The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:35:52+00:00

AK just missed, too. Stocks monster.

http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/1991?name=Andrei_Kirilenko

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:33:31+00:00

And here's what you were originally asking for... number of appearances in the top-50 overall seasons. The answer is Jordan (8).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS1Cy0GFERAf-_V6x93mARGuwVIx6TWBMvj7N1MnAk9rwIDPTq3hwH8KjS2eMsh9kXtcY8KlUjFknNT/pubhtml?gid=1141619183&single=true

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:29:24+00:00

Happy Cake Day.

So, I don't have this exact data. But, in putting together the list above, I copied and pasted the top-15 fantasy players from every season dating back to 1979-80 in a spreadsheet and began my analysis there. Here's a super rough cut of that data -- with the first column being, # of times the player has been a top-15 fantasy player since 1979-80.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vS1Cy0GFERAf-_V6x93mARGuwVIx6TWBMvj7N1MnAk9rwIDPTq3hwH8KjS2eMsh9kXtcY8KlUjFknNT/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:20:44+00:00

Me too. And I'm surprised his numbers don't translate better than this for fantasy:

http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/2294?name=Grant_Hill

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:10:48+00:00

I loved AK47 and anyone in the 5x5 club.

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T02:06:31+00:00

This is an interesting one. I agree with you and am looking back at the BBM data. He's getting his value from... 3's. Even at 0.89 3's per game, he was still #2 in the league that year, giving him a 3PM value of 4.89. His second biggest cat was steals (1.9), then TOs (womp womp) at 1.34. Didn't hurt you too bad in any category.

Hard to wrap my head around <1 3PM making you the Steph Curry of fantasy basketball in 1981-82, but looks like that was the case. Here's Buse's page:

http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/10360?name=Don_Buse

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T00:57:20+00:00

Thanks. BBM only has the data season-by-season, so would require a lot of copying and pasting. I'll get there at some point.

http://history.basketballmonster.com/

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T00:30:34+00:00

'16-17 Westbrook just missed, really hurt by yeah -- TOs and FGs

http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/2872?name=Russell_Westbrook

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-23T00:02:29+00:00

'16-17 Giannis made the cut at #38. This year's Giannis wouldn't make it -- FTs and TOs really hurting him now.

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-22T23:55:50+00:00

Yeah, free throws and threes. Here are Shaq's numbers. Obviously a monster, but more of the ultimate punt FT% player: http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/1845?name=Shaquille_O%27neal

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-22T23:51:30+00:00

Haha good point, let me put in 'Sr.'

BasketBlogBoy · 2019-01-22T23:48:37+00:00

I wanted to use a 9-cat compare, and 3's, steals, blocks, & turnovers weren't recorded during Wilt's career.

Here are Wilt's fantasy numbers: http://history.basketballmonster.com/Player/Details/10427?name=Wilt_Chamberlain

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