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The Week in Trends: 12/17/06

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Categorized as: Ballin Outta Control, Fantasy Basketball, Injuries, Player News, Sleepers
Posted on: December 18th, 2006

I’m a little late with this week’s edition of the week in trends, but what it lacks in timeliness, I will make up for in quality. And I promise that you will not have to read about Nate Robinson a single time in this post… Starting now. So, who had the best week ever?

Name Rank 12/17 Rank 12/10 Change in Rating
Marvin Williams 141 362 5.6
Ben Wallace 73 105 1.6
Tony Allen 197 254 1.5
Boris Diaw 75 104 1.5
James Posey 138 182 1.5
Matt Barnes 115 152 1.4
Sean May 94 125 1.2
Gerald Wallace 132 161 1.1
Kobe Bryant 7 13 1.1
Al Jefferson 92 115 1.1

And who has not had the best week ever?

Name Rank 12/17 Rank 12/10 Change in Rating
Leandro Barbosa 45 29 -1.6
Fred Jones 163 116 -1.3
Dirk Nowitzki 11 4 -1.2
LaMarcus Aldridge 188 141 -1.1
Kyle Korver 96 75 -1.1
Raja Bell 81 64 -1.1
Michael Redd 18 11 -1.0
Jose Calderon 199 166 -0.9
Luke Ridnour 67 52 -0.9
J.R. Smith 55 45 -0.9



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  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    Okay, smarty stat guy… if I shouldn’t have LaMarcus Aldridge on my team… then who? I don’t really need another center immediately, but I’ve got Jermaine O’Neal as one of my starters, so I’d like to have a decent backup in case he goes down. Choices look like this for the Cs available in my 12-team standard categories (TOs included) league:
    Francisco Elson
    Nazr Mohammed
    Etan Thomas (Injured)
    Johan Petro
    Rasho Nesterovic
    Brendan Haywood (good cause he’s in for Thomas?)
    DeSagna Diop
    Fabricio Oberto
    Tony Battie
    Mikki Moore

    Anyone else I should look for if those guys aren’t good enough?

    I’m pretty soft in FT% and TO, so I’d like a C that won’t kill my FT% any further. And most of the FAs don’t have a lot of TOs anyway, but it’s something to consider.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    Okay, you win, you win. That’s an ugly list of centers you presented. If that’s what you’re looking at in your league, then it’s worth hanging onto Aldridge for his potential, because everyone else on that list has got none of it. And here comes the part of my recommendation where I throw out a lot of names to make myself look smart, but the reality is that all these guys are probably taken in your league: Jorge Garbajosa, Kendrick Perkins, and Shareef Abdur-Rahim are all guys I’d take over Aldridge.

    Of those guys you listed, Haywood wins the best plug and play center pretty much by default, but that doesn’t sound like something you really right now. What I personally might do is drop Aldridge and pick up the best player available – like a Rasual Butler – and then if something happens to O’Neal, you can always drop Butler and pick up any of those guys you listed or maybe, ugh, Jeff Foster.

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