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The indispensable draft kit prepared you for building your roster. The preseason whetted the appetite for the regular season and helped reveal some potential breakout candidates like the Suns Devin Booker and the Lakers DAngelo Russell. Now its time to get down to the rewarding grind of winning a fantasy basketball title.In this piece, I identify some of the key management strategies for season-long fantasy basketball we can employ throughout the NBA marathon.Start your studsThis seems like an easy enough element to convey, as were simply advising that you trust your top commodities even through slumps as long as the minutes are there. In fantasy football, we compete in pivotal matchups during a 13-game regular season, so each week represents a 7.7 percent sample of the entire campaign. The gravity afforded each game in football drives us to consider every matchup angle possible and even compels us to rightfully bench superstars like the Indianapolis Colts Andrew Luck against the stingy Denver Broncos in order to maximize output.Yet playing your high-minute studs in fantasy hoops is the way to go. Id only let injury or the threat of resting on a back-to-back remove a starting stud from my lineup. We need to embrace the inherent variance over the long NBA season with our trusted top commodities.Hit the wire earlySeveral top 50 commodities are likely floating in fantasy free agency in most leagues right now. We dont know who they are just yet, but the aggressive and proactive manager has the best chance at acquiring these emergent assets. The crowd is already woke -- as the kids say -- to the Spurs Jonathan Simmons and his scintillating debut on Tuesday night. Time will tell if there are enough minutes and opportunities for Simmons in San Antonio, but the intent is to audition guys like him and other rising players with the end of your bench.This isnt to say you should cut your depth at will, but afford your late-round picks a short leash when it comes to evaluating the opportunity cost during these pivotal early weeks when NBA rotations reveal a great deal of new information. Preseason trends can only inform us so much, as meaningful injuries and rotation shifts occur almost every day in this busy league. We tend to prove too loyal to our late-round picks in all fantasy formats, but this tendency can prove costly in the ever-shifting NBA landscape.Not that long ago, guys like Utahs Rudy Gobert and Miamis Hassan Whiteside were early-season waiver additions, so there is a precedent every autumn for sourcing season-shifting commodities. One name Im adding early this season is Terrence Jones of the Pelicans, as he could become a fantasy force as the complementary stretch big to Anthony Davis.Stream teamInjuries often open up temporary and possibly valuable roles in rotations around the league. Last season, the Rockets Marcus Thornton played 35.3 minutes and averaged 15 shots over the first six games of the season, but this was a short-lived role while Patrick Beverley worked his way back from injury. Knowing when its over is just as important as identifying when a helpful run of usage begins. Not every waiver addition we make will become an enduring contributor, yet we can develop a really productive mesh of numbers by streaming players with sudden surges in opportunity.Targeting generous defensive teams with streaming additions against teams like the Lakers or Sixers proved profitable last season, and a subset of soft defensive foes will develop again this season. Bookmark this useful defensive information in order to target the leagues most generous matchups. For weekly leagues, make sure to check out our Fantasy Forecaster each Friday, as we provide an overview of games played along with matchup ratings for each team. If you are deciding between two streaming options, its often wisest to go with the player who nets the most games in a given week.Sifting through the statsThere is a lot of noise in NBA data. We have tons of advanced information at our disposal, which can prove daunting to interpret. The NBAs player tracking data relies on a sophisticated series of cameras affixed to the catwalks of arenas in order to produce an awesome array of numbers for us to peruse. I like leveraging statistical categories like touches into fantasy decisions, which helps reveal who has the ball in their hand the most. Clearly point guards will surface at the top of this index, but we can also sort by different positions and in the post and paint in order to reveal opportunity rates.On Tuesday night, for example, we learned George Hill of the Jazz had 90 touches and led the slate in seconds per touch. This suggests Hill is enjoying a ball-dominant role already for Utah and is likely underappreciated in fantasy terms.Most helpful in the tracking data might be rebounding opportunities, listed as chances by the leagues information index. This stat is simply defined as the number of times a player is within 3.5 feet of a rebound per game. Last season saw Zaza Pachulia earn an elite rebounding opportunity rate that translated into some really helpful numbers on the glass. As the sample grows this season, make sure to check out the leaderboard in chances for an angle at cheap rebounding resources.Another reliable resource is our own advanced arsenal of NBA numbers available to Insiders. I namely rely on usage rate and PER (player efficiency rating) for identifying value. Usage rate is the measure of team plays a player consumes while on the court -- so players that are involved with the conclusion of a possession via shots, turnovers, free throws and assists will earn gaudy usage percentages. Its not surprising then to see the Blazers Damian Lillard atop the leaderboard. Just wait until Russell Westbrook starts hooping, as hes led the league the past three seasons.Our Player Rater is another helpful resource for identifying value. This index uses a standard deviation model to reveal which players are producing above-average numbers relative to their position. The Rater isnt very mature in the early weeks, but soon enough it will start revealing some enduring assets in each statistical category at every position.Dabble in DFSYou dont have to become a daily fantasy savant, but playing each night or several times a week in DFS competition admittedly helps season-long management. You can even play in free contests, while playing simply keeps you closer to the leagues nightly trends and helps isolate and identify which players and teams are proving productive. One truly helpful resource for keeping up with the rapid NBA news cycle is Joe Kaisers Twitter list of NBA writers and analysts, as it helps for both DFS and redraft management.Embrace the grindThe NBA season is long. Fantasy basketball is closer to fantasy baseball than anything else in that the consistently attentive and active managers often rise to the top. My best and most entertaining fantasy hoops seasons havent been defined by my best players, but rather rewarding free-agent pickups and finding sleepers that finally wake up with strong stats. Embrace the long season and stick with your roster even if your team starts out slowly, as informed and proactive management can dramatically augment your roster and improve your experience. Lucas Torreira Arsenal Jersey .Y. -- Canadas Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse have another World Cup gold medal after winning the two-women bobsled race on Saturday in Lake Placid, N. Aaron Ramsey Jersey . -- Jimmie Johnson held off a teammate, passed a pair of Hall of Famers, and dominated once more at Dover. http://www.footballarsenalstore.com/Women-Laurent-Koscielny-Arsenal-Fc-Jersey/ . The 17-year-old native of Marystown, N.L., pulled out of Skate Canada International last month in Saint John, N.B., with the same problem. 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