The NBA is set to return in less than a month and it's been a long time since anyone has done a fantasy basketball snake draft.

The league has changed, players have changed teams, and now teams are only playing 72 games this season. How will all of it affect Fantasy leagues?

On the daily Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast, host Josh Lloyd shared his tips on how to dominate your Fantasy Basketball Snake Draft.

Josh Lloyd: The question that I get asked all the time is what my player rankings are for the upcoming season. The answer that I have to that always say is that rankings don't mean anything.

That's a simplistic way of putting it. I say this all the time, but unless you're in a Points League Draft, if you go into a draft with a ranking list of 1-150 and just pick guys off that list you may as well just set your draft to auto-draft because you'll lose, it's as simple as that.

That's not how fantasy basketball drafts work. That's not how you should be approaching it. The way that we talk about things on Basketball Monster is we have a page that says rankings but what that is, is for things have already happened. We are ranking the performances that have already happened. So when you go to Basketball Monster to look at rankings, they are the numbers from last season. Once this season starts off, they will be the numbers from this current season that have happened. What we're talking about more is projections, we try and project what these people will do. Inherently, when you do that, they end up coming out in a list but just because a guy is ranked 30th, it doesn't mean that the player ranked 40th is not going to be better for your particular team or your particular format. That's not how it works. There are numerous factors that go into it and it's not just about who ranks 39th versus who ranks 41st because that is a simplistic way of looking at it. I'm telling you now if you draft that way, you will lose.