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Which teams have best playoff schedules?

Fantasy basketball mock draft: 10-team H2H points league

The fantasy basketball playoffs begin in just over a month, and if you’ve played this game before you know that will be here before you know it. Now is the time to set yourself up for a deep playoff run by stacking your roster with players who have favorable schedules from Week 20 on.

So which teams and players are the ones to have? And which should be avoided at all costs?

Here are Eric Karabell, Eric Moody, Jim McCormick and Steve Alexander to explain.


Four teams have the best playoff schedules

Paying attention to the schedule is important in head-to-head playoff leagues and it all depends on when your league’s playoffs run. For simplicity sake, I looked at Weeks 20-24 and here’s the break down.

Four teams (HOU, MEM, OKC, PHI) play 19 games during Weeks 20-24 and they have the best fantasy playoff schedules. There are no two-game weeks to be found and these teams all go four times in four of those five weeks. That’s great news for players like Jalen Green, Alperen Sengun, Ja Morant, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Joel Embiid.

The 18-game teams are also void of any two-game weeks and are going to be highly sought after come playoff time (BKN, GSW, MIL, POR, SAC).

The teams with 17 games (bulk of the league) are the middle-of-the road playoff schedules but beware of CHA, CHI, MIA, NYK and SAS. Each of them have a two-game week tucked in there, but also have three four-game weeks.

The teams with 16 games (DEN, DET, LAC, MIN, PHX, TOR, UTAH) have it rough and the Nuggets and Nikola Jokic have a pair of two-game weeks during that stretch, which is disappointing. All but one of the 16-game teams have a two-game week, with the Raptors being the lone exception.

The Cavaliers are the only 15-game team but if your playoffs start after Week 20, you avoid any two-game weeks. So in some ways the Cavs’ schedule might be better than some of the teams with more games during those five weeks. — Alexander

Target 76ers, avoid Clippers, Cavaliers, Jazz and others

Philadelphia is one of several teams with four scheduled games in five of the final six weeks, but we should look how the 76ers treat stars Joel Embiid and James Harden now. This should benefit Tyrese Maxey and Tobias Harris the most. This duo will get all the shots they desire in the…

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