Fantasy Benchwarmers

Trades within FBW leagues are aplenty today with 4 submitted to the commissioner's office just today. Looks like managers are now making some moves to either shake things up or further strengthen their respective teams. We kick off the quickie with some OG Anunoby injury news which does not look too good. No official timetable was provided but it's looking like multiple games will be missed. Hopef...

We Lakers fans call him the GOAT now that he is Chicago, Alex Caruso is the Lakers' TOTGA - The One That Got Away. Honestly, we never really thought he'll be a very relevant fantasy player as his game, being a hustle guy, does not really translate to stats. But after seeing the Chicago Bulls' depth chart and watching the pre-season games, I kinda felt he could be roster-able, but still, I did not...

Zion Williamson has started to do 1:1 drills according to the Pelicans. I'm pretty sure it's an update Zion owners will be pretty excited about. We talk about our own take on Zion and why we're not as excited yet, not even excited for the rest of his season. Klay Thompson is another player who is inching closer to a return. Klay is doing contact 5:5 drills already and it wouldn't surprise us if he...

So, this could be it. He is a a fantasy darling among a lot of fantasy analyst and now it's looking like the end is near. De'Anthony Melton has been all we have always hoped for in terms of his fantasy production. Of course we always knew Dillon Brooks could eat into Melton's minutes, but 16 minutes today? Okay it was a blowout, let's give him that, but looks like the trend is not looking too good...

In this week 4 Q & A we invited one of the managers in FBW Invitationals and a familiar FBW guest Erik Ong of Hoop-ball.com to join us and talk about some underperforming players. Of course we went through some of your questions from the chat box as well! Follow Erik Ong on Twitter: @Rotomancer Listen in to his podcast as well on Hoop-Ball.com's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HoopBall Catc...

Trae Young had a nice 42 point game today while Lamelo Ball has been within top 5 so far after another nice line. The former's ADP was around the 11-14 range while the latter was within the 20-24th pick. If you were to draft all over again, who would you pick first?  There was not much to talk about today that has not been discussed in previous quickies, and we're glad a number of our recomme...

The week's not looking good for some of my teams as I am down 1-8 or 2-7 in some leagues. Hopefully I get some luck tomorrow and close the gap a little bit. Anyway, today's quickie we discuss the best rookie this season (both in fantasy and real life basketball), Evan Mobley. We never really saw this coming this fast. We thought Mobley will start a bit slow given that he is a rookie and his body l...

Let's talk about Lonzo Ball. Lonzo is shooting just 39% for the season and has been really struggling the past few games. More than the scoring it has been the assists that I'm really worried about. A big reason why I drafted Lonzo in the 50s is for the assists and with Vucevic out a few games, the targets are less now and it seems like the Bulls will iso Zach Lavine and Demar Derozan, making Lonz...

It was a full slate today! The bad news first, Jimmy Butler suffered an ankle injury which potentially could sideline him tomorrow on the second half of a back-to-back. Hopefully, it was more of a precaution not to get him back in the game against the Lakers and he won't miss too much time.  Now on to the good news, Dillon Brooks returned today and surprisingly played well. Still a wait and s...

It's a pretty uneventful day in the NBA that the biggest news is Nikola Jokic being suspended a game and he didn't even play today. So we went through each game and talked about Jrue Holiday. How low can you buy Jrue? Commish threw out some names that I think are unrealistic trade ideas, but hey if you pull it off, congratulations! We talk Mike Conley, Dillon Brooks return, Nic Batum and a lot mor...

COVID19 is spreading by the day in the Philadelphia 76ers camp and this time it caught the biggest fish in the team - Joel Embiid. Of course the obvious add here is Andre Drummond, but in standard league and up, Drummond should not be in your free agent pool anymore. In fact, if you have Embiid in your team, Drummond should be a center in your roster. This is what we call handcuff player in fantas...

Week 3 judgement day and lots to talk about in today's quickie. We start off with some streaming strategies and some stories about our week 3 matchups. Lots of tips here you can consider using when you stream or when you manage your rosters. How bad is Lebron James's injury? There have been some blurbs that he could miss a few weeks because of this abdominal strain. But no official report yet from...

This is rock bottom for Michael Porter Jr. right? I mean tell me it goes up from here. We've heard from a lot of frustrated MPJ owners and this could probably be the worst of it. We hope. First off, we hope it won't be too bad that he gets to miss just a couple of games or none at all. Secondly, we still hope he picks it up at some point this year, before 2021 ends. Just give us some consistent de...

We kick off this quickie with some news on the Kyrie Irving situation and the Ben Simmons vs. 76ers battle. What do you do when you have these players? We also speculate on who is now leading the race of who will play first. We can't help but discuss more about the Damian Lillard struggles. After watching the game this morning, it's actually weird to see Lillard very passive on offense. From being...

Starting this week we will have featured guests who will also give their fantasy insights and answer your questions. In this week 3 Q & A we invited one of the managers in FBW Invitationals Patrick Laroco of Next Level Fantasy NBA to help us out with your questions. On top of that, we compared some notes on the challenges of being a commissioner in leagues and how we deal with trades and accid...

Miles Bridges had another great game and it is looking like he is this season's breakout player of the year. Do you think we should still sell high on Bridges or just ride out his game until it settles? The other Curry, Seth, has been having another good fantasy season to start the year. And with the Philadelphia 76ers having a lot of question marks this season, he could find himself having more g...

Chris Paul reached another milestone today as he moved up the all-time assists leaders list. With a number of point guards picked in the first round struggling, it got us thinking, do you think CP3 can end up higher in rankings over Luka and Dame? We also brought back another segment in our quickie - Trade Analysis of the Day. In today's trade, we talk about a couple of rookies in exchange for a t...

It's the start of week 3 and if you are currently at the bottom of the standings with your team struggling, commish and I gave some tips on what you can do to slowly move up. It's easier said than done, and patience is a must. COVID strikes with Tobias Harris, Khris Middleton and Kevin Love being the casualties. Hopefully your league has IL+ for at least a couple of these players. Zion Williamson...

Did you know that Richaun Holmes is currently top 10 in rankings? Well, the jump is not Miles Bridges-like, but still who would've thought? Holmes though is one of our favorite low-key, fantasy-friendly center who will never make your team look bad. And those who picked him in the 40s/50s thinking it was a little too high now see him as a real bargain. He could end up top 30 this season with the w...

Finally, we get a live session in! This is the recorded version of yesterday's live Q & A! Lots of great questions we tackled about your teams/players.  Catch us in any of these podcast platforms! Apple Podcast: https://bit.ly/FBWonApplePodcast Spotify: https://bit.ly/FBWonSpotify Anchor: https://anchor.fm/fantasybenchwarmers Like and follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fantas...

Today we got vintage James Harden. Nineteen free throw attempts. All we can hope is that this continues, okay realistically, he won't take 19 free throws, but if he can give us 8-10 a night, we'd be happy. Damian Lillard also had a great game just when managers have started to entertain some buy low offers on the trade market. We also talked about the struggles of Kyle Lowry and another subpar Lam...

Did we all just fall for the Jordan Poole hype and overlooked Desmond Bane? Bane has been good, I mean, really good. One of the pod's friend Erik Ong of Hoop-Ball called it after the Invitational League draft. Unfortunately we were not able to record that call, but hey, we got ourselves some Banes in some of our leagues because of that! But yeah, we feel Bane could stick and could end up as one of...

Back-to-back late night release for us, but hopefully we're just in time to tuck you in and put accompany you to sleep. In today's quickie, we discuss Joel Embiid's early injury woes that seems to be affecting his fantasy game. Do you think Embiid should just rest his knee for a couple of weeks before going back at it? It was just yesterday when we talked about Malcolm Brogdon and the only way we...

Here we go, the injury bug takes down a couple of first rounders. Anthony Davis owners are always concerned. With every fall and every jump, we (coz I have a few AD stocks) AD owners will always be concerned even if he lands perfectly fine or gets back up. Today, I had flashbacks of last season when AD was just out of it and worse he got injured and pretty much did not play for most of the season....

In today's quickie, we started off a bit differently. As we see some subpar first rounders early, we re-visited our top 14 players after week 1. Find out who moved up the ranks and who got left off. Tell us as well if you agree with our rankings. If you don't, comment it on where you are watching or on our FB page! Of course our quickies will not be complete without our FBWs. We talk about Jarrett...