Let's talk about the NBA schedule. How important is it? What are the things to know? What are the things to break down? Fantasy playoffs, how do we approach it? Michael Bolton. Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here. And it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast. Let's get to it. Let's get to it indeed. You are locked on fantasy,

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Fangio. Football season is around the corner, so visit the Fangul app today and start planning your futures bets now. Thank you also for making locked on fantasy basketball your first listen every day. We are free. We are available on all platforms. I did my first mock draft of the season last week. There won't be one coming this week, I don't think. I don't know, but yes, we will do multiple ones. It's just no point at this early stage in doing them like, you know, two days, or anything like that. We are going to be doing them, don't worry. What we are going to be finishing off this week as well is the Beat Reporter team previews. So we're going to have the Grizzlies, the Nets, the Sons, the Jazz, the Bucks. Who else is coming up this week?

Sixes.

I think that's what we is coming up this week?

Sixers, I think that's what we've got left this week.

What we're doing today is talking about the NBA schedule,

which came out a few days ago.

There is importance in the NBA schedule.

You've got to be cautious that you're not thinking that it's too important,

but there is importance in looking at the NBA schedule when we start thinking

about things for fantasy. My general rule of thumb is that when you're talking about the top

of the draft, you want to see if there are any anomalies in playoff schedules. That's where you get

the interesting things that maybe you factor in. If someone's got 12 games versus 11 games, I don't think that should be an overriding decision because players can get hurt, players can get traded, players can have bad games. It's not the overriding decision. When you're making decisions from around 6, 7, 8 onwards, don't worry about it. Just don't worry about that sort of thing. As we proved last season, when you are in the fantasy playoffs, streaming through the back three, four spots of your roster is nearly every single time going, even if they're bad players that's coming in.

If you're maximizing your roster spots, you are going to get better results.

So planning your entire roster around playoff schedules is asinine, stupid and will not work.

If you plan your entire roster that way, you cannot go into a draft ago. I'm just grabbing all

of the players who go 4-4-4 in my playoff schedules. Don't do it, won't work. You should consider

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