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By: Alex Barutha, Nick Whalen
This season's fantasy basketball drafts bring some tough decisions, especially when it comes to ranking certain players. These tricky picks can make or break your 2024 NBA fantasy team. Nick and Alex break down the players who are hardest to evaluate, giving you the info you need to make smart choices in your draft.
A big thanks to Scott St. Pierre of Menace Podmen and SportsEthos WNBA for hosting this 9-category head-to-head mock draft on Yahoo! It used Yahoo's default category league settings, notably requiring two centers.
This article is part of our Fantasy Basketball Podcast series.
Five Sleepers Based on ADP for the 2024 Fantasy Basketball Season
By: Joel Bartilotta, Adam King, Paul Martinez
Yes, it's September -- and mere days before the first NFL Sunday of the season. But we're also less than a month away from the first NBA preseason action. So, a half-dozen RotoWire scribes and a half-dozen other fantasy basketball experts participated in a head-to-head points NBA Fantasy mock draft. It's one of a handful of fantasy basketball mock drafts we've already participated in at RotoWire.
Not sure who to draft in fantasy basketball? RotoWire's fantasy basketball draft tips for keeper leagues will help you make the best picks.
Whether you're in a points league or category league, our expert advice will help you make the best fantasy basketball picks this season.
Fantasy basketball auction drafts, also known as salary cap leagues, come with their own set of rankings, sleepers and busts. Draft strategy becomes even more important to make the best fantasy basketball picks. But the best strategy is having auction values handy and knowing which players are overvalued and undervalued.
Rotisserie fantasy basketball leagues aren't the most popular scoring system, but they're often played among experts and diehards. If you're interested in trying a roto league, there are some basic but important differences you need to know compared to head-to-head categories or points leagues.
On Friday, I decided to hop into a random Yahoo fantasy basketball mock draft -- a 14-team head-to-head categories mock. Up to this point, I had only done mock drafts with other NBA Fantasy experts and some followers on Twitter. I wanted to see how an Average Joe draft shook out.
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