Poker Lessons, Applied to Fantasy Football: Deception
In the cutthroat world of fantasy football, deception is as crucial as a well-timed pass or a game-saving tackle. “Poker Lessons, Applied to Fantasy Football: Deception,” dives into the murky waters of strategy, drawing parallels between the poker table and the fantasy football league. The catalyst for this exploration is a personal anecdote involving the […]
How to Work the Waiver Wire in 2-QB Fantasy Football Leagues Part 1

When playing in a 2-QB fantasy football league you have to look at the league you play in differently in every aspect. Your draft rankings, draft strategy and waiver wire strategy will all be different from how they would normally be like in a league where you start only one quarterback. Last season when Week […]
Finding a Late Round Tight End In 2013

There’s no use lying to ourselves: Rob Gronkowski and Jimmy Graham are on a fantasy tight end tier of their very own, with Gronk rising well beyond Graham if he were to manage a 16-game season. It’s finding gems in the lowest tight end tiers that interests me, and should interest you unless you’re ready […]
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. […]
Creating The Fantasy Quarterback Frankenstein: Part 2

My Frankenstein was alive. My yearlong experiment of piecing together an elite fantasy quarterback with nothing but excellent matchups for maddeningly inconsistent signal callers became slightly more frustrating in the second half of 2012. Streaming quarterbacks – streaming any position, really – comes with inherent risks. It requires in-depth research into what may or may […]
Creating The Fantasy Quarterback Frankenstein

We don’t own Drew Brees, we don’t own Tom Brady or Robert Griffin III or Peyton Manning. No elite fake football signal caller graces our roster. So let’s construct one. I used one of my four leagues this year to experiment with a pure streaming quarterback strategy, basing my weekly QB choices entirely on matchup, […]
Get Out of Here With Your Elite Defense

The most offensive strain of fantasy football dogma might be defensive. In a convention hall full of fake footballers last August in Atlantic City, the thinking was everywhere, infecting everyone like some End Times plague: We must, at all costs, draft the San Francisco 49ers’ defense, for there is no other defense that can pray […]