Friends in fast breaks,
New players coming to Points OAD! New pools next week!
IMPORTANT NBA H2 REMINDERS
I'll be repeating these the next few weeks.
1) Our "second half" pools start January 12th! There's a Survivor, Weekly Pick'em, and Wins Battle with $4,000 in prizes. Then we have two Playoffs pools for $2,500 in prizes. There's a lot more basketball and prizes coming! Make sure you're in >>
2) NBA Squads lock on Jan 12th with the start of our H2 Pools. Squads are a way to play in our pools with your friends and win BONUS prizes together for every pool we run. Get three friends in a Pool, add them to your NBA Squad, and you're elgible! We give out Prizes to pool champ's Squad, as well as the Squad with the best combined Top 3 scores. There are only 6 eligible NBA Squads (out of 19) right now, so get some easy money just for playing with your friends!
3) Get $10 for each new NBA referral! Send your friends your referral link, have them buy the NBA Bundle, and you'll get $10 for each of them. They must be a new user (join after 12/21, buy before Jan 13th). Add them to your NBA Squad from #2 and get even more cash by playing together.
4) Who do you want added to NBA Points One-And-Done? As stated in our rules, we're going to evaluate adding players to the pool after Week 11 for the second half. The goal is to add any high-performing players that didn't make the original roster. We may add none, and we won't add more than ten. I'll be evaluating over the next few weeks, but I'm happy to consider requested player from you all. You can submit them in a pick comment or email gm@theszn.com.
WEEK 11 PICKS
- Points One-And-Done
- Survivor #1
- "All 30" One-And-Done
The GM AWARDS
Rewarding whatever random things I feel like. Feel free to suggest topics!
Newest Points OAD Players - These guys!
As promised in the rules (and these posts for weeks), we've hit the mid-point of the SZN and that means we're adding players to the pool. This is the only time we do this at large, outside of trades that leave a team without two players or season-ending injuries. This makes sure we've got as much exciting talent in the roster as possible, while sticking to our tenets of a small roster to drive straegic picking. Here are your new options coming in Week 12:
- Cam Thomas (BKN) - He's streaky as can be, but there have been some nuclear performances and you can take your chances.
- Terry Rozier (CHA) - Only reason he wasn't on the original roster was for the rookie inclusion of B. Miller, and he's been extra great while LaMelo was been out.
- Alperen Sengun (HOU) - Becoming the hub of Houston's offense has thrust him into All Star contention.
- Bam Adebayo (MIA) - Bam didn't make the initial cut this year as we favored Herro's scoring. But Bam has stepped up his offense and earned a spot.
- Immanuel Quickley (TOR) - The trade from NYK should boost his minutes by ~50% and he's a great fit next to Scottie and Pascal (while he's still around). RJ Barrett was also considered for the spot.
- Coby White (CHI) - With Lavine out injured, Coby has thrived and the team has looked better. And with Lavine expected to be traded, Coby should be a great option.
Not to toot our own horns too much, but our initial selections covered 46 of the 53 players averaging 20+ points so far, with a few being intentional holdouts like mentioned above. You've had most of the best options available all year, and now you'll have a few more to finish the SZN.
Thank you to those that shared input on who to add, we always love hearing feedback from the crowd!
Most Bang for your viewing buck - Games from Jan 4th
There were a measly two games last night, but man did they make them count! DEN @ GSW was an 18 point comeback with a walk-off ~40 foot three. MIL @ SAS swapped the lead 8 times in the final quarter, with the lead never passing 5 points and multiple "daggers". If you didn't see it live, the highlights are VERY worth it.
Biggest Ask - TheGM
Tell a friend about The SZN! We're hitting a crazy stretch in the next two weeks:
- NBA H2 pools (5 of them, most start 1/12)
- College Football National Championshop Props (Monday!)
- Golf pools (9 of them, some start 1/18)
- NFL Playoffs pools (3 of them, 2 start 1/13)
- FUT pools (3 of them, one starts 1/13)
That doesn't even include March Madness, which is right around the corner! There are referral incentives for you, benefits for your friends, and $150K+ in prizes for 1K+ winners up for grabs.
PICK STATS
Walking Bucket Wilt OAD
- T. Young and E. Edwards split our top spot with 38 picks each
- I know ATL fans will insist Trae has BEEN good, but his lst month of 30/12 with great 3P% just feels like the Trae we thought we'd be seeing the whole time since his second season
- Ant's had 32.7 over his last 10 games, flames!
- We're going REEEAALLL wide this week: J. Morant (37), T. Haliburton (30), L. James (27)
- Ja didn't scare us of after last week
- We're hoping LeBron can undo the skid after one of his worst games in a LONG time
- Interesting low volume picks: K. Kuzma (1), Z. Williamson (1), P. Banchero (1), J. Poole (1)
- Love seeing "Poozma" get picks every time
- Still crazy to me that with all the hype Zion had, he's sitting here getting picked once
- Speaking of #1 picks, Paolo literally just posted a career high of 43 (and 25+ in the last month) and is getting picked once
- Digging into the Golden Spreadsheet...
- 9 players now above 70% usage
- D. Mitchell with 80%!
- B. Beal up to a stellar 4 picks 👀
Survivor #1
- Status check
- 52 of you are still flawless (no wrong picks)
- 73 of you have missed once, but are still kicking
- 217 of us are eliminated and awaiting Survivor #2
- CHI took the top spot with 35 picks
- The one with the fans clamoring to blow it up?
- The one with Lavine coming back?
- The one playing Scary Terry?
- After that is CLE( 27 picks) and DAL (19)
- Playing WAS and POR respectively
- Don't forget CHI is playing CHA too
- I was surpised to see GSW so low since they're playing DET
- Then remembered 84% of you had ALREADY used them
- Is strategy time officially here?
- Digging into the Golden Spreadsheet...
- 89.6% of you have now used GSW, wow
- 5 teams above 75% usage
- DET, TOR, WAS, MEM are the least used teams now with 0, 3, 4, and 4 picks respectively
"All 30" One-And-Done
- CHI still dominates here with 48 picks
- Followed by CLE (37 picks), GSW (24), and DAL (21)
- There's GSW higher like I expected, since only 62% had used them in this pool
- There's MOXIE out there, you're just not commenting when you do it!
- 2 people on CHA over CLE?
- 1 person on HOU over MIN?
- Speak up you bold beautiful people!
- Digging into the Golden Spreadsheet...
- GSW flies up to 72.9% usage
- And we went from 1 to 5 teams with 50%+ usage
- And 4 teams are right below
- TOR is now our least used team at 16 picks (DET right ahead at 17)
BEST PICK COMMENTS
@YikesVikes (D. Fox, P. Siakam): "Rumors ablaze. kings go get Siakem from Toronto; This would put them in a win-now position. The closing lineup of Fox, Malik Monk, Keegan Murray, Siakam, and Sabonis would be a nightmare for opposing teams. While the chances that the Kings make a move for Siakam with their limited assets, is slim but they should use all options to land the talented forward from Toronto. So let's take them both this week. "
GM says: I've heard SAC, GSW, and IND as the leading candidates, with like 3 other teams also in the mix. More chaos please!
@Sportsfan90 (CLE, Survivor #1): "My 🔒 Cleveland "
GM says: Your 🔒s have only failed once in Week 1. How long can they go!
@bharris315 (J. Tatum, A. Edwards): "submit"
GM says: Is that an order? NEVER!
@kbanaian (CLE, All 30): "Cleveland playing well without some of their stars, keep it rolling tonight!"
GM says: Leave the (Darius) Garland on the tree, Evan (Mobley) if it's past Christmas
@RedEd4 (D. Murray, M. Turner): "Indiana and Atlanta, let's score!! "
GM says: Taking from the 1st and 3rd teams in scoring, maybe it works?
@RedEd4 (BOS, Survivor #1): "C's I guess "
GM says: C's the day? C's them? C's the means of production?
@Logan2273 (CLE, All 30): "Lots of easy picks this week"
GM says: Yeah Logan! Totally easy, no doubt no doubt... Don't look at my placement, btw
@Logan2273 (J. Randle, P. Siakam): "Going for the bigs today"
GM says: "Big tree fall hard" - Wedding Crashers
Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM