Will Barton (SG/SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

December 13, 2020

Will Barton is a fantasy basketball draft sleeper for the 2020-2021 NBA season. Target him as a value pick in this season's fantasy drafts.

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 95 Overall

CURRENT ADP: 131

ANALYSIS: It was a real shame that we couldn't watch Will Barton ball inside the bubble last season. Denver surely missed him at times, and who knows what would have happened had he been available during the WCF... Anyways, looking at Barton's regular-season numbers from last year, along with Denver's offseason moves (they lost Jerami Grant while not adding much firepower to the guard positions), it makes sense to project Barton's 2021 season similarly to the last one.

Barton, while having a rather low 131 ADP these days, finished 2020 as a top-75 fantasy player in total FP through the year. He only played 58 games but at a monster 33 mpg average that was more than enough for him to generate plenty of fantasy goodies. Barton wasn't as good on a per-minute basis as on raw/counting stats, but he still generated more FP/min than the league average.

Only seven "small" players (no eligibility at the PF/C positions) put up average per-game lines of at least 15 ppg, 6 rpg, 3 apg, and 1 spg, Barton among them. The other six read Harden, LeBron, Luka, Westbrook, Kawhi, and Simmons; all of them have ADPs inside the top-25. Obviously, Barton's upside is much shorter than those of the aforementioned players, but the Nugget is definitely been overlooked this draft season.

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