Category Guidelines

[MagicMadness]

I was wondering, what are some guidelines to follow when determining how good a player is in a certain category?

For example, when looking at a player's assist average, when do you say, "this guy is good for assists"?

4 assists? 5? 6?

Having only one fantasy bball season under my belt, I'm taking a stab at it here with my own guidelines, and thought I'd get some input so we can better shape these numbers.

Keep in mind that my numbers are the minimum a player can have in a category to be considered above-average in it and beneficial to your fantasy team. Again, this is me just guessing here; input would be greatly appreciated.

FG% - 46%
FT% - 80%
3PM - 1.2
PPG - 15.5
REB - 6
AST - 5
STL - 0.9
BLK - 0.9
TO - 1.5

For example - you look at a player and end up picking him because he'll help you out in the rebounding, blocking, and steals categories. What numbers did he need to have in those categories to make him beneficial to you?

[DNYLkiller]

It's not quite as cut and dried as that, The #'s fluctuate between positions. A PG needs at least 5-6 asst's for him to be called a contributer in that cat, but if a SF, PF or C manged to put up half that, it would be a huge boost from those positions. It also of course depends on variables, such as league size, cats,etc...Although Points is a universal cat...blah, blah ,blah......anyway, I like this post and will try to put some #'s to some positions.
PF, C
FG%- 50%
FT%- 68-72%
3's- .1
PPG- 15
REB- 8
Asst- 2
STL- .5
BLK- 1.5
TO- 1.5

SG,SF
FG%- 46%
FT%- 75
3's- 1
PPG- 15
REB- 6
Asst.- 4
STL- 1
BLKS- .8
TO- 1.5

PG
FG% 46
FT% 80
3's- 1.5
PPG- 15
REB- 5
ASSt.- 6
Stl- 1.5
Blk- .5
TO- 2.2

[MagicMadness]

Good points - I didn't take league size and actual positions into consideration.

Thanks for posting those numbers, very helpful.

[Young_Star11]

I like measuring it in terms of everyone, not just a certain position.

For a 210 man league, 13.5 ppg, 0.8 tpg, 5.3 rpg, 2.9 apg, 0.9 spg, 0.6 bpg, 1.8 tpg, 47% fg, 76.7% ft

[tkunit]

damn a 210 man league.


Anyways also remember that fg% and ft% is based on attempts. So if player a shoots 5 ft's a game at 65% and player B shoots 1.5ft's at 90%. Players A is going to affect your teams % more than player B.