Forgive me if this topic is in the wrong forum. It didn't seem that relevant to put it in Off Topic, but it may very well go there.
A recent mention of Nicholas Batum's prediction in the "Fantasy Line of the Night" topic had me wondering...
I was just curious on what was the best Fantasy line ever in the NBA? Is there a way to search this through basketball reference? Let's make things simple and restrict it to when blocks and steals were consistently recorded, and let's pretend we are dealing with standard 8 or 9 categories as criteria.
Now the big question is: how do we quantify such an achievement? One obvious example is to use Efficiency. A few of you may remember ESPN hosting a game called VGM (or Fastbreak) where you would choose players (and a coach) based on a salary cap and compete to get the best score. It's a lot like the current pay sites (draftstreet, draftday, etc). You can find out the current NBA leaders in Efficiency per game here. http://www.nba.com/s...litDD=All Teams
Frankly, no matter how you qualify a monster performance, I'm sure there are a few that will top most of the charts regardless of if you use efficiency or a different (reasonable) metric. Also, as with anything, I'm sure there will be a few outliers, e.g.I can see Elmore Smith's 17 block performance scoring very high in a system that highly rewards blocks.
Most people here are more knowledgeable about this topic than me, so I'm curious to hear your responses.
Probably any of the fifteen 5x5 performances could make this list. Some notable ones include Hakeem Olajuwon 29-18-10-5-12, Derek Coleman 21-10-7-7-5, Vlade Divac 19-12-8-5-5, Andrei Kirilenko 19-5-7-8-5. Also worth noting that Hakeem had six 5x5 games. Any of the four quadruple doubles also deserve to be here. David Robinson 34-10-10-2-10, Alvin Robertson 20-10-11-10, Nate Thurmond 22-13-14-12, and I already mentioned Hakeems.
31 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists, 10 blocks. He went 13-21 from the field (61.9%) and 5 of 6 from the line (83.3%)
Also, Chris Webber's game from the 00-01 season:
51 points, 26 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. Went 24-47 from the field (51.1%) and 3 of 6 from the line.
Just two off the top of my head.
Edited by lbjames6, 04 January 2013 - 07:02 PM.
Yahoo $$$ 12 Team Standard H2H 5x5 (39-17-4)
Infield - Mike Napoli, Prince Fielder, Jose Altuve, Ben Zobrist, David Wright
Outfield - BJ Upton, Shin-Soo Choo, Yoenis Cespedes^
Util - Carlos Gomez, Brett Gardner
Bench - Jason Heyward
SP - Matt Moore, Hiroki Kuroda, Brett Anderson (DL), Marco Estrada, Alex Cobb, AJ Griffin
RP - Ernesto Frieri, Jose Valverde*
Bench - Andrew Cashner*, Jose Quintana*, Julio Teheran, Hector Santiago*, Zack Wheeler*, John Lackey*, Juan Nicasio*
In category leagues, I think #12 would be #1. Hakeem completely filled out the stat sheet with 38 points, 17 rebounds, 6 assists, 7 steals, 12 blocks, on 48% and 71% from the line. Only thing he didn't get was 3's (obviously)
Yahoo $$$ 12 Team Standard H2H 5x5 (39-17-4)
Infield - Mike Napoli, Prince Fielder, Jose Altuve, Ben Zobrist, David Wright
Outfield - BJ Upton, Shin-Soo Choo, Yoenis Cespedes^
Util - Carlos Gomez, Brett Gardner
Bench - Jason Heyward
SP - Matt Moore, Hiroki Kuroda, Brett Anderson (DL), Marco Estrada, Alex Cobb, AJ Griffin
RP - Ernesto Frieri, Jose Valverde*
Bench - Andrew Cashner*, Jose Quintana*, Julio Teheran, Hector Santiago*, Zack Wheeler*, John Lackey*, Juan Nicasio*
Personally I enjoyed the line Tim Duncan had in the finals clinching game where he was 1 block away from a quadruple-double (if memory serves, checking now). That is a line I have and always will remember.
EDIT: 21 PTs - 20 REB - 10 AST - 8 BLK... so he was 2 BLKs away.
Edited by crazy47larry, 04 January 2013 - 08:01 PM.
H2H... 12 Teams... Standard 9 Cat Settings... Only 6 Starting Spots (PG, SG, SF, PF, C, UTIL)... 12 Total Roster Spots... Daily Roster Changes... 11/30 FA Move Limit
Originally Drafted But No Longer On Team
C - Brook Lopez (BKN) = [75th] , SG - O.J. Mayo (DAL) = [99th] , PG - Jameer Nelson (ORL) = [118th] , PG/SG - Greivis Vasquez (NO) = [123rd]
if you had Kobe during the 81 point game and you didnt win points, you should of gave up your team on the spot
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"What do we need anybody for? We have Victor Cruz.”
-Coach Tom Coughlin
NFL Favorite Players; Victor Cruz and Cj Spiller
NBA favorite players: Carmelo Anthony(of course) and Damian Lillard (better than Kyrie when its all said and done)
Judging from these responses, it seems like many of you have been playing fantasy for a long time... I started about ten years ago..
Just curious when most of you did? And how was it during the 90s? Meaning, were there hosting sites like ESPN, Yahoo and CBS that the majority played on? And how good were they?
Judging from these responses, it seems like many of you have been playing fantasy for a long time... I started about ten years ago..
Just curious when most of you did? And how was it during the 90s? Meaning, were there hosting sites like ESPN, Yahoo and CBS that the majority played on? And how good were they?
I'm also curious about how fantasy was during the 90s..
10 teams; H2H; 9-cat; daily lineups
PG: Russell Westbrook, Mike Conley, Damian Lillard
SG/SF: Klay Thompson, Gordon Hayward, Tobias Harris, Marcus Thornton
PF/C: DeMarcus Cousins, Roy Hibbert, Nikola Vucevic, Amir Johnson, Josh McRoberts, Pau Gasol
Overall Rank: 4th
FG%: 8th
FT%: 4th
3PTM: 5th
PTS: 2nd
REB: 4th
AST: 5th
STL: 6th
BLK: 4th
TO: 7th
**Punting FG% and TOs
Paul George's 30 pts, 9 boards, 5 dimes, 5 steals, 7 threes, 1 block, 0 TOs, 1-1 FT and 11-19 shooting (58%) from last year is pretty good for something recent.
Obviously there are more monstrous line back then, like those Hakeem Olajuwon lines, and that TD line vs the Nets.
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