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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues
ANALYSIS: These posts are meant for all types of leagues, but this one is definitely in the realm of "super-deep fantasy leagues". The Utah Jazz is the best team in the whole NBA, they count their games by wins, will probably end the regular season sitting at the top of the Western Conference... and they'll do so while using Derrick Favors no more than 16 MPG, let alone running him for 20 rounds of the clock any given day.
If you're like some of my friends and play in 20-team leagues, with 15 players per roster, you know you need to hustle and find your way toward anything resembling value out there. Enter Derrick Favors, he of the 8-percent rostership in Yahoo leagues. Favors, while not playing more than 15 minutes a night, is producing as many fantasy points as he can given his super-limited runs. He's strung 14 games in a row playing at an above-average FP/min level producing a 1.18 mark in that span (going back to Mar. 16), and he's indeed had above-average performances in 38 of his 50 GP (more than 75% of his games, that is).
Favors is a low-maintenance guy averaging a lowly 6-5-1 line on the year with a block per game on top of that. He's shooting 64% from the floor on a limited 4 FGA with usage rates around 14%. No, Favors is not going to be the man winning you the league. But when it comes to working and exploiting slim pickings in hugely deep leagues, this is the type of guy that might turn into a more-than-useful asset to have around.
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