Wildcard Weekend’s Best Fantasy Plays: WRs, TEs and Defenses
Ranking quarterbacks and running backs for Wildcard Weekend was a fairly simple task, with elite options facing appealing matchups in the opening week of the postseason. Naming top wide receivers and tight ends is a slightly messier task, which much more room for all-out screaming matches on the Twitter Machine. So read on, and scream […]
Wild Card Weekend’s Best Fantasy Plays: QBs and RBs
I don’t care who wins the Super Bowl. I’ve said that before, and even in this time of postseason frothing at the mouth, I stand by it. Real football is of no interest to me. Give me stats, give me fakeness – just don’t make me pretend to care about the playoffs. ESPN and NFL.com […]
Ridiculous FanDuel Values for Week 17
Let’s cut through coachspeak and sift through a few FanDuel plays at ludicrously rock-bottom prices. No matter the bluster head coaches spew over these next few days, major fantasy football commodities are going to have their hind parts on the pine come Sunday, perhaps after the first series, maybe after the first half. Rolling the […]
We Need To Talk About Michael Vick
I promise I’m not trolling you. It’s Week 17, the time for fake football owners who truly hate themselves and play until the bitter, unpredictable final week of the NFL’s regular season. Many of your studliest studs, no matter what vagaries their coaches speak this week, will take a seat on Sunday because their teams […]
Three Ways To Avoid Saturday Night Fantasy Disaster
If we must suffer, at least there will be points to be had. These pre-Sunday games have been a special kind of torture for so many fantasy owners in 2012. Thursday nights spent agonizing over every snap, every throw, every fumble and interception and field goal and touchdown, hoping to various deities that our guy […]
Fantasy Title Week: Caution’s Last Stand
If your fantasy squad is still alive and fighting for that make-believe crown this weekend, it’s time to toss a bag over Caution’s head and beat him with chains and sledgehammers. This is no time for Caution. This is fantasy championship week. Don’t mistake this for treaties on why you should make a bunch of […]
We Need To Talk About Jackie Battle
Our waiver wires have officially been deemed disaster areas, now eligible for federal aid. This week is a living nightmare for fantasy owners hoping to snag one more sleeper off the wire and ride that no-name piece of meat to a fake football title. We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel this week, and underneath […]
Perception Isn’t Reality in the Fantasy Playoffs
Our perceptions, during these waning weeks of the fantasy football season, are so often frozen in time, like an insect trapped in the confines of prehistoric amber, unchanged, static, fixed in time. These trappings are everywhere in fantasy football, most pointedly in the way we think of NFL defenses, and which teams should be exploited […]