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My fantasy basketball season got off to a good start and my team went 11-2 in it’s first week. We play 13 games each week in my fantasy league and that’s how many stat categories we have. Things like points, rebounds, and assists are things we can win games on and determines how we did. Our fantasy basketball league starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. You get matched up with another team in the league and you play against that team for the whole week. So my first week I played against the High Flyin Hawks and my team’s name is Hotlanta Hawks. Our league does consist of owners from Georgia, but there is only 2 Hawk’s teams in our league. It was just coincidence that we played each other first in our 10 team fantasy basketball league.

The two stat categories or games I lost on were in the areas of field goal percentage and turnovers. The High Flying Hawks had 19 more percentage points in the field goal race and my team had 2 more turnovers than his team. The other 11 stat categories I won in, so that is the reason my record now stands at 11-2. I barely won the “free throws made” stat and my team had 115 and the High Flying Hawks had 113. The offensive rebound stat was even closer than that and I only won that stat by 2. I don’t mind losing the turnover and field goal percentage games, but I do focus on the other 11 stats. I do need to improve my team with players that can get more offensive rebounds and with players that get to the free throw line more. I really done well in the points category and won that by 90. So maybe trying to figure out a way to trade some of those points for some offensive boards and guys that make a lot of free throws.

I really like my team and I am very balanced. I may not have a team that is good at any one stat, but I’m hard to beat across the board. So I won’t let teams beat me easily and I should be competitive in most of the stat categories each week. I do have a team of thieves and I got a lot of steals last week. My team had 46 steals and my opponent’s team got only 32. So if there was one stat that I am currently thriving in, it would be the steals category and I might go undefeated in that stat category all year long. I’m sure injuries will come into play shortly and that might change the whole make-up of my team. Michael Redd is my first injury and his status for Wednesday’s night game is uncertain right now. It’s nothing major and just a bad ankle he hurt the other night. Even if he does suit up and play tomorrow night, I already have plans to keep him on the bench.

The players I am counting on the most in my fantasy basketball league are Dwayne Wade my first round pick and then guys like Tracy McGrady, Ron Artest, Vince Carter, and my favorite player Josh Smith of the Atlanta Hawks. I will be riding these guys back and trying to surround them with the best players possible. I’m keeping up with the whole NBA right now and plan to stay that way until my team can be comfortably in first place. There were two other teams in my league that went 11-2 last week, so right now I am in a 3 way tie for first place. This week the Hotlanta Hawks will play the Warriors and their team was 7-6 last week. So they had a winning week too, so one of our two teams will lose their first match-up this week.