The living 2026-27 season reference connects rankings, projections, roles, depth charts, news, team outcomes, and player dossiers while preserving source dates and uncertainty.
Snapshot: 2026-07-19 · 30 team desks · 555 player dossiers, including unsigned and draft-rights cases · full career records on every dossier · 4,600+ cited URL occurrences. July outputs are early-offseason projections, not camp-final depth charts or settled platform ADP; the July 19 three-team Dort/Nembhard/Risacher trade is applied throughout.
Draft room
This league is ESPN points or nine-category, 10 or 12 teams. The two boards below are the ones that matter; everything further down is supporting material.
- 2026-27 draft boards — ESPN points and nine-category — start here. Both formats side by side, with the 147 players who move 15+ slots between them
- 2026-27 tiers — ESPN points and nine-category — draft-day tiers for both formats, cut at natural value gaps
- 2026-27 volume-corrected nine-category board — the full 9-cat board and the reasoning behind the repair
- Draft day checklist and decision rules
- Points leagues versus category leagues — why the same player is a different asset in each
Supporting boards and editorial reasoning:
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball rankings — the editorial top 200 with per-player scenario trees
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball tiers
- 2026-27 category rankings
- 2026-27 rookies
- 2026-27 sleepers, breakouts, and fades
- 2026-27 dynasty rankings — keeper and long-horizon only
Other scoring systems, kept for reference but not this league: 2026-27 points-league rankings (Yahoo points formula, plus a computed ESPN top 100) · 2026-27 Yahoo High Score board (Yahoo's default format since 2025-26).
Draft strategy
Format-specific strategy and historical base rates. The board tells you who; these tell you how.
- 10-team versus 12-team fantasy basketball strategy
- Points leagues versus category leagues
- Punt strategies for nine-category leagues
- Drafting by slot in snake drafts
- Category correlations and roster construction
- Positional scarcity and eligibility in 2026-27
- Streaming and in-season roster management
- Fantasy basketball value stability and bust rates
- NBA aging curves and breakout ages
- Projecting games played and availability
- Reading projections and disagreement
Projections
- Projection engine defects and corrections — what the build script got wrong and how it was repaired
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball projection methodology
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball player projections
- 2026-27 NBA minutes projections
- 2026-27 NBA team outcomes
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball role battles
- 2026-27 projection uncertainty ledger
League map
- 2026-27 NBA fantasy team index
- 2026-27 NBA depth charts
- 2026-27 NBA roster and transaction ledger
- Schedule and streaming desk
Player encyclopedia
Source library
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball source index
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball news ledger
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball video and podcast library
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball social and community ledger
Wiki
- Encyclopedia wiki website — the browsable HTML rendering of this entire encyclopedia (
~/Desktop/Code/fantasy-encyclopedia)
Research standards
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball evidence and confidence policy
- 2026-27 fantasy basketball source freshness ledger
- Encyclopedia audit
- Build progress
Open questions
- Which rankings are genuinely 2026-27 forecasts rather than stale 2025-26 pages with updated headers?
- Which projected roles remain contingent on unresolved transactions, injuries, or camp competition?
- How should category, points, dynasty, and keeper values be kept comparable without collapsing their different objectives?