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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo’s default 9-category totals rankings are tanking NBA fantasy drafts. Josh Lloyd breaks down why Yahoo’s system is fundamentally flawed—rewarding games played over real impact—and shows how players like Harrison Barnes, Buddy Hield, and Malik Beasley end up criminally overrated.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about ranking.
0:02.9	Let's talk about how we can't or shouldn't be confused about some of the numbers that we might see.
0:09.2	You know what this is about, Michael Bolton.
0:10.6	Thanks, Josh.
0:11.9	It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.
0:18.7	Let's get to it.
0:19.7	Let's get to it, indeed's get to it. Indeed.
0:22.6	You are Locked-on Fantasy, your daily NBA Fantasy podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:28.8	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:33.3	Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:39.1	My name is Josh Lloyd and this is going to be 30 minutes about talking about all of the hits of the Troy Weaver eras.
0:47.2	I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at Basketballmonster.com.
0:50.4	And today's episode is brought to you by Fangio.
0:53.0	Right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins.
0:59.0	Thank you also for making Locked on Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day.
1:02.0	We are free.
1:03.0	We are available on all platforms.
1:04.0	So hit the thumb, hit the double bang, leave your comments down below.
1:08.0	That would be great.
1:10.0	So what are we going to do in this show here, which is, I believe,
1:14.4	will be the last of the pre-recorded shows that I'm doing while I'm over having some time
1:19.4	away, so holiday. This will be the final one of those shows. So the next time I think that
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