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You're in a weekly transaction league, and you need to decide by Monday evening who should be in your starting lineup for the week. Should you consider sitting usual impact starters like Lauri Markkanen or Tim Hardaway Jr.? Or perhaps start someone like Nemanja Bjelica or Jerami Grant who might generally be on your bench, perhaps even your waiver wire?
This is the first weekly rankings/projections we've published, though I've been doing the calculations all season. Essentially, I combine the projections that inform my rest-of-the-season points rankings with the upcoming weekly schedule evaluator of the fantasy basketball Forecaster, apply an injury correction and voila -- we've got weekly rankings. You can see them in their entirety, below.
Next, by comparing my weekly rankings to my rest-of-the-season rankings, I generate a list of players whose weekly value looks to be much higher than their seasonal value (dubbed "potentially startable"), as well as a list of players whose weekly value appears much lower than their seasonal value (dubbed "potentially sittable").
Below are both lists, and I go into a bit more depth to amplify some of the more interesting names. Ready? Let's go.