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GPP Tips: Using Correlations to Maximize Upside

Fantasy Football
February 24, 2017

The NBA season has now entered its second distinct period, culminating with the trade deadline and All-Star break festivities. We are at the point where certain lottery teams will soon start to phase out their veterans and start to give their young players more of a look, and teams with plenty to play for will start to tighten their rotations and give their best players larger minutes. Be wary of playing older vets on bad teams, especially in road games and/or back to backs. I don’t intend to delve too much into the roster shakeups created by recent trades, but instead will discuss how to build lineups that will maximize correlation both from player to player synergy as well as leveraging overtime. Overtimes have hit in 5.9% of games this season, so make sure to factor that in, especially in games with tight point spreads. It is also important if using correlation derived from stacking and overtime to concentrate your lineup around players who start, or are at least “super subs” who have a decent chance of playing OT. The biggest correlations in NBA come from assists to 3pt FG made, a synergy that will yield 5 DraftKings points per successful

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