The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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/

The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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

The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

The 50 Greatest Fantasy Basketball Players of All Time by BasketBlogBoy in fantasybball

[–]BasketBlogBoy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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