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 […]

Fantasy Basketball Rankings: NBA Player Rankings 21-40 for 2015-2016 Season

It is just a week to go until the NBA season tips off.  This weekend, there will be a lot of fantasy basketball drafts, and Rotoballer is here to help you crush your draft with our fantasy basketball coverage for the 2015-16 NBA season. Last week we ranked the top 20 players in the NBA […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings: NBA Point Guards

The 2015-16 NBA season is almost here, and around the fantasy basketball world there's a whole lot of ranking going on. RotoBaller is here to help not only with ranking players, but also with key sleepers, busts, and draft strategies. Today we'll start our tiered positional rankings, and there is no deeper position than point […]

Fantasy Basketball Rookies: Ranking the NBA Lottery Picks

The NBA season is just around the corner, which means the fantasy basketball draft season is happening right now.  Rotoballer is here to help with ranking players, sleepers,  busts, and draft strategy, with new content online every day. Rookies are a dicey proposition in fantasy basketball.  Most NBA players don't get enough playing time their […]

Fantasy Basketball Rankings: Top 20 NBA Players for 2015-2016 Season

It is only two weeks until the NBA season tips off with the Chicago Bulls hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers on October 27.  Leading up to then, thousands of hardcore fans will be drafting their yearly fantasy basketball teams and doing the research to help them crush daily fantasy leagues in 2015.  Rotoballer is excited too, […]

All-Star Break - Rest of Season Rankings and Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: NBA Centers

In the middle of the All-Star Break, we present a full ranking of top 50 centers, with alternate rankings for leagues where you are punting either free throw percentage or field goal percentage. Following that, two centers will be highlighted from my rankings who remain widely available in fantasy leagues. Position Eligibility & Ownership Rate […]

Week 2 NBA & Fantasy Basketball Trends, Breakouts, Notes & Player Updates

We are just at the beginning of the NBA season, but there are already a number of important storylines to discuss. Without further ado, here is the first installment of Rotoballer's weekly NBA Roundup.   The Return Of Kobe Bryant Heading into this season, we all didn’t know what to expect when it came to […]

NBA Podcast: 2014-15 Preseason Rankings Analysis (Part 6)

  NBA Preseason Rankings & Analysis: Part 6 Jon and Kia finish their NBA pre-season rankings for the 2014-15 basketball season. They discuss their top 5 ranked NBA teams and discuss the outlooks of players such as Kawhi Leonard, Chandler Parsons, Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love and many more. Listen […]