Week 13 Fantasy Basketball Stock Market: Terry-ble
Some weeks the league is teeming with up-and-comers, other weeks fantasy day traders have to settle for short-term injury replacements. This is one of those weeks. Still, you have to get your fantasy production where you can, so let’s take a look at some players to tide you over into next week and some others […]
The Best Second Half Tight Ends of 2012
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 […]
Week 13 NBA Injury Report: Hawk Down
It’s pretty rough when a team’s starter goes down, the backup is already hurt, and the backup’s backup injures his ankle the very next day. At the same time, it gives teams a chance to snag up previously irrelevant players like John Jenkins and Anthony Morrow and chuckle quietly while they put up serious numbers […]
In Defense of Plodders: Part 2
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. […]
Week 13 Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: The Waiters Game
As we approach the midway point of the season, we see a lot of the rookies and second-year players who were paid no attention around draft time really coming on as legit fantasy producers. Just half a season in the NBA can really develop a teenager into a real threat, let’s take a look at […]
In Defense of Plodders: Part 1
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 […]
Fantasy Hockey Head-To-Head Primer And A Look Ahead to Week One
Welcome to the first of my weekly posts for the guys here at Sports Jerks! In these posts, I will be covering what you need to know for the upcoming week in fantasy hockey in reference to Head-To-Head leagues. It seems to me a lot of people are trying fantasy hockey for the first time […]
Week 12 Fantasy Basketball Stock Market: Brand New
We have spent a lot of time looking at the young up-and-coming players around the league in this column. This week, we look at some guys who have been around forever. In sports terms, anyway. Let’s check out some of this week’s players on the rise and decline in the oldest edition of the Fantasy […]