Dwight Howard Ranked #41 on ESPN Fantasy Basketball

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FT shooting and turnovers are the reasons he's ranked lower. He'll be drafted way earlier than that though.

 

This is only because he will be playing with a dominant SG. This is a fair assumption.

 

Yahoo has him ranked #43. So what... its fantasy basketball. If you think he's undervalued in fantasy than draft him and dominate your league.

I'd assume that these pre-rankings are done strickly by a computer, and the computer is probably decreasing his value because lack of usage with sharing the minutes with Asik, and its most likely factoring in last year's decline. A computer simulation will probably make assumptions that he will continue to decline further from last year.

Keep in mind it also ranks Kevin Durant over Lebron James, and Al Jefferson over Dirk Nowitzki. Is Durant really a better player than Lebron, or is it simply that Durant is a better FANTASY pick than Lebron?

Nothing here to worry about. However, if Dwight wants to use this as motivation to kick A#$ this year I'm all for it.

 

I had Harden last year. I believe I drafted him 1st round 13th pick, draft was before the trade. After the trade he blew up and led my team to the first seed in the league and to semi finals, I lost to the guy that had Lebron. It was close too.

So Harden went from being a low first round to the top three, behind Lebron and Durant. I predict Harden in the top 5 and Howard in the top 10. I don't know why they had Howard 41. absurd.

 

FT% is a dumb stat for fantasy basketball. It should be FTM. Shooting 50% from the line does not hurt your team as much as people think it does.

 

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If you draft Dwight, you pretty much have to punt FTs. He hurts you most because he shoots in high volume, especially if the other team decides to go with the hack-a-dwight strat.

He usually makes up for it because he's so dominant in the other categories, but given his last season in LA and not putting up Orlando numbers, I'm guessing that's why he fell so low.

With that said, he should definitely be a 2nd round pick up.


Other mentions...
Kobe 78? Derrick Rose 33?

 

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This is the usual... peg Howard for his best year and he'd still be ranked around the same.

 

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Sorry. I should have left it in other places. I'll delete my posts. Would you mind deleting those quotes from your post so my posts can be gone? Again, I'm sorry.

 

Howard has literally never been a top 25 player in a 9-cat league, and he's coming off his worst season. Being offended by that ranking says to me that you aren't clear what value means in fantasy basketball.

Now, if you decide to deliberately lose in FT% and TOV, he was last year's #3 fantasy player even in a down year with a 7-cat limit.

Check out this ranker and observe how his ridiculous 10 standard deviations below average in FT% moves his overall value from elite to below average if you consider every category important.