My eyelids flung open at 3:13 a.m., and all I could think of – with the fog of sleep swept away by the churning machine of my anxiety – was Jermichael Finley. It was the wee hours of a Wednesday during football season, which, for me and millions like me, means precisely one thing: Waiver […]
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The tight end position was an apocalyptic deathscape in 2012, plagued by injuries and inconsistency maddening enough to drive fantasy owners to read, or spend time with their families – anything to forget the nightmarish doughnut your tight end just slapped onto your otherwise gorgeous roster. That doughnut was filled with toxic waste and rat
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No one wants a volume runner on their fantasy squad. The very notion is an insult to our fake football acumen. The first part of “In Defense of Plodders,” however, showed that the least exciting running backs can have more than a little value when owners shoo them away for high risk, high reward runners.
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We’re a snobbish bunch sometimes. We roll into our August fantasy football drafts with very firm ideas of who we want, and who we don’t. Our approach is too often rigid, our confidence in evaluations unwavering. The best of us know this approach is misguided, and if a value is there, we take it. Defending
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Bankable daily fantasy values are officially a relic. We’re down to four teams in the conference title games this weekend, making daily fantasy lineups fairly repetitive. The salary caps on the two daily sites I use, FanDuel and Draft Kings, don’t require owners to choose a deep sleeper for championship week, unless you consider Torrey
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My Frankenstein was alive. My yearlong experiment of piecing together an elite fantasy quarterback with nothing but excellent matchups for maddeningly inconsistent signal callers became slightly more frustrating in the second half of 2012. Streaming quarterbacks – streaming any position, really – comes with inherent risks. It requires in-depth research into what may or may
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We don’t own Drew Brees, we don’t own Tom Brady or Robert Griffin III or Peyton Manning. No elite fake football signal caller graces our roster. So let’s construct one. I used one of my four leagues this year to experiment with a pure streaming quarterback strategy, basing my weekly QB choices entirely on matchup,
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Our make-believe football methadone supply is running dangerously thin these days, with only eight teams left in the NFL postseason, on the cusp of dwindling to a Final Four I can actually watch. FanDuel lineups are requiring less and less creativity in these waning days of pigskin season, leaving us with fewer bargains as we
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