Reports are coming out that Carmelo Anthony may be having some shoulder problems. I’m not sure of the severity, but with a game against a weak Seattle team, Anthony could see some extra rest. I’m replacing Anthony on the roster with Carlos Boozer. I don’t think the replacement is absolutely necessary, but sometimes it is better to be safe.
I’m watching it snow and putting together some catcher notes. Just doesn’t seem right. For all you guys who need your baseball fix, I’ve put up some notes and preliminary rankings on the baseball draft room homepage for the catcher position . Keep in mind that the notes are for daily draft game purposes, not season leagues, not keeper leagues, just daily draft leagues.
Catcher, as usual, is an ugly position. There look to be six dependables and the rest are matchup dependent. Baseball, more than any other sport, is a day by day handicapping process. Day to day matchups are the entire game. Sometimes a guy you would never play ends up at the top of the daily draft board because he has an awesome matchup.
I’ll try and get some First Base rankings up tomorrow. Don’t forget to sign up over on the Fantasy Forums for the Fantasy Sports Handicapping Baseball League.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:53:21 AM
We are playing 2 ten team tournaments on FSL today with our fantasy basketball betting contest roster. 7 player, 220 point cap structure.
At guard I’m going right to the top of the daily draft board and taking Chris Paul for $38. He has a home game v. a high scoring Phoenix team. Matchups just don’t get much better than that. At the other guard positions I’m going with Andre Miller ($27) and Andre Iguodala ($32). This is another one of those exceptions where I’m going with two members of the same team. Philadelphia last played on Saturday so they should be well rested and they get this game at home. Orlando and Philly played last Friday with Miller putting up 35FP and Iguodala putting up 34FP. I expect similar this time as the game should be close. Orlando has averaged 112 points per game this year against Philadelphia and this one should be a similar high scoring contest.
At forward I’m going with Chris Bosh ($35). He is playing a home game v. Minnesota. Carlos Boozer put 34 points and 8 rebounds on MIN last night and I expect Bosh can do the same. Carmelo Anthony ($36) gets a forward spot facing a weak defense in Seattle. The last forward spot goes to Al Thornton ($16). Al gets a nice home game v. a weak Portland team. Sam Cassell and Chris Kaman both look to be out tonight, so Thornton should get his 30 minutes and put up 20-22FP. Anything more is gravy.
Put Amare Stoudemire at center. Amare put up 26 points and 20 rebounds in his last game v. NO. That game was an overtime 132-130 contest. I expect these two teams will again have a high scoring game and Stoudemire should put up good numbers.
Good luck. I’m taking my first in depth look at baseball today and I’m hoping to have a few notes up later this afternoon. I’m going to try and review the Catcher position and maybe First Base if time permits.
Only got one tournament to fill on Tuesday and we missed the money in it due to a bad night by Artest who put up only 16 points. Overall the team put up 201 points with Wade (26), Carter (43), Davis (37), R. Jefferson (27), Artest (16), Warrick (30) and Howard (25).
Wednesday’s daily draft board is up and I will post our tournament picks Wednesday afternoon.