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This article is based on the fantasy basketball competition run at www.dunkest.com . So now the playoffs are about to begin.   Dunkest has decided on a couple of things. 1. Your Credits are reset back to 95, and your score is reset to 0. 2. Each match day will cover a full real day's play, so not every team or player will be involved in every match day. The first point is a bit of a pain. The team you built and worked hard on all season in increasing its value is all now useless.  The second point encourages people to totally ditch their team after one Match Day to select players that will only be involved in the next Match Day. Player stats below, sortable by clicking on the column headers, last updated 2015-06-16 19:00 GMT. Player Team Pos Total Pts Expected Pts Credits Pts per game per Credit Last 3 (avg) Next Match Next 3 (exp) LeBron James CLE (F) 799.00 34.70 24.1 1.44 54.0 24.0 66.0 48.00 2015-06-16 GSW(H) () () 0.00 Stephen Curry GSW (G) 605.50 ...

Over Christmas the FoG blog data analysts found time to code some java to strip the boxscores from espn into a csv file and to strip the player costs from Dunkest  into a csv file. This work has spawned articles like  here  (top players ranked by expected points per game) and  here  (identify soft games in the Dunkest Schedule) and here (opposition ranked by expected points given away).  When I wrote the article on the top players (Shopping List) I mentioned that it was just a guide to give you some leads.  It didn't take into consideration player cost.  We can do that now. I will hopefully be updating this table below before the start of every matchday, so bookmark this page and come back. Total Pts: The official total Dunkest Points. Expected Pts : This is the average player points calculated the Dunkest way for all games this season (it includes off schedule games).  This can be considered the expected points per game.  R...