Time to eliminate the C?

[geodbear]

Interesting item that the NBA will eliminate the center position from the all-star ballot, and will have 3 "front-court" positions to vote for instead of 2 forwards and 1 center.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/10/23/all-star-centers-ballot/index.html

Is it time to rethink the C in fantasy basketball? I've disliked Yahoo's default of having two C's to begin with. I remember when nba.com ran fantasy, they had the F/C position to go with 1 C as the default.

[The Thrill]

Or better yet....

1 PG
1 SG
1 SF
1 PF
1 C

You know, your standard starting lineup?

And then have 5 Util each day as well.

I've never been a big fan of "G" or "F" personally. Though I can tolerate them much better than the 2nd "C" position.

And for that matter, I like the "G" and "F" positions more than "CI" or "MI" on the Fantasy Baseball side.

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[RedHopeful]

I'm with you guys. Two center notations in std leagues are overkill and I like the idea one of them morphs into a F/C slot. Perhaps we should revisit this next off season in many of our leagues...

[silentjim]

It's interesting to me that teams that don't have good centers talk about not needing them and using combo guys and rotating them in.

Teams with good centers of course utilize them and talk about how important having a legit center is.

[deadshot11]

My main league's been running 1 C and 3 Util slots for years now.

[Fenris-77]

Why not 3 guard and 4 forward slots? Or 2/3 and two utilities? The positional eligibility is the most contrived part of fantasy sports, and while it flies OK in baseball, it looks a little sketchy in basketball. Let people roam free positionally and have some space to really work he stats instead of worrying about finding a PG eligible player for their Ast punt team.

I'd even be OK just dropping C and calling both PF and C just PF's, or big mothering dudes, or whatever.

[GRIN]

I don't believe Yahoo or ESPN currently allow for a combo PF/C position. Maybe next year?

[Fenris-77]

I don't believe Yahoo or ESPN currently allow for a combo PF/C position. Maybe next year?

Yahoo used to. They also used to allow game limit settings for Head to Head play, which is something I would dearly love to be able to use again.

[bujfan2030]

Based on the multiple formats I see in my leagues, it is pretty arbitrary. Never could understand why ESPN so rigid on position eligibility.
I'm guessing besides tradition, there might be concerns about newbies ending up with unbalanced teams