By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
The Euroleague fantasy challenge’s main quest after the first week and until the end of the first round in the regular season of the Euroleague is collecting credits and raising the cost of your team. Eurohoops will help you on that.
Eurohoopsnet team had a great start in the fantasy challenge with 194,8 points in the first week and 541,65 credits available. It’s still soon but the following weeks are crucial because you must earn as many credits as you can in order to have the “luxury” to buy later expensive players. In any case, there are at least 26 more weeks for big scores.
So, after the first week the players are divided to the overvalued (those who played in the first week worse than was expected according to their price and you must sell or not buy), the undervalued (those who played in the first week better than was expected according to their price and you must keep or buy them) and the players who played according to their price and it’s up to you to decide their future.
Every week you can make no more than three changes so you must sell now the most overvalued players. For example if you have in your team players like Sergio Rodriguez, Dimitris Diamantidis, Marcelinho Huertas and Carlos Arroyo you must sell them without thinking what they will do this week.
We will sell for sure our players (Ragland and Bjelica) whose price is lower than one week ago and also Esteban Batista who must have a +12 score to keep his price. The center of Panathinaikos is a safe choice but not for now after his average start. We have 138 credits available and though there are players like Thomas Heurtel (if has +8,2 score he will raise his price to 78 credits, 10 more than he has now) or Andrew Goudelock we will choose cheaper but safer picks.
So, we made a list with the most undervalued players in each position to help you decide. Among them we will pick Dontaye Draper, Mardy Collins and Luka Mitrovic.
Point Guards
Thomas Heurtel (67,9), Jeremy Pargo (61), Dontaye Draper (43,7), Marquez Haynes (36,8), Pape-Philippe Amagou (34,5), Lukas Lekavicius (33,4)
Shooting Guards/Small Forwards
Andrew Goudelock (78,2), Tarence Kinsey (65,6), Fernando San Emeterio (61), Pietro Aradori (58,7), Nihad Djedovic (54,1), Nikos Pappas (51,8), Mardy Collins (50,6), Kostas Sloukas (47,2), Mindaugas Kuzminskas (46), Ryan Toolson (43,7), Vladimir Jankovic (40,3), Arturas Milaknis (38), Evgeny Baburin (35,7), Ante Delas (26,5)
Power Forwards/Centers
Ante Tomic (103,5), Boban Marjanovic (63,3), Fran Vazquez (63,3), Zoran Erceg (63,3), Art Parakhouski (62,1), Sasha Kaun (59,8), Toko Shengelia (58,7), Nikolo Melli (57,5), Adrien Moerman (55,2), Damian Kulig (55,2), Miro Bilan (54,1), Jeff Brooks (51,8), Donatas Zavackas (49,5), Luke Haragondy (49,5), Andrey Vorontsevich (48,3), Will Thomas (41,4), Luka Mitrovic (36,8), Simas Galdikas (31,1)
Eurohoopsnet team for the second week is:
Point Gurads
Jeremy Pargo 61 credits (+8)
Dontaye Draper 43,7 credits
Shooting Guards/Small Forwards
Tarence Kinsey 65,5 credits (+8,5)
David Logan 58,6 credits (+7,6)
Davis Bertans 50,6 credits (+6,6)
Mardy Collins 50,6 credits
Power Forwards/Centers
Boban Marjanovic 63,2 credits (+8,2)
Adrien Moerman 55,2 credits (+7,2)
Luke Harangody 49,5 (+6,5)
Luka Mitrovic 36,8 credits