The NBA season begins Tuesday, November 1!

Want to make following the 2005-06 season even more fun? If so, please join the TradingCardCentral.com Fantasy NBA League on Yahoo.

This is a free game that gives you the chance to run your own team of real professional NBA players from the season's opening tipoff right through to the final buzzer in April.

Here are the settings (Yahoo defaults for most) for our league:

League Name: TradingCardCentral.com
Draft Type: Autopick Draft
Max Teams: 12
Scoring Type: Rotisserie
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: March 2, 2006
Waiver Time: 2 days
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: League Votes
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Games Played: 83
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow
Start Scoring on: Monday, Oct 31
Roster Positions: PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN, IL
Stat Categories: FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, TO

Ok, need more reasons to join? How about the chance to win this?



Yes, it's a 2004-05 Black Diamond GemoGRAPHy (GEM-BG) Ben Gordon autographed card valued at $80!

The winner of the league will walk away with this card and more! The more is where you play a role. If you wish to join, please be willing to offer either an autographed, game-used or RC basketball card or a complete basketball set valued at $20 or more. Once you join, just send me a PM with the details on the card that you'd like to offer to the winner.

Okay. Who thinks they can beat my Ultimate Collectors? Well, step one is to sign up!

Click here to join now!

You'll need the following info to sign up:

League ID#: 135103
Password: tcc_nba

Please hurry since it's first come, first serve for the remaining 11 spots. Plus, the plan is to set the league status to Ready at 8 PM EST on 10/31/05 with the automatic draft to follow at any time after that.

-Bob

Ok, aceecards joins with his Aces Racers team. That only leaves 10 spots!

-Bob

anybody else sign up to play overnight?

I got a richardson dual patch card from Ultimate #/25 that I am throwing into the mix...

I will sign up after work

I attached my cards.

count me in

Yes, tjesiong is in with his tjesiong team.



Do you have the year and card number for this one? I just want to find and list the exact one.

-Bob

You're in.

By the way, welcome to the site! Glad to have you join us. If you have any questions about the site as you look around more, just let me or another member of the TCC Team know.

Please let me know which card you'll be offering to the winner as well.

Thanks,

-Bob

Ok, sounds good. 9 spots remain!

-Bob

He plays for the Warriors. two three color patches i think. from 04 Ultimate..# like 2/25

Jason or the other one I cant remember...

Is it this card?

2004-05 Ultimate Collection Game Patches Limited JR Jason Richardson N/A N/A

-Bob

Ok, mrkjnl is now in with Team Mantis. 8 spots remain!

-Bob

Ok, Pastretta is now in with the Hardcourt Phenoms. 7 spots remain!

By the way, if you've signed up already, be sure to review and adjust your Pre-Draft Player Rankings before Monday afternoon.

-Bob

whoa, sorry, I didn't read the rules and just signed away. I don't have any Auto or game used cards, so I guess I have to pull out

I'll send you a PM later.

-Bob

Yes I have my prize pool donation in my hand..

Jason richardson dual patch card from 2004 Ultimate #7/25

To the winner and that is going to be me.....

Not so fast... Not so fast...

-Bob

I signed up.
SinceI blindly had a nice Rc card picked out.. I'll pick something for the prize pool before Monday.

Ok, just let me know. Glad to see you and the Bench players count team join us.

-Bob

Ok, sgmco is now in with the Rockers. Only 5 spots remain!

-Bob

Since I can't contribute a card for the winner, so I have to pull out of the league, sorry guys T_T

At the moment, tjesiong has pulled out. However, Paintballbando00 is now in with the Rockin Rockets. That puts us back at 7 teams in with 5 remaining spots.

Who else wants in?

-Bob

Ok, tjesiong is back in with the tjesiong team. That means we only have 4 spots left open! Sign up now or you may just get left out this year.

-Bob

Sorry I too must pull out asI have no G/u that books more than like $8(Suprised, oh well)

Go ahead and jump back in. At least one other member who wants to play is also being stopped by the game-used/autographed request, so I will modify that text to allow for either RC cards or complete sets.

-Bob

Ok, for those that need just a little more of a reason to join, here's the current prize package for the winner:

2003-04 Upper Deck LeBron's Diary complete set (15)
2004-05 Black Diamond GemoGRAPHy (GEM-BG) Ben Gordon
2004-05 Skybox Autographics Jerseygraphics DW Dajuan Wagner
2004-05 SP Authentic 169 Dorell Wright AU RC
2004-05 SP Authentic Signatures DS Donta Smith
2004-05 Ultimate Collection Game Patches Limited JR Jason Richardson
2004-05 Upper Deck R-Class R-Tifacts Dual HW A.Harrington/A.Walker
and more!

Time is running out though!

Less than 5 spots remain open! Plus, at 8 PM EST tonight, I'll set the league's draft status to Ready.

-Bob

The league's draft status has been set to Ready which means that the auto draft could occur at any time. That also means that the clock is ticking faster and faster on anyone that is still thinking about joining!

-Bob

You lucky dog you got first pick..


But... other than my centers, I found it very difficult on paper for anybody to beat my one two scoring punch of Mcgrady and Iverson!!!

May the best team win

Now, I get to hope that Garnett and Kidd continue to perform!

-Bob

Agreed. Good luck to all 7 teams!

This should be fun.

-Bob

Great contest. I got in early this AM and missed, well..everything:)

Thanks for the PM Bob, but as I replied run the contest should be run as it was set-up. I just need to make sure my collection has cards across all 4 Sports now gives me something to address, which is a good thing..lol

There's always next year. You can sign up and try to knock off the reigning TCC champion - me.

-Bob

Check the STANDINGS!!!

Ooofff.... thats the sound of air rushing from Bobs body as he sees Aces racers dominating the league after one night and Bob 's team is where... im scanning DOWNWARD....

TO THE BOTTOM....

Of course the season is young...
Mr. Bogut... good job... My run and gun offense of Iverson and McGrady and CWebb looked pretty Daunting

OUCH.

You're team does look strong, but you also had 8 players with stats already compared to only a few for the rest of us.

We shall see...

-Bob

Confidence with a Capital "C"

Ill probably exhaust all my games with week to play like I do my pitching staff in roto baseball every year....guaranteeing me a last place finish when the dust settles

All the big names seemed to avoid TEAM MANTIS. My salary cap wasn't high enough I guess. LOL

Here's the current standings:

1 Rockers 44.5
2 Aces Racers 42.5
3 tjesiong 41
4 Ultimate Collectors 35
5 Rockin Rockets 32
6 Hardcourt Phenoms 29
7 Team Mantis 28

-Bob

do you understand the scoring... I get confused trying to calc on individual player.. anybody else having a problem

I'm still trying to get used to it as well.

Basically, you want to find a lineup that performs well across all of the categories - not just points.

-Bob

Here's some more info...

We have points awarded for 7 categories based on the rankings of all 7 teams in the league. The best team gets 7 points for that category while the worst team gets 1 point for that category. So, the lowest a team could have is 7 points and the maximum is 49 points.

Here's the 7 categories:

FG%
FT%
3PTM
PTS
REB
AST
ST
BLK
TO

Currently, my team is not very good in the PTS, REB and BLK categories.

-Bob

Here's the current standings:

1 tjesiong 42
2 Aces Racers 39.5
3 Rockers 38
4 Hardcourt Phenoms 36.5
5 Rockin Rockets 36
6 Ultimate Collectors 32
7 Team Mantis 28

Boy, I need to get my total games played up. My team has played the least number of games in the league - 16 less than some of the teams.

-Bob

Are TO's good or bad? in relation to scoring for example Rip Hamilton had 5 TO's yesterday... Was this a negative or positive for him...

Those are turnovers, so they are negative. You want the lowest number of total turnovers.

-Bob

Here's the current standings:

1 tjesiong 43
2 Rockin Rockets 38
3 Hardcourt Phenoms 37
4 Aces Racers 35
4 Rockers 35
6 Ultimate Collectors 34
7 Team Mantis 30

-Bob

Here's the current standings:

1 Aces Racers 44.5
2 Hardcourt Phenoms 39
3 tjesiong 37
4 Rockers 36.5
5 Rockin Rockets 34.5
6 Ultimate Collectors 32
7 Team Mantis 28.5

Wow. My team has played 30 less games than one of the other teams. How can I be so far behind in games played?

-Bob

I dont know But I would be watching your maximum games played.. There will come a time in the season where you will not be able to make up those games...

Me. My theory is to stay at least even or 1 over for max games played...

Here's the current standings:

1 Aces Racers 41
2 Hardcourt Phenoms 40
3 Rockin Rockets 37
4 tjesiong 35
4 Rockers 35
6 Ultimate Collectors 34
7 Team Mantis 30

-Bob

woohooo.....even if it is by point...

Gotta get eddie jones going again.. I gave up Carmelo for him or Battier...just the same..

Centers are a big issue in this league.. anybody wanna trade..Look for trade posts soon....

GL

I just need to spend a little more time on this league, but at the moment, I'm a little busy preparing for the Playoffs in our football league.

-Bob

hey Bob can i be in next year?