Fantasy Basketball 'SLEEPERS' - Undervalued Picks On Yahoo, ESPN, & Fantrax

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1:01Selection varies by location. Wake up! It's time for sleepers. Well, it's not really sleepers, be it not. It just sounds sexier. You know who else always sounds sexier? Markable Bolton. Thanks Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the Lockdown Fantasy Basketball podcast. Let's get to it. Indeed. You are Lockdown Fantasy. You're daily NBA fantasy podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Your team, every day. Hello and welcome to the Lockdown Fantasy Basketball Podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd, and I am also looking at chemtrails. Today's episode is brought to you by Fangil. Get $350 in bonus bets guaranteed when you bet $5 every day for seven days. Join all the action at Fangil.com. We are talking about sleepers, which of course, back in the day, there were plenty of players

2:05and situations that people playing fantasy basketball wouldn't have known about. He plays for that too. You think he's going to start? Oh really? That's crazy. That is asleep. I'd never even heard of the blow. I didn't know who was playing that. I guess now, too much information. Someone that's asleep, it's an outused term, which still generates lots of traffic and clicks, right? But I think we all know what it means. It just means someone who is undervalued. I'm going to look at Yahoo, ESPN and fan tracks at their rankings, which were updated on Yahoo today and ESPN yesterday and their ADPs, which are constantly changing. I tell you, in certain sections of the draft, who I believe is undervalued by a distinct amount, because the major part of winning fantasy is getting value picks. It's drafting someone at pick 80 who ends up the 40th best player. It's not builds, it's not parings, it's none of that.

3:06It's acquiring value and then it's activity, wavewire streaming throughout a season. That's how you win. That's success. I do want to just quickly, though, take 30 seconds of your time to tell you about something that I'm going to be doing during the season, something that we're working on all of season. I'm going to show you what it is now. I've been working on a system to develop expected stats, X stats, through a number of different sources. But you can see it if you're watching on YouTube, up on the screen up here, you can see that we've got a player performance card, which has got shot charts on it, but also shows you what the player's scoring was, and then they're expected points. They're expected threes. They're expected rebounds, expected assists, steals, blocks, expected field goal percentage, expected free throw percentage. I'm going to be fine shooting this method all through the season. It'll show therefore they're expected fantasy points and they're real fantasy points. We get more of an idea was this real, was this not real.

4:09It happens that we do it a lot in baseball, X-Wover, XBA, X-C-R-A. What's the expectation based on the things that you did and how it looks? We'll attract this stuff all over the course of the season as well, fine shooting our models, but it's something that I've never done before and I've worked on a lot. There'll be stuff like that in all the game recap shows. It'll be somewhat incorporated into wave-wise shows and by-low sell highs as well, but I just wanted to announce that that is what I'm doing. I'm excited to bring it to you, the X stats for fantasy or even for the NBA. So just giving you that heads up that that's coming and I hope you are as excited about it. Probably not as excited about as I am, but I hope you're at least a little bit intrigued about it. So let's talk sleepers. Let's start with Yahoo. We're going to look at guys positioned inside the top 100. So start of guys inside the top 50, basically the rank and ADP. Now if someone's got a 5. I think someone's going to be 20th in their rank is 22nd. Who cares?

5:10If someone is ranked sixth and I think they're going to be number one, that doesn't happen here obviously, but that is value. So the gap that's needed to create value widenes as you go down a draft board. So let's take a look at some of these Yahoo value picks. We're going to start it in the first round because the only answer to the combo continues to be underrated. His ADP is 12, his rank is 9, and a head to head league. This is all categories by the way. I'm sure you're aware of that, but the title of the show says this, but points leagues will come. Yani, to me, is the pick at 5. If you don't want to do it at 5 and you want to take K to, I'm not even sure it's worth pick 6 to be honest. If you want to go tatamit 5, it's not going to hurt you. Yani is underrated. I know there's a misconception about anteroqo that if you draft him, you have to punt three categories, absolutely 100% not true. You should be punting free throws. They're going to be bad. Threes, you can deal with that.

6:11Turnovers should just be punted anyway by anyone who's paying any attention to any sort of fantasy and accumulating high value, high usage players. It's impossible to avoid that. You can get your threes back easily. You've got to say it's really difficult to be around your others. It's not. You just got to make sure that you're getting guard stats somewhat early. Getting your assists, getting threes, getting steals. Even if those players have high free throws, it does not matter. You got to make sure the other categories are boosted up and not just drafting every player with bad free throws. All of the data on Yani is up on the screen. You can see Yani who ranks an ADP and the ones on the other side as well. I'm sure you'll know that I'm going to mention him because he's ranked at 20 on ESPN. You can also see my projected usage from this season compared to his usage last season. For some reason, I wrote Projected there, which is actually not. That second one should say just 25, 26 usage. Al from me. The other one that we're going to look at, or not the other one, there's plenty of them,

7:15but in the top, what is it? Top 50? I'm not going through all the top 50 players here. Kevin Durant. I maintain that KD is sitting just too low. He's ranked at number 15. He's ADP is 16. What did the top 25 show two days ago? Durant amazement in the first round. Getting him in round two, I think you should be pretty okay with that. You'll see now that some of these players, their rank and their ADP, doesn't necessarily always align. I think that Amend Thompson, if you're sitting there with his ADP at number 29, it's pretty good. Very happy with that. Amend to me is a middle second round player, but they did make adjustments to his rank. He's ranked at number 21, so the gap there's not as big. It's still good, but it's not as big. This one I love. Larry Marken and sits with an ADP of 44. His rank is 34, so that ADP is probably going to come in.

8:16He's obviously got a laughable ESPN ADP of 89. When we get to the ESPN part, I'd probably just take my pants off because you're going to be pissing them that much, listening to the stuff that I say. ADP 89 is feverish. It's very easy to go on and say, I love it. I go on and have success on ESPN because my legmates just pay attention to this nonsense. Is that good? I can't go punch a baby in the face and I'd win the fight. Do I feel good about it? Not really, not particularly. That's a bit what this feels like. I've got Larry's usage coming down, but I don't really think I care that much. I think he's very comfortably beating that ADP of 44. It just doesn't seem reasonable to have him there. They adjusted the ranks on Yahoo. There they did. And guess where Anthony Davis ends up? At number 44 for some reason. Oh no, just off the top of my head, feels a little low. His ADP is 25 and usually there's two ways that rank an ADP interact.

9:20If people are drafting guys well ahead of their rank, Yahoo then looks at and goes, oh, maybe we should adjust our ranks. And then rank follows in. But often, if Yahoo moves a rank back like they did with Davis here, that ADP is going to drift out. It's going to start to get close to the 44 number. But it's going to drift out. Anthony Davis in round three, early round three. Absolutely easy decision for me. This one was a little hesitant to put in, brand amyla, because I'm somewhat concerned about the shoulder problem and I am holding my breath for a Charlotte Hornets, my man, Josh Longstuff, giving us an update of like, go, he said some issues with his shoulder and he'll be limited in training camp, which I don't want to hear. But otherwise, at number 50, which is ADP, is crazy to me. It's not as crazy as having an ADP of 107 on ESPN for brand amyla, which of course is

10:22absolutely bonkers. But I think he's a third round guy, like a pretty clear third round player. And we're getting him at 50 and remember, ADP means average. Again, I wish it was an MDP, a median drive position, but it's average. So let's just roughly say 50% of people are drafting him after pick 50. That seems pretty dumb. I don't really get that. Why would that be happening? Let's go on to outside the top 50 between guys who are either ranked or have an ADP in between 50 and 100. And Paul George is sitting there and I don't want to be putting eggs in Paul George's basket. But I think I'm going to. His rank is 76, his ADP is 80. Yeah, like I know. He ended last season with an injury. He's not doing that now.

11:22He had a 25 game PED suspension. Maybe that happens again. Seems pretty unlikely. He goes to a team where his usage should improve. It was 23 last season. I've got to project it to 26. On every site, he's too low. I think he's got an outside shot of top 25. Should easily be top 40 this season. And then you've got to balance where you're viewing the availability concerns, which they exist. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they don't exist. But I think that's going too far. Not just Basilis was ranked. I thought pretty poorly originally on the Yahoo last board and I thought it would adjust. It did. It went from 83 to 80. So not really. His ADP is 59. And I actually think both of those give you value. I think Basilis is a top 50 player. But even if you don't, getting him at 80 and he was better than 80 at last season, literally

12:23no brainer. You don't need a brain to make that decision. I don't think anyway. Let's go into a few more inside this 50 to 100 range. We've got Asa Thompson, who's ranked at 90 with an ADP of 91. If Asa plays 26 minutes a night like last season, he probably doesn't make this mark. But what if he gets 30? What if he gets 20, 28? That would be it pretty easy, I think. And also, I get some of the hesitancy on Daria's Garland, Garlo, with a rank of 61 and an ADP of 58. This is probably a third round player. Happily target him in the 40s. What are they worried about there that Kitten Wuggler exists? Yeah, but Kitten Wuggler is a rookie guard who I think is going to be bad even for rookie guards in his first season. The Clippers roster is not set up to just turn everything over to rookies, and they're

13:25not going to do it for their literal best player. Yes, he's better than Brandon Ingram. So I'm extraordinarily comfortable with Daria's Garland, especially if it means I'm getting him here in like in the 60s. Seem's a little straight forward. Maybe a little too straight forward. I'm also very much in under Jean-Té Murray. Yes, the situation's weird there, in New Orleans with the Jeremiah Sarsha Fierce around. But Murray, even in limited minutes and coming off a Tournaquilis, was better than this last season. He's ranked 64 with an ADP 67. Am I overly concerned about Murray and the Achilles? No. I don't think he's going to sit back to backs. Are the Palakans terrible? Yes. Could he be traded? I guess so. But I'm not that worried about it. This is again like is he a top 30, 35 player here? Probably. Maybe. It just seems pretty crazy to me that he's down that bar. And much like the ADP for Brandon Ingram, which sits at 75.

14:27Yeah, last season he stayed healthy. Hasn't always done that. I don't know if he's going to be healthy or not. No idea. But the usage is going to be good. It's going to be him and Garland doing nearly everything for the Clippers. And 75 is just, it's too low. That's bargain-based stuff for the sort of stats in general that, um, all mate Miller is able to bring. Some more players in that 51 to 100 range. Kobe White with a rank of 83 with an ADP of 87. He's the starting point guy guys. He's going to have a pretty good usage. He's not a greatest sys guy and he's up and down a field goal percentage. But that's just player in the 60s, I think. And then again, I get the people haven't bought into what Nikhil Alexander Walker did last season. And I get it. Some of the shooting stuff will come down. But his ADP's at 59, he's ranked his 54 like, he can come down from where he was, which was like, what, 20th? 24th or something like that. And still be better than this.

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17:32Terms apply. Can't fully any time. That's a mouthful. We're talking sleepers undervalued players and we're starting off doing that by looking at values on Yahoo. Inside the top 100 between 51 and 100 and last season there were times where Dyson Daniels was going in round two and a religion. I think his original rank came into like 13 and I told you that is like stupid. Please, for the love of God, do not ruin your league, ruin your team by doing that. I told you, it sounds like I'm patting myself on the back and I guess I am a little bit not really but I told you that steals are variable. There was very little chance that he would hit three steals again and he got two. I'm here to tell you they're variable. That means both directions.

18:32Why can't they go back to 2.3? Daniels is sitting at 60 with an 80p 63. Where is the downside? The answer is it's not there. And then we get to look at Derek Yaaahs! Queen, the Blizzard. He's ranked 92. No, I know, because I bang this drum until I hit it as hard as Lars on San Anker on the snare. That Derek Queen and Zion can't play together. But this is a stupid team. There it is. So I don't know what they're going to do but they'll probably try to see if it works in year 2. Do they cut Zion's minutes down, design get hurt, design get traded. I think Queen's going to just play more minutes. And honestly, he was around this area last season anyway. So again with these sort of sleeper slash undervalued picks, what's the downside in it?

19:33At Derek Queen at 92. Is there significant downside? Look, not really. I don't think so. Monster drop code is turn up. Some more in the 51 to 100 range. This Yahoo section is long. Not as long as he has been. I really, I know people will be anti-Darren Jackson. He's a big man. He doesn't really about. Sick. Actually don't care. There's not many big men who can block two shots and still score 20 points per game. Not a lot of those guys exist. And one of them is Chris Stas was ingas. So this is value in what he does. And Jaren's 80 p.s it's at 55. Cool. I am all about Jaren Jackson at that sort of spot. And there's not a lot of belief at the moment with Ryan Rollins. And I do get that. Tyler Hiro, Kevin Ported Jr. Braden Burries, Casper and Jackie Choners. I think there's an idea that Burries is just going to start. I don't think it's going to happen. I think Roland should be starting over Ported Jr. Oh, Yaka, I hate that I said that. It's not Ported Jr. It's just Porter. Kevin Ported Jr.

20:34He is Kevin Jr. He's not Ported Jr. Ugh. Disgusting. Anyway, Ryan Rollins. Maybe there is some risk there, but I think he's probably pushing top 50. And you're getting him in the 70s. I remember 80 p.s in average. So maybe later, a couple more in that 51 to 100 range. The Jedi Ocean and Obi sits at rank of 71. Why? Michael podcast Jr. is 68. Yeah, he used to go down from last season, but we're talking a guy that was sort of top 30. And the tanking and sentives aren't as high this season. Maybe he's traded somewhere else. That is true. But what's his worst case? 75th on a different team. I'm pretty okay with him being there. Now let's take a look at some players who are outside the top 100 in ranks and ADP. Now there's going to be a separate show that I do where I talk about your late flyers. You guys with ranks and ADP's outside the top 120.

21:37On a standard 12 team sort of format. But guys between 100 and 120 are still players who are going to be alleged starters on your team. So that's not really fly a territory. But these are still guys in that little narrow band that aren't your late flyers that I think are still underrated. And one of them is my presumed starting center for the Utah Jays use of Nurgish. He's got to rank at 106 and ADP of 118. He was the top 70 player last season in the games where he started. Yeah, it's a little bit different. He'll have Jaron Jackson with him. So maybe the usage drops down, but Jaron can't pass. Larry can't pass. I'm not sure if Darren Peterson can pass. And part of the appeal of use of was he's passing. Screen setting, passing is a big man. I think he just beats it comfortably. It doesn't it doesn't feel like there's gigantic risk in that. And the same goes with Isaiah Hartenstein because if Isaiah Hartenstein's healthy and playing 28 minutes tonight top 60. He's rank at ADP at 102. He was just banged up a tunnel our season. They lost rotation pieces and yeah, they played different roles, dought Wiggins, Joe.

22:42But all it means is that you're other players. Like is that me? We're going to get 18 minutes of Thomas Sorba. Remember, Pig Williams barely played unless the centers were out and I'm not sure how much that changes. So I think Hartenstein's pretty secure and maybe he even does just a little bit more. Perhaps. Probably. I hope so. Let's go on to the next group of or guys outside the top 100 on Yahoo. Jalen Suggs. To me, sitting at a rank of 104 with an ADP of 108. Seems a little low. I know he's constantly injured and that's why he's down here, but you just take the shot here. Think your per game is probably top 70, 75. And then you've got to balance how much risk there is you have in the injuries. And while I'm not going to tell you that I'm big on to me, Chris Moran.

23:43I think the fit in Portland is very weird. I think that he'll at least play enough minutes per game to beat rank 103. It's not a huge risk to be taking him there. And I'm very okay with Jummer out there. And the last one I want to do for Yahoo is this big fella, Chris has poor Zingers. Now he's rank. I think he's actually come in a little bit. I'm just going to double check that. Posingus is now ranked. Is it 97? Right. But the ADP sits at 106. When we're drafting in this area, who else has got top 30 upside? And that's what wins you a league. Now what is the chance of this fella staying healthy, body wise and illness wise? It's really low. It's very low. And if we get prolonged absences, we move on. But what if we get 50? Pretty good with him at that spot.

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26:50Grab your sleepers and put them onto your fantasy team. Wake up. Didn't really didn't really hit. Let's do some fan tracks value picks. Now Fan tracks doesn't have rankings boards in the traditional sense that Yahoo and ESPN does. So we're going to be focusing on fan tracks and their ADP numbers. So let's take a look. Couple of these guys we've spoken about already because I seem to be that's that's a common thing. And again, this is my opinion based on my projections. So you will see carry over. So we're yarn as it's with an ADP of nine. I'm still going to come in and tell you yeah, it's just too low when Kevin Durant has an ADP of 17. I'm going to sit there and tell you I think it's a little bit too low. Why is KD not being considered as a first round player? When a sad Thompson, well not a sad Tom so we're Austin Reeves comes in which he does with an ADP of 24 and I've told you many times on this show that I think there's a decent

27:50chance not not a guarantee of course, but a decent chance that Austin Reeves finishes as a first round player. I'll take him at the end of round two. Now he's ESPN numbers are obviously laughable and I think he's used to just clearly going up. He was at 27 last season. I've got it predicted just at 28. But he could be the 13th best player. 12th pretty comfortably. He's ranked at 20 on Yahoo but like fan tracks is crazy. He's ADP at 24. I love that sort of a pick in that sort of a range. All about it. And then the next guy, again I don't want to be the fan of Demontus Sabonus but at the moment I am, he could easily be back to being a top 30 player. He's ADP 39 on fan tracks. The worry is the trade, yeah sure. But like all teams, the King's going to try to start a relegation zone so he's going to play when he is there. And I expect that the assists go back up and I just expect he's not as injured as he was last season.

28:51Why would I expect him to be as hurt maybe he is but I'm not going to expect that. Another top, a pair of top 50 guys, Brandon Miller at 43. I spoke about Miller already. And then I actually do, and I know this will be controversial. You'll see Jaylen Brown with an ADP of 44 and you're going to just surely meant that's a bust. Absolutely not. The traditional nine-cat rankings. Like I don't know, I'll tell you again. If you wanted to bathe, the status of Jaylen Brown. So when you actually ranked 70th last season in nine-cat, then you have to sit here with a straight face and tell me that Yana Sonsato Kumpo was the 69th best player per game. You have to sit here and tell me that Paula Bunkero was a wave-a-wire player in a 12-10 league. And if you can't, then don't reference those numbers. Brown to me, like it was 24th I think in the last season. So I do have been taking a decent step back. But in Bede will miss some games, LeBron will sit some games.

29:51He will probably, Jaylen Brown, play more minutes, thanks to self-branded hat legend Nick Nurse than he did in Boston. And yeah, he's stuff will come down. But it's got a decent spot to come down from. Which is great. Let's move outside the top 50 on fan tracks and, well, I've got Kyrie projected per game as a, like, top 20 player. I'm not going to drive him there. I might consider it inside the top 40, but his 80p on fan tracks Kyrie Irving is 52. That's really, really easy. Same as Paul George at 76. Not, not a concern to me about where that position is. It seems like relatively straightforward that there's good value in him at that spot. I've detailed that earlier. The area of Garland comes in at 54 on fan tracks. I gave you my details on that in the Yahoo section.

30:53Same as Dishonet Murray at 55. These are just too low to me. Few more inside the top 100 on fan tracks. Kyon T. George has an 80p 58. Now that's not as egregious as what his numbers are on, say, ESPN, which you'll see later on. But at 58 George was like 29th in the round last season. And yeah, like he's going to take a usage step back. But I think that that's just taking it too far. And then Dyson Daniels also, like I mentioned with Yahoo is 80p 58, it's a bit too low. I think Dyson in round four seems relatively reasonable to me. The next batch of fan tracks guys, Matas Bazaalus, has an 80p of 60. Like I said, top 50 for me. And actually think that with Damien Lillie coming back off the Achilles and some uncertainty clearly with Miranda and Abdiya, no shade in sharp though, that Lillie, this is a guy

31:55that was a perennial, let's say top 15 guy at worst. Yeah, coming off at 20kles, he's old, he'll probably have some later minutes. That's really low. I know we don't really know what he's going to give us, but Dishonet Murray returned from Achilles, Jason Tatum returned from Achilles, Tyrese is about to return. They're not Lillie's age. But they weren't anywhere near this bad. The way you have is the real slow easing of the minutes, because of other players around and his age, but like at least on a perennial basis, how do we have any concerns that Lillie's going to hit this mark? Well, we don't, why don't anyway? A few more guys here in fan tracks, and this is where I think also seems to be the real sweet spot. In the top 50, the value, there's not that many guys. Like on a perennial basis, I think Kawaii is going to be a bit of a value, Kairi is going to be a bit of a value, maybe FD Davis is a bit of a value, and he's clearly that on Yahoo. But the real value of where you hit it is between 51 and 100, and that's why there's

32:57a bunch of guys here I think can hit it by 10, 20, 30, 40 spots maybe. Another one of those is going to be Brandon Ingram, who's got an ADP of 77. And like I mentioned, on Yahoo, Asad Thompson at 82, I think they both can beat it by around minimum, maybe even higher, especially for someone like Ingram in that spot. I'm not going to overly focus on the names that we've spoken about in that Yahoo section quite a bit already. So I say Heart and Stein sits at ADP of 99. I think he beats that pretty easily. I think Kobe White at an ADP of 84. He beats that pretty easily as well. And the last one in this 51 to 100 range is another repeat name from Yahoo. Again, I just seem to be higher on these players. It's the Blizzard, it's Derek Quen, whose ADP sits at 92. So I'm higher on all those guys. There's a few outside the top 100 players on fan tracks that are catching my attention

34:00as well. Is Christus Puzinguis? He's got an ADP of 109. And I think also when we're talking about these guys towards that part of a draft, I can't, I can't really ignore Zach Levine there at 116. Yeah, like again, maybe traded, maybe he's bought out, they said he won't be, but I don't believe what the king say. But Zach Levine, when he's firing, is a top 50 player. A lot of the guys that took his value away are not there. The Rosen Shredder Westbrook, they're gone. Yeah, A-Coffee's going to take shots, monk, they seem to hate. I think, I think Levine's still a pretty good player with all of his, you know, foibles still obvious. But this one I don't really get. Why is Christian James McCullum sitting with an ADP of 117 on fan tracks? I historically have been anti-CJ.

35:01For many years, people were drafting him inside the top 50, I'd be like, this is, don't do this. He's an inconsistent free throw player. He lacks defensive stats. So I've been anti-CJ, but again, in proof, maybe you didn't need it, maybe you did. Proof that, like a lot of people think, oh, Josh is so biased. He just has these things. And what I do is look at the numbers, assess who I think they are as players and create opinions on them. But I hated CJ McCullum as a player, as a fantasy guy, because people just thought he was much better than he is. Or what I think he is. Now I think he's worse. And I've stayed relatively neutral on it. So McCullum at 117, yeah, I love it, let's go. I'm all in on it. I love CJ McCullum at that spot, because you're not taking them at 40 or 50 or 60. You're getting in with your, yeah, maybe your last start a spot, maybe your bench spot. And now get ready, because we're going to talk about ESPN's category ranks and their

36:04ADPs. Now I will say this about ESPN. I love that they split their rankings into categories and points. Their ADPs are absolutely all over the shop. And I'm not sure how much that's going to relate in a real draft, because you'll be shocked after the way I speak about it that I don't play any leagues on ESPN. You'll be shocked about that. I don't play leagues there. So the ADPs make no sense whatsoever. But the rankings exist, the ADPs exist. So I'm just going to tell you about them. Let's take a look at some ESPN sleepers slash value picks who are currently top 50 options. Why Yana Sunsadokumbo has a rank of 20 for categories I'll never know. You either buy into a straight nine cat rank, and he's 50th, or you realize the folly in it, and he's at worst nine, where he is unlike Vantrax and Yohu. 20, I don't get it.

37:08It makes no sense to me. So let's do it. Jason Tatum's ADP is 12. Why? Take him at 5, take him at 6, take him at 7, take him at 6, 7. 12, I don't get. Also don't understand the big fella KD being ranked at 28. With an ADP of 26, but I will tell you this, just a spoiler for the busts show that's coming up. AD is ranked behind Mikhail Bridges on ESPN. Anyone out there just thinks they would ever take Mikhail Bridges against Kevin, ahead of Kevin around, please let me know. But that's a thing that's existing at the moment, that ranking. I am somewhat concerned about Steph Curry and his knee, but he's ranked at 33. I think he's like a top 12 per game guy, minimum.

38:10That's a big dip man, I don't know, I don't really understand it. I don't get Kuba Flags ADP being number 24. That's free real estate. This is a probably top 10 player. And then Lamello Ball. I know that there is a consternation about Lamello and how I value him. But it is worth looking at the facts. He played 70 plus games last season. Not the first time he's done that, but like he's done it twice. And you say, no, it's only two times. It's true. And yet he had ankle problems, absolutely. But I would say minimum 40% of the games that he missed during the ankle problems were tanking related. So games totals without context are meaningless. Part of my, I'm not even that excited about Lamello, but part of my interest in him is that I don't think he's playing 28 minutes a night for the wolves.

39:11I think that the Hornets, they were cautious and they managed him. He got through it totally okay. And I think he's going to play 30 plus and he will use it to come down, but he's a sister right might go up in a Minnesota. We'll see, but at 31, I'm okay. I really worry about that one. I think that's pretty good value. This one just is ridiculous. Why soston reaves ranked at 50? Like what are we doing? He was nowhere near that last year. He was way better. LeBron's gone. 50. 5-0. Scotty Barnes is 80 pairs 31. Now I don't fully describe to people taking Barnes at 11 or 12. I've got him a little bit lower than that. But 31 on ESPN by the way, who is D-fold is 10 man leagues. It's fourth round. Might be a bit off. Might be a bit of an error there I'd say.

40:12Just a little bit. Just another shout out to ESPN's projections. Jamal Cain, a magic legend, is projected to play 90 games this season. I'd love to see him try. But if you want to just know how little you can trust what they put out, 90 games. And also Westbrook's in their projections too by the way, in their ranking list. Zero-Rose is ranked ahead of the chicken-centric cowards. Again, probably a little bit of lack of attention to detail there, some may say. And like again, I'm not as... People have taken Jalen Johnson to pick seven and pick eight in leagues. Why is 80p 36? I think if you finish seventh per game in ESPN, fantasy points last season as well. So it's not even that these points is so bad that ESPN people are pushing him down. Like these, this doesn't make sense. If it happens in your league and they're available, you go for it. The headmaster Jamal Murray at 37, come on. Like, come on. What do we do? I know that maybe you could say that Murray's last season was the best he'll ever have and he won't replicate it.

41:13Cool. That's cool. 37, it's crazy. Josh Gittys at 36. I might be in the minority with this. But I don't think he's any shot at being that bad. I think he's probably a top 20 player. And then again, like I've told you that I hate the 9-Cat ranking of Trey Murphy. I hate that people think that he's a top 20 player. But he's ranked 45th. And that's way too low. That's why I don't understand why is Janus at 20? Because it's because of 9-Cat rankings. So Murphy should be at 14. Why is Reeves at 50? Is it because of 9-Cat ranking? So Murphy should be at 15. But he's not at 45. I just, I can't, I wish I could understand it. Now I've told you that I'm not, that's a top 50 guys. Let's talk about the top 100 players. I told you I'm not going to be interested in Kawaii Leonard inside the top 40,

42:15but he's 80 ap's 51. So you know what, that actually becomes like value. I'm not drafting Juel and B in the top 50, but an 80 p of 88. Oh, sorry, a rank of 88. He's ranked 88 every day of the week. I'll take him beat in the 60s. 88, absolute theory. And this next one, Kawaii Irving's 80 p is 98. If that happens to you in a draft, and Kawaii is sitting there, a, why didn't you pull the trigger at 50? He's never going to last this, but allegedly, he is lasting until 98. Kawaii Irving, pick 98. It's, it, it boggles the mind. These next ones are also like, as so many of them are like ridiculous. Wyes Austin Reeves 80 p of 53, well, he's ranked at 50, so that's partly why, but like again, theory. But what about this one? Tyres Halibut has an 80 p of 83. Like, I know he didn't play last season.

43:16But imagine you're drafting an 83 Halibutans there, an imbeads ranked at 88, and then Kawaii is there at 98. And you get Reeves in the 50s. Jalen Johnson in the 36. I, what? It's again, it seems unlikely, but it's happening. And then I'm also not into LeBron, but I think Pergame is going to be a top 30 player. He's ranked at 73. Okay. That's fine. I'll very much take that too. Some of these ones, why is Larry Marken having an 80 p of 89? I'm aware. I'm very much aware that the jails were tanking. Guess what they're not doing? Yeah, tanking. 89 is bonkers. There is no reason for it. Paul George ranked 93. 80 p of 100. Yeah, thanks. What about Old Mate Darius Garlo Garland, whose rank is 53, which is also already too low,

44:17but an 80 p of 90. Now, I know that these haven't fully adjusted yet, but look, if you ever see a discrepancy like that, that means that people are in a draft. And they're seeing the ranking lists and they're just passing on the round up to round up to round. Wake up. 80 p of 90 for Darius Garland. 90. Have I got more? You have course I do. Brandon Miller, sits with a rank of 54 on ESPN. Jalen Brown is ranked at 62. Thank you. Easy, easy pickings. And I said that Ken Murphy's rank didn't make sense at 45. But he's 80 p's at 77. Like again, what are they seeing? What leagues this the people are drafting from? It's not the NBA. Jalen Jackson has a rank of 71 with an 80 p of 74. They're right in line. Easy, easily take that, not a problem.

45:20De Jean-Té Murray is ranked at 57. Should very comfortably be inside the top 50. And then Quentin George. So this is not an 80 p. Quentin George, they sat there with their pens, wrote him at 89. I know he's going to fall from where he was. Do they think he's getting benched for Darren Peterson? I don't... I don't get it. Guess what? I got more ones. Dyson Daniel sits with an 80 p of 61. We take that. Mattis was Alice at 59. We take that. And I know that the passport legend Jalen Duren is unsigned. He's going to sign somewhere. Are people that scared that he's not going to play with an 80 p of 68? I'm not the biggest Duren guy, but... 68? I just, I don't understand the rationale behind it. Are they more? Really? Because Denny Abdiya has a rank of 60 with an 80 p of 68.

46:22And again, I am down on Denny Abdiya this season. I'm anti-denny at certain spots, but an 80 p of 68... I couldn't be more in. Damien Lillard at 83. Let's do it. Brandon Ingram at 79 with an 80 p of 88. Hard to see how that fails. This is again like Pallup and Carrows ranked at 75. E has been to default is 8 cat, so that takes some of that 130 rank away from Pallup. But he's still way better than 75. I love the value of this. The Jero-Jeno Nova sits at 71. Thank you. I'll happily take that. Now, to give them credit, they're probably the best spot in terms of where Osir Thompson sits at 78. I still actually think that there is value in a star at that particular spot. You're ready for some more that make absolutely no sense? Why is Enyekarokongu's 80 p 94?

47:23Why is that a thing? I think that he went round three in the mock drive to do the other day. Way too high. In the 50s, go for it. 60s in the problem. 94, what's happening? Nasri goes to become a starter in Charlotte. Should play more minutes, his 80 p is 99. Better shot of hitting the top 50, than not being a top 100 player. And then the Blizzard, Derek Queens at 96, and I've spoken about that one, at length. Have we got more? Of course. Jaden McDaniels as ADP is 98. The addition of John Kaminga hurts him a little bit. But I don't really have any fear that he beats this. And while again, much like with a lot of these players, I am out on Konkhanipal at a ranking of 35 or whatever it is on Yahoo. But is it 91 on ESPN? 91? I'll take it. Now let's finish this off by looking at some ESPN players who are sitting outside the top 100 and that 100 to 120 range

48:29still not fully in flyer territory, but the back end of a draft. I don't know, I'm gonna need you to explain this like really carefully to me. Why is Brandon Miller got an ADP of 107? Why isn't the killer Alexander Walker top 20-ish player last season at 115? Why is the speaker Kionte George at 113? It's indefensible for a number of reasons. Now again, this is not their rank. This is the ADP and the dry friends. But that had to be guided by something. And I'm guessing it was the original ranks they had in the room. So this data is probably bullshit. It's probably garbage. But with ESPN and honesty, sometimes the people that draft over there, I can't really count that out. Some more outside the top 100 players, Ryan Rollins, for some reason is ranked at 105. Asa Thompson, like I said, his rank was good. His ADP is 110.

49:31Kobe White is ranked at 106. 106. Love it. Love it. Every day of the week. Every day of the week. How about the big foulers, Zach Edient 113? That's incredible value. Now again, I am worried about his ankle, but at that point it looked like who cares? I don't. I'm down at BJHC this season. Not to the spot of an ADP of 112, though, considering he was top 70 last season. He will drop, but not that far. And while again, I am anti-divaluations that people put onto Donovan Klingon. Not anti-divaluation, or he sits at 109. What, what, where are we living in here? Because that is bonkers. And now I'm gonna give you the best value players for sleeper for category leagues. Of course I'm not, because those idiots don't offer category leagues. Ah, well, what I am gonna do though is tell you that the show is over.

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