Fantasy hoops - Start or sit rankings

Click here for the fantasy basketball Forecaster

Read below for weekly rankings and start/sit recommendations

These rankings are based on the assumption that all teams play their games as over the next week. 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 Bradley Beal? Or perhaps starting someone like Reggie Jackson, who might generally be on your bench, perhaps even your waiver wire?

This is a week where some legitimate star players ended up on the sittable list, purely due to games played. The Wizards and Magic only play twice, so Beal ended up on the sittable list despite currently sitting at 8th in the season-long rankings. Now, would I really sit him? It'd be hard, but if I've got a legitimate, trustworthy flex option on your bench in a 10-team league, I'd have to consider it.

Injuries are also of note this week, and not just for star players that will be out for extended periods. What about players with unknown return dates, like Tobias Harris? He's on the sittable list due to this uncertainty, but obviously if news that he's back were to drop by Monday morning, you'd put him right back in your lineup. These rankings are for guidance based on what we know today, so if new information changes the paradigm you should go with that.

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.