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QUIET NIGHT
No games on this night. The league goes dark for the All-Star break and around the holidays, and this page says so rather than guessing.
See the games-per-week schedule instead →Court guide
Reading a basketball scoreboard for fantasy
A basketball night is long and most of it matters to somebody's lineup. The scoreboard here is built for the manager checking a phone between the early tips and the late ones: each card carries the tip time before a game starts, the score and the quarter while it runs, and the final when it ends, with the overtime marked. The strip across the top is the fantasy week, Monday to Sunday, with the league-wide game count under each night, because in a category league the question is never only who won tonight but how many of your players had a game at all. A three-game Thursday and an eleven-game Wednesday are different weeks for a lineup, and the strip shows the shape of the one you are in.
The standings rail beside the slate is in seed order with the playoff and play-in lines drawn, which is the version of the table that decides who rests in April.
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Tip times and lineup locks
Every major host locks a player's lineup slot at his club's tip, not at the start of the night, so the tip time on a card is a lineup deadline. A manager with a questionable player in the 10:30 game and a healthy one on the bench in the 7:00 game has until the early tip to decide, and the card order on this page, early tips first, is that decision list. Times are shown in your own zone.
Overtime, blowouts and the fourth quarter
A game that goes to overtime is marked on the card, and it is a fantasy fact as well as a basketball one: five extra minutes is five more minutes of counting stats for both clubs' starters, which in a close head-to-head week can decide a category. A blowout runs the other way. When a game is twenty points apart in the fourth, the starters sit and the last three minutes belong to the end of the bench, so a score that looks settled at the half is worth a second glance for the fantasy line it produced. A back-to-back marker on a card says the club played last night, the nights when stars are most often rested; the schedule planner marks them for the whole week.
The strip across the week
The nights on the strip run Monday to Sunday because that is how the major hosts cut a fantasy week, and the count under each night is every game in the league that night. The thin nights, under six games, are marked, because they are the nights a streamer is worth most: with most of the league idle, any rotation player with a game beats a star without one. Before the season opens the strip starts on opening night and the cards carry tip times only, which is an honest scoreboard rather than an empty one.
Box scores
Tap a card for the game page. Before tip it shows the two clubs' rosters from our directory and the injury report for both, so a manager can see who is expected to play before the lineup locks; the full box score with every player's line comes with the game-sheet feed, and the page says so rather than showing an empty table. Tonight's results reach the player pages and the rankings once the projections refresh, and the injury report is where a player who left a game early appears the next morning.
Scores come from our own feed, refreshed every minute while games are live. A game that is not in the feed shows its tip time from the schedule and nothing else.