Pardon the Interruption

Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Strategy
Posted on: January 18th, 2008

I quietly rolled out a little something new to the GMTR player rater today (you probably didn’t watch the press conference, did you). At this point in the season, player ratings start to get locked in, meaning they don’t change much based on a guy’s recent performance. That’s all and well most of the time, but for those waiver wire guys it’s not about what they did over the course of a season, it’s about what they are doing right now.

So, in that spirit, you will now see a column in both the 8-cat and 9-cat raters called “LAST10,” which represents – get this – a player’s rating over the last 10 games. Well, technically not HIS last 10 games, but his team’s last 10 games. This means that someone like Gilbert Arenas won’t have any score in that column (since he’s missed the Wizards past 10 games) and someone like Kevin Martin will have his score based on the 3 games he’s played in since coming back from injury. It’s not perfect, but it’s an indication of whether a guy is trending up (Nate Robinson) or trending down (Chris Kaman).

As pretty much always, thanks to Dougstats for the raw data. I’d give you money if I actually had any.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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