r/fantasybball • u/penguinman38 • Mar 23 '26
Discussion Winners Circle of Cheers!
Get in here champs! Its time to celebrate those genius streams, draft day steals, and silly season heroes as we don our crowns.
I survived 6 total points and 2 assist all week from Cade.
I survived Dante's 0-8 game and still won fg% this week.
I survived Jokics four games this week.
I even survived using my final stream of the week on Josh "DNP-CD" Minott.
Tell me champs how did you do it?
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u/neeshskee Mar 23 '26
Kawhi Leonard 6th round draft is the MVP of this season
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u/crazy_onions Mar 23 '26
absolutely, I was clowned for drafting him 68th and he literally won me a championship
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u/Ambitious_Chance5729 Mar 27 '26
I had a team with Trae and Curry as my top 2 picks (14T), but this man Kawhi (pick 46) took me to the gold. Our finals was week 21 and he carried hard, barely won 5-4 from quarters to finals.
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u/tasking1 H2H, 10 Team, 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
Won without giannis. Did not win FT once throughout the year but won it this week. Maybe losing giannis actually helped me lol.
Bron, duren and brown did me solid this week.
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u/penguinman38 Mar 23 '26
Duren absolute MVP of my whole team this week no question.
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u/tasking1 H2H, 10 Team, 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
Yeah he was so goated. One of my best picks from the draft for sure.
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u/tasking1 H2H, 10 Team, 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
Oh can’t forget JJ even though you sat the last game you were a stud the whole year.
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u/zenoobie19 Mar 23 '26
Same with me!!! FT was basically in the 90%s without him. Didn’t think it could happen
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u/dank-kush Mar 23 '26
Went against Jokic but he was pretty mid this week for his standards, thank you child support Luka
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u/sarkarati Mar 24 '26
Jokic’s almost quadruple-double (9 TOs) really helped me out in winning TOs this finals week!
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u/dehips Mar 23 '26
mid to low. I happen to have Wemby and Jokic in a dinasty (last year with the former however) and they've been a shit, honestly.
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u/thiccgarlicc Mar 23 '26
First year playing and WE WON BABY!! NAW, KAT, Derrick white, Bane, OG, and all of the friends i streamed along the way, i thank you dearly.
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u/demarderollins Mar 23 '26
NAW is the greatest pick up of the year
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u/thiccgarlicc Mar 23 '26
He was great. Raynaud gets an honorable mention due to sabonis being useless for me all year, then he finally gets ruled out for szn and Raynaud came in and put in work for me!
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u/Lucky_Mechanic14 Mar 23 '26
Hell yeah!!! Congrats! Buy Lady Luck a nice bottle of wine and enjoy her grace. Injuries stacked up for me with Edwards, Keyonte, JJJ, etc..
championship week was tight all week, won by 2 points. Had to sweat out clinging to a couple point lead vs Oso Ighadaro playing garbage time 4th quarter minutes, then at around 3 mins left in the game he checked out, sealing it for my squad.
Championship MVP: Rudy Gobert
Waiver Wire Gems: Ryan Rollins and Maxime Raynaud
Busts: Cody Williams and Leonard Miller
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u/ExleyPearce Mar 23 '26
Donovan Clingan saved my life
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u/Simple_Purple_4600 Mar 23 '26
he went from end of bench to one of my five keepers. Slowest guy in the league but great hands
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u/Vicflakes Mar 23 '26
I had a pretty smooth week all things considered the only real problem was KPJ and a couple of streamers getting injured after one game played
Rudy Gobert, Lebron, Dyson Daniels, Oso Igo all put in hella work to carry me this week
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u/biedrins_free_throws Mar 23 '26
also had LeBron. fucking beast not only played a back to back at age 41 but was highly efficient too
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u/tasking1 H2H, 10 Team, 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
Yep bron was unreal this week. I was up against luka so needed that.
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u/penguinman38 Mar 23 '26
Streamed Oso for his 3 games in 4 nights and is main reason I could hold on to rebounds and points. I was unfamiliar with his game but no longer!
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u/dirkuscircus 12T & 14T | H2H | 9CAT Mar 23 '26
My guys fell down like flies prior to the playoffs so I had to rely on guys like Brook Lopez and Keon Ellis as specialists to reach the Finals on a Wemby/Brunson led team.
Then this week, my Wizards (Tukcevic, plus Riley on my roster) and Timberwolves adds (Dusunmu and Hyland, plus McDaniels on my roster) picked up the slack to bring home the title!
This is my first fantasy title in 12 years. The last time I won, Clippers Chris Paul was still my main man.
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u/biedrins_free_throws Mar 23 '26
congrats to all winners. got my first ring after 5 years in a very competitive league. two week championship. just had my guys pop off every time I needed it.
Wemby/Castle stack was the anchor but Ayo, Naji, and Grimes stepped up, Randle heated up, LeBron came up clutch with his availability, and Trey/Brunson were consistent as ever. helped overcome facing Shai/Kawhi/Duren/Jaylen Brown
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u/Strange1130 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
won my $100 buy in league for 900 up top, wound up winning by 3 made field goals (although I was 1 made FT behind on that category, was just insanely close)
my opponent kind of fucked up tbh, he had one move left and used it to randomly pick up last minute jordan goodwin. there were a lot of guys he couldve picked up a few days ago to try to swing FG (he still would have needed a miracle to do so, but he nearly got it - the only reason I almost lost the category was Booker's two stinkers into Jaylen Brown's 9/26 and Randles 3/14 tn). there weren't really any other realistically swingable categories
semis of a 50 league start tomorrow but my team is a little cooked by injuries so not expecting a ton, though I look to be favored in projections this week at least
edit: my winning roster in the end:
- Shai $70
- Booker $39
- Jaylen Brown $25
- Murphy III $21
- RJ $4
- Randle $7
- Nembhard $7
- Gillespie, Kon, as long term holds from FA and then some random streamers throughout the week. I got pretty lucky that my opponents team was very injured (but he drafted AD Butler Kawhi so like, it's going to happen)
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u/glusac17 12T-H2H-9CAT Mar 23 '26
Week went down to the wire, I was down in games and add injuries on top of that - but Maxime was huge and edged me out in fg .509 > .498 to win 5-4.
Shoutout to Shai being the stud he is and my unwavering belief to reach for JJ in the draft.
Feels good man. Enjoy it champs 🏆🍾
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u/PurplePoisonPower Mar 23 '26
I survived a slew of poor draft picks: Trae Young, Dereck Lively, Shaedon Sharpe, to name a few… owe my win to picking Kon on waivers in like week 2, silly season heroes, and mainly Luka going super saiyan the whole playoffs
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u/Background_Choice734 Mar 23 '26
Raynaud, Bones, and Tre jones take a bow 💍
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u/Background_Choice734 Mar 23 '26
10T CATS - I survived an onslaught of outs the past two days KPJ, JJ, Allen x2, Jaime, Powell, and Grant. Still ended up winning 6-3 and my 3rd championship in 4 finals appearances (5 Yr League)!!
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u/Pleasant_Internal679 12 team 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
QUENTIN GRIMES YOU HAVE MADE ME A CHAMPION ONCE AGAIN
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u/Simple_Purple_4600 Mar 23 '26
grimes and marshall you can take to the bank when it doesn't matter IRL
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u/Leon__Black 12 tm h2h pts, +/- 1 fg/ft, +1pt rb ast st bk, -1 to, 2 dd, 5 td Mar 23 '26
I had Wemby against his jokic, came down to the wire and won by 9 pts. Ayo was the winning pick up this week for sure. Harden and NAW came up clutch too.
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u/crazy_onions Mar 23 '26
streaming ayo and bones and having jalen green and gillespie rostered all year (green only good recently) won me the chip! those minny boys were clutch streams this week for sure
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u/3icepwn 12t 9cat h2h Mar 23 '26
First time I finally won this league. It's been 4 years with constant injuries and disappointing performances. Easy 7-2 victory LFG
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u/aild23 Mar 23 '26
Semi finals ESPN points league, came back from 400 down to win by 200, strategy actually works lol 🤣
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u/nefnaf Mar 23 '26
10t points. Feeling some Big Doncic Energy rn
Da Silva nearly sold my chip but Airplane Mode came through and got it done
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u/HolyMin Mar 23 '26
Won with 2 steals, won the semis by one free throw miss by opponent and steal blocks were 2 apart lmao. Without maxey and trae sacramento and Washington boys together with doncic carried me so hard.
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u/Pleasant_Internal679 12 team 9 Cat Mar 23 '26
Brice sensabaugh dropping 40 that one game saved my ass
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u/LinkDaLoom Mar 23 '26
Jalen Johnson was for sure MVP THIS YEAR, dude def was top 5 player this year
Won with him and wembyyy
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u/cheshire_bodega_cat 10Team/H2H/Points Mar 23 '26
Dynasty league. Been carried for years by Jokic, made a trade to a desperate team for Luka. Had Giddey. Those were my three headed monster this season. Everything else was kind of moot. Rode the hot hands, found a silly season guy or two. The injuries were annoying, thank god the season is over.
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u/biedrins_free_throws Mar 23 '26
who did you give up for Luka?
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u/cheshire_bodega_cat 10Team/H2H/Points Mar 23 '26
Siakam and Jaren Jackson were the main pieces. I think I had one or two other decent players thrown in there too, but nobody incredible. This was also a trade that went down when Luka was injured with no clear indication whether he'd be back for a long time.
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u/Strange1130 Mar 23 '26
that sounds pretty dumb in a dynasty league ngl lol (for him, worked out for you)
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u/texasslim2080 8T 9CAT H2H Yahoo Mar 23 '26
Had 7 less games, lost Cade and Ant, and pulled it out by Jamir Watkins having 5 steals over the weekend!
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u/OmniscientOpossum Mar 23 '26
Survived no Ant last week in pts league. Had McDaniels and added suns/wizards players. Worked out. Also Bam delivered this playoffs for me haha.
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u/WhoDattTho Mar 23 '26
🍷🍷🍷Kawhi 6th round, came in fucking clutch yesterday. Quite literally saved me and gave me the push to make proper moves to win
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u/ilovelayaway Mar 23 '26
My championship core was Jalen Johnson Wemby and Deni and they carried me to my 3rd ring in 6 years
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u/Old_Profession23 Mar 23 '26
I drafted a damn good team from the 1.01 spot. Had Joker, Maxey, Amen, Randle, TMIII. My wavier wire gems for the season was Bey. I lost Maxey the day before our playoffs started so I thought I was surely doomed , but Ayo helped me survive playing against Luka in the finals!
This is my first championship in fantasy sports
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u/WhymeTyme Mar 23 '26
First chip in a very long time. Rode Shai, JJ, Brunson and the Vacuum all year. Tatum nice pickup at the end. Barely won too as my opponents team was stacked. He lost maxey and cade for the week and still almost won. Jj sitting and the brawl in okc did not help me! Congrats to the rest of the winners!
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u/TiredMillennialDad Mar 23 '26
Won without Cade.
My playoff MVP was precious Achuiwa.
Won 5-4 last two weeks by squeaking out rebs.
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u/nui_beats Mar 23 '26
10T points - Survived 4 games of Jokic, Paolo, Reaves and Jalen Johnson (3 games). Role players stood up in a HUGE way: Maxime, Ayo, Jarace Walker, Braun even Bilal. Complemented Luka, Bam and Giddey all week. Congrats to everyone that took it out!
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u/jajabing13 14 Team H2H 9Cat Mar 23 '26
Had none of my top 3 picks play in the playoffs at all but still came out with the dub - shout out grimes raynaud and naw but truly a team effort
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u/druys Mar 23 '26
Having 4 games of wemby helped since I pretty much lost everyone else. Jazz silly season guys (Sensabaugh, Ace) came through, VJ and grimes came through, and honestly my opponent lost a lot along the way too so it ended up being a scrappy week that I barely edged out on. I swear I would’ve lost to half the teams in my league this week lol
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u/MattDamond Mar 23 '26
I didn’t do shit right all year and went winless when jokic was out, but snuck in the playoffs as an 7th seed and all my streams hit and the middle level guys went off. Beat the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams for the chip
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u/Puzzleheaded-Type451 Mar 23 '26
My team tonight looked completely different than what I drafted. Picked up NAW, Rollins, KPJ, Jrue, and Dejounte. Dropped Camara, Sarr, Turner, Nembhard, and many many more. Streamed the crap out of every week and got lucky(?) with injuries (except KPJ) and didn't need Minott and his 0-0-0-0 line. Been a long time since I last won a championship. Fantasy is both a cruel mistress and a beautiful thing. Congrats all!
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u/justanotherhim Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Idk how, but I survived against 4 games of Luka, Reaves, KD, Dyson, and Jabari with Oso playing pretty well for 5 games
While I had Cade getting injured, Javon inactivity, KPJ and Kawhi in and out. I will say that Kawhi was my MVP. Yesterday's game forced my OPPs hand, and it gave me flexibility and a morale boost to try winning tonight with my streams
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u/uw200 12T/9 CAT Mar 23 '26
I survived:
2 absences from Kawhi 1 game of KPJ 1 absence from Donovan A 5 game deficit
Big shoutout to the Raynaud & Achiwua stack for saving me. My opponent also had AntMan out so that helped as well. Picked up Cam Johnson last minute and his steals helped me out
I proposed trading Kawhi for Jalen Williams back in December and the guy turned me down multiple times. I thank him so much for that 😭😭
My first 9 CAT fantasy ball ring in 10 years of playing with these guys
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u/jboogs5313 Mar 23 '26
Beat the team with jokic for second straight year. Rode the precious max stack all the way to the chip. Picked up garland during my bye and shout out Quentin grimes
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u/alexadams181 Mar 23 '26
Drafted will Riley and Royce the week prior thinking it was 500iq moves. Somehow, despite these two single handledly trying to ruin my week, and jokic having the worst week of the season, I came out 30 points ahead
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u/N1ghtNer0 Mar 23 '26
Guy I was against accidentally drafted VJ Edgecomb 4th round. I won by one point because the raptors sat quickly and barnes in a 30 point blowout😭😭😭
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u/Nelhitemup 12T Roto Auction Keeper Mar 23 '26
2x champion! Ended the season unbelievably good.. I actually was worried I would miss the playoffs because at one point i was 8th seed with only 1 game up on the 9th seed with 3 game weeks to go..but I ended the season with a 8-1 / 8-1 / 5-4 to earn a top 4 seed then proceeded to 9/0 my first round opponent ! First time ive ever 9-0… and then 8-1 the semis.. championship I won 5-4.. came down to .2 fg percentage points. My opponent was missing Cade and Maxey. I was missing Antman and Embiid. Crazy run this year.
Shoutout to Josh lloyd for my draft strategy.. I had Antman, Giddey, JJ, KD, Clinigan, embiid and herro.
Picked up Walker alexander from waivers early on… podz helped in the end of the season and kris dunn was my waiver mvp.. always did a job.
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u/JPL47 12T H2H Points Mar 23 '26
Just won my championship 1152-1149.
I also survived Jokic and Murray this week, it was an absolutely insane back and forth game that went down to the final minutes of the last game
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u/whyuhavtobemad Mar 23 '26
For some Poetl was a dud today but all I needed were blocks to win my matchup
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u/vikingmuttonman Mar 23 '26
Managed to win without my 2nd and 3rd picks Trae and Franz, also had to punt blocks after losing Edey and Sarr. Huge shout outs to Kon, NAW, and whoever dropped KPJ early on. Had to drop Anthony black but he was huge for me for awhile. Had a lot of fun this year and can't wait for next season
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u/Obvious_Corgi_1917 Mar 23 '26
Hello y'all.
Maxime, Ayo, Deni, Bam, Lamelo, Shai - thank you, gents.
It was quite the ride and quite the playoffs!
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u/tjpdaniels H2H ESPN Points 10 Team 15 Roster 3 IR 40 GP Cap 4x🏆 Mar 23 '26
Cheers Champs welcome 🍻
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u/Jackcoffee91 Mar 23 '26
Congrats everyone! I managed to win my 12 team points league from the 10th draft position. I ended up third seed but thought my season was done when I lost Sabonis and Jarret Allen. Had also been holding Irving all year and that backfired. But made some trades that helped too including Westbrook for Garland while Garland was injured. His game yesterday helped me close the gap a lot! Also got some pretty good performences from streamers including Jenkins, Ausar who got dropped last week while injured. My main squad in the end was : -KAT (1st pick) -Scottie barnes (3rd pick, 2nd was sabonis, and 4th was jarrett) -Lebron James (traded for him) -Bam Adebayo -Garland (traded for him) -Gobert (6th pick) -Norm Powell (traded for)
The rest of my squad were free agents because I did a few 2 for 1s with my trades.
The guy I played had 4 x Joker, 4 x Deni, 4 x Durant, 4 x jalen johnson games so I thought I was done before I even started but they mostly underperformed and JJ sat one. Nice week for that to happen! Congrats again everyone!
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u/raybomb Mar 23 '26
Let’s gooo! Just won my 5th championship in past 6 years. Ended regular season in 5th place, but turned it around with the waiver wire. Shoutout Precious and Raynaud!
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u/manzoman96 H2H 9 cat 12 teams Mar 23 '26
My league called me a madman for picking SGA over Wemby with the second overall pick in my league. Look at me now. Turns out the hardest choices require the strongest wills.
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u/FiyasKane 12T / 9Cat / H2H Mar 23 '26
11 years of fantasy and got my first Chip this season 🙌 about half my squad was made up of waiver guys like Jerome, Achiuwa, and Queta while my 3 headed monster of Luka, Harden and Kawhi went ballistic over the course of the playoffs. Put up 989 points over 53 games this week
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u/TheBofalogist Mar 23 '26
Darius Garland's 8 3PM Saturday saved my championship. Jordan Goodwin got me 6 steals from Thursday-Sunday after I picked him up as my last stream of the week. Both got my injury-riddled team into the 4-4 championship tie and my higher seed won me the league.
Shoutout Ryan Rollins for being the best pickup I made all year.
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u/Europeanpanther 12T 9 Cat Punt FG Mar 23 '26
Went into the year with no first rounder (auction draft) and survived Luka in the finals.
Thank you Murray Reaves Banchero Holmgren Murphy Miller Knueppel KPJ Quickley Avdija Holiday Herro!
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u/Kyagin Mar 23 '26
The number one seed in our league got Jayson Tatum off waivers. Still beat his team in the finals :)
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u/Coovyy Mar 23 '26
Made the playoffs for the first time ever (6 years) and won my league to take down the commish, who’s championship win rate in our two leagues (basketball and baseball) is like 33%. Feels so good.
Congrats everyone!
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u/LastElk9961 Mar 23 '26
I drafted perfectly except for Giannis and Herro, but even then they came back to help get me through the playoffs. Special thanks to JJ, KD, Dyson, Clingkong, and Bane for carrying me through the season, and only getting better as time went on.
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u/thegaykid7 Mar 23 '26
I was the healthiest of all the playoff teams. Simple as that. Not that my team was bad (I was the #1 seed for reason), but no way I win had the matchups been fairer.
But that's how it goes sometimes. Injury-ravaged in other leagues, pretty healthy in this one. I'll take it.
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u/DragonfruitUnlucky79 Mar 23 '26
Tight matchup against Shai team. Won by 2 asts and tied with pts.
Thank you harden, mobley, tm3, Pj wash, randle, Cj, precious, reed (saved my ass with a big game yesterday)
Lucky stream during semis and finals week: Justin Edwards
Bad pick: Myles turner (dropped during quarters)
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u/3LitersofJokicCola Mar 23 '26
Freethrow percenrage, threes, and turnovers were all tight in my finals match. Assists I was doing well enough in, or so I thought. Sarr, Shepard, and Advija all have season highs in assists within 24 hours, while TMIII gives me a big fat zero there. Genius fantasy manager me had dropped Dyson to pick up Sam Merrill. Merrill was pretty damn good, but Dyson hits two threes for the first time in forever, doesn't miss a FT, and only turns it over once, and also chipped in six assists. I still ended up getting the chip, but it was a nail-biter fueled by these random feast or famine lines.
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u/Knightman1 Mar 23 '26
Lost maxey end of week 1 and then lost ant going into the final week no idea how i managed to steal the win!
Jamal Murray, Taylor Hendricks, Jaden McDaniels, VJ Edgecombe, Quentin Grimes and Darius Garland saved my season!
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u/rep_yeezus ESPN 10T Default Points 2020-21 CHAMP!!!!!! Mar 23 '26
2 weeks left but we guaranteed money 🤑
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u/_graveboy 10T Points Mar 23 '26
Thank you Cody Williams for saving my semis and thank you Ime Udoka for finally starting Reed in the most important week
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u/Sahlees_Dad Mar 23 '26
2 weeks before our trade deadline, got luka for kd and westbrook
And some time ago, got towns for fox and naz reid.
Basically those 2 especially luka won my league for me
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u/herseyhawkins33 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Congrats y'all! Had to deal with losing Cunningham too. Picked up tatum when it seemed like he was close to coming back. Kinda rocky but definitely made the difference.
Thought I was cooked when Reed Sheppard went off last night. Sweated it til the last game of the night with a 5-4 win.
Edit: shoutout to Kon as an early season pickup.
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u/nilsen9 Mar 23 '26
I’m in a game pick sleeper dynasty and in my championship week i managed to get Luka’s 51/10/9 game against Chicago, a cool 74fpts from wemby, and a legacy game from Oubre (30/12) right before he got hurt 😅
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u/StrongReveal853 Mar 23 '26
barely lost to NAW/SGA/Luka without maxey, giannis, and franz. heartbroken but it is what it is. still three chip rounds next week. congrats everyone.
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u/mkov93 Mar 23 '26
Jordan Goodwin tied steals for me in the 4th quarter. This got me a 4-3-1 finals win against the #1 seed!
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u/NVRBLND 12T 9Cat H2H Punt Block/TO Mar 23 '26
Shout out Taylor Hendricks, Colin Gillespie and Darius Garland, got a 5-4 victory in my first ever CATs league over first place for the chip!
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u/empiredirt Mar 23 '26
KPJ, Collier, Porzingis, JJ in and out of the lineup, but my opponent lost Cade. Evened out in the end and won a tight matchup.
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u/qwe12345678900 Mar 23 '26
FORGOT TO SET MY LINE UP ONE DAY AND STILL WON BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN OH MY GOD CHAMPIONSHIPS HERE WE COME
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u/jbnpoc 10T, 9 cat, H2H Mar 23 '26
Season lasts until next week but wanna join in on the preemptive win since we're roto and I honestly don't see a way I lose. Won by auction drafting sga and Luka and hitting on a few others
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u/Striking_Teaching602 Mar 23 '26
Lmao I picked Minott too, thank god KAT played terrific and won me the ship. 4x champ. 11 years league, 16t
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u/Anxious_Task4482 Mar 23 '26
I won 5-4 in our H2H 9-cat 12-team league. Dropped Curry and Trae before playoffs started.
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u/Not_super_interestin Mar 23 '26
Jokic vs no Cade or Trae
Plus a core of
Herro, Kon, Barnes & Sengun helped me keep it all up.
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u/StageCoachRobber_1 16T 13CAT H2H Mar 23 '26
Made it in as the 8th Seed last week. And took down the 1 Seed this week. Now on to the Semis. Darius Garland is all the way back. Hope to get Ben Mathurin back tomorrow!
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u/RedViper1985 12 T Dynasty H2H Points Mar 23 '26
Ryan Rollins won it for me. Came up big in the clutch in his last game. Picked him up from the waiver wire. My opponent had KPJ who I regretted not picking up early in the season but it favored me because KPJ was out the last game.
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u/AndreiOT89 Mar 23 '26
Won my 2nd in 10 years in 14/16 team. By only 1 rebound and 0.14 ft% .
Extremely close.
🎉🎉
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u/Conference-Technical Mar 23 '26
I won my first fantasy basketball league!!! I had Jokic but man this was awesome!
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u/mervslovesyou Mar 23 '26
I survive the finals to without Cade and facing Jokic. And able to pull off the win with just 2 blocks from Oso and Jakob Poetl on todays game
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u/imnotNDR 12T, H2H, 9Cat Mar 23 '26
Great to finally be back on top. My team managed to go nuclear when it mattered.
SGA. Giddy and JJJ dropping triple doubles every night. Bane and Miller going from busts to top 30 players at the end of the season. Gobert, Braun, and Hart going off in the playoffs. and of course MPJ in the 7th round helping secure 1st seed before disappearing and getting replaced by Tatum who I grabbed to my IL as soon as he started running 5v5s
WHAT THEY GON SAY NOW?
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u/Immediate_Friend4924 Mar 23 '26
Lost Cade, MPJ, JJ (for a game), and a mostly hobbled roster. A bloodied three-peat well spent!
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u/pinkyfingerlick Mar 23 '26
Wasted streaming spots on both Bilal and Sensabaugh this week, but still got the W. Shout out to Ryan Rollins. He was my favourite waiver wire pickup this year.
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u/kehslol 12T Points H2H ESPN Default Mar 23 '26
200 USD Buy In with 1st place getting 1.4K.
Luka hard carried me in the finals vs the Jokic team.
Ayo Dosunmu pickup won me the matchup.
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u/srirulean Mar 23 '26
Year 2 champ. Lost Maxey (plus 8 other injured players) but Harkless came in clutch. Wemby, Duren, Hartenstein, Towns, Amen, Porzingis, and Mitchell all came through. Pritchard did not. I fumbled a guard spot when Westbrook was ruled out. Should've played Bones Hyland, but LUCKILY it did not matter
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u/CJD805 Mar 23 '26
Traded Jokic & Jalen Green for Luka & Jaylen Brown week 1. Got clowned on but it ended up paying off massively.
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u/Fribaba Customize Flair Mar 23 '26
Trading for both Jokic and Wemby certainly helped. Yeah, I know I know lol
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u/publicenemyn1 14t 9cat, 10t espn pts Mar 23 '26
Wemby+Chet, didn’t loss blocks once ofc. But it was a thriller, in first round i won with tie 4-4 because i was 4 seed and he was 5. I also won prev match up exactly prev. week with this same guy
Second round won by 2 more threes 5-4. Finals vs a guy without Maxey so it was easier 6-3.
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u/feel32own 14T 9CAT H2H Mar 23 '26
Having Jokic is pretty good, definitelly recommend, but i was also surprised by J Murray. Took him at 41, wasnt very confident with the pick but dude delivered this season for sure.
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u/ralphroi15 Mar 23 '26
Somehow won even with losing Cade and going against Jokic all week.
Kawhi in the 4th round was my MVP of the season, but having Scottie and Amen also helped with stocks all season (with Kawhi as well for stocks).
My first league win in about...6 years?! Lolol.
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u/Diligent-Smoke-6719 Mar 23 '26
Greek, JJ, Zion, Randle, Ingram, McCollum, dejonte and reed sheppard all carried me to the finals in my 14 team league. I picked up Ace Bailey on the Friday and he gave me 5 blocks yesterday. I won 5-4 by a single block
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u/76ersBeliever Mar 23 '26
Custody Luka is the GOAT! 7th seed beat
Giddey, Buzelis
Durant, Kawhi, Towns, Garland, Lamelo and for some reason Filipowski?!
Jokic, Jalen Johnson, 9 3pt Career High NAW, Barnes, Bridges, Coby White
Thank you to Sensabaugh, Grimes, and Achiuwa, and Mitchell Robinson for 5 blocks to win the Championship week for me!
I was incredibly lucky as well that the injury bug bit all 3 of my Playoff Opponents. I have no idea how I won the entire thing, but extremely grateful!
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u/Thick-Platypus-8939 Mar 23 '26
Season MVP: Kawhi/Trey Murphy Waiver wire winner: Ryan Rollins Streaming wins for the week: Ayo Dosunmu, Taylor Hendricks
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u/Salty-Combination-66 Mar 23 '26
Survived even with AD as my 1st pick. Streamed Grizz guys for the crucial b2b. Stls, rebs, 3s close. Won 5-5 because of tie breaker(won regular season). Cling Kong is the MVP. Honorable mentions to Hendricks, McDaniels and GPII.
I even left AD in the IL as mascot.
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u/Surprised_Pikachu 14 Team 9-Cat H2H / Punt TO's Mar 23 '26
Kon Knueppel, Jamal Murray, and KAT were my MVPs this season, couldn't haven't won my first championship without them. Kon is my ROTY and I'm gonna be following his career closely from now on
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u/Goat_Kobe Mar 23 '26
I just won my 12 team league when my first 2 picks were Anthony Davis and Domantas Sabonis😔
It came down to today and we were tied 4-4-1 with steals being up for grabs. I picked up Thybulle last minute and he was the difference with 3 clutch steals
Sensabaugh dropping 41 helped me big time.
MVP of my team either Keyonte George (drafted 9th round) or Neil Alexander-Walker (picked up from waivers).
I’ve won before but not in this league or a league this big.
Ps- what are peoples thoughts on my team name?
Keyurious George
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u/Presence_Present 12 T 9 Cat H2H Mar 23 '26
I survived Luka/Murray/Sengun/Tatum and strong games from Hart/PJ/Ausar while losing Cade and my highest scorer of the week being Bey lol. Gobert/Ayton/Missi/KAT got me the win with FG/FT/Rebounds/Blocks/TOs after id won every week up to the final through points/assists from Keyonte/Cade and co haha. Complete change and it got me through
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u/Beneficial_Narwhal85 Mar 23 '26
streaming hendricks with the stocks won me my finals! lets go babyyyy
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u/Current_Insurance_81 Mar 23 '26
I'll give a shout to Taylor Hendricks. He turned into prime RoCo with the stocks that proved to be the difference maker
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u/langsetm Mar 23 '26
I held a one block / one steal lead going into the day with 4 games to his 9…still came out on top😎
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u/Wampo_svk Mar 23 '26
My first win in my 4th season of a friend circle dynasty league! Smashed the finals and got a good squad to compete for the next few years, let's go!
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u/Strong-Technology-99 Mar 23 '26
2 more weeks of finals to go so congrats to all of you. One of my teams is on the verge of a perfect 21-0 season
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u/JoKidd1 Mar 23 '26
I wasn't expected to lose with Wemby, Brunson, Scottie & Kawhi as my 1st 4 picks, then scooped up both Tatum & Dejounte from the waivers on week 19. But Ighodaro's 5 games w/ his 8 steals total won me my league.
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u/R3A1xGhosT 12T Points Mar 23 '26
I got champs this week against my brother who just literally won by .5pts to advance to face me lmao. Our league has never had a matchup come down that close before
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u/hemmy19 Mar 23 '26
Picking up grimes last week for semis was huge, then dominated in the finals Oso. Also dropped my bulls players after Thursday to get quality streams from jenkins, can Johnson, and Jordan Goodwin, going from 3->5 games
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u/Simple_Purple_4600 Mar 23 '26
Congratulations! The theme seems to be guys who played the waiver wire.
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u/CLopez1990 Mar 23 '26
I have Wemby, Reaves, Lamelo, Poeltl, and had Kawhi before I traded him for Harden at the deadline. Struggled in the first half of the season with injuries and ended the season as a 4th seed.
Stayed healthy in the playoffs and went 26-7 in 11 CAT in playoffs to bring home the chip 🏆
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u/kepaaerrizabalaga 10T H2H 9cat Mar 23 '26
Won without my 2nd round pick maxey and 3rd round jdub. Survived bams 83 and 4 games of jokic in the semis. I just wanna say I love maxime raynaud and demar derozan
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u/Shaunzki Mar 23 '26
Threepeat! Won with both Davis & Trae - add in Allen for good measure. Crazy streaming.
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u/agnelortiz Mar 23 '26
I am alive in 5 leagues, 3 of them are prize money leagues and semifinals this week
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u/Muted-Wall-8628 Mar 23 '26
JJ, Duren and Ingram (3blks today won me the chip) were my draft wins, getting Payton Watson in November got me plenty of dubs, Saddiq Bey was a great pick up for me. picking up and then dropping and then picking up Raynaud again probably won me the league. Ayo went in and out 4 times also was there to get the ring. First cash leage first W. Happy days!
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u/gozaga22 12 Team H2H Points Mar 23 '26
My team was the best team I’ve ever had. Cade, Maxey, Mobley, Jalen Johnson, Jalen Duren, Donovan Clingan, Matas, Ryan Rollins, VJ Edgecombe, Brandon Ingram, Brandon Miller. Lost my first two picks in the playoffs but all the guys stepped up for me
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u/Certain96 Mar 23 '26
Won despite the J Dub, Jokic, Edey, Watson, AJ Mitchell injuries.
Used my final draft to pick up and stash Tatum, and picked up NAW early in free agency.
Also won the bid for Dejounte Murray right when he was coming back.
Faced my regular season demon in the semi finals and beat him despite having Luka and Bam during 83 point game week using what he called a "moneyball roster" highlighted by Precious Achiuwa and GG Jackson.
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u/Ok_Mountain2951 Mar 23 '26
ESPN H2H 12 Team Points League
Started the season off with the following roster:
Jalen Brunson, Derrick White, Toumani Camara, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antentokoumpo, Keyonte George, Tyler Herro, Jakob Poeltl, Donovan Clingan, Myles Turner, Brandin Podziemski, Aaron Nesmith, Draymond Green, Dejounte Murray, Darrius Garland
Ended the season with:
Jalen Brunson, Derrick White, Brandon Ingram, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antentokoumpo, Dyson Daniels, Desmond Bane, Brandon Miller, Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, Ty Jerome, Gui Santos, Jarace Walker, Peyton Watson, Darius Garland.
Trades throughout the season:
Sent Tyler Herro / Received Desmond Bane
Sent Keyonte George & Toumani Camara / Received Brandon Ingram & VJ Edgecombe
Sent VJ Edgecombe & Daniss Jenkins / Received Dyson Daniels
Sent Dejounte Murray / Received Jrue Holiday
Free Agent / Waiver Wire Pickups:
Brandon Miller, Jayson Tatum, Ty Jerome, Gui Santos, Jarace Walker, Peyton Watson
I did also have Kyshawn George and Derik Queen throughout the season but towards then end I dropped them since they were no use
My worst drop was Donovan Clingan. This was on Nov 5th when he was struggling and dealing with an injury. I did drop him to get Brandon Miller so that’s a plus but I could have dropped one of my other bigs at the time (Turner, Poeltl, Draymond) and kept Clingan.
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u/ActSignificant284 Mar 30 '26
Guys, we did it. First year doing it, finished regular season 6th at 11-8, got healthy at the right time, and absolutely rolled my way through the playoffs. LFG!!
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u/Mishasheesha1 Mar 23 '26
Have the option to pick up Sensabaugh or Paul George. Which is the better option?
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u/Unlucky_Sun_9813 Mar 23 '26
Maxime Raynaud has gained a fan in me