Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Power Forward

Who is going to dominate the paint for your fantasy team at the power forward spot? Here are your preliminary power forward rankings for 2017-2018. This set of pre-season tiers is simple: each tier simply represents a significant gap in production in what is otherwise a straight-up numerical ranking. All positional eligibility is based on […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Shooting Guard

It is never too early to start talking about hoops! Even more so, it is never too early to talk about fantasy basketball. While everyone is preoccupied with perfecting their fantasy football teams, some of us are biting our nails and chomping at the bit for basketball season to start. So without further ado, let's […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Point Guard

You can almost smell October 17th, but unfortunately we've still got another month of hot takes, off-season news, and Twitter arguments so ridiculous that even I have been left speechless. With that, the point guard conversation has been one of the main topics of frustration this summer. While saying Russ is better than Steph is […]

Why Your Fantasy NBA Rankings Are Wrong: Scoring Systems

It's just under two months away from the start of the NBA season, and RotoBaller's full Fantasy basketball coverage will be returning some time in late September. However, with both ESPN and Yahoo leagues already open for sign-ups, I know some of you early birds are out there already drafting. This was the first year […]

RotoBaller NBA Big Board Preview: Top 25 (H2H)

It's the deadest part of the offseason, and RotoBaller's full fantasy basketball draft season coverage won't be starting for another month or so.  However, I know some of you fantasy hoops junkies out there are desperately craving a fix.  Allow me to deal you a sneak peak of the current status of my big board […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 50 Player Rankings (Week 13)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. Below you will find our updated fantasy basketball rankings for Week 13 of the NBA season, looking at the rest-of-season fantasy values. I will be ranking the top 50 players for fantasy basketball, along with my analysis. This should help you get a sense of the risers/fallers, and also who to target for your […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 50 Player Rankings (Week 11)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. Below you will find our updated fantasy basketball rankings for Week 11 of the NBA season, looking at the rest-of-season fantasy values. I will be ranking the top 50 players for fantasy basketball, along with my analysis. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: New users that sign up on FantasyAces, make a $20 deposit, […]

Magic No More: Victor Oladipo and Aaron Gordon are Killing Your Fantasy Team

Pre-season hype is real. Every year there are must draft, sky is the limit players who are supposed to take that next leap into fantasy stardom. To get your hands on one of these guys, you have to spend an early pick relative to their statistical value from last year. In the best of cases […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 50 Player Rankings (Week 8)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. Below you will find our updated fantasy basketball rankings for Week 8 of the NBA season, looking at the rest-of-season fantasy values. I will be ranking the top 50 players for fantasy basketball, along with my analysis. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: New users that sign up on FantasyAces, make a $20 deposit, […]

Risers and Fallers For Week 8 Fantasy Basketball

Throughout the season, players get hot and see an increased role while others struggle and fight to stay relevant. Experienced fantasy players know this happens every year. In this weekly column, we’ll showcase those who have taken important steps forward and those who have taken steps back. These are the risers and fallers heading into Week 8 […]

Is Russell Westbrook the Fantasy MVP?

Who’s the best fantasy player in the NBA? We could find arguments for James Harden, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis among others. However, there is a name unmentioned when it comes to being the best. There is a name that is doing something that hasn’t been done since Oscar Robertson in 1961. Russell “the raging […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 50 Player Rankings (Week 6)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. Below you will find our updated fantasy basketball rankings for Week 6 of the NBA season, looking at the rest-of-season fantasy values. Each week I will be ranking the top 50 players for fantasy basketball, along with my analysis. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: New users that sign up on FantasyAces, make a […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 50 Player Rankings (Week 5)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. Below you will find our updated fantasy basketball rankings for Week 5 of the NBA season, looking at the rest-of-season fantasy values. Each week I will be ranking the top 50 players for fantasy basketball, along with my analysis. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: New users that sign up on FantasyAces, make a […]

Unexpected Early Season NBA Fantasy Stars

So here you are.  You are on top of your league with an unexpectedly hot start from a player you drafted in the 4th round or later -- or perhaps didn't draft at all.  Do you keep riding the wave or look to sell high?  Today we'll take a look at a group of players […]

NBA Trade Value: Buy or Sell George Hill and LaMarcus Aldridge?

Throughout the season, we'll be looking at what to do with players who have been unusually hot or cold, and whether their current play has staying power or you should expect it to reverse. You can apply this to your decisions in the fantasy basketball trade market. "Buy low" and "sell high" have become a […]

NBA Rookie Rankings & Tiers for Fantasy Basketball

Rookies in fantasy basketball aren't like the high impact rookies you'll find in fantasy football or baseball.  In most standard leagues you can get away with ignoring rookies.  Even LeBron James wasn't all that great of a fantasy player in his rookie year. However, with more and more fantasy owners playing in dynasties, keeper leagues, […]

Fantasy Basketball Rankings Analysis: Overvalued NBA Players

Last week I took a look at some players who might be undervalued according to their pre-draft Yahoo! rankings. This week I flip the switch and discuss a handful of players who are a bit overvalued for my taste! So when everyone else is sipping the wrong flavor of Kool-Aid on these guys, just let them pass […]

RotoBaller Fantasy Basketball Expert Draft Recap, Steals, and Reaches

We went over the basic round-by-round results early in the week for our RotoBaller Fantasy Basketball Writer's League. Now we'll go team by team and give our writers (and two of our guests) an opportunity to explain some of their thinking during the draft, and call out where they saw picks that were steals or […]

Fantasy Basketball: RotoBaller Writers' League Draft Recap

This past Sunday, RotoBaller's team of NBA junkies experts got together and got down to business.  Eight writers joined up with four regular fantasy players off of Yahoo! and Reddit to tackle a standard 9-category head-to-head league draft. Here are the players, in order of draft slot: Just Having Fun - a Yahoo! user Team […]

Fantasy Basketball Top 100 Rankings

You've spent so much time in the last couple weeks drafting your fantasy football teams and tinkering with your team in advance of the NFL opener.  I hope you had A.J. Green this weekend, like all of my opponents did.  But draft season for fantasy football is over.  It's time to start thinking about your […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Centers

The 2015-2016 NBA season ended on June 19th and the start of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season is a decent ways away on October 25th. Since the end of the NBA season rookies have been drafted, newcomers squared off and competed for roster spots in the NBA Summer League, and there was a mad dash […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Power Forwards

The 2015-2016 NBA season ended on June 19th and the start of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season is a decent ways away on October 25th. Since the end of the NBA season rookies have been drafted, newcomers squared off and competed for roster spots in the NBA Summer League, and there was a mad dash […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Small Forwards

The 2015-2016 NBA season ended on June 19th and the start of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season is a decent ways away on October 25th. Since the end of the NBA season rookies have been drafted, newcomers squared off and competed for roster spots in the NBA Summer League, and there was a mad dash […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Shooting Guards

The 2015-2016 NBA season ended on June 19th and the start of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season is a decent ways away on October 25th. Since the end of the NBA season rookies have been drafted, newcomers squared off and competed for roster spots in the NBA Summer League, and there was a mad dash […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings - Point Guards

The 2015-2016 NBA season ended on June 19th and the start of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season is a decent ways away on October 25th. Since the end of the NBA season rookies have been drafted, newcomers squared off and competed for roster spots in the NBA Summer League, and there was a mad dash […]

Fantasy NBA Dynasty Start-Up Draft: The First 20

Over the course of the offseason, I took part in a 20-team dynasty start-up draft run by Jordan Schultz of DynastyBBall.com.  The league is standard 9 category head-to-head, with 16 man rosters including 8 starters (PG, SG, SF, PF, C, 3xUTIL) and 8 bench spots.  The start-up draft took place over the course of two […]

NBA Rookie Rankings: Post All-Star Break Update

The unofficial halfway point of the NBA season has come and gone. While in reality, All-Star Weekend is closer to an intermission before the final third of the season takes off, it is thought of as the midway break of the year. On display this weekend were not only all of the championship contending superstars […]

NBA Mid-Season Fantasy Basketball Rankings: 26-50

What's up RotoBallers. Welcome to part two of my mid-season fantasy basketball rankings. The 2015-16 NBA season has kicked into high gear and we’ve seen some very exciting games thus far. Most notably, the Warriors started the season on a tear winning their first 24 games consecutively. You can see my top 25 players for […]

NBA Mid-Season Fantasy Basketball Rankings: Top 25

What's up RotoBallers. Welcome to part one of my mid-season fantasy basketball rankings. The 2015-16 NBA season has kicked into high gear and we’ve seen some very exciting games thus far. Most notably, the Warriors started the season on a tear winning their first 24 games consecutively. However, there are more budding stars in this […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings: NBA Shooting Guards

The 2015-16 NBA season is getting started next week, and we are pumped.  RotoBaller is here to help not only with ranking your fantasy basketball players, but also with key sleepers, busts, and draft strategies. Today we'll continue our tiered positional rankings with shooting guard.  Be sure to check out our point guard rankings, too. Here we […]