Now is the time to take a good hard look at your fantasy basketball roster and see what your strengths and weaknesses are. See which players on your squad are only adding to categories that you are completely dominating and which categories you are seriously struggling in but still have a chance to move up in.

For example, let’s say you have a strong rebounding, blocking and field goal % team but you are seriously lacking in assists, steals and free throw %. If you have a player like Dwight Howard, why not try to trade him for Jason Kidd? Or if you have Andris Biedrins why not trade him for Raymond Felton or Chris Duhon?

These might not seem like fair trades for you but in reality, they are boosting your chances of overtaking categories while not hurting you in the categories you are in command of. You can’t think in terms of fair value this late in the season even though that is how most people think. Take advantage of someone that thinks they are getting a great deal when you are actually just giving up some of your strengths to counter your weaknesses.

Sometimes you’ll have to search the rest of the teams in your league to find out their weaknesses and strengths and see if someone is willing to swap with you. In this case you might actually be able to get a big name player back in the deal. Not that Kidd isn’t a big name player but he really isn’t having the year that people expect him to have.

Or you can take that player you have that has been injured and doing nothing for you all year, i.e. Gilbert Arenas, and trade him now that he is going to be returning. I know, you’ve been waiting very patiently all year for him and now I’m saying trade him! Well, what happens if he returns and reinjures himself or he just doesn’t play up to par? You missed out on a chance to get something of value for him. Try to find someone in your league that is willing to give up a solid player that is guaranteed to give you stats that will help you as opposed to taking a chance on an injury prone guy.

Giving up a stud for a multiple category specialist can be very hard and some managers will see it as a bad trade but you can’t think that way if you want to win your league. Take a look back at your previous teams that won and tell me you don’t have some random player on your team that is probably on the waiver wire as we speak. If you don’t, that means you probably don’t have many past teams that won, or you are the greatest fantasy basketball drafter that has ever lived and fill every category at the beginning of the year.