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You're in a weekly transaction league and you need to decide by Monday evening what your starting lineup will be for the week. Should you consider sitting a usual impact starter like LeBron James or Kyle Lowry? Perhaps it would be better to start someone like Dewayne Dedmon or Fred VanVleet, who might generally be on your bench or perhaps even your league's waiver wire?
This week, the relatively pedestrian holiday schedule bunched teams up near the middle of the Forecaster scale with few outliers in either direction. That, in combination with the "hot player" adjustment to the weekly projector, made the "potentially sittable" list smaller than usual, because there weren't very many players with dramatically fewer games or much worse rankings than the norm. In addition to the teams with terrible schedules, this week's sittables are dominated by players dealing with injury issues that may or may not force them to miss time during the upcoming period.
James is the biggest name from this group, and we'll discuss his situation in more detail below. The other main group includes players who are projected well lower than their ranking but who generally wouldn't have met the sittable threshold. Lowry is a good example of this, and we'll talk about how he ended up in this "gray area" below.
Without further ado, let's see what those projections and the resulting start/sit lists look like for this week.
