Fantasy Blog: Beware of overconfidence, just like me!
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 One of the advantages of having your Sportingbet Fantasy Challenge score published for tens of thousands to see and compare is you very quickly lose the luxury of embarrasment.
OK then, everyone, it's time for me to confess. I may have won a Euroleague trophy once and an NCAA title before that. I also spend a lot of time these days analyzing Euroleague games for Czech TV. But I have to admit that when it comes to Fantasy Challenge, I am an amateur. I needed the game explained to me completely when the good editors at Euroleague.net asked if I wanted to try.
So I am trying - not very well, yet - but I plan to keep trying, and getting a lot better, soon. In the meantime, if you are coming here for advice on how to run your Fantasy Challenge teams, well, for the moment, think again. It's a little early in the game still for me to advise you.
The simple fact is that after two weeks, there are a few of you out there - let's just checking my team ranking a second - about 24,271 of you who are scoring better than me. Of course, that means I have you right where I want you, overconfident and thinking you are the expert!
OK, so I left one player on my team - I won't name names - who got a negative index rating two weeks in a row. That can happen to any newcomer. Especially one who is not aware of the Fantasy Challenge deadlines. With all the clocks changing from country to country these days, not to mention travel and Halloween in the air and all that, well, I kind of missed the deadline before Week 2.
But this is Week 3, and despite all my mistakes up until now, I still have a decent amount of credits to spend. And if spending is what Fantasy Challenge calls for, spend I will!
So I get three new players. Hmmmm. Since I am doing Olympiacos-Lietuvos Rytas as one of my games on Czech TV this week, I am adding a player from the 2-0 visitors - none other than Bojan Popovic, the October MVP!
That was easy. Didn't I tell you that I am getting the hang of this?
And then, my other two new players are Pete Mickeal of Regal FC Barcelona and Ali Traore of Asvel Basket. Since Barcelona is going to miss a couple key players - Juan Carlos Navarro and Gianluca Basile - on their trip to Zalgiris, I am betting that a lot of the perimeter scoring responsibility will fall on the shoulders of Mickeal, who also does a lot of other things. And even though Asvel will have it tough hosting Montepaschi this week, Ali was so huge last week, that his momentum alone should carry him to decent numbers again.
I am not giving much more away about my team, except to say that I am sticking with a young guy from my ex-club, Zalgiris, because I think they might give injury-plagued Barcelona a battle. And, of course, I am sticking with my home boys from the Czech Republic - Jiri Welsch of Unicaja and Jan Vesely of Partizan. Unicaja is leading its group and Jiri has a lot to do with that. Partizan could get its first win this week, and I think Jan will help them get it!
So c'mon boys, it's time to leave my amateur status behind and work on my reputation as an expert. We're going for 100 this week!!!
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Jiri Zidek
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