QFBA Rag – 2008-09 Season - Volume One

Yippee! I mean, Yahoo! Week One Done

The ‘Bus is Back

It’s been a pretty interesting start to the season after one Coach has a mental breakdown and throws his team to the wolves prompting a former Champion to step in and save the day. Kinda like Mitt Romney in the 2002 Olympics. After much tribulation, we have managed to get the Coach Moyle full access to the FrontRunner team and to change their name to Incubus.

All that remained was to get Yahoo! to officially change ownership from Coach Hayduke to Coach Moyle. I received a message from the powers that be at Yahoo! informing me that they had done so but, I discovered, ‘twas not to be. Instead of replacing Coach Hayduke with Coach Moyle, they replaced the good Cap’n with Coach Moyle. When informed of the mixup, Coach Moyle uttered this classic line, “Even better, I prefer your lineup to the one I had.” Well duh! Who among you wouldn’t feel that way?

Housekeeping

Because we have an uneven number of teams, we have one BYE every week. Every team has two Byes over the course of the season except for JitterbugZ and Freight Train, who each have three. Each team plays eighteen games except those two teams who play seventeen. In order to remedy this and allow all teams to play eighteen games, JitterbugZ and Freight Train will square off in Week 10. This means that Freight Train will actually face two opponents that week, as they are also scheduled to play Dubbers. Sorry, but that’s the best solution I could come up with to even things out. I’m all ears if someone wants to propose a better solution.

Clutch Misses a Shift in Week One

Despite Cap’n Parrotdead setting the weekly high score (ho-hum), Clutch City had an excellent chance to win this one if Coach Tobias had managed to start five guys that were scheduled to play. Clutch’s starting Center, Brad Miller, is serving a 5 game suspension for being a pot-head, causing the Rocketmen to drop a 25- point decision. Of course, Miller is CC’s only Center so I’m not sure what they might have done about it. Let’s see, wasn’t Jermaine O’Neal floating around the free agent pool before Mitt snatched him up?

The good news is that Incubus will not use CC as his farm team this year. ‘Bus tells this reporter that the CC’s just have no one to raid.

Soph Gets Past Rookie in Cross-Office Rivalry

Dubers wised up this year and even managed to add the missing ‘B’ to their name. While they were at it, they had an excellent Sophomore draft, putting together a potentially high-scoring, if somewhat fragile, roster. Hard to go wrong with Kornhole Kobe anchoring your team and Ming at the pivot. If Iverson still has some gas in the tank and Ming can stay healthy, look out for Dub.

Meanwhile, the rookies drop their first contest but do have a good enough team to have a shot at the playoffs. Of course, with the new playoff format allowing seven out of nine teams in, you’d have to really suck to miss out. I wonder who those succubuses’s will be?

Rookie Team Beats Hybrid

This one has to just gnaw at the ‘Bus. It’s driving him crazy to be stuck with a team who he feels really blew their first and second round picks. For those of you who don’t know ‘Bus, he ran the old Lynden Air Freight FBA many moons ago. The current QFBA scoring and head-to-head matchup system is based upon that Lynden FBA format from back before we had Yahoo! to take a lot of the work out of doing this.

As far as the Good Cap’n is concerned, The ‘Bus IS fantasy basketball, so you can imagine my disappointment when ‘Bus decided to forgo the QFBA in protest of the crappy way the NBA and Sonics treated their long-time loyal fans. I fully understand his position and agree completely that what went on was a travesty.

Anyway, the fates must have had another plan when Hayduke had his little meltdown before the season and Coach Moyle was convinced to step in and take over the team.

Coach Moyle faces what may be the greatest challenge of his FBA Career: turning this “C” draft team into a winner. I know this was not the start he wanted but he has already made some very astute personnel moves and could well make the new Incubus into a force. Having only nine teams this year means there are a few decent free agents floating around out there and da Bus has capitalized on that fact pretty well so far.

As for the Meatadors, despite what I think was a horrible pick in Calderon for a starting guard, they are off to a nice win in Week One. We’ll see if Coach Dutt can match the success he’s having in Fantasy Football.


The Kid is a Quick Study

FNU Ballers look pretty good this year. Of course, Coach Sisti is a former QFBA Champion and has always fielded tough teams. Unfortunately, he faces the Cap’s kid, who has become a legit contender this year. The kid made some questionable picks last year, but fielded a nice team that was much improved from their rookie season. This year, she has drafted what will surely be her best team yet. Yep, the apple sure don’t fall far from that tree.

The Ballers put up the third highest score this week but managed to lose a game that came right down to with wire. It’s always been about the matchup in this league and it sure didn’t take long to prove that old adage this season. Look for this team to win a bunch before this season is over.