Lesson 2: Minutes = Money In NBA DFS

Minutes = Money. If you have been on even the cusp of the NBA DFS bubble at any point in your life, you have undoubtedly heard this phrase uttered before. If you are new to the sport and haven’t heard it yet, learn to love it! It is literally the most important thing you need to factor in to all of the roster decisions you will be making.

A Very Important NBA DFS Equation

On the most simplistic level, we can project fairly accurately how many fantasy points a player will accrue by using one very easy equation.

Fantasy points per minute x minutes played = fantasy points accumulated

Now obviously a ton of factors go into that first variable, the fantasy points per minute.

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Andy Means (aka meansy53) was a walk-on with the esteemed Duke University basketball team for 3 years before graduating in 2004. He also has a Master’s in Accounting from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and has been playing DFS since 2014. He has qualified for multiple Live Finals and displays his extensive basketball knowledge as a host of our top show – NBA Crunch Time. In the summer of 2022, Andy took over the role of Premium Content Director for the RotoGrinders Network, overseeing the vast array of content that is created on RotoGrinders, ScoresAndOdds, and FantasyLabs. Follow Andy on Twitter – @ameansy
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