Schedule Grid

Each row is an NBA team and each column a Monday-to-Sunday week. A green cell means the team plays as many games as any team that week; a red one means two or more fewer. Games adds up the weeks shown, and Max wks counts the weeks with four or more games.

Rest of season starts at the current week, so the totals are the games a team has left. Full season shows every week from opening night. Click any column to sort the teams by it — a week's column puts that week's busiest teams on top.

By night shows one week at a time, a column per night: each team's opponent (@ for away games), a B2B tag on the second game of two nights, and how many games are played that night. Nights on which fewer than half the teams play are light nights, shaded; in a daily-lineup league they are when a streamer fills a slot that would otherwise sit empty. Use Previous and Next to move between weeks. Next 7 days shows the seven nights from today instead, moved a day at a time, so you can look past Sunday without losing tonight; a line marks where the next fantasy week starts. Players turns the rows into players — our top 150, or with a league connected your team, its free agents or another manager's team — with our models' chance he plays each of his team's games, most likely games first.

Streaming finds the teams to stream over the days you pick — up to 14, from today to four weeks out. Choose how many lineup slots you stream with and how many moves (adds) you will spend; a plan is shown for each number of moves, one below the other: which team to hold, when to drop it and who to add next, for the most games. Teams that play exactly the same nights are one option. A move that adds no game over the plan above is folded to one line. The plans are worked out once a day from the NBA schedule. Under each step it suggests up to three players to pick up, each linking to his page: your league's free agents on those teams, or without a league, players rostered in under half of ESPN leagues.

A dot under a number marks a back-to-back: a game the day after another. Teams often rest players on the second night, so a four-game week with two back-to-backs can be worth less than it looks. A back-to-back counts in the week of its second game, and the B2B column totals the weeks shown.

With a league connected, a badge beside each team shows how many of your rostered players are on it, so you can see which weeks your roster is short of games.

Two of every team's 82 games are NBA Cup games that the NBA schedules only after the group stage, in early December. Until then the grid counts them in the week of the Cup final and marks them with an asterisk; once the NBA sets them, they move to their real dates.

The grid always uses Monday-to-Sunday weeks, the scoring week of most head-to-head leagues. If your league has a longer week, such as around the All-Star break, add up the weeks it covers.