How many times did you draft with confidence, taking the best available players and wondering how the hell they could fall until your picks happened? And coming out of the draft really proud of yourself only to find out that your fresh team is, indeed, full of great names but not really that strong as a pack? As if it wasn’t hard enough to estimate every player’s statistical production and its value within your league’s settings, you also need to make sure your whole team brings you firepower in all the categories you plan to compete in. Some managers prefer […]
Posted in Fb Ninja toolsIt was a long, long time ago… As every good story should start… Or maybe not really?… Anyway… This time it really started many years ago. It started when I decided to try something a bit more advanced. When I finally joined a roto league, encouraged by fellow fantasy basketball managers who told me that, yes, playing fantasy points is ok, but rotisserie competition is what brings real fun. And they were absolutely right. One of the reason it’s really exciting is because there are so many details you need to consider when building your team. It was quite easy with fantasy points. Just bringing […]
Posted in Fb Ninja tools, featured, StrategyAs this is my first article for fb-ninja, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jeff and I go by “StifleTower” in RotoWorld. I am an in-house attorney for an organization headquartered in the Washington D.C. area. However, I work from home a lot and live in a small community by the beach near Cape Canaveral, Florida. I am not the biggest NBA fan, instead I consider myself more of a professional gamer. I came into competitive fantasy basketball from a unique angle. My older brother was the chess champion of my state and tried to teach me […]
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The following article will discuss a very common injury in basketball, the infamous anterior cruciate ligament tear. This will be an extensive review of what the anterior cruciate ligament is, what it does, how it is repaired and review of some long-term associated issues. What is the ACL? The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is one of the two major intra-articular ligaments of the knee (think deep inside) and the primary ligament of the knee that helps to stabilize and prevent the leg from falling forward. Additionally the ACL protects the knee against varus and valgus stress when the knee […]
Posted in UncategorizedI’m using the term velocity to describe a phenomenon I have observed in every facet of my life. Velocity is the concept that once you have an something, it is easier to acquire more of that thing. Assets tend to roll downhill, like a snowball, gathering momentum as it rolls along. When I was playing poker competitively, I tried a variety of methods in tournaments. Sometimes I would play tight for the first few levels, until the antes kicked in, and then I became progressively more aggressive. Then I used my tight image to exploit my opponents by bluffing more […]
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In 2105 we have had a look at previous 10 drafts to see how rookies fared in their first pro season. From that we learnt 10 lessons, which could help us drafting future rookies more effectively. But the time moves fast and we’ve had 3 classes completing their first season as pros since then. So let’s have a look at how the rookie landscape has changed and if fantasy managers modified their approach to drafting them. The original article covering drafts 2005-2015 – you can find here: Rookies in fantasy basketball are they really worth the risk Last 3 seasons […]
Posted in StrategyThere are several online tools that can help you simulate a fantasy basketball draft. These tools allow you to choose the number of teams in your league, the players available for selection, and your draft position. You can then run through a mock draft to get a sense of which players might be available at different points in the draft and to practice your draft strategy. Here are a few options for fantasy basketball mock draft simulators: fb-ninja mock draft simulator : This tool allows you to customize your league settings and run through a mock draft with other users […]
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Fantasy Review For 2018/19 Season: Josh Richardson’s didn’t manage to become a team leader, Dragic fell off a cliff again, Waiters was a pure and injured bust, James Johnson since signing a new contract is on a continous decline and Justise Winslow was inconsistent as always. On top of that their best fantasy player Hassan Whiteside looked like he lost his passion to the game and got outplayed by Bam Adebayo. Only Bam Adebayo came out to be a massive surprise as he finished the season in starting five, as a he finished as top50 roto player for the last […]
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Fantasy Review For 2018/19 Season: It was a franchise reshaping season on court, off the court and fantasy wise. Off the court they’ve changed their coaching staff and training approach with Jim Boylen, an oldschool pushups&suicides coach took over. Somehow he won young guys hearts and the team started rolling with a new, more defensive approach. Fantasy wise it looks like it was “a year before” for almost all of their fantasy relevant players. Zach LaVine became an impressive scorer but with some holes in other stats, Markkanen was very inconsistent in his play, Wendell Carter Jr had some flashes […]
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Fantasy Review For 2018/19 Season: It was the very first season in Brad Stevens career when he was coaching a favourite instead of a dark horse kind of team. And while everybody had extremely high hopes for Celtics their season ended with the meltdown, and some bad vibes coming from the locker room. What is easy now is to blame Kyrie and the way Gordon Hayward been treated by the coaching staff, but probably what caused all of that mess was simply a fact that many of their young players faced a premature success a season before. If half of […]
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