NFA Free Agency: Who will go where?

Here's a look at notable free agents in the NFA. I'll give the players name, stats from last year, and a completely random (uneducated) guess at where this player may end up.

Nene Hillario (Center) : 238 fouls, 5 FO, 7 Techy's. He'll end up in... Utah
Marc Gasol: 265 fouls (Center), 2 FO, 5 Techy's and 1 ejection. He'll end up in... Portland
David West (PF): 202 fouls, 1 FO, 6 Techy's. He'll end up in... Houston
Tyson Chandler (Center): 240 fouls, 4 FO, 7 Techy's. He'll end up in... Dallas
Glen Davis (Center, PF): 231 fouls, 4 FO, 6 Techy's. He'll end up in...Indianapolis
DeAndre Jordan (Center, PF): 255 fouls, 1 FO, 6 Techy's. He'll end up in...Chicago
Arron Afflao (SG): 155 fouls, 2 FO, 2 Techy's, 2 Flagrants. He'll end up in...New Jersey
Samuel Dalembert (C): 225 fouls, 2 FO, 5 Techy's, 1 Flagrant. He'll end up in...Detroit
Chauncey Billups (PG): 146 fouls, 1 FO, 11 Techy's. He'll end up in...Oklahoma City
Jameer Nelson (PG): 209 fouls, 1 FO, 5 Techy's, 1 Ejection. He'll end up in... New Orleans
Gerald Wallace (PF, SF): 183 fouls, 3 FO, 7 Techy's, 1 Ejection. He'll end up in... Cleveland
Matt Barnes (SG, SF): 127 fouls, 4 Techy's, 2 Ejections, 1 Flagrant. He'll end up in...Houston
Kevin Garnett (PF): 148 fouls, 1 FO, 11 Techy's, 1 Flagrant. He'll end up at...Golden State
Michael Beasley (PF, SF): 222 fouls, 3 FO, 8 Techy's, 1 Ejection. He'll end up in...Minnesota
Dwight Howard (C): 258 fouls, 4 FO, 18 Techy's, 3 Flagrants. He'll end up in Chicago
Elton Brand (PF, C): 244 fouls, 3 FO, 4 Techy's, 1 Ejection, 4 Flagrants. He'll end up in...Boston


That's just the tip of the iceberg for NFA free agents. I tried to highlight top foulers, those who performed well last season. If a fouler is in the last year of his contract, they usually step it up. Something to keep in mind when drafting, may get you an extra ejection. I'm pretty confident all my predictions will come true to where they are going to land after the NFA Free Agent Frenzy. The big money man will be Dwight Howard. It should be assumed he'll get paid $10,000 per foul last year and $100,000 per Techy. Usually players get a clause in their contract for a fouling out bonus and/or an ejection bonus. Those bonuses are usually around $250,000 per ejection and $50,000 per foul out.

The new CBA makes it difficult for teams to amass a solid group of foulers through free agency, so building Basketfoul or Foulball teams through the draft will be a must. Send your scouts to the NCAA and start looking at how foulers are fouling at the college level.

I'll try to update on where key foulers land. Until next time.

Keep foulin' y'all

FM

Foulers in China

News that China may block Aaron Brooks, J.R. Smith, Kenyon Martin, and Wilson Chandler among others from returning to the NFA could be huge. Brooks and Martin are All-Star Foulers and Chandler and Smith are not bad at all. None of the 4 scored over 1400 pts last year, but Brooks was a top fouler in at the PG position (or maybe Foul Guard, maybe PFG, I'll work on that.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_china_nba_players_112811

FM

NFA Foul Zone

NFA network is launching soon. They got a program like NFL Red Zone where they just go from game to game if there's a foul. Only $7.99/mo contact your local cable provider for more info.

FM

FOUL LEAGUE IS BACK!!!!!

With the NBA (NFA- National Foul Association as we know it) lockout finally over foulers can start getting to training camp. NFA Free Agency starts Dec. 9th, so it'll be interesting to see where certain foulers go. Also with a condensed 66 game season and with not much of a warmup period before the season (training camps and exhibition games) foulers should be really rusty and may get tired towards the end of the season so we could see some records despite the short season.

The only thing I may change from last year is roster deadlines, Currently it's Weekly-Thursday because the season ends on a Wednesday, but once the final schedule comes out, I may change it to adapt to that, or we may permanently switch to Weekly-Monday. It's not a big problem, I kind of like having the roster deadline in midweek as opposed to setting it on Sunday for Monday deadline. Though, maybe Monday deadline makes more sense. We'll see.


Keep Foulin' Y'all

FM

Random Thoughts

First of all, NBA lockout will most likely cancel foul league (MICHAEL OWEN! For Manure against New England, anyway...) this year. However, NFL's version of foul league is looking good to go. Interception League has rosters of 2 QBs, 2 Kickers, 2 DEF, and 2 Bench spots. Points include incomplete passes, times sacked, interceptions, pick 6s thrown, fumbles, fumbles lost for QBs. Missed PATs and FGs for kickers, and pts and yds allowed for DEF.

As for Error League (Baseball...2-0 Manure Macheda), we need to weight blown saves a lot more, since right now it makes no sense to have a RP on your roster. Also, we need to get walks as a stat for pitchers (I thought Total Bases included walks initially, but quickly found out I was wrong). (GOAL!!! FK! FEILHABER!!!!! 2-1 Manure, deflected off Mansally).

I do not think an error league will work well for hockey, but if there's enough interest we could try (but I doubt there would be enough interest since the foul league would be going on at the same time).

Well, that's it for now. Good luck to the USWNT in the World Cup final on Sunday!

USA!

Keep foulin' y'all!

FM

Foul League: 3rd Season Recap and Awards

First things first final standings are as follows:

1. Rodman'sWeddingDress     13470 pts
2. Baltimore Hitsquad             11290 pts
3. Steam Donkey FC               10385 pts
4.FloorViolation                       8855  pts
5. OH NO HE DIDN'T!           8795  pts
5. No Blood No Foul               8795  pts
7. TheTeamThabeet                 7570  pts
8. Javy Sense                            7445  pts


And now the End of the season Donkies and Most Valuable Fouler!

The Donkey for Most Fouls goes to...
Demarcus Cousins of Sacremento with 332 Fouls

The Donkey for the Most Foul Outs goes to...
Demarcus Cousins of Sacremento with 10 Foul Outs

The Donkey for the Most Technical Fouls goes to...
Dwight Howard of Orlando with 18 Techys

The Donkey for Most Flagrant Fouls goes to...
Elton Brand of Philadelphia with 4

The Donkey for Most Ejections goes to...
A 3-way tie between Demarcus Cousins (SAC), Richard Hamilton (DET), and Craig Smith (LAC) all with 3 ejections.

And finally....

The Donkey for Most Valuable Fouler (MVF), the most prestigious award (so far) for foul league, goes to......

Demarcus Cousins (SAC). He totaled 332 fouls, 10 foul outs, 14 techys, and 3 ejections (no flagrants) for a grand total of 3120 fantasy points (Beating out 2nd place Dwight Howard by an amazing 630 pts).

That's a wrap for now. I may post on stuff for baseball, but no guarantees. Hopefully the NBA doesn't lock out "We need our foul league!" Also, we are probably gonna try a donk league for football, (assuming there is a season) as well. We've already run into problems with baseball scoring, but that ws to be expected since this is the first year we are doing it. Also, football could be a head-to-head format, instead of just pure points, something to think about.

Until next year: May your fouls be flagrant and your ejections many!

Keep foulin' y'all!

FM signing off (for now)

OH YES HE DID!

Team: "OH NO HE DIDNT!" has just set the single night scoring record with 410 points. He also is the first team to get 2 ejections in one night. Ejections from Marc Gasol (190 pts) and Hedo Turkoglu (195 pts) were his big contributions to this record night. 15 pts from Pau Gasol and 5 pts from Ben Gordon and David Lee round out his 410 pts.

Now we have to wait and see if this score stands or if the NBA will review and eventually take away one or both of the ejections. But for now, it's a record!

FM