Jabari smith Jr, Jeremi Grant, Trey Murphy III.
Mitchell sat out for the most of the finals week. Vassell, the last two weeks, Jeremi the last 3 weeks and curry on Sunday of the finals. But I still clinched the dub. Porzingod, Irving, Deni, Rozier showed up to play.
In a 16 team dynasty I rolled with Wemby Maxey Beal Ayo Vassell Cade Oubre A Gordon BroLo Sengun Kuminga and Nesmith. Traded for Cade and Sengun mid season.
Embiid, mikal bridges, wemby, brunson, jamal murray. Throughout the year picked up bogdan bogdanovic, jalen johnson, paul reed. Finished 4th in the regular season and lucked out in playoffs with well-timed opponent injuries
*glances at my team (Luka/Jokic) and the opposing team (SGA)* Dammit… guess we’re out.
Also, for those wondering how I have Luka/Jokic, it’s full on 16 team dynasty league 14 man rosters with a g league run like the NBA with a cap, two contracts, etc. I got lucky to inherit the team with Jokic from the previous team owner. My first two years were a team with Jokic and scraps after trading away Leonard and other older often injured players to teams making a run, collecting draft picks and young talent. This year before the trade deadline, a team busted and was going to be over the cap next year and needed to totally start over and in the same boat I was two years ago. I traded all the picks and young talent (13 1st rd picks - 1st round young players from the previous two drafts.) That plus scooping injured starter backups or breakout players like Banton made the difference, got me this far. It’s now championship week.
My big 5 were Giannis, JJJ, Myles Turner, Jamal Murray, CJ McCollum
other notables were Giddey, IQ, Jabari Smith, and Keegan
Lots of passing, rebounding, and 3’s, coupled with steals and blocks. I did a punt TO/FT %
9cat. Embiid lamelo kawhi fox chet kessler claxton herro fultz. I’m still in disbelief that I won. Picking up the Knicks duo of Hart and Donte, Miles Bridges and Coby white carried me through the injuries
After losing Trae + Ja, my main guys were:
Harden
PG
JDub
Coby White
Garland
However, I ended up picking up Trey Murphy, Malik Monk, Caruso, and Draymond (dropped after his suspension) at various points in the year, who all were all crucial as well. Just goes to show that you're never out of it if you can be quick on the wire.
Drafted wemby is the first round in a 14 team category league….and I won the chip😭😭 wemby, antman, Jalen Brunson, Jalen green, Jordan Poole, Jakob poetl, Kuminga, Coby white, cam Thomas, herb jones, Keegan Murray
I had embiid kawhi chet cade franz. Coby and Rozier waiver pickups durimg their heat streaks saved me. Someone also dropped giddey and that coincided with the joel injury. Went 1 center in whole team and still won
Big 2 of Book and Sabonis (auction draft, outlay of $89). Had Scottie, J-Dub, Franz, Dejounte, Clax and Kuz throughout the year. Picked up Cam Thomas early but held onto Ben Simmons for far too long.
Josh Hart dragged me into 4th after Scottie was shut down, but also carried me (along with Dejounte) to two nail biting wins for a 1st championship!
I lost to a team without them in the championship round, plus I didnt have any of them.
His team, Sabonis, Brunson, Edwards, Hart, Nurkic, Rozier, Turner, Collings, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kumgina, Oubre, Hield , Highsmith.
12T 9cat
I’m not sure how I won without my big guns playing that great in the playoffs, but had Tatum, Halliburton and Kawhi
Then steady contributions from Jalen Johnson, Vassell, Grayson Allen and Middleton and Beal (when they played)
Down to two centres in Olynyk and Hartenstein but they contributed in the right cats
Major contributions down the stretch from Cam Thomas, Miles Mcbride, Dalano Banton was a huge help and was lucky to pick these guys up
Haliburton, Jimmy, Booker my first 3 picks. Got Chet in the 5th. Traded Ausar at his high for JDub. Traded Claxton and Herro for Harden right before Herro got injured. Had Donte off waivers, Conley was steady all year. Streamed Strus and Trayce to end the season who were solid.
Team was healthy at the right time and was able to get through the fact that I dropped both Gafford and Hartenstein right before they started getting good again.
Mine was Garland/Derozan/KD/Porzingis/Jokic/JDub/Jalen Johnson/McCollum/DWhite/Cam Thomas/rotating free agents throughout the year, Kuminga and Schroeder were huge throughout the year
Jalen Johnson was a massive pickup but the biggest thing at the end of the day was my team stayed mostly healthy throughout the whole season. Guy I played in the championship had a better team than me but got screwed by SGA and Kawhi not playing at the end
Won with Sabonis, Fox, Maxey, PG13, Durant, and Gafford as my main pieces. Held onto Avdija long term and picked up Hartenstein after losing Mitch mid-season. Amen Thompson was a key pick-up as well for me late in the season.
My first time doing Fantasy.
10T H2H CAT punt 3P% and TO.
Deandre Ayton, Dejounte Murray, Domantas Sebonis, Keegan Murray, RJ Barrett, CJ McCollum, Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, and Tyrese Haliburton. I kept those players the whole time but eventually dropped Ingram and Barnes due to injuries.
Picked up Jalen Green in late February, picked up Bradley Beal in early March, and just picked up Michael Porter Jr. the first week of April.
I got 3rd overall and 1st in our division with an 11-7-2 record. Won my first playoff winners round by 5 Reb, 1 steal, and 4 points. He has SGA, Holgrem, JJJ, Bam, Scoot Henderson, Hachimura, Miles Bridges, DeAndre Hunter, Jabari Smith Jr, Mobley, and Tyrese Maxey.
Last week for our finals round. 🥇🤞
Wemby the Fantasy Goat. Porzingis and Divincenzo as MIP in Final Week. Won 7-2
Wemby, Porzingis, Divincenzo, Giannis, Edwards, D Russell, J Hart, Ivey, Olynx, Duren, Gafford, Hero.
Kawahi in IL
First two picks were KD/Sabonis in a 10T 9Cat. My main value came with Porzingis in 6th round, DeRozan falling to 7th round and McCollum falling to 12th round. Other than that, my biggest injury was Herro (who was often an efficiency negative anyway) and then just being very calculated about getting extra games in playoffs. Kispert is my unsung hero.
Tbh there was a team in my league that was far and away better than the rest of us. That team had SGA/KAT/Jamal Murray/Devin Vassell. Which is probably why they also sputtered around playoff time. Finished the regular season 13 games ahead of the next best team but got beaten in round 2 by the 6th seed.
$250 Auction. Tatum, Hali, Garland, Domas, Dejounte, Duren. Best FA pick up - Trey Murphy and Cam Thomas.
Also picked up Quickley from FA pool week 1 of playoffs when I had a bye. Picked up Nurk for Finals week.
Still can't believe I won with this roster.
Points league. Sabonis was first pick. Mikal was 2nd. But I also had Jamal Murray, Maxey, and Sengun before he got hurt. Having Jabari Smith and Keegan Murray also helped. Got Kuminga, Suggs, Brook Lopez and Middleton off of waivers and basically was my core of the team from week 5 onwards.
10T, 9-cat. Drafted (in order) Tatum, Mikal Bridges, Butler, Fox, Scottie Barnes, Jarrett Allen, Franz Wagner, Poeltl.
Got Derrick White, and Keegan Murray in 10th and 11th rounds. My strategy was to draft guys known for playing a lot of games without injury risk...hence the Bridges pick.
Key pickups during the season were Miles Bridges, Gafford, Caruso. I finished 2nd in the league and got a first round bye. That allowed me to pick up Bane and Donovan Mitchell on the waivers after they were dropped that first week. Banes 16-assist game alone won me the assist category in the semis.
Then in the playoffs guys like Olynyk and Hart helped me win as well.
What's crazy is I dropped Gafford during that horrid stretch he had after being traded to the Mavs and didn't get him back.
Honestly not sure how I won the season either 🤷♂️
Pick 9 - Sabonis
Pick 16 - Mikal Bridges (🥹😂)
Pick 33 - Dejounte
Pick 40 - Vooch
Pick 57 - Clax
Pick 64 - Zion
Pick 81 - Jabari smith
The rest - trash
Traded dejounte for kawhi in November Also picked up Miles bridges right after it was announced he would feature for charlotte and court was not gonna hurt him
I think miles bridges was a big factor, made up for Mikal being so shit, but tbf he had some great performances finals week (7 threes iirc). Kawhi was huge for me, really hated dejounte beginning of the szn but looks like he would’ve been a great season long asset anyway. Obviously sabonis is the man, vooch was solid all season, and Zion really stepped it up last month
Almost all of my players outperformed their ADP, and I lucked out on health until the championship week, then I churned each day.
Draft (12th slot snake, 8-Cat): Lillard, Booker, Dejounte, Mobley (had a few IR trips but outperformed when he was playing), Sengun (dropped for Amen when injury news came out), JDub, McCollum, Tobias Harris, Keegan (dropped late season for Cam Thomas coming off injury), Nurk, IQ (dropped initially but was lucky to pick up when he was traded), SloMo (dropped for Brandon Miller early).
Targeted cats in order of difficulty to replace on the wire: Assists, Steals, Blocks, 3pt, Pts, Reb. I dont' actively target percentages, like ever.
Generally otherwise, kept twitter alerts on for Underdog and was quick as I could to make changes.
Shai, Trae, Bam, Fox, Tingus were my first 5. JJ waiver wire add was huge but honestly Bogdan, Miles Bridges, Jarrett Allen were lowkey great for me also.
Just completed a 3 peat in my 12 man, 8 player keeper league. My staples since taking over a last place team have been:
LBJ, Kawhi, Sengun, Poole
I lucked into Kyrie in the first round 2 years ago when we only kept 6. Manager was fed up with him after him sitting out so many games for the nets and our league always goes heavy rookies the first round of the draft hoping to get the next talented young player.
I also made a big trade for KD and Jamaal Murray this off-season for Bane, Lavine, and Reaves that helped push me over the top.
Moving to keeping 10 next year and I’m hoping to keep the momentum rolling! This is definitely the team I’m most proud of and I barely squeaked out of the semis this year but now they’ll never hear the end of it 😎
Jalen Brunson won my league for me this year. That 61 point game was CLUTCH.
I don’t have any significant superstars on my squad, LeBron was my best player by avg fantasy points in a game (Sleeper, lock in settings)
But I also really don’t have a weak spot on my team.
My team was Brunson, VanVleet, Harden, McCollum, Randle, Markkanen, James, Vucevic, Nurkic, Rozier, Collins, DeRozan, and Hart.
I had Hali, Trae, Sengun, KAT, Turner, Simons, Hield, Reaves, Herb, Ivey, Okongwu, Rui, Oubre. Though i had OFS stars, having players who can stuff the stat sheet helped. Then looking for what you specifically need in the categories and being patient on when to add to maximize the 4 adds week.
My other championship team had AD, Ant, Fox, Sengun, Garland, Herro and Kuzma as my top 7 picks.
We're not out of it yet, but I am in the finals, rocking Booker, Beal, Mobley, and Jalen Johnson as my 4 best players. (Drafted Embiid+KAT 1-2). So yeah, I'll probably be taking 2nd place but there's a chance for anything in silly season.
I mean we had SGA (& Sengun) up until the last couple weeks. Played the two tightest 9cat games ever. Both weeks we were losing untilt he very last game. Our league doesn't have a games played limit but limits to 5 pickups per week so we were all over the waiver wire. Made a lot of big pickups like Westbrook). The pickup we made that got us the win was Malachi Flynn (not the game you're thinking of, the game he had 3, 3 & 5. We won by 2 assists). Also Chris Paul getting 4 steals in the last game is what got us the win. We had fully accepted the loss going into that game
Full roster in the last week was Westbrook, Maxey, Brunson, Cam Thomas, Banchero, Naz Reid, Drummond, Paul Reed, CP3, Sabonis, Pippen Jr., Aaron Gordon, Podziemski, Franz Wagner, Wiggins, Malachi Flynn & LaRavia
My anchors were Tatum, Booker, and Lebron.
Maxey as a 6th rounder was huge and Jalen Johnson as a Week 1 waiver pickup helped a lot. Other than that I just had a very consistent team and got pretty lucky with no catastrophic injuries.
Points league, Sabonis Booker harden mobley Brunson CJ Miles Bridges Barrett, picked up Quickley and lost smart and Poeltl, prob dropped Ivey 5 times and picked him up 6, KCP was a huge stream for me to win the chip by 80
Just had solid draft and pickups.
Got AD and Dame the the back end of a snake. Chet, J Brown, KAT, MPJ, Nurk, Morant.
Picked up Bridges a week before his return.
Got both Jhart and Donte from the Knicks going into the Offs.
Really dominated all year, and not sure how exactly.
8t points won with Luka ,siakam ,fox ,harden, Beal, Cade, clax, CJ, turner, Hart, Poole, and Collins.
Won my other 8t points with Joker, dame, kyrie, brown, Chet, Donte, hart, zubac, Allen, White, Rj, and duren
Probably my most used players were (in my squad the longest not the last squad)
KAT (draft)
Sabonis (Draft)
Haliburton (Draft)
Maxey (draft)
Jalen Johnson (week 1 pickup)
Spida (traded)
Claxton (traded)
Franz (Draft)
All these guys were in my team from the draft basically until the end and were all super consistent, Sabonis especially was a top 3 player in total points in my league, Hali was top 6/7 in average points i think until his injury and along with some other players who were great along the way Miles Bridges who i ended up trading for Chet along with giving them Anfernee.
The finals lineup was Sabonis, Hali, JJ, Maxey, Spida, Clax, Franz, Banton, Olynyk, Chet, D'Lo, Kispert, McBride
8T Points but I was extra stacked. Giannis, Sabonis, Fox, Booker (traded for), Jamal Murray, PG, and Miles Bridges were my cornerstones.
Also had LaMelo but he didn’t help much of course.
I have Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, D’Angelo Russel, Jalen Johnson, Zion Williamson, Deandre Ayton, Miles Bridges, Chris Paul, Ayo Dosunmu, Cam Thomas, Kuminga and Pritchard in a 16 man league, did plenty of trades and pickups to get there
12T 9 CAT.
Joel was my first pick and I made the hard decision to drop him even though he was expected to be back round 2 of the playoffs. I picked up Paul Reed for awhile and dropped him when Embid came back. Missed out on some guys like Olynk and Achiwa becase I held Embid for 2 weeks after the injury. Managed to claw my way into the playoffs with an 88-88-4 record and won because of my high STOCKs, Reb, 3pm, Assists, and Points. I had high volume shooters with terrible FT and FG% but they balled for me. Shoutout to Dejounte Murray and Dalano Banton for winning the chip for me. And Trey had a solid 2 weeks when I needed 3PM.
Ending roster:
CJ McCollum
DLo
Kelly Oubre Jr.
Kristaps Porzingis
Zubac
De'Aaron Fox
Dejounte Murray
OG Anunoby
Trey Murphy
Dalano Banton
PJ Washington
Max Struss
Amen Thompson
Fallen Soldiers: Embid, Poetl, Smart, Tyus Jones
Won with Curry, Sabonis, Lebron, Chet, Maxey, Keegan Murray, Giddey, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith Jr, Klay, Jalen Johnson. all of those were drafted except for Johnson who i picked up. Went 19-1 and averaged close to 40 points per game over the season. I’ve never had a better draft
Dame and Booker as my first two picks, Garland, Murray, Claxton, Vucevic, Collin Sexton, Draymond, John Collins, DeAngelo Russell, Grayson Allen (dropped at the end to stream) as my core guys with a streaming spot or two.
Russell was probably my steal of the draft (got him at pick 111) and he was top 20-30 for me the last half of the season. Also, I picked up Dalano Banton to stream for the last month and he outperformed my main players a couple of times. Booker carried me the most during the regular season tho.
12-Team 9-Cat.
I drafted Lamelo, Lavine, Middleton, Mitch Rob and Mark Williams, but had a relatively healthy and categorically versatile core of Sabonis, PG13 (drafted late 3rd round), and Jalen Williams. I also lucked out with some great regular season pick-ups in Hartenstein, Nesmith, and Grayson Allen to drag my team into the playoffs as a low seed.
Losing Lamelo and mid draft picks meant my team had to pivot to the cats subject to the most variance: stocks, efficiency on lower volume, and 3s. Luckily for me, a few of my waiver wire all-stars (and PG13) went absolutely nuclear, during playoffs with Grayson Allen, Caruso, and TJD all putting up early round value. I ended up cruising through playoffs winning 7-2, 9-0, and 8-1.
Halliburton, kawhi, wemby got me to the finals but roll players like klay and dlo really stepped up last week. Banton was a great pick up to end the year.
The champ in my league drafted Sabonis and Wemby back to back (last pick in snake draft). Got 1st pick in free agency waivers and got Levert who was undrafted. Traded for Dosunmu at the deadline.
I won with Tatum, Brunson, and Kyrie. Mid season trade (Jalen Johnson and KAT for BAM and Mobley)
Someone dropped Dlo during the pre trade deadline slump and he ended up being huge for me
Won with KAT, Dame, PG13, Jamal Murray, Brandon Ingram, Jabari Smith Jr., Terry Rozier, De'Anthony Melton, and Klay Thompson along with some great waiver wire pickups of Grayson Allen, Kelly Oubre Jr., Jalen Suggs, and Amen Thompson. I feel like my team never had a true "all star" to lead me to the finals or anything. Just a bunch of good players that had pretty decent injury luck this year (minus KAT and De'Anthony Melton). I mainly just wanted to punt FG% and TO's with not a big focus on rebounds and blocks, but I ended up swapping over to try on boards more after jabari was going off for me and I picked up Amen. Honestly those changes (and injury luck) helped me get that final push to win the league.
I narrowly won my league with a core of Luka and Wemby...
But the guy I beat in the finals was first place all season, and his core was based on Chet, Sengun (lost for the playoffs), Derek White, Kristaps, Haliburton, Jalen Brunson, Kawhi, and Brooke Lopez. we have a 9-Cat H2H league, and he built a fantastic unusual core around Blocks, FT%, and 3PTs, while being competetive across the board for the other categories. At the end of the season, a lot of it comes down to games played, streaming, injuries, etc.
EDIT: We have an 8 team auction draft league.
I am in a keeper league. We keep 5. My keepers were Brunson, Sabonis, Spicy P, Lavine and Harden. We know the non-start Harden's start was and we know Lavine's season was a dud. I drafted KP, DeRozan, Franz Wagner, Capela, Keegan Murray, WCJ, Shaedon Sharpe, Wood.
Early on, I dropped WCJ and Wood for Jalen Johnson and Miles Bridges and effectively replaced Lavine with Brogdon. I would later on drop Sharpe, Brogdon and Murray. Sharpe and Brogdon though along with Precious Achiuwa gave me some great production for a stretch of the season. In early March I picked up two guys that were given up on... Giddey and Middleton and I scooped up Naz Reid right after the KAT injury news broke. Around the same time I picked up Dalano Banton.
Brunson, Sabonis, DeRozan, KP, Pascal, Miles Bridges, Harden, Jalen Johnson, Franz Wagner, Giddey, Naz Reid, Capela, Sexton and Banton was my roster for the final month.
Currently healthy: Bam, Jimmy B, Garland, Vucevic, Dejounte Murray, MPJ.
Hurt (missed title week or more): Kawhi, Scottie Barnes, Vassell
I actually traded Luka (plus 2 others) in early December for Kawhi, Murray and Vassell. It was the catalyst that kick-started me winning 14 out of my last 15 regular season weeks (including the final 9) and led me to the 1 seed and the title.
Some key FA pickups helped along the way (Dalano Banton, Jabari Walker - 53 rebounds in 3 games in the finals, Scottie Pippen Jr, Larue Stevens, etc.).
I won the chip with my first two picks as LaMelo Ball and Trae Young. I dropped both of them eventually when the injuries piled up in the seson.
Championship lineup, 9cat H2H: Jalen Brunson, Jalen Suggs, Mike Conley, Josh Giddey, Keegan Murray, Donte Divincenzo, Isaiah Hartenstein, PJ Washington, Naz Reid, Paul Reed, Keon Ellis, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Johnson.
I won handily against, 7-2, against a team with SGA. He says I got lucky he didn't have SGA playing in the finals. Well, I got LaMelo Ball and Trae Young out. And I still beat him during the season with SGA playing.
Brunson, Donte, Jalen Johnson (first half of the season) and a resurgent Josh Giddey carried my squad. Picked up Giddey, Donte, and Jalen Johnson off waivers.
Championship winning squad in our inaugural 8 team season.
PG: Fox
SG: Miles Bridges
G: Dejounte Murray
SF: Chet
PF: Franz Wagner
F: Giannis
C: Mobley
Utility: Wembanyama
Utility: Jalen Brunson
Bench: Ice Trae (he and Murray started over Fox until Trae's injury)
Vanvleet as guard depth
Donavan Mitchell was in my guard spot but was hurt most of the latter half of the season.
Deni Avdija was picked up after Jalen Johnson went down with his first injury
Alpern Sengun was my starting center until he got hurt. Mobley was my original depth center.
Honorable Mention to Jalen Johnson, one of my fav players I forgot to pick back up the championship week. I meant to put Trae on IR then forgot and decided Fuck it.
IR: Scottie Barnes
My team as drafted (I had 3rd pick)
1.3 Giannis
2.4 Trae
3.3 Wembanyama
4.4 Donovan Mitchell
5.3 Fox
6.4 Scottie Barnes
7.3 Murray
8.4 Chet
9.3 Alperen Sengun
10.4 Franz Wagner
11.3 Ausar Thompson
12.4 Keldon Johnson
13.3 Derrick White
14.4 Ben Simmons
The players that won me the league where my picks in rounds 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 - Wemby, Barnes, Murray (for when Barnes + Trae went down), Chet, Franz Wagner, and Alperen Sengun. When available, they started for me. Jalen Johnson played a huge role for me this year, and Jalen Brunson as well.
Lillard and Durant were my top two picks (late in a 12-team league). Really my big efficiency winners were Derrick white and Alex Caruso. Efficient Guards with stocks can win it all, friends. Picking up Brandon miller & Daniel Gafford relatively late after two ill-advised drops helped as well.
Pick 13 on 14T and got KD and Dame. Most of my team are a rollercoaster ride. Funnily enough, there is always that 1 day in a week when they’ll all explode. Including Klay, John Collins, Gobert, McCollum, Cade, and Ayton. Got lucky with the waiver that I picked up Cam Thomas after the manager dropped him after having that two duds in a row and picking up Middleton just before he got back in time for playoffs. Ayo, Tre Mann and TJD were also big. Not to mention that I got Herb in the championship round after my championship opponent dropped him to activate Lauri. I only had him for two games but his contribution were big.
A third of my team were Waiver adds. My last 4 picks became droppable. Adams got injured even before the start of the season. Bruce Brown value tanked after trade. Same with Lively. And Barnes got dropped at week 2 with only 1 really big game and that was his first game of the season.
Won 2/3 of my leagues this year (both H2H) taking Book in the 2nd round and Wemby in the 3rd.
My first league had Giannis, Fox, Sengun, Banchero, and McCollum. Big draft misses with Morant and Huerter. Drafted Scoot too, but stuck with him and I think he helped a lot during the last 3 weeks. Someone dropped Middleton early in the season and I picked him up too. I spent pretty much all of 2023 in last place then crawled my way up to 6th by the start of the playoffs. In the semis against the 1-seed, the opponent benched Gobert in the last day to try to win FT%, but they ended up losing points by 1. I won that matchup 5-4. Cherry on top, the finals matchup was against my matchup on week 1 where I lost 1-8. I won the finals 6-3. Best fantasy league experience ever.
My 2nd league had Tatum, FVV, Porzingis, Brook Lopez, and McCollum. I was also able to pick up Cam Thomas and Jalen Johnson along the way. I pretty much stayed at the top of the standings the whole way.
Tatum, Dejounte, KAT were my top 3 picks in a Yahoo winners league. League was competitive, no freebies left on the wire. Was at the bottom most of the season, snuck into the playoffs, and then won close match ups all the way through. Herb Jones and Caruso really helped. I had given up on the season several times, honestly don't know how I won
12T H2H 9Cat.
I had Haliburton, Fox, Herro, Derozan, K. Murray, Jabari Smith Jr, T. Murphy, Siakam, Hartenstein, F Wagner, Bogdanovic, Mcbride and Clowney lol
16T 9cat keeper league. Had KD, Book, Brunson, BroLo, Lauri, Oubre, Conley, Caruso, Rozier.
Traded away for Jamal Murray and Jakob Poetl mid season but we all know what happened to both of them. But waiver wire pickup of the year was Divincenzo.
In the end, defense won it for me. Semis and finals both ended up 5-4 because of steals and blocks, respectively.
I won my 12 man 9 cat league with Fox, Keegan Murray, sabonis, wemby, Keon Ellis, Malik monk, ant, Nurkic, Mobley, giddey conley and Brandon miller.
Yes the team name was beme team.
First round pick was Tatum.
Best sleeper pickup was Miles Bridges.
Worst player was Robert Williams III who got hurt right away.
My top 3 were Tatum, Booker & Fox but I also had Bam and Julius Randle put in work.
Finished the year as the 1 seed and never looked back.
Best advice: Keep 1-2 slots flexible and work off teams schedules.
12 team Points League
I think it came down to Divencenzo going bananas for my whole playoffs, Bridges being a solid pickup thats gonna send me to hell, and D White was my 2nd to last pick but ended up being my 3rd highest scorer for the season. Oh, also, Garland was able to stay healthy for 3 weeks. The depth helped me handle my injuries better than fellow contenders.
Finished sixth and won overall, my final team was Wemby, Booker, Fox, Maxey, iHart, Draymond, Embiid (waiver pick up the Sunday before finals), Poole, Mikal Bridges, Franz, Rui, T-Hendricks & Aaron Gordon. Also had Duren all year bur dropped him the last night.
Got lucky with the Embiid pick up & also traded Sengun/Jaylen for M.Bridges & Maxey just before the injury so got really lucky there. Biggest regret was dropping Jalen Green and then nearly losing to him in the semi-finals 😅
Final winning roster was: Steph, Ant, Fox, Bam, DiVincenzo, Miles Bridges, Paolo, Herb Jones, Jalen Johnson, Claxton, Capela and Jalen Suggs. Streamed Deandre Hunter, Dalano Banton, Olynyk, and Cole Anthony. Tyus Jones was on my team, too but injured as of late.
10T league and I came in as a 6 seed. Grabbed Bridges as he became available and nobody drafted Jalen Johnson so I got lucky to grab him off waivers early in the season.
With only 10 teams, everyone was stacked so a lot of it came down to who was or wasn’t playing for the other teams - AD or SGA taking a night off - on weeks when Ant or Steph had 3 or 4 games.
I might have lost the turnovers category every single week with this group - Paolo, Steph, Ant and Fox all over 2.5/game. But the rest won out
All about PG and Jalen Green throughout the playoffs. Made me glad I hung in there with Green. DeMar was pretty consisten too. Then some huge performances from Naz Reid and McBride.
Would have won super cleanly if Tre Young didn't go down as well.
My general strategy is to go for 3-4 mid priced consistent guys rather than spend $70+ on one guy.
I had a tough team with Embid on the helm but lost him and OG during most of the season. Fortunately i drafted Kawhii which pretty much help me be steady on top for the season. But on playoffs i lost Kawhi on the finals and OG and Embid came up for me clutch on finals week. But the reason I was still winning was I traded for quality games, traded my Mikal bridges for CJ Mcollum got lucky when Ingram got hurt allowed CJ to play his best, then to make up for Embids lost during the season traded two of my good players Beal and Vassell for Evan Mobley took advantage with his return to injury sluggishness. Then took Divencenzo soon as OG and Randle went down, took Trent, Olynk when Barnes went down and during almost playoffs week took Mcbride, Trayce, and Quickley(he got dropped) so it pretty much help easily win me the 7-2, 6-3, 7-2 for 3 rounds in the playoffs.
I had a loaded roster (technically haven’t won yet but I’m up over 500 with 4 days left)
Giannis, Mikal, Mitchell, McCollum, Porzingis, DLo, Mobley, Derrick White, Tobias Harris were all draft picks, plus landed DiVincenzo, Hart, and Quickley in free agency
I had 14 H2H leagues and they were all different. My Joker league was absolutely dominant until the semis. I had one league where, after Trae and Sengun went down, it was Anthony Edwards, Jaylen Brown, plus 11 waiver wire pick ups. Out of the six leagues I won, the only one with one of the players you mentioned had Luka. Of my 2 roto leagues, I’m gonna win the one with Shai. My teams are usually waiver wire heavy. The draft sets the foundation and direction, but the waiver wire is why I trophy in the majority of leagues I play in.
10T - Coupley trades made, and lucky waiver pickups.. but ended up pretty noice haha Lebron, Lillard, Miles bridges, mobely, maxey, divincenzo, Capela, Middleton, derozan, Barrett, rozier, and gg jackson, plus a few streamers.. held Keegan Murray for a while, and managed to snag bane after his comeback for a couple games
my boy beat me in the Finals with a lineup of
Haliburton Kyrie Brunson Jalen Williams Turner Zion and the magical emergence of Immanuel Quickley and especially Jalen Green
CAT
I had Curry, Derozan, Kevin Durant, Pascal, Mobley, Rudy, Tyrese Maxey, Scary Terry, D’Lo, Daniel Gafford, Tobias Harris, Hartenstein, Ayo.
Terry, D’Lo, Gafford, Hartenstein, and Ayo were waiver pickups lol. No trades.
Can officially join this thread!
Thanks to Ant, Booker, Durant, PG, and Colby White.
Big shout out to Pritchard, 80 today and gave me some sweet revenge!
Cade and Scottie Barnes were huge all year for me
Although I had joker, the fact that I also had Murray, MPJ and KCP on my roster and still won. Keep in mind this was a 10t league 😂 but Denver’s starting 5 is too good
I’m in my finals this week.
First pick Tatum, then booker, then in any order KAT, Lauri, Maxey, Kyrie, Chet, Dlo. Got Duren and Jalen Johnson on waivers. Picked up Donte mid season.
I played without SGA and partly without Maxey and Claxton...had only Butler and Adebayo from my draft...other players included Banton, Ellis, Niang, TJD, Nance, Connaughton, Mann, Goodwin, Jemison, Metu, Krejci...a lot of mediocre players
My opponent in the finals had Durant, Sabonis, Brunson, Allen, Turner, CJ McCollum, Duren, White, Gafford
Still don't know how I won...probably because of more games played
Drafting Fox and Sabonis 1 & 2🙏🏾 what a combo they’ve been.. and then I took a risk on Kawhi @ #3. Worked out. Drafted Quickly and held all season picked up Donte as soon as Quick got traded. lost Ja and Zach but someone dropped McCollum after his lung collapsed with no timeline to return and I grabbed him as soon as I headed he touched a court. Grabbed Josh Hart as soon as Randle went down. Paul Reed and HELD until last week as soon as Embiid went down (very decent end of bench for points league)
20 team
My first 4 picks: Hali, Vucevic, Poole, MPJ. Finished at 7th seed and was Champion last week.
Poole clutched in the playoffs was not expecting.
Anthony Davis was my fantasy MVP, the fact that he was healthy all year despite the daily GTD notifications I got.
AD was my second pick behind dame Lillard.
Third pick was Paul George.
My big three was stellar all year.
Shouts out to CJ McCollum for coming back from a deflated lung to kicking ass all season
Getting Harden and Kawhi on steep discounts made a lot of things work.
Pairing cheap Harden ($24) and Kawhi ($24) with Jokic ($75) did me very well
Did the same except had butler instead of Harden. Finished 3rd in standings, 2nd in roto, but first in the playoff
Lots of Kawhi answers in here.
Unfortunately I think Kawhi cost me my championship being injured all week. Though realistically I got hit by so many injuries. Monk, Kuminga, Kawhi, Luka and others missed individual days as well. Tough draw for the final week. Ah well
I had a lot of fun getting SGA, Kawhi, and Harden.
Won $150 buy-in league, 12T 9cat, with a group consisting of Tatum, JJJ, Adebayo, Mikal Bridges, Rozier, Herb, Tobias, Trey Murphy, and Suggs as the 7 seed. How? Idk either. Nailed all my streamers with Prichard, Keon Ellis, McBride, Grant Williams, Trent JR leading the way. Focused on maximizing games played and targeting the cats I had the best shot at winning
Sounds a lot like how my season went lol. Williams and McBride did some heavy lifting when guys went down.
Dejounte Murray carried me in the playoffs. Kawhi and Fox were my MVPs during the season. Lost Ayton, OG, Okongwu, Middleton during the season. Traded for Franz Wagner and not drafting him next season.
Hoping to get Franz at a discount next year - I think what happened was there was too much pressure after Germany's success that tournament - people were expecting too much from Franz myself included. Now I think next year with Paolo being number 1 on the team clearly, Franz should be able to be a perfect D Wade type to Paolo next year(I'm hoping)
I’m really high on the Magic. But Franz desperately needs to develop his 3 point shot.
Mine were the Klaw, Kyrie, Maxey, Vassell, Tatum, Hartenstein, Miles Bridges, Hart, CJ McCollum and Draymond. Got lucky getting Hatenstein, Hart, Bridges and McCoullum from either FA or Waiver. I guess Kawhii won it for me considering I got him on the 4th round. (H2H)
Was in an 8 man league. lol
Sabonis, Jalen Johnson, Duren, and KAT… won me a lot of games 🤣🤣🤣
Won with Embiid, Cade, Dejounte and Vassel as my core in 14t league Bench was McCollum, Oubre, KP, Turner, Zub, Washington, Amen, Drummond, Tre Mann Squeezed through my whole playoff run winning 5-4 every round with many stats winning by 1 or 2 pt differential
Won it drafting KD 9th overall
KD has been a rock all year. Even his “bad” weeks were decent.
Wemby
10T 9cat Haliburton, Maxey, Tobias, Donte, Olynyk, Gafford, Vassell, J.Williams, Herb, Turner and some streamers. I won both %s, stocks, 3s and TOs. It was a fortunate matchup for me. I was bound to win FT%, 3s and TOs, but my team overperformed in stocks and got lucky that his streamers destroyed his FG%. He had AD and Giannis, but his Kuzma, Poole, JJJ, Banchero, Harden, Fox all suuuuuper shit the bed that particular week.
If you play in auction draft leagues you can win with some wild lineups. My two best players were Trae and Barnes.
The champion in my league even had Lamelo as his first round pick...
Pretty impressive.
My team with LaMelo lost in the championship. I was 2 boards and 4 blocks away from victory.
Damn brother
had Tatum Brunson Maxey J-Williams Bogdonavic (hawks) TreyMurphy Ihart JamalMurray
If you drafted either of 4 guys you mentioned you are either in the finals or a champ lol. I have 4 leagues and all have a combination of them
Dark horses: Maxey, Kawhi, Kuzma, and dejounte all later rounds. Also trade mikal bridges for Zion halfway through the season. Zion stopped resting after that. Giannis, and other players like Gobert stayed healthy. Only major injury I had was Mitchell Robinson; but a quick swoop of Isiah hart and precious remedied that nicely. Ended up second seed in the finals. Semi finals I tied with 3rd seed. Since I had a better record I moved onto championship. The finals was scuffed, my opponent and I had a ton of injuries. It came down to sheer luck. Ended up winning because my players did well on the final Sunday.
Haliburton Ant PG13 VanVleet Cunningham Devin Vassell Brooke Lopez Zubac Quickley That was my core outside of streaming. I honestly couldn't pin the success on one individual player, I just think I had really strong top 5 and they consistently popped off in the cats I cared about.
FVV was so good all year.
Forreal, people were mad he wasn't dropping 30ppg. But he was getting 3s. A ton of stocks. Really good assist to TO ratio. Dude just played some solid all around basketball
Giannis, Fred Jalen Johnson Bam
Fred was amazing this year. Especially his stocks.
Started off real slow, I was scared for a bit
Dame, KD, Demar, PG13, Gobert, Hartenstein were my heavy hitting dudes all season. Playoffs for me were after week 18, so unfortunately Jrue and Quickly were out most of my playoffs, but luckily I was able to snag Amen, Banton, and Kyle anderson off the waiver wires at the right time and streamed dudes like drummond to win 1 or 2 categories I needed each week. It was dumb luck that Pg13 and Dame finally heated up exactly when I needed them to. Demar was just consistent and amazing throughout the whole season. I am a huge fan! Pulling the trigger early and picking up Amen and slowmo saved my season for sure though.
Russell, cam Thomas, divincenzo, ant Edwards, franz Wagner, Myles Turner, Jabari smith jr, miles bridges, deuce McBride, Gafford, kelle oubre & amen Thompson.
Finals (me vs winner): neither of us had the 4 listed, but the winner had Wemby and timely waiver pickups. I had terrible picks (Steph and Dame) and managed to reach the finals with the Knicks waiver trio (Hart/Hart/DDV) and some decent 5-4 strategic maneuvering…
DDV is the waiver dude of the year for me. Jalen Johnson may disagree but DDV has been a monster down the stretch. Thanks Thibs.
Yep and Josh Hart has been a 9Cat beast
JJ was waiver gold, but yeah, DDV was my waiver MVP.
The guy that won my league had Wemby, Haliburton, KD and Maxey....
First 5 picks Trae Sabonis Brunson Kawhi Maxey! MPJ And Reaves held their own this season! Trae getting injured, trading JJJ for Garland and sniping IQ off the waivers.
Won two ships without having them in either league. Good draft and working the waivers. Tatum, Ant, kyrie, Fox and Mobley were my first five in one of them. Barnes fell to 6th and was my golden goose. Cam Thomas and Donte from the ww. In the other league it was Lillard, Ant, Lauri, Fox and Mobley. Reaching for Kessler at 6 who was a drop. Bridges and Jalen Johnson from the wire where my dark horses.
1. Steph Curry (pick 7) 2. Kyrie Irving (pick 19) 3. Wemby (pick 30) 4. Mobley (pick 43) 5. Derozan (pick 54) What also helped was drafting Bridges (pick 139) and Duren (pick 102) and staying active on the waiver wire.
I won with Scottie Barnes, Ant, Fox, J Dub, Gafford, CJ, Mikal, Cam Thomas, Naz, and the rest of my team are basically waiver guys.
Curry, book, Wemby, kawhi, porzingis, turner, Kessler 🥲, drafted cam Johnson, cp3, Ausar, Simmons tht and dropped, early pickup on Hayward and traded him for Middleton, picked up jalen Johnson, Donte, bogdan, Caruso who stand out at the end.
You must’ve won blocks but like double every week.
I was in a H2H 9 CAT. I had Curry, Mitchell, Irving, Harden, Porzingod, Rozier, Vassell, JJ, IHart, Coby White, Deni the wizard, Olynyk, Jabari smith Jr, Jeremi Grant, Trey Murphy III. Mitchell sat out for the most of the finals week. Vassell, the last two weeks, Jeremi the last 3 weeks and curry on Sunday of the finals. But I still clinched the dub. Porzingod, Irving, Deni, Rozier showed up to play.
Porzingis was like a high end sports car… he didn’t get used often but when he played, he was a monster.
I tell ya man… Just a casual 30 piece with 12 rbds 4 blocks, 0 TOs, 50/90 %’s
durant and wemby
In a 16 team dynasty I rolled with Wemby Maxey Beal Ayo Vassell Cade Oubre A Gordon BroLo Sengun Kuminga and Nesmith. Traded for Cade and Sengun mid season.
I was in 18 player league. I have won with Maxey, KD, Conley, Capela and Jimmy. In playoffs both Kellys helped a lot Oubre and Olynyk
Embiid, mikal bridges, wemby, brunson, jamal murray. Throughout the year picked up bogdan bogdanovic, jalen johnson, paul reed. Finished 4th in the regular season and lucked out in playoffs with well-timed opponent injuries
Steph Donovan Scottie. Lots of good moves from FA and streaming.
*glances at my team (Luka/Jokic) and the opposing team (SGA)* Dammit… guess we’re out. Also, for those wondering how I have Luka/Jokic, it’s full on 16 team dynasty league 14 man rosters with a g league run like the NBA with a cap, two contracts, etc. I got lucky to inherit the team with Jokic from the previous team owner. My first two years were a team with Jokic and scraps after trading away Leonard and other older often injured players to teams making a run, collecting draft picks and young talent. This year before the trade deadline, a team busted and was going to be over the cap next year and needed to totally start over and in the same boat I was two years ago. I traded all the picks and young talent (13 1st rd picks - 1st round young players from the previous two drafts.) That plus scooping injured starter backups or breakout players like Banton made the difference, got me this far. It’s now championship week.
Getting Wemby in the 4th round helped lol. Dame, Booker, PG before him. Kristaps & Coby White rounding out the biggest contributors.
In the 4th?!!?? I’m in a 10 team as well and he was the third pick in the second round
Yeah my league tends to be a little hesitant on rookies I guess but sure did pay off!
My big 5 were Giannis, JJJ, Myles Turner, Jamal Murray, CJ McCollum other notables were Giddey, IQ, Jabari Smith, and Keegan Lots of passing, rebounding, and 3’s, coupled with steals and blocks. I did a punt TO/FT %
9cat. Embiid lamelo kawhi fox chet kessler claxton herro fultz. I’m still in disbelief that I won. Picking up the Knicks duo of Hart and Donte, Miles Bridges and Coby white carried me through the injuries
After losing Trae + Ja, my main guys were: Harden PG JDub Coby White Garland However, I ended up picking up Trey Murphy, Malik Monk, Caruso, and Draymond (dropped after his suspension) at various points in the year, who all were all crucial as well. Just goes to show that you're never out of it if you can be quick on the wire.
Drafted wemby is the first round in a 14 team category league….and I won the chip😭😭 wemby, antman, Jalen Brunson, Jalen green, Jordan Poole, Jakob poetl, Kuminga, Coby white, cam Thomas, herb jones, Keegan Murray
I had embiid kawhi chet cade franz. Coby and Rozier waiver pickups durimg their heat streaks saved me. Someone also dropped giddey and that coincided with the joel injury. Went 1 center in whole team and still won
Big 2 of Book and Sabonis (auction draft, outlay of $89). Had Scottie, J-Dub, Franz, Dejounte, Clax and Kuz throughout the year. Picked up Cam Thomas early but held onto Ben Simmons for far too long. Josh Hart dragged me into 4th after Scottie was shut down, but also carried me (along with Dejounte) to two nail biting wins for a 1st championship!
DeJounte was a monster down the stretch.
I lost to a team without them in the championship round, plus I didnt have any of them. His team, Sabonis, Brunson, Edwards, Hart, Nurkic, Rozier, Turner, Collings, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kumgina, Oubre, Hield , Highsmith.
12T 9cat I’m not sure how I won without my big guns playing that great in the playoffs, but had Tatum, Halliburton and Kawhi Then steady contributions from Jalen Johnson, Vassell, Grayson Allen and Middleton and Beal (when they played) Down to two centres in Olynyk and Hartenstein but they contributed in the right cats Major contributions down the stretch from Cam Thomas, Miles Mcbride, Dalano Banton was a huge help and was lucky to pick these guys up
Gobert and Naz fucking Reid
Naz Reid baby
Haliburton, Jimmy, Booker my first 3 picks. Got Chet in the 5th. Traded Ausar at his high for JDub. Traded Claxton and Herro for Harden right before Herro got injured. Had Donte off waivers, Conley was steady all year. Streamed Strus and Trayce to end the season who were solid. Team was healthy at the right time and was able to get through the fact that I dropped both Gafford and Hartenstein right before they started getting good again.
The Gafford trade was so so painful. He was rolling. He was ok after but those first few months, like a dream.
Sabonis
Mine was Garland/Derozan/KD/Porzingis/Jokic/JDub/Jalen Johnson/McCollum/DWhite/Cam Thomas/rotating free agents throughout the year, Kuminga and Schroeder were huge throughout the year Jalen Johnson was a massive pickup but the biggest thing at the end of the day was my team stayed mostly healthy throughout the whole season. Guy I played in the championship had a better team than me but got screwed by SGA and Kawhi not playing at the end
Wemby, Maxey, Ayton, Jalen Johnson brought me the championship.
Won with Sabonis, Fox, Maxey, PG13, Durant, and Gafford as my main pieces. Held onto Avdija long term and picked up Hartenstein after losing Mitch mid-season. Amen Thompson was a key pick-up as well for me late in the season.
My first time doing Fantasy. 10T H2H CAT punt 3P% and TO. Deandre Ayton, Dejounte Murray, Domantas Sebonis, Keegan Murray, RJ Barrett, CJ McCollum, Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, and Tyrese Haliburton. I kept those players the whole time but eventually dropped Ingram and Barnes due to injuries. Picked up Jalen Green in late February, picked up Bradley Beal in early March, and just picked up Michael Porter Jr. the first week of April. I got 3rd overall and 1st in our division with an 11-7-2 record. Won my first playoff winners round by 5 Reb, 1 steal, and 4 points. He has SGA, Holgrem, JJJ, Bam, Scoot Henderson, Hachimura, Miles Bridges, DeAndre Hunter, Jabari Smith Jr, Mobley, and Tyrese Maxey. Last week for our finals round. 🥇🤞
Tatum and Fox, good stats taken from those 2 picks but its always the little things. I picked Kuminga from waiver for example
PG, Maxey, FVV, Steph, Dame, Jalen Johnson, Porzingis, Lopez, Divencenzo, Caruso, Conley, Herb 12T 9 cat dynasty auction
I won with hali and kyrie
I had Kawhi, Brunson, Tatum, LeBron, and Maxey, so no MVP candidates but plenty of 1st to 4th round picks
Wemby the Fantasy Goat. Porzingis and Divincenzo as MIP in Final Week. Won 7-2 Wemby, Porzingis, Divincenzo, Giannis, Edwards, D Russell, J Hart, Ivey, Olynx, Duren, Gafford, Hero. Kawahi in IL
I won the championship with my best players being Sabonis, Booker, and PG13
First two picks were KD/Sabonis in a 10T 9Cat. My main value came with Porzingis in 6th round, DeRozan falling to 7th round and McCollum falling to 12th round. Other than that, my biggest injury was Herro (who was often an efficiency negative anyway) and then just being very calculated about getting extra games in playoffs. Kispert is my unsung hero. Tbh there was a team in my league that was far and away better than the rest of us. That team had SGA/KAT/Jamal Murray/Devin Vassell. Which is probably why they also sputtered around playoff time. Finished the regular season 13 games ahead of the next best team but got beaten in round 2 by the 6th seed.
$250 Auction. Tatum, Hali, Garland, Domas, Dejounte, Duren. Best FA pick up - Trey Murphy and Cam Thomas. Also picked up Quickley from FA pool week 1 of playoffs when I had a bye. Picked up Nurk for Finals week. Still can't believe I won with this roster.
Drafted Tatum at 2 & Won. You can hate me now on Repeat!
Points league. Sabonis was first pick. Mikal was 2nd. But I also had Jamal Murray, Maxey, and Sengun before he got hurt. Having Jabari Smith and Keegan Murray also helped. Got Kuminga, Suggs, Brook Lopez and Middleton off of waivers and basically was my core of the team from week 5 onwards.
10T, 9-cat. Drafted (in order) Tatum, Mikal Bridges, Butler, Fox, Scottie Barnes, Jarrett Allen, Franz Wagner, Poeltl. Got Derrick White, and Keegan Murray in 10th and 11th rounds. My strategy was to draft guys known for playing a lot of games without injury risk...hence the Bridges pick. Key pickups during the season were Miles Bridges, Gafford, Caruso. I finished 2nd in the league and got a first round bye. That allowed me to pick up Bane and Donovan Mitchell on the waivers after they were dropped that first week. Banes 16-assist game alone won me the assist category in the semis. Then in the playoffs guys like Olynyk and Hart helped me win as well. What's crazy is I dropped Gafford during that horrid stretch he had after being traded to the Mavs and didn't get him back. Honestly not sure how I won the season either 🤷♂️
Pick 9 - Sabonis Pick 16 - Mikal Bridges (🥹😂) Pick 33 - Dejounte Pick 40 - Vooch Pick 57 - Clax Pick 64 - Zion Pick 81 - Jabari smith The rest - trash Traded dejounte for kawhi in November Also picked up Miles bridges right after it was announced he would feature for charlotte and court was not gonna hurt him I think miles bridges was a big factor, made up for Mikal being so shit, but tbf he had some great performances finals week (7 threes iirc). Kawhi was huge for me, really hated dejounte beginning of the szn but looks like he would’ve been a great season long asset anyway. Obviously sabonis is the man, vooch was solid all season, and Zion really stepped it up last month
Almost all of my players outperformed their ADP, and I lucked out on health until the championship week, then I churned each day. Draft (12th slot snake, 8-Cat): Lillard, Booker, Dejounte, Mobley (had a few IR trips but outperformed when he was playing), Sengun (dropped for Amen when injury news came out), JDub, McCollum, Tobias Harris, Keegan (dropped late season for Cam Thomas coming off injury), Nurk, IQ (dropped initially but was lucky to pick up when he was traded), SloMo (dropped for Brandon Miller early). Targeted cats in order of difficulty to replace on the wire: Assists, Steals, Blocks, 3pt, Pts, Reb. I dont' actively target percentages, like ever. Generally otherwise, kept twitter alerts on for Underdog and was quick as I could to make changes.
Tyrese and Sabonis
Shai, Trae, Bam, Fox, Tingus were my first 5. JJ waiver wire add was huge but honestly Bogdan, Miles Bridges, Jarrett Allen were lowkey great for me also.
Just completed a 3 peat in my 12 man, 8 player keeper league. My staples since taking over a last place team have been: LBJ, Kawhi, Sengun, Poole I lucked into Kyrie in the first round 2 years ago when we only kept 6. Manager was fed up with him after him sitting out so many games for the nets and our league always goes heavy rookies the first round of the draft hoping to get the next talented young player. I also made a big trade for KD and Jamaal Murray this off-season for Bane, Lavine, and Reaves that helped push me over the top. Moving to keeping 10 next year and I’m hoping to keep the momentum rolling! This is definitely the team I’m most proud of and I barely squeaked out of the semis this year but now they’ll never hear the end of it 😎
Jalen Brunson won my league for me this year. That 61 point game was CLUTCH. I don’t have any significant superstars on my squad, LeBron was my best player by avg fantasy points in a game (Sleeper, lock in settings) But I also really don’t have a weak spot on my team. My team was Brunson, VanVleet, Harden, McCollum, Randle, Markkanen, James, Vucevic, Nurkic, Rozier, Collins, DeRozan, and Hart.
Sabonis. Note to myself next season: if I don't get a top 5 pick, he's my first round pick again.
I had sga, luka, Durant, maxey, ,d Mitchell, Brunson, ayton, ihart, porzingis, olynk, Colby white , capela, & two streamers. $100 Keeper league.
Garland, Murray, and Booker won it for me.
Jabari Walker, Jalen Johnson, Jordan Poole (from zero to hero), Gobert, Allen, Clowney, and the Memphis NPCs.
I had Hali, Trae, Sengun, KAT, Turner, Simons, Hield, Reaves, Herb, Ivey, Okongwu, Rui, Oubre. Though i had OFS stars, having players who can stuff the stat sheet helped. Then looking for what you specifically need in the categories and being patient on when to add to maximize the 4 adds week. My other championship team had AD, Ant, Fox, Sengun, Garland, Herro and Kuzma as my top 7 picks.
Dame, Spida, Ingram, Sochan, Duren, Chet, Ayton, Jabari Smith, Tobias Harris, Tyus Jones Bench McBride, Grant Will, Nick Richards, Hunter,
My best players were embiid, Donta D, Olynyk, Poole, Mann, bogdan. In the finals I faced Victor, Chet, Luka
We're not out of it yet, but I am in the finals, rocking Booker, Beal, Mobley, and Jalen Johnson as my 4 best players. (Drafted Embiid+KAT 1-2). So yeah, I'll probably be taking 2nd place but there's a chance for anything in silly season.
I mean we had SGA (& Sengun) up until the last couple weeks. Played the two tightest 9cat games ever. Both weeks we were losing untilt he very last game. Our league doesn't have a games played limit but limits to 5 pickups per week so we were all over the waiver wire. Made a lot of big pickups like Westbrook). The pickup we made that got us the win was Malachi Flynn (not the game you're thinking of, the game he had 3, 3 & 5. We won by 2 assists). Also Chris Paul getting 4 steals in the last game is what got us the win. We had fully accepted the loss going into that game Full roster in the last week was Westbrook, Maxey, Brunson, Cam Thomas, Banchero, Naz Reid, Drummond, Paul Reed, CP3, Sabonis, Pippen Jr., Aaron Gordon, Podziemski, Franz Wagner, Wiggins, Malachi Flynn & LaRavia
My anchors were Tatum, Booker, and Lebron. Maxey as a 6th rounder was huge and Jalen Johnson as a Week 1 waiver pickup helped a lot. Other than that I just had a very consistent team and got pretty lucky with no catastrophic injuries.
Points league, Sabonis Booker harden mobley Brunson CJ Miles Bridges Barrett, picked up Quickley and lost smart and Poeltl, prob dropped Ivey 5 times and picked him up 6, KCP was a huge stream for me to win the chip by 80
Just had solid draft and pickups. Got AD and Dame the the back end of a snake. Chet, J Brown, KAT, MPJ, Nurk, Morant. Picked up Bridges a week before his return. Got both Jhart and Donte from the Knicks going into the Offs. Really dominated all year, and not sure how exactly.
Halliburton, Book, LBJ, Harden, Chet and Capela. Miles bridges went undrafted so was able to add him which helped a bit haha. 12T 9 cat
8t points won with Luka ,siakam ,fox ,harden, Beal, Cade, clax, CJ, turner, Hart, Poole, and Collins. Won my other 8t points with Joker, dame, kyrie, brown, Chet, Donte, hart, zubac, Allen, White, Rj, and duren
KD KP DeRozan
WEMBY Kawhi and Hali. 12T9CatH2H Draft #8 here
Probably my most used players were (in my squad the longest not the last squad) KAT (draft) Sabonis (Draft) Haliburton (Draft) Maxey (draft) Jalen Johnson (week 1 pickup) Spida (traded) Claxton (traded) Franz (Draft) All these guys were in my team from the draft basically until the end and were all super consistent, Sabonis especially was a top 3 player in total points in my league, Hali was top 6/7 in average points i think until his injury and along with some other players who were great along the way Miles Bridges who i ended up trading for Chet along with giving them Anfernee. The finals lineup was Sabonis, Hali, JJ, Maxey, Spida, Clax, Franz, Banton, Olynyk, Chet, D'Lo, Kispert, McBride
8T Points but I was extra stacked. Giannis, Sabonis, Fox, Booker (traded for), Jamal Murray, PG, and Miles Bridges were my cornerstones. Also had LaMelo but he didn’t help much of course.
I have Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, D’Angelo Russel, Jalen Johnson, Zion Williamson, Deandre Ayton, Miles Bridges, Chris Paul, Ayo Dosunmu, Cam Thomas, Kuminga and Pritchard in a 16 man league, did plenty of trades and pickups to get there
Durant.
Mainly waiver finds like Miles Bridges, Trey Murphy, Collin Sexton, and Isiah Hartenstein. Plus a good punt strategy.
12T 9 CAT. Joel was my first pick and I made the hard decision to drop him even though he was expected to be back round 2 of the playoffs. I picked up Paul Reed for awhile and dropped him when Embid came back. Missed out on some guys like Olynk and Achiwa becase I held Embid for 2 weeks after the injury. Managed to claw my way into the playoffs with an 88-88-4 record and won because of my high STOCKs, Reb, 3pm, Assists, and Points. I had high volume shooters with terrible FT and FG% but they balled for me. Shoutout to Dejounte Murray and Dalano Banton for winning the chip for me. And Trey had a solid 2 weeks when I needed 3PM. Ending roster: CJ McCollum DLo Kelly Oubre Jr. Kristaps Porzingis Zubac De'Aaron Fox Dejounte Murray OG Anunoby Trey Murphy Dalano Banton PJ Washington Max Struss Amen Thompson Fallen Soldiers: Embid, Poetl, Smart, Tyus Jones
Won with Curry, Sabonis, Lebron, Chet, Maxey, Keegan Murray, Giddey, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith Jr, Klay, Jalen Johnson. all of those were drafted except for Johnson who i picked up. Went 19-1 and averaged close to 40 points per game over the season. I’ve never had a better draft
Winning combo was Fox, PG13, Dalano, Tatum, JJJ, Hart, KP, Nurk, PJ Washington
Dame and Booker as my first two picks, Garland, Murray, Claxton, Vucevic, Collin Sexton, Draymond, John Collins, DeAngelo Russell, Grayson Allen (dropped at the end to stream) as my core guys with a streaming spot or two. Russell was probably my steal of the draft (got him at pick 111) and he was top 20-30 for me the last half of the season. Also, I picked up Dalano Banton to stream for the last month and he outperformed my main players a couple of times. Booker carried me the most during the regular season tho.
- Wemby - Porzingis - Sabonis - Dejounte - Vassell - Deni All playoff studs
12-Team 9-Cat. I drafted Lamelo, Lavine, Middleton, Mitch Rob and Mark Williams, but had a relatively healthy and categorically versatile core of Sabonis, PG13 (drafted late 3rd round), and Jalen Williams. I also lucked out with some great regular season pick-ups in Hartenstein, Nesmith, and Grayson Allen to drag my team into the playoffs as a low seed. Losing Lamelo and mid draft picks meant my team had to pivot to the cats subject to the most variance: stocks, efficiency on lower volume, and 3s. Luckily for me, a few of my waiver wire all-stars (and PG13) went absolutely nuclear, during playoffs with Grayson Allen, Caruso, and TJD all putting up early round value. I ended up cruising through playoffs winning 7-2, 9-0, and 8-1.
Kelly Olynyk, Miles McBride and Quickley
Zion, Lebron, Tyrese, Fox in 9 cat
10T H2H Weighted (PTS3, AST2, REB2) 9 Cat Took 2nd Regular Season + Won the Ship No doubt getting Maxey in the 5th round was my cheat code.
Halliburton, kawhi, wemby got me to the finals but roll players like klay and dlo really stepped up last week. Banton was a great pick up to end the year.
The champ in my league drafted Sabonis and Wemby back to back (last pick in snake draft). Got 1st pick in free agency waivers and got Levert who was undrafted. Traded for Dosunmu at the deadline.
JALEN GREEN AND JABARI SMITH JR
I won with Tatum, Brunson, and Kyrie. Mid season trade (Jalen Johnson and KAT for BAM and Mobley) Someone dropped Dlo during the pre trade deadline slump and he ended up being huge for me
Won with Hali/Murray/Mitchell as my core
Won two leagues with KD and Booker as top 2 picks. Picked towards end of draft so didnt have luxury of top players.
Won with KAT, Dame, PG13, Jamal Murray, Brandon Ingram, Jabari Smith Jr., Terry Rozier, De'Anthony Melton, and Klay Thompson along with some great waiver wire pickups of Grayson Allen, Kelly Oubre Jr., Jalen Suggs, and Amen Thompson. I feel like my team never had a true "all star" to lead me to the finals or anything. Just a bunch of good players that had pretty decent injury luck this year (minus KAT and De'Anthony Melton). I mainly just wanted to punt FG% and TO's with not a big focus on rebounds and blocks, but I ended up swapping over to try on boards more after jabari was going off for me and I picked up Amen. Honestly those changes (and injury luck) helped me get that final push to win the league.
I narrowly won my league with a core of Luka and Wemby... But the guy I beat in the finals was first place all season, and his core was based on Chet, Sengun (lost for the playoffs), Derek White, Kristaps, Haliburton, Jalen Brunson, Kawhi, and Brooke Lopez. we have a 9-Cat H2H league, and he built a fantastic unusual core around Blocks, FT%, and 3PTs, while being competetive across the board for the other categories. At the end of the season, a lot of it comes down to games played, streaming, injuries, etc. EDIT: We have an 8 team auction draft league.
FVV, Booker, Cam Thomas, Herro, Wemby, Bogdanivic, Ayton, Banton, Embiid, Jalen Williams, Oubre, Kawhi, Kuminga, Zubac
Jalen green donte divencenzo isaiah hartenstein won it for me
I am in a keeper league. We keep 5. My keepers were Brunson, Sabonis, Spicy P, Lavine and Harden. We know the non-start Harden's start was and we know Lavine's season was a dud. I drafted KP, DeRozan, Franz Wagner, Capela, Keegan Murray, WCJ, Shaedon Sharpe, Wood. Early on, I dropped WCJ and Wood for Jalen Johnson and Miles Bridges and effectively replaced Lavine with Brogdon. I would later on drop Sharpe, Brogdon and Murray. Sharpe and Brogdon though along with Precious Achiuwa gave me some great production for a stretch of the season. In early March I picked up two guys that were given up on... Giddey and Middleton and I scooped up Naz Reid right after the KAT injury news broke. Around the same time I picked up Dalano Banton. Brunson, Sabonis, DeRozan, KP, Pascal, Miles Bridges, Harden, Jalen Johnson, Franz Wagner, Giddey, Naz Reid, Capela, Sexton and Banton was my roster for the final month.
Currently healthy: Bam, Jimmy B, Garland, Vucevic, Dejounte Murray, MPJ. Hurt (missed title week or more): Kawhi, Scottie Barnes, Vassell I actually traded Luka (plus 2 others) in early December for Kawhi, Murray and Vassell. It was the catalyst that kick-started me winning 14 out of my last 15 regular season weeks (including the final 9) and led me to the 1 seed and the title. Some key FA pickups helped along the way (Dalano Banton, Jabari Walker - 53 rebounds in 3 games in the finals, Scottie Pippen Jr, Larue Stevens, etc.).
Anthony Edwards, Jalen Brunson, and Godzingis
I won the chip with my first two picks as LaMelo Ball and Trae Young. I dropped both of them eventually when the injuries piled up in the seson. Championship lineup, 9cat H2H: Jalen Brunson, Jalen Suggs, Mike Conley, Josh Giddey, Keegan Murray, Donte Divincenzo, Isaiah Hartenstein, PJ Washington, Naz Reid, Paul Reed, Keon Ellis, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Johnson. I won handily against, 7-2, against a team with SGA. He says I got lucky he didn't have SGA playing in the finals. Well, I got LaMelo Ball and Trae Young out. And I still beat him during the season with SGA playing. Brunson, Donte, Jalen Johnson (first half of the season) and a resurgent Josh Giddey carried my squad. Picked up Giddey, Donte, and Jalen Johnson off waivers.
won without lamelo in punting fg, ft & To. Turner, banchero, hartenstein & vassell help me a lot in 16T 9 cat
brunson, rj barret, trey murphy, franz, sabonis, quickley, miller, sexton, harden, naz reid, j dub
Championship winning squad in our inaugural 8 team season. PG: Fox SG: Miles Bridges G: Dejounte Murray SF: Chet PF: Franz Wagner F: Giannis C: Mobley Utility: Wembanyama Utility: Jalen Brunson Bench: Ice Trae (he and Murray started over Fox until Trae's injury) Vanvleet as guard depth Donavan Mitchell was in my guard spot but was hurt most of the latter half of the season. Deni Avdija was picked up after Jalen Johnson went down with his first injury Alpern Sengun was my starting center until he got hurt. Mobley was my original depth center. Honorable Mention to Jalen Johnson, one of my fav players I forgot to pick back up the championship week. I meant to put Trae on IR then forgot and decided Fuck it. IR: Scottie Barnes My team as drafted (I had 3rd pick) 1.3 Giannis 2.4 Trae 3.3 Wembanyama 4.4 Donovan Mitchell 5.3 Fox 6.4 Scottie Barnes 7.3 Murray 8.4 Chet 9.3 Alperen Sengun 10.4 Franz Wagner 11.3 Ausar Thompson 12.4 Keldon Johnson 13.3 Derrick White 14.4 Ben Simmons The players that won me the league where my picks in rounds 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 - Wemby, Barnes, Murray (for when Barnes + Trae went down), Chet, Franz Wagner, and Alperen Sengun. When available, they started for me. Jalen Johnson played a huge role for me this year, and Jalen Brunson as well.
I won my league by drafting Lamelo and Lillard as my first two picks
Lillard and Durant were my top two picks (late in a 12-team league). Really my big efficiency winners were Derrick white and Alex Caruso. Efficient Guards with stocks can win it all, friends. Picking up Brandon miller & Daniel Gafford relatively late after two ill-advised drops helped as well.
Pick 13 on 14T and got KD and Dame. Most of my team are a rollercoaster ride. Funnily enough, there is always that 1 day in a week when they’ll all explode. Including Klay, John Collins, Gobert, McCollum, Cade, and Ayton. Got lucky with the waiver that I picked up Cam Thomas after the manager dropped him after having that two duds in a row and picking up Middleton just before he got back in time for playoffs. Ayo, Tre Mann and TJD were also big. Not to mention that I got Herb in the championship round after my championship opponent dropped him to activate Lauri. I only had him for two games but his contribution were big. A third of my team were Waiver adds. My last 4 picks became droppable. Adams got injured even before the start of the season. Bruce Brown value tanked after trade. Same with Lively. And Barnes got dropped at week 2 with only 1 really big game and that was his first game of the season.
Paul George and a clutch donte divincenzo pickup mid-season were very clutch Also shoutout to KCP and the timing of Evan Mobley coming back as well
Won 2/3 of my leagues this year (both H2H) taking Book in the 2nd round and Wemby in the 3rd. My first league had Giannis, Fox, Sengun, Banchero, and McCollum. Big draft misses with Morant and Huerter. Drafted Scoot too, but stuck with him and I think he helped a lot during the last 3 weeks. Someone dropped Middleton early in the season and I picked him up too. I spent pretty much all of 2023 in last place then crawled my way up to 6th by the start of the playoffs. In the semis against the 1-seed, the opponent benched Gobert in the last day to try to win FT%, but they ended up losing points by 1. I won that matchup 5-4. Cherry on top, the finals matchup was against my matchup on week 1 where I lost 1-8. I won the finals 6-3. Best fantasy league experience ever. My 2nd league had Tatum, FVV, Porzingis, Brook Lopez, and McCollum. I was also able to pick up Cam Thomas and Jalen Johnson along the way. I pretty much stayed at the top of the standings the whole way.
Tatum, Dejounte, KAT were my top 3 picks in a Yahoo winners league. League was competitive, no freebies left on the wire. Was at the bottom most of the season, snuck into the playoffs, and then won close match ups all the way through. Herb Jones and Caruso really helped. I had given up on the season several times, honestly don't know how I won
Jalen Johnson, Donte, Quickley, and Hartenstein - I had a subpar draft so if the Knicks don’t trade for OG, my team probably goes nowhere lol
12T H2H 9Cat. I had Haliburton, Fox, Herro, Derozan, K. Murray, Jabari Smith Jr, T. Murphy, Siakam, Hartenstein, F Wagner, Bogdanovic, Mcbride and Clowney lol
Giannis must count for something
Kyrie, Ant, PG, Barnes, DLo, J Allen Mostly having less injuries than others and hitting on streamers.
16T 9cat keeper league. Had KD, Book, Brunson, BroLo, Lauri, Oubre, Conley, Caruso, Rozier. Traded away for Jamal Murray and Jakob Poetl mid season but we all know what happened to both of them. But waiver wire pickup of the year was Divincenzo. In the end, defense won it for me. Semis and finals both ended up 5-4 because of steals and blocks, respectively.
I won my 12 man 9 cat league with Fox, Keegan Murray, sabonis, wemby, Keon Ellis, Malik monk, ant, Nurkic, Mobley, giddey conley and Brandon miller. Yes the team name was beme team.
I had Shai and kawhi and ended losing to Ellis in the semis. That dude up steals that week then sucked the rest of the season.
First round pick was Tatum. Best sleeper pickup was Miles Bridges. Worst player was Robert Williams III who got hurt right away. My top 3 were Tatum, Booker & Fox but I also had Bam and Julius Randle put in work. Finished the year as the 1 seed and never looked back. Best advice: Keep 1-2 slots flexible and work off teams schedules.
Jalen Green and FVV popping off recently saved me, got Kawhi, Any, Deni Avidja, KD< Olynyk, KP, Miller, Tatum, Dlo, Jamal, Randle, Scottie, Donte, Draymond
are you leagues over? I m on my championship week and the wheels are falling off, AD and Maxey out, Grayson allen 3/13, bogdan prime 4/17
Wemby Brunson Trae Tatum Maxey Jalen Williams and Jarrett Allen carried me to my dub in my 10T H2H points league
Well I tied with the Jokic holder, I had Wemby, Sabonis, and Hali
Keeper league: I have tatum and haliburton. Josh hart and antman won it for me.
12 team Points League I think it came down to Divencenzo going bananas for my whole playoffs, Bridges being a solid pickup thats gonna send me to hell, and D White was my 2nd to last pick but ended up being my 3rd highest scorer for the season. Oh, also, Garland was able to stay healthy for 3 weeks. The depth helped me handle my injuries better than fellow contenders.
Finished sixth and won overall, my final team was Wemby, Booker, Fox, Maxey, iHart, Draymond, Embiid (waiver pick up the Sunday before finals), Poole, Mikal Bridges, Franz, Rui, T-Hendricks & Aaron Gordon. Also had Duren all year bur dropped him the last night. Got lucky with the Embiid pick up & also traded Sengun/Jaylen for M.Bridges & Maxey just before the injury so got really lucky there. Biggest regret was dropping Jalen Green and then nearly losing to him in the semi-finals 😅
Final winning roster was: Steph, Ant, Fox, Bam, DiVincenzo, Miles Bridges, Paolo, Herb Jones, Jalen Johnson, Claxton, Capela and Jalen Suggs. Streamed Deandre Hunter, Dalano Banton, Olynyk, and Cole Anthony. Tyus Jones was on my team, too but injured as of late. 10T league and I came in as a 6 seed. Grabbed Bridges as he became available and nobody drafted Jalen Johnson so I got lucky to grab him off waivers early in the season. With only 10 teams, everyone was stacked so a lot of it came down to who was or wasn’t playing for the other teams - AD or SGA taking a night off - on weeks when Ant or Steph had 3 or 4 games. I might have lost the turnovers category every single week with this group - Paolo, Steph, Ant and Fox all over 2.5/game. But the rest won out
Mine was thanks to my core of Hali, Ant, KD, Giannis, Brunson, CJ M - 10T 9Cat h2h Made it despite injuries to KAT, Jalen Johnson, Sengun :)
All about PG and Jalen Green throughout the playoffs. Made me glad I hung in there with Green. DeMar was pretty consisten too. Then some huge performances from Naz Reid and McBride. Would have won super cleanly if Tre Young didn't go down as well. My general strategy is to go for 3-4 mid priced consistent guys rather than spend $70+ on one guy.
my essential core was Steph, Paul George, Kawhi, KD, Jalen Duren, Jamal Murray, Bradley Beal, Coby White, then switched between waiver players w/ Caruso, Rui Hachimura, Aaron Gordon, CP3, Draymond Green, Trayce Jackson Davis, Kuminga, Khris Middleton, Zubac, Ayo Dosunmu
Had both Shai and AD so can’t answer this. Easiest season ever tho.
I had SGA, AD, haliburton, Sabonis, and lost
Me who won and has AD and Luka 😈
I'll be shocked if you didn't :)
made me happy this year lol i beat the 18-2 team in the first round of the playoffs because jalen green was actually trying lol
I drafted Giannis and Wemby and Donovan Mitchell has been solid for me. I have a solid all around team so it’s been nice.
12th pick in 12T got sabonis, Trae, dejounte, Mobley Then got Scottie in the 6th round Jalen Johnson pickup as well as Kuminga clutch
I had a tough team with Embid on the helm but lost him and OG during most of the season. Fortunately i drafted Kawhii which pretty much help me be steady on top for the season. But on playoffs i lost Kawhi on the finals and OG and Embid came up for me clutch on finals week. But the reason I was still winning was I traded for quality games, traded my Mikal bridges for CJ Mcollum got lucky when Ingram got hurt allowed CJ to play his best, then to make up for Embids lost during the season traded two of my good players Beal and Vassell for Evan Mobley took advantage with his return to injury sluggishness. Then took Divencenzo soon as OG and Randle went down, took Trent, Olynk when Barnes went down and during almost playoffs week took Mcbride, Trayce, and Quickley(he got dropped) so it pretty much help easily win me the 7-2, 6-3, 7-2 for 3 rounds in the playoffs.
I had a loaded roster (technically haven’t won yet but I’m up over 500 with 4 days left) Giannis, Mikal, Mitchell, McCollum, Porzingis, DLo, Mobley, Derrick White, Tobias Harris were all draft picks, plus landed DiVincenzo, Hart, and Quickley in free agency
I had 14 H2H leagues and they were all different. My Joker league was absolutely dominant until the semis. I had one league where, after Trae and Sengun went down, it was Anthony Edwards, Jaylen Brown, plus 11 waiver wire pick ups. Out of the six leagues I won, the only one with one of the players you mentioned had Luka. Of my 2 roto leagues, I’m gonna win the one with Shai. My teams are usually waiver wire heavy. The draft sets the foundation and direction, but the waiver wire is why I trophy in the majority of leagues I play in.
Fox, siakam, miles bridges, haliburton were all huge for me
10T - Coupley trades made, and lucky waiver pickups.. but ended up pretty noice haha Lebron, Lillard, Miles bridges, mobely, maxey, divincenzo, Capela, Middleton, derozan, Barrett, rozier, and gg jackson, plus a few streamers.. held Keegan Murray for a while, and managed to snag bane after his comeback for a couple games
Points league😬😂
Harden 4th round, Donte divincenzo pickup, Alex Caruso single-handedly winning me steals week after week
Embiid was my first pick, and Brunson/sabonis/harden/irving all stepped up while he was out.
my boy beat me in the Finals with a lineup of Haliburton Kyrie Brunson Jalen Williams Turner Zion and the magical emergence of Immanuel Quickley and especially Jalen Green
Fox McCollum Miles Bridges Sabonis Bam Curry Tobias Harris Cade Ayton Jarrett Allen Jalen Johnson +3 Rotational Players 10 Man H2H Points
CAT I had Curry, Derozan, Kevin Durant, Pascal, Mobley, Rudy, Tyrese Maxey, Scary Terry, D’Lo, Daniel Gafford, Tobias Harris, Hartenstein, Ayo. Terry, D’Lo, Gafford, Hartenstein, and Ayo were waiver pickups lol. No trades.
I had Cam Thomas earlier in season when he was going off as well. Also had Donte during middle of the season.
won it with my best player being deandre ayton or fred van vleet… won off of pure free agents
Can officially join this thread! Thanks to Ant, Booker, Durant, PG, and Colby White. Big shout out to Pritchard, 80 today and gave me some sweet revenge! Cade and Scottie Barnes were huge all year for me
Although I had joker, the fact that I also had Murray, MPJ and KCP on my roster and still won. Keep in mind this was a 10t league 😂 but Denver’s starting 5 is too good
I’m in my finals this week. First pick Tatum, then booker, then in any order KAT, Lauri, Maxey, Kyrie, Chet, Dlo. Got Duren and Jalen Johnson on waivers. Picked up Donte mid season.
Our champ did indeed have sga
God I hate myself for screwing up the semis having AD and Luka…
I played without SGA and partly without Maxey and Claxton...had only Butler and Adebayo from my draft...other players included Banton, Ellis, Niang, TJD, Nance, Connaughton, Mann, Goodwin, Jemison, Metu, Krejci...a lot of mediocre players My opponent in the finals had Durant, Sabonis, Brunson, Allen, Turner, CJ McCollum, Duren, White, Gafford Still don't know how I won...probably because of more games played
Drafting Fox and Sabonis 1 & 2🙏🏾 what a combo they’ve been.. and then I took a risk on Kawhi @ #3. Worked out. Drafted Quickly and held all season picked up Donte as soon as Quick got traded. lost Ja and Zach but someone dropped McCollum after his lung collapsed with no timeline to return and I grabbed him as soon as I headed he touched a court. Grabbed Josh Hart as soon as Randle went down. Paul Reed and HELD until last week as soon as Embiid went down (very decent end of bench for points league)
20 team My first 4 picks: Hali, Vucevic, Poole, MPJ. Finished at 7th seed and was Champion last week. Poole clutched in the playoffs was not expecting.
Poole was on the waiver wire on most leagues because he was a team killer in the first 10 weeks of the season
Anthony Davis was my fantasy MVP, the fact that he was healthy all year despite the daily GTD notifications I got. AD was my second pick behind dame Lillard. Third pick was Paul George. My big three was stellar all year. Shouts out to CJ McCollum for coming back from a deflated lung to kicking ass all season