DRAFT NBA Value Watch: Friday, February 23rd

Aaron Hendrix will be bringing Premium subscribers his tiers for head-to-head, three-man, and six-man drafts on DRAFT. Included will be strategy discussion, options for the day’s slate and players that might go overlooked on the DRAFT platform.

Friday, February 23rd

Good afternoon Grinders! Welcome to our newest addition to DRAFT Premium. Each day, I will go over the NBA slate with tier rankings for head-to-head, three man, and six man drafts. I’ll also provide a brief slate analysis as to how to attack drafts for the slate.

A couple notes to remember about DRAFT contests. One, there is no salary cap so you’re not worried about fitting players in on a budget. Raw fantasy points is what matters most, not the popular point per dollar. Second, while there is no late swap, if a player is ruled out, you will be able to swap them out. For more information on how this works, read the DRAFT Swap Rules Page – for this reason you can take some marginal chances in the later rounds on players that are questionable to play. Last, roster requirements are two guards, two forwards, and one center. All analysis and rankings will be based on that.

Slate Overview

7:00 PM EST: Boston (1.5 ) at Detroit ( 1.5 ) —T: 205
7:00 PM EST: Atlanta ( 7.5 ) at Indiana (7.5 ) —T: 211.5
7:00 PM EST: Charlotte ( 3.5 ) at Washington (3.5 ) —T: 210.5
7:30 PM EST: Milwaukee ( 7.5 ) at Toronto (7.5 ) —T: 215
8:00 PM EST: Minnesota ( 8.5 ) at Houston (8.5 ) —T: 226
8:00 PM EST: Cleveland (5 ) at Memphis ( 5 ) —T: 211.5
8:00 PM EST: Miami ( 2.5 ) at New Orleans (2.5 ) —T: 214.5
9:00 PM EST: San Antonio ( 3.5 ) at Denver (3.5 ) —T: 209.5
9:00 PM EST: LA Clippers (4.5 ) at Phoenix ( 4.5 ) —T: 224.5
9:00 PM EST: Portland ( 4 ) at Utah (4 ) —T: 206.5
10:30 PM EST: Dallas ( 3.5 ) at LA Lakers (3.5 ) —T: 224

We’re back into the full swing of things with an 11 game slate tonight that has three games topping a total of 224 and three that are below the 210 threshold. Anthony Davis comes in at the highest projection and with the weakness at forward today should be the top selection. Normally you could make an argument for James Harden (the second highest projected player) but guard is super deep today (more on this later) while forward is it’s usual terrible self.

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Aaron Hendrix (thehazyone)

Aaron Hendrix is a former professional poker player who made the transition from season long fantasy sports to DFS in October of 2014. He used to cover poker tournaments for a living until stepping into his current role at RotoGrinders. He can be found on Twitter at @aaronhendrix