and are skating by on your waiver hawking.

this is a daily points league with head to head stats. bench players get significant minutes all the time. people have wasted minutes all the time.

here's a likely scenario. one night kobe plays 45 minutes of inefficient ball because he'd rather go 1 for 30 than 1 for 9 and the lakers don't know how to rest him unless he's dead. j.j. hickson has a quietly efficient 1.3 night but you only get half of his minutes.

here's another scenario. deron takes a week off because deron takes weeks off. you get 30 minutes of .90 ball from the crawfords. kobe does okay but he doesn't count as a guard because lineups don't matter and he's your sixth guard. kobe counts like a forward as he always does, and the forwards below him do okay but their minutes don't count. you've just lost points because your .9 crawford always has a higher priority than your 1.0 patterson and you don't understand that kobe is your fulcrum.