Six Yahoo points-league sleepers drafters are letting slide

Yahoo's default points scoring is simpler than ESPN's. A point is a point, a rebound is worth 1.2, an assist 1.5, a steal or a block 3 and a turnover costs one, and nothing is charged for a missed shot. That changes who is worth drafting. High-volume scorers who shoot in the mid-forties, whom ESPN's scoring punishes for every miss, keep all of their value on Yahoo, and the players Yahoo drafters most often leave too long are scorers whose last season was cut short.

We compared the consensus points rank with Yahoo's average draft position in early October and found six players going between fourteen and twenty-nine picks after their rank. Five of the six missed significant time last season, and that is the common thread: the market is pricing last season's games, and we are pricing this season's.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.