Day 1 Helpful Tips - Setting your Lineup

I wanted to provide some information for anyone new to Fantasy Basketball about Setting your lineups and other actions you can take day to day:

How to set your lineup via the ESPN App:

From the App follow these breadcrumbs:

My Team > Roster Tab

Here you can manage your lineups day to day including:

• Setting your Current day lineups
• Setting up your Future Lineups
• Setting up your Matchup Lineups
• Managing your IR
• Checking out information on your players

Setting Current Day lineups:

On the left side of each of the players on your roster is a "position button". Press this and you can move your player to valid locations by tapping where you want him moved. If there is a player in that position he will either be swapped with the first player you selected (if position designation is valid) or be moved to the bench. Any player can be moved to the bench or to the utility positions (UTIL). However, all other positions have to be filled with a player that has a valid designation. 

For example: Anthony Davis has a PF and C position designation. So you can move AD to the PF spot, the C spot, the F spot, the UTIL spots in your starting lineups. You can also move him to the bench. You cannot move AD to any of the guard spots however(PG, SG, G). If he is not OUT due to injury  (OUT/INJ shows on his icon) he also cannot be moved to the IR spot.

Setting up your future Lineups:

Lineups differ day to day so just because you set your lineup today doesn't have an impact on the lineup for tomorrow. For that reason it's highly recommended that you jump to future days and set those lines. You can do this manually by just using the arrow icons to jump to a future day and set the lineups as you would normally using the position buttons.

You can also do this auto-magically by hitting the quick lineup button, this quickly sets your lineup based on projections and if the player is playing (moving players who the logic thinks should be active to the starting spots, and players who the logic thinks shouldn't be playing to the bench). This only works for the duration of the current matchup.

Managing your IR:

The IR spots allow you to stash hurt or otherwise players who wont be playing and free up a roster spot. This is a valuable tool so that you can stay competitive even if your star players go down, allowing you to find a replacement until they return. Keep in mind that if your player is no longer in a valid IR designation (Suspended, Out, Injured) then they cannot sit in an IR spot. If they are sitting in an IR spot without the correct designation YOU CANNOT MAKE ANY ROSTER CHANGES UNTIL YOU REMOVE THEM FROM IR.

When you remove a player from IR, if your team added a waiver player to replace the IR player, then your roster will need to cut a player to make room for the new IR player.

Scouting Players:

ESPN will occaistionally provide updates on key players in the league. You can find this information by clicking on the player. Players with new information will get a red box under their name. You can see how a player has been performing recently as well as some analysis provided by ESPN. This is great for setting your lineup but also for scouting players you may want to trade for.