One thing that makes fantasy football great is that it's kind of easy.

No, drafting and selecting and winning isn't easy, but setting lineups once a week is a cakewalk when compared to sports that operate every single day.

If you avoid the Thursday night game during NFL season, you can just plan your week around having lineups ready by 1 p.m. Eastern time on Sundays. With basketball, it's not the case.

Sure, the night-after-night grind of researching, setting, and sweating lineups can affect you and your performance, but we're more interested in how the schedule can impact the players you might roster.

What should you know?