Why do the number of minutes for all players on a team not add up to 240? Looking at, for example, ESPN's box scores, they always do, but here they are inflated for some players.

I think the idea is that you always WANT to fill your full 240 minutes, but some of the worse or rebuilding teams will not always put up enough minutes to reach that, kinda like their way of conceding a blowout or forfeiting a match

I'm not talking about "teams" in the fantasy leagues. I am talking about real game box scores. Take any game, but for example, let's take Washington vs Orlando on April 3rd. If you add up the minutes of all players on Orlando, you get 245, not 240. If you look at the same box score on ESPN, the minutes of the players do add up to the correct 240. Thus, there's always some minute creep in the sports.ws box scores. This has an effect on games that are close.

Probably rounding

Yeah, it’s rounding. Anything over an exact minute rounds up to the next whole minute. This is where we depart from the official stats, as rounding down would create scenarios where a player could check-in in garbage time and register points despite playing “0 minutes”.

So 0:02 counts as 1 minute, 31:02 counts as 32 minutes, etc.

Theoretically we could change the site to score fantasy matchups based on 14,400 seconds instead of 240 minutes, but all of this was set up long before the NBA published playing time in seconds.