If you are new to daily fantasy basketball – maybe you started your DFS journey during the MLB or NFL seasons, or maybe basketball is your sport and this will be your first year of giving it a try – you will have a treat. The NBA landscape changes week by week, day by day and – depending on injury news – even minute by minute, making each board unique that requires an ever-changing approach.
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Let’s take a look at today’s main list on FanDuel:
The Slate
| A way | House | Up down | House To spread |
A way Total |
House Total |
A way Rhythm |
House Rhythm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | Brooklyn | 226.5 | -11.0 | 107.75 | 118.75 | 28 | 10 |
| Milwaukee | Washington | 240.5 | +11.0 | 125.75 | 114.75 | 5 | 1 |
| Toronto | Charlotte | 233.5 | -2.5 | 115.50 | 118.00 | 15 | 11 |
| sacrament | Atlanta | 237.5 | -4.0 | 116.50 | 121.00 | 9 | 18 |
| Portland | Minnesota | 234.0 | +4.5 | 119.25 | 114.75 | 21 | 3 |
| Dallas | Denver | 227.0 | -1.0 | 113.00 | 114.00 | 20 | 27 |
| Indiana | Phoenix | 222.5 | -7.0 | 107.75 | 114.75 | 13 | 29 |
Relatively speaking, given the mess that the daily NBA fantasy has been getting out of the All-Star range, the news is pretty quiet on Saturday. The focus of the potential value of the slate revolves once again around the Toronto Raptors, which will be without Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby, and others again due to the COVID-19 protocols. This will open up huge minutes for Toronto’s other rotating players.
Toronto, however, is not the only team with a little shortage of personnel due to the COVID-19 protocols. The Detroit Pistons it will be without starting (I suppose?) the owner Dennis Smith, and the Sacramento Kings will again miss Hassan Whiteside. The Washington Wizards are the only team in the second leg of a back-to-back, which makes Russell Westbrook’s status it is worth some attention.
Point Guard
Chris Paul ($ 7,100): The salary of the trusted veteran is curious in this location, like the Phoenix Suns’ The guard has won at least 40 FanDuel points three times in his last seven games. How it will be the case when sharing the court with Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton, Paul’s floor may not be there every night, but the CP3 is still quite consistent and eclipsed 30 FanDuel points in five of the last seven. The Indiana Pacers they are an intermediate fight for the generals, but their pace still represents an acceleration for Phoenix, which plays in the second lowest pace of the league. With many stars in the most difficult battles, Paul is a reliable mid-range gear.
Jrue Holiday ($ 6,100): Long-term layoffs can create inefficiencies from time to time, but the Milwaukee Bucks‘The point guard is in a dream fantasy fight against Wiz and has a salary that is easy to love. Given that he joined the starting lineup on Thursday against the New York Knicks, The holiday must be ready to go. His 25 minutes in that contest were more indicative of a winning margin than his personal health. Before his battle at COVID-19, when he was playing his full minutes, Holiday surpassed 30 FanDuel points in seven consecutive games and broke 40 FanDuel points in four of those seven. Needless to say, your floor / ceiling combination is too good for that salary.
Other notable pieces: Trae Young ($ 9,000), Malcolm Brogdon ($ 6,600), Ricky Rubio ($ 4,800)
Shooting guard
Anthony Edwards ($ 6,500): With D’Angelo Russell still taking care of his knee injury and Malik Beasley suspended, Edwards is the main perimeter option for the humble Minnesota Timberwolves. In fact, Edwards leads all newbies in Minnesota with a 31.9% usage rate since the loss of Beasley – just above Karl-Anthony Towns – and only loses to cities in FanDuel points per minute (1.05). It won’t be pretty in many ways, as Edwards has been incredibly inefficient (37.2% shooting in the last full month of February), but now it’s all volume for a team that needs to create shots in attack. Edwards’ role also meant a solid floor, as he scored more than 35 FanDuel points in four of the last five games.
Gary Trent Jr. ($ 4,900): Buying with a few cold shots is always an interesting strategy in the NBA DFS, and few snipers are cooler than Trent now. Trent still has an average of 34.5 minutes per game in March, so his role replaced the outcast CJ McCollum it hasn’t changed, but your shot has certainly changed. Trent fired 40% or more on three-point land in each of the first three months of the year, but dropped to a frigid 29.6% in March. Trent is not exactly a highly productive player as he is, as he has averaged 0.74 FanDuel points per minute since he replaced McCollum, but seeing such heavy minutes at this low salary means that when his scoring touch returns, he must navigate for the value.
Other notable pieces: James Harden ($ 11,800), Terry Rozier ($ 6,900), DeAndre Bembry ($ 4,100)
Small Forward
Norman Powell ($ 7,600): Only the world of health and safety protocols could make not only Powell’s salary $ 7,600, but also the great possibility that it would be worth it. Powell leads all Raptors with a 27.0% usage in the past two weeks, as they have controlled his absences, and he made that count with 1.17 FanDuel points per minute. Powell scored at least 25 points in the real world in all three games in March as the main option, and what is incredibly positive and an indicator of continued success is that the score came with 56.1% of tremendous pitches. Only three Toronto players scored more than 11 points on Thursday, which makes this attack simple to force the classification. Powell is the clear “A” option when doing this.
Dorian Finney-Smith ($ 4,100): There aren’t that many injured in this picture as a whole, which means that the best sources of value can come from our high-minute, low-production budget options like Finney-Smith. Finney-Smith’s problem with tournaments is not his floor, as he has scored more than 20 FanDuel points in 5 of his last 12 games, but it is his perceived lack of a ceiling with just 0.60 FanDuel points per minute and 9 , 8% usage in the previous month. Still, the potential is there, as five games ago, Finney-Smith shot to 35.6 FanDuel points against the Brooklyn Nets. ONEanother smooth confrontation against the Denver Nuggets can help you to realize this again, as Denver gave away the seventh highest number of FanDuel points per game to small opposing attackers.
Other notable pieces: Gordon Hayward ($ 7,300), Will Barton ($ 5,600), Josh Richardson ($ 4,900)
Power Forward
Jerami Grant ($ 7,400): The Detroit Pistons are terrible at 10-27, but the only bright spot of his season was Jerami Grant. With 27.4% usage and 1.07 FanDuel points per minute throughout the season – in an incredibly inefficient attack, no less – Grant has been by far the most trusted member of the Pistons for fantasy purposes. Targeting Detroit players will be crucial against the high-speed, low-defense Nets on Saturday. But Detroit’s rotation is a mess, as Grant was the only player to exceed the 30 minutes he played against Charlotte on Thursday. The Nets are 11.5 favorite points, which makes allocating high salaries for this game a little riskier than normal, but Grant absolutely has the role of still delivering valuable enough production in three quarters against a poor defense , if necessary.
Chris Boucher ($ 6,700): The Raptors are now a three-headed monster with Boucher, Powell and Kyle Lowry, as all three are averaging at least 1.17 FanDuel points per minute in the past two weeks. Although Boucher’s role was unstable, it appears to have solidified temporarily as Toronto tries to replace Pascal Siakam, as Boucher has played at least 24 minutes in each of the last four games. The 1.22 FanDuel Boucher points per minute are the best of the entire team, so it’s never about production for the young striker. Minutes are the problem, but Siakam’s absence allowed Boucher to perform well.
Other notable pieces: Kristaps Porzingis ($ 7,900), Jae Crowder ($ 4,100), Moritz Wagner ($ 3,900)
center
Richaun Holmes ($ 6,700): One of the hardest things to do in the entire NBA in recent years has been to block a normal rotation seat like a Sacramento Kings player, and Holmes deserves a tip for doing so. Holmes is Sacramento’s undisputed starting point, and its role is undoubtedly with Hassan Whiteside still on the shelf. He really started to gain momentum in March, as in the Kings, he is second only to De’Aaron Fox in FanDuel points per minute (1.14) and leads all Kings players with an impressive 12.44 rebounds for 36 minutes this month . With at least 12 points and 8 rebounds in each of the last five games, Holmes is a persistent double-double threat and has a slight advantage in an intermediate layer loaded in the middle for Saturday.
Other notable pieces: Enes Kanter ($ 6,800), Deandre Ayton ($ 6,700)
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