Fantasy Basketball: Week 2 rankings from a proven computer model

Before setting your Week 2 Fantasy basketball lineups, you NEED to see what our advanced computer model has to say. When it comes to ranking NFL players, this model beat human experts last season when there were big differences in ranking. And the model was closest-to-the-hole overall, meaning it best pinpointed where every player would finish each week.

Last season, for example, the model identified Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen as one of its Fantasy basketball sleepers. The All-Rookie from 2017-18 averaged 15.2 points and 7.5 rebounds in his first season in Chicago, but took a major step forward just as the model predicted in Year No. 2, averaging 18.7 points and 9.0 rebounds per game while shooting nearly identical percentage of 43 percent from the floor and 36 percent from beyond the arc.

Now the model, which simulates every NBA game 10,000 times, has set its sights on Fantasy basketball and has revealed its rankings for Week 2.

One player the model loves this week: Pistons guard Derrick Rose, who has an absurd true shooting percentage of 69.7 percent. The model ranks him as its No. 19 guard for Week 2 even though he's only being started in 35 percent of CBS Sports leagues.

And a massive shocker: Kyle Lowry, a top-10 guard according to market rank, stumbles this week and barely cracks the top 30.

The model is also calling for a surprising center you aren't even thinking about to finish in the top 15 of the rankings, and he could be sitting on your waiver wire right now. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in your lineups.

So who should you sit and start this week? And what surprising center could lead you to Fantasy glory? ... Join SportsLine now to get Fantasy basketball rankings for every single position, and see which surprising center is going to finish in the top 15 this week, all from the model that out-performed experts in football big time last season.