ESPN Unveils 2025-26 Fantasy Basketball Draft Guide With Comprehensive Rankings and Tools
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ESPN Fantasy released its 2025-26 Fantasy Basketball Draft Guide on Sept. 24 at 8:42 a.m. ET, offering a full menu of rankings, projections and strategic advice aimed at helping managers prepare for the upcoming NBA season.
Key Features
Top-150 rankings. Analyst André Snellings publishes two separate lists: one tailored for head-to-head points leagues and another for roto and category formats.
Detailed player projections. The guide includes sortable forecasts for points, rebounds, assists, steals, three-pointers, blocks, turnovers, field-goal attempts and free throws.
Mock drafts. A 10-team head-to-head points mock dated Sept. 22 headlines a collection of practice drafts available through ESPN’s mock draft lobby.
Strategy and Analysis
Sleepers, breakouts and busts. Staff experts identify players expected to outperform or underperform draft position and pinpoint candidates poised for elite production.
Experts’ must-have lists. Columnists reveal five players they refuse to leave drafts without.
Rookie spotlight. Analysts debate whether No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg justifies his current average draft position.
Ten winning tips. Snellings outlines fundamentals for building a championship roster.
Salary-cap draft guide. Jim McCormick provides tactics for navigating auction formats, along with a breakdown of points, roto and category scoring systems.
Tools and Resources
Users can create new leagues, reactivate previous competitions or join open leagues directly from the guide. Additional resources include:
- Average Draft Position (ADP) data and live draft results
- Fantasy Basketball 101 primer for first-time players
- An analytics glossary explaining metrics such as eFG%, pace, usage rate and CARMELO
The draft guide and its accompanying tools are available now on ESPN Fantasy for all managers preparing for the 2025-26 season.
Source: ESPN
