Final Update: 2016 Fantasy Basketball Rankings: Top 200

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The NBA preaseason officially starts on October 1. Throughout September and October, theScore will be updating our fantasy rankings, both by position and Top 200 players overall.

These rankings will reflect standard scoring formats, taking into account each player's ability to produce in the following categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, 3-point shots made, field goal percentage, free throw percentage and turnovers.

Position Rankings
PG | SG | SF | PF | C | Top 200

(updated Oct. 24)

Harden finally passes Westbrook for the top spot. While Westbrook will still go first in many drafts (and really shouldn't fall past the second pick), the combination of Harden's durability, Mike D'Antoni's high-scoring system and the fact that many sites now list Harden at PG, SG and SF gives him the best opportunity to provide an elite fantasy line for 82 games this season.

Durant and Curry still have two of the highest ceilings in the sport but by teaming up, they cannibalize each other's production, lowering their floors just enough to fall out of contention for first overall pick status.

The riskiest pick of the top 10 is Davis but there will be safer high-end options on the board at the same slot, like Cousins, Towns and the reigning Finals MVP, LeBron James.

Point guard is both deep and top-heavy; pairing Chris Paul or Wall with one of the aforementioned big men at the turn of the first/second round creates a fantastic building block to build your team around.

Alternatively, you can pair James, George or Antetokounmpo with Leonard in the second round, locking down the wings. In that case, you'll have to find cheap assists and rebounds later in the draft, but specialists in these areas can still be found at reasonably good value.

The fourth-to-10th rounds in 10-team drafts starts veering into the transitional category of former All-Stars on the decline (Rondo, Wade, Nowitzki), dependable secondary or third scoring options (Batum, Gay, Fournier) and enigmatic question marks (Faried, Barnes, Payton).

There are also a number of notable high-usage players that switched teams in the off-season, all hoping to either maintain or improve on last year's production. Pau Gasol is likely to regress now that he's sharing the floor with LaMarcus Aldridge in San Antonio.

On the flip side, Howard teaming up with Millsap in Atlanta could keep the former eight-time All-Star more engaged after three years of being a bystander to James Harden in Houston.

One of the biggest risers from last year is new Brooklyn Nets PG Lin, whose path to consistent fantasy production starts with being the team's primary ball-handler for 30-plus minutes a night. He could slip well past the 83rd pick but that seems like a fair valuation given the make-up of his new team.

There's still some cheap scoring available late in the draft, including a pair of instant-offense sixth-man candidates in Lou Williams and Jamal Crawford. Neither can be expected to do much else but score, but for teams that missed out on high-scoring stars at the top of the draft, they can compensate with a late pick on a proven commodity.

At this point, you're taking shots in the dark. It's unlikely that project big men like the Suns' lottery pick duo make an impact this season, but upperclassman like Hield and Dunn will have the ball in their hands enough to at least provide occasional scoring outbursts.

The back end of the draft features a bunch of low-ceiling big men capable of stabilizing a fantasy roster with frequent double-doubles and a block or two (this covers anyone with the last name Zeller or Plumlee) but you'll see many of these names go undrafted. As injuries begin to shape frontcourt rotations -- redistributing rebounding chances -- these names can become must-adds.