All posts by Ivan Yau

Ivan is a basketball fanatic and has been playing fantasy sports since 2002. Ivan is also a part-time poker player, writer, and iGaming consultant. Check out www.oddsandpots.com or follow on Twitter @crazyivan24.

Importance of Vegas Odds in Fantasy NBA

NBA Vegas Odds, Lines and Totals play an important role in NBA Daily Fantasy Basketball because players minutes are directly correlated with the score of the game. When building your NBA daily fantasy basketball lineup, you want to be build a team around players that is expected to play heavy minutes, because minutes equal production. Players can't earn fantasy points when they are sitting on the bench. NBA Point Spreads Known as the line or spread, it is the projected margin of victory for Read More

NBA Fantasy Players You Must Roster (Dec 15, 2014)

NBA Fantasy Players: Locks For Your Daily Fantasy Basketball Lineup (As of Monday, December 15th) Fanduel has somewhat slacked off on changing some prices recently. A bunch of the mid range guys have recently seen increased roles on their teams, which will help your overall score night in and night out. At this point in the season, there is no point in luckboxing rookies anymore. We have a large enough sample size to know who is capable of what vs. who. Now is where research starts paying off, when Read More

What Are The Types Of Daily Fantasy Basketball Games?

What Are The Types Of Daily Fantasy Basketball Games? When we play NBA Fantasy Basketball, we play because a.) we are an avid fan of the NBA, b.) we enjoy the thought of being somewhat like a real NBA general manager, owning different NBA stars in your team and lastly c.) We enjoy playing with numbers and predicting statistics with our players which ends up involving trades and transactions. Just like the real thing. What if I tell you that NBA Daily Fantasy Basketball will also give you the chance Read More

Why You Should Play Daily Fantasy Basketball?

Why You Should Play Daily Fantasy Basketball? For sure you have played in a full season fantasy basketball leagues before at any point in time, and you most likely understand the mechanics and the anticipation that goes with it like when choosing either rotisserie or head to head (H2H), drafting your team from scratch by choosing either live or auto, and setting your lineups either weekly or daily for game day. However, if you have tried Daily Fantasy Basketball, then you probably already notice Read More

What is Daily Fantasy Basketball?

What is Daily Fantasy Basketball? Fantasy basketball is a fantasy sport that has become a household name to most avid basketball fan today. It is played by keeping track of stats of each basketball player by hand against other fantasy players, may it be with your friends or from other people around the world, And those fantasy players that plays this game are often referred or called as general managers or GMs, yes just like the real thing. General Managers draft actual NBA players and compete Read More

Fantasy Basketball 101: Stock Watch

Fantasy Basketball 101: Stock Watch We started the year simply on speculations and basing player average stats out of projections. It has been 3 weeks in the NBA and things are starting to show us some glimpse on which players will have a better season than last year. Today we are going to discuss which players you need to keep, sell and buy now. Buy: Chris Copeland - Indiana Pacers - SF With the Pacers short handed in almost every position, Chris Copeland did what he needed to do. He took advantage Read More

How To Become A Better Fantasy Basketball Player

How To Become A Better Fantasy Basketball Player Undeniably for you to be good at fantasy basketball, you need to know the game itself. Not just the fantasy basketball game but the real NBA game as well. From the recent player and team news, rumors, and all those little things that you do not think about as much without knowing that those little things are the ones that are going to help you become a better fantasy player. If you are just a casual gamer and is just playing the game for fun with Read More

Fantasy Basketball 101: KFC

Fantasy Basketball 101: KFC The Kentucky Fantasy Carriers or simply known as the KFC of fantasy basketball. What a start for these Kentucky Alumni to the fantasy basketball world in this years NBA 2014-2015 season. UK Wildcats standouts were off the charts this first 2 weeks and are still providing great numbers for fantasy owners. Today, we are going to talk about these Wildcats and their impact to the game and why they are a must own player in fantasy. Anthony Davis - New Orleans Pelicans - Read More

NBA Fantasy Basketball Sleepers: Week 2

One of the best ways to have a better week among the rest of the owners in your league is to be resourceful and being able to find those "steal" type of players who might still be available in the free agent pool. For this week, we are going to discuss who are these potential NBA fantasy basketball sleepers type of players. Reggie Jackson - Oklahoma City Thunder - PG The Oklahoma City Thunder is currently affected by the injury bug this early of the NBA regular season, with Kevin Durant (foot) Read More

Same Faces, New places

After a wild summer of NBA transactions, some big names are now playing in different cities with completely different roles. Players such as Lebron James, Trevor Ariza, Isaiah Thomas, and more all are in new places with different roles. Huge name players such as Lebron James' roles wont change wherever they go, but a lot of secondary players roles change from team to team, and thats why I'm here to help. Chandler Parsons-Dallas Mavericks SF Back in Houston it was very difficult for Parsons to constantly Read More