Fantasy hoops weekly rankings: Load up on Clippers

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You're in a weekly transaction league, and you need to decide by Monday evening who will be in your starting lineup for the week. Should you consider sitting usual impact starters Clint Capela or Ben Simmons? Or perhaps starting someone like JaMychal Green or Gorgui Dieng, who might generally be on your bench, perhaps even your waiver wire?

As pointed out in the Forecaster this week, there are nine teams with four games, 18 with three and three with only two. The Potentially Sittable list contains most Rockets, 76ers and Pelicans due to their sparse schedule. With that said, James Harden and Joel Embiid are such monsters that they project to start even with only two games.

There are also players dealing with injuries who might or might not play a full schedule this week, and accounting for this uncertainty landed players such as Pascal Siakam, Danilo Gallinari, De'Aaron Fox and Eric Bledsoe on the Potentially Sittable list as well.

Check out the list of guys who stood out in one direction or the other below, and for more detail see the complete rankings.

Methodology

The "potentially startable" list is generally composed of players ranked below 80th in the season-long points rankings who ended up among the top 100 projected players for this week utilizing the Forecaster. Conversely, the "potentially sittable" list is generally composed of players ranked in the top 100 of the season-long points rankings who ended up outside of the top 120 projected players for this week utilizing the Forecaster (or who are in the 120 range but projected much lower for the week).

There is also some correction for injury, so a player with injury question marks might see his value lowered enough to end up on the sittable list even if he's not officially out. Similarly, an understudy would get a boost in value if he is expected to play, and that could land him in the startable category. Finally, I have the license to add players to either list even if they don't fit the exact criteria but if I feel that it is close enough to be of interest.