2022 NCAA Fantasy League

[Kingsley]

Nov 22, 2022 12:52:25 GMT -5 avid 2.0 said:

i think we all know who mine is 

.42 aces/set, 3.64 digs/set, .71 blocks/set

Pictured here stealing a first contact from Jenna Story

[vup]

Lots of good contributors on my team, but gotta give it up for The McKenna Melville from the University of Central Florida.

[eazy]

Nov 22, 2022 13:19:01 GMT -5 vup said:

Lots of good contributors on my team, but gotta give it up for The McKenna Melville from the University of Central Florida.

Amber Olson is also thankful for MM.

[trojansc]

Nov 22, 2022 11:55:32 GMT -5 eazy said:

It would have been Fingall if she hadn't gotten hurt and had 2 off weeks.

Have to give it to Kaity Weimerskirch, L, Illinois St. Did not miss a single week and allowed me to not even carry a second L so I had more S/OH options.

I thought you might consider Amber Olson or your Ball State setter for MVP.

[trojansc]

Nov 22, 2022 8:58:29 GMT -5 vup said:

ay2013
avid 2.0
trojansc
eazy
Draco_MN
vballfan17
vballfreak808
Kingsley
Fight On!
rainbowbadger
vup
huskerpower
donut
give me the og-ball-u

Please submit your selection for your team’s MVP via this thread, or PM to vballfreak808.

yes, it's Abbie Jackson as I mentioned earlier.

That now puts three AAC players on the list - Jackson, Georgiades, and Melville. Excited for the UCF/Houston round 2 this Friday!

[ay2013]

Nov 22, 2022 12:52:25 GMT -5 avid 2.0 said:

i think we all know who mine is 

.42 aces/set, 3.64 digs/set, .71 blocks/set

[Fight On!]

Nov 22, 2022 12:52:25 GMT -5 avid 2.0 said:

i think we all know who mine is 

.42 aces/set, 3.64 digs/set, .71 blocks/set

Good thing Jenna Storey didn’t want digs.

[uofaGRAD]

Do y’all think there would be enough interest for a second league next year? If so, how would that work with crowning true champions? Almost like Serie A1 and Serie A2? Top _ teams from the “new” league get to go to the top league the next year and the bottom _ teams are sent to the bottom one? Or would there be some semblance of the Champions Cup and there’d be a playoffs of sort with either just the top team from each league or top 2 in a final four format? Nobody probably knows now huh, but interesting to think about.

[ay2013]

Nov 22, 2022 18:36:53 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

Do y’all think there would be enough interest for a second league next year? If so, how would that work with crowning true champions? Almost like Serie A1 and Serie A2? Top _ teams from the “new” league get to go to the top league the next year and the bottom _ teams are sent to the bottom one? Or would there be some semblance of the Champions Cup and there’d be a playoffs of sort with either just the top team from each league or top 2 in a final four format? Nobody probably knows now huh, but interesting to think about.

I'm not sure what you mean. A few years ago, in an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the participant pool was 16 rather than 14 and midway through we broke the standings into division 1 and 2 where the division 1 teams all played each other again for the actual crown. I don't believe this was done again as the players in division 2 knew they couldn't win, which discouraged league participation.

I dunno how many players actually put their name in the ring this year, but I don't think it was more than 20.

[uofaGRAD]

Nov 22, 2022 19:07:47 GMT -5 ay2013 said:

I'm not sure what you mean. A few years ago, in an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the participant pool was 16 rather than 14 and midway through we broke the standings into division 1 and 2 where the division 1 teams all played each other again for the actual crown. I don't believe this was done again as the players in division 2 knew they couldn't win, which discouraged league participation.

I dunno how many players actually put their name in the ring this year, but I don't think it was more than 20.

so more than division 1 and 2 partway through the year where 2 has nothing to play for, the division 2 would be playing for the opportunity to join division 1 the next year and earn a shot at the real title. players like yourself would obviously start in the top league and would only be “relegated” to the second league the next season if you finished in the bottom *insert number* of teams. That way, every player in both leagues has a lot to play for every week, regardless of standings

[ay2013]

Nov 22, 2022 19:13:35 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

Nov 22, 2022 19:07:47 GMT -5 ay2013 said:

I'm not sure what you mean. A few years ago, in an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the participant pool was 16 rather than 14 and midway through we broke the standings into division 1 and 2 where the division 1 teams all played each other again for the actual crown. I don't believe this was done again as the players in division 2 knew they couldn't win, which discouraged league participation.

I dunno how many players actually put their name in the ring this year, but I don't think it was more than 20.

so more than division 1 and 2 partway through the year where 2 has nothing to play for, the division 2 would be playing for the opportunity to join division 1 the next year and earn a shot at the real title. players like yourself would obviously start in the top league and would only be “relegated” to the second league the next season if you finished in the bottom *insert number* of teams. That way, every player in both leagues has a lot to play for every week, regardless of standings

I dunno if there would be enough interest for that. Frankly, if we just wanted to expand the league a bit further, say to 16 or 18 players, we could adopt trojansc idea of having two matchups per week and have a few bye weeks scattered in.

[c4ndlelight]

You should do 2 matches per week for the first half, split the teams that qualify into Open and the ones that don't into the Patriot Division, and then have them play out.

[vballfreak808]

An interesting take would be to do pools of 3-4 teams. Rather than primarily facing one opponent in a week, you use your stats from end of week and compare it with 2-3 other people in your pool, points can be similar based on head-to-head or overall standing in your pool. It’ll force teams to strategize different since you’re facing more than one team at once. Also if there were two leagues it could combine schedules if both leagues apply the same rules (even different rules per league could make fun head-to-head match-ups)

[trojansc]

It's hard to do divisions with the 13-week schedule and number of participants. I always thought playoffs would be cool, but, there is so much variance in the last couple weeks and there is a huge increase in one-match weeks. I don't really like that, I prefer rewarding the year-long champ in a complete round-robin rather than reward a 1 or 2-week winner in a playoff format.

There's never really been like 25 people that WANT to play fantasy and be active every single week, so I don't know if I like expansion. Fantasy gets less fun and it really makes the league uneven when you play someone who cares in week 1 but then you get them not submitting a roster the last 7 weeks of the season which can impact the standings. For the most part, everyone was really into it this year which made the league really fun. I don't mean to pick on give me the og-ball-u by any means, but, they kept submitting rosters when they could have quit and were actively trying to win. Other people would have just stopped in the past.

I'll still push my 2-matches per week thing. I like the idea of being able to have a diversified roster and submit two different rosters against two different teams. I think it would have been cool to see avid 2.0 and ay2013 play twice this season. Too much variance can happen every week in general, and, if you play everyone twice, it's more likely you get less flukes and can survive a bad or freak week.

I don't think it's that hard to submit two rosters given it's the same roster you're choosing from, and with the scoreboard that huskerpower set up, it's pretty easy to generate scoreboards with not that much more work.

[ay2013]

Re the scoreboards, rather than a head to head tab (which has to change each week), I think it would be easier to just have a default tab for everyone's individual teams (which doesn't change much) and a master scoreboard that has a formula to total which players are active.