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These rankings are based on the assumption that all players and teams play their games as scheduled over the next week ... yeah, I know. But it's the best we've got. I'm positive that you'll stay plugged in to potential absences and schedule changes due to COVID-19 up until rosters lock on Monday, and adjust your lineups accordingly. With that said ...
... so, you're in a weekly transaction league, and half of your lineup is unavailable. You need to decide by Monday evening who your starting lineup will be for the week. Should you consider sitting a usual impact starter like Jarrett Allen or Darius Garland? Or perhaps starting someone like Andre Drummond or Anfernee Simons, who might generally be on your bench, perhaps even your waiver wire? And what's the weekly update on Kyrie Irving?
The Cleveland Cavaliers are one of three teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic, to have only three games scheduled over the next two weeks that comprise the All-Star break session. This landed their star players like Allen and Garland on the potentially sittable list despite how well they've been playing.
Drummond and Simons are both examples of players whose fantasy values got large boosts based on all the action at the trade deadline. Drummond goes from backing up Joel Embiid to potentially getting close to starter minutes in Brooklyn, while Simons is the only healthy, starting caliber guard on a depleted Trail Blazers squad that just traded CJ McCollum and Norman Powell (and has Damian Lillard sidelined with injury). The potentially startable list is littered with players like this, whose projected value moving forward is significantly higher than it was when the season-long rankings were calculated on Monday.
The Brooklyn Nets only have two road games in the next two weeks, meaning that Irving would only be available in 40% of the games.
Check out the overall rankings to get a more in-depth look at how we think things might go next week among the 300+ players in the main database, and check out the high points at a glance with the Startable and Sittable lists below.
