Welcome back to Fantazzle Fantasy Basketball.  The 2009-10 NBA season is now in full swing, which means that it’s time for Dr. Quez to start writing some prescriptions.  If you’re a fantasy basketball junkie, and need more number-crunching, mind-numbing analysis than your run of the mill, ESPN type fantasy basketball websites are prepared to offer, then you’ve come to the right place. Fantazzle offers weekly fantasy basketball games for cash prizes.

Last season we launched Fantazzle’s unique brand of fantasy basketball games, and in my blog entry entitled “Introduction to Fantazzle Fantasy Basketball,” I explained the rules of our game.  The rules remain intact this season and the format is a fantasy basketball salary cap game; all that has changed is the values of each player and your own comfort level with the Fantazzle scoring system.  Learning a new system is never easy, but once you get a handle on what kind of players it tends to favor, you have an immediate advantage over your adversaries.

Last season we spent some time talking about the primary wrinkle of the Fantazzle scoring metric: the absence of FG%, FT% and turnovers as scoring categories.  The obvious result of this difference is that certain players, such as Dwight Howard, whose traditional fantasy value is somewhat limited by poor performance in these categories, are much more valuable in this game because they are not penalized for some kind of offensive inefficiency.  Dwight Howard, who is a top fifteen fantasy player in traditional formats, leapfrogs just about everyone in overall value in the Fantazzle game, which ignores percentage-based categories and instead places a premium blocks and steals.

Now that we are nearly a month into the season, we are beginning to get a sense of what everyone’s true value really is.  As with any season in any sport, there is a long, interesting list of surprise performers and slow starters.  Then you have that all-important class of young players who are developing into legitimate stars, as well as the core group of established players who you can count on to provide steady numbers, year after year.

In the next several fantasy basketball pieces, I’m going to sift through each category of players, identifying several key players in each group that are worthy of discussion, whether it be because their performance is going to change or because they are an interesting topic unto themselves.  Along the way, we’ll unearth some useful nuggets of fantasy information that can help you win in both your weekly Fantazzle fantasy basketball games and your traditional fantasy basketball formats. Stay tuned and let the fun begin!

Dr. Quez

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Weekly fantasy basketball games are now live and ready to go at Fantazzle Fantasy Sports. This year Fantazzle will be offering a weekly fantasy basketball salary cap game that will start every Monday and end Sunday every week of the NBA season.

Fantazzle’s fantasy basketball salary cap game will give users a $1,000,000 salary cap and players must choose 2 Centers, 3 Guards, 3 Forwards, and 2 Utility players. You make your picks before the first NBA game on Monday and your set! There are no player changes which makes it easy for users and provides a fantasy basketball game thats simple to play. All fantasy games award cash prizes immediately at the end of the last NBA game on Sunday. There is no season commitment or week to week commitment.

Fantazzle will offer free fantasy basketball games with cash prizes for a limited time so you can try the games risk free. The entry fee games will have much bigger cash prizes and range from $5 to $10 to start and will increase with demand later in the season.

Stay tuned for fantasy hockey. Fantazzle will have fantasy hockey salary cap games within the week including free fantasy hockey games and entry fee fantasy hockey.

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