Fantasy Basketball Correlation Matrix

The matrix is based on the 2019-20 NBA season’s per-game standard scores of the top 200 players.

This could be used as a guide for possible punting strategies. There are many players with non-standard statistical contributions, however it might be a good idea to keep within standard lines to have the biggest potential player-base and to minimize categorical waste.

The players can be divided into 3 main groups:

• ft-fg3m-pts-ast-stl
• blk-reb-fg
• tov

Based on actual basketball roles, the first two groups are smalls and bigs. Turnovers clearly don’t fit with either group.

Smaller groups are also present within smalls:

• ft-fg3m
• fg3m-pts-ast
• pts-ast-stl