Two weeks from Friday, most standard fantasy leagues will see the come and go of their trade deadline. And considering that most fantasy trades take time to develop, now is the time to really assess your team and determine if you need to make some moves. Notice that your team is weak at a certain [...]
After seeing yet another headline touting ease of schedule in fantasy football, I decided it was time to put into words why I don’t put much value into this strategy. Yes, typically great defenses remain great, and bad ones can be expected to be bad, but to alter your rankings based on previous team statistics [...]
Wasting is terrible. I hate wasting time, money or beer. But there are few things I despise more than wasting a high pick on a fantasy quarterback. It’s completely unnecessary. Looking at a draft list from last year, Kurt Warner was picked in the 17th round, Philip Rivers was picked in the 15th and Aaron [...]
The Chinstrap Ninjas are American, but we have no biases. We know foreign countries aren’t as good at beer league softball as us, but they occasionally pop out a player who makes a somewhat minimal difference in fantasy baseball circles. Aroldis Chapman is expected to be next. According to a report from ESPN the Magazine, [...]
How much money could you have won if you had bet that Russ Ohlendorf was going to outpitch Johan Santana. … ever? Santana got ruffed up for 6 ER in 6 IP, to complete a woeful June (6.19 ERA over the 30 glorious days). Meanwhile, our boy Ohlendorf threw seven shutout innings and struck out [...]
“Ultra-early” felt more super than “super-early,” but truthfully ultra-early would be a lie. Ultra-early would have been February or March. It’s June, and glorious fantasy football bears down upon us all. Still a few weeks away from the meat of preseason hype season, but it’s never too early to talk about fantasy sleepers. Yesterday I [...]
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