Consensus top 5 and draft strategy for each player

pootbrah · Post #1 » by **pootbrah** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:19 am

H2H category league

I take it the consensus top 5 are;
Giannis
AD
Harden
KAT
Curry

1. Where do you personally rank them and are they the consensus because they are looking like 1a/b/c/d/e to me???

2. What would your draft strategy be for each player or still just best player available in your opinion?

Pointgod · Post #2 » by **Pointgod** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:40 pm

pootbrah wrote:H2H category league

I take it the consensus top 5 are;
Giannis
AD
Harden
KAT
Curry

1. Where do you personally rank them and are they the consensus because they are looking like 1a/b/c/d/e to me???

2. What would your draft strategy be for each player or still just best player available in your opinion?

I’d say Giannis, KAT, Curry, Harden and AD. Gianni’s is going to need to create more with Brogdan gone, KAT is still young and should put up better offensive numbers than AD but slightly worse defensive stats. Curry is going to need to just launch it and put up raw numbers. Harden and AD are going to be hampered playing with two other high usage guys but I think there’s not really a huge difference from 2 to 5.

My draft strategy would be to look for multi category guys in the first 3 rounds, then focus on specialists to round out the team. Every pick should have a purpose behind it.

Post #3 » by **bwgood77** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:35 pm

Pointgod wrote:
pootbrah wrote:H2H category league

I take it the consensus top 5 are;
Giannis
AD
Harden
KAT
Curry

1. Where do you personally rank them and are they the consensus because they are looking like 1a/b/c/d/e to me???

2. What would your draft strategy be for each player or still just best player available in your opinion?

I’d say Giannis, KAT, Curry, Harden and AD. Gianni’s is going to need to create more with Brogdan gone, KAT is still young and should put up better offensive numbers than AD but slightly worse defensive stats. Curry is going to need to just launch it and put up raw numbers. Harden and AD are going to be hampered playing with two other high usage guys but I think there’s not really a huge difference from 2 to 5.

My draft strategy would be to look for multi category guys in the first 3 rounds, then focus on specialists to round out the team. Every pick should have a purpose behind it.

I don't really think you can go wrong with any of them. It's probably best to see who will be in the range in your second pick and make sure to get two that have different strengths. Some places have AD #1 this year because LeBron will make the game so much easier for him and get him a lot of easy buckets. I might take him 1st if I wasn't concerned with health. If it's 9 cat he's great because his turnovers are so low.

I also like Curry because although his fg% could drop without other big threats spreading the floor, his assists should go up.

I won a league last year with KAT. If Giannis adds the 3 there would definitely be an argument to take him #1.

The_Hater · Post #4 » by **The_Hater** » Fri Oct 4, 2019 8:06 pm

Since any of those 5 players could end up being the top player, in these cases I would put far more weight on health. Nothing submarines a fantasy season worst than an injury to your top pick.

For that reason, I would personally rank AD and Curry 4th and 5th, even though a healthy AD is probably the top guy.

Towns plays the scarce Center spot and has missed only 5 games in 4 seasons so I'm leaning towards taking him as the top pick. Especially since Coach Saunders plans to run every half court set through him this season.

pootbrah · Post #5 » by **pootbrah** » Sun Oct 6, 2019 11:16 am

The_Hater wrote:Since any of those 5 players could end up being the top player, in these cases I would put far more weight on health. Nothing submarines a fantasy season worst than an injury to your top pick.

For that reason, I would personally rank AD and Curry 4th and 5th, even though a healthy AD is probably the top guy.

Towns plays the scarce Center spot and has missed only 5 games in 4 seasons so I'm leaning towards taking him as the top pick. Especially since Coach Saunders plans to run every half court set through him this season.

I didn't even realize Curry has missed a fair few games the last 2 seasons..... Completely checked out on following the Warriors after Durant came :lol:

. With what you said, I always try and pick players that don't have much of an injury history.... and then i always seem to have a heavily injured squad :lol:

. So not gonna worry about it this year; that said I got the 5th pick in my league so I'll just be happy with anyone. If given the choice of all 5 part of me is leaning towards Curry but safe me would take Towns.... Or Giannis.... Or Harden hahahaha. Who knows though; I could see someone nabbing Jokic before Curry and/or Towns.

Post #6 » by **THE J0KER** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:32 am

I'm not sure that KAT belongs here. I would put him together with 2nd tier of TOP10 picks, with Jokic, LeBron, Embiid, Lillard, and Kawhi.

Last season he needs to reach the All-NBA team to get a $5M bonus from his contract, but center spots are locked with Jokic, Embiid, and Davis around. Once Davis was suddenly out of the race after his trade request saga starts, KAT started to play like the crazy game after game, and all teammates tried to help him with these monster stats. But after the end of the day team winning records counts so Gobber grabbed that third "C" spot for all-NBA third team. Playing for the mediocre team this season, I don't think KAT will be so motivated like during 2nd half of the last season.

Talking about draft strategy in h2h category leagues, you can choose the "all-around" strategy trying to be (equally) good for every category. This strategy is perfect for ROTO leagues and is the best if your main goal in your h2h league is to reach the playoff or TOP2 seeds. The other proven successful strategy is to sacrifice (about) 2 categories to be very good in (at least) 5. Never use it in ROTO leagues because it is mission impossible to win the league if you are bottom-3 in 2+ categories but in h2h leagues, it can be a very efficient strategy, especially during the playoff.

Out of these 5 players Curry, Davis, and KAT are a good fit for "all-around" strategy, but during the draft, you can go into a "specialized" strategy if you want so. These three players are elite in several categories and not damage badly any of them at the same time. On the other hand, Giannis and Harden are superb in several categories, but Harden will damage badly your turnovers and put problems to FG%, while Giannis will damage yours FT% and turnovers too, so if you want to sacrifice two categories to get all other better, chose these two. If you still want to use the "all-around" strategy despite taking Harden or Giannis as your first pick, then take lately during draft few players elite in these two categories and no more players which would damage it badly.

Also, there is always an option to trade them, because these 5 players have arguably the biggest market value this season, so trading them in some blockbuster deal with many managers ready even to overpay them, can be very helpful. I don't know about KAT, but the other 4 I would always take before Jokic, and then offer them for Joker asking something extra from the rest of the deal, so I would stay equally good, more balanced and with my favorite player in the team.

Pointgod · Post #7 » by **Pointgod** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:11 pm

One strategy that I’ve been using in 12 team h2h is to chase blocks and assists in the early rounds. It’s led to some interesting results depending on position but focusing on players that get you over 100 blocks or 400 assists has led to some strong teams. One thing I’ve noticed is that guards and small forwards are available in later rounds but the best bigs usually get snatched up by the 6th or 7th rounds. I prioritize bigs and point guards in the early rounds and usually don’t draft small forwards and shooting guards till the last 3 rounds.