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5 Tips to Guarantee You Win Your Fantasy Basketball League This Season

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Fantasy basketball season has arrived, and now's the time to strike and create some separation from the rest of your league mates.

For those who haven't drafted, you'll find a few tips specifically for you in here. In short: Preparation will make or break you.

If you've already drafted, you'll instead need to focus your attention on the early-season waiver wire. Don't hesitate to pick up surprise performers in the first few weeks of the season, especially if one of your late-round picks isn't producing as expected.

Whether it's your first time playing fantasy basketball or you're a seasoned professional at this point, these five tips will help guide you to your league's championship this coming season.

1. Strike Early on Point Guard

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If you haven't had your fantasy draft yet, here's the best advice I can offer in 2012-13: Go big on point guard or go home.

With the plethora of young, exciting point guards in the NBA, this suggestion may sound counterintuitive at first. Look a bit deeper, though, and you'll see why it's not so crazy.

Derrick Rose, Ricky Rubio and John Wall will all miss the start of the season due to injuries, and at least five other teams have new starting point guards. With the rise of score-first, pass-second point guards, drafting a traditional PG in the first two or three rounds becomes that much more critical.

Chris Paul, Deron Williams and Russell Westbrook should all be top-six picks in your draft, especially with James Harden's departure from Oklahoma City likely freeing up even more time for Westbrook. Ty Lawson and Kyrie Irving won't be far behind.

If you haven't acquired a point guard by the fourth round, you could already be looking at slim pickings, though. Unless you're ready for Jrue Holiday or Jeremy Lin to be your squad's fantasy starter at the 1, do yourself a favor and make sure you grab a PG in the first three rounds.

2. Go for Multi-Category Stat-Stuffers

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In fantasy basketball, there's nothing like players who fill up every single category in the box score, such as LeBron James.

You won't be getting James without a top-two pick this season, but you should be targeting the poor man's versions of him in your draft.

Scoring specialists who don't offer much else have their place in the NBA, but not on your fantasy team. Instead, target players who will contribute their fair share of points, rebounds, assists, three-pointers, steals and/or blocks.

You'll also want to target players, both in the draft and on the waiver wire, who contribute in categories that you might not expect from someone at that position. Think Kevin Love's three-point field-goal shooting or Rajon Rondo's rebounding, for instance.

Drafting multi-category stat-stuffers won't pigeonhole your team into being overly focused on winning certain categories, which will help you maintain flexibility as you work your way toward your fantasy playoffs.

3. Have a List of Sleepers Handy

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If you're drafting and you don't have a list of potential fantasy sleepers handy, you're dramatically lowering your squad's chances of taking home your fantasy title. (Here's my top 10.)

Barring injury or other major calamity, you can't really screw up your first few picks that badly. It's those middle rounds where you either forge championship greatness or completely fall apart.

At this point, guys like Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors have become chic sleeper picks, but they bear repeating here. They're going to each be fantasy gold in 2012-13.

Don't ignore the impact of recent trades and injuries, either. Nikola Pekovic and Derrick Williams of the Minnesota Timberwolves each get a major early-season boost thanks to Kevin Love's broken hand, while Eric Maynor just took on some extra importance with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the wake of the James Harden trade.

The middle rounds of any fantasy draft are all about drafting players who are brimming with potential, whether due to talent, playing time, or a combination of both. Referencing a list of sleepers (or compiling your own!) could be the difference between having a team full of stars or being forced to resort to the waiver wire early.

4. Don't Ignore Players on Terrible Teams

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The Orlando Magic and Charlotte Bobcats will be lucky to win 45 games combined in 2012-13.

That doesn't mean you should completely ignore all of their players in terms of fantasy basketball.

Look, someone has to put up stats on those teams. They might not be pretty. They might not be all that impressive. But those teams are each scoring at least 85-90 points per night.

Personally, one of my favorite sleepers of the year, Glen Davis, plays for the Magic. When Dwight Howard went down with his back injury in April, Davis came in and averaged 16.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.4 steals in only 31.4 minutes per game over the final month of the season.

With Howard now a permanent resident of Los Angeles, Davis has the best shot of any to become his permanent replacement as the focal point in the post. Jameer Nelson of the Magic, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist of the Bobcats and his teammate Bismack Biyombo are all solid later-round picks, too.

5. Plan Accordingly for Your League's Format (Roto vs. Head-to-Head)

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If you're going to heed the advice of only one of these slides, make sure it's this last one.

When gearing up for your league this year, make sure you pay close attention to your league's settings, most specifically whether it's a rotisserie or head-to-head format.

Much like points-per-reception in football, player values can dramatically change depending on what format you're playing. (ESPN has a great breakdown of all the differences between the two.)

For instance: The month-long injuries to Kevin Love and Dirk Nowitzki aren't worth sweating about as much in a head-to-head league compared to a roto league. When Love and Nowitzki return, they'll go back to putting up their typically ridiculous averages, so you'll just have to sustain those first few weeks without them in h3H.

In a roto league, however, the games-played limit will cause you to play other, lesser players in the stead of Love and Nowitzki. Those are tough decisions you'll want to try to avoid whenever possible.

Also, h3H leagues introduce the concept of "punting" a category, like any good Dwight Howard owner should try to do with free throws. In essence, you can decide that you'll never try to win a certain category in lieu of winning a few others each week, such as points, rebounds, blocks and field-goal percentage.

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Fantasy: 5 tips to help you nail your basketball drafts

LeBron James and the Lakers will look to bounce back this season.

The NBA season starts next Tuesday, and if you’re like me, you will be knocking out your final fantasy drafts this weekend. Here are five tips below that will help you cram last minute and dominate your drafts!

Utilize Yahoo’s Draft Analysis Tool

Do you want to know where players are being drafted? The Draft Analysis tool is the easiest and best way to do so. By evaluating the Average Draft Position (ADP) for a particular player, Yahoo is essentially conducting a market analysis across their draft platform for when players are being selected. ADP is a valuable data point when constructing a fantasy team because you’ll want to make decisions based on the latest trends in the market. Which, at times, may be viewed as an overcorrection (an opportunity to capitalize on falling value) or a reaction to new information (such as LaMelo Ball’s recent ankle injury).

Rankings are not one-size-fits-all but similarly to ADP, they are another data point that can help fantasy managers come draft time. It’s impossible to predict the correct outcome for every player. However, you can get a feel for which players are higher or lower than the ADP. If I’m higher on a person, there’s a good chance I’ve mentioned them in my positional tiers articles, my guys, or sleepers columns.

These guys are the NBA insiders that you’ll want to follow for the latest NBA news that may impact your fantasy draft. From injuries to player absences, projected starting lineups and more, it’s critical to get an understanding of the latest news so that you can go into drafts with the most updated information as possible.

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I prefer to evaluate players on their per-game value instead of their total value because injuries are, unfortunately, part of fantasy basketball. Players like Mikal Bridges are often ranked higher in head-to-head leagues because of their ability to play in a majority of games each season. Using Mikal Bridges as an example, he finished last season 24th in total value, but if you look under the hood, he finished outside of the top 50 (54th) in per-game value. So he got a significant boost by simply playing more games.

On the flip side, if you look at LeBron James from a season ago, he finished fourth in per-game value versus 16th in total value. You have to be somewhat optimistic and look at the ceiling before heading into drafts. Several players in the first three rounds of fantasy basketball drafts will be load managed this year, but that doesn’t mean they won’t produce. Availability is certainly something to consider, but don’t bypass a player’s upside. Basketball Monster is a great resource that allows you to toggle between the per-game and total values from last season.

Are you wondering who might be the Ja Morant of last season? Or who makes the All-Star leap? Well, I often use betting markets to determine those candidates. Evaluating the player award markets and their respective odds of winning provides another data point for consideration. The markets I’d be most interested in viewing would be most points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks, most improved player, MVP, rookie of the year and defensive player of the year.

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It may seem trivial, but I’m confident you’ll see several of the names listed for those markets emerge as viable candidates to win their respective awards and be valuable fantasy assets this year.

How to play fantasy league?

This season in the Parimatch Championship of the Nizhny Novgorod region we are again waiting for the fantasy league, which has already managed to catch the fancy of many fans over the past year.

1) A user registers on fantione.com. You can register through Vkontakte with one click, or you can use an email address, but then the mail will need to be confirmed - without confirmation it will not be possible to play fantasy.

2) Then the user searches for the league he needs (the list of active leagues will be on the main page). In our case, this is the Major League of the Championship of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

3) After selecting a league, the user goes to its page, clicks "Play" and becomes a member.

4) Next, you need to open the card sets to find out which players can be fielded for the upcoming fantasy tour. You will have 15 sets of cards. Each set contains 5 cards (for each position - point guard, attacking defender, small forward, heavy forward, center).

5) After opening all the cards, ideally, you need to look at what has fallen. There will almost certainly be duplicate cards - duplicates can be removed, leaving only 1 card of the same cards available. When deleted, the user receives points, which can then be exchanged for new sets of cards (1000 points for 1 set). Removal of a simple card - 100 points, removal of a silver card - 200 points, removal of a gold card - 500 points. The difference in the color of the card is the bonuses that are awarded for each useful action by the player. Regular cards have no bonuses, silver cards have 1 bonus, gold cards have 3 bonuses. Bonuses and which cards drop out are all randomly generated. There will always be 1 silver card in one set. Possibility of getting into the gold card set - 10%. You can delete not only duplicate cards, but also cards of players that, in the user's opinion, will not be useful in fantasy, and he will not put them on upcoming rounds. It is impossible to remove a previously played card in one of the rounds. It is also not recommended to delete everything in a row - a situation may occur that there is no player in the position, and then 0 fantasy points will be awarded to the user for this position.

6) When all the cards are open, you need to go to the selection of the composition in the menu. The choice of the composition is 5 players for the next games, one player for each position. You just need to scroll down and choose from among the available cards those that, in the opinion of the user, will be most useful in the next tour. The choice is simple - scroll down, find a card from the available ones, click on it, and it should automatically appear at the top. Click "Save", etc. no need. Everything is saved. Changes to the selected five can be made before the start of the first game in the upcoming round. You can replace an already issued card if the changes are not blocked yet.

7) After choosing the composition, you can go to the prediction league. The League of Predictions is an additional opportunity to earn points for new sets of cards. There you need to guess the outcomes of matches and some random events. Correct predictions go to the overall standings, as well as to the standings of points that can be sprayed.

At the end of all games, the results for the round are processed, and the site in the "Leaders" section displays user data with their five players by fantasy points. And in the section "Statistics" - indicators of fantasy-points of the players of our Championship. By default, summary indicators are opened, but you can switch to a specific tour.

Please note that one round in the Parimatch Championship of the Nizhny Novgorod region lasts 2 weeks, but in the fantasy league we play for a week, so points are calculated every Monday.

You can play the Fantasy League here - https://fantione.com/

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Kanye West created his own basketball team

It consists of promising schoolchildren.

It consists of promising students.

FOLLOWING THE START OF THE GREAT JOURNEY OF DONDA ACADEMY

Kanye West is one of the most famous musicians in the world right now, the man who changed modern rap, music, fashion, and now he will try to change education and sports. We came to this conclusion when he personally announced and immediately launched his high school basketball team as part of Donda Academy. Let's talk more about this sporting phenomenon.

Kanye West is one of the most famous musicians in the world right now, the man who changed modern rap, music, fashion, and now he will try to change education and sports. We came to this conclusion when he personally announced and immediately launched his high school basketball team as part of Donda Academy. Let's talk more about this sporting phenomenon.

What is Donda Academy?

This is a private school, about which very little is known so far. She bears the name of Kanye's late mother. This is quite symbolic for three reasons at once: Donda was a professor at the University of Chicago; Kanye has now dedicated not only music to his mother, but also an educational project; it is a dream come true to pass on your unique vision to the world to a new generation. At the moment, the academy has a small website with a philosophical message, as well as support in the person of Kanye himself and his bank account.

It is known that Kanye wants to nurture new leaders with this project for completely different areas of life - he will achieve this goal by inviting the most talented students in the United States and giving them a first-class education. So far, Donda Academy plans to exist in the format of a closed educational institution for 50-60 talented young people.

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What does basketball have to do with it?

Kanye, through his high school program, decided to fulfill his lifelong dream of starting a basketball club. This basketball club should be based within the academy in order to promote it (and basketball is a great PR tool in modern America) and show that you can change the world without building anything for hundreds of years.

He literally decided to create a basketball team out of nothing?

Yes, exactly. The team did not yet have a hall, and the school had a building, but there were 3 players from the list of the best students in the USA (usually such players play in the NBA if their career develops without serious injuries). Remember their names: Jackie Howard (16th in the nation), Robert Dillingham (9th in the nation), JJ Taylor (5th in the nation). Already, these students are known to all university basketball programs and NBA scouts. Kanye was also able to invite players with a 4-star rating, which is also extremely rare. In general, he gathered a very strong gang, luring them into his educational project.

Is this possible?

Yes, maybe, but it caused a huge controversy and scandals, because many felt that it was wrong for Kanye to lure students to a school that does not even have any guarantees, and there is no building yet. He called the players to the team, simply sending messages on Instagram under the guidance of the head coach of the academy.

Such methods have already been called opaque, because there are rumors that Kanye could promise something else besides class education and ambition. Obviously, he was able to attract the top young athletes in the country not only through education, but also through his name, which will help athletes build their careers faster, get sponsorship contracts faster, and also get attention from scouts.

What interesting things have we already seen from the Kanye team?

If West does something, it is always in such a way that it stands out from the competition. First, Kanye created a very unusual monochrome team jersey that fits perfectly with the style of his Yeezy brand. The Balenciaga brand also took part in its creation. If you have ever seen high school American basketball, then when you see the uniform of the academy, you will definitely be surprised: no formidable animals or huge letters with bright colors - instead of them, a dove and plain solutions (black numbers against a black jersey is a very bold decision for a school team).

Kanye also pushes/forces guys to play in Yeezy sneakers from the adidas line, which, although not considered basketball shoes, are still quite suitable for him. In addition, Kanye sends things from his collabs. He creates not just athletes, he creates style icons that will inspire everyone.

Kanye didn't forget about the merch, which he launched immediately after he first introduced his basketball team on the cover of the main basketball magazine, SLAM. Such a start discouraged even the strongest school competitors.

All the players were also placed in luxury apartments where they are taught by teachers (they also go to games with them), they were given Kanye's personal chef, the best coaches, 2 workouts a day, and also daily access to the basketball hall .

How is it all highlighted?

Kanye is constantly posting videos of his team, coming to games, inviting influential fans, selling tickets, doing away tours, and performing at matches (asked the fans to come in all black bow). The team is monitored by a large team of cameramen and photographers who create content atypical for a school competition. All this gives a special charm to this story and every day adds to the value of the academy.

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When can we see players drafted?

The first academy prospects will be able to try their hand at the 2024 draft, but most will be drafted as early as the 25th year.

Does this have a future?

It's hard to say, but it certainly has a central idea that looks fresh and topical: it lies in the fact that the modern academic education system provides only dry knowledge that is not complemented by related areas, as well as the most important element - the mechanisms for their application.

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