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Fantasy Basketball is LIVE!

HoopsAvenue — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:14 +0000

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!

Carnival #60: The Brotherhood of the Traveling Blogs

HoopsAvenue — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:21 +0000

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.

Sign Up for Fantasy Basketball

HoopsAvenue — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:06:35 +0000

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!

2008-2009 Fantasy Basketball Update

HoopsAvenue — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:51:44 +0000

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!

2008-09 Fantasy Basketball

HoopsAvenue — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:48:19 +0000

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.