2023 NCAA Fantasy Champions League

[ay2013]

Nov 14, 2023 0:43:01 GMT -5 vballfreak808 said:

Nov 14, 2023 0:26:49 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

those three are all incredible. I think my vote has to go to Fischer or Borum. I’m actually underwhelmed by Amber’s stats this season compared to prior seasons. Dylan Maberry would certainly be my pick for my team, although I do like to think of my team as a sum of its parts! some conference stats from my team include:

Maberry: 4.48 kps, 0.61 saps(!), 2.86 dps, 0.55 bps
Pressly: 4.69 kps, 0.32 saps, 3.24 dps(!), 0.36 bps
Oberpriller: 3.84 kps, 0.15 saps, 3.08 dps(!), 0.86(!) bps
Amber: 3.61 kps, 0.22 saps, 1.15 dps, 1 bps
Standifird: 10 aps, 0.33 saps, 4.15 dps(!), 0.65 bps
Emiliano: 10.59aps, 0.47 saps, 3.59 dps(!), 0.34 bps

not even including Pukis who is over 3 dps, Rachel who was around 5.5 dps before injury, or latest addition Delaney Smith who is #2 in the nation in aces per set as a lib.

I had not seen Standifird's seasons stats, that is unreal. Emiliano's is pretty equally great as well. I have Wait which looking at her stats now and are up there with them. But Standifird having libero like numbers is crazy. Don't think I've ever seen a setter average more than 4 digs per set.

Me either, that’s a compete anomaly. At least among top 100 teams. I’m trying to remember who uofagrad was planning on taking that draft round and I convinced him to take standifird instead - if he wins round 2 off me, I’m gonna regret that advice, along with Maberry 🤣.

[ay2013]

Nov 13, 2023 13:15:10 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

Nov 13, 2023 13:13:06 GMT -5 trojansc said:

Not to be condescending, but, I think you should play in the Challengers league next year rather than not play at all. They only played with P5 players (from what I noticed) and you take a liking to those. Plus, you could easily win it with your fantasy experience.

Your team is not even bad this year, you had really high blocks last week. Just some missing pieces.

I feel like this would be for @madden55 too. like it’s not a bad thing to not wanna keep up with mid-major players lol. they would both do really well in challengers league

IMO the issue with focusing too much on P5 players isn't that they aren't good for our rules. I could EASILY draft a roster or two full rosters of P5 players that could podium this year. The issue is.... multi-layered. The first is that the true contributors are extremely well known. I'm sure we all had plenty of P5 players at the top of our draft list, which presents the first problem - the best P5 players players are spread out among many teams. The second issue is that it's far less common to have unknown P5 players that turn out to be stat stuffers. Those teams are usually loaded with talent, so if there are fantasy players worth drafting high on a team, it's not as likely that someone else on those teams are going to "break through". The third is the schedule, in particular these days for the low middle P5 teams against talent heavy monster teams, you don't really want to risk blowout sets because you have to face Stanford or Nebraska.

[uofaGRAD]

Maberry actually plays at TCU next Tuesday but in the middle of the day😑 maybe I can take a half day

[vup]

re: Fantasy MVP

Lexie Almodovar is definitely up there. Really solid all-around.

Melanie Parra was definitely making a case for herself early-on in the season before the injury. :/ Hope she can return to full strength.

[trojansc]

Nov 14, 2023 10:14:36 GMT -5 vup said:

re: Fantasy MVP

Lexie Almodovar is definitely up there. Really solid all-around.

Melanie Parra was definitely making a case for herself early-on in the season before the injury. :/ Hope she can return to full strength.

She’s good, but i think there’s at least 3-4 pins before her.

[uofaGRAD]

is Syracuse the worst team that’s fantasy eligible this season? is there any team that was top 100 last year that’s HORRIBLE this year that will still be eligible?

[trojansc]

Nov 14, 2023 11:35:27 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

is Syracuse the worst team that’s fantasy eligible this season? is there any team that was top 100 last year that’s HORRIBLE this year that will still be eligible?

The eligibility rules can always be changed. For many years, it was specific conferences only rather than individual teams. That would possibly exclude teams like Dayton though.

[uofaGRAD]

Nov 14, 2023 11:41:06 GMT -5 trojansc said:

Nov 14, 2023 11:35:27 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

is Syracuse the worst team that’s fantasy eligible this season? is there any team that was top 100 last year that’s HORRIBLE this year that will still be eligible?

The eligibility rules can always be changed. For many years, it was specific conferences only rather than individual teams. That would possibly exclude teams like Dayton though.

oh, I’m not sure I would like that. I somewhat enjoy finding stat stuffers, especially now that I know teams/players/strategy better. for example, I drafted Shayla WAY too high, even if her setter situation wouldn’t have sucked. their noncon was one of the most brutal in the country as a mid-major! and I didn’t even look. stupid of me.

I also probably drafted Pukis too high but she’s been a rock for me so I can’t complain too much. plus it was important to me to get someone I stanned (got Madi later though)

[trojansc]

Nov 14, 2023 12:00:00 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

Nov 14, 2023 11:41:06 GMT -5 trojansc said:

The eligibility rules can always be changed. For many years, it was specific conferences only rather than individual teams. That would possibly exclude teams like Dayton though.

oh, I’m not sure I would like that. I somewhat enjoy finding stat stuffers, especially now that I know teams/players/strategy better. for example, I drafted Shayla WAY too high, even if her setter situation wouldn’t have sucked. their noncon was one of the most brutal in the country as a mid-major! and I didn’t even look. stupid of me.

I also probably drafted Pukis too high but she’s been a rock for me so I can’t complain too much. plus it was important to me to get someone I stanned (got Madi later though)

I mean, it would include all the AAC/MVC/etc teams so there were plenty of mid major stat stuffers too. I think this system just has better mid majors, and excludes lower mid majors even in the better non-P5 conferences.

Like now, most of the WCC isn’t eligible.

[uofaGRAD]

Nov 14, 2023 12:07:25 GMT -5 trojansc said:

Nov 14, 2023 12:00:00 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

oh, I’m not sure I would like that. I somewhat enjoy finding stat stuffers, especially now that I know teams/players/strategy better. for example, I drafted Shayla WAY too high, even if her setter situation wouldn’t have sucked. their noncon was one of the most brutal in the country as a mid-major! and I didn’t even look. stupid of me.

I also probably drafted Pukis too high but she’s been a rock for me so I can’t complain too much. plus it was important to me to get someone I stanned (got Madi later though)

I mean, it would include all the AAC/MVC/etc teams so there were plenty of mid major stat stuffers too. I think this system just has better mid majors, and excludes lower mid majors even in the better non-P5 conferences.

Like now, most of the WCC isn’t eligible.

oh I’ll need to look at an old season’s thread to see what the eligible conferences were

[vballfreak808]

Nov 14, 2023 11:35:27 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

is Syracuse the worst team that’s fantasy eligible this season? is there any team that was top 100 last year that’s HORRIBLE this year that will still be eligible?

They may be the worst record team but there are other teams who aren't great for fantasy. There are a few teams that either run 6-2's making teams numbers more balanced, or teams lower in the standings, making them not fantasy league favorable. Some of those teams were Boston College, Jacksonville State, or UConn and the few teams that could at least poach a libero from like Morehead State, New Mexico State, and Illinois State

[uofaGRAD]

Nov 14, 2023 13:20:56 GMT -5 vballfreak808 said:

Nov 14, 2023 11:35:27 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

is Syracuse the worst team that’s fantasy eligible this season? is there any team that was top 100 last year that’s HORRIBLE this year that will still be eligible?

They may be the worst record team but there are other teams who aren't great for fantasy. There are a few teams that either run 6-2's making teams numbers more balanced, or teams lower in the standings, making them not fantasy league favorable. Some of those teams were Boston College, Jacksonville State, or UConn and the few teams that could at least poach a libero from like Morehead State, New Mexico State, and Illinois State

oh yes I should’ve clarified I meant like literally worst, not worst for fantasy. I’ve looked at Jacksonville State a few times and their stats actually disgust me LMAO

[vballfreak808]

Nov 14, 2023 13:28:40 GMT -5 uofaGRAD said:

Nov 14, 2023 13:20:56 GMT -5 vballfreak808 said:

They may be the worst record team but there are other teams who aren't great for fantasy. There are a few teams that either run 6-2's making teams numbers more balanced, or teams lower in the standings, making them not fantasy league favorable. Some of those teams were Boston College, Jacksonville State, or UConn and the few teams that could at least poach a libero from like Morehead State, New Mexico State, and Illinois State

oh yes I should’ve clarified I meant like literally worst, not worst for fantasy. I’ve looked at Jacksonville State a few times and their stats actually disgust me LMAO

They were a casualty of COVID seniors and mass departures unfortunately. Before moving to CUSA, they were amongst the top 3-4 in the ASUN & OVC in the last few years, almost making the NCAA tournament. Not great but at least they weren't last in the conference.

[rainbowbadger]

I would like to note for the record that I just submitted my last fantasy roster for the year. Unlike last year, I managed to submit one every week. Also unlike last year, I managed not to accidentally create a post with my fantasy roster instead of PMing the admins (that was a really bad week for me). So I'm gonna call it a success.

[vballfreak808]

I always wondered how chaotic it would be if one year we had no conference or top 100 restrictions for picking and unlimited add/drops