What is pace of play and how is it used for nba daily fantasy?
Pace of play is the rate at teams run their possessions on the floor. If there is a pace up game for a slower team, it benefits the team that is walking up the court. If the game is a pace down for a running team, it then downgrades their regular pace of play in the NBA.
You can find pace of play her at DraftDashboard.com for a simple easy to read breakdown to follow the total pace.

As you can see here the total pace of play is when both teams accumulate together the total pace of the game. This of course is more of a projection in play as the teams do not always perform up or down to this level.
What you may also notice is that on today’s games there are teams with orange colored indicators on the pace of play circle so that when hovering over the players analytics, you will notice the disadvantage in the game, as green is good, and red is below average for the category.
When you have a dream matchup.
When both teams are at or above the 200 possessions per game, you are good. Many games can reach this level, and the nba seems to be more of running league then it was just a few short years ago. Couple this with a high over/under in a close matchup and it really is a dream matchup that you want to stack, especially in tournaments. Always look out for players that step up in starting roles as well due to injuries or perhaps rest.
FreeSquare players for the day and Cheat Sheets.
Additionally to get player suggestions that you won’t get too early in the day, but to check here later in the afternoon/evening you will want to see the cheatsheet here to get the best players for the day offered on the site.
You can get a trial run on DD along with these features and benefits:
- Browse NBA Teams rosters along with their Fantasy Rankings for the day or Dash Rank. This allows you to see the fantasy points per gm together.
- Position Optimizer to make it easy to sort the players you want in your lineups. This is where I suggest using the bullseye feature, where the DD will save your targeted players for the day on avoid your avoided players.
- Sleepers and Studs will help you make decisions on consistent fantasy starters and/or low cost sleepers in certain price ranges.
- Player Trends Helps you decide which players have salary value and relief along with high performing players
- Lineup Optimizer helps you build the lineups with the players you targeted so that you can quickly fit them into a lineup saving lots of time!
- Watched Players will show all of the players that you have watched throughout the day, saved.
- Pro Player Pools will provide certain pro’s pool of players for the particular day in fantasy sports.
All of these tools are now available along with the sortable columns of FPPG, usage, minutes, values, and projected points for the slate. All of this is sortable by the slate. More features are constantly added and updated on the site as well.