When most managers draft for rebounds, they figure they’ll be picking up centers and power forwards. And with very few exceptions, they would be right. Since you have to pick up 3 or 4 of these guys anyway, you probably better make sure you get good bang for your buck. You can afford to wait on picking up these guys until the fourth or fifth rounds usually (because many of them don’t get you much more than rebounds, blocks, and field goal percentage anyway), but don’t wait so long that you don’t get any of the best guys. If you don’t have at least two of the top 25 rebounders in the league, you may be in trouble, so watch your list carefully and start picking them up if they start going fast. We have a better assortment of good players with center eligibility this year, so I don’t think you’ll have to reach too much in your picks this year.

Here is a list of the top 25 rebounders from last year and some notes on what you should know about them…

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The NBA is all about how many points you score, and how many points you let the other guy score. If your team scores more than the other team, you win.

For that reason alone, it isn’t really very difficult to write an article educating people on picking players for points because everyone already does that naturally. There are a few things, however, that might be nice to know before you go into the draft.

Here they are…

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It’s just as important in Fantasy Rotisserie leagues to make sure that you have some serviceable three point shooters as to make sure that you have guys who can score or get rebounds. Treat it that way!

For deciding on who are the top few tiers of players for the upcoming year, we will be basing a lot of the weight on what they did in the 2006-2007 NBA season. We will also consider off-season movement around the NBA that would affect their overall attempts. Additionally, we will also take into account injury situations that affected them last year and/or might affect them this year.

In other words, we make the assumption that everyone will likely do just as well as they did last year unless there is a good reason not to believe it.

With that brief introduction, I now quickly move on to who I think you should pick up to help you the most in the category of three pointers made. In parentheses next to them, I will put their total from last year and a guess on where they might be available.

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Last year, Duke phenom J.J. Redick started out his rookie season on the bench with an injury, and he never got off the bench much after that. Anybody who dared to pick him up the later rounds of the draft to place on their bench in case they needed some help in three pointers probably dropped him quickly. Rookies often struggle, and rookies whose game relies heavily on their shot usually struggle even more so.

Now Redick is a sophomore.

The Orlando Magic have added Rashard Lewis to play alongside Dwight Howard, Hedo Turkoglu, and Jameer Nelson.

Is J.J. Redick worth a look in the later rounds if you need some three point shooting this year?

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Every year people want to know who to know which players will far outperform the position that they are picked at. It’s not always that easy to make those types of predictions because players are notorious for being predictable from year to year.

When I pick my Fantasy Sleepers, I prefer to go off of where people are drafting the players and pick which of those players are not being drafted where they should be based on how they normally perform — and where they are likely to perform yet again. This, of course, means that I am unlikely to pick a rookie or second year player who excels beyond all expectations, but it also means that my picks are likely to give you players deserving of high picks that you can sneak in later rounds.

I base most of my drafts in a 12 team league. If you have far more or far less than twelve teams in your league, you will have to adjust my draft positions appropriately.

I hope I have explained myself enough because we are moving on to my picks for the NBA 2007-2008 season.

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