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 […]
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As a basketball fan, you grimace at the words “out indefinitely with a torn elbow ligament.” As a fantasy day trader, you can’t help but light up a little bit as you hit the search bar in your fantasy league to find the previously no-name bench rider who has stumbled into a starting job. Plenty
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Thursday Night Football could be an exercise in pain tolerance for fantasy owners. How much patience can you exercise? How many near misses can you handle? Thursday night fantasy debacles, as I’ve discussed again and again in this space, leave a 72-hour hangover, leaving our heads swimming in fake football regret. The numbers stare back
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The Detroit Lions’ primary running back is owned in just a tenth of ESPN fantasy leagues. But, you stammer with spittle on your lips and outrage in your heart, Mikel Leshoure is owned in 98 percent of ESPN fake football leagues. You just ran to your waiver wire and checked – he’s not there. Revise your
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Plenty of stars are looking at good news and bad news in this week’s injury report. Just seven weeks into the season, expect to see these injury reports crowd up even more as these guys pile ailments on top of others. Also, Steve Nash returns for a record third injury update – on the same
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It’s always a head-scratcher when a season-long bench player gets a starting job and exceeds all expectations. Remember Jeremy Lin? Why was that guy on the bench this whole time while some bum was playing serious minutes? Well, it’s a long season and eventually those things work themselves out. Luckily this week, we take a
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We’re hypnotized, sometimes, by flashes of brilliance and untapped potential. Fantasy owners aren’t into slow and steady; NFL coaches are. Which brings me to Denver running back Knowshon Moreno, and three ways to guard your precious playoff-bound fake football squad from the ruinous Thursday night performances that have sunk so many teams this year. The
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You’re racking up credit card charges that’ll make you wretch in January, you’re drinking to excess and humiliating yourself at holiday parties every weekend, and Jared Cook is about to become fantasy relevant again. It’s December. Think of Cook, a physical specimen at 6-foot-5 and 249 pounds who runs the 40 in an astounding 4.5 seconds,
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