One of the best things about blogs like these is that you can get several opinions on some very important questions or very interesting players. This is why we like to do a RotoProfessor Roundtable.

I have posed the same questions to a few of the writers here at RotoProfessor and we have all offered up our own opinions. Ideally you can learn something from each of our answers to this question.

For the first week the questions asked was: Which player on a new team this season has most increased in fantasy value?

Here are the answers of three RotoProfessor writers:

Ray Lin’s Choice: Dwight Howard – C, Houston Rockets

While Howard may not have as much net gain in value as some other players on new teams, the combination of the expected improvement in team chemistry and leadership role will cement his fantasy floor as a Top-5 center. Read more

Each week this preseason and also during the season we are going to be doing a fantasy basketball roundtable. There will be one question asked and each of the RotoProfessor writers will offer an answer. Our goal is to give you the readers as many opinions and viewpoints as possible as you prepare for your drafts.

Periodically throughout the year we will also be bringing in guest bloggers. While we pride ourselves in bringing quality fantasy basketball analysis there are lots of other good fantasy blogs out there that are very much worth your time and we want to spotlight some of those blogs and writers who work hard. For our first week we are welcoming in Scott Malewig from fakebasketball.com.

For our first roundtable I decided to pose a question about one of the most polarizing players in the NBA, DeMarcus Cousins. I asked each writer at what point they would select Cousins in a fantasy draft. Here are the answers:

Will Overton
I am divided on DeMarcus Cousins. Part of me looks at his numbers from last year and find myself wiping some drool off of my computer. Another part of me remembers the antics he has been a part of in the past and absolute basket case that he can be. Cousins could be this year’s Andrew Bynum, or he could completely implode. Read more

Last time we discussed the sleepers. This time we’re taking a look at who will be the biggest bust in the 2011-12 fantasy basketball season.

Patrick from Give Me the Rock got us started.

The aged Tim Duncan is an obvious choice given that this might be the year that he finally falls off a cliff. But I’ll go out on a limb all by myself and say Jrue Holiday. Everyone loves the guy – from Doug Collins to Sixers fans to fantasy owners – and it’s easy to see why when you watch him make his opponents look silly on the court. But the GMTR statistical projections we did before the start of the season suggest that there is a good chance he doesn’t actually improve this season. That sounds crazy since he’s a 21-year old point guard who is entering his third year in the league, but 6 of his 10 closest player comps going back to the year 1990 actually regressed on a per-36 minute basis in their age-21 seasons. In addition, Holiday already averaged over 35 minutes a game last season, so it’s not like can simply play more minutes this year to improve his overall numbers.

Statistical projections are only a part of the story though. Holiday is off to a slow start this season (averaging only 2.8 assists to go along with his 15.5 points) due in part to guys like Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams sucking up Sixers’ possessions with a lot of long two point attempts instead of letting Holiday attack the basket. Holiday’s assists will go back up eventually as he’s given more control of the offense, but as long as Iguodala is considered “the man” on this Sixers team, we may have to wait for Holiday to take that huge step forward everyone is expecting. Read more

We are bringing back the fantasy basketball roundtable this year between three different fantasy basketball blogs. Every week one member of the roundtable will propose a  question to the writers on all three sites and all those who choose to will answer.

Hopefully this will lead to lots of good discussion, and hopefully a healthy amount of friendly disagreement as well. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll even learn something by reading what we all think.

To kick things off for our first fantasy roundtable the question was posed by Will from RotoProfessor Basketball. Here is the question and the collection of answers that was received this week:

Who will be the guy this year that comes out of nowhere and ends up being a top 50 fantasy player? Think this year’s Dorell Wright who did this last season. 

Ryan from Lester’s Legends
The player that I think will come out of nowhere to earn a spot in starting fantasy lineups and join the mid-to-upper echelon of fantasy players is Jeff Teague. Read more

Another fantasy basketball roundtable took place last week and this time the topic of discussion was our most shameful draft picks up to this date. As tough as it was for all of us to admit them, we all have some pretty embarissing picks.

There were answers ranging from sleepers turned bust like Anthony Randolph to underperforming guys taken in the top 30 like Chris Bosh.

To read the full roundtable and everyone’s shameful ways check out fBasketballBlog

Here is the full question and my own answer to it…

Who has turned out to be your most shameful draft pick? Read more

It’s time once again for the weekly roundtable where we have a panel of some of the best fantasy basketball bloggers out there discussing a different topic related to, what else, fantasy basketball. This week it is Rotoprofessor’s turn to host the roundtable and so I have all the answers for you, to the question I asked everyone.

This week’s roundtable focused on the guys that not enough people are focusing on. Here is the question…

Looking at the owned percentages on different popular fantasy basketball sites, who is one player you feel is still being overlooked and should be added in more leagues?

And here are the answers straight from the experts themselves…

Nels Wadycki from Give Me The Rock
Landry Fields is sitting at about 39% ownership, but providing stats at almost Top 100 level talent. It simply cannot be possible that 60% of leagues have only 8 teams in them. I know you have to factor in “dead” leagues when you look at ownership percentage, but you also have to factor in that Fields is not just playing, but <em>starting</em> for the fantasy goldmine that is the Knicks. He’s averaging 6.4 rebounds which is nice for someone you can play at the Shooting Guard position. Speaking of things that are nice from a Shooting Guard, how about 55% from the field and 82% from the line? Read more