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In post 150, Silverclaw wrote:Also patently hilarious
How the hell did you go out on the pokemon challenge- Noraa
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as a bird!In post 147, Silverclaw wrote:I'M FREEEEDream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
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I didn't doubt check my answers.In post 151, kdowns wrote:In post 150, Silverclaw wrote:Also patently hilarious
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And with that we move onto the other part of our evening, the Lists.
Spoiler: First up, Cephrir chooses to save...
Spoiler: Xalxe chooses to save...
Spoiler: Racefan12 chooses to save...
Spoiler: And Xofelf chooses to save...
New round, new lists! Due tomorrow at 10pm EDT ((expired on 2021-05-02 22:00:00)).“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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Round 4 Challenge: Daily Fantasy Challenge
It’s time for a challenge years in the making...the Daily Fantasy Challenge! For those of you that don’t know, Daily Fantasy Sports are based on the building of a lineup of athletes across several teams, playing in different matches of a given sport on the same day. Each athlete scores points for their individual stats (things like hits and RBIs in baseball, or yards gained in football), and the person that makes the roster that scores the most points wins. Generally this is played as pseudo-gambling with cash buy-ins and prizes, but today we’ll be playing it for safety! (This challenge has been reviewed by everyone's favorite DFS expert, pickemgenius.)
(Yes, I’m really just hoping that the reason MLS flopped was because you had to spend two weeks making a roster whereas this is only a couple days.)Please don't hate me, I've been asking for someone to do this in a game for five years and nobody has done it, so here I am
The slate we’ll be using for this competition is the slate of three NBA gamesstarting at 8pm EDT on Tuesday, May 4. The matchups occurring on this day and at this time are as follows:
Golden State Warriors @ New Orleans Pelicans
Dallas Mavericks @ Miami Heat
Sacramento Kings @ Oklahoma City Thunder
Scoring criteria are as follows:
Points scored: 1 point each
Assists: 1.5 points each
Blocks: 3 points each
Rebounds: 1.2 points each
Steals: 3 points each
Turnovers: -1 point each
You are to assemble a six-athlete roster that includes one athlete from each of the following positions, and then one additional athlete of any position (a “utility player”). The sum of their salaries must not exceed$40,000(however, they can be less than this if desired). You must selectexactly sixathletes, you may not select more or fewer. Additionally, you may not select more than three athletes playing on the same team. The list of available athletes is as follows. (This list is a selection of the active athletes on each team playing in the slate and ideally targets the best athletes at each position.)
Spoiler: List of Players by Position
An example lineup would be:
PG:Nico Mannion, Warriors, $3500
SG:Josh Green, Mavericks, $3500
SF:Louis King, Kings, $3500
PF:Precious Achiuwa, Heat, $3500
C:Willie Cauley-Stein, Mavericks, $3500
UTIL:Eric Paschall, Warriors, $3500
(This lineup is intentionally awful; if you submit it as your own you almost certainly will finish in last.)
Rosters are due via PM at the start of the slate, 8pm on Tuesday ((expired on 2021-05-04 20:00:00)). You may submit as many times as you’d like; I will take only your last submission before the deadline. Once all games conclude, I will tally up the score for each roster, and the player with the highest-scoring roster will win the challenge. Should there be a tie, the tiebreakers will be in order:
1: The player whose roster cost the least money wins.
2: The player whose best-scoring athlete scored the most points wins.
3: The player whose worst-scoring athlete scored the most points wins.
4: Repeat 2 and 3, starting with second-best and second-worst, eventually breaking the tie unless both players’ rosters had the same athletes or athletes who had the same scores.
5: The player who submitted their roster earlier wins.
Any FREE outside resources are allowed; you may not pay to access any resources or use any you have previously paid for for the challenge (obviously this isn’t meant to be interpreted as “I pay my ISP for Internet access, guess I have to read the newspaper for stats”).I strongly recommend that you do at least a small amount of research for this challenge.
Some recommendations for this challenge:
1: NBA news tends to break very close to the start times for the games. As such, there is no harm in waiting until very close to the deadline to submit your roster (but to counteract this, one of the tiebreakers is the player that submitted their roster earlier).
2: Matchups do matter for points! If a game is close, the good players on each team will play more of the game. If it’s a runaway for one team or the other, there’s a good chance that both teams will sit their best players at the end. However, any team can beat any other team, so counting on a matchup to be close may not be a smart move.
3: https://www.dailyfantasyfuel.com/nba?platform=fd is a source that I recommend for this challenge, especially once it updates with the correct gamesabout 20 hours before the games tip off. You will want to adjust “Next Slate” to get at the right games; leave the option above it set to FanDuel (FanDuel and DraftKings will have different scoring and athlete costs; the systems outlined above are for FanDuel). However, keep in mind that the games we’re using are a subset of the games that will appear in any Next Slate. Also, since we’re using a custom roster size, the optimizer tool will not give you a valid roster.
4: “Stacking” your roster with athletes on the same team is a potential strategy (though you may not include more than three athletes from any one team). If you do this and one athlete assists on another’s shot, you’ll score even more points! Though it’s certainly not the only way to go, especially in basketball.
5: If you're not sure whether or not your lineup is valid, I'm more than happy to check it if you send it to me over Discord or PM. My schedule except for Tuesday late morning/early afternoon is almost completely free, so I should be able to respond quickly.“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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Hi I am a sportsball fan (TM)PrivateI:I wish I could bang on the home keys on my keyboard to create an appeal to emotion. It sounds so...soothing.
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Oh, this is definitely where I leave. It was nice to know all of you. I thought bot challenges were the worst, I stand corrected.Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
MattyP: Ur an enigma tho when it comes to circadian rhythm and the traditions we hold dear when it comes to the sun and the moon
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It's Sports AND Math. My two worst things. I get it D3f, I've killed you in LSGs too often. I'm *sorry*.Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
MattyP: Ur an enigma tho when it comes to circadian rhythm and the traditions we hold dear when it comes to the sun and the moon
Get to reknow a xofelf here
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I do, but I’ve had this concept sitting around for like five years and wanted an excuse to finally use it.In post 164, Mist7676 wrote:d3f this is the worst and u know it.“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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The DailyFantasyFuel page listed in the challenge rules post is now updated with projections for tomorrow, but the prices there are slightly changed from the official prices being used for the challenge so be sure your lineup is valid with the set of prices in the rules post.“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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I’ve been asked to clarify this - DvP is a stat that ranks the opposing team by how many fantasy points they give up to opposing players at their position on average. 1 is the worst (ie. best opposing defense), 30 is the best (ie. worst opposing defense).“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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"Fantasy points" what we are all hoping to be awarded during this challenge.Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
MattyP: Ur an enigma tho when it comes to circadian rhythm and the traditions we hold dear when it comes to the sun and the moon
Get to reknow a xofelf here
Discord is faster than PMs or sitechat: xofelf#1697- racefan12
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Everything is made up and the points don't matterPrivateI:I wish I could bang on the home keys on my keyboard to create an appeal to emotion. It sounds so...soothing.
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The Greeks would disagree (assuming you connect heat to fire)!In post 172, VashtaNeurotic wrote:What I don't get is that the only teams that seem to be connected to Fantasy are the Kings and Warriors, what's so fantastical about the concept of heat anyway?“The assumption of good faith is dead”
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