Why wouldn’t I? It’s not illegal. Hell I don’t even think there’s anything wrong with it ethically. Taking the time to understand which waiver wire players can help my team on a particular week should come with a reward.
It’s not like it’s without risks. Percentages could get damaged. Turnovers are also a factor though in leagues without TO’s that isn’t an issue.
Streaming is the closest thing you can get to cheating in fantasy sports. It is the same as saying since the Gambit glitch is in the game of MvC2, it should be allowed, especially in leagues that don’t have TOs.
imo.
Pick up a guy get stats from him (points, 3s, steals, usually) in a favorable matchup then get rid of him for someone else later on.
It’s a similar strategy in fantasy baseball with starting pitching where you use fringe starters in good matchups to accumulate quality stats. As I mentioned before such strategy isn’t without risk.
The risk is you may or may not lose the FG% and FT% categories and the reward is you most likely will win the counting stats categories. Sounds real risky to me. Drastically rewarding the people who have the most free time over people who research, make good trades, get people with upside, etc. is pretty stupid.
imo.
I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as you make it sound to stream. With 160 players rostered useuable talent is going to be hard to find. There is also a limit to how many guys you can pick up with 6 so it’s not like you can clear the bench every day to plug guys into the starting lineup.
Maybe I emphasized the streaming part a bit too much but I don’t really see the problem with finding and picking up a guy who can help me win at a particular time. If he can help me out later on great. I’ll keep him around. If not why shouldn’t I move onto someone else?
We’ll agree to disagree on this.
streaming isn’t cheating. there’s plenty of risks in doing so.if you have a solid team that is getting you production, streaming a player means you have to drop someone, and risk never seeing him again. sometimes you stream in a player who sucks it up (always happens). and sometimes, you just have to reach on streamers, and sometimes it doesn’t play out.
everyone has a chance at the FA pool, so you can’t say its cheating. you could easily do the same, and just because you are being held back by fantasy morals doesn’t mean others shouldn’t do it.
I think you can only effectively stream for a certain amount of stats really. Points obviously. Rebounds too. 3 pointers and steals and that’s pretty much it. Percentages are too risky to stream. Assists and blocks are the hardest stats to find so anyone who looks like they’ll give quality stats in that area will get picked up quickly. In an 8-cat league that’s half the categories that can be streamed. It’s an effective tool but not enough to save a team that didn’t draft well.
steaming is fucking retarded. especially during the playoffs. the whole point of fantasy sports is building the best team you can through drafting, trading, and being able to predict the next big thing. streaming says fuck all that and just turns it into who can get the most games in. what the fuck did you do put all that research and analyzing of stats for the entire regular season for just to dump all your players at the end???
Streaming is awesome. Anyone that disagrees with me has a small dick.
Not every team’s draft goes perfectly.
Not every team is looking to trade. Especially with someone who’s draft didn’t go perfectly.
When that happens a team can either accept it or do whatever it takes to win.
Streaming can only help so much. If you have a really bad team adding waiver-wire caliber guys isn’t going to make a huge difference unless the other owners aren’t paying attention to their teams.
Fuck, I was supposed to head down to opening night and see LeBron break his ankles; instead I have to hit a goddamn dinner instead lol.
opening night YES, FINALLY
i think streaming gives value to players who obviously have very little overall value on a team. i think it diversifies the FA pool. d.cook and kapono are perfect. they can really only give you 3’s and a small boost in points, but in a matchup where you need threes, what’s wrong with throw him in there for a game or two? it also allows you to play these players in good matchups, which is something that goes on in every other fantasy sport (streaming pitchers and DEF lines/players) yet those don’t catch much shit.
in order to stream, you need to always have one spot that is replaceable on a dime, and that is usually the downfall of a streaming team… no one reliable in your final slot. i got through my league last year streaming like crazy, but that wasn’t going to help me against dwade in the final two weeks. i would’ve preferred a more solid player than streaming in garbage off of the dwindled down FA pool.
but the only reason i had to do that is because i lost al jefferson midway through the season, and no matter what, you cannot replace a top 10 player with any trade or any fa pickup after the all-star break, yet, streaming gave me a chance.
there are plenty of ways to limit streamers too… allow only 2-3 fa moves a week, season cap on FA moves…
just saying. saying streaming is near cheating isn’t really fair. odds are, if you’re streaming through out the whole season, it’ll catch up to you eventually. good players that you drop find value on other players teams, and if injuries are as bad as last year, you pigeon hole yourself with scrubs and 2 category players. but its legit, and isn’t close to cheating if everyone else can do it, but chooses not to. though i do appreciate the neg rep, i probably won’t be streaming this team, since i do like what i’m working with, but we’ll see down the road.
The last time I stream a player i ended up dropping Nate Robinson and J.R Smith, and Boris Diaw.
Yea fuck streaming…
I would prefer to see weekly limit on acquisitions at around 4 or something, but only having 3 spots for bench players sort of limits the usefulness of streaming.
imo.
blake griffin out for 6 weeks…curse of the clippers lives on
We had a limit on how many players can play in a week, but there was a way around it. We were having people who had 43/39 games and shit.
Griffin out for at least six weeks? Clippers already out of playoff contention? :lol:
Griffin’s NBA career was ruined the moment the Clippers got the first overall draft pick. Damn.
Fuckin Clippers.