Sunday 1/6

There were eight games on the schedule on the last night of the week for fantasy. Before I get to some of my points of the day, I just wanted to add another team to my list of teams already. This one is located on CBS's sports website.

The league settings are a bit different as it is a H2H league, but the scoring is more of an NFL format. Waivers are weekly and rosters are set for the entire week on Sunday nights or Monday mornings. The scoring is based upon eight categories, points (.25), total rebounds (.5), assists (.5), steals (.5), blocks (.5), turnovers (.5), double-doubles (2) and triple doubles (5). As ridiculous as my luck has been for draft position, I finally got a spot not in the 5-6 range. It's a twelve man league and I got that elusive 1st pick. This draft is midseason so IMHO the draft takes even more skill as you are trying to figure out how good players have been as to how you believe they will be for the rest of the season. A couple of notes before I reveal my team about the league. It only has three positions, guard, forward and center. There are 13 roster spots, but the draft was 14 rounds since we play with a Injury Spot, which Yahoo! should never have gotten rid of. Well, here's my team:

1. Lebron James (F - CLE) - Honestly, in a league without percentages and where triple doubles are worth so much, who else are you going to take. The man does it all.

2/3. Shawn Marion (F - PHX)/Al Jefferson (FC - MIN) - All the rest of my picks will be back-to-back with the exception of the last one. I was so happy Al fell to me because he's a great fantasy C with double-double potential every night and Marion is Marion no matter what format league you're in, he'll give you some of everything and not hurt you.

4/5. David West (F - NOH)/Kevin Martin (G - SAC) - David West is a beast and he's going to reach 20/10 by the end of this season. The injury does not seem too bad as Byron Scott has said he may return as soon as New Orleans' next game, which is Wednesday. Kevin Martin was the curious pick. Although I don't like one dimensional players that much and Martin is one-dimensional IMHO, he's worth taking here because of the emphasis on scoring in this league and a 24+ ppg scorer in the 5th round is huge and a guard was needed. He will also be returning either this or next week.

6/7. Stephen Jackson (GF - GSW)/Brad Miller (C - SAC) - Getting another guard was crucial and Jack is a legit 21-4-5 player who I believe will keep it up all season. Having Nellie as his coach has done him wonders. Miller is a good passing big who's having a solid comeback campaign and center is always a tough position to fill.

8/9. Leandro Barbosa (G - PHX)/Marvin Williams (F - ATL) - Wanted to get another guard and Barbosa's an explosive one. Marvin the next best player on the board as the other pick.

10/11. Samuel Dalembert (C - PHI)/Elton Brand (FC - LAC) - No clue how Dalembert fell into our laps here, but he did, which is ridiculous because he rebounds and blocks shots at a high clip and is a double-double threat every once in a while. With Brand, this was the home-run pick. By taking EB, I'm planning for the playoffs and winning the whole thing. He'll be stashed in the IR for a while.

12/13. Mike Conley Jr. (G - MEM)/Al Horford (FC - ATL) - Conley's a risky pick, but we needed another guard and if he stays healthy, I believe Marc Iavoroni will stick with him all season. He kind of has to now that he's already started the rookie. Benching him will only hurt Conley's progress in the long run. I'm not that high on Horford, but he has been the second most productive rookie so far, behind Kevin Durant, and he's another double-double threat on a good night.

14. Louis Williams - (G - PHI) - Lou's name here is just a formality. He was dropped right away because the pick was supposed to be Beno Udrih and the draft machine didn't draft correctly. Regardless of mistakes, Udrih is on the team now and will be for the next two weeks while Bibby is still out.

Honestly, I haven't been so confident in one of my teams since my 2005 team, "da king". That was a public league, but still... This team is absolutely ridiculous from top to bottom. I have double-doubles coming out of everywhere and any week Lebron decides to go off will just be painful for my opponent. Good luck to my opponents the rest of the season in weeks they aren't matched up against me.

Ok, this is a long blog post so I'm just going to note a few things I noticed tonight:

- Lebron one-upped Martell's performance last night with 25 points in the fourth quarter for the Cavs win over the Raps

- Washington completely dominated the Supes as Caron led the way and AD continued to show his capabilities as a PG filling in for Agent 0, who announced that he may be skipping the rest of this season to rest up for next season. Tough for owners who drafted Gil in the top 5 or at the least, top 10.

- The Spurs beat the Clips in Manu's return. Finley's scoring went down as expected, but he got his shots going just 1-10 for 3 points, but he did have 11 rebounds. Keep Finley for now since he does start, gets minutes and shoots well usually. Rookie Al Thornton had a good game, starting again even though Tim Thomas played in this one. Thornton had 17 pts, while Thomas had 7.

- Miami has the 2nd worst record in the league after losing at Memphis tonight. Wade returned from the bench, but it wasn't enough. Memphis won the game in the fourth quarter as Gasol and Rudy Gay led the way. Gay's becoming a great clutch player.

- Milwaukee beat Charlotte in Carolina. Charlie bell had the big game of 27 points, but you can't really take much out of this. It was a hot game off the bench. Nazr Mohammed had a decent game finally with 9 pts and 12 rebs off the bench. He played around 20 minutes, which probably doesn't mean much unless he can get more minutes again.

- In LaLa land, the Lakers put down the visiting Pacers. I paid more attention to Troy Murphy and Danny Granger since I just traded them away. Granger scared me in the first quarter with 11 pts and Murphy ended with 14 rebs so I'm not sure what to make of it yet. Dirk had 30 pts in his game earlier in the night. For the Lakers, it was all about the bench and the starters. The starters dominated the Pacers, while the bench was completely dominated by the Pacers. The starters were +27, the bench was -10. Bynum and Kobe dominated the inside and outside as both had big games. Kobe's statline wasn't amazing, 26 pts, but he was clutch and gave the Lakers a spark. Bynum was ridiculous with 23-13-3 blocks.