August 2013

Fantasy Hockey: Finding Value In Unlucky Defensemen

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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.

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32 Questions for 32 NFL Teams: New York Jets

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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.

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Jay Cutler and His Wonderfully Wide Range of Fantasy Football Outcomes

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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

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