Fantasy hoops: Start or sit rankings

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These rankings are based on the assumption that all teams play their games as over the next week, which as we know may not happen. Please stay plugged in to potential schedule changes due to COVID-19 up until rosters lock on Monday, and adjust your lineups accordingly. With that said...

...so, you're in a weekly transaction league, and you need to decide by Monday evening who your starting lineup will be for the week. Should you consider sitting a usual impact starter like DeMar DeRozan? Or perhaps starting someone like Mason Plumlee, who might generally be on your bench, perhaps even your waiver wire?

We celebrate the week after Halloween with some scary decisions to be made about who to start on your fantasy squads. Since every team plays either three or four games, there aren't many obvious decisions like last week, when sitting the Suns with only two games just made sense. This week, it'd be a struggle to sit a guy like DeRozan who's playing so well, and even though he's not in the top-100 in the rankings I'd have to be pretty confident in the player I'd start over him.

On the other hand, with it being so early in the season, I think some of the names on the Potentially Startable list should probably be starting on the regular anyway. Players like Keldon Johnson and Miles Bridges are off to strong starts to the season that I suspect will continue, and if so they'll rise up the season-long rankings before long such that they'd be top-100 players anyway. With that said, I'd find it easy to start them when in scheduling doubt, because they have both the game and the games to make worthy starters this week.

Check out the overall rankings to get a more in depth look at how we think things might go next week, but we do make it easy to get the high points at a glance with the Startable and Sittable lists below.

Methodology

The "potentially startable" list is generally comprised 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 comprised 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 may have 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.