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Kevin Love or Nick Richards

Who Should I Start? - Week 17 • Start New
Kevin Love

Kevin Love

PF • Cleveland Cavaliers CLE
Nick Richards

Nick Richards

C • Charlotte Hornets CHA
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🔓 EXPERT ANALYSIS

Owners starting Love over Richards

 
 
 
 
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Owners starting Richards over Love

 
 
 
 
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Next Up ❱ Performance Comparison
Performance Kevin Love
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PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
0
Season stats based on the past 7 days

PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
0.001.000.0012.000.000.001
Season stats based on the past 14 days
Performance Nick Richards
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PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
7.000.006.0015.000.001.001
Season stats based on the past 7 days

PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
5.000.003.0012.000.332.003
Season stats based on the past 14 days
Next Up ❱ Own/Start Comparison
OWN/START Kevin Love
OWN
24%
-8.99 compared to last week
START
16%
-7.45 compared to last week
OWN/START Nick Richards
OWN
 
4%
-0.53 compared to last week
START
 
3%
-1.27 compared to last week
Next Up ❱ Consensus Rankings
Expert Consensus Kevin Love
Not Ranked
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Expert Consensus Nick Richards
Not Ranked
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Next Up ❱ Player Breakdowns
Breakdown Kevin Love

    Overview

  • Experts don't even rank him among PF's. Either he is injured or is just plain bad. Based on his stats from the past 30 days, he is currently ranked 34th with 744 total points (18.60 avg).
  • He is currently 1510 points behind the leader: Julius Randle
  • His average points in the past two weeks have dipped quite a bit at 16.6.

    • Performance Stats

  • Shooting 30.51% from the field this month. I'd love to play against him in a game of 'HORSE'.
  • Shooting 24.24% from beyond the arc this month. I'd love to play against him in a game of 'HORSE'.
  • Assists per game numbers are 0.87 apg this month.
  • Rebounds per game numbers are bad for a center / power forward at 3.53 rpg this month.

    • Bonus Qualities

  • Played in 18 less games this year than last year.
  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: PPG: -3.54, APG: +0.02, RPG: +0.76, MPG: +1.86 STLS: --0.11 BLKS: --0.06
Breakdown Nick Richards

    Overview

  • Experts don't even rank him among C's. Either he is injured or is just plain bad. Based on his stats from the past 30 days, he is currently ranked 37th with 656 total points (16.82 avg).
  • He is currently 1726 points behind the leader: Nikola Jokic
  • Decline in numbers lately by 4.8 PPG.

    • Performance Stats

  • Shooting 66.67% from the field this month. Very impressive for a big man.
  • Assists per game numbers are 0 apg.
  • Rebounds per game numbers are bad for a center / power forward at 1.07 rpg this month.

    • Bonus Qualities

  • Played in 18 less games this year than last year.
  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: PPG: +5.56, APG: +0.28, RPG: +3.77, MPG: +10.05 STLS: +0.09 BLKS: +0.57
Next Up ❱ Health Check
Injury Kevin Love

No Injury Reported

Injury Nick Richards

No Injury Reported

Next Up ❱ Matchup Comparison
Matchups Kevin Love
DateOpponentResult
Jan 31VS MIAL 100-97
Feb 02VS MEMW 128-113
Feb 05@IND
Week Today Home Away
PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
8.000.673.6716.330.330.003
Season stats based on this weeks opponents
Matchups Nick Richards
DateOpponentResult
Jan 31@MILL 124-115
Feb 02@CHIL 114-98
Feb 03@DETL 118-112
Feb 05VS ORL
Week Today Home Away
PPG APG RPG MPG STLS BLKS GP
6.140.433.4314.140.140.867
Season stats based on this weeks opponents
Next Up ❱ Ratings Comparison
Rating Kevin Love
9.68
FantasySP Player Rating
Rating Nick Richards
8.37
FantasySP Player Rating
Next Up ❱ Career Comparison
Career Kevin Love
YEAR TEAM GP M FG% 3P% FT% PPG AST REB BLK STL TO
08-09 MIN 82 25.2 .457 .105 .789 11.0 1.0 9.0 0.6 0.4 1.4
09-10 MIN 60 28.5 .449 .333 .813 13.9 2.3 10.9 0.4 0.7 2.0
10-11 MIN 73 35.6 .470 .417 .850 20.2 2.5 15.2 0.4 0.6 2.1
11-12 MIN 55 38.8 .448 .372 .824 26.0 2.0 13.4 0.5 0.9 2.3
12-13 MIN 18 34.1 .352 .217 .704 18.3 2.3 14.0 0.5 0.7 2.2
13-14 MIN 77 36.1 .457 .376 .822 26.1 4.5 12.5 0.5 0.8 2.5
14-15 CLE 74 33.6 .434 .368 .802 16.4 2.2 9.7 0.5 0.7 1.6
15-16 CLE 76 31.3 .417 .355 .826 16.0 2.4 9.9 0.5 0.8 1.8
16-17 CLE 59 31.4 .428 .375 .871 19.1 1.9 11.1 0.4 0.9 2.0
17-18 CLE 59 28.0 .458 .415 .880 17.6 1.7 9.2 0.4 0.7 1.5
18-19 CLE 22 27.0 .385 .361 .904 17.0 2.2 10.9 0.3 0.3 1.9
19-20 CLE 56 31.6 .449 .373 .854 17.6 3.2 9.8 0.3 0.6 2.5
20-21 CLE 21 23.5 .404 .349 .805 11.5 2.4 6.8 0.1 0.6 1.5
21-22 CLE 81 21.3 .432 .397 .835 13.0 2.1 7.0 0.2 0.3 1.3
22-23 CLE 40 19.6 .386 .348 .895 8.3 1.8 6.8 0.2 0.2 1.1
3-YEAR AVG 54 25.4 .436 .383 .842 14.5 2.5 8.0 0.2 0.5 1.7
Totals 857 30.1 .439 .372 .830 17.1 2.3 10.4 0.4 0.6 1.9
Career Nick Richards
YEAR TEAM GP M FG% 3P% FT% PPG AST REB BLK STL TO
20-21 CHA 15 3.6 .500 .0 .556 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.2
21-22 CHA 51 7.6 .640 .0 .702 3.2 0.3 2.1 0.4 0.2 0.6
22-23 CHA 39 16.3 .623 .0 .724 8.1 0.5 5.5 0.9 0.2 0.8
3-YEAR AVG 23 6.6 .622 .0 .678 2.6 0.2 1.7 0.3 0.1 0.5
Totals 107 10.1 .623 .0 .707 4.6 0.3 3.1 0.5 0.2 0.6
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