There are two types of people that play fantasy basketball.  The first one sees a huge real-life NBA trade and imagines all the real-world implications of such trade, who won, who lost etc.  The other one immediately pulls up the fantasy playoff schedule and analyzes how each trade affects his multitude of teams in H2H leagues.  I am the latter.

When we are drafting our teams, the fantasy playoff schedule is a good tie-breaker when you are torn between selecting two players, if player A has 9 games and player B has 12, it’s a no-brainer, but what we don’t anticipate is how those numbers can flip if the players were somehow traded for each other.

The playoff schedule gets more important the further the season goes and right now, it’s weighing heavy in the minds of anyone looking to solidify a deep run or sell-off prime assets in order to try and sneak into the main event.

Here is an assessment of the players most affected by being dealt at the deadline.