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Fantasy Basketball Rankings - UCONN Alumni


The Beast of the Big East!
On the heels of the Big East's first place University of Connecticut's resounding victory of Rutgers, I wanted to provide an update of the players the school is more well-known for - its men's basketball players. With fantasy basketball getting into full-swing, I am going to track how these fellow alumni measure-up.

They are ranked according to NBA.com's Fantasy Sports Performance Index (FSPI). To delve more into more detail, click through, but, to sum-up, FSPI is:

Each player is given an FSPI value for each standard rotisserie category (FG%, FT%, 3-pointers, Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, and Blocks) for both totals and per game averages. They are then given a total score for each of those stat collections that averages out all of their per-game and totals FSPI. We then give you a "Combined FSPI" that averages the scores for both totals and averages. If a player leads the league in a particular category, he gets a 10.00. If he is at the bottom of the fantasy barrel, he scores a 0.00. Easy, right? You want as many 10.0's - or numbers close to 10.00 - as possible. Once you dip under 5.0 in a category, you are looking at an area of weakness that will need to be compensated for elsewhere.
As with any rotisserie-style game, the early rankings are subject to wild fluctuations based on a great game or a couple of stinkers. I am sure there are few fantasy ballers who would rank C Emeka Okafor behind SG Rip Hamilton.
PLAYER NAME TEAM NAME Rank FG% FT% PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PT TOT
Ray Allen BOS 9 8.25 8.24 7.74 2.11 0.99 0 0 10 4.67
Ben Gordon CHI 20 3.02 8.03 6.9 4.05 3 3.62 0 5.93 4.32
Richard Hamilton DET 28 10 6.62 6.5 2.11 5 2.72 0 0 4.12
Emeka Okafor CHA 64 7.38 0 5.11 7.11 0.99 5.45 6.93 0 4.12
Rudy Gay MEM 79 5.82 6.19 4.49 1.58 0.99 0 0 2.23 2.66
Andrew Bynum LAL 110 7.28 6.62 3.41 4.58 2.3 2.72 1.55 0 3.56
Charlie Villanueva MIL 194 3.28 5.44 1.86 3 0.99 0 0 1.48 2.01
Donyell Marshall CLE 263 3.93 6.16 0.77 0.53 0.99 0 2.31 1.11 1.98
Hilton Armstrong NOH 293 4.54 5.73 0.46 2.9 0.49 0 1.16 0 1.91
Josh Boone NJN 304 4.63 5.87 0.31 1.05 -0.01 0.9 0 0 1.59
Jake Voskuhl MIL 319 4.81 6.16 0 0.53 -0.01 0 0 0 1.44
Marcus Williams NJN INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ