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How to Play Dunkest Fantasy Basketball

Dunkest is the coolest Fantasy Basketball, a game that entertains thousands of f

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October 7, 2023

Dunkest is the coolest Fantasy Basketball, a game that entertains thousands of fantasy coaches every basketball season for its three available leagues: NBA, Italian Legabasket Serie A and Euroleague.

What is Dunkest

Dunkest is an innovative Fantasy Basketball!

Born in 2013, Dunkest has rapidly won the affection of all basketball fans. Today it counts more than 200.000 fantasy coaches that use it in two game modes:

Classic mode: 95 credits to choose 10 players. Fantasy teams have non-exclusive rosters, meaning that each basketball player can belong to multiple fantasy coaches.

Draft mode: auction with your friends and create your own fantasy team to manage during the season. Fantasy teams have exclusive rosters (a basketball player can belong only to one user). NBA Dunkest Fantasy Basketball Draft Guide

With this guide we explain how to play Dunkest Classic Mode and unveil some basic and advanced strategies.

1. Creating a fantasy team

With your Dunkest account you can create up to 5 fantasy teams. Each fantasy team has 95 credits to purchase 1o players and 1 head coach:

In Classic Mode, rosters are non-exclusive: other fantasy coaches may have the same basketball players as you, but they cannot see your team until the championship or each new Matchday starts.

Once created, your fantasy team will automatically be entered into 3 Main Leagues:

General: against all fantasy coaches
Country: against all fantasy coaches belonging to the same country
Favorite team: against all fantasy coaches cheering for the same team

When the championship starts, your fantasy team will get a score based on the statistics recorded by your players in the real games (points, assists, blocks, rebounds, etc.). With this score you will challenge the other users of the game.

2. Can I challenge my friends?

Of course, with the Classic Mode you can create or join Private Leagues (accessible only by invitation code) or Public leagues (open to all), which can be of two types:

Classic scoring: teams are ranked based on their total points in each Matchday
Head-to-head: every team plays a match against another team in the league each Matchday. The team that scores more, wins.

4. How is the scoring composed?

There are many statistical actions that make up the players score. Each statistic is assigned a point value (ex: one assist returns +1.5pts).

Some of the main actions that contribute to the score: points, assists, rebounds, blocks, turnovers, and more. We recommend that you read the complete Rules of NBA and Euroleague to check all the scoring actions.

5. Coach, Captain and Bench

Other special features of the game are:

Coach: also coaches get points based on their teams’ performances
Captain: among the players on the field, you have to choose a Captain, who 50% the score obtained in the Matchday.
Bench: the players you leave on the bench at the end of the Matchday get 50% of their scores

6. Managing your team

When the first Matchday of the championship starts, the Fantasy Basketball season also begins and from this moment you can intervene on the team to improve it in different ways.

Each Matchday is divided into Game Turns, or single days in which blocks of games are played.

Example: Turn 1 (T1) groups all games played on Friday, T2 all games played on Saturday, T3 all games played on Sunday.

Between turns and between Matchdays, you can change your team:

Field-bench substitutions: between 2 turns, you can make field-bench substitutions by inserting players who have not yet played in place of players whose score has not satisfied you. More info here on How to manage a Matchday
Trades: between one Matchay and the next, you can make transfers by selling your players, recovering their value in credits and buying new ones. Each transfer will cost you a small penalty on the next Matchday score. More info here: How to manage Transfers.