Posted by HoopsAvenue on October 1, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball | 
HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball is LIVE!
We are very excited about fantasy basketball this year and don’t want you to miss out on the action. If you haven’t registered yet, click here and get your team now!
If you’ve already registered, it’s time to begin setting your opening day roster. Click here to access your team.
The season is now just 27 days away. The Cavs and Celtics will tip things off at 8 PM on October 28th! Are you ready?
HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball is unlike any other fantasy basketball league. Here are the basics:
- Choose a roster of 5-8 player each day staying under the salary cap
- Divide up a total of 240 minutes among those players
- Scores are tabulated daily and you can adjust your roster whenever you want
- Player prices fluctuate daily depending on their fantasy value and demand
- We keep track of daily, weekly, and season rankings
By giving you the option of going “all in” with 5 players playing 48 minutes each or spreading your minutes among up to 8 players, we’ve added a whole new dimension to fantasy basketball. Throw in the fact that you need to balance fluctuations in the player market with the need to rack up fantasy points on a daily basis and the strategies are endless!
We hope to see you on the leaderboards so sign up today!
Posted by HoopsAvenue on September 22, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball, General NBA |
This week HoopsAvenue has been called upon to host the 60th edition of the Carnival of the NBA maintained by Bulls Blogger! If this is your first carnival, don’t be confused, just remember the links tell the story.
Let me introduce you to The Brotherhood of the Traveling Blogs…
We begin our travels in Boston where we receive some important instructions on how we are to scale any mountains we may come across. This advice will come in handy later, but for now we are sent to the nation’s capital with the Celtics where we meet with our leader.
While in DC, we hear from another leader, the worldwide leader thinks we should investigate the continent across the Pond, but is it a good idea? We decide to head overseas to check it out.
Our first stop is Italy where Andrea Bargnani is all the rage. We’re told
why he struggled last season. Hmm, could he be ready for a breakout season? He could be
the X factor.
Wait, we’ve just received an urgent message…”The world might be ending.”
Eeek. We hear that we need to go to Switzerland to investigate. Luckily, we’ve learned how to scale mountains so the Alps are no problem.
We arrive in Geneva where we learn the Large Hadron Collider has been tested and worked fine. That’s a relief. It did
suck up the Timberwolves though.
Looking for some positive news, we head back to the States and arrive in Miami where we catch up with Michael Beasley. He’s in a particularly good mood and tells us
he’s on his own now. He’s obviously in a very jubilant
Starbury-esque mood and tells us he knows how to travel through time.
This is good news because we’ve heard of a
little-known team called the White Horses that played one season only in 1938. That was a refreshing history lesson, but now we’re heading back to modern days to
enjoy the scoring abilities of a mystery man.
Well, our little trip with Beasley is over and now we’re back in 2008 where we find out
what Josh Howard was really talking about on that video.
Before we end our journey, we’re reminded its time for fantasy basketball and we all know how important it is to
pick a good point guard.
It’s important to pick a good league too so why not give
HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball a twirl? One thing is for sure, we’ve got a
good scoring system.
If bloggers reading want to get involved with the Carnival of the NBA, join the group at Ballhype. You can also get information on upcoming (and past) editions of the carnival at blogcarnival.com.
Posted by HoopsAvenue on September 3, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball |
We’re less than 1 month away from the start of HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball and now is the time to join. In case you are new to HoopsAvenue, here are 3 things that make our fantasy basketball league the best on the net:
- Daily, Weekly, and Season Leaderboards - Play a little or play every day, you still have a chance to see your name atop the leaderboard and you can join at any time at no disadvantage.
- Unique “Coach” Feature - In every other fantasy basketball league I’ve seen, you set a lineup and that’s it. There is no strategy beyond who to play and who to bench. In HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball, you can play anywhere from 5 to 8 players and you divide up the minutes. Not confident in a player? Give him maybe 20 minutes. Got a star? Play him all 48 minutes. It’s up to you how many minutes you give each player. You’re not only the GM, you’re the coach, too.
- Demand-based Player Pricing - We’ve developed a state-of-the art, exclusive fantasy player pricing system that places the most realistic value on each player. Not only do we consider the player’s performance, but how many teams have him on their roster, and whether he’s a hot commodity as of late. This means if you spot a gem and move fast, you can sign him for significantly less than your opponents giving you the advantage you deserve. This adds a whole new element to fantasy basketball. Think of it like a stock market.
We hope to see you on the leaderboards this fantasy basketball season!
Click here to register for HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball!
Posted by HoopsAvenue on August 30, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball, Free Agency, General NBA |
With the Olympics ending and the major free agent signing period over with, it’s a boring time of year for NBA fans as we await training camp, but there were a few stories that caught my eye this week:
- Ginobili To Have Surgery - The Spurs did not want Manu to play in the Olympics. He played. He hurt himself. He’s going to be out six weeks after getting surgery done. So should Manu have sat? I don’t think so. If you consider he got hurt on such minimal contact, he was bound to get hurt in the pre-season or early in the regular season so the timing actually works in the Spurs favor. Manu’s not going to miss much game action and the Spurs don’t seem to mind that Tim Duncan doesn’t wake up until March anyways so Manu should be no different. Don’t be surprised to see the Spurs hovering around .500 for a while though.
- Monta Ellis Out 3 Months - Sorry, Warriors, fans. Not a good summer for you. First, Baron Davis bolts for the Clippers of all teams and now your most exciting player is out. At least you got Corey Maggette, though. If he can carry the load for a while and you get some guys to step up, you could still be in playoff contention when Ellis returns.
- Grizzlies Sign Hamed Haddadi - Haddadi will be the first Iranian player in the NBA. He did well in Beijing, but some scouts don’t think he’s ready. The competition in the Iranian league is, well, softer than a marshmallow so we’ll take a wait-and-see approach on this guy. Just don’t expect the next Yao Ming.
Don’t hold your breath, September won’t be much more exciting.
By the way, it’s never to early to sign up for fantasy basketball. Click here to sign up.
Posted by HoopsAvenue on August 2, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball |
Attention Fantasy Basketball players!
We are now only 2 months away from October 1st, the first day you can being setting your roster for your HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball team. That’s the first day you can set your roster, but you can register today. HoopsAvenue offers a unique fantasy basketball league and we’d love to have you in the league. Check out these features:
- Daily and Season Leaderboards
- 8-man Rosters with “Coach” feature
- Demand-based Player Pricing
For all the details on these features and more about the league, check out the fantasy basketball overview.
For players who have already registered and those yet to do so, you can being choosing your team name now. Click here to choose a team name. It’s up to you if you choose a team name now or later, but just remember everyone MUST have their own, unique team name so if you wait ’til the last minute, you might not get the exact name you want.
Good luck!
Click here to register for HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball today!
Posted by HoopsAvenue on July 12, 2008 under Fantasy Basketball |
You may have already noticed it on the left sidebar and your eyes do not deceive you…HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball is here for the 2008-09 season. Just so you don’t forget we invite you to register for the site now so you’ll get the e-mail announcement when you can being setting your roster.
Click here to register for Fantasy Basketball!
Here are some of the feature of the fantasy basketball league:
- Daily and season leaderboards
- Unique demand-based player pricing
- Innovative “coach” features
That’s juat a quick summary. You can read all the details on our 2008-09 Fantasy Basketball page.
It’s never too early to get ready for fantasy basketball so we invite you to register today.
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