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. […]
2013 2-QB Fantasy Football League Draft Strategy
In a piece by JJ Zachariason from for Rotoworld, JJ had the following to say about quarterback draft strategy: “Traditionally, the 12th quarterback in a 12-team draft gets selected in the middle of the 8th round. In years past, there was some doubt associated with that quarterback. But with more and more young talent under […]
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 […]
2-QB Leagues are the Future of Fantasy Football
When it comes to my fantasy football draft strategy the thoughts that usually run through my mind revolve around the quarterback position. All I keep repeating to myself is, “I want all the quarterbacks. Give me all the quarterbacks. The quarterbacks are all mine, mine, mine!” I just say that over and over again until […]
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 […]
A Fevered Fantasy Football Brain
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 […]