26/27 New Feature: Streaming Optimizer
Note: Monthly access to Elite Fantasy Basketball’s projections, tools, and articles will be made available at the beginning of Week 2. The subscription will cost just $2.50 per month and will give you access to everything but the draft season content.
Elite Fantasy Basketball has another new tool that will help you dominate your league. The Streaming Optimizer is now available! It can be found under the Subscriber Tools menu or by following this link:
The Streaming Optimizer comes up with streaming plans based on your settings and matchup.
How it works:
- Subscribers will pick their saved league, their team and their opponent, or open a matchup they’ve already set up in the Matchup Tool. The tool knows who’s available because it checks every roster in the league.
- Subscribers will enter how many moves they have left, the day they want to start from, whether pickups count the same day or the next day, and how many starting spots they have.
- Subscribers will tick the players they’re willing to drop and mark anyone sitting in an IL slot on either team, so those players are left out of the projections.
- Category league subscribers can adjust the weighting of the categories they want to go after. For example, if 3PM is given a weight of 2, the tool will go after 3PM more aggressively than any category with a lower weight. A category with a weight of 0 will not factor into the streaming plan.
- If there’s a player you want to grab and hold because he might become a long-term piece, you can add him as a must-add and the tool will plan every other move around that player.
What the tool produces:
- Up to five different streaming plans, each listing exactly who to drop, who to add, which day to do it and which games are gained.
- A before-and-after view of the matchup showing how each plan changes every category, or the projected points total.
Like all of Elite Fantasy Basketball’s tools, the Streaming Optimizer works for any category or points league scoring setting.
Here are some screenshots of the tool being used to analyze a Week 2 matchup that was originally projected to be 7-2. The settings were adjusted so that the tool comes up with a plan for winning FG% while maintaining my team’s lead in 3PM.
Note: Draft Season and Full Season subscribers already have access to the tool. Those who sign up for monthly access to Elite Fantasy Basketball will also get access to the tool. The monthly access option will be made available early in Week 2.