@jocab Turns out I combined the two. My apologies for the confusion. To answer both:

• I like the upside of acquiring Green for Mathurin. If/when Green gets back to what he was doing after the All-Star Game last year then you should win that deal.
• Vassell for Kuzma plus Hart is fine. Your FG% and REB definitely suffered in that deal, but you probably weren't doing well in FG% anyways. I like 2-for-1 deals and you acquired the best player with growth potential throughout the season.

I hope they take that DeRozan-VanVleet deal! Again, you'll take the best player (in exchange for higher injury risk). They might have some other suggestions in the trade rater thread. Give it a try if you haven't already!

@dballbball Vanvleet acquired, swapped for Derozan. I did notice the dip in rebounds from losing out on Kuzma but I wasn't sure if he could maintain his production at the time. To your point, the trade also opened up a streamer spot

Hey Derek, hope all is well. I'm in a 9 cat roto 12 team cap league. Could you advise how I can better improve my roster? My score currently is as follows: 

FG% (10) FT%(8) 3ptm (9) Pts (9) Reb (6.5) AST (11) ST (5.5) BLK (8) TO (8.5). --------------Steals and Reb are my weakest category, though I only recently acquried Myles Turner and Jarrett (~1 week ago).

PG: Trae Young
SG: J. Holiday
G: M. Conley
SF: J. Tatum
PF: B. Ingram
F: D. Vassell
C: J. Allen
C: M. Turner
Util: I. Hartenstein
Util: J. Murray

Bench: J. Hart, Al Horford, J. Vanderbilt
IL: M. Fultz, D. Shroeder

Thank you!!

@9cat10t Looks like you picked at the tail-end of the first round. With that in mind, I'd say you hit most of the marks that analysts were recommending before the season started.

The one player I'd be trying to trade, regardless of what comes below, is Randle. His reputation far outweighs his actual fantasy value which, for context, is probably equal to a pick in the range of the eighth and tenth rounds of a standard league draft. There's no glaring positional needs, but I'd recommend you swap him for a point guard if possible.

AST looks above-average on this team, but I do think you could try to make this more of a strength. Jones would be a good start. You seem relatively strong in TO, so I think you can afford to take on some risk there. I like the risk of a Randle-Westbrook swap, for example.

Between Gobert, Horford, James, Poeltl, Sengun and Vanderbilt, you're probably way ahead of the game in REB. That's one of the reasons I think you can move on from Randle. 

Your FT% will be down for as long as you roster most of the players above. That's a punt all season, if you ask me. Ditto for PTS. The tradeoff for both is what seems to be a strong FG% team.

Both defensive categories seem like they should be relatively reliable for you. There's not much to analyze with Gobert and Poeltl holding down the middle for you. I think BLK should be the priority if you're forced to choose, and I think you can potentially sacrifice a STL contributor (ex. George, Morant, Vassell) in exchange for another high-level player due to your general competitiveness there. STL is a very streamable category, so I don't hate the idea of making a sacrifice at the highest level of your roster to add production in a more difficult-to-find area. In a four-game week, the difference between a 1.0 SPG player and a 1.5 SPG player is going to be about two steals by week-end. That's why I like to use the bottom of my roster to address that category.

Speaking of easy-to-stream categories: you can find 3PT all over the waiver wire in a 10-team league. On a team that can afford to punt FT% and PTS while having room for risk in TO, it shouldn't be difficult to find any number of contributors. That's three categories you can totally ignore when basically looking for players that can give you 2+ 3PM. As it relates to the upper levels of your roster, you lose a lot of ground with players like Gobert, Morant, Poeltl and Sengun. I'm not sure I could recommend trading any of them, but it would be Morant if I was forced to choose. Acquiring Jones would make me a lot more comfortable with the loss of Morant's AST and STL.

Some players I like for your team: Alex Caruso, Ivica Zubac, Jaden McDaniels, Jalen Suggs, Jordan Clarkson, Josh Hart, Kelly Olynyk, Kevin Huerter, Kevin Porter, Larry Nance Jr., Marcus Morris, Nic Claxton, Royce O'Neale and Spencer Dinwiddie.

Good luck!

Hello Derek.

It’s my 5th year Fantasy NBA. Won 3 times and lost once in final.

Need you to improve my team : 9cat, 14teams League. Punting %FT, and 3´s and assists again some teams…

1/Giannis

2/Sabonis

3/Banchero

4/Gobert

5/Cade

6/Jalen Green

7/Maxey

8/Poeltl

9/Scottie Barnes

10/Plumlee

11/Caleb Martin

12/Caruso

13/Cam Johnson (injured)

14/Trey Murphy

15/Streamers…

With my injuries, streamers are Jevon Carter, Thad Young, Torrey Craig and Norm Powell…

I’m thinking about trading Giannis away. 
So it might be Giannis and Maxey (or Jalen Green) for Luka and Jarrett Allen.

Have a good day,

Arthur !

Hello friend, I hope you are well. If you had to pick just one player to keep in a points league all season, who would it be?

Keegan

Jabari Smith Jr

Vanderbilt

Sexton

Hyland

Herb Jones

Thanks.

Hello friend, I hope you are well. If you had to pick just one player to keep in a points league all season, who would it be?

Keegan

Jabari Smith Jr

Vanderbilt

Sexton

Hyland

Herb Jones

Thanks

@bufanda All season in a points league? Vanderbilt seems like the best bet to me, but Jones and Murray are close behind. Team composition could change my answer a bit. If I'm not mistaken, your team was really strong in REB and STL, and Vanderbilt would be a big part of that.

Hyland and Sexton are not in contention with this group, and Smith is simply struggling too much to be chosen over some of the others.

@charlie-yang It's been a while since a roto team appeared here. Fun!

First bit of advice: ditch Schroder. He's not a fantasy-friendly player and he's superfluous on a team with strong point guards like yours. I also stashed Fultz in multiple fantasy leagues but once we got the update that he would miss another 3-to-4 weeks I dropped him and I'm not planning on looking back. I'm tired of playing the injury game with him and I recommend that you move on if you feel you need to make another move. If you want another stash, I'd be more inclined to go after Bogdan Bogdanovic.

To be honest, Turner probably won't do much for your competitiveness in REB. If you're going to be more competitive there, you'll probably need to find a better REB producer for one of your guard-forward spots, but I don't see this as a pressing need. You seem to be above-average, as far as I can tell. Definitely retain Hart and Vanderbilt if you're looking to stay strong here.

FG% is probably going to backslide. I'm amazed that you're so competitive there with Conley, Vassell and Young dragging you down. The risk is worth the reward there, but you could try shopping Conley if you want to improve your odds. 

I have no concerns about FT% on this team. You have some elite producers and only a few drags. It might not be your best category, but you'll get some decent fantasy points here.

You have some great STL producers, so you can definitely recover this category. It's likely that you'll be able to do this by streaming. If you want to make a splashy trade to diversify your roster, you should consider moving Ingram, who isn't giving you anything of value on defense.

There shouldn't be any need to top up BLK after bringing Allen and Turner on board. All good there.

TO should continue to be strong. This is another area that could be helped by an Ingram trade. Young technically is the worst contributor here, but there's more obvious benefits to what he's producing in other areas.

I'm surprised that PTS is producing as many fantasy points as it has for you, since you have so many below-average scorers (your entire forward-center core, Conley and Hart). This isn't going to get better if you move on from Ingram, but I think you're probably going to trend down one way or the other. Going that route will probably force you to make a tough decision on how valuable Hartenstein is to you long-term.

Your 3PT competitiveness is going to live and die by the production of Conley, Holiday, Murray, Vassell and Young. If you want to upgrade your production in this area, you're either going to have to sacrifice one of Hartenstein or Ingram in a trade. Given that Ingram actually has ever-so-slightly above-average value in 3PT, it's probably preferable to upgrade from Hartenstein. 

AST is going to be carried by Young, to nobody's surprise. Again, you're doing well here and can probably only do better by moving some of your non-producers in order to get extra value. In this case, you're probably looking at Hartenstein. It's hard to stream AST effectively, but you could go that route and take a bit of a hit in TO if needed. A healthy Fultz would definitely suit your needs, but when's he going to be reliably healthy?

Here are some players to consider streaming: Aleksej Pokusevski, Bruce Brown, Chris Boucher, Derrick White, Grant Williams, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Kelly Olynyk, Kevin Huerter, Kyle Anderson, Larry Nance Jr., Lu Dort, Marcus Morris, Max Strus, Obi Toppin, Spencer Dinwiddie, Tari Eason and Trey Murphy.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions.

By the way, forgot to mention that it’s 9cat, 14 Teams, H2H. 👍

@dballbball Hey thanks for the advice! I lost out on Simmons, someone payed up alot for him, more than I thought they would. With that said, should I trade Josh Hart or Steven Adams for him?

@dballbball Wow! Thanks for such an in-depth overview. Much appreciated. FYI I dropped Hartenstein and picked up IJax as a stash (in case Turner gets hurt or traded)

I'm looking to trade Conley and/or Ingram to improve PTS/3PTM without destroying assists (and hopefully TOs......but this is hard. A lot of high volume shooters have high TOs). I'm also planning on using Vanderbilt or Hart in a 2 for 1. Would you do approve these trades?

1. Ingram + Conley for Anthony Edwards

2. Ingram + Conley for Zach Lavine

3. Conley +/- Vanderbilt or Hart for Julius Randle (would 2 for 1 be too much to give for him? Randle was rank 127 last yr....for this season rank 99. Past 1 week was a bit of an anomaly playing top 60).

4. Conley +/- Vanderbilt or Hart for Jalen Green (Again....is 2 for 1 be too much to give for him? IMO Green has a huge upside if his TOs and FG improves....) 

5. Conley +/- Vanderbilt or Hart for Jalen Green

6. Conley for Anfernee Simons

Thanks so much!

Sorry, #5 was a repeated by accient.. I meant to ask "Conley +/- Vanderbilt  or hart" for Benedict Mathurin.

12 Team, Category league which team is better?

my current roster:

PG Haliburton
SG Beal
G Mitchell
SF Tatum
PF Wagner
F Wood
C Segun
C Claxton
UTIL Herro
UTIL Smart

Bey
Pokusevsic
Boucher

New roster if make two trades

PG Haliburton
SG Shai
G Mitchell
SF Tatum
PF Wagner
F Pokusevsic
C J. Allen
C Claxton
UTIL Herro
UTIL Segun

Hartenstein
Duren
Boucher

Have another team I'm in need of guidance on. Same thing standard 12 team, picked at 2 but names not necessarily in draft order.

1. Joel Embiid

2. Rudy Gobert (love this guy but the Minnesota experiment is in shambles)

3. Zion Williamson

4. Terry Rozier

5. Jarrett Allen

6. Jerami Grant (trying to sell high, Mobley maybe? or maybe a guard to round out assists more on that later)

7. D'Angelo Russell

8. Devin Vassell

9. Aaron Gordon

10. Jarred Vanderbilt

11. Royce O'Neal

12. Seth Curry (stream)

13. Keita Bates-Diop (5 game week stream)

This is def not a build that I usually go with, but hey live and learn. I wanted to get Giannis at 2 but I joined my draft late and ended up with Embiid. Oh well. Still went with a punt FT%, 3s, assist based on my mocks. Injuries are hitting me particularly hard this week but I'm getting worried about my guards. DLo and Rozier are serviceable but Minnesota and the return of Lamelo concerns me. They've actually helped win me assists sometimes or barely a loss so I wonder if it's worth trying to bolster assists. Gobert also def has not performed up to expectations which is hurting. My defensives were good to start the season but they've fallen off, particularly the steals numbers. Some notable names on the waiver is Suggs (but ew), Hartenstein, Bamba, Harrison Barnes, and Clarke (drafted but then dropped). Would appreciate any suggestions!