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Trade Tutorial: The ten rules of successful fantasy trading

They say the first step in making a recovery from addiction is to admit you have a problem.
Well, I am a trade-aholic. I get a rush every time a trade is accepted by both parties. I’ve completed all kinds of trades in the past, with mixed results. I have learned a lot of life lessons [...]

When drafting a fantasy kicker, kick the rankings [FFB]

Ever venture into the woods on the first day of regular deer season in central Pennsylvania?
Falling in late fall, early winter, the weather is usually cool to cold. Colorful leaves are mostly off the trees and laying as a carpet on the forest floor. Many times, the surroundings are fairly drab in browns and grays [...]

QB rankings: Settle, don’t reach for a QB

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 Rodgers was [...]

Don’t be a sucker: Top 10 fantasy tight ends for 2009

Once while on a family vacation to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., I saw the sign and had to investigate.
A large painting of a giant chicken with fangs poking out of its beak accompanied some text. In big, blocky bold letters, it read: COME SEE THE MAN-EATING CHICKEN!!
Not being in an oppositional defiant mood that day, I [...]

Channeling Dr. Seuss in pinpointing who will join the fantasy elite [FFB]

 … Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches 
Had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches
Had none upon thars. …
— Dr. Seuss in “The Sneetches”
Those who play fantasy footall know what to do. They draft lots of Sneetches, they study them, too.
Peterson, Fitzgerald and Brees are all stars. They are the players with stars upon thars.rs,
But what about the plain-belly sort? Those [...]

It’s a trap! Do not overpay for these 5 players [FFB]

Every season different NFL players spit out career years or performances that cut back against previous performance.
Deciding which was real and which was an aberration will determine your strategy in the first three rounds of your 2009 fantasy football draft. You’ll either end up with the 2007-to-2008 crash that was Earnest Graham, or you’ll feast [...]