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Andre' Snellings

Andre' Snellings

Andre' Snellings writes about fantasy sports for RotoWire.

Percentages are key: especially from the line

Almost a decade ago, I played in my first RotoWire rotisserie league and got second place. The winner of that league was Chris Liss, who loved rubbing his victory in my face. One thing he said stuck with me: "It is more important to have good percentages (FG% and FT%) on your team, especially early in the season, than it is to be good in every volume category." And this is why:

In rotisserie basketball, everyone starts off the year expecting to win. They come out of the draft excited about their squads, and for the first month or two of the season, they check in often and make all of the moves to give their teams a chance to win. But by the time you get to about February, the writing starts to appear on the wall that some teams just aren't going to compete for the title. And suddenly, mysteriously, some of the owners of those teams just disappear. They stop checking their teams, they stop picking up new p

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