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I don’t know about you guys but JC is fired up about this upcoming NBA season.

The roster is versatile, there’s so much shooting, there’s options galore at every position oh and there’s an open roster spot ready for buyout szn!

This episode covers that and a little bit of the Damian Lillard trade to Milwaukee, no predictions here, just excitement over what could be with this beautiful roster full of veteran and Baby Lakers!

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Powered by the industry’s best projections and rankings, the Bruski 150, this Excel-based tool is designed to help your team dominate during your draft. We have built it to evolve with your draft using proprietary draft strategies all while maintaining simplicity and most importantly… Uptime! No more worrying about the rush of fantasy users ruining your draft due to server limits during draft weekends as we have seen so many times in the past.

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Overall Outlook

We’ve been focused on the Western Conference with these previews, but with the season fast-approaching, I think it prudent to hit on the teams that made the more impactful transactions. The Detroit Red Wings are certainly near the top of that list. It was one of the stranger seasons seeing as they came into the season having playoff aspirations. They fell flat on their face as every aspect to playing winning hockey broke almost immediately. They suffered from consistent inconsistent production – 24th in Goals For (no player surpassed 80 points), 23rd in Goals Against. We’ll highlight the additions in a moment, but it’s certainly worth noting the departures: Dominik Kubalik, LW (OTT), Filip Zadina, RW (SJ), Pius Suter, C (VAN), Alex Chiasson, RW (PTO w/ BOS), Adam Erne, LW (UFA), Robert Hagg, D (ANA), Gustav Lindstrom, D (MTL), Alex Nedeljkovic, G (PIT), Magnus Hellberg, G (PIT). It’s obvious they did not like what they saw from their younger guys like Zadina, Suter, and Erne while signaling they are not waiting around to contend for one more second.

So, in step the newcomers…

Offseason Additions

FWs Alex DeBrincat, LW, J.T. Compher, C, Klim Kostin, LW, Daniel Sprong, RW, Christian Fischer, RW

D Justin Holl, Jeff Petry, Shayne Gostisbehere

G James Reimer

Fantasy Outlook

– Detroit fans are going to be chomping at the bit for their first home game and seeing Dylan Larkin have some real support. The most impactful signing was Alex Debrincat, who joins his 3rd team before turning 26. Underlying circumstances or context aside, he’ll also likely approach 200 career goals before his next birthday, as well (December). The Cat brings speed and an incredibly accurate forehand shot that will undoubtedly give opposing teams much more to think about at both even strength and when Detroit has the man-advantage. Almost half his points last season came from the powerplay (30/66). The last stat I’ll throw out is he’s only had one season where he dipped below 10% shooting the puck and that was 8%…he’s deadly with time and, frankly doesn’t need much space thanks to his smaller frame. This year I project him to get back up above 30 goals and sit around 70-74 points.

– When a team imagines getting stronger down the middle and at the dot, they aim to imitate what Detroit did this summer after Colorado let JT Compher and his 49% faceoff win-rate walk out the door. Now, to be fair, Compher is not some perennial scorer, but at the same time he’s no slouch. Teams could do so much worse than 50+ points and 50% on the dots. That being said, changing teams won’t change his fantasy projection much given that he’ll likely be the 2nd or 3rd-line center, depending on how Andrew Copp plays. Let’s give Compher around 50 points.

– One of the more interesting moves was seeing Seattle let Daniel Sprong move on, but I suspect it was due to the salary cap. A depth forward, sure, but also was 6th in Seattle for team scoring – racked up 46 point in a 4th line role averaging just over 11 minutes of ice time. He has a very underrated wrist-shot (14% shooting) and sneaky speed that will catch defenders off guard. I think he has more upside than fellow newcomer, Christian Fischer, and will earn 3rd line time eventually. I’m going to be a little vanilla with this one and put Sprong at the 45 point projection, but that’s also plenty reasonable given his depth role.

– To further back up my point about Sprong versus Fischer, Christian played in 14 more games a year ago and scored 19 less points. Fischer is not really worth noting in fantasy nor is worthy of that 3rd line RW spot. I don’t have some vendetta against him, he’s simply not a scorer.

– Defensively, it’ll be interesting how they deploy their defensive pairings. This will of course affect the fantasy value of both Jeff Petry and Shayne Gostisbehere. Both put up 31 points and both still posses the skills to be impactful on the offensive side. However, due to the presence of Jake Walman, Moritz Seider and even Ben Chiarot, their roles/opportunities might be capped at a similar projected output – probably around 35 points.

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ADP Data used via FantasyPros 

1st overall pick by ADP: Trea Turner, PHI

Power, speed, track record, hitting in front of those Phillies bats, and a monster showing at the World Baseball Classic had people with 1:1 excited to take Trea. Unfortunately, he got off to a very slow start and has posted a disappointing .751 OPS in 2023.

Redraft 1st overall pick: Ronald Acuna Jr, ATL (His ADP at the start of the year 2.8)

Acuna is in the midst of one of the greatest fantasy baseball seasons of all time as he just became the first player ever to hit 30 HR and steal 60 bases. Ridiculous stuff and if he stays hot he could maybe go 40/70. He’s got a 1.001 OPS, .338 AVG, 122 Runs, 31 HRs, 63 SB and went as low as pick 16 in some ESPN drafts.

(In this redraft Shohei only counts as a DH or a SP, not both)

2nd overall pick by ADP: Aaron Judge, NYY

This is a totally fair pick based on what Judge did in 2022 but unfortunately, he’s missed a fair amount of time with a toe injury and has only played 81 games in 2023. He’s still got a 1.014 OPS and 30 HRs in that limited time though. A full season from Judge would have put him on pace for 60 bombs and as long as he’s healthy for your fantasy playoffs, you’re happy.

Redraft 2nd overall pick: Shohei Ohtani DH, LAA (His ADP 9)

Based simply on his hitting stats, Ohtani deserves this spot as he leads the league in OBP (.413), SLG (.654), OPS (1.066), TB (325), BB (86), R (102), Triples (8) and HR (44). If he lands in a better lineup next year he’ll probably lead the league in RBIs as well.

3rd overall pick by ADP: Ronald Acuna Jr., ATL

Everyone knew Acuna had the tools but in 2022 he only posted a .754 OPS and 15 HRs in 119 games after tearing his ACL in 2021. It was a pick based on potential and he has rewarded those who chose him.

3rd overall pick by redraft: Mookie Betts, LAD (His ADP 9.4)

After 5 months of thinking Acuna is the clear NL MVP favorite, Mookie is seriously contending for that award. Betts is having his best season since 2018 and has a 1.028 OPS, 38 HRs, 98 RBIs, 116 Runs while hitting for a .315 AVG. He and Freddie Freeman are a dynamic duo at the top of that Dodger lineup and we are witnessing an all-time season from Betts.

4th overall pick by ADP: Jose Ramirez, CLE

If you took J-Ram here you are pretty happy with it. Solid all-around numbers, other top picks have just had better seasons so far.

Redraft 4th overall pick: Freddie Freeman, LAD (His ADP 11.2)

Steady Freddie is having one of the best years of his career at age 33 hitting for a ridiculous .338 batting average to go with his .994 OPS, 25 HRs and a sneaky 17 SB. The definition of a professional hitter, Freeman leads the league in doubles and is on pace for his sixth straight top-10 MVP finish. He was going out of the top 10 in drafts because it’s a bit of a boring pick but he’ll be a top 10 pick next year even at age 34.

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