Bol Bol (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues

ANALYSIS: When you sort any leaderboard by a column that features a statistic represented by an average, odds are you're going to get some small-sample-size outliers at the top and at the bottom of the resulting outcome. Bol Bol, though, can't be put in that sort of category as he's made to (literally) break all molds and preconceptions.

As many as 111 players have logged 400+ minutes of play through Saturday and Bol Bol has the third-highest TS% (69.9) among those in that group. He's sitting right above Steph Curry and only behind Grant Williams and Al Horford on that leaderboard, although the latter two are attempting fewer than 8 FGA compared to Bol Bol's 8.3 over his 16 games played.

Bol, mind you, is a freaking 7-foot-2... who is hoisting a freakish 1.8 3PA per game hitting nearly one of them (0.8 3PM) a pop. In other words, that's something unheard of.

The positives are obvious: Bol is hitting buckets from long range like no such big man in the history of the L while also producing numbers typical to find in large-specimen stat lines. Bol is blocking 2 shots per game, pulling down 8 boards a night, and only committing 1.6 PF a day.

Bol is tied for fifth in BPG (third among players with 175+ MP) and top 40 in RPG. Bol is one of only 20 players with 15+ GP grabbing 8+ RPG and swatting 1+ BPG. He has the highest block-to-rebound ratio among those with 1 block every 4 rebounds.

It is hard to see Bol getting many more trips to the free-throw line than the 2.0 he's currently getting given his floor-stretching style of play, but that'd be an absolute dream considering he's hitting freebies at a nonsensical 87.5% clip.

Nobody expected Bol to become the force of nature he's turned into this season, but here we are. Five straight games for him with 11+ points scored with three of those ending on double-doubles (and one more with 9 boards).

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