One of my favorite features of Hoop-Ball Premium is the Rest of Season (ROS) rankings. However, I noticed that several guys on my waiver radar are not included on that list, including Duncan Robinson, Nemanja Bjelica, Donte Divincenzo, Troy Brown, Langston Galloway, and Eric Paschall. I know ROS ranking is not the end-all measure, but I think it's helpful to know where people think they fit in the pecking order. So where do you think these guys rank rest of season? Thanks!
My evaluation here is based on 9-cat settings, so there could be some serious fluctuation here depending on your format. In any event here is my take:
1. Duncan Robinson
2. Donte Divincenzo
3. Troy Brown
4. Nemanja Bjelica
5. Eric Paschall
6. Langston Galloway
Duncan Robinson is by far the best on this list in my mind. Most consistant role of this lot and as consistant a role you can ask for on this Heat team. He's genuinly doing things that most NBA players aren't capable of in fantasy. Elite 3-point shooting combined with pristine percentages and almost zero turnovers makes him a guy worth using at the end of your bench all year long. He's basically a poor-man's Davis Bertans.
Donte is also relatively consistant, playing at around top-100 value since the first of November and doing it in just 22 minutes per game. He seems capable of producing enough 3's and steals in that amount of time to be a somewhat useful fantasy guy. That he's been doing this pretty much all season in limited minutes helps me feel confident he can maintain this all year. Possess decent upside too whenever wing minutes open up for Milwaukee.
Troy Brown has played pretty well of late, and obviously that is fuled by necessity with all of Washington's injuries, but I am cautiously optimistic about him. He's capable of doing the most 'stuff' of anyone on this list, with some upside in STL, REB, both percentages and low turnovers as well as a trickle of AST here and there. My caution comes from the fact that Scott Brooks has been reluctant to give him playing time over the likes of Isaac Bonga, C.J Miles and Jordan McRae when this team was at full health. If he is to maintain a mid-20's role on this team he shouldn't be losing minutes to any of those dudes. He's playing at a top-100 rate so far in December, and if he could maintain his current playing time once players for this team are healthy again I think he has potential as a season-long end of bench guy.
(Troy Brown has been my guy all year and for whatever reason I start waxing poetic whenever he's brought up...the rest of these guys should be rather easy to get through I promise)
Bjelica looks like he's lost most of his appeal with Bagley in town, and is likely not to be anything more than a 16-team type of player with him and Holmes absorbng the bulk of playing time in the front court.
Paschall would be at the bottom of this list based on his current play, but I give him a bump out of the potential he sees a second half swing that rookies are capable of. His game is super empty beyond the scoring stuff, so he basically needs to hit his shots at a high volume in big swaths of playing time to stay relevant. Not my cup of tea. For reference he's been ranked outside the top-200 over the last month.
Galloway has the same stat set as Robinson but just isn't nearly as good at doing it. He's a low-end guy who could become a streamer towards the end of the year if the Pistons either give up or start hurting at the guard spots.
Wonderful work from Alan!
I have Bjelica a little higher than Alan, but otherwise I'm good with those numbers. I think the Kings are just dumb enough to let him keep going for 26-28mpg when they SHOULD be playing Bagley those mins. I'm holding Nemanja in places where I have him already and adding him in spots where he was preemptively dropped. He has such a well-rounded game than I can't part with it until I'm sure he's getting displaced and he hasn't been so far.
Thank you! Super helpful! I'm exploring some moves now that I'm basically soft punting on blocks, so Duncan Robinson is high on my list to pry away next time he has a cold stretch.