NEW YORK — Oct. 10, 2025 (10:00 a.m. ET) — ESPN Fantasy has published its annual cheat sheet for the 2025-26 NBA season, offering a comprehensive set of tools for fantasy basketball managers ahead of draft day.
The package includes updated head-to-head points and rotisserie/category rankings, player projections, profiles, draft strategies, expert mock drafts, sleepers, busts, breakouts and rookie rankings.
Among the featured players is reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who posted a career-best 32.7 points per game last season and headlines the updated rankings.
Managers can download several PDFs:
- Draft tips cheat sheet — a quick-reference guide containing sleepers, busts, breakouts, Eric Karabell’s “Do Draft” and “Do Not Draft” lists, and André Snellings’ ultimate draft board.
- Top 150 rankings for head-to-head points leagues — Snellings’ top 200 list tailored to standard ESPN scoring settings.
- Top 150 rankings for roto/category leagues — Snellings’ top 200 for eight-category formats (points, threes, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks, field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage).
- NBA schedule grid — a calendar showing each team’s game count during key fantasy playoff weeks to help managers maximize lineup opportunities.
ESPN notes that printing the cheat sheets allows drafters to monitor selections in real time and identify the best available talent as drafts progress.
Source: ESPN
