Are Bad Teams Breading Grounds For Fantasy Basketball Breakout Players?
Fantasy Sports are a completely different animal than real life sports. The ultimate statistic players are measured on in real life is winning. However, in fantasy sports it is very possible for a player to be on a losing team and also be one of the most valuable fantasy players in the game. In other words, the biggest loser can also be the biggest winner on the fantasy basketball court. Since we are all about optimizing your lineup and identifying breakout players we wanted to explore the concept of using a team’s environment as metric for identifying potential break out players. By environment we refer to the depth of talent surrounding the player and the team’s offensive philosophy. Questions used to classify a teams environment are: how many shooters are there on the team and does the team have a dominate scorer or spread the ball around? Adding this new concept of environment, which is essentially being in the right place at the right time, will enhance our predictive abilities ar
