2023-2024 RotoBaller Staff Fantasy Basketball League Recap

RotoBaller held its annual NBA fantasy league last week. Our fearless leaders, Dan Palyo and Dennis Clausen, spearheaded the process, utilizing Fantrax for a "slow" draft, meaning each fantasy team manager receives six hours between picks. It was fun, as the time between selections allowed maximum strategy and group chat banter. RotoBaller is using Yahoo... Read More

Fantasy Basketball 9-Category Specialists - Thunder Dan's Draft Targets (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's 2023-2024 premium draft kit! We're here to be your secret weapon when it comes to this fantasy basketball season. Here I want to highlight my favorite 9-cat specialists, players who can contribute across the board in all nine categories of standard... Read More

2023-2024 Fantasy Basketball Auction Targets and Draft Values (Premium Content)

Auction drafts present a fun wrinkle for fantasy managers. In standard snake drafts, picks are largely determined by draft position, especially in the first round. If you draw the 12th pick in a 12-team league, you’re not going to have the opportunity to select Nikola Jokic for your squad. Another fantasy superstar in Jayson Tatum... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Category Studs - Efficiency Artists (Premium Content)

As your draft season inches closer and closer, I'm here to help give you all the advantages you need to dominate your league. There are numerous ways to win your league, but I'm here to help you spot some efficiency studs. Having efficient players is one of the many ways to dominate your league. The... Read More

Fantasy Basketball ADP Smashers - Category Leagues (Premium Content)

There aren't many things fantasy managers can agree on entering each NBA season. However, Nikola Jokic is widely considered the best basketball player on the planet, meaning he remains No. 1 overall in preseason ADP rankings in both category and point leagues. But more than a few players, specifically Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid, are... Read More

Draft Room 101: Punting Strategies and Picks (Premium Content)

When drafting your fantasy team, there are a number of different strategies that you can deploy. Rather than blindly building out your roster based on who's available, it's vital to head into your draft with a game plan. Over the last decade, punting categories have become a tactical strategy across the fantasy community. If you... Read More

Five NBA Teams To Target In 2023-2024 Fantasy Basketball

Most of the content you will see around this time will be more player-centric so that you can make the best decisions to win your upcoming league. But sometimes it's better to target more teams instead of the players. Each player's station is always different, no matter if they are on the same team. These... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Punting: Common Issues

One strategy that's often employed by fantasy basketball drafters is punting, which is essentially ignoring certain categories in a category-based fantasy league in order to bolster your chances at winning other categories. For example, taking a bad free throw shooter who is elite at rebounds and blocks can help you win those two categories on... Read More

Five Very Deep Center Sleepers For Fantasy Basketball

Winning in fantasy basketball starts with your top picks, but it ends with your ability to identify some sleepers who can help you round out the roster. For this article, we'll be looking at some deep sleepers—very deep ones. The kind of players who will very likely be on the board when you make your... Read More

RotoBaller Fantasy Basketball Writers League Draft Recap

On Wednesday night, the RotoBaller writers got together for our annual fantasy basketball draft. In the past, we did a 14-team league, but this year we cut it down to a more "normal" size with a 12-team league. Now that the draft is over, I thought it would be a good idea to go over... Read More

Five Fantasy Basketball Bounce-Back Players For 2022-23

Progression isn't always linear. While we like to think that athletes get better until a certain age and then get worse after that age, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, a player has a good year, then regresses a little the next year, and then bounces back after that. When it comes to fantasy... Read More

NBA Draft Room 101: Fantasy Basketball Strategies - Keys to Building a Contending Roster

Ask anybody that plays a fantasy sport what the best part of the season really is, and most of them will say it's the draft itself. Almost all of us know why too. Not unlike when you were a kid and got to be a captain for dodgeball on the playground, picking your own team... Read More

Five Players With Fantasy Basketball Bust Potential

The NBA season is just around the corner. You're probably doing a bunch of fantasy basketball prep right now, so here's something to help you with that: a piece about potential busts. For the purposes of this piece, I'm basically talking about two kinds of busts. There are players who are being drafted too high... Read More

Thunder Dan's Fantasy Basketball 9-Cat Specialists (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's 2022-2023 premium draft kit! We're here to be your secret weapon when it comes to this fantasy basketball season. Here I want to highlight my favorite 9-cat specialists, players who can contribute across the board in all of the nine categories... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Offseason Trades - Part 2

The NBA offseason has turned into a matter of days--hours, if you push it--when it comes to player movement. Tampering present or not, the truth is that franchises lose no time in inking their new acquisitions to healthy deals, wheeling and dealing rookies and draft picks left and right, and pulling off trades with other... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Offseason Trades - Part 1

The NBA offseason has turned into a matter of days--hours, if you push it--when it comes to player movement. Tampering present or not, the truth is that franchises lose no time in inking their new acquisitions to healthy deals, wheeling and dealing rookies and draft picks left and right, and pulling off trades with other... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Offseason Trades - Part 2

The NBA offseason has turned into a matter of days--hours, if you push it--when it comes to player movement. Tampering present or not, the truth is that franchises lose no time in inking their new acquisitions to healthy deals, wheeling and dealing rookies and draft picks left and right, and pulling off trades with other... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Offseason Trades - Part 1

The NBA offseason has turned into a matter of days--hours, if you push it--when it comes to player movement. Tampering present or not, the truth is that franchises lose no time in inking their new acquisitions to healthy deals, wheeling and dealing rookies and draft picks left and right, and pulling off trades with other... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Guards and Wings (Part 2): Trae Young, Dejounte Murray, Immanuel Quickley

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. But it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Big Men (Part 2): Mitchell Robinson, Deandre Ayton, Isaiah Stewart

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential, but it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Guards and Wings (Part 1): Patrick Beverley, Reggie Jackson, Malik Monk

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. It can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This article... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Guards (Part 2): Bones Hyland, Malcolm Brogdon, Kevin Huerter

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. It can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This article... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Guards (Part 1): Jalen Brunson, John Wall, Ricky Rubio

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. But it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Wings and Big Men (Part 1): Ben Simmons, Bruce Brown, Joe Ingles

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. But it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This... Read More

Losers from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Big Men (Part 1): P.J. Tucker, Mo Bamba, Royce O'Neale

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential, but it can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This... Read More

Winners from the 2022-23 NBA Free Agency - Wings and Big Men (Part 2): Jusuf Nurkic, Rudy Gobert, Christian Wood

Free agency can be a great opportunity for players to find new homes that mesh with their playing styles and help them achieve their potential. It can also be a chance for players to think they're doing that and then wind up in a bad situation where they're unable to find NBA success. This article... Read More

Five Things You Should and Shouldn't Do in NBA DFS: Thunder Dan's 2021 Strategy Guide

The NBA is back! I am stoked for the return of one of my favorite sports and excited to have the daily grind of NBA DFS back! I'd like to welcome you to my personal NBA DFS strategy guide for both FanDuel and DraftKings. If your reading this article, then you may already be familiar... Read More

2021-2022 RotoBaller NBA Staff League Draft Recap and Analysis

It's the time of year again! NBA draft season is in full effect and I was excited to participate in our RotoBaller staff league draft this week. We added some more analysts to the league this year and made it a 14-team league. We always play the standard 9-cat format on Yahoo, which is by... Read More

How to Punt Categories in Fantasy Basketball

Welcome to fantasy draft season for the 2021-22 NBA season! It's now time to start thinking about how you're going to win your league this year. RotoBaller will be here with rankings, sleepers, players to avoid, and much more! Before we dive too deep into individual players, though, let's take a step back and look at... Read More