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Eric Moody
To construct a profitable fantasy women’s basketball crew, you do not have to spend tons of time making ready. You simply want a plan.
That is the place breaking the positions into draft tiers could be extraordinarily useful. These fantasy managers who perform a little additional work to know which gamers and positions to deal with early within the draft and which to depart till the center or later rounds achieve an enormous benefit.
On the idea of our projections and tiers, the guard place isn’t as deep because it has been in earlier seasons, so make sure to issue that in when making your choices.
With that stated listed below are our guard draft tiers for the 2025 season.
Tier 1
Caitlin Clark
Arike Ogunbowale
Sabrina Ionescu
Clark, Ogunbowale and Ionescu are all worthy of first-round consideration. Regardless of the Wings including new items, Ogunbowale stays the point of interest of Dallas’ offense after she averaged a formidable 39.7 fantasy factors per recreation final yr.
Ionescu, who averaged 34.3 FP/G, may see a better utilization charge in 2025 with Courtney Vandersloot now in Chicago. Do not hesitate to draft any of the three, however Clark provides the very best ceiling.
Tier 2
Jewell Loyd
Kelsey Plum
Kahleah Copper
Skylar Diggins
Jackie Young
Rhyne Howard
Paige Bueckers
Plum ought to be in your radar within the second spherical. She is coming off a top-10 scoring yr (17.8 PPG) and averaged 28.9 FP/G final yr. Extra importantly, Plum is transitioning from a 27-win Las Vegas Aces crew to a Los Angeles Sparks crew that completed with simply eight wins final yr. She ought to have a excessive utilization charge in Los Angeles.
Diggins ought to enhance as a scorer in Seattle with Jewell Loyd gone, which might complement her robust assists, rebound and steal numbers.
Bueckers rounds out this tier and is projected to common 31.9 FP/G this season, however do not anticipate her to have a Clark-like rookie marketing campaign. She’ll be sharing the ground with Ogunbowale, who held a 25.9% utilization charge final season.
Tier 3
Allisha Gray
Kelsey Mitchell
Marina Mabrey
Courtney Williams
Natasha Cloud
Kayla McBride
Jordin Canada
Brittney Sykes
Ariel Atkins
Mabrey is poised for a breakout season with the Solar. She averaged 14.9 PPG, 3.5 RPG, and three.4 APG over 16 video games with the Connecticut final season and has proven fantasy upside previously. Anticipate her to tackle a beginning position in 2025.
Tier 4
DiJonai Carrington
Sonia Citron
Chelsea Gray
Julie Vanloo
Sophie Cunningham
Courtney Vandersloot
Tiffany Hayes
Tyasha Harris
Vandersloot is probably the most intriguing guard on this tier. She returns to the Sky after a down 2024 season with the Liberty during which she averaged simply 16.9 FP/G. Nevertheless, she’s a robust bounce-back candidate and somebody to focus on close to the top of your draft.
Tier 5
Erica Wheeler
Sami Whitcomb
Dana Evans
Rebecca Allen
Kia Nurse
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough
Jacy Sheldon
Odyssey Sims
Lindsay Allen
Aari McDonald
Diamond DeShields
Natisha Hiedeman
Sevgi Uzun
For these enjoying in deeper leagues, Wheeler is a savvy late-round goal. After a down yr with the Fever, Wheeler joins the Storm and will declare a beginning spot in Seattle’s backcourt subsequent to Diggins. She has averaged 8.5 PPG and three.4 APG over the previous two seasons and her playmaking and scoring capacity give her a path to fantasy relevance in 2025.
