Fantasy Football Injury Report
We will be updating our injury report from resources across the league to help you make your last second fantasy football decisions. Rob Gronkowski (out)—This doesn’t come as much of a surprise. This is good news for Aaron Hernandez owners and possibly Brandon Lloyd owners. Lloyd is questionable himself with a knee injury but is expected […]
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 […]
Fantasy Football Keeper Watch: Running Backs to Consider for 2013 and Beyond
2013 is coming fast. In redraft leagues, it’s never too soon to begin preparing your upcoming big board. And if you play in a keeper league, the time may be now to start positioning yourself for some strong up-and-comers. Let’s go over some potential RB targets for your long-term plans. The New York Giants still […]
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 […]
Three Ways to Avoid Thursday Night Fantasy Football Disaster
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 […]
We Need To Talk About Joique Bell
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 […]
Three Ways to Avoid Thursday Night Fantasy Disaster
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 […]