Antonio Losada's Fantasy Basketball Undervalued Players (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. A key part of doing a fantasy draft is finding players who are in a great situation to become high-upside fantasy plays daily. Everybody knows the top-tier names will always perform to excellent levels. Also, every year there are a bunch of players that […]
The Grass Isn't Greener: NBA Free Agency Fallers
Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. But it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This […]
Fantasy Impact: The Detroit Pistons Offseason Moves
No team has been more active this offseason than the Detroit Pistons. Their current roster – apart from Derrick Rose and Blake Griffin – is almost completely different from the one they had at the end of the 2019-20 season. Troy Weaver, who took over as the team’s general manager this past June after over […]
Thunder Dan's Fantasy Basketball Punting Picks for Each Category (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's Fantasy Basketball Punting Guide for the 2020-2021 NBA season. If you love playing in H2H leagues as much as I do, then you're probably already familiar with the concept of punting categories. Punting categories is a great way to win fantasy […]
The Grass Is Greener: NBA Free Agency Risers for Fantasy Basketball
Free agency in the NBA is the wildest free agency in sports, which means that a ton of players have switched teams this year. While there wasn't as much big-name movement as there were in other seasons, plenty happened in free agency this year, shaking up the landscape of the NBA and, of course, the […]
Thunder Dan's Fantasy Basketball Punting Strategies (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's Fantasy Basketball Punting Guide for the 2020-2021 NBA season. If you love playing in H2H leagues as much as I do, then you're probably already familiar with the concept of punting categories. But if you're new to the concept, I will […]
Thunder Dan's Fantasy Basketball 9-Category Specialists (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's premium draft kit! We're here to be your secret weapon when it comes to this fantasy basketball season. Here I want to highlight my favorite 9-cat specialists, players who can contribute across the board in all of the nine categories of […]
NBA Rookies To Target for Fantasy Basketball Drafts
Taking a rookie early rarely works out in fantasy basketball. Everyone wants to play with the shiny new toy. Everyone wants to be the guy that says, "I believed in Player A because I took him in Round X". That's why people draft rookies way too high almost every year in fantasy basketball. With all […]
Jerami Grant: 2019-20 Fantasy Basketball Sleeper
While it seemed that the sky was falling for half of the contenders in the Western Conference this offseason, the Denver Nuggets remained steady with a couple of offseason moves. One of them was resigning Jamal Murray to a massive extension, but the other was more under the radar as they traded for Jerami Grant […]
How to Punt Categories in Fantasy Basketball
Welcome to fantasy draft season for the 2019-20 NBA season! It's time to start thinking about how you're going to win your league this year. RotoBaller will be here with rankings, sleepers, players to avoid, and much more including more articles about punting strategies. Before we dive too deep into individual players, though, let's take […]
Fantasy Basketball Draft Busts: Centers
A key part of doing a fantasy draft is avoiding players who find themselves in a bad situation. The wrong pick can completely tank your season. Today, let's talk about some potential busts at the center position. For whatever reason -- be it talent, opportunity, or some combination of those two things -- these are […]
Cedi Osman: 2019-20 Fantasy Basketball Sleeper
In just two short seasons, Cedi Osman has certainly experienced the highs and lows of NBA basketball. His rookie campaign was spent mostly on the bench as LeBron James dragged the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Finals. Year 2 saw Osman replace James in the starting lineup, affording him ample opportunity to show off his game. […]
RotoBaller's Fantasy Basketball Mock Draft: Round-By-Round Recap
The most important part of fantasy sports is arguably the part where you draft players. With the NBA season right around the corner, RotoBaller's team of NBA writers got together and got down to business with our annual mock draft. Twelve writers went through a slow mock draft through Fantrax. Let’s dive into the results!Editor's Note: […]
Fantasy Basketball Punt Guide: Punting Three-Pointers
Welcome to another part of RotoBaller's NBA punting guide. You can find the first part -- Trevor Crippen's overview of punting -- here, and you can get the second part -- Justin Carter's look at common issues with punting -- here. In the NBA world we live it, it feels almost impossible to punt three-pointers, […]
Fantasy Basketball Punt Guide: Common Issues
Welcome to another part of RotoBaller's NBA Punt Guide for the 2019-2020 NBA season. You can find the first part -- Trevor Crippen's overview of punt strategy -- here. Go read it. Now. Do it! Punting is a great way to win fantasy basketball leagues, but you've got to do it right and use it […]
The Grass Isn't Greener: NBA Player's Who'll Struggle In New Places
Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. But it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This […]
The Grass Is Greener: NBA Player's Who'll Succeed In New Places
Free agency in the NBA is the wildest free agency in sports, which means that a ton of players have switched teams this year. Some of those players are stars and are going to be successful in their new digs. This article isn't about those players. I don't need to write Kyrie Irving is gonna be good […]
Drafting With The Fantasy Basketball Playoffs In Mind
Praise the Lord, it's fantasy basketball time again! And even though the season is over a month away, it's never too early to start preparing. The research you do before your draft is the most important research of the whole season. It will determine if you pick the right strategy, the right players, and most […]
Second-Year NBA Players Who Won't Breakout
An NBA player's second season can be a big time when it comes to breaking out. Year One is about learning the game, and that second time around is when we often start to see a player show what they can become. It can also be a time when players who struggled as rookies continue […]
Fantasy Basketball Drafting Strategies: Non-Punting (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's premium draft kit! We're here to be your secret weapon when it comes to fantasy basketball season. The best punt is no punt as the saying goes. Punt punting this coming fantasy basketball draft season and win your league with an […]
Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 3)
Welcome to the final part of RotoBaller's 2019 NBA mock draft, where I'll be looking at the non-lottery part of the first round. Things get murkier here and paths to immediate NBA fantasy basketball impact get tough to judge, but there should still be some solid players in the mix who can help you in […]
Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 2)
In the first part of this mock draft, I looked in depth at the (possible) top five picks in this year's NBA Draft. In this one, we'll look at the rest of this year's lottery, picks six through 14. These players don't have the same star power and high expectations that the top five picks […]
Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 1)
Welcome back to RotoBaller's NBA coverage! The NBA Draft is almost here, so we're here to help you make sense of it and give you an early edge on your fantasy competitors for the 2019-2020 season. In addition to this mock draft, stick around RotoBaller after the draft to see our reactions to the picks […]
Fantasy Basketball Draft Recap: Part Three
Because we can't get enough fantasy basketball here at RotoBaller, our NBA crew put together a new league this year and just finished our draft. A few of us wanted to write about that draft and give our readers their thoughts on what they did during the draft, so decided to pull all those voices […]
Fantasy Basketball Draft Recap: Part Two
Because we can't get enough fantasy basketball here at RotoBaller, our NBA crew put together a new league this year and just finished our draft. A few of us wanted to write about that draft and give our readers their thoughts on what they did during the draft, so decided to pull all those voices […]
Fantasy Basketball Draft Recap: Part One
Because we can't get enough fantasy basketball here at RotoBaller, our NBA crew put together a new league this year and just finished our draft. A few of us wanted to write about that draft and give our readers their thoughts on what they did during the draft, so decided to pull all those voices […]
How To Find Value In Fantasy Basketball Auction Drafts
Often I've been asked by fantasy players if they've gotten a good value for a certain player in an auction draft, but without the person giving me an entire breakdown of their draft, I have to give my decision on if I like the pick based off of the player's perceived value. Writers often look […]
NBA Skill Set Scarcity: Where Are the Efficient Bigs?
I'm a huge fan of Jrue Holiday. I truly believe he might be the most underrated point guard of our generation in both real life and for many years, in fantasy too. He's an elite defender who has finished better than the 90th percentile in on/off opponents' point per possession numbers in his career, with […]
The RotoBaller Guide to Punting in Fantasy Basketball
The RotoBaller Guide to Punting in Fantasy Basketball will include pieces from experts Trevor Crippen and Kent Shen, who will be diving much deeper into strategies than we've gone with this guide in the past. This will be our most ambitious NBA project yet, a multi-part deep dive into every standard punt strategy in fantasy […]