Wide Receivers for Free
It’s a passing league and all that. I’d rather not rehash 10,000 real and fantasy football articles on how the NFL is trending toward more than more and more passing, so I’d refer you to an excellent explanation of said trend and leave it at that. The fantasy repercussion of an increasingly pass happy league […]
Early Fantasy Football 2013 Tiered Rankings
Specificity will come later. For now, I’ve pieced together tiered rankings for each of the four fantasy skill positions. The player order in each tier doesn’t indicate ranking; instead, it tells you that I think those guys will finish 2013 with similar numbers. Tiers are critical in your obsessive mock drafting. If it’s approaching time […]
Finding a Late Round Tight End In 2013
There’s no use lying to ourselves: Rob Gronkowski and Jimmy Graham are on a fantasy tight end tier of their very own, with Gronk rising well beyond Graham if he were to manage a 16-game season. It’s finding gems in the lowest tight end tiers that interests me, and should interest you unless you’re ready […]
Poker Lessons, Applied to Fantasy Football: Learning to Lose
We may earn a small commission from links in this article You’re going to lose. It’s what happens after the losing that counts. It’s a brutally important truth in any competition with luck baked into its innards, and it’s one you should accept, especially in fantasy football, and especially if you value your mental health. […]
XN Sports February Mock Draft: The Fall of Megatron
The Lions forcefed him in a desperate and ultimately meaningless push for the NFL receiving record, Matthew Stafford’s mechanics make him a mediocre signal caller, and, well, 2012 was a whole lot of luck: These are the reasons Calvin Johnson is inexplicably trickling out of the first rounds of fantasy football’s earliest mock drafts. Call […]
The Most (and Least) Efficient Tight Ends of Weeks 8-16
The tight end position was as maddening in 2012 as any position in recent fantasy football history. We’ve already established that. For that reason, I think it’s helpful to look at which tight ends did the most with the snaps they were given in the final eight weeks of last season, if only to give […]
Has David Wilson Been Freed? Yes. No. Maybe.
Half the fantasy world has its shovel firmly in the dirt, ready to bury that infernally regretful call to running back action, #FreeDavidWilson. The other half, of course, is prepared – giddy, even – for that hashtagged cry to the fake football deities to live on. The Giants on Wednesday afternoon released their creaky-footed longtime […]
The (Coming) Ray Rice Panic of 2013
Economic panics collapse economies, often starting with well-coiffed business people hurling themselves out of 19th story windows in downtown financial districts. That’s probably an overreaction to the coming Ray Rice Panic of 2013. But it’s coming, and you should get ahead of the whole anxiety-driven thing this offseason. And if you absolutely must throw yourself […]