NERD ALERT: Courtside Notes Fantasy Showdown!
Get out your laptops, your thick rim glasses, fire up your basketball-reference.com because this week we’re showcasing the fantasy showdown between Courtside Notes vs. Natural Born Analysts!
So this is an actual fantasy league we do with our friends, and we just happen to be playing each other this week. We thought we’d let you look in on the battle and we’ll drop in comments throughout the week.
For some background, we’re both doing very, very average this year. We currently sit 6th (Courtside Notes) and 7th (Natural Born Analysts) in a 10 deep league. Ouch! It’s a head-to-head Yahoo league measuring on the standard categories.
Also to help you out, here are our teams as they stand as of the Monday 19th November games:
Courtside Notes (Kuoka’s Team):
- Kyrie Irving
- Kobe Bryant
- Evan Turner
- Danilo Gallinari
- David Lee
- Joakim Noah
- DeMarcus Cousins
- DeAndre Jordan
- Brandon Knight
- Jeremy Lin
- Nikoli Vucevic
- AJ Price
- Ray Allen
- Samuel Dalembert
Natural Born Analysts (Rubioballs):
- Steve Nash
- Paul George
- Chris Paul
- Gordon Hayward
- Thaddeus Young
- Al-Farouq Aminu
- Pau Gasol
- Roy Hibbert
- Shawn Marion
- Danny Green
- Andrea Bargnani
- Tristan Thompson
- Marcus Thornton
- Wes Matthews
I’ve just realised I’ve forgotten to rotate my team for today. Great start…anyhow, take it away!
Courtside Notes 
naturalbornanalysts 4:56 am on November 20, 2012 Permalink |
Day 1 is over, and despite you not starting your team the scoreboard looks like this:
Rubioballs had a nice turnout from Hibbert finally.. .after a shocking start with 20/12/4blk on .800 shooting
Also CP3 wasnt bad with a 19/8 game, but thats kind of the expected standard… I wish this guy wouldnt coast so much during the regular season. I think he is overrated as the 3rd best fantasy guy. I know what GM’s feel like when they get trapped in the draft now…
Kuoka’s Team ( I appreciate the grammatical correctness) had a beast of day from David Lee who is showing signs of his old self after a slow start. Put up 17/19 today in the OT win over DAL. Dano actually caught some form in the surprise Nuggs win over MEM… with a 25/5/3 and not shooting horribly.
Your accidental bench didnt cost you too badly with Dalembert and Price not doing much at all.
I have been trying to make some deals, but we have a bunch of dead fish in our league.. there is nobody in my list who isnt on the block.
Also… Thanks to Houston for really sucking in the 4th and getting my multi over the line! Appreciate it James.
jk41 9:53 am on November 20, 2012 Permalink |
Hibbert finally doing something! I thought he got paid, guest starred on Parks & Recreation and that was the end of it!
CP3 is a tough one. I had him last year and he was good, but I think Love or Westbrook we go ahead of him these days.
Yeah those guys on the bench didn’t really matter in the end. Although that might say more about having them in the first place!
And hang on a minute, Kyrie is out for 4 weeks with a fractured left index finger!! Come on!
naturalbornanalysts 11:55 pm on November 20, 2012 Permalink |
Glad to see you set your lineup today… although I have 4 players (no nash) vs 2 players but you have Kobe so that is like 2 players. I hate Kobe as much as you hate Lebron, but I have to admit he is absolutely killing it this year. I need a big game from Pau against that soft Brooklyn front line.
Yeah that hurts with Kyrie out. I saw you added Boobie… hoping for a few streaky games?
jk41 8:34 am on November 21, 2012 Permalink |
The Black Mamba is ballin’ so far this year! His averages so far this year: 26.3/5.5/5.4/1.5 on 52.8% FG, 39.1% 3PT and 88.2% FT! He had about that today.
Evan Turner is a funny one. He had 12-5-4 on 35%FG. I really thought he would break out a bit more this year, especially with Bynum out to start the year. Last playoffs vs. the Bulls he had some great games, I was expecting more of 18-8-5 with a couple of threes and a steal in there, is that asking too much??
Yeah, I’m hoping for some streakiness from the Boob. Hopefully, he comes through, cos I need it!
Pau had a great day today: 17-11-7 and a block. Good on the Spaniard!
naturalbornanalysts 11:23 pm on November 21, 2012 Permalink |
Today sees full line ups… So a lot will be told today. Especially with Thanksgiving happening tomorrow in the USA and the sports landscape being dominated by football.
Big Pau did have a very nice day, his assists will stay high this year lobbing the ball to Dwight all the time.
And I agree… I drafted Turner in one of my other leagues hoping for a nice year from him. He rebounds well for a SG.. and I thought with their shuffling he would be one of the main options on the offensive end. But I think he is a bit of a victim of the very strange 76ers… one day they scorre 70 and the next they score 110… very strange.
jk41 3:26 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink
Oh man…halfway through today and I think we can safely say this about my team this week:
naturalbornanalysts 10:38 pm on November 22, 2012 Permalink
I love that… but hate that its against my boys haha.
Yeah you are going to need some big days… although Paul George and Hibbert might revert back to what they were.
jk41 8:13 am on November 24, 2012 Permalink
Alright the score is starting to look a bit more respectable now. I’m remotely close in rebounds, assists, steals. Damn, Hibbert and his blowout 10 blocks!
Let’s see how tomorrow pans out!
naturalbornanalysts 12:25 pm on November 25, 2012 Permalink
One day to go and there is still a battle for FG%, Points, Rebounds, Assists. So while the score says 7-2 it is definitely closer than that.
May the nerdiest blogger win!
jk41 1:25 pm on November 27, 2012 Permalink
What a comeback! I called it over on the Thursday, but looks like my boys still had some fight in them.
Shout out to Robin Lopez a.k.a Sideshow Bob for hitting a 17 foot jumper which sealed the deal for me on points. Although the fact that Robin Lopez is winning me a fantasy week probably says a lot about my team as a whole…
Great battle though, we’ll have a post for the revenge leg later in the season.
JK