Mid-Round Values To Target In 2025 Fantasy Basketball Drafts

The first three rounds of fantasy basketball drafts are pretty predictable for the most part, with very few surprises as managers snag the best, well-established fantasy players to build their teams around. I'm a firm believer that the middle rounds of the draft are where you can do the most work to get a leg […]

Jayson Tatum Injury: Fantasy Basketball Impact and Boston Celtics Team Outlook After Torn Achilles

It's hard to believe things could've gotten any worse for the Boston Celtics. As if gifting the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals to the New York Knicks wasn't egregious enough, Jayson Tatum suffered a ruptured Achilles in the final minutes of Game 4. As first reported by ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania, […]

2024-2025 Fantasy Basketball Category Studs - High Efficiency Players To Target

As the tip-off to the NBA season inches closer, we here at RotoBaller aim to create content that will help you dominate your draft! Every NBA player is different in what strengths and weaknesses they have in their overall game. And some players can pile up stats more quickly than others, but at what cost? […]

Fantasy Basketball Punting Guide and Strategies - Top Players To Target for 2024-25 Drafts

When drafting your fantasy team, there are several 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 aren't familiar […]

Best Mid-Round Values To Target In Fantasy Basketball Drafts

In fantasy basketball, you can't win your draft in the first three rounds, but you can certainly lose it. Early on, the goal should be to build your team around surefire studs, while mitigating as much risk as possible. The middle rounds represent a fantastic opportunity to go after high-upside players. You know, the guys […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]