The schedule planner

Read the calendar

1. 1
   Tell it your league's calendar first

   Set 'Season ends (week)' and 'Playoff weeks' to match your league — the defaults (week 21, 3 playoff weeks) are a guess, and every playoff column depends on them. Weeks after your season end render dimmed.

2. 2
   Read your team's strip

   With a synced roster, the top strip totals your players' games each week. Blue weeks bank the most counting stats — plan adds around them; amber weeks are thin — that's where you stream. Playoff weeks carry an accent border.

3. 3
   Work the 30-team grid

   One row per NBA team, one column per fantasy week: green cells are heavy weeks (4+ games), red are thin (2 or fewer). Teams on your roster pin to the top with a dot. Hover any week header for its dates.

4. 4
   Check the 'Playoffs total' column

   Each team's total games across your fantasy playoff weeks, shaded green or red against the league average. Two otherwise-equal players can differ by three or four games in the weeks that decide championships — draft and trade with that column open.

5. 5
   Use 'Quiet nights' to plan your streaming

   Games a team plays when six or fewer games are on leaguewide, shaded against the league average. Those are the nights the waiver wire is thinnest and the fewest managers are chasing the same slate, so a team that plays a lot of them is the easiest to stream around. The column only appears for daily-lineup leagues — set one lineup a week and the nightly slate size stops mattering. One thing it deliberately is not: a claim that games on busy nights get wasted on your bench. That effect is real but we measured it against the actual schedule, and at normal roster depth it separates the best and worst NBA schedule by under half a game a season — not worth a column, so we don't pretend otherwise.