Welcome to Whacky Season

The end of each year is now deemed “Silly Season,” when resting vets on contenders and breakout youngsters on tanking teams play havoc with lineup decisions. Three weeks into the season, I now declare this time of the year “Wacky Season,” with Wednesday night a perfect example. There are players who started injured coming back, […]

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Writer’s League Week 3 Recap

by: kelder

We have some more clearly defined tiers at this point in the Writer’s League. Edge, PB And G, and Kostas are clearly the top 3, followed by seven teams within five games of each other. We all have a chance! Of course, I arbitrarily cut off the five games number there to include myself (why are you all reading this, he’s clearly a narcissist! Wait, quiet down 13 year old daughter. And how do you know such big words?) Even Son, Mr. Hooper, and the Oracle (the last three teams) are only like 6 back.

https://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/3l3er6yal84ps3ep/standings These are the standings here, I have no idea if this will work!

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Midweek Guidance – Roll with Royce

November 3, 2022 | 2022-23 Fantasy Basketball |

by: PB

Welcome to your midweek guidance for Week Three! In this post, I identify widely-available players who can help you win your head-to-head matchup. Ideally, you’ve been able to take advantage of the impatience of your league mates at some point in the first three weeks. Unless a struggling player is at the absolute bottom of your roster in production, I recommend holding in most cases to see if he can turn things around. This especially applies if you drafted a high-profile rookie or a player who is settling into a new team. If he’s your weakest link, however, cut him loose and go streaming

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2022-23 Los Angeles Lakers Preview

October 13, 2022 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes, Los Angeles Lakers, Team Previews |

by: Joseph Yancey

The Los Angeles Lakers are held to a higher standard. For this reason, last year was a failure of epic portions. A losing season and missing the playoffs is not the end of the world for most professional organizations. It sucks, but not the end of the world. By Lakers’ standards, making the playoffs is supposed to be a guarantee.

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2022-23 San Antonio Spurs Preview

September 8, 2022 | 2022-23 Fantasy Basketball, San Antonio Spurs, Team Previews | 4 Comments

by: PB

At 61.1 percent, the San Antonio Spurs currently own the best running regular season win percentage of any franchise. Prior to their three most recent campaigns, they had posted only one losing season since 1988-89. The five titles they earned in that era serve as proof that their regular season excellence translated into post-season brilliance. They were so good that their success became blasé over a decade ago. The last time they were in a rebuild (no, I’m not counting 1997-98), very few of us were even walking the earth!

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Meoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

March 15, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes |

by: Son

Many cat lovers don’t just have one cat. I don’t understand it but if it’s akin to the Lay’s commercials of “Betcha can’t eat just one!” then I get it. I’ve seen the shows with the lonely woman who dies and has dozens of cats feasting on her festering corpse. Yuck. Having so many cats would seem to be a big f’ing problem. First of all, the more cats, the more food that is needed. Cliques and territory. More cats would bring prison rules to the landscape. I’ve seen cats fight. They go so illmatic that Nas would be motivated to start sampling the fracas. Poo and pee. The literal shit would be everywhere because, unless you had a kitty litter for all, there’s no way cats would patiently wait in a line like at an NBA arena. If given enough time, I’m sure I could come up with many more reasons why having many cats would be an issue but I got things to do, people to see, and blurbs to write. Which brings me to Karl-Anthony Towns. The KAT of the NBA. Normally, I trash KAT a bit because KAT doesn’t seem to have that dog in him. I’ve always acknowledged KAT’s fantasy greatness though because KAT has few weaknesses and provides a solid base to build a team around. But the time with Jimmy Butler exposed some things about KAT that brought doubts to KAT’s ability to lead a team to the championship. Last night, all of that was shoved into the drawer for at least one night because we had not one KAT, not two KATs….We need some Dr. Seuss in the house because we had 60 KATs:

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What Can Bruce Brown Do For You?

February 15, 2022 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 10 Comments

by: Son

When I think of brown, my stomach rumbles. It’s possible that’s a byproduct of releasing more than a few sacrifices to the porcelain god earlier today. But when I get my head out of the gutter, there’s Charlie Brown, Larry Brown, Foxy Brown, Bobby Brown, Jim Brown, Dan Brown, and James Brown. I feel goooooood!!!! We are going to have to add another Brown to the list as Bruce Brown delivered so many goodies on Monday night that Jeff Bezos rushed out of the rave and had his analysts run a statistically analysis.

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Thursday Night Recap – Jingles Bells

December 10, 2021 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes |

by: EZ

Joe Ingles is finally kicking it into gear after a slow start to the season. Ingles is back to canning threes and dropping dimes—he amassed three of the former and seven of the latter on Thursday—and has scored in double digits in five of his last seven. Over that span, he’s averaging 11.3 PPG, 3.9 APG, and 2.7 3PTM. Those numbers may seem modest, but paired with close to 60 percent shooting, it’s made him a top-100 player over the past 14 days. He’s trending in the right direction, and I would scoop him up now if you need treys and dimes (39 percent rostered in Yahoo! leagues).

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Thursday Night Recap

October 29, 2021 | 2021-22 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 2 Comments

by: EZ

Killian Hayes (11 percent owned in Yahoo!) has been a disappointment in his brief career, but there’s a chance he can help out your fantasy team. Ironically, the less he shoots the more value he provides because his field goal percentage is likely to remain low all season long. He can help in hard to get categories like assists and defensive stats though. Getting more minutes in his last two games has led to 3.5 dimes, 1.5 thefts, and 1.0 blocks per. He’s not worth a pickup yet, but don’t dismiss the thought.

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Buy/Sell: Basketball in the COVID-19 Era

January 13, 2021 | Fantasy Basketball Buy/Sell | 2 Comments

by: Kostas

We knew from the start that this was going to be a weird season. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has become a part of our life for the last year and basketball couldn’t remain unaffected. During the last 2 weeks, more and more cases are appearing in the league and some games have already been postponed. Furthermore, there are teams that are decimated by the virus and the contact tracing procedures that it involves, with these teams playing many games with 8 or 9 active players and usually without their stars. It is a difficult and unique situation that the experts expect to escalate during the next month. Maybe a pause in action for 1-2 weeks would prove beneficial for all parties, as neither teams, nor fans want to watch games with depleted rosters or constant postponements and uncertainty. The league has just implemented stricter restrictions for NBA players and personnel, that pretty much affect the whole spectrum of their everyday life, in an attempt to contain the spread.

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Wednesday Recap & Early Season Trends

December 31, 2020 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 2 Comments

by: Jalen Eutsey

Surprise, I’ve taken over the Wednesday recap this week, let’s get jiggy with it!

Nets vs Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks undefeated 2020-2021 season came to an end at the hands of the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, December, 30th, but not without some positive signs of progress for this new look roster. At the moment, the Hawks have the second best Offensive Rating in the league at 119.9 and their opponent, the Nets, have the best Defensive Rating at 98.3. I’m not sure if these numbers include the data from Wednesday’s competition, but either way, the Hawks were the team that lived up to their statical billing in this one. The teams went shot for shot through most of the game until Kyrie Irving took over in the fourth quarter and the Hawks suffered enough empty possessions on offense to walkaway with their first L. Both teams broke a hundred by the third quarter and the final score of 141-145 tells you everything you need to know. Neither team played much defense in this game and that end of the floor will remain the biggest question for both teams going forward.

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Top NBA Veterans Likely to be Traded and How to Use That in Your Draft

December 14, 2020 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 9 Comments

by: Keith

The NBA season may only be 72 games this season, but it’s still going to be a long and grueling slugfest regardless. The players we consider locks for value now will be the drops of tomorrow, and the undrafted players will suddenly become league-winners overnight.

But how does that happen?

Injuries are an unfortunate part of the game. Lineup shifts are a real thing too as people slide into and out of minutes. A lot of that is hard to predict but likely trade candidates, on the other hand, are less difficult to forecast.

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