Week 7 Fantasy Basketball Streaming Plan
Week 7 is a mammoth schedule. There are a ton of games, but the way they are spread out actually makes it a really good streaming week. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the volume, you want to use it to your advantage and squeeze as many extra games as possible out of your fringe roster spots.
Schedule Shape And Quality Days
Here is how the week looks:
- Monday: 9 games
- Tuesday: 6 games
- Wednesday: 9 games
- Thursday: 5 games
- Friday: 12 games
- Saturday: 7 games
- Sunday: 7 games
Listen, any day with 10 games or fewer is considered a “quality” streaming day. That means if you add someone, you are very likely able to get them into your active lineup without having to sit someone else. For Week 7, every day is a streaming day except Friday. Friday with 12 games goes straight into the bin for streaming. You just treat it like a buffer day where you do not plan to use a move.
Game Volume By Team
The other big piece is how many games each team plays:
- 22 teams play four games.
- Six teams play three games: Indiana, Memphis, Minnesota, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, San Antonio.
- Two teams are in a terrible spot with only two games: Phoenix and Sacramento.
If your guys are on those two-game teams and they are not clear must-starts, they are at a disadvantage right away. This is where you start thinking about whether it is worth holding them when you could turn their schedule into a lot more games with streaming.
Not All Four-Game Weeks Are Equal
Even among four-game teams, the layout is not the same. Brooklyn, Golden State, and Washington have four games and none of them are on Friday. That means all four of their games are on quality days. You get more usable games out of their fringe guys than you do from players on other four-game teams who lose one of their games to that overloaded Friday.
On the other hand, some three-game teams function more like low-end four-gamers because all of their games fall on quality days. Minnesota and New Orleans fit that mold. Their three usable games are similar to what you get from fringe players on most four-game teams that burn one game on Friday.
Turning Bad Schedules Into Six Games
Streaming is about turning one or two low-impact games from a weak schedule into a pile of games that actually move the needle. You can take a player with only one or two quality games and turn that roster spot into six games if you plan your moves across the week.
The starting point is understanding that Phoenix and Sacramento are in a brutal spot. The Suns only have one quality game: Monday. Then they disappear into a three-day hole and only show up again on Friday, which you cannot really stream. Sacramento is also stuck on a two-game week.
If you are hanging on to a fringe Sun or fringe King “because you like them,” you are probably leaving games on the table. In some cases you can literally triple your output by dropping that player and streaming the slot correctly.
Why Back-to-Backs Alone Are Not Enough
Normally, the simple way to stream is just to chain back-to-backs. In Week 7, that approach is limited:
- Monday–Tuesday: only Washington has a back-to-back.
- Tuesday–Wednesday: only New York, Portland, and San Antonio.
- Wednesday–Thursday: only Brooklyn.
- Saturday–Sunday: only Golden State.
If you only rely on those back-to-backs, you run into situations where your options are thin and you are stuck with whatever warm body is available on those couple of teams. You also leave some quality days unused. So instead of just living off back-to-backs, you layer in single-stream days and use Friday as a buffer in the middle.
One-Spot, Four-Move Streaming Blueprint
Think of one fringe roster spot as your “stream slot.” If your league gives you four moves for the week, here is how you turn a weak schedule into six games from that one spot.
1. Start with Monday single-stream
- On Monday, add any player you can start.
- Use them for that one game, then they are gone.
- That gets you one game out of the stream slot.
2. Hit the Tuesday–Wednesday back-to-back
- On Tuesday, add a player from a team that plays Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Teams available here are New York, Portland, and San Antonio.
- You get two games out of that add, one Tuesday and one Wednesday.
- Now you have three total games from the spot (Mon, Tue, Wed).
3. Use Thursday and Saturday with Friday as a buffer
- You do not want to stream Friday, because that day is overloaded.
- Instead, target teams that can give you a Thursday game and a Saturday game.
- Brooklyn, Golden State, Minnesota, New Orleans, and Washington all help you here because of how their schedules line up.
- Add one of those players ahead of Thursday and you get a game Thursday and a game Saturday out of the same move.
- That brings you to five games from the stream slot.
4. Finish with a Sunday single-stream
- On Sunday, use your last move on any player who plays that day.
- That is game six out of that single roster spot.
By the end of the week, that one slot has produced six games for you across all the quality streaming days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you dropped a player from a two-game team like Phoenix or Sacramento to make this work, you have tripled the amount of fantasy action you got from that spot.
Using Suns As Fuel
Because the Suns have only one usable streaming day (Monday) and then a non-streamable Friday, they are perfect candidates to help you pull off this plan. You can start the week with your fringe Sun in that slot, get his Monday game, and then cut him for your Tuesday move.
That way you squeeze the one useful game out of him and still have all four of your weekly moves to stack up streaming games on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Adjusting To Your Situation
The deeper layer here is context. If your team is strong and you are sitting near the top of the standings, you can afford to stash and be patient. You might not have to push streaming to the extreme every week. On the other hand, if you are sitting in the bottom third of the league and need wins now, you cannot just cling to fringe guys on two- or three-game weeks.
In that kind of spot, this six-game streaming plan is not just a nice-to-have option. It might be the edge that drags you back into contention. The structure of Week 7 is set up for you to do it.
Robbin Marx