Positioned as shooting guards, VanVleet jumps to three, while Garland jumps to 21. VanVleet is the 6 th ranked PG, Garland is 24 th.
For example, Fred VanVleet and Darius Garland are eligible as point guards and shooting guards.
This flexibility can boost a player’s value depending on where they start in your lineup. Many players are eligible for multiple positions. As we get better draft data, we will be helping you identify prime targets that will return the most value. It is much better to get Kirstaps Porzingis in the 6 th round vs. Successful General Managers find the most value at discounted prices – usually around 2 rounds of difference. This does not mean these players must be drafted at their ranked ADP numbers. Our fantasy basketball rankings will help establish the relative value of a player in relation to another player, regardless of position. Use Rankings with ADP (“Average Draft Position”) to Identify Return on Investment These rankings will help you obtain overall player value, but you must remember understanding your team build and executing a draft based on assembling a team around that build is imperative and can render certain values more and/or less important than others. Unless utilizing a “punt” strategy, where you disregard certain statistical categories in favor of others, it is challenging to assemble your team with both specialists and all-around talent. Middleton’s value is spread across points, threes, assists, steals, and field goal percentage and not heavily concentrated in any mixture of categories. For example, Rudy Gobert and Khris Middleton are similarly ranked, but Gobert’s value is concentrated in elite rebounds, blocks, and field goal percentage. Typically, the best roster is comprised of ‘specialists’ and ‘all-around’ players. Value can be concentrated heavily in one, two, or three categories or spread out across many based upon manager desire and/or strategy. Statistical profiles are important when building your team, but not always apparent in the rankings. To be successful, General Managers must disassociate real NBA statistical impact from Fantasy statistical impact. In the real-world NBA, Lebron James would not be ranked outside of the top 3, let alone the top 20! Unfortunately, James’ statistical profile across all categories (8 or 9) is not as strong as other players with much less real game impact. What?! You’re not hosting your fantasy basketball league on Fantrax? Inconceivable! Check out all the features of Fantrax Fantasy Basketball Commissioner and we’re pretty sure you’ll come around to our way of thinking.Ī Player’s real-world NBA value is not consistent with or relative to their fantasy basketball value. Prior to analyzing the player rankings, below are a few considerations to entertain as we approach draft day. Beginning next week, we will release position rankings that will explore player profiles and potential in a more detailed manner. Welcome to draft season – where championships are won or lost! The following 2021-2022 fantasy basketball rankings look at NBA players from one to 250 based upon their projected value in the upcoming NBA season.