I'll have to admit this (PAPOUG) is fun. I even have my oldest son helping me with the picks.
And it's safe...my wife heard about me playing and saw my oldest son's interest and she thought we were betting
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I said, "Yes honey it is a bet, sort of, but it's for Tommy Points, not money."
Her being a very casual watcher of Basketball in general, of course she asks me "What in the world is a Tommy Point", lol........
For me, I use ESPN.com/NBA (only place to use if I'm not mistaken) to pick my players. I try to look at each matchup, especially if a player is hurt and look at who MAY end up picking up his scoring slack.
I also look at trends..for each particular game, there is a "Last 5 games" portion, listing how that player has scored based off of his Seasonal Average.
That's just me..others here may pick their players differently, and my method has only been successful for me about 40% of the time, but it's still fun.
And if the player you picked ends up scoring the least amount of everyone else picked, you STILL get a TP for your troubles..called a Doody.