Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (1/9/17)
It had to happen sooner or later. Just eight teams have completed perfect seasons as NCAA Division I champions, the last being Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosiers in 1976. So it was a matter of time for Villanova. Today, due to conference realignment, the college basketball season entails more travel, tougher matchups and more hostile road […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (1/2/17)
So we go to bed--early, we're old--on New Year's and we wake up to find our Top 10 eviscerated. So much for our hopes for a better 2017. Anyway, the results this weekend illustrate that while the years 2016 and 2017 may not be the greatest of all time, the 2016-17 college hoops season certainly […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/26/16)
We're making two New Year's resolutions for 2017--or at two that are relevant to you, dear reader. For the first, we pledge to stick with Villanova until another team proves that they are better than the 'Cats, and it is starting to look unlikely that such a team will emerge from the pack. For the […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/19/16)
For the NBA, Kentucky coach John Calipari is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, year-round, from the NBA draft on through the finals. You can certainly argue the ethics of the NBA using our nation's colleges as its feeder system, but you can't argue that Coach Cal isn't among the best in the business […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/12/16)
With the college football regular season over, college hoops takes center stage from now until the meat of the bowl season. This is also the time of year when the conference schedules get into full swing and we begin to see how the top teams stack up against top competition. Will the freshmen who were […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/5/16)
We waited too long to jump on the Villanova bandwagon last season, and never heard the end of it. If nothing else, we learn from our mistakes. The Wildcats are hot, and there's no reason to not give them their due. How do the rest of the teams and players stack up? Here are our […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/28/16)
Thanksgiving weekend doesn't make or break a college basketball season. It doesn't tell you which teams will be in the Final Four come March. But with all the neutral-site tournament games, and the odd out-of-conference road games for Power Five conference teams fulfilling scheduling contracts, you do learn which teams can handle pressure as well […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/21/16)
If you played street ball as a kid, you know the expression, "No blood, no foul." Well, some of our preseason Top 10 teams already have blemishes to their records, but none of the critical variety--so no blood. And, thus, no foul. I mean, does Kansas losing to Indiana or Duke losing to Kansas mean […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/11/16)
At this time of year, we here at Rotoballer College Sports Headquarters like to think back to some of our favorite athletes, guys like Donovan McNabb (Syracuse) and Charlie Ward (Florida State), who successfully played the two biggest college sports at the highest level. Both would also go on to earn money for their athletic […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (4/5/16)
Well, it's official. Villanova has made us look like idiots. We doubted the Wildcats all year--questioned the quality of the Big East--and what did they do? They only beat the three teams we ranked ahead of them for much of the season to take the national championship. Here are our final CBB rankings for the […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (3/28/16)
Let's be honest: Ranking the best college teams week in and week out is hardly an exact science. Sure, you can take into account won-loss records, strength of schedule and "quality wins," but the fact is almost any team in the upper echelon of Division I can beat any other on a given day, particularly […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (3/22/16)
The first two rounds of the NCAA tournament have not only laid waste to our office pool brackets, they've done a number on our Top 10 as well. Still, for regular readers, there will be some familiar teams on this list--particularly at the top. Here are our CBB rankings for the week of March 22, […]
CBB DFS Lineup Picks (3/19/16): Daily Fantasy College Basketball Advice for FanDuel
Two days in and the "madness" of March is already in full effect. Several staples of daily fantasy rosters are gone--along with their teams, of course--but there are still plenty of great players to go around. So, how to choose? Without further delay, below are our favorite Daily Fantasy College Basketball picks for FanDuel DFS […]
CBB DFS Lineup Picks (3/15/16): Daily Fantasy College Basketball Advice for FanDuel
Pickin's are slim tonight, given that the big postseason tournament doesn't get fully underway until later in the week. However, if you still want to be in the game, you'll need players to play, and the play-in games for the Big Dance and the NIT all provide some decent talent. Without further delay, below are […]
CBB DFS Lineup Picks (03/08/16): Daily Fantasy College Basketball Advice for FanDuel
Everyone knows about March Madness, but only Daily Fantasy players know that this can be a difficult week for team selection, given the complexities of the conference tournament schedule. After all, Tuesday is a day for "play-in" games--contests in which lower-seeded teams fight it out for a sit at the big table--and not all of […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (3/7/16)
Spring is a time of renewal, a time to clear the air, recharge the batteries and clean out the closets. Or our Top 10 list. With Spring approaching, we've rearranged our Top 10 a bit, to prepare for the postseason. Here are our CBB rankings for the week of March 7, 2016 (won-loss records are […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (3/1/16)
We've heard about March Madness, of course, but February Fantasies? How else to explain the tumult in our poll every week, which sees darlings turn to deadbeats almost daily? Okay, so we like change, in addition to alliteration. It keeps things interesting. Below are our CBB rankings for the week of March 1, 2016 (won-loss […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (2/22/16)
Just call us the anti-"Wizard of Oz" poll because, no matter what Villanova, the putative Number One team in most polls, does we're still going to be in Kansas, or at least in the Jayhawks' camp, until they give us a reason to jump off their bandwagon. So, with that in mind, click your heels, […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (2/6/16)
There are plenty of polls for NCAA College Basketball Rankings - the Associated Press, ESPN, USA Today, to name a few. But none look at the top college basketball teams in the land from the perspective of the fantasy hoops player. So which CBB teams rate in the Top 10, according to fantasy metrics? Each […]
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (1/27/16)
There are plenty of polls for NCAA College Basketball Rankings - the Associated Press, ESPN, USA Today, to name a few. But none look at the top college basketball teams in the land from the perspective of the fantasy hoops player. So which CBB teams rate in the Top 10, according to fantasy metrics? Each […]
P.J. Hairston (SG/SF, CHA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Monitor in All Leagues / Add as a Plug-In OWNED: 0% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Call it my North Carolina favoritism. Call it hopeful thinking for one of the more talented players to play at Chapel Hill during the past few seasons. Maybe its my hopeful thinking that the D-League might eventually become a […]
Nikola Mirotic (SF/PF, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add and start in all leagues OWNED: 44% in Yahoo! Fantasy basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Wildly regarded as the top talent not playing in the NBA a year ago, Mirotic has used his rookie season as the perfect audition reel for those questioning his place in the League. With Taj Gibson out, Mirotic is the […]
Jonas Jerebko (SF/PF, BOS) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 3% in Yahoo! Fantasy basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The four year veteran from Sweden was sent to Boston in the Tayshaun Prince homecoming deal with Detroit and he is proving to be a well designed piece to fit in Brad Steven's spread offense. Though cooling off after a […]
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (SG/SF, CHA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 30% of Yahoo! Fantasy basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Steve Clifford decided to entrust the starting point guard job to newly acquired Mo Williams over the incumbent Brian Roberts, and believe it or not, having a competent point guard on a night to night basis is benefiting the entire team. Michael […]
Henry Walker (SG/SF, MIA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 1% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The artist formerly known as Bill Walker has reemerged in Miami now that Chris Bosh will miss the rest of the season with blood clot complications. Henry Walker, who has spent the last two seasons toiling in basketball wastelands, has […]
Tony Snell (SG/SF, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 10% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Some experts believed the Bulls to get a gem when they nabbed Tony Snell with the 20th pick in this year's draft. An athletic specimen out of New Mexico (whose team went 79-26 and won two conference championships while he […]
Mike Dunleavy (SG/SF, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add as a three point specialist OWNED: 35% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Mike Dunleavy returned from injury two games before the All Star Break. He then got an additional week off for the extended All Star break. Though Dunleavy won't give you stats in many categories (rebounding, assists, steals, blocks), he does provide steady […]
Khris Middleton (SG/SF, MIL) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 55% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Please tell me that the 55% mark is not accurate. There is just no way. If you look into your waiver wire pool and see Khris Middleton floating around, you add him yesterday. The Texas A&M product is thriving in the improving Milwaukee […]
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (SG/SF, DET) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 22% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The second year guard is on fire right now and considering his lines last week (16.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 2.3 three pointers per game) he should be added in all leagues until he begins to cool off. Another player […]
Donatas Motiejunas (SF/PF/C, HOU) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup
BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 38% owned in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: D-Mo makes another appearance on this list. When Terrance Jones made his season debut earlier this month, owners everywhere worried that the young Lithuanian would watch his minutes and production drop to untouchable levels. Instead, we watched as Dwight Howard went […]