This is my team after our draft tonight (6 player keeper 9-cat 10th pick out of 10) Any thoughts on what I should look to improve?
Kyrie Irving
Bradley Beal
Kawhi Leonard
Anthony Davis
DeMarcus Cousins
Tony Parker
Chandler Parsons
Jonas Valanciunas
Gordon Hayward
Enes Kanter
Tristan Thompson
Dion Waiters
Patrick Beverley
Anthony Bennett
John Henson
Wow, that's a sweet team. I honestly don't see many changes that need to be made there. I'd ride with that for the first few weeks and see if you're dominant or just above average. I'd think dominant.
So, I'm doing fantasy basketball for the first time. Unfortunately, it is for money right off the bat.
That said, what should my strategy be paying close attention to? What are the most important factors I should be looking at when deciding who to draft/who to play on the day-to-day... I really am at the ground floor here.
Right now, the NBA is really deep at every position but SF as far as fantasy goes. Center is a little thin, but a lot of PF's qualify as centers, so it's not really a huge issue. I would make sure to lock up your assists early, because rebounds and three pointers are available all over the draft. Steals generally come along with assists and blocks generally come along with rebounds. Then there's the few guys out there that can get you a little of both.
I'd recommend going BPA for the first 3 rounds and then focusing on rounding out the roster. Some of the subtleties to look for are...
(1) Players who produce in categories that aren't real common for their position. So for example...bigs that can get assists and PG's that can rebound are always a great way to fill up the stat sheet
(2) Most rankings severely underrate guys who are extremely poor in one category and throw them into the 50's and 60's in some cases. There are two bigs in particular that they do this with and this year there is a PG that falls into this category big time. See if you can figure out who I'm talking about.
(3) Pick one or two categories to punt. Most common are TO's and FT%. This allows you to focus on strengthening yourself in 6-7 categories without picking up average quality guys who are good at not getting TO's and good at shooting FT's when in reality, you're never going to win those cats anyways.
(4) Take chances on some rookies or younger "injury prone" guys late rather than old retread guys like Dalembert and Kaman. If you need Dalembert and dudes like that, they'll be there on the waiver wire.
(5) Guys that can produce in multiple categories like Batum and Iguodala are great, but they're useless unless you grab 2-3 other guys that can dominate in those same categories. Last thing you want to do is get stuck with a bunch of jacks of all trades and fall into the middle of the league.
