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Fast Break Week 14 Column

By John Cregan
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, January 26, 2008

In fantasy sports, we talk a lot about positional scarcity. Basically, it's how a player's value is inflated or deflated depending on the position he or she plays. If it's a position laden with fantasy talent, the value goes down. If the position is a statistical dust bowl, the value goes up -- and that's where it gets interesting. In football, we'd be talking about tight ends. In baseball, we'd discuss catchers. In basketball, we talk about centers. Centers are the afterthoughts of fantasy b ...

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