Basketball Roundtable: Playing Match-Ups in Roto Leagues

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: January 17th, 2010

Well, Patrick was left off the email list, and I was a total slacker, so GMTR didn’t contribute to this week’s fantasy basketball round table. But other high-level fantasy minds pondered the question: Is it worth it to play match-ups in Rotisserie style fantasy basketball leagues?

Since Erik writes for GMTR on a fairly regular basis, I’ll use his answer for this post, and then you can click over to see what everyone else says.

This is a very interesting and useful question.

This is not for the casual fantasy basketball manager. This requires a lot of micro-management of your team’s games played per slot. You would have to have a very good feel for the NBA schedule and an understanding of which teams pose as “challenging” defensive match-ups. This does not apply to certain superstars of course. I mean you SHOULD play LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and for this season in particular Brandon Roy; regardless of who their teams’ opponents are. These guys are capable of pouring out good statistical nights in spite of tough match-ups.

I would have to say that this tactic is worth employing if you have a deep bench AND if your team itself has depth. 12-man or shallower with three bench slots is probably best. Yes, it is worth it to play the “match-up game” in rotisserie, but the games rotated in should be played by players of relatively close value or production capability. Is sitting Aaron Brooks during a bad match-up worth the production you will be getting from Jonny Flynn or Mike Conley in a good one? That situation is if you are swapping in a guard’s game for another guard’s. If you will be plugging in player from a different position, who will be providing a different stat-set, then it will be about maintaining a balance of your team’s totals in each of the categories you are competing in.

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