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It’s the time of the year for obscure players you may not be familiar with to start winning GPPs. As the season winds down, we’ll begin to see more and more players priced at absolute rock bottom begin to find themselves in useful situations. Just looking over tonight’s slate of games, there are 13 players priced under $4,000 that are projected to play at least 25 minutes tonight. So let’s see if we can’t find some value here.
Trend: Punt Plays With High Minute/Usage Projections
It’s great to throw out a player for close to minimum salary that is going to play a lot, but it’s tough to accumulate points standing in the corner. If we’re going to target these low-priced punt plays, it’d be nice to have some expectancy that they’ll have the ball in their hands a bit, so let’s target players that we’re projecting for a decent amount of usage as well.
Step 1: Player Filters > Salary > Set to “3000 to 4000”
Step 3: Projections > Proj Usage > Set to “18 to 26.8”
Okay, filters set — check.
Results?
Not too bad actually, especially considering we’re dealing with guys that are priced so low.
So the results are decent enough and the logic is sound — we’re targeting punt players that are going to play decent minutes and have some opportunity to create on offense. But do we actually have any hits on this? I know, silly question. Of course we do — it’s the end of the NBA season; there are plenty of options available to us!
Good luck sorting through the value tonight!
