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Dynasty Debate: The next elite crop of fantasy RBs

Think sliced bread, indoor plumbing and Chia Pets are special?
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
We’re on the verge of experiencing something truly amazing in 2010 and beyond. There’s a new stable of able running backs in the NFL, and you can thank an opportunistic bunch of rookie 2009 backs for giving us what will be quite a good show [...]

Ballparks and their affect on fantasy baseball

In football, there is something to be said about home field advantage.
It’s one reason why teams put their million-dollar investments on the line late in the season as they jockey to host as many playoff games as possible. They want to play in front of their fans … the noise level alone can act as [...]

Fantasy outfield values you need to remember in 2010

Ryan Braun was pretty awesome last season, smacking more than 30 homers and setting a career high with 20 steals.
But if you don’t draft him in 2010, that isn’t a bad thing.
Sure landing Braun or Matt Kemp would be very sweet in any fantasy format, but you can survive nicely without them, draft studs at [...]

Third base fantasy baseball values you can’t afford to overlook

When I was 15 years old, while camping with our local Boy Scout troop, I met the dumbest person on the planet.
It was 12-year-old who had just finished using a Coleman propane cook stove. Within seconds of turning it off, he decided to touch the burner, jumping back and screaming in pain a split second [...]

FBB: My unsexy approach to drafting a catcher in 2010

At a different site recently, someone asked me who the hot young sleeper catcher was for 2010. A player they could target in the mid to late rounds and avoid the drafting firestorm that would surround the truly elite at the position.
And, for the first time in my fantasy career, I found myself giving advice [...]

FBB: Time to move on from these former sure-things

The other day, I was watching the cartoon “Wow Wow Wubbzy” with my five-year-old daughter.
If “watching” is the right word.
I was more glancing at the TV while wondering what ever happened to children’s entertainment in the past 20 years.
How in the world did we go from He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron and even the Smurfs  to Wow [...]