FanDuel daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup – October 21, 2017

Here are some FanDuel NBA picks to help you make some roster decisions for your daily fantasy basketball picks.

The story for Saturday is player absences. Even though it is only the first Saturday of the season, the NBA is already riddled with injuries to impact players and/or precautionary absences that dramatically affect the output potential of different teams.

Chris Paul, Hassan Whiteside, Joel Embiid, Elfrid Payton, Dennis Smith Jr., Myles Turner, Aaron Gordon and Derrick Rose are joining Kawhi Leonard on the sideline on Saturday night. You will see a lot of this reflected in my player advice in the slides to follow.

My favorite plays of the day can be found on the following slides in FanSided’s FanDuel daily picks. Each day in order to offer a variety of price points at each position, you can find two slides for each position–one for high-salary options and one for high-value options.

Each pick is ranked on a scale of 1-5 stars to indicate the confidence in the pick. The final slide of this post has more detail on what each level means, but in short, more stars means more confidence in the selection on a points-per-dollar basis.

Each day the goal of this post is not to give you a copy-and-paste lineup. Instead, each selection is given while highlighting the factors you need to consider when building a customized lineup for yourself. If you want to see an example lineup, you can find it on the final slide of the post, but I suggest you adjust your lineup to fit your personal taste.

All salary and “fantasy points” references are to FanDuel’s scoring system and salaries. Here’s a look at your best options for both studs and value players at each position.