what do the util guys do in fantasy bball?
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Util guys are regular players\nbut in that slot you can put any position player.\nSo if you wanted to put your extra center, shooting guard there, its fine.
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You can arrange like this:\n2 Defense\n2 Middle player\n1 Forward\n\nAll the player should change their player always.\nso, the other team will confused.\n\nGood Luck
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Let me break each player down for you.  Ray Allen: will give you 25 ppg and a few steals.  Lewis:  smokin hot so far this season one of the top 3 players in fantasy basketball right now.  Melo: averaging 30 a game (nuff said).......................Billups: 20 pts and LOTS of assists.  Wade:  not producing as much so far because J williams is injured but should up his #'s.  Barbosa:  He has been playing good lately but raja bell is back and barbosa numbers should start to decrease soon.  Odom:  He has been good lately but if the Lakers start losing Kobe is gonna take the ball himself more and that will decrease odoms numebers.    SO i would NOT make the trade unless you are like last in your league and need some major improvements, otherwise why risk it?
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Ok, so I'm aware of the basics of player valuation. I'm in a head to head fantasy point league...I've used some projections to determine how many fantasy points each player is projected to earn. Then I determined the useful fantasy points by subtracting the last player drafted at each position. But I still have a couple of questions about this strategy.\n\n1.) When subtracting for useful fantasy points, should I be subtracting the last player drafted at each position or the last player that will be a starter at that position? I'm in a 16 team league (23 round draft, 16 starters, 7 bench players per team). Intuitively, it would make sense for me to only subtract the fantasy points from the last player that will be a starter at each position, because only starters can earn points anyway. \n\n2.) Using this system, are you supposed to draft solely based on the useful points? Because to me it seems like this would not account for scarcity. If you were deciding between Carlos Beltran and Miguel Tejada, the numbers would indicate that Beltran is a better pick because he would earn more useful points. But the difference between Beltran and next OF is much less than the difference between Tejada and the next SS. So to me, it would seem that Tejada is actually more valuable because you stand to "lose" more by not taking him. So, is there a way to incorporate scarcity into the useful fantasy point number? My only thought was maybe by including the dropoff between the next player at that position.
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Boris Daiw, they guy can play any position and he is great at defense not to mention that he has nice stats: 13 ppg, 7 rebounds and 6 assits
201545
Play a give-ngo play, really simple. You start with a normal 1 man on top 2 wings and 2 posts. The 2 posts constantly give screens to anyone cutting. Whoever passes a ball runs in and uses the screen to find an open spot, like the corner for a shot, player who didnt get the ball comes closer to make sure him and the ball is one pass away, and strong side post seals D and is open then opposite post can flash up to high post for a pass fake drive of a shot if he has range if none of those open, another pass to another guard and passer does the cutting again and posts screen again and its continuous motion till you find an open shot.
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Even though I love the game of Steve Nash, I would have to give a resounding NO! to this one.  Both Nash and T-Mac are injured and have a history of being injured respectively.  While in Dirk you get an all-around player who gives you minutes, points, three points, rebounds, and a handful of assists, steals and blocks.  As for Parker, he is not as spectacular as the other PG's in this game but he is solid for FG%, minutes, points, and the occasional assists, rebounds, and steals.\n\nHope this helps. Good luck this season!\n\nIf you are interested in joining another Yahoo! Fantasy NBA league, I am inviting you and everyone here at Yahoo! Answers. League ID is 218266.  The password is 1234567
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Fantasy Sports is where you create a team from a roster of players.\n\nTheir performance of the field generates a set number of points for your team, as well as how the team performed.\n\nFor example, in football, you desingate your team as Pittsburgh, but you have Ricky Williams as your running back.\n\nYou get points as to how well the individual performed and the team.\n\nThere are leagues where they have drafts for players and even trades during hte season.\n\nYou pay into it and the person with the most points wins.\n\nThere are also organized contests, which you can see in the paper as well.
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For head-to-head leagues, I usually have a couple marginal players that I can drop and pick up whoever is hot. I'll often drop a player who isn't playing that day to get a guy who is, especially if the new guy can help me out in one or two specific categories.\n\nRoto leagues are very different, because of the games played restictions. Stick with your star players, and don't use too many games on scrubs who don't give you good all-around numbers. For that matter, I tend to avoid guys like Shaq who will hurt you in one category while helping you in others. I like my team to be pretty well-rounded.
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Mention that Larry Brown needs to balance out his lineup with a solid big man.  They have the guards to win games but nothing up front.  Mention that drafting Tyrus Thomas, Glen Davis, or Shelden Williams would be a good idea because these are all formidable big men.
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Check out this link\nIt has other links about Rick Kamla that might help you answer your question.\n\nhttp://www.nba.com/fantasy/features/kamla_korner.html\n\nHope this helps\ngood luck.
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there is no IL in basketball, they got rid of it last season. you will not see a player listed as IL in fantasy basketball.\nyou need to read up on the rules of the nba, they actually did this a season ago. so, because the NBA got rid of their IL, so did Y!.\nin its place the nba increased the roster size but y! has not done that..so if they're injured you can either bench'em or drop'em.\n-nny
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Yahoo in a way gives a preseason ranking.Look at available players in your league.Notice there are two rankings.O-Rank is off season rank,and is where they think the player will finish this year.Rank is where they finished last year.
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List your three starting attackmen first (the first player listed will be your "in home" and will serve all of your bench penalties, so make him your "least important" attackman)  Then list your first line of middies, your second line of middies and then your first line of defensemen.  Then all other bench players can be listed however you like.  Finally, list your goalies at the bottom.
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u draft a team and u tell yahoo what time u want to draft it. There are 10 teams in the league. If u do head to head league u face teams one on one if you do rotisserie then the person who has the most points in the end wins the league. The points are determined by how well your fantasy team of players does in real life. For example if u drafted brady and he threw 4 TD's he will get more points if he only threw 1 TD. U need 1 QB 3 WR 2 RB 1 TE 1 kicker and 1 team defense to start every week. Some bench spots are available too. If your player has a real life bye the week u play someone u either put someone in from your bench or check waivers and pick them up on your team. U can offer trades to other managers too.
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Why do you have 20 players?  Anyway, you are pretty much set at point guard with the quartet of Nash, Arenas, Kidd, and Ford.  You have pretty good shooting at the two guard with Mr. 42 points Peja Stojakovic (who broke out of his slump!) and T-Mac.\n\nYour team also has good rebounders with Aldridge, Haslem, Bynum, Randolph, Gooden, and Ben Wallace.  You also have something set aside for the future in Pau Gasol.\n\nThose are the positives.  Here are the negatives.  Roy's heel is a problem and he may not come back or come back late in the season if he opts for surgery (we will know in two weeks), Randy Foye is a good player on a deep veteran team (I feel that he will only play between 12 to 14 minutes on average this season), Smush lost his "mojo" (according to him), while Finley, Kurt Thomas, and to some extent Kenny Thomas don't play as much as your other stars.\n\nHope this helps. Good luck this season!\n\nIf you are interested in joining another Yahoo! Fantasy NBA league, I am inviting you and everyone here at Yahoo! Answers. League ID is 218266.  The password is 1234567
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ap4906 is not giving you good advice. I would drop Harpring and maybe Korver if you can find someone better. Look for Gerald Wallace to come off of injury pretty soon, if he's available, go get him.