Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 19! The goal of this post is to identify widely available players who can help you win your head-to-head matchup. This week, the Suns once again take center stage, as Devin Booker joins Chris Paul on the sidelines. If you didn’t have the option to stash Cam Payne through the final stages of his absence, now is a good time to grab him. It won’t be long until he’s owned in more than 50% of leagues across most fantasy platforms, at which point I’ll no longer be able to use pain puns in my title. Until that day comes, I will exhaust them without shame. This week’s is brought to you by Tyler Durden:
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Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 18! The goal of this post is to identify widely-available players who can help you win your head-to-head matchup. Though we’ve only witnessed one night of regular season games since my last post, there’s a lot of player news to digest. On the good news front, the return of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander appears imminent, so we can put those shutdown rumors to bed. Malcolm Brogdon is probable for today, which caps the value of Chris Duarte after a run of games in which he clocked 35+ minutes. Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons are reportedly nearing their respective returns to the court, but there’s no target game set for either player as of this writing.
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Midweek Guidance – All Star Break Edition
February 17, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball | 8 Commentsby: PB
Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 18! The goal of this post is to help you identify streaming options who will help you win your head-to-head matchup. With there being only one night of games remaining for this half of the matchup, I’m only running down options for Thursday’s games this week. However, this post felt sad and empty without some additional long-term options, so I’ve included players at the bottom who fit that mold.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – Trade Deadline Extravabonanza
February 10, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball |by: PB
But we’re not here to talk about impact players that are owned in most, if not all, leagues, because we deal with players on the margins in this post! My goal is to identify widely-available players in order to give you the best streaming options for your head-to-head matchups. And despite the spiciness of the trade deadline, this week is no different. Hopefully, you kept your powder dry and saved a couple player additions for opportunities that are now presenting themselves as a result of deals.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – The Pacers’ Big Man Carousel
February 3, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball | 2 Commentsby: PB
Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 16! In this post, I look for widely available streaming options who can help you increase the odds of winning your head-to-head matchup. Undoubtedly, there are several of you who are locked in battles for playoff seeds and/or bye weeks as most fantasy leagues reach their terminal phase. I will do my best to find you players who meet your categorical needs!
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – Coffey is Grindin’
January 27, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball | 16 Commentsby: PB
Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 15! The objective of this post is to help you identify the best available streaming options to win your head-to-head matchups.
Last week’s recommendations held up reasonably well, but it appears I cursed Kelly Olynyk and Alex Caruso by giving them both a casual mention in the intro. After my vote of confidence, the cosmos promptly conspired against me to Grayson Allen Caruso’s wrist and infect Olynyk with COVID-19.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 14! There are still a few players in protocols, but we’re firmly on the back end of the recent spike in illness. While this is generally good news for all, it means I can no longer blame COVID for my faulty predictions and recommendations. On the other hand, I am enjoying the return to a time when my recommendations survived for more than two hours before being extinguished by the latest round of mass testing. I’m not ready to declare “ops normal” just yet, as the situation is still fluid, but things are headed in the right direction. Regardless of what’s going on in the background, my goal is to provide you with the best widely available streaming options in hopes of giving you an edge in your head-to-head category matchups.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 13! In this post, I will give you several streaming recommendations for players who can give you an edge in your head-to-head matchups. We are at the halfway mark of the real NBA season, which means your fantasy hoops playoff races are starting to heat up. Ideally, you’re way out in front and can stash players who will come off injury to help you in the playoffs. The vast majority of us, however, are fighting for a bye week or playoff seed, and every player add will get us closer to or further away from that goal.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – Simon Says… Add Simons (Pt. 2)
January 6, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball | 4 Commentsby: PB
Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week 12! The goal of this post is to steer you towards quality streamers who can help you win your head-to-head matchups. We’re nearly halfway through the season, and we’ve already seen more than 540 players cycle through the league thanks to COVID-19 protocols. While this unprecedented situation is frustrating, it is providing opportunities to try out players who never would have sniffed 12-team league rosters otherwise. Last week, we witnessed the resurrection of Gary Harris and some astonishingly good shooting performances from Coby White and Malik Monk. Hopefully some of you were able to cash in on those recommendations. This week, there’s a whole new set of COVID absences and injuries, so let’s get into the schedule and some player recommendations.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – COVID Theatre Enters the Next Act
December 30, 2021 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball |by: PB
The NBA claims that it consulted several medical experts when making this decision. I imagine the finance department was also involved, especially after the spate of big name absences for Christmas Day’s marquee slate. At any rate, I choose to believe that we’ve turned the corner and will start to see additional policy revisions in the near future. In the meantime, this post will continue to provide you with the best possible intel on widely available players who can help you down the stretch of a head-to-head matchup.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Midweek Guidance – Comedy and Tragedy in the COVID Theatre
December 23, 2021 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball | 11 Commentsby: PB
Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week Ten! If you’ve paid attention to my posts over the past two weeks, you know that many of my streaming suggestions were unceremoniously detonated by COVID protocols. In fact, my measure of success for this post is no longer recommending players who will help you in your category matchups. I now consider it a win if the post is simply published more than two hours before the newest inductees into COVID protocols are announced. Let me preface the following by giving the standard disclaimer: I am not a doctor or scientist. I’m just a knuckle-dragging fantasy basketball blogger trying to make sense of the world around me. That being said, am I the only one that finds this current direction of travel unsustainable for the NBA and other pro leagues?
Please, blog, may I have some more?Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week Nine! Many of us are approaching the halfway mark of our seasons, with each matchup taking on increasing importance as we jockey for playoff positioning. Meanwhile, cold and flu season is in full swing, with the added ingredient of COVID-19 sewing more chaos as teams scramble to field full rosters for game action. Those of us with players on the Bulls, Pistons, and Raptors are already feeling the burn of game postponements this week. Nonetheless, with every injury or health and safety setback, there are opportunities. Look no further than the value that Cody Martin and Kelly Oubre Jr. returned while four of their teammates were out with COVID-19.
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