NBA Player Rater: Week 5

November 22, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 18 Comments

The Player Rater is a tool to evaluate the performance of a player using a single number. This is not a perfect tool and will not guarantee victory in fantasy, but is useful to help improve and evaluate your team.

In each category of scoring, a number is calculated to represent the average total in that category. If a player has the average, his rating in that category is 0.00. The numbers represent how much a player is above or below the average.

If the rating is positive, that player is an above-average fantasy player in that category. If the rating is negative that player is below-average. The sum of all ratings in each category gives us a number (the PR), and then we rank the players accordingly.

I have not included turnovers, as the evaluation in PR is very controversial in my opinion, so if you’re in a league with turnovers, you must keep in mind this.

If you have any question let me know.

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Darren Collison Is Ballin’, Son!

November 21, 2014 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 90 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Wrong calls, right calls, as long as I’m always closing! I have that same Baldwin-demeanor when I prep my DraftKings line-up. I rally my players with a speech like that! The RAZZBALL ONLY CONTEST is back tonight(!); get your entries in now, and the DraftKings only post will be up later in the day. I don’t ask from much from you loyal readers in Razzball Nation, but let’s get this contest filled out this week! Click that link there, it’s only $10, and they take no profit, just Razzball v. Razzball, mano y mano.

It was a light night for news with only the two games, so I figured it was a good day for patting my back! The Ramon Sessions signing clouded an otherwise already dreamy outlook, but I didn’t let it deter me from my Darren Collison love! Brought in for serious skrilla, the Kings just happened to land a quality guy in Sessions for peanuts, and even though it hasn’t worked out, they don’t have much tied into him. With two fantastic scorers in Rudy Gay and DeMarcus Cousins, I knew passing on Colly would be folly, and had him green light go! Obviously I didn’t think he’d be this good, but the joints keep rollin’ with dimebag after dimebag! 17/6/12/1/1 last night, second game in a row with 10+ dimes, and 23:1 AST:TO in that span. We all knew he could slash, but with the dimes this high and the low TO, he’s turning into a premiere PG. After last night and owning Kirk Hinrich, Collison was like, “That’s who Tom Thibodeau praises for defense?! Must be why he praises Krispy Kreme burgers – for the health benefits!” Here’s what else went down last night in NBA hoops:

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Rockets vs. Clippers: Fantasy Gods Playing A Video Game

November 5, 2013 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 51 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

I always love when an off night (only 4 games yesterday) yields one of the best NBA games we’ve seen all year. So many story lines, so many stars. And more importantly – so much fantasy goodness!

I guess I shouldn’t have curtsied around it, but there’s no way Chris Paul doesn’t lead the NBA in assists this year. I said in the first recap of the season he would average a bajillion assists and rack up double-digit dimes almost every game. Score two for JB! Averaging 12 a game equates to a bajillion, right? John Stockton is deadpan staring me down right now. Creepy, Stockton! Creepy… J.J. Redick will be a really underrated acquisition if the Clips indeed make a title run with how he helps space the floor with his movement and shooting, and while we all know Chris Paul is awesome, I’m already putting him as the #3 fantasy player right now, leapfrogging James Harden.

I lucked out getting last night’s only late game, making Yahoo highlights for the 137-118 Clippers win. Pretty much everything played out like a video game. Everyone was hitting 3s, the scoring was astronomical, the pace was like a Peyton Manning offense, and finished off with some late alleys for the icing on the cake. Fantasy God #1 really got that L2 + Square alley working out by the end of the game; Fantasy God #2 just couldn’t quite time Harden’s 3-point shot release. Wait, do they even need controllers? We are the controllers! Whoa, too much philosophizing. Let’s just get this back on the rails and go over some of the news and notes from last night:

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