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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues
ANALYSIS: For some reason I can't quite grasp, Wayne Ellington is somehow rostered in less than 10% of all Yahoo fantasy leagues. Let me put it in another way: Wayne Ellington, a guy on a scorching hot shooting streak--with upside on assists and almost never turning the ball over--is available in more than 90% of Yahoo fantasy leagues. That, my friends, makes no sense at all.
While I could understand such a low rostership entering the last week of games before the break, it is nonsensical at this point and much less after the week Ellington put together leading up to the AS. These are Ellington's last three games for the Pistons before coming back this past Thursday: 15-1-0-1-1 with 4 treys, 25-3-0-2 with 8 triples, and 17-0-3-1 with 4 three-pointers. The guard has started 21 of his last 22 games all the way back to Jan. 13, went through a shooting slump for most of February, but he's back at his early-season numbers dropping 60% of his FGA on a healthy-enough 10+ attempts per game.
Ellington's aforementioned slump coincided with a bump down in minutes that seems to be fixed now. From Jan. 16 to Jan. 28 Ellington averaged 31 MPG and an incredible 19-2-2 line shooting 58% from the floor and hitting 4+ treys in every single game of the seven he played in that span. He's back at it. In the three games before the break, he scored 4, 8, and 4 treys, and the FG% was again up at 60 percent. The return to the court on Thursday wasn't great (5-5-1 shooting 29% from the floor) but he came off the bench and shot just 7 FGA, so it could very well be just a fluke of a game in his season-long log.
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