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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Three Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
Welcome to DroppingDimes.com‘s weekly position rankings list! Each week, the five writers - Al, Ron, Sarge, Zack, and myself will look at our lists of positions, take into account the number of games played, any injury issues that a player may be having, and the hotness/coldness of a player at that time to rank ‘em all up! Note: Ron got injured this week writing all those Injury Lowdowns, so we gave him this week off to recuperate!
We’ll rank EACH position into a Top 15 list and in parentheses have that player’s average position ranking amongst the five of us. First up… number of games for each team then the week’s rankings afterwards.
Atlanta Hawks—-2; Boston Celtics—-4; Charlotte Bobcats—-3; Chicago Bulls—-4; Cleveland Cavaliers—-4; Dallas Mavericks—-3; Denver Nuggets—-3; Detroit Pistons—-3; G.S. Warriors—-3; Houston Rockets—-3; Indiana Pacers—-3; Los Angeles Clippers—-2; Los Angeles Lakers—-2; Memphis Grizzlies—-3; Miami Heat—-3; Milwaukee Bucks—-3; Minnesota Timberwolves—-3; New Jersey Nets—-4; New Orleans Hornets—-3; New York Knicks—-4; Orlando Magic—-3; Philadelphia 76ers—-3; Phoenix Suns—-2; Portland Trail Blazers—-4; Sacramento Kings—-3; San Antonio Spurs—-4; Seattle Supersonics—-4; Toronto Raptors—-3; Utah Jazz—-3; Washington Wizards—-3
COMPILED BY Zack Francis
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Stat’s All Folks: Finally a Full Week!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Disses, Editorial, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
With a full week’s worth of games to examine, I can see a little more clearly now as to how NBA players’ production is shaping up early in the season. Granted, only several games have been played for each player, but in the early going, it’s best to anticipate trends and depending on your personal risk factor, make moves towards winning a championship. Remember, no one every won by standing still, so you’ll need to move. It’s just a matter of which moves give you the better potential for reaping reward. Analyzing a full week, helps me help you assess which players are moving up and which are falling down.
Stat’s All Folks will be a week-to-week stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
Statistics are through November 2nd – 8th.
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Wire To Wire
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Editorial, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Rookies, Roto, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Wire to Wire aims to be your waiver wire resource for all of your fantasy basketball needs. It will dive into playing time trends, injury replacements, and even an occasional category specialist – all of which can be found on a typical waiver wire within your fantasy league at any given time.
One week down, many more to go. The first week of the NBA season, though short, gives NBA fans as well as fantasy owners an idea of what coaches have in mind for their rotations. We see which players are actually going to receive some burn, while others were simply preseason mirage with a side dish of hype. As you may see from my last installment, I’d say I hit about .500, falling into the hype trap on a few – but hitting for solid contact on others. And, if I may add, I’m quite a fan of Yahoo! using entire player names within their database. Too many Jones’, if you ask me. Plus, it just looks better. Anyways, with a week down, this week’s WTW will allow us a slightly larger sample size. Of course, there are others that may have been worth the mention, but given the circumstances, I felt these were the twelve worth the word. Enjoy.
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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Two Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
Welcome to DroppingDimes.com‘s weekly position rankings list! Each week, the five writers - Al, Ron, Sarge, Zack, and myself will look at our lists of positions, take into account the number of games played, any injury issues that a player may be having, and the hotness/coldness of a player at that time to rank ‘em all up!
We’ll rank EACH position into a Top 15 list and in parentheses have that player’s average position ranking amongst the five of us. First up… number of games for each team then the week’s rankings afterwards.
Atlanta Hawks—-3; Boston Celtics—-3; Charlotte Bobcats—-3; Chicago Bulls—-3; Cleveland Cavaliers—-3; Dallas Mavericks—-4; Denver Nuggets—-3; Detroit Pistons—-4; G.S. Warriors—-4; Houston Rockets—-4; Indiana Pacers—-3; Los Angeles Clippers—-3; Los Angeles Lakers—-4; Memphis Grizzlies—-3; Miami Heat—-3; Milwaukee Bucks—-4; Minnesota Timberwolves—-3; New Jersey Nets—-3; New Orleans Hornets—-4; New York Knicks—-4; Orlando Magic—-4; Philadelphia 76ers—-3; Phoenix Suns—-3; Portland Trail Blazers—-4; Sacramento Kings—-3; San Antonio Spurs—-3; Seattle Supersonics—-4; Toronto Raptors—-3; Utah Jazz—-4; Washington Wizards—-4
COMPILED BY Zack Francis
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Stat’s All Folks: Small Sample Sized Meal
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Disses, Editorial, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Only three days of NBA action have been in play, which may cause a crisis when you’re writing a weekly article and you want as many samples of performance as you can, but have no fear. Sometimes, it’s the early jump on players that can make a difference to a team that wins a fantasy basketball championship and a team that doesn’t. Ask those that picked up David West or Boris Diaw last season. And what’s the value now of that underperforming early round draft pick and what will it be moving forward? Relax, it’s only been a few days, but it doesn’t hurt to note who’s doing what.
Stat’s All Folks will be a stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 12
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Central Division, Milwaukee Bucks, H2H, Injuries, Roto, Sleepers, Talent,
Our draft blog wraps up with this pick. The season snuck up on us, so we will have to cut it short. The wrap-around pick at the end of the snake has been fun. This player was queued up by Sarge near the end of the sixth round, but a last-minute substitute happened when news of the injury broke. He seems like great value here.
Round 7, Pick 12: Andrew Bogut, PF/C, Milwaukee Bucks
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10 Cents Of Our Time: Season’s Eve
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Disses, H2H, Props, Roto, Rumors, Site Features, Sleepers, Talent,
KG, are you pumped for the new season? I bet you are. I bet we all are. Leave the trick or treating to the kids, because there is a double-header to start the 2006-07 season on October 31st!
Ron and I started as a writing tag team. He has been busy dialing in on all the pre-season injuries that have been happening. Me? I have been a bit swamped with other things, but certainly I have hoops on the brain. We are going to go back to our collaborating roots, and quickly look at what is topical as we all head into the new year. 10 random questions, and our two cents, uh, make that 10 cents on the subject.
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Dropping Dime Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 11
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: H2H, Pacific Division, Los Angeles Clippers, Roto, Talent,
My colleague Alvin Lai likened himself to Dusty Rhodes, “pinch hitter extraordinaire.” I have to admit, when I first read that sentence, I thought “Duh, Yea. The American Dream!” Blonde hair, yellow polka dots, and “Sweeeeeeet Saphire!” Heck, even wikipedia lists him before the baseball player…c’mon, Al!
Where am I going with this? Well, I’m going to set you back to Game one of the 1988 World Series. Dennis Velasco was set to take the swings at this pick. But it’s a team effort here, and when one of us can’t take the cuts, we step up.
Allow me to limp up to the DroppingDimes plate as none other than Kirk Gibson. Vin Scully, take it from here… “Look who’s coming up…”
Round 7, Pick 11: Sam Cassell, PG, Los Angeles Clippers
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 10
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, H2H, Pacific Division, Phoenix Suns, Roto, Talent,
7.10 Raja Bell, SG, Phoenix Suns
With a team that is obviously slanted towards the small-ball categories, it’s tough to still be lacking one main small-ball trait: three-point shooters. The point guards that anchor this squad are Chris Paul and Steve Nash – neither of which would be considered gunners by any means. Nash will surely chip in his fair share of long-balls, but Gilbert Arenas, he is not.
So, I chose the route of adding a few guys that will chip in from the three point line, but a little below the radar. Mehmet Okur is good for a little less than one bomb a game. Troy Murphy is no stranger to launching from behind the arc, to the tune of about one make every other game. Add in Manu Ginobili and his three a game, and you have yourself quite a sneaky group of shooters. A sneaky group of shooters that is about one piece away from yet another category on lock-down.
Enter, Raja Bell.
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 8
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, New York Knicks, H2H, Roto, Sleepers, Talent,
Dennis Velasco, our resident New York Knicks fan has passed on this guy a total of 20 times during this draft blog. Not that this is any indication of this player’s perceived fantasy value, as in the drafts that I have seen, he has often been drafted before this point in our draft blog. With his ability to score he has lots of value in a two-center league. It is just a matter of whether reality can see eye to eye with those expectations by the end of the year.
Round 7, Pick 8: Channing Frye, PF/C, New York Knicks
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