Fantasy Basketball Roundtable: Trade Advice

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Roundtable
Posted on: February 5th, 2010

Our friend Erik, who still blogs at Points in the Paint while two-timing GMTR, is hosting the Roundtable this week over at his own personal little baby.

This week’s topic: The NBA trade deadline is just around the corner and soon so will be the one for most fantasy leagues, what general or specific trade advice can you give fantasy managers out there?

Joining the discussion this week are:
Ryan Lester, Lester’s Legends
Tommy Beer, Hoops World
Patrick Madden, Give Me The Rock

And here’s a link to the whole thing – including advice from Ryan, Tommy, and Erik.

This is what Patrick had to say:
My advice would depend a lot on the position of your fantasy team. For those owners currently in first or second place or those almost guaranteed a playoff spot (in H2H leagues) now is the time to make a strategic trade or two aimed at maximizing the amount of games you will get from players during the final weeks of the season. Nothing worse than having your monster first place team all season make a quick exit from the fantasy playoffs based on one bad week in April. A quick look at the GMTR schedule grid shows that the Rockets, Bucks, Thunder, Spurs, Toronto, and Wizards all play 14 games over the last 4 weeks of the season, while the Cavs, Hornets and Blazers only play 11. It may be a fools errand to trade someone like LeBron, but swapping players of similar value like Brendan Haywood for Emeka Okafor will net you three additional games over the typically fantasy playoff period. Do that with a 2-3 players and you could easily have a 5-10 game advantage over your opponents during the playoffs.

For those teams on the proverbial playoff bubble, now is the time to take stock of your team. Are you mediocre because of injuries and bad luck, or is it because your players are really just mediocre? If you problem is the latter, then now is the time to take some risks. Chances are even if your team makes the playoffs, you are not going to win it all. And if you’re not trying to win it all, then why are you playing in the first place? So, trade for Paul Millsap and hope Boozer gets traded from the Jazz, overpay in a trade for someone like Darren Collison and hope that CP3’s recovery goes badly and he misses the rest of the year. It may smell a little of desperation, but who are we kidding, it is.

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