Fantasy Hockey: Finding Value In Unlucky Defensemen
Finding value in fantasy hockey isn’t so easy. You won’t get many guys coming out of nowhere to put up huge seasons like you’ll see in other sports. Keep this in mind: Since the 2004-2005 lockout, there have been eight rookies to come into the league and average at least 0.73 points/game (which would be a 60-point pace in a full season) and played at least 70 games. These names are Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Paul Stastny, Patrick Kane, Nicklas Backstrom, Jeff Skinner and Anze Kopitar. When you are talking about the last five seasons alone, that list of eight is cut down to Skinner alone.
32 Questions for 32 NFL Teams: New York Jets
The New York Jets – Will Geno Smith take Mark Sanchez’ job in 2013?
After a somewhat surprising rookie season in 2009, Mark Sanchez’ honeymoon with the New York Jets’ fans is long since over. It’s not as if the quarterback was perfect (or even very good) that season. In fact, the stats show that Sanchez played like, well, a rookie. In his first NFL season, Sanchez completed 54% of his passes, threw for a modest 2,444 yards, and had 20 interceptions to go along with only 12 touchdown passes.
Fantasy Football: Steven Jackson and FPPRR Failure
Normally the FPPRR Machine is used for the purposes of good.
Over the past month, we here at Sports Jerks have promoted the receiving value of Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Matt Forte and even the all-questionable trio of DeMarco Murray, Darren McFadden and Ryan Mathews.
Week 20 MLB Injury Report: Hanley, Aramis, Wright
Late season injuries can be devastating for fantasy baseball owners. If a good player on a team out of contention suffers a significant injury, there’s a good chance the team may shut him down for the season. The closer we move the September, the more likely the injuries will become season-ending. Consider David Wright, batting […]
Jay Cutler and His Wonderfully Wide Range of Fantasy Football Outcomes
I, like Madonna before me, have a request—this one for Chicago Bears quarterback and perennial fantasy football tease Jay Cutler. Justify my love, Jay. Show the people why it’s been so abundantly clear that your fantasy prospects are on a clear and definable upswing with quarterback guru Marc Trestman as your guide, the man assigned […]
Fantasy Baseball Word Problems: Question 5
Even though we’re in mid-August, there are plenty of starting pitchers on the waiver wire who can help your club in the next few weeks of this dwindling season. Because of this fact, we bring our Fantasy Baseball Word Problems series back to the mound and take a look at four pitchers who have breezed through […]
32 Questions in 32 Days: Dallas Cowboys
As we count down to the NFL season, Sports Jerks will be bringing you 32 questions in 32 days. Each day, we’ll feature one of the most important questions for a different NFL team heading into the opening weekend of the league. Today’s feature team and question? The Dallas Cowboys – Will DeMarcus Ware’s position […]
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for August 12
For the last couple of weeks when building my Star Fantasy Leagues daily lineup, I have been going after pitchers with high strikeout rates and taking chances with low-cost players. It worked from time to time, but I wasn’t getting as much consistent production from my offense that I’d like. So I’m spending a little […]