Draft Season Kickoff: Player Debates & Fantasy Basketball Strategy | Episode 1

All right, Dalton.

So basketball season's about to start.

Draft is always the first thing up.

Obviously, it's a lot of people's favorite, one of their favorite things, one of my favorite things about fantasy basketball.

But draft strategies are always, like, the first hot topics that everybody wants to talk about.

So last season, you went with a very popular kind of strategy like that, that was also double guards, where you took a guard in the first round, and you took a guard in the second round.

So why don't you go ahead and walk us through that draft strategy and why you kinda chose to do that, and how that resulted for you?

Of course.

So with me, guys, um, I tend to place...

I've never missed playoffs, and that comes from consistency.

Um, that's always important.

Um, when you're building any kind of team or any kind of structure for any fantasy sport, for me, I always like to make sure my first five guys are filled, and a lot of that comes from player drop-off, right? Like, positional drop-off.

And even though there's a billion guards, there isn't a billion 50-point players.

Mm-hmm.

So what ends up happening is when you have two guys whose floors are higher and their ceiling is even higher, right? So if you have a player whose floor is 25 points, I'd say, probably don't wanna look for that guy, right? Because that's gonna be, in your playoff moment, you're gonna need that extra 10 points.

So for me, I'm somebody who likes consistency.

I'm always focused on the first five guys filling my spots, but I'm also very aware of positional drop-off.

I like a guy whose floor is incredibly high and his ceiling is incredibly high.

Trey and Steph are actually, well, at the time, were 47 to 50 point guards.

Unfortunately, with Steph aging and having ankles of glass, and Trey, well, about the same thing, just porcelain, they had a really piss-poor season.

I was able to trade out of it, though, with a guard like Kate.

So for me, it's just important to keep those guys whose floor is 35 points and their ceiling is upwards of 80, 90.

Because when you have moments, like you're battling Joker, such as your strategy from last year, who can drop 70 points in a game, having those first two guys be able to drop 50 and then 70 on any given night is just pivotal.

And for guards, it happens a lot because the three is very important in the game.

So just having that additional ability to score more five-point outings is always a good thing.