We list the 12 vintage players from the mid-20th century whose baseball cards are among the most collectable — especially for budget-minded card collectors!
We list the 12 vintage players from the mid-20th century whose baseball cards are among the most collectable — especially for budget-minded card collectors!
We ranked the best 2025 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Cards – with a few surprises near the top! Improve your card collection on a real-world budget!
Discover the story behind Cal Ripken Jr.’s 1982 Topps rookie card and how it launched his legendary 2,632-game Iron Man streak.
Getting the best WNBA rookie cards ever, from each WNBA season, is a smart way to improve your sports card collection before these cards get even hotter.
We tracked down the 12 best 2026 Topps Series 1 rookie cards for you to add to your baseball card collection!
Collecting rookie cards for Top 100 MLB players right now is a great way to keep your baseball card collection relevant and healthy!
Adding the best hockey rookie cards to your sports card collection is like adding ice to your favorite cocktail! The arrival of Connor Bedard in 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 and Macklin Celebrini in 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 cards signals a new hobby high not seen since Connor McDavid or Sidney Crosby joined the …
We rank the best 2025 Upper Deck Hockey Series 2 rookie cards to pick up — delivering a sweet Young Guns hunt for sports card collectors!
Looking for the best Topps baseball cards from each set, each year? It’s a common question from sports card collectors, new and old, so we listed the best rookie cards to get in each Topps Baseball card set?
Collecting the best cards from 1959 Topps Baseball is a smart way to improve your baseball card collection in a big way!
By using our 2025 rookie card power rankings for Topps flagship baseball cards, collectors can optimize their collection with the best cards of the best players!
With 2025 Donruss WNBA finally dropping, we’re all excited about grabbing rookie cards of the best 2025 WNBA Rookies! Who else should we collect besides Paige “Buckets”?
Getting the top hockey rookie cards of hockey’s best and brightest players 21 years and younger is a great thing for your sports card collection!
Collecting the Best 2025 Upper Deck NHL Rookie Cards from Series 1 is a great way to boost your hockey card collection with up-and-coming rookies.
Collecting the best 2025 Topps Update rookie cards is smart because this is always one of the most successful sets every year.
It’s all about the rookies! We tracked down the best basketball rookie cards from each Topps series over more than 50 years! How many rookie cards do you have?
Finally, we can start bringing 2025 Topps Basketball Rookie Cards into our NBA card collection! We ranked the top 11 first-year RCs for Topps Basketball!
After reviewing all three Upper Deck series, we ranked the 12 top 2024 Upper Deck Young Guns Rookie Cards from the 2024-25 NHL season!
The NFL Network’s Top 100 players in 2025 came out this summer, and we tracked down the rookie cards of the best offensive stars!
We rank the best 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Cards to help collectors working with a limited budget know which cards to collect!
We tracked down the best 1st Bowman cards of the top 100 MLB prospects in baseball, so sports card collectors can improve their collection with less work!
Tracking down the best football rookie cards from every year wasn’t easy – but we did it! Bookmark this article to know all the great NFL rookie cards!
Whether you are starting a baseball card collection, football cards, basketball cards, or any other sports cards, you need great sports card collecting supplies to protect them and keep them in the best condition. Getting the right sports card supplies is crucial for protecting, organizing and growing your card collection. Here's a comprehensive guide to …
We rank the best 2025 Bowman Baseball Prospects so card collectors know what to hunt for. We also share team rankings for breaks, and some sleeper picks!
The only thing better than playing Fantasy Football is winning! We tracked down these FREE Fantasy Football Draft Tools, so you can win without spending money!
We listed out the top-10 baseball cards from 1958 Topps Baseball, which is a historic set for many reasons, including the design and size!
One of the most iconic baseball cards of the ‘90s is the 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter rookie card. Let’s discuss this Yankees legend’s cardboard!
We created these tips for new card collectors hoping to save them both time and money in this hobby, which can be pretty difficult to understand at times.
The man who dares surpass The Great One! Buying Alexander Ovechkin cards is one way to bolster the value and awesomeness of your hockey card collection!
Collecting the 13 best 2024 NBA rookie cards can help improve your basketball card collection, although some are much better than others!
Whether you are new to collecting hockey cards or not, knowing the best Young Guns rookie cards worth buying right now can make a good sports card collection great!
Any sports fan would love to have some cheap LeBron James rookie cards in their basketball card collection, so we share a handful worth checking out!
The 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson rookie card started off the new decade right, with one of the most celebrated rookie cards of the 20th century! We share two handfuls of reasons why this card is so awesome!
Two amazing rookie Robinsons lead the 10 best baseball cards from 1957 Topps Baseball! Check out the other most valuable cards on this checklist!
Owning Shohei Ohtani Rookie Cards is a solid start for anyone’s baseball card collection. Finding cheap buys of great players is always nice! Here are some cheap Shohei options!
Picking up the 10 best baseball cards from 1955 Topps Baseball can turn a good baseball card collection into a great one!
Collecting great Connor McDavid rookie cards is easier said than done because they can be expensive! We found five cheap Connor McDavid RCs worth buying!
Collecting cards is fun, but sorting sports cards can be a huge pain. Wait until you see this card sorting trick that will help you sort faster and easier!
Collecting Willie Mays cards is something every baseball card collector enjoys, but budget-minded collectors need some great cheap options!
Collecting the best 2025 Topps Series 1 rookie cards is a great way to improve your baseball card collection for the coming years. We all love RCs, but really, we want the BEST RCs!
Adding some Mickey Mantle cards to your sports card collection is a great way to boost its overall value, even if they are some of Mantle’s cheaper cards.
The 1996 Topps Kobe Bryant rookie card is quickly becoming one of the most iconic cards ever, as Bryant’s legend continues to grow.
Everyone loves the premier set of Topps Baseball cards, but not everyone knows who the best baseball cards from 1952 Topps Baseball are, so we’re here to help! This first set from the greatest Baseball card manufacturer was a landmark one, of course, not just because of the amazing Hall of Famers that dot its …
Some Frank Robinson cards might be too expensive for the average collector, but looking through all his base cards, we found some great budget-friendly options.
The 2018 NFL Scouting Combine has begun! But there’s more to this set of workouts than meets the eye! So we came up with a couple handfuls of great NFL Combine facts you didn’t know, but will be happy to learn (if just to annoy your buddies). These interesting NFL Combine facts will definitely help …
Baseball card collectors love seeing the Topps All-Star Rookie Cup on their cards, so we tracked down all the players named to that team dating back to when Topps first started announcing the team back in 1959, for the 1960 Topps Baseball series. (Speaking of great rookies, we tracked down the best rookie cards from …
Finding the most valuable baseball rookie cards is a great way to improve your baseball card collection by leaps and bounds. While Topps wasn’t the original card manufacturer, we mostly look at Topps flagship sets from the past seven decades or so. Bowman ruled the card world before 1952, but Topps took over – and …
Learning how to collect hockey cards — whether you are new or returning to the hobby — can help you add another layer to your awesome sports card collection!
Picking up Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards is a boon to any baseball card collection, and there are a handful of Griffey RCs that are considered the best.
Adding a few new Fantasy Baseball rules and league ideas means adding excitement and change to something that is already awesome. Who doesn’t love that!?!
Couldn’t we all use a helping hand once in awhile? Especially if it’s free! We love great free Fantasy Baseball draft tools! Why am I always finding new tools?
We rank the best 2024 Topps rookie cards combined from 2024 Topps Series 1 and 2 to 2024 Topps Update!
Who doesn’t love free fantasy baseball tools to use during the season? We list off a bunch of great tools — all free — worth using once the season begins!
Welcome to the Buying Sports Cards on eBay Tips series! This is going to be a combination of both an article and video series, and it’s meant to build you into a better eBay shopper for sports cards. Since eBay is easily the largest seller of sports cards in the world (we make them so …
Our 2024 Bowman Draft Player Rankings is for baseball card collectors looking to improve their prospects collection! We consider 2024 Bowman Draft as the top release for collectors looking to pick up prospect cards and the coveted Bowman 1st cards for recently drafted players. While the "Bowman 1st" card is not a player's true rookie …
The first couple years of Topps cards were pretty great, but the 1954 Topps Baseball set went from good to great for several reasons. Unfortunately, it lost Mickey Mantle from the checklist because Bowman had signed the Yankees slugger to an exclusive contract for 1954 and 1955. The best player and the most collectable player …
Collecting Dream Team rookie cards is a must for any basketball card collector, but it’s usually something someone works on collecting over the course of their entire lives. We list out the best Dream Team rookie cards, but we also believe in getting great rookie cards of all basketball players, as well as other sports, …
We came up with this list of gifts for card collectors because we know it can be a difficult proposition, as buying gifts for hobbyists is tough no matter what the hobby is. You want to buy them something they’ll be excited to receive, but then you think – wouldn’t they already own this is …
These 2024 Topps Update boxes are so hot, it forced me to create this post, detailing some things you might not know or realize about this fantastic series!
We tracked down the top 11 best 2024 Topps Update rookie cards so you don’t have to!
Trying to collect all the best baseball cards from 1953 Topps baseball is much easier than trying to get all the best cards from the 1952 Topps set because it’s not the first set from the manufacturer, and there aren’t that many great rookie cards in the 1953 set. But that doesn’t detract from the …
Why set a hobby budget? Nothing can ruin a sports card collection like realizing you are spending too much money on cards, and having it affect the rest of your life. By setting up a card-collecting hobby budget, you can take control of your spending, focus your collecting, and improve your enjoyment of the hobby. …
Who knew that a list of the 10 best baseball cards from 2001 Topps Baseball would be so Hall-of-Famer laden!?! Even the ones that aren’t in the Hall of Fame – probably should be, if not for baseball writers not wanting to reward players who used some questionable supplements! What Happened in 2001? “Zoolander” perfected …
Fantasy Football league ideas have been coming across my desk over the past 34 years of play, and many of them, I have personally instituted in some of my leagues. They're awesome! Back in my day, we had to wait until Saturday to watch cartoons. (It was inhumane!) And we'd get detention for passing notes …
Trying to collect the best baseball cards from 1972 Topps Baseball is a much more fun endeavor than collecting cards with boring designs with boring stars. No set looks more like the decade it was created in than 1972 Topps Baseball, and we celebrate the set referred to as “Psychedelic Tombstones” for that fact! While …
For years, I’ve written about awesome Fantasy Football team names for multiple websites through the years, including my own. It’s always a fun piece to write, and it gets a lot of eyeballs, so I thought I’d drop my latest version of awesome Fantasy Football team names on my own site! Before we get too …
We’re talking about the best rookies from 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball! Boxes became available on June 12, so we finally got to see what the checklist looks like! I thought it would be a fun exercise to rank the 11 best rookies from this 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball set! (We also just ranked …
The 1984 Topps Football set could have been even better than the one we’ve come to know and love over the past 40 years. The 1984 Topps Football card set could have been one of the greatest football card sets in football card history! The 1972 Topps Basketball set combined cards for players in the …
We obsess about rookie cards over here, so it only makes sense for us to rank who we think the best 2024 Topps Chrome rookie cards upon the latest release from Topps! If you’re new to this website, just know that we try to help sports card collectors working on a limited budget. Check out …
Tracking down the best Topps Chrome rookie cards from every year was quite an endeavor! We already tracked down the best Topps flagship rookie cards from baseball and the other sports, but Topps Chrome was different because it’s newer, and it’s considered a premium product. View hobby box pricing on eBay for the latest 2024 …
Sports card supplies are a necessary evil. We’d all prefer to spend our money on awesome cards rather than sports card supplies, but then again, we need those supplies to protect, improve and display our awesome sports cards! For most of these sports card supplies, I’ve personally used what I’m sharing with you, so I …
Automated robots are transforming the way sports fields are marked, providing a blend of technology and precision that was previously unattainable. This innovation is reshaping the sports industry by ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Discover how these advancements are setting new standards in field marking. The rise of automated robots in sports field marking is a …
Why are we looking back at 2023 Topps rookie cards? With the focus on the new crop of 2024 Topps Baseball rookies to collect, from both Series 1 and Series 2, I thought it would be worth checking in on some of the 2023 Topps rookie cards and the players who were overlooked by collectors …
Tracking vintage basketball cards and then ranking them by popularity is fun! You get to learn about old school players, guys from the ABA, and old white guys who played in black and white (not really, but I like to imagine everything was black and white back then). If you like vintage basketball cards, and …
Why do I love this list of the best 2nd-year baseball cards from Hall-of-Famers in Topps cards between 1953 to 1981? Let me explain. On a rainy, and thus lazy, fall day a few years ago, I opened an old shoebox in my closet. I quickly remembered that I had only kept a small handful …
There are plenty of reasons why baseball is awesome, but we’ve hammered the list down to just about 50 awesome reasons… for awesomeness.
Even the most casual of sports card collectors knows about the Connor Bedard rookie card by now. When the sports card industry made its comeback a few years back, the hockey card collectors remained somewhat of a niche group. When everyone was emptying the shelves of cards at their local Walmart and Target, the one …
"PSA buys SGC, now what!?!" That's pretty much the reaction of all sports card collectors when they woke up this morning and read Darren Rovell's breaking news. PSA, SGC make deal official. https://t.co/Tl5Ap5b6RA pic.twitter.com/yZOlhF5ioo— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 29, 2024 Technically, It's Collector's Universe that's buying SGC, and they're just the parent company to PSA. …
Any sports card collector worth his weight in commons knows that Topps rookie cards are what most of us are seeking. But what MLB rookie eligibility? What’s a true rookie card? What’s the difference between Topps rookie cards or prospect cards? Why do some cards have Topps All-Star Rookie Cups, some have “Rookie Card” logos, …
Huzzah! Pre-war baseball cards is a specific segment in the card-collecting hobby. We’re calling all history buffs, baseball fanatics, and anyone who loves a good treasure hunt! While we normally just like to track down Topps rookie cards from the past 70-plus years, we're trying to expand our horizons. We're venturing back in time to …
The first Topps flagship release means we finally get to load up on the best rookies from 2024 Topps Series 1 Baseball! Topps released their newest set on Feb. 14, 2024. Most of the sports card links on this page will take you to eBay. That means I will get a commission on the sales …
If you were a kid looking for the best baseball cards from 1984 Topps Baseball, then you were also likely excited about what else was happening in the world at that time. Most of the sports card links on this page will take you to eBay. That means I will get a commission on the …
The 2024 top MLB prospects were just announced by the MLB Network and MLB.com, and as baseball card collectors, we love it! Most of the sports card links on this page will take you to eBay. That means I will get a commission on the sales from this page. If you end up buying from …
Who couldn’t use some great tips for grading cards? Most of us have learned the benefits of submitting your best cards with SGC, PSA, CGC and Beckett, but there are some nuances we can learn that will help improve our chances at getting better grades, improving our collection’s value! 11 Tips For Grading Cards with …
Collecting as many Victor Wembanyama rookie cards is a great way to bolster your basketball collection with one of the best young players in the NBA.
Finding free card collecting tools gets me excited, so I hope you can get on board with many of these, if not all of them. Sometimes we need help to build out a great card collection, and that is what these free card collecting tools are meant to do – give you help, save you …
Submitting cards for SGC grading is easier than most people think. If you can track down great cards on eBay, or pull awesome cards from boxes and blasters, then you can certainly submit those cards online through SGC.com’s service. I assume you’ve already done your homework to see which grading service you want to use. …
The best baseball cards from the 1978 Topps Baseball set is full of Hall of Famers and stellar young players, but what was the year itself like? Mork & Mindy was on every card-collector’s television set, and John Travolta was Stayin’ Alive with the Bee Gees! In 1977, the Yankees won their first of the …
One of the most iconic cards in the hobby is the 1986 Topps Jerry Rice Rookie Card, so I tracked down some amazing facts you might not already know!
Patrick Imhoff shares some great advice on which players whose cards you should target for cheap investments!
Our “10 Best Series” continues with the 10 best baseball cards from the 1956 Topps Baseball set — one of the greatest of all time!
The 1972 Topps Basketball card set is one of the most popular and sought-after sets in the hobby. It’s simply a thing of beauty. From the set checklist, filled with great rookies, superb non-rookies, future Hall-of-Famers and eventual head coaches, to the art-show worthy card design, it’s tough to find a card set in any …
As a child of the '80s, I became a fan of wrestling in my teens, right around when I understood it was reality-adjacent, which made it much more entertaining to me! But as a card collector, especially one who loves cards from the '80s, I never really wanted to muddle my collection with non-major sports …
I joined a break for Disney cards this week, so I wanted to share the ADP (Average Draft Position) for three drafts in three breaks for the new 2023 Kakawow Disney 100 Years of Wonder Phantom Disney Cards! These Disney cards come from China and they are absolutely beautiful, with a chromium finish, silver holo …
Everyone knows the 1986 Fleer Basketball card set has the coveted Michael Jordan rookie card, so they quickly assume that's why it's such an amazing set. But in reality, there are so many other reasons why it's considered one of the all-time greatest card sets ever made, not just in basketball either! (Interestingly, the 1986 …
Welcome to our Top 10 Topps Baseball Cards in Each Year Series! While we’re talking about the 10 best baseball cards from 1960 Topps baseball set, this is just the year we chose to kick off this entire series! We’ll be going through all of the Topps years in baseball – and possibly the other …
SGC Grading has been around since 2005, but only recently have they become a very serious threat to PSA and Beckett Grading Services in the top tier of sports card grading companies. Over the past two years, I have sent about 35 cards to SGC grading, and I bought several other SGC slabs from other …
I've been doing sports card collecting videos for a little over a year now, but many times, they get buried on YouTube because people are always looking for new content. So I thought I'd share my Top 10 card collecting videos here! 1. My Painful 23-Card PSA Reveal: Learn From My Mistakes (Aug. 15) I …
The 2023 Packstravaganza might just be the greatest baseball card giveaway ever created! This article will explain what it is, how it works, and most importantly, how you can try to get into it for free! We’re holding a seven-day sports card giveaway from Thursday, January 26, to Wednesday, February 1, and we’re hoping this …
The Dandy Dozen returns with a look at who I think are the top-12 modern baseball players cards, from the '70s, '80s and '90s, whom you should collect. I already did the top-12 vintage baseball players you should collect on this video, and I'll eventually be doing a video on the top-12 baseball players from …
We’re taking a look back at the 12 best 2019 NBA rookie cards. Since there are dozens of different rookie cards for every player, I’m actually just looking at the best 2019 NBA rookies who are now in their third season. You can decide which rookie cards to buy, but I do offer up a …
One of the up-and-coming sports card grading companies is CSG Grading, which is part of Certified Collectibles Group. I sent in four cards to get graded and I got them back rather quickly — much faster than their website said I’d get it back. I believe it was right around one month total that it …
I recently turned 50, and I turned introspective for a bit, looking back at my long life. I thought back to when I lived on Walton Mountain (ask your parents), churned my own butter and watched TV with the aid of an antenna covered in tin foil. My sports cards meant the world to me …
I’ve been playing Fantasy Football for over 20 years now, and I still have magazines dating back to the early ’90s. Here are the 1992 Fantasy Football Rankings from the 1992 Fantasy Football Index Magazine that I got at a local grocery store back then. I thought I’d start posting these old rankings and cheatsheets …
Fantasy Football rule changes can be both very much welcomed – and very much reviled – by many of the other owners in your league. That's where we come in! This is part of a series we're starting for new Fantasy Football rule ideas! We’ve been tracking great Fantasy Football league ideas for several years …
Well, we officially now know that the rookie classes of 2016 and 2017 wide receivers were just mere shadows of what the 2014 version was, but we knew that all along, didn't we? Pittsburgh's JuJu Smith-Schuster led all Fantasy rookie wide receivers last year, and Cooper Kupp wasn't too far behind as a top-30 WR. …
Think back with me now, as you get ready for your 1997 Fantasy draft, and you’re looking over your 1997 Fantasy Football rankings from whichever magazine you grabbed that month. Think back with me about when you were wondering what the NFL was going to be like with no team in Cleveland or Houston for …
The first season of Celebrity Big Brother comes out Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 8pm ET. on CBS, but the names of the participating celebrities didn’t really cause much of a stir. Speaking for myself, I only knew about half of the names, as some of them came from Real Housewives, etc. So it got me …
To help celebrate the Philadelphia Eagles participation in Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots, I thought we’d look back at the all-time Eagles team for Fantasy Football players! The Philadelphia Eagles have long been a great source for Fantasy Football players, and FanDuel players know their values more than anyone. While Eagles head …
What types of Fantasy Football leagues do you think are “must-plays” every year? With about 60 million people playing Fantasy Sports – most of whom play Fantasy Football – and the hobby still growing at a ridiculous rate, it’s tough to keep things fresh every year. Every couple years or so, we meet some new …
During my time at CBSSports.com, I became friends with several of the product managers there, and I’d often suggest cool Fantasy Football tools or interesting tweaks the company could implement to the league service to make life better for owners. Invariably, I’d get shot down, with the explanation that it would take too much time/resources …
Fellow Fantasy Baseball writer Benny Ricciardi approached me a couple weeks ago about contributing to his new Fantasy Baseball book, “The Definitive Guide To Fantasy Baseball.” Of course, I was happy to join in! This is an e-book (and paperback book) filled with great content by great writers, like Nando Di Fino, Michael Rathburn, Jake …
Pitching matters. That’s the basic gist of this entire Daily Fantasy Baseball article, if you’d like to save yourself five minutes and move on. Starting pitching matters – specifically – Daily Fantasy Baseball pitchers. This isn’t to just say that starting pitchers matter the most and you should pay the highest salaries. It’s more that – …
Spring Training has officially begun and the Fantasy draft season is here! I thought I’d share with you a mock draft for Fantasy Baseball I did on the free Draft Wizard app powered by FantasyPros. This mock draft tool is just absolutely fantastic – and I think their draft simulator is probably the greatest tool …
Starting our new position breakdown series, the “Fantasy On 5” Podcast looked at 2018 Fantasy Quarterbacks this week, breaking down some of the more intriguing QBs from a Fantasy Football perspective entering this season. By looking at Average Draft Position and the list of quarterbacks in the rankings on FantasyPros’ Experts Consensus Rankings, we were …
Who better to talk 2018 Fantasy Football rookies than with Garion Thorne, who now writes for DraftKings and SoCalledFantasyExperts? I worked with Garion Thorne at FNTSY Sports Network, and now we’ve teamed up for our own Fantasy Football podcast! He’s an amazing host, keeps the show rolling along and definitely knows his stuff and keeps …
The “Fantasy On 5” Podcast brings in special guest Jake Ciely of RotoExperts.com to share his top 25 Fantasy Football rankings for 2018. These aren’t just any rankings – these are the rankings coming from the guy that was named the No. 1 draft rankings expert by FantasyPros.com in 2017! As I mentioned in the …
Over the past six years or so, I have considered FantasyRundown.com’s daily links as one of the top Fantasy Football links on the Internet. I actually rank them second, among my favorite free Fantasy Football draft tools, just after my No. 1 pick, the free one-man mock draft tool over at FantasyPros. Garrett and his …
Before we get into our 2018 Rookie Quarterback Rankings, we want to look back at the best Fantasy Football rookie quarterbacks ever, just to give the new first-year phenoms something to be measured against. It's interesting to me what first-year players can do in their first years at different positions in the NFL, which makes …
We found some free Fantasy Football keeper tools around the web that will help you make it through this long, long summer. You should also check out our ever-growing list of Free Fantasy Football Tools for all types of leagues. Are you sick of pretending you love other sports this summer? The NBA and NHL …
The best thing about the new SquadQL Fantasy Baseball app -- besides being FREE! -- is that it helps classic Fantasy Baseball owners that set daily or weekly lineups in their season-long league. I’m so sick of seeing all the Daily Fantasy Baseball apps that help players in that format, but no one offers help for …
Whether you're starting a new league or just trying to revamp your old league, naming it is important. Consider some of the great Fantasy Football league names we've come up with as options for your own. We also share a couple dozen great Fantasy Football team names for the 2017 NFL season! Everybody will be …
Your Fantasy Football draft can be the best day of the year, despite having to deal with several of these characters in your league. Fantasy Football owners are usually a different breed. 18 Fantasy Football Owners You Likely Deal With Every Season If none of these characters sound familiar for your league – you might …
The NFL Draft is a near 100-year-old "job fair", where 32 NFL teams hire emerging football players, almost always from college football teams. We chose to go back through NFL Draft history -- and current NFL Draft facts -- to pull out some interesting numbers for your amusement. (Check out our recent 2018 NFL Mock …
Welcome to our 2018 NFL Mock Draft for Fantasy Football purposes! I've joined together with writers from a handful of other Fantasy websites to preview the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft, from the viewpoint of how these picks will affect Fantasy Football owners. The mock draft is a slow draft, and we'll be …
The 2018 fantasy football first round should be full of more running backs than wide receivers compared to recent seasons. We’re talking in both standard and PPR formats and most other mock draft types. I’m a big believer in being prepared. I’m like a boy scout, only… more prepared. That’s why I break down the …
We looked at the best rookie quarterbacks in Fantasy Football history last year, along with the best rookie wide receivers, and we'll be updating those articles over the next week or so. Today, we're updated the article on the best Fantasy Football rookie running backs ever (or at least back to 1990). During the NFL …
This 2018 Fantasy Baseball first base rankings page isn’t your Dad’s first basemen rankings page! This page is comprehensive, full of all sorts of helpful Fantasy Baseball information about the position that will affect your upcoming drafts – and your lineups as we get ready to enter another MLB season. What exactly are you going …
My 2018 Fantasy Baseball catcher rankings page isn’t just your normal “wham, bam, top-35 catcher rankings” page. This page is comprehensive, packed with a ton of information that’s going to help you in your drafts – and probably well into the upcoming MLB season. In this article, you’re going to read about which players changed …
Major League Baseball announced in late January that Chipper Jones and Jim Thome were both first-ballot selections to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in the summer of 2018. They'll be joined by Vladimir Guerrero (second year of eligibility) and Trevor Hoffman (third year of eligibility). There are other recently eligible players, like …
An Alex Smith trade rocked the NFL during a relatively quiet Super Bowl week, as the Chiefs moved the former No. 1 overall pick to Washington for a Once again, it seems, Andy Reid has pulled one over on the Washington Redskins. In 2010, Reid convinced the Eagles brass to trade an aging Donovan McNabb …
An old football-watching buddy of mine emailed me a few years ago reminiscing about a bad Super Bowl party or two that we had been to together. Tom reminded me of the time my brother-in-law invited us over to his house for the '99 Super Bowl (Falcons and Broncos), and then when we got there, …
Thinking about being Fantasy Football commissioner for your league this year? Thinking about quitting as commissioner this year? No question about it, being commissioner is not as easy as any of the other owners think. If each owner in your league could be commissioner for one season ... Well, your league probably wouldn't make it past this year. If …
Fantasy Football is a strange topic. With most things, like real sports or politics or news, one can seek one source or one site and be informed enough to go about their business. But with Fantasy Football, people want as many sources sharing their opinion as possible. That's why following these top 66 Fantasy Football …
Fantasy Football is inherently fun. No doubt. But sometimes, we get involved in multiple leagues, and we need something to really separate one from another, outside of just different owners and rosters. One solution to this is by creating a fun Fantasy Football league theme that connects all of your owners by a common interest …
There are certain moments that seem to define your life. My trip to the bathroom at Disney about 10 years ago was one of those moments. This story is long, but the payoff is worth it. Don’t be discouraged just because it’s called a “poop story.” It was a hot and humid day at the Magic …
The following is an excerpt from the Fantasy Football book, “Benny Ricciardi’s Definitive Guide To Fantasy Football,” which happens to be the sister-book to “Benny Ricciardi’s Definitive Guide To Fantasy Baseball.” Fellow Fantasy Baseball writer Benny Ricciardi got me to write in his Fantasy Baseball book, The Definitive Guide To Fantasy Baseball” earlier this spring, …
Why post a list of Fantasy Baseball Twitter accounts? Well, for several reasons – first of which is that Twitter is an invaluable source of information for Fantasy Baseball owners. Secondly, because these guys do great work in trying to assist nearly every owner that asks them a question. (See my post on “How to …
A couple days ago, I wrote an article about the Best Five Fantasy Baseball Books that every owner should read – if they want to win. In doing so, I mentioned how I believe Ron Shandler of BaseballHQ.com would be one of the faces on a Fantasy Baseball Mount Rushmore monument. When I wrote that, …
Back in the early 2000s, I got hooked up with a couple Fantasy Football writers that wanted to start a new league with me. Josh Kerkau and Brian Roberson invited me to join their Absolute Gridiron Association, which 10 years later, I now deem “The Most Interesting Fantasy Football League Ever.” To put it simpy, …
While NFL blackout rules can certainly ruin a football fan's afternoon at home, it's still tough to argue that a day in the hot sun with bad seats is better than staying on the couch, with your beer-fetching dog (not code for your wife, btw). I understand that it is all part of the experience …
Every summer, during the NFL Preseason, we see players that some of us have never even heard of dominate the league. This August has been no different, with guys like Corey Grant, Austin Carr and Kasen Williams among other Fantasy Football question marks. But the conductor of the Fantasy Football hype train this summer is …
The 2017 Fantasy Football Overall Rankings is the hub of all of our position rankings, so they essentially mesh together the players using the FantasyPros algorithm that I know nothing about! So what that means is – I have to publish all of my individual player rankings, and then go through the overall rankings and …
The 2017 Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings are just plain fun. Unlike ranking other positions, ranking the best Fantasy quarterbacks for this season is relatively easy. From year to year, there just aren’t as many changes as there are at most of the other positions. At wide receiver, you’ll likely have three or four guys move …
Our 2017 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings consist of fewer featured backs than we used to see in the ‘90s or even the early 2000s. But that doesn’t make them any less important! While others are lining up for the Zero RB Theory, eschewing the running backs position until later in the draft, you should …
Checking the 2017 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings these days means a little more than it used to just 5-10 years ago. The NFL passing game has become unhinged, with several different Fantasy positions benefiting from the uptick in air play. Obviously, quarterbacks get a boost. A quick look at the top-25 single-season passing yardage …
These 2017 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings consist of some big guys. I’m a big guy, so I like this! Plus, some of them are getting up there in age. I’m getting up there in age! So I like this more! Of the top 15 tight ends from 2016, six of them were over the …
The 2017 Fantasy Football Kicker Rankings aren’t life shattering. You likely landed on this page as a goof. (I should make this the page that all Errors get redirected to on my site!) But in the end, it’s midsummer and we’re all wanting to take in as much information as possible. The last thing you …
The 2017 Fantasy Football Defense Rankings means different things to different people … literally. There are really so many different scoring systems out there that a good defense in one league might not be a good defense in another league. So when we say you should pay close attention to your scoring, this is specifically …
Just because you have some good 2017 Fantasy Football keepers on your team doesn’t mean you are necessarily set up for success in the coming years. A good Fantasy owner in a competitive keeper league has one eye on this year’s squad, and one eye on the future. That cross-eyed owner is hoping to find …
Looking at Fantasy Football rookie rankings is important, I tell you! Think of some of the top rookies that helped Fantasy Football teams in recent years, many of which pushed them over the top and into the Fantasy Playoffs. In 2016, look at what Fantasy owners got from rookie wide receiver Michael Thomas last season? …
Before I start sharing my thoughts on the FantasyPros Draft Wizard, I first want to explain that I don’t called things “the greatest ever” often. So when I call this site the “greatest Fantasy Football draft assistant ever created,” I want you to know that it’s not hyperbole. As a matter of fact, there’s not …
You’re probably overrun by ADP, sleeper, busts and draft rankings (Hey look!) for 2017. But I’m a rebel – I’m ready to start talking about 2018 Fantasy Football! Let’s just assume you’ve already blasted through your league and you dominated the Fantasy Playoffs. Now we’re looking into the 2018 draft prep season. Wouldn’t it be …
What constitutes as the worst Fantasy Football picks ever? A first-round pick injured in Week 1 is comparable to getting a beautiful 32-oz. porterhouse steak -- with a curly black hair on it. And nothing kills your Fantasy Football season quicker than a busted first-round pick. Well, that and picking a kicker in the second …
Increasing your Fantasy return on investment is what we’re all trying to accomplish every Fantasy Football season, even if we don’t realize it. We’ll explain Fantasy ROI in a second, but first you need to understand how much money is being spent by all of your opponents. If you would like to make some real …
I like to take a look around the Fantasy Football landscape to find some opinions that might differ from my own! In this case, I found eight Fantasy Football links to articles you should read. Let’s face it – most of these guys are way smarter than me, so listen to their advice! 2017 Fantasy …
Before we get into the 2017 Fantasy Football Rookie Tight End Rankings, we should look back at the best rookie tight ends in Fantasy Football history. Veteran Fantasy owners know by now that, traditionally, rookie tight ends aren’t Fantasy gold mines, and quite often, it’s the second-year tight ends that have breakout potential. I have …
Over the past few years, we’ve all come to realize that rookie wideouts can certainly add some Fantasy value to your team, but that you can also do some damage by spending a pick too early on one. We’re going to go over the best Fantasy Football rookie wide receivers ever in this piece, but …
Getting rookie advice about the incoming 2017 NFL Draft is helpful because, unlike the other Fantasy Football players we’re drafting, we have never seen these players go up against NFL talent. We don’t know what they can do, so it’s difficult to assess their Fantasy value for the coming season, judged against the players we …
Drafting the top Fantasy rookies in ADP is quite the gamble! Fantasy Football rookies are like the world's grab bag -- you could end up drafting a first-year player that ends up scoring 10 touchdowns as one of the best at his position. But, sometimes just as often, you could end up with a stinker …
Keith Lott of WeTalkFantasySports.com breaks down how Fantasy Football owners can use red-zone targets to find value on Draft Day. There were just nine players targeted 20-plus times in the red-zone in 2016, led by Jordy Nelson's 29 red-zone targets. Packers QB Aaron Rodgers also targeted Davante Adams 20 times inside the 20-yard line. Sam …
We’re just at the beginning of summer, so our links to these eight stories on Fantasy rebound candidates and deep sleepers should help you wile away the summer heat until football season arrives! Summer is a time for kids to recharge before the drudgery of another school year falls upon them, and in that spirit, …
I took a look at the top two overall picks, according to Average Draft Position at MyFantasyLeagues.com, over the past 17 NFL seasons, and I came up with some interesting Fantasy Football ADP history nuggets. So I created this infographic to celebrate it!
A few years ago, when Fantasy Football draft boards first started coming out, we were all excited about how much better it made our draft parties. Customized Fantasy Football draft boards weren’t even in our dreams! We talk a lot about the best free Fantasy Football draft tools, and while these draft boards aren’t free, …
Earlier this week, FNTSY’s Chris Meaney unveiled his top 10 running backs for the 2017 Fantasy Football season. There were a couple surprises, but everyone knew that David Johnson, Le’Veon Bell and Ezekiel Elliott would be in his top three, in some kind of order. But who is the fourth-best Fantasy running back in PPR …
We can learn a lot about what might happen in the future, if we’re smart enough to look back to see where we’ve come. Average Draft Picks (ADP) is the perfect lens to use to look back on “what we thought,” and that will help us understand “what we should think” going forward.
In mid-May of 2017, the NFL chose not to reinstate Josh Gordon, denying him from returning to play for the Cleveland Browns for the first time in since 2014. Yet, David Gonos, in his infinite wisdom, has found a handful of reasons why Fantasy Football owners should still draft Josh Gordon with your 16th-round pick.
The month of May means a lot of things to many sports fans, including the Kentucky Derby, NBA and NHL Playoffs and NFL mini-camps for rookies. For me, it means I get to work on helping out some Fantasy Football magazines, and putting together my first look at 2017 Fantasy Football QB rankings.
FNTSY’s Corey Parson talks with Dr. Anand Lalaji about the screw Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones had inserted into his foot, and what that means for Jones’ immediate future. Did he come back too soon from the injury last year? Did the revision surgery that happened since then fix things?
Becoming a Fantasy Sports Writer is not easy though. For over a decade, I’ve been asked by dozens of people, “How can I become a Fantasy Sports writer?” I’ve been writing Fantasy sports columns since 2000, starting with an old website called FFInformer.com, which led to my own site, and then several years at CBSSports.com …
Catchers are awesome. You should know this by now. But most people just don’t know what a great catcher means to a baseball team. The question is – do catchers in Fantasy Baseball mean just as much to their Fantasy team? You are forced to draft two catchers in Rotisserie (we’re really refer to Head-to-Head …
While most baseball fans are still tingling from the Chicago Cubs World Series win in Game 7 against the Indians, there’s one group of people that have been waiting for Spring Training even longer: Fantasy owners. What 2017 Fantasy Baseball changes do you need to know about before Draft Day?
We are now past the halfway point of the NFL season, which means fantasy football playoffs are fast approaching. If you’ve already locked up a spot in your league’s playoffs, now is the time to pray for your big producers to stay healthy and if you’re still in the hunt it might be time to …
Every now and then, I’ll come across a sports story that I assume everyone around me is familiar with. Then I realize, I’m an old bastard, and the guys around me are mostly in their 20s. So then I have storytime. It’s like when your grandpa tells you about the Heidi Game. I also figured most …
I’m 40 years old, which means that my formative years (from 6-15 years old) were in the perfect Saturday Morning Cartoons time period of 1977-86. Five years earlier (1971) and there would have been way fewer cartoons available to watch on Saturday (there wasn’t even any electric back then!) And five later (1991), after the …
A good piece of chocolate can make your day better. Diabetes, obesity, bad skin, spoiled dinners and chocolate smears on your face aside, the best candy bars ever make life awesome! My friends at FifthPeriodLunch.com posted a blog listing the top five candy bars ever. Check it out when you get a chance, and without …
People that know me know I’m serious about three things: Dogs that look like people, “Three’s Company” fan fiction – and snack chips. There’s nothing worse than going to someone’s house for a party, and finding out their idea of the best chips ever is a half-open bag of store-brand potato chips, with some organic …
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Donovan, The Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns N’ Roses (Why is the apostrophe on the “N” like that?), along with several people you haven’t heard of, in 2012. There are very few current bands I would consider “rock bands,” like Foo Fighters, Chili Peppers, …
It’s important to remember that you don’t just want the best Fantasy Football players each week in your Daily Fantasy Football lineups. You want the best values. In other words, you don’t just want Antonio Brown because he’s the best player – you want the players that are going to score the most points compared …
The 2016 NFL season has reached a crucial juncture: Now, with a few weeks in the books, is when good teams scramble to solidify their status as Super Bowl contenders and when fringe squads try to remain latched on to the peripherals of that same discussion, lest they ebb completely into betting oblivion.
This Week 4 FanDuel lineup will be the first week with teams on byes this year, which means there will be two fewer teams to choose players from. Remember – no Eagles or Packers – and there’s an early London game Sunday morning! At this point last year, I was writing for FanDuel, working on …
People that know me know I love three things: Spicy things, popcorn and wearing skinny jeans. (OK, notsomuch the third, but I like to keep you on your toes.) So I thought I’d take some time out to share with you my Spicy Popcorn recipe, which should make any game-watching activities even greater. It ain’t …
We found the best in-season free Fantasy Football lineup tools and waiver wire tools that will help you continue your winning ways! Your Fantasy Football draft is behind you and now you have to ride the horse you picked. It’s like marrying a pretty good looking person, hoping they stay that way forever!
Playing Fantasy Football is a lot like going shopping. There’s a lot of excitement before and during, but there’s even more buyer’s remorse afterward. It made me think about all of the different Fantasy Football emotions we go through on any given NFL Sunday, and how it’s very difficult for most of us to truly …
From the moment Roger Goodell said “With the fourth pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys select Ezekiel Elliott,” the Fantasy Football world has fallen head-over-heels in love with the rookie running back out of Ohio State. But I’m here to tell you — Don’t draft Ezekiel Elliott in Round 1 of your …
A Fantasy Football auction can get your blood flowing and they are much more intense than regular straight drafts. If you haven’t tried one — or if you haven’t done one in a while — get on it! Now, they even have auctions on Fantasy sites like ESPN, MyFantasyLeague.com and CBSSports.com, which we’ll get into. …
The 2016 Fantasy quarterback rankings are littered with players that should have big years, players that could have big years and players whose big years are likely far behind them. Last year, we thought Andrew Luck would replace Peyton Manning as a top-three quarterback for the next decade.
The running backs position ain’t what it used to be! As you look at our 2016 Fantasy running back rankings, think back to how things have changed from just one year ago. Sure, some things look the same – Le’Veon Bell and Adrian Peterson are still near the top, although, with more question marks than …
Over the past few years, the wide receiver position has taken on new importance. That means our 2016 Fantasy Wide Receiver Rankings mean even more than ever. The running backs position has been slowly neutered since 2010 or so, and the NFL passing games have gone to a new level.
The 2016 Fantasy Tight End rankings may have taken a bigger shift in the past six months than any other position in Fantasy. Several players swapped teams, but that doesn’t change the fact that this remains a very deep position. I’m a big fan of tight ends in the NFL because they’re an underappreciated group …
When you start looking deeper into the 2016 Fantasy Kicker Rankings, you realize the usual suspects over the past few years are still making appearances. And really, as the last round in your draft comes closer and closer, you should really try to think about drafting a “usual suspect,” like Justin Tucker, over some possibly …
Compared to other Fantasy Football positions, the 2016 Fantasy Defense Rankings have much less continuity than the other Fantasy positions. Looking at the Fantasy quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends, you might spot a sleeper that creeped up 20 spots from last year’s rankings, like Blake Bortles or Gary Barnidge.
My former co-worker, Eric Mack, and I are back at it again, with our “Fantasy Fatcast” podcast! We plan to do two podcasts a week going forward, and we kicked things off this week reviewing the rookies, breakouts and busts from the 2015 Fantasy Football season.
Every season a number of rookie running backs make a significant impact on their respective teams and fantasy teams alike. Last season featured the emergence of Todd Gurley and David Johnson as superstars. Others such as Thomas Rawls, Jeremy Langford, Matt Jones, and Jay Ajayi all showed cased their abilities, and all will enter this …
This week, we start our big Fantasy breakout series, looking at the players we expect to post better Fantasy production than their current ADP might indicate. I recently wrote an article over at SoCalledFantasyExperts.com, pointing out when you should look for breakout Fantasy Football players from which positions.
It might seem rather early to be pinning down your Fantasy Football teams for next season. But after some big roster changes across the board, you’re sure to have some big decisions to make before September. If you’re a Seattle Seahawks fan, then one of those could be who replaces Marshawn Lynch on your team.
While the 2016 Fantasy Starting Pitcher rankings certainly weren’t the first set of rankings you looked at this season, they are ones you’ll end up paying more than the normal amount of attention as the season wears on. There are reasons for this! Since Fantasy Baseball writers regularly expound on the great virtues of waiting …
In Fantasy Baseball, the outfielders position is unlike any of the others, despite having the looks of the other hitting positions. Our 2016 Fantasy outfielders rankings exhibit the differences you should understand. With other Fantasy Baseball positions, you’re usually dealing with mostly power hitters (corner infielders) or run producers with speed (middle infielders) or players …
In recent years, the third base position has thinned out just a bit, but you’ll certainly find that’s no longer true with our 2016 Fantasy Third Basemen Rankings. While it’s true that Edwin Encarnacion and Miguel Cabrera have defected over to the not-so-defense-heavy first base side, along with Ryan Zimmerman, there’s still no reason to …
Anyone that has read my columns over the past 15 years knows that I’m a big fan of the catcher position, and as usual, I kick off my rankings with the 2016 Fantasy Catcher Rankings. The position often gets looked over because the 30-HR hitters at this position are few and far between.
How often do we dip into the slow, plodding first basemen in order to bulk up on our power numbers? Our 2016 Fantasy First Basemen rankings are full of guys that swing a bit bat, but are adept on the field enough to stay out of the designated hitter’s spot.
It’s understood that our 2016 Fantasy Relief Pitcher rankings are likely going to change faster than any other set of position rankings on this site. It’s not to say ours aren’t good rankings, but instead, that even good closer rankings are subject to the insanity that is the ninth inning in Major League Baseball. Why …
I’m a much bigger fan of looking at individual position rankings for my cheatsheet, helping me see which positions have depth available, allowing me to build my best lineup. But looking at the top 250 Overall Fantasy Baseball Player Rankings has its advantages as well, especially in the early part of the draft. For the …
Remember back in the day when Alfonso Soriano and Bret Boone were crushing 30 bombs a season? As you look through these 2016 Fantasy Second Basemen rankings, you won’t find any 30-HR 2Bs, and you’ll be happy if you can even pull a 20-HR second baseman.
We were spoiled on Fantasy Shortstops back in the day, when we had Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra, Miguel Tejada and Derek Jeter in his prime. Over the past few years, we’ve struggled to find much at the position outside of a healthy-once-in-a-while Troy Tulowitzki and Jose Reyes.
With the Wildcard round in the rear view mirror the Divisional Round of the playoffs will start on Saturday. It’s time to isolate the best fantasy football picks from the two playoff games on January 16th for one day and head to head real money leagues.
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The NFL playoffs begin with the AFC Wildcard on Saturday January 9th. Fanpicks.com is proud to unveil our RotoPicker tool which allows you to create winning line ups. Play the best NFL daily fantasy football contests only at Fanpicks.com the premiere daily fantasy sport site
There are five attractive bowl games set for Friday, January 1. Fanpicks.com provides the following selection of the best fantasy college football picks for one day leagues on this big day for DFS GM’s. The Northwestern Wildcats will meet the Tennessee Volunteers in the Outback Bowl. There will be a speed advantage for the Volunteers …
The final NFL Monday Night Football game of the season will involve division leaders when the Denver Broncos will be hosting the Cincinnati Bengals. Let’s isolate the top fantasy football picks from both rosters for your one day real money leagues at FanPicks.com Both Denver and Cincinnati are strong defensive clubs Denver leads the league …
It’s Week 15 of the NFL and it’s time to select the best fantasy football picks for your one day real money leagues as selected by Fanpick.com The Arizona Cardinals are off to the road to meet the Philadelphia Eagles. The Cardinals are the number three passing team in the NFL this year by throwing …
The college football bowl season will move into week two of action and it’s time to lock down on some solid fantasy football picks for your one day leagues at FanPicks.com In the Miami Beach Bowl on December 21st the South Florida Bulls will be close to home to meet the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. The …
Monday Night Football features and NFC versus AFC contest as the Miami Dolphins will host the New York Giants. We isolate daily fantasy football picks from this game for one day real money leagues at Fanpicks.com The Giants have the most at stake in this game with a win they will be in a three …
The NFL moves into Week 14 and it is time to isolate some fantasy football picks for one day real money leagues at FanPicks.com One of the more attractive games on the card will be an AFC North division battle as the Cincinnati Bengals are home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cincinnati has been putting up …
The Monday Night Football game from Week 13 will feature two teams surprisingly still in the hunt for the NFC East title as the Washington Redskins will host the Dallas Cowboys. Fanpicks.com is proud to sponsor tonight’s daily fantasy football picks.
Week 13 is on course… and Fanpicks.com is on your side bringing you our advice for the best daily fantasy football picks and we On Sunday, December 6 the Minnesota Vikings will host the Seattle Seahawks. At the moment the Seahawks are showing some outstanding defensive stats… despite having given up 30 points in last …
The NFL moves into Week 11 making it time to select our preferred fantasy football picks for one day leagues at FanPicks.com. The Oakland Raiders take their act on the road to battle the Detroit Lions. This Raiders team has shown great improvement on the offensive side of the football.
The regular season is winding down so let’s take a look at Week 12 from college football and isolate some preferred fantasy sports picks for your one day leagues at Fanpicks.com From the Big Ten conference the Wisconsin Badgers are home to the Northwestern Wildcats. Both teams sit at 8-2 on the season.
It is now Week 10 of the NFL season and it’s time to play fantasy football picks for one day real money leagues at FanPicks.com The Green Bay Packers return home to battle the 1-7 Detroit Lions. It was a tough two game road trip for Green Bay as they dropped games at Denver and …
Let’s take a look at Week 11 from college fantasy football and deliver some winning fantasy picks at FanPicks.com The Cincinnati Bearcats are home to face the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Both teams are putting up a lot of points this year. The Golden Hurricane has struggled mightily on the defensive side of the football. They …
Before we get into my early Week 10 FanDuel lineup for 50/50s, Double-Ups and Head-to-Head games, let’s look back at last week. We had six NFL teams on byes, including the Cardinals, Ravens, Lions, Texans, Chiefs and Seahawks, which means a lot to FanDuel owners this week. In Week 10, we’ll be without just four …
It is another AFC versus NFC matchup on Monday Night Football as the San Diego Chargers will be at home against the Chicago Bears. Both teams are under .500. Today’s Fantasy Football Week 9 comes from www.fanpicks.com The Bears blew a seven point lead late by shoddy play in the secondary as they give up …
We move into Week 9 of the NFL regular season and it’s time to deliver the one week fantasy football at FanPicks.com The Chicago Bears are off to the road to battle the San Diego Chargers. San Diego is not serious about establishing a running game. Their whole offense is the right arm of Phillip …
It is Week 10 of the college Fantasy Football regular season and it is time to put the spotlight on several good fantasy picks from this card on FanPicks.com The Arizona Wildcats are on a back to back road trip as they travel to the LA Coliseum to take on the USC Trojans. It is …
Although the activity of fantasy football has been with us for over 50 years, it’s only since the rise of the internet that it has really taken off. Through the use of new digital technologies, it’s easier than ever for anyone to enjoy being an armchair quarterback. And with even President Obama having tried the …
The Monday Night Football game from Week 7 features the Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens. Let’s examine the best fantasy roster picks from this game for your one day league. We have Fanpicks.com powering Daily Fantasy Sports that will cover the Baltimore Ravens who are a 1-5 football team. They are lucky they are not …
This is a guest post from the people over at FanPicks.com, a Daily Fantasy Football site where you can win real money. It’s Week 7 of the Fantasy Football season and on byes will be the Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers. It’s time to play fantasy football online at FanPicks.com …
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We’re back again for another installment of my Week 5 Fantasy rankings, but this time, we’re looking at a much thinner set of players to choose from because there are four teams on byes in Week 5. We’re happy to see the return of Tom Brady, Marcus Mariota, Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and the rest …
Welcome to the first in a 24-part series on FanDuel lineups Strategy (give or take 19 to 20 parts of this series). My goal here is to share some of my favorite tips for Daily Fantasy Football on FanDuel, for different types of games on the site. This past summer, I joined the FanDuel Insider …
Just two weeks have past, and oh my, how much has changed! The scary part isn’t as much dealing with your lineups after all of these changes, but more, hoping to outsmart any changes that might happen in the coming weeks. My Week 3 Fantasy Football rankings are posted below, which will hopefully help you …
This year’s draft class of rookies is loaded full of NBA talent and every one is excited to get in on the action in Fantasy Basketball. The analysts (read fortune tellers) at FiveThirtyEight had this to say about his year’s group: “While there figure to be fewer future superstars available this year than in 2014’s rookie …
The second week of the season got here quick, right? After waiting what seemed like 12 years for Week 1 to arrive, this week came around waaay too quick! My Week 2 Fantasy Football rankings are getting posted late! Obviously, I blame work. And naps. And cartoons. But outside of those things, I also blame …
If you’ve ever used the Draft Wizard tool, then you already understand how powerful the FantasyPros’ tools can be. Their “My Playbook” is easily the best Fantasy tool you can use during the Fantasy Football regular season, and we're going to explain why. Not only does it help you figure out who you should pick …
You've been waiting more than half of a year to fill out a lineup for your Fantasy Football team! Our Week 1 Fantasy Football rankings are here to help you get started off on the right foot. Whether you were a part of the 10 percent (or lower) that brought home a Fantasy Football championship …
Sometimes, I can’t sleep. So I think. Very dangerous, I know. In this case, though, I thought about a bunch of (completely unreasonable and irrational) ways that our beloved Fantasy Football game could be even better! How can you improve the Mona Lisa? How can you make apple pie taste even better? How can you …
Never hold a Fantasy Football draft before the preseason is over – this should be the universal golden rule. However, seeing how it isn’t a rule and sites like Yahoo, Draft Kings and CBSsports.com like to hold drafts prior to the end of exhibition play, you need to have a plan B. There has to be a …
The beauty about Fantasy Football defenses is that different scoring systems can make a case for about two-thirds of the NFL teams to be viewed as possible starting defenses in Fantasy play. A prospective owner could be in a league that greatly rewards Fantasy points for sacks, but downplays turnovers or special teams play. Make …
Recently, I took part in a 2015 IDP draft with my old buddies over at CBSSports.com, along with 11 other Fantasy Football writers. They came from sites like RotoWire, USA Today, ProjectRoto and Pro Football Focus. So I thought I’d share those 2015 IDP draft results with you here! An IDP league, as you might …
Every season, going on four years with DavidGonos.com, I have written an article about that year’s kickers, usually titled something like “2015 Fantasy Football Kicker Rankings,” where I explain why kickers can make a difference in your Fantasy league. Last year, Jake Ciely from RotoExperts.com, decided to eliminate the position from the lineup requirements in …
We’ve already covered the entrees on the Fantasy Football menu, sharing my 2015 Fantasy Football rankings for quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers, and now it’s time to dig into some of the side dishes, like the 2015 Tight End rankings! First, we’re going to take a quick look back at last season’s numbers at …
There are plenty of Fantasy draft boards out there, but are there is really only one great custom Fantasy Football draft kit like the ones we have over at SoCalledFantasyExperts.com. And any self-respecting Fantasy draft party isn’t complete without a great draft board to post player picks and to keep the draft order straight. Fantasy …
Over the past 10 or 15 years, we’ve seen the wide receivers position climb to higher Fantasy worth, in a group, no less. It was just 20 years ago that Jerry Rice ran the position, as the only wideout to be considered with a first-round draft pick. But as we look at the 2015 Wide …
Before we get too deep into our Fantasy Football 2015 Running Back Rankings, I thought it would be good to look back at some of the more interesting stories of last year and this past offseason. In other words, we have to look at some points where you’ll have to make some major decisions over. …
Earlier this week, one of my leaguemates told me that Mike, our commissioner last season, passed away after a long battle with cancer. I had never met Mike in person, and in this league, he was basically a friend of a friend, but without question, he was one of the best guys in the league. …
DeMarco Murray just turned 27 years old in February, and the Dallas Cowboys were unable to re-sign the franchise’s new single-season rushing leader. He ended up signing with the Philadelphia Eagles because he liked what head coach Chip Kelly was bringing to the table with his high-octane offensive gameplan. Had Murray returned to the Cowboys, …
Who doesn’t love a bunch of awesome links Daily Fantasy Baseball players should bookmark? I write Daily Fantasy articles for a few different websites, including SoCalledFantasyExperts.com, where I post my picks on Wednesdays and Saturdays, DailyFantasyTalk.com and FanDuel Insider. For the most part, we’re talking about links to great DFS tools or stats or interesting …
As I’ve mentioned recently, I was asked to help with a couple 2015 Fantasy Football magazines, one of which asked me to write up some pieces on players I think will work as low-risk/high reward players. I went through all of my rankings, pulling out names I believe would fit into that category, and it …
This week has been super exciting, as I’ve signed a deal with FanDuel to write about Daily Fantasy Baseball and Daily Fantasy Football dealing. In that spirit, I thought I’d share a few quick tips for FanDuel games that I think my readers would find helpful! Obviously, these tips for FanDuel games are for Daily …
A recent discussion with my new peeps at FanDuel prompted a discussion about wOBA in Daily Fantasy Baseball. The question, essentially, is – should wOBA be considered one of the top DFS stats to consider while choosing hitters and pitchers for your FanDuel lineups? The argument comes from the fact that wOBA generally brings in …
As I mentioned Monday, I joined the FanDuel.com content staff and will be providing them with a couple Daily Fantasy columns each week. (My first column on interesting DFS stats goes up over there today after noon, so keep an eye out!) So in my research for my columns, I’ll be coming across some interesting …
In case you haven’t heard, we announced Monday that myself and Eric Mack, who I worked with at CBSSports.com and at SI.com, have joined the content staff at FanDuel.com. We’re not the only ones, of course, as my friend Joe Pisapia, of the FantasyBlackBook.com will also be joining the team. And this team is headed …
Every offseason, we all have a difficult decision to make. We need to decide who we’d choose with the first overall pick in 2015 Fantasy Football leagues. It’s a decision that is tantamount to naming your first child and choosing what flavor blood you’d like in your transfusion. This past week, I signed on to …
The NFL announced Monday that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's suspension will be for four games to start the 2015 NFL season for his part in #DeflateGate -- the controversy surrounding the deflated balls in the 2014 AFC Championship Game. It wasn’t as shocking as some of the NFL’s other recent announcements, including both …
A couple weeks ago, I was introduced to the Fanamana Daily Fantasy app by a friend, and I found it very interesting. This friend, Jason Garcia, used to work with me at OPENSports.com back in the late ‘00s, and we hosted a game there called Fantasy Live. Basically, you played in a Fantasy Football tournament …
The 2015 Quarterback rankings look a little different this season than in years past, but your Fantasy Football league won’t suddenly see more quarterbacks taken in the early rounds. For the most part, it’s business as usual, just with some names swapped out for others. Last summer, just before the 2014 NFL season started, I …
I’m watching the 2015 NFL Draft, as any red-blooded American Fantasy Football player should be, and I decided to do up a quick reaction to some of the offensive draft picks. While I’m not ready to lock in these reactions as gold for the rest of the draft season, I look at these reactions as …
Fantasy Baseball owners love to align themselves with winning MLB teams, by acquiring their top players. It only makes sense, really, when you think about it. And it’s not just because Fantasy Baseball players are fair-weather fans, rooting for the best teams only. The reasoning behind this is sound – good baseball teams give good …
There is probably no other day on the schedule that has more people checking in on their Fantasy teams more than on MLB Opening Day. There are always some out-of-nowhere performances by Fantasy free agents, and there are always some early round pitchers that get inexplicably hammered. So while you might be ready to over-manage …
If you play in any CBSSports Fantasy Baseball leagues, you might not know about an awesome page at your disposal. It shows you the percentages of all the other Commissioner leagues on CBSSports.com, as far as the league types, player pools, positions, rules, scoring and all that other stuff. So I thought I’d share those …
Yeti Vedder helps. That's what he does. He helped you name your Fantasy Football team, and now he's offering up some ideas for Fantasy Baseball team names. As a matter of fact, we'd love to hear some of your submissions for great Fantasy Baseball team names! Either comment below or send a tweet to us …
The Tampa Bay Rays were once known for their stellar minor-league system, when players like Carl Crawford, Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, David Price, James Shields and Desmond Jennings were leading this team into the playoffs more than any other American League team between 2008-13. This organization was shrewd enough to supplement those homegrown prospects with …
As MLB Spring Training gets under way this week, Fantasy Baseball players can begin preparing in earnest for the season to come, and that means tracking some of the players and storylines that have already begun flooding from down south. A few players in particular could see their draft stock rise (or fall) dramatically in …
Before we take a deep look at the 2015 Fantasy Baseball Second Basemen Rankings, I thought it would be smart to look back at what happened to the second base position in 2014. Entering the season, Michael Beller and I had a Fantasy Debate on Sports Illustrated about which second baseman should be drafted first: Robinson Cano or Jason Kipnis? But …
As we begin to take a closer look at the 2015 Fantasy Baseball First Basemen rankings, it’s important to take a look back at the position over the past few years to get an idea of what to expect going forward. We know the first base position is usually full of big, barrel-chested players whose …
Doing the 2015 Fantasy Baseball catcher rankings reminded me of something about this position. In Fantasy Baseball, catchers are like Adam Sandler movies: “Happy Gilmore,” “Billy Madison” and “The Wedding Singer” are some of the most quoted movies of our generation. Yet, it’s hard to believe “Little Nicky,” “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” and …
So here’s the thing – closers are shaky. And not all relievers are closers. And some relievers are actually starters. And each team really only has one pitcher that they’d like to hand the ball to in the ninth inning. So all of these factors make the Relief Pitcher rankings for 2015 a little crazy. …
Fantasy Baseball draft season is finally here, which means I have to get my rankings together. Normally, I’d start from catchers and go forward in the rankings posts through the infielders and outfielders, before getting to the pitchers. But this season, I’m starting with the top 70 Starting Pitcher rankings for 2015 Fantasy Baseball! Normal …
Over the past three or four years, on Fantasy Baseball magazine has stood out above the rest – and I really don’t think it’s close. I got my digital copy of “The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2015” this week, and once again, I’m supremely impressed by the people involved, the design and – most of all …
You may or may not have noticed that I’ve been slacking on my January blog posts on DavidGonos.com. You know I’ve been writing for several sites lately, from SportsIllustrated.com to FantasySports.About.com to SKYLLZONE. But now, I’ve launched an entirely new Fantasy Sports website called SoCalledFantasyExperts.com, where I’ll be joined by dozens of Fantasy Baseball and …
I wrote an article two days ago about research that I did on statistics that have the highest correlation to overall value for Fantasy Basketball. In that article I was able to conclude that minutes played and, to a lesser extent, turnovers have the highest correlation with overall value, and I came up with a …
My initial thought was to begin this article with the traditional sob story that every last place, self-absorbed fantasy owner sings; “Everyone on my team got hurt, all my stars underperformed, and I played every team in my league on their best week.” While all of this may be true for my 12 team head-to-head …
As I watch Oklahoma face off against Clemson in the Russel Athletic Bowl (it feels wrong to say the name of a sponsor), and face off is a misnomer in this case due to the lack of competitiveness so far, I see Cole Stoudt, the Clemson quarterback, complete wide receiver screens ad nauseam against the Oklahoma …
It has felt like ages since my last Interrogate the Industry post. For that I apologize. I think due to the peak of the Fantasy Football season, the Holidays, illnesses things often get put on the back burner for everyone. I wasn't ignoring the posts as much as not over concerning myself making sure folks …
The Buccaneers have the No. 1 pick for the 2015 NFL Draft all locked up – as long as they don’t win in Week 17 against the Saints. The way this season has gone for Tampa Bay, it wouldn’t be shocking to see them screw this up – especially since they have a history of …
CHAMPIONSHIP has arrived and if you are in the championship congratulations and best of luck! If you are not however, like myself you will likely be looking to do some Discount Diving in DFS this week. I would normally apologize for the disastrous lineup I submitted and discount plays from last week, but I won't …
It is sad, but exciting at the same time. The fantasy championships are among us, and some of your leagues are already finished. It has been an exciting season, and if you’re in the championship, a successful one for you. However, there is one more week, and that causes for you to finish the job, …
You’re so close to a Fantasy Football championship, you can taste it! Our Week 16 Fantasy Rankings will help you become a champion for the entire Fantasy offseason! While Daily Fantasy Football has become all the rage in the instant gratification world we live in, putting in the time and effort to build a quality …
The NBA is rarely a league that is easy to predict. Fantasy Sports in general are much the same, so when you combine the two for Fantasy Basketball, you better be able to handle some serious ups and downs. If you’re in it for the long haul in season long leagues, the roller coaster highs and …
Let's go Discount Diving for FanDuel once again. Sure, it is the PLAYOFFS in seasonal formats everywhere but not on FanDuel. Every Week is new and important in daily fantasy sports and this week is no exception. Plenty of fantastic match-ups, surprise injuries, and even worse game time decisions that will make setting lineups extra …
If you’ve made it this far in your Fantasy playoffs, then you are just a couple more wins away from winning the whole shebang! The Week 15 Fantasy Football Rankings should help you with those very difficult lineup decisions! Most likely, you’re not struggling with who to start at quarterback, tight end or kicker. But …
It has arrived; the Fantasy Playoffs are among us. Whether you were 10-4 in the regular season, or 8-6, the records do not matter anymore; everyone is equal game right now. And in fantasy football, anything can happen, on any given week. For instance, last week I found myself in a win and in situation. …
I can't contain my excitement on sharing a Fantasy Football League setup known commonly as All-Play with you all.Even crazier? I have a league setup, I tried personally in my home league and it was a resounding success and fun for everyone. So, now is as good of a time as any to do it. The …
It’s crazy that we have reached Week 14 already, and not only the Fantasy Football season, also the NFL season is coming down the stretch. It has been a great season, filled with excitement and surprises. However, as the season comes down the stretch, the games become more important, and the money you have spent …
If you’re reading these Week 14 Fantasy Football rankings, there’s likely only two reasons for it: 1. You beat out half of your league for one of a few coveted playoff spots. 2. You’re in a league that doesn’t have a championship game until Week 17 and you’re sick of people mocking your league because …
It’s a crucial time in fantasy football, and I can only hope that you are one of the few that have survived to this point in the season. It’s either the playoffs or the last week of the regular season, and seasons are on the line. At this point, your roster is pretty much set, …
The Week 13 Discount Diving post comes with plenty to look forward to. Thanksgiving feast, watching Football while devouring far too much food, monitoring your Fantasy Squads (of course) and their bids to make playoffs, or snag a Bye in the first round, and for some spending the quality time with your family. No matter …
The last week of the Fantasy regular season is upon us and the Week 13 Fantasy Football rankings are chock full of players from all 32 NFL teams for the first time in a long time. Normally, I’d do a chatty writeup about something interesting going on in Fantasy Football right now, but with three …
It’s finally here! Thanksgiving, the day we all cherish. It is filled with food, fun, family, and football, what a great holiday. It is personally favorite holiday, and I’m excited to celebrate with my family on Thursday. As for what I am thankful for, for one I am thankful to be able to write these …
I think we can all agree to one conclusion after Week 12’s action: Odell Beckham Jr. is a beast. We witnessed him make the best catch I’ve personally ever seen. He grabbed the ball out of mid-air with just three fingers, and hauled it in for a TD, all while being interfered with; on his …
Good grief. The running backs corps is becoming very weak in Fantasy, and once again we continue to be blindsided by sleepers having outstanding performances. Luckily, this is the last week for bye weeks, so we’ll be able to play our starters down the Fantasy stretch. But I just hope you survived this long stretch …
We had to switch up our Week 12 Fantasy Football rankings a little bit this week, mostly because time was not on my side! But I’m not going to leave you hanging, and with just two weeks left until the Fantasy playoffs arrive, your Fantasy Football lineup is more important than ever. Normally, I go …
Entering the 2014 baseball season, Michael Beller and I had a Fantasy Debate on Sports Illustrated about which second baseman should be drafted first: Robinson Cano or Jason Kipnis? But instead, it ended up being guys like Jose Altuve, Anthony Rendon and Brian Dozier atop the second base rankings. So what happened to those guys? …
We're officially heading down the stretch, and in most leagues there are just 3 games left in the fantasy regular season. These games are crucial, and so are your roster moves at this point. Most likely, your trade deadline has passed, which means if you’re having problems at a certain position, it’s all up to …
Last week by in large was a successful week for Discount Diving. Although the lineup I posted only won in one contest, I did do well in all of my other contests, using many of the same discount players. The big hitters were Justin Forsett, Roddy White, and Jason Witten performing as I projected. Jeremy Hill …
So many. Yes, I am referring to the teams on bye-weeks the last two weeks. Hopefully, you survived. However, if not, like me, there’s still hope, but it puts you in a must-win situation this week, and it makes for a very stressful upcoming week. Unfortunately, the NFL season has flown by, and we’re very …
There might be no other Fantasy position that offers as much talent on the waiver wire from one week to the next as wide receivers. Our Week 11 WR rankings show how truly deep the position is, and we’re going to help you plan the future a bit. With just three weeks left in the …
The Week 11 TE rankings are as important as ever, but if you are an astute Fantasy owners smart enough to still be reading articles in Week 11, then you’re probably headed toward the Fantasy playoffs. That means we need to help you start preparing for that, so this week, we’ve been sharing some players …
The Fantasy playoffs are less than one month away – can you believe it? These Week 11 RB Rankings will hopefully get you one step closer to getting into those playoffs. And once you get into the playoffs – well, anything can happen! But if you’re already kicking butt and you’re ready to look ahead …
Six defenses are coming off byes – and that makes 12 defenses coming off byes over the past two weeks. The Week 11 DST rankings are quite mixed. What I mean by that is there are several good defenses dropping out of the top 10 because of matchups, and likewise, there are some mediocre defenses …
Over the past two weeks, 12 teams have gone on bye weeks, which means you’ve had 12 fewer quarterbacks to choose from for your starting lineup. While there are still four more teams going on a bye in Week 11, the Week 11 QB rankings look better stocked than they have in a while. And …
I’ve already taken part in two mock drafts, including the first round of a 2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft on FantasySports.About.com (with the second round posted on this site) and one that MLB.com hosted here. In both instances, Miguel Cabrera, who lost his third-base eligibility for 2015, was the top first baseman selected (second and …
If I would have said at the beginning of the 2014 Fantasy Football season I would feel the need to write a post encouraging owners to try to trade for Calvin Johnson I would have been given a "Well, DUH!" look. Well, here we are approaching Week 10 and Calvin Johnson has missed time and …
It certainly felt great to get back in the win column on FanDuel in a big way last week after a successful sample lineup, and discount diving post. Hitting on Ryan Tannehill, Jeremy Hill, and getting a decent performance from Rueben Randle helped lead three entries with this lineup to payout and scoring 131 points. …
You’re interested in the Week 10 Kicker rankings, you say? Let me help you out there, with a look at the best kickers in a six-team bye week. With Stephen Gostkowski sitting on a couch this week, along with Adam Vinatieri and Nick Novak, there will be plenty of people scrambling for a good kicker. …
Before we dive into the Week 10 WR rankings, let’s talk about some young players that we could see on the rise in coming weeks. We’re officially into the second half of the season, which means it’s time to start seeing some production out of rookies that struggled early on to the speed of the …
It’s that time of the week again! The time has to come to move on from the waiver wire and prepare for Week 10, a crucial week in fantasy football. It is also basically the last week with multiple teams on bye-weeks (Thank God). Luckily, there weren’t many injuries last week but there were many …
The Week 10 TE rankings are going to be without Fantasy Football studs like Rob Gronkowski and Antonio Gates, along with steady Dwayne Allen and oft-injured-but-talented Jordan Reed. So I thought I’d take a quick look back before we take a short look forward. Rather than just churn out the rankings each week, I usually …
It’s no secret that running backs are the lifeblood of most Fantasy Football teams, and those that went the Zero-Running Back Theory can argue all they want. Our Week 10 RB rankings are the most important rankings, once again, as we enter a six-team bye week. “But the Zero-RB Theory is brilliant,” some may say, …
Free agent Pablo Sandoval declined a $15 million qualifying offer from the San Francisco Giants. He declined a three-year $40 million extension earlier in the season. Sandoval is a three-time World Series Champion, who owns a .426 BA in 47 ABs across 12 World Series games, but his career batting average of .294 is a …
Man, you picked a bad week for your defense/special teams to go on a bye week! The Week 10 DST rankings show you that any of the likely available Fantasy defenses in your league’s waivers aren’t going to have a great matchup in Week 10. For those that had a DST on a bye week …
Six quarterbacks are coming off of bye weeks and six quarterbacks are going on bye weeks, which means there are difficult decisions to make – and these Week 10 QB rankings prove that to be true. I just wrote my Week 10 Waiver Wire column for SI.com, and I suggested picking up Mark Sanchez, Kyle …
What a wild Week 9, but sadly it is time to move on. I got screwed, putting up 104 Fantasy points, but still losing as I played against Ben Roethlisberger. He carried my opponents’ team, and hurt mine. So, I’m excited to move on to a new week and get ready for a wild waiver …
In Fantasy Baseball, catchers are like Adam Sandler movies: “Happy Gilmore,” “Billy Madison” and “The Wedding Singer” are some of the most quoted movies of our generation. Yet, it’s hard to believe “Little Nicky,” “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” and “Jack and Jill” came from the same mind? And then there are a whole …
Playoffs are on the horizon for seasonal owners, but for those of us who play Daily Fantasy Football it is another week to go discount diving and try to make some moolah! As you have to do when you write posts like this you have to look at the calls in your previous week and …
Last week was very exciting. I saw my main team put up an astounding 141 Fantasy points, in a standard league, and still almost lost! My opponent was a mere nine points short of me; thus showing what a big Fantasy week it was. Hopefully, we can repeat that Fantasy success this week. I hate …
With six teams on byes this week – the Week 9 Fantasy Football rankings are a little thinner than usual. There are plenty of interesting matchups, as well, including Peyton Manning and Tom Brady going at it again. I was on the road this past week in Atlanta to see family, so time became an …
What an exciting Sunday, I would say. There were many outstanding performances, including guys like Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Rob Gronkowski, and Arian Foster having monster games. However, there were some duds and also some injuries, which makes the Week 9 Waiver Wire extra important. Doug Martin continues to struggle, while he also injured his …
This week's Discount Diving will be short and sweet. I apologize for the lack of some of the standard information, but there have been an over-abundant amount of interruptions, distractions and unique situations this week my free time to write and research was minimal. Thankful for Grandparents I am able to sneak away for a …
Ahhh, you’ve accidentally clicked on the Week 8 Kicker rankings once again, while your sausage fingers were trying to click on maybe the tight end rankings? Or the defense/special teams rankings? Never mind, it doesn’t matter now. You’re here, you might as well get comfortable and read up on some kickers! It’s like when you …
Let's talk Week 8 Start 'em Sit 'em! With his two TDs Sunday night, Ronnie Hillman has already outscored early Fantasy draft pick Zac Stacy. That is just one example out of many, on how this season has been the year of the waiver wire. There have been so many fantasy pickups this season that have …
Each week, around Tuesday, sometimes Thursday, I go on The Fantasy Funhouse radio show on the SiriusXM Fantasy Sports channel with Nando Di Fino. We talk about TV shows, movies, the ‘80s – and we talk about Fantasy Football. We also take some calls from listeners asking questions about their lineups each week, and the …
A good young running back is like gold in Fantasy Football, since you don’t have to worry about too much mileage on their wheels or getting yanked for a younger player. Our Week 8 RB rankings are stocked with good first- and second-year running backs, and I thought I’d take this week to look at …
The tight ends position hasn’t quite been as exciting this season as in past years, considering the absence of Aaron Hernandez, the retirement of Tony Gonzalez and the injuries to Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski. Julius Thomas, Martellus Bennett and Greg Olsen have been great news from the past couple seasons, but the up-and-down efforts …
Before we get into the Week 8 Waiver Wire, let's take a quick look back. The only word I could think of to express Week 7 is "Wow." We saw outstanding Fantasy performances from Golden Tate, Sammy Watkins, Ronnie Hillman, and many others. However, there were many brutal injuries, including Bills RB C.J. Spiller, who unfortunately …
[cue game show music] Welcome back for another edition of “The Up or Down Game” with the Week 8 QB Rankings! [cue applause] I’m usually playing this game with my blood pressure whenever I talk to the wife! [cue canned laughter] The way this game works is we look at the current Fantasy quarterback rankings …
The Week 8 DST rankings will be missing both the San Francisco 49ers defense and the less valuable N.Y. Giants defense, as both teams are on byes. The smart owner will look ahead at the available defenses for Weeks 9 and 10, also, to find some matchups to exploit – or matchups to avoid with …
The Thursday night games are over, and what was a surprisingly exciting game leaves with plenty of games, and Daily Fantasy options in this weeks Discount Diving. This week I am spending most of my money on a Quarterback, I will of course list value players for each position like usual so if you want …
Who doesn’t love a great set of Week 7 kicker rankings!?! Look, I know this page comes last on your list for rankings you’re interested in reading about, but it’s a necessary evil! We share some interesting facts and figures about kickers you might never know about had you not landed on this page! We’ll …
The Week 7 WR Rankings are pretty loaded once again, and it seems like you might have some tough decisions to make for either your third wide receiver or your flex position with this week’s matchups. Last week, we shared some interesting numbers that affected Fantasy wide receivers and it seemed to go over pretty …
Don’t worry, I know everyone was sobbing that I wasn’t able to write my Start ‘Em Sit ‘Em column last week; thus I apologize for that. However, I’m back this week with the Week 7 Start 'Em Sit 'Em and ready to help you all win your Fantasy Football matchups. Last week, we saw more …
Sometimes in the middle of the Fantasy season, I like to look back to see which tight ends have popped up out of nowhere to find themselves relevant in our game. These Week 7 TE rankings will have several players that we didn’t care about this past summer. But now, whether it’s due to injury …
We’re just over the halfway mark of the Fantasy Football regular season, so we can take a wide view of what has happened behind us. While the Week 7 RB rankings are certainly important – who doesn’t want to be 7-0!?! – I think we also need to look at the position to see what …
Just when you thought the Fantasy Baseball season was behind us – we publish the first two rounds of a 2015 Fantasy Baseball mock draft among 12 Fantasy writers from across the industry. I already posted the first round of this draft over at FantasySports.About.com, and there have already been some fireworks from some of …
As we enter the one-third mark of the NFL season (and pretty much the halfway mark for the Fantasy Football regular season), we can start to dump the dead weight on our roster and work toward using players that are finally fulfilling potential. As young players start to figure things out, they stop thinking and …
We’re three weeks into the world of bye weeks, which means a lot of us have had to cut defenses we like in order to pick up a defense that’s not on a bye. Our Week 7 DST rankings are just two teams short this week, as the Buccaneers and Eagles will have their bye …
Time for the waiver wire! Yes, chances are you’re still licking your wounds from a Week 6 Fantasy loss, or you may be still celebrating a win whether against a stranger, a co-worker, a friend or even your boss. I hate to be the negative one here, but it’s time to move on. It’s time …
The biggest news for the Week 6 WR rankings came midweek, when A.J. Green re-injured his toe in practice and had to be carted off the field for the Bengals. Cincinnati was already missing Tyler Eifert (elbow) and Marvin Jones (ankle), so Mohamed Sanu suddenly appears to be a player that’s going to see a …
This week, we’re going to look at the “Rest of the Season” rankings from FantasyPros.com, along with our Week 6 Kicker rankings to get a good idea of what Fantasy Football owners should do in the coming weeks, as bye weeks roll along. When we look at “Rest of the Season” rankings for kickers, we …
The good news for Jimmy Graham’s Fantasy owners is that you weren’t going to be able to use him this week in your lineups anyway, since the Saints are on a bye week. So these Week 6 TE rankings don’t change much because of his shoulder injury. However, there is some movement in these rankings, …
Three of the preseason top 25 running backs were injured this past weekend, which makes these Week 6 RB rankings a little thinner than usual. Reggie Bush, Rashad Jennings and Montee Ball all came out of Week 5 a little worse for the wear, which means players like George Winn, Andre Williams and Denver’s Ronnie …
It's that time of week again! Coming off of Week 5, we saw many new players emerge to Fantasy relevance, and show great performances this weekend. As you make your Week 6 waiver wire picks, it's time to think whom you will submit a claim for. I am here to help, as I’ll give you …
Last week, I was asked to provide my top-five Fantasy quarterbacks for the rest of the season, so I thought I’d share it here before we get into the Week 6 QB rankings. While Andrew Luck has the most Fantasy points, I still considered Peyton Manning to be the top Fantasy QB going forward. He …
Throughout draft prep season, you’re often told to wait on Fantasy DSTs and kickers until late in your drafts. The way things are lining up after five weeks, you would have been much better off if you heeded that advice. While the Week 6 DST rankings should be considered separate from the Fantasy scoring totals …
With four weeks in the books, things are getting complicated. It’s still early, but crucial games are arriving that could end up being the difference in the end for your fantasy team. Luckily, the Dolphins and Raiders are the only teams on bye-weeks this week, and neither of those teams have outstanding fantasy playmakers. Last …
Another few days of Football is upon us, and with it another chance to get some winning Daily Fantasy Football lineups. After missing a post last week (I do apologize, and hope I helped those who asked on Twitter) I am back and hoping to help you all find a few of those discounted value …
With a few illnesses, technical issues and an all time awful week in the Meyers' household, I still was able to squeeze a few questions out of Michael Rathburn (@FantasyRath). Michael himself is a busy fellow, and keeps occupied at the sites www.rotowire.com/daily, and www.dailyfantasysportsnetwork.com. Be sure to follow his work, ESPECIALLY if you partake in DFS. …
Kickers. They’re like the little 6-year-old brother to the girl you’re dating. Well, I mean, like back when you were a teenager, you really shouldn’t be dating girls with 6-year-old brothers when your 35 years old. Kickers are like little brothers because they have to go with you everywhere, while you’re trying to score with …
One quarter into the season, we find ourselves looking at plenty of star wide receivers limping around, dealing with tough injuries, which makes us deal with a difficult set of Week 5 WR rankings. Are you ready to make some tough decisions? Both Brandon Marshall and Calvin Johnson have been used as decoys recently, and …
The quarterback and tight end positions always seem so full of talent, there are difficult decisions made each week when we do these Week 5 TE Rankings. Who do we leave outside of the top 12? We’re basically saying they’re not start-worthy. That’s not true, of course, because there are tons of different Fantasy formats …
Now that you’re done playing a fullbacks or a scatback in your second running back spot because of the six teams on byes or injuries or bad waiver-wire luck, you can rest a little easier in Week 5, since the Dolphins and Raiders are the only ones resting this week. The Week 5 RB rankings …
With six teams coming off of bye weeks, you’re going to have a lot more choices among the Week 5 DST rankings, as six defenses return to the field – while just the Dolphins and Raiders defenses take a week off on Week 5 byes. The Bengals, Broncos, Browns, Cardinals, Rams and Seahawks are all …
Did you survive Bye-mageddon, as Bob Harris of FootballDiehards.com called it? Six teams had early byes in Week 4, and teams had to scramble to fill their lineups. Our Week 5 QB rankings brings back Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson into the fold. But then again, with two teams on byes this week, so you’ll …
It's that time of the week again! Bye weeks are in full swing, and some of your key players will be missing. That makes you turn toward the Week 5 waiver wire. Which players should you pick up? This is my advice on which players to snag this week off waivers. Of course, you'll want …
In this upcoming crucial Fantasy week, I share advice on which guys you should start, and who to sit come Sunday. Enjoy the Week 4 start 'em sit 'em! Quarterbacks Start ‘Em: Matthew Stafford at New York Jets Projected Fantasy Points: 27 Stafford is coming off of a horrific performance last week, in which he …
With six NFL teams on byes this week, the Week 4 WR rankings look much more shallow than in the first three weeks of the season. But in reality, this might be one of the deepest 26-team set of wide receiver rankings in Fantasy Football history. Passing is down a little bit in the NFL, …
We officially have to begin dealing with bye weeks in Week 4, which means you’ll likely have to go dumpster diving in the Week 4 kicker rankings to find a suitable starter among the free agents. Lucky for you, kickers are always all over the place to start the season, which is just one of …
There’s a very thin line between entertainment and news -- and a major network got burned by their own decisions, as ESPN suspending Bill Simmons for three weeks really just proves they want him to be honest, but not that honest. Most news organizations have to figure out that balance to make sure they are staying within …
Week 3 was great for my Fantasy squads (I know, I know NO ONE CARES) and I was able to get an interrogation of Jennifer Millman from Rotoexperts.com making it even better. I have been a follower of Jen for a while now on Twitter, and of her work on Roto Experts which is top notch. …
Who doesn’t love a great tight end? The Week 4 TE rankings are mixed up just a bit compared to previous weeks, as we have injuries to keep an eye out for and six teams on by weeks. That tends to change the Fantasy tight ends landscape, fo’ sho’. Two players that continue to skyrocket …
Six teams on bye weeks in the very first week of bye weeks? That’s ripping the Band-Aid off with one quick pull! Our Week 4 RB Rankings will definitely show how thin the position is, and how several teams in your league will be scraping the barrel for running backs this week – especially if …
First off, I'd like to say that I am honored that I will be writing my weekly Fantasy Football articles here, and I am more than excited to get started and contribute my Fantasy Football knowledge, starting with the Week 4 Waiver Wire. This week, we had many new names contributing to their respective teams, …
The Week 4 QB Rankings are a little different than the past three weeks. The NFL bye weeks are officially here, so lineup management becomes crucial as we work our way through these next 10 weeks. And now it gets interesting. Fantasy owners will have to decide for themselves which players to cut every single …
To cut or not to cut? That is the question – when six teams go on byes and you have to fill a DST spot on your roster. You’ll look at these Week 4 Defense rankings and you’ll work to get one of the best available options in your Fantasy Football league. But it’s just …
As a whole Week 2 was nauseating to watch, but if you went discount diving with me you likely once again ended up in the green in your Daily Fantasy sites bankrolls. It is also a constant reminder that in yearly leagues a bad week 2 can be beginning of the end thanks to an …
We are back with another Interrogate the Industry! I have to apologize to my regular readers for the delay between posts. Perhaps it has been so long you forgot to read my Interrogation of Rumford Johnny. Either way between the kickoff of the NFL season, Fantasy Baseball playoffs and of course family obligations time dwindled …
When I go over the Week 3 WR rankings, I look at the most recent week’s action, consider the upcoming opponents, and wonder how all that shakes out with my yearly rankings. So far, it seems like the wide receiver group has been less impressive – at least at the top of the heap – …
Checking out the Week 3 Kicker rankings, eh? Color me impressed! Looking at these rankings is the equivalent of eating a salad without dressing or going swimming at a beach in Canada. This tells me three things about you as a Fantasy owner. You’re a researcher that likes to get multiple opinions in your head …
Unfortunately, these Week 3 RB rankings are all over the place this week, mostly because the position has been hit with waaay more news stories than Fantasy Football owners would prefer. Whether it’s still dealing with the suspension news surrounding Ray Rice and his lawsuit to get reinstated back into the NFL, or the current …
So far, the tight ends position has worked out pretty much the way we all thought it would have. You have a couple studs near the top that are always scoring, and we do have a couple tight ends we thought were middle-of-the-road in Fantasy, who have skyrocketed upwards. We also have a few no-names …
When you look at the Week 3 Defense rankings, understand that you’re also looking at the Week 3 rankings for pretty much all of the Fantasy Football positions. In other words, if you see a defense ranked real high this week, there’s an awfully good chance you’ll find the quarterback, running backs and wide receivers …
All the talk about Fantasy Football being fun is thrown out the door now, as we are officially into the middle season. The Week 3 QB Rankings take into account the pass defenses for 2014, and looking back at 2013 a little farther back in our rearview mirrors. Over the past few weeks, we’ve lost …
With Adrian Peterson out after being arrested on charges of child injury, the Vikings chose to deactivate him. Our job is to figure out what that means for Week 2 Fantasy rankings, so I updated them accordingly. Both Matt Asiata and rookie running back Jerick McKinnon are expected to see a lot more action this …
The Week 2 Kicker rankings are here! The Week 2 Kicker rankings are here! I know, checking these out sometimes makes you feel like The Jerk. There are just 32 kickers to choose from each week, so it’s not rocket surgery trying to figure out who you should take. But we’ll offer a few tips …
Well, that was interesting. In Week 1, we saw just nine wide receivers post 100-yard receiving games, so where does that leave us with our Week 2 WR rankings? While there are a few changes from last week, there aren’t too many risers and fallers. Matchups certainly dictate where we’re placing a lot of these …
When it comes to Daily Fantasy Football each and every week is dramatically different. Players will disappoint in the biggest way (I'm looking at you Jamaal Charles) or exceed all expectations like Allen Hurns (110 yards and 2 touchdowns). Although I owned Hurns in my deep dynasty league and had to play him, I wasn't …
Tight ends, as we’ve mentioned before, are similar to the quarterback position in that there are a lot of pretty good ones. These Week 2 TE rankings will prove that out, too, as you’ll likely see some good ones fall into the 20s one week after the opener. The way tight ends are different than …
We learned an awful lot about the NFL running backs position in Week 1, but we also had just as many new questions arise. Our Week 2 RB Rankings hope to help solve some of those problems for you to either help you get to 2-0 or to help you get your first win … …
Doug Martin, Vincent Jackson, and Mike Evans: these are the players on the Buccaneers that most Fantasy owners thought they could count on, but what did most owners not count on? Josh McCown. McCown was bad in his first regular season start with the Buccaneers. So bad that the two-year, $10 million dollar contract he …
Was your league like most Fantasy Football leagues in Week 1, where five of the top six scoring Fantasy Defenses were unowned in the first week of the season? The Vikings, Texans, Titans, Lions and Eagles did their thing as Fantasy free agents, and now you’re wondering – how does this affect Week 2 Defense …
So now you know. Now you know what you thought you knew all preseason. Your knowledge will help you get a win in Week 2, but our Week 2 QB Rankings will be 50-percent offseason knowledge and 50-percent Week 1 knowledge. You knew Carson Palmer was going to have a lot of weapons. You knew …
You've been staring at these unopened gifts for months now, drooling over the prospects of another great Fantasy season. These updated Week 1 Fantasy Football rankings should help set you on your way to success in your Fantasy club's opener. While I won't promise I'll have these by 10:30am ET every Sunday morning, I will …
Finally, the drafting is over, Fantasy Gameday is here – and we're going to look at a bunch of different spots for you to check out during, before and after kickoff. So check it out – and feel free to tweet me some places you like to go to on Fantasy Gameday. Fantasy Gameday: BEFORE …
About one in every 10 Fantasy Football players also play Daily Fantasy Football games, which is also sometimes called Weekly Fantasy Football. Many of the reasons why the other 90 percent of the people in our hobby don’t play Daily games is because they either don’t have the time, don’t want to risk money, think …
Week 1 has arrived and along with it Daily Fantasy Football! I admittedly am not a seasoned veteran but delved into the latest Fantasy sports sensation last season and fared well. I will reiterate I am NOT a high stakes player (yet) and at this point dabble in "Affordable" tournaments but primarily "50/50" contests and …
Listen, I know you’ve been waiting on the Week 1 Kicker rankings, and I promise I hurried as fast as possible. Nothing’s going to kill a Fantasy Football opener more than stinking it up at the kicker position. OK, so maybe I’m overplaying it a bit. But in all seriousness, there has been a lot …
Week 1 is officially here! All that’s left is dominating for 13 weeks, getting a bye week and then storming into your Fantasy league’s championship game – only to lose on an extra point. But still! You had a great year, and it all starts here – with the Week 1 WR Rankings! You’ve heard …
I've often found that you can target players that start slowly because of bad schedules, then get them just before they face much better schedules in the middle part of the season. We're going to examine the best and worst Fantasy Football strength of schedules at quarterback. Consider the tips and bits of advice as …
If there’s one thing we all learned during our 2014 Fantasy Football drafts this summer, it’s that the tight ends position is deeper than ever. If you didn’t draft one of the studs, you likely found yourself picking through some very good tight ends, wondering which one will serve you best. In our Week 1 …
Filling out your lineups for Week 1 can be a little tricky – especially at running back. Our Week 1 RB Rankings should help you lock the position down for the NFL Kickoff weekend. One of the tricky parts about the first week is that some of your RB1s and RB2s didn’t get a lot …
While knowing who the best quarterback to play this week or which running backs you should choose is always important, knowing the matchups for defense/special teams is also important. Our Week 1 Defense rankings take into account many different factors. We look at the opponents, obviously, and not only how strong and healthy that offense …
The first week of the NFL season is like a present someone just handed you. There’s no doubt it’s going to be awesome, but will you get exactly what you were hoping for? Our Week 1 QB rankings will help guide you through the first week’s signal-callers. Since most teams only draft one quarterback, it’s …
Andy and Dennis of LevelUpFantasy.com called me up for a podcast this week and we discussed several different topics, including breaking into the Fantasy Football industry. We also recapped the NFL news over the past week, and discussed the current value of about 20 players, including: Tim Wright, TE, New England Stevan Ridley, RB, New …
As we dig into the 2014 Quarterback Rankings for the upcoming season, we’re always reminded of the fact that the NFL has not just become more of a passing game, but they’ve officially hit the turbo button. We’re seeing passing efforts like we’ve never seen before, and it doesn’t look like there’s a slowdown in …
Every draft season, this is one of the most popular pages on my site. The 2014 Fantasy Running Back rankings shouldn’t be any different, as most people believe that running backs are the lifeblood of any championship squad. Sure, you’ll hear arguments that in this day and age, with the NFL leaning more and more …
As I post my 2014 Fantasy Wide Receiver rankings, I think back to the late ‘80s and most of the ‘90s, when 49ers legend Jerry Rice was one of the greatest Fantasy players ever. I don’t just mean he was a great Fantasy pick at wide receiver, I mean he was one of the best …
Are you willing to use a first-round pick on tight end Jimmy Graham? My 2014 Tight End rankings indicate there are several tough questions like this you’ll have to answer. More tough questions include, “Are you willing to use a second- or third-round pick on Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski, who missed time last season with …
Listen, don’t feel bad that you’re checking out our 2014 Fantasy Kicker rankings. At some point, everyone has to take a look to see who will end up being your team’s last pick of the day. It probably makes you feel like you’re wasting your time, but still, this guy is going to take up …
I recently discussed the 2014 Fantasy Defense Rankings in an upcoming column over at SI.com, and now it’s time to share it with my readers on my site. We’ve watched the Seahawks defense wreak havoc over the Fantasy Football world for the past two seasons, and that unit enters 2014 as the top-ranked defense/special teams …
Over the past couple decades, Fantasy Football users have been on their own on Draft Day, but not now – with this handful of 2014 Fantasy Football Draft Apps for the iPad in your hand. The days of just using a cheat sheet ripped out of an old magazine are officially over. As a matter …
Pizza Hut wants you to make that trade that will put you over the top this season – so they’re chipping in a free pizza for you to sweeten the deal with your opponent. “You give me Brandon Marshall and I’ll send you Giovani Bernard – and a medium meat lover’s.” Earlier this week, Pizza …
Interrogate the Industry has returned and this week we are back with the one and only Rumford Johnny! Johnny runs the both the site and podcast of 2 Mugs Fantasy Football Podcast along with @RyFo18. Their podcast is awesome and entertaining so if you are in need of another podcast be sure to check it …
This is a new series I’ve decided to start writing because I’m a bitter, jealous man. I hate that these sites had owners that were much smarter than me. So I explain to readers why I’m so jealous of them! Makes sense! I plan to review websites, iPhone apps, draft tools and in-season tools. Essentially, …
Without further ado I present to you my 2014 Positional Tiers. I know it has been a while since my last Draft Strategy posts which you really should read especially if you are participating with so many others in the National Draft Day Weekend! As I stressed in my Prepping for the Prep post, positional …
It's National Draft Weekend! You're getting ready to pounce on your buddies like a recently fixed cat hiding behind an ottoman! So I'm delivering to you -- my fully updated 2014 Fantasy Football Overall Player Rankings! Speaking of National Draft Weekend -- if you played SKYLLZONE instant snake drafts last season, you can go there Saturday …
There is no shortage of fantasy football rankings available these days. A simple Google search brings back over twenty million results. As is the case in just about every walk of life, in fantasy football it’s crucially important to know who to trust. When it comes to ranking the rankers, FantasyPros is in a league …
Woooeee it has been a busy week, and as most of you likely know it will be a busy month, but never too busy for Interrogate the Industry. In fact, now is the best time to get some interviews out there. Between working on rankings over on FantasyPros, writing my Round by Round Draft Strategy …
The draft continues, and this will be part two of the Draft Strategy series. In case you missed the first two parts of the series check them out here: Prepping for the prep and Draft Strategy Part 1. This time we will be plowing through the fifth to twelfth rounds. These rounds are more of …
Well hopefully you are here after reading my last piece Prepping for the Prep, but even if not welcome and get ready to discuss some round by round Fantasy Football draft strategy. Now that you have a game-plan and some tools to use during your draft we can try and devise a strategy for each …
This season, 13 NFL teams will have new offensive coordinators (or play-callers). Some big names are taking over new gigs: Norv Turner (now in Minnesota), Scott Linehan (Dallas), Gary Kubiak (Baltimore), Kyle Shanahan (Cleveland), and Hue Jackson (Cincinnati). The NFL track records of these four are readily available just about anywhere you look, and their …
It seems as if the closer and closer football season is getting, the more and more I want to Interrogate the Industry! "Everyone, I want to interview everyone" *Lets out an evil laugh*. Seriously though, the Baseball season still has my full attention ,but it is getting more and more difficult to stay focused, especially …
Does Troy Tulowitzki suffer without Carlos Gonzalez in the lineup? Several weeks ago, in the same way my last article on rookie first and second half splits was inspired, my attention was alerted when a podcast personality contrived that Troy Tulowitzki, before his most recent bout with the injury bug, had preformed poorly because Carlos …
It is officially draft season folks, and that means it is time for some draft strategy. I always enjoy digging in to player rankings, compiling spreadsheets, and discussing players ADP and hype on Twitter this time of year. I obviously am not alone, but maybe some of you need a little nudge or kick in …
Over the past couple months, I asked many of my Fantasy friends to help me write a book filled with great Fantasy Football Tips. Fifty Fantasy writers from dozens of websites wrote one tip each, and I mixed them in with 51 of my own Fantasy tips to create an awesome PDF. I’m proud to …
This week, I was asked by Sports Illustrated to come up with my 2014 Top 300 Fantasy Football Player Rankings for their draft prep section. They’ll combine them on their site with the other SI writers, so we’ll have a consensus ranking, so I thought I’d print my Top 300 over here. There are certainly …
After a busy week, a few technical difficulties and a blunder on my part I have returned with another Interrogate the Industry. This week I am featuring none other than Zach Law. Someone who has been doing a similar concept to this series, for far longer than myself. Disclaimer: I actually did not know of …
Do rookies perform worse after the All-Star break? My claim over this statement is nonexistent, while the original thought of its occurrence was brought to my attention by Adam Aizer on the CBS Fantasy Baseball Podcast. My judgment dissuaded, I thought that it would be worth the effort to look into the validity of the …
All Star week is nearly over and with it another Interrogate the Industry. This week I was able to get Nick Raducanu (@projectroto) to answer some questions. It is hard to believe that this is the eighth one already, but with so many fantastic options in the industry to interview there could be countless more. …
I am not going to lie, this week besides Interrogate the Industry (of course), I didn't focus much on baseball. I guess I did slightly, as my oldest started her first season in T-Ball, but other than that my mind was on other things. Besides the entertainment of watching a mob of kids charge at …
It has been an insane week in personal life and of course my fantasy life, but never too busy for another Interrogate the Industry article. I had to take a week off last week, due to deadlines of Fantasy Football guides, T-Ball games, work and more, well....life stuff I suppose. Either way it is great …
Every summer, I like to look across the Fantasy Football landscape to find the best free Fantasy Football draft tools out there. Essentially, it has just turned into an ever-expanding list. Even now, with all of the great tools and ideas below, I'll still find out (through a tweet or through email or even a …
As the Interrogate the Industry series has developed I have received many comments saying it is a fun read, cool concept, and to keep it going through the football season. Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback, yes I will continue on with the Football season, although I am not sure if I will intertwine …
Managing a Fantasy Baseball team is unlike that of any other sport. It's a daily grind that drags on for seven months and requires commitment, patience and discipline. Through all of your overtime work days, family vacations and sinus infections, the fantasy baseball season trudges on. Maximizing your point potential day in and day out …
The season is a third of the way complete, and as I like to do every season it is also a great time to look at my preseason rankings to find my Homers and Whiffs so far in 2014. Finding the players I hit out of the ballpark, and of course, those I swung and …
A large percentage of Fantasy Baseball players have become hooked on the excitement of playing Daily Fantasy Baseball games. This daily game is essentially the next generation of Fantasy, as the game continues to evolve from Rotisserie, to Head-to-Head -- to Daily. So, of course, that’s not good enough for me. It got me thinking …
Welcome to the first of a four-part installment I plan to run at the start of each month.This is where I do a one-man Fantasy Football mock draft, using the free Draft Wizards Mock Draft tool. I hope to share with you some thoughts on some of the players I choose, while also offering up …
Collin McHugh has given us many reasons to believe that he is a fundamentally different pitcher than he was in the first two years of his career, but there is one reason that explains why McHugh has performed so well this year and suggests, “Don't pick up Collin McHugh.” The curveball has been a source …
Another week down the drain, and we're back once again with another Interrogate the Industry. This week Jake Ciely joins us for some Fantasy Baseball questions and opinions on pop culture. I may disagree with him slightly on the Game of Thrones comment, but we will save that for another day. Week 8 had another …
Fantasy Football owners love them some rookies! They also love them some sleepers! You put those two together, and it’s like the day someone figured out buffalo wings and bleu cheese are awesome together! So I took it upon myself to write up an article featuring some sleeper rookies for the 2014 Fantasy Football season. …
As I write this weeks Interrogate the Industry there is news of even more pitching injuries. This season has been disastrous for many teams, and Fantasy owners. On the bright side, there is always a bright side with me, several pitchers are coming back too, or coming back in to form such as Cole Hamels, Alex …
A player turns a good game into a good week, then that week into a good month. Then, before you know it, the player becomes relevant, not only in your AL/NL only twelve team league, or any other deep league for that matter, but in every league you are in. The player has become one …
One of my goals with this site is to become an industry uncle for writers and websites. At some point, I want writers to come here looking for places to write, and we want websites coming here looking for writers to fill their staffs. In that vein, I have a ton of great connections that I'd …
We are back with another Interrogate the Industry. This week we're joined by Alex (@rotodealer) and Chris (@cmcbrien). We may have just missed the Jose Fernandez news, however we have great questions and answers this week irregardless. As always feel free to ask away on replacement ideas, or any questions to me on Twitter @fantsychillpony …
Let's just say there were plenty of distractions when writing this weeks 3 up, 3 down article. Work, family, garage sale, Wild Playoff Hockey, and a slight distraction with the 2014 NFL Draft. I love football as much as the next guy so needless to say it was very difficult to focus on baseball when …
The 2014 NFL draft is nearly on top of us, which means Fantasy Football owners are going nuts as they get ready to redo their rankings in anticipation of what this class of rookies will bring to each team. Let's fill out some free NFL mock draft contests, so we can win stuff! We've been …
This is the first of many "Interrogate the Industry" pieces. No one seems to ask the "Tough" questions so I am stepping up to the plate to keep the industry honest and....Ah, who am I kidding? I will be asking questions weekly, hopefully many fueled by you guys, the readers, to a few Industry writers …
With the NFL Draft finally here, I thought it would be a good idea to look at the top 60 Fantasy Football players before we have an influx of the Class of 2014 onto the rosters. There doesn’t appear to be a lot of rookies that will find their way into the first five rounds …
Do more team wins mean more save opportunities? Before I decided to answer this question, I assumed that they didn’t. My Guess In my head I had a cognitive bias of closers in the 2,000s that racked up saves, but were on teams that were never in contention; In 2000 Antonio Alfonseca (i.e. …
Over the past four months, I’ve been scrambling around with my hands in a number of projects, which has really inhibited my ability to write and update for my own site. That stops today, just one month after celebrating my site's two-year anniversary! Well, it doesn’t “stop” so much as it just “changes,” as most …
Because it takes it takes 910 at bats for batting average to stabilize, it is not very helpful to look at the small sample of at bats a player has had in 2014 (as the video below will show). When you try to decide whether or not to by into a player's early season slump …
There were surprises and history galore in the fourth week of the baseball season which has left an ample supply of material for this week's 3 up, 3 down. Earlier this week I was in the basement organizing and re-arranging for an upcoming garage sale, as well as finding space for winter gear/supplies and I …
With the 2014 NFL Draft just a few days away, it’s important to look back quickly to examine what the 2013 Fantasy rookie quarterbacks class did for Fantasy Football owners, and how they compared to past first-year players. This upcoming class is chock full of talent, with players like Johnny Manziel, Blake Bortles and Teddy …
With this weeks 3 Up, 3 Down I am writing with a head that feels like a balloon. If you have never had a sinus infection be thankful, and if you have I feel your pain (Usually in your cheeks, eyes and even gums/jaw area). I am usually good for at least one a year, …
I was on my first run in approximately 3 years earlier this week, a very slow run, and of course thought about my 3 Up, 3 Down column. I also thought of plenty of other things like my muscle pain, sex, aging, eating better, sex, Fantasy Baseball, steak and sex again. I blame the endorphins …
Charlie Blackmon's big Friday for the Rockies got me thinking about some of the best Daily Fantasy hitting performances of 2013, so I wrote a post about it. Unsurprisingly, Miguel Cabrera is the only player to end up in the top 10 for two different games. Although, very surprising was the fact that a catcher …
Fantasy Baseball Week 1 has finally arrived, and with it, the first edition of "3 Up, 3 Down." In this weekly article, I will be focusing on six players, teams, or things that happened both positive and negative for the entire season. I hope it is both a useful read throughout the Fantasy Baseball season, …
The Stanford Prison experiment was a 1971 psychological study in which 24 male Stanford students were divided into two groups—12 guards and 12 inmates—in the Stanford psychology building and was funded by the US Office of Naval Research as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners. The experiment was supposed to …
Sadly my Fantasy Baseball Draft season is over, and after poring over my rosters, I found 5 hitters I couldn't avoid drafting in 2014. There were actually more than five in many instances, but for the sake of this, I will pick out the five players who made most of my Fantasy Baseball squads this …
Every season the Rankings can be challenging, and this year the 2014 Starting Pitcher Rankings are no different. It is a deep position by default knowing every team has 5 starters, or even more than five with Prospects waiting in the wings. This year is no different, but Major League Baseball and Fantasy Owners alike …
When taking a closer look at our 2014 Relief Pitcher Rankings we need to keep a few things in mind. If there is one thing I have learned, especially over the past three seasons is that Closers are valuable in Fantasy Baseball, however they are also the most implosive position in baseball. Closers lose their …
You must be drafting this weekend if you are looking at our 2014 Third Base Rankings just now. Although Draft season is nearly over, it happens to be what is oft-referred to as "Draft Weekend. This means many owners are cramming for their only, or final drafts of the season now. Third base is what …
When it comes to Fantasy Baseball Positional Tiers, I consider myself a champion of utilizing them. One thing is for certain when it comes to talking Fantasy Sports -- I am usually saying things like "He's a Tier-2 kinda player, with Tier-1 potential" or "That guy isn't even worth a flyer, I didn't even put …
When I graduated high school, I went to Regis University in Denver, CO, for one year, because I thought I wanted to play baseball. After two weeks I not only knew that I did not want to play baseball, but that the title of “University” was a misnomer for what Regis really is: 13th grade. …
After receiving some great responses from the 30-For-30 series at davidgonos.com from readers, and writers alike it was decided to form the Gonos 30-for-30 league. It would be be filled with 12 contributors to the series, including myself representing the site. It is a Rotisserie League which is 5x5 with standard scoring (Average, HR, RBI, Runs, …
You've made it nearly halfway through the draft, and you've enacted a flawless Fantasy Baseball draft strategy. Whether you are following mine to the tee or not, doesn't matter (I hope you are though), but now you are literally to the point of the drafts where you mold your championship squad. Knowing which positions to …
I'm back again, this time with part two of the 2014 Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy Series. If you followed my Draft Strategy Part 1 you should be well on your way to a solid draft. You shouldn't rest easy, however, even though your first three picks can be critical, the picks which follow can truly …
Out of all the positional rankings this season, the 2014 Fantasy First Base rankings may actually be the deepest. Sure, Starting Pitching is still deep, and has plenty of young, high potential arms to fill out your squads, but it has been a while since Fantasy Baseball has had this many strong options at first …
It is midway through March and that means you have likely drafted some teams, or you still have time to prepare for Fantasy Baseball Drafts, or as I like to put it "Prepping for the Prep." Whether you are an established owner in one or more leagues, brand spanking new to the game, or are …
Now that you have prepped, completed your cheat sheets, perused your draft guides, and burnt through highlighters it is time to focus on your 2014 Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy. I will be focusing on the first three rounds in this article. Also, make sure to utilize mine, and many others rankings over at Fantasy Pros. …
Our Fantasy Baseball friend, Kyle Soppe, takes a closer look at the 2014 St Louis Cardinals in Daily Fantasy play for the upcoming Fantasy season. You can follow him @unSOPpable23 on Twitter. The National League champions had another quality season in 2013 when it comes to providing Daily Fantasy Baseball owners with consistent players. Gone …
The ongoing series of 2014 Fantasy Profiles continues, this time with Twins prospect Byron Buxton. I will be looking closer at MLB’s top prospects all offseason, as well as throughout the season, focusing on players who will have a real Fantasy impact on the 2014 season. When the top prospects got released, or continue to …
Prior to 2012, the only baseball related thing that created buzz in Oakland was the blockbuster film, "Moneyball," starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. That all changed in 2012 and 2013 when the Athletics became the darling underdogs of Major League Baseball, with only Justin Verlander in the way of them advancing to the ALCS …
The best way to get a handle on everything that has happened in baseball over the past offseason is to check out MLB Team Previews, so we gathered 30 Fantasy Baseball writers from 30 different Fantasy sites to chip in one team apiece. As you might know, I consider the Fantasy Baseball industry to be …
While there is almost zero skill when it comes to the amount of RBI a player produces, through the creation of an expected RBI metric I have found a way to look at whether or not a player has gotten lucky or unfortunate when it comes to their actual RBI total. I hope I don’t …
Center fielder Mike Trout is the engine for this team and is the clear 1.01 in every draft format. However, as in real life, he can’t do it alone and the eternal question of "just how good can he be" echoes. However, look across the diamond. Albert Pujols was that good a decade ago and …
As lucky and wondrous as the San Francisco baseball seasons were in 2010 and 2012, were the years 2011 and 2013 askew. Injuries, sub-par performances, and the cosmic giggle caught up with the Giants -- a team built upon pitching the last few years -- contributing to real and virtual chaos for the McGowan family and …
It's always good to have a couple of 2014 Colorado Rockies on your squad (batters of course). Three of the top 25 Fantasy performers once again came from the team that calls Coors Field home in 2013, despite Michael Cuddyer, Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki missing a combined 110 games. Newcomers like Nolan Arenado and …
Prospects, Prospects, Prospects! Get your 2014 Top 50 Prospects here! Unlike many years ago, there are now plenty of options when trying to find prospect profiles and rankings. It is also growing more and more common for prospects to be drafted in all types of drafts. Knowing this trend, and the growing popularity of prospects, …
From a Fantasy Baseball perspective, the Mariners exceeded expectations last year. A 41-year-old Raul Ibanez led the team with 29 home runs and their starting rotation boasted two Cy Young candidates in perennial superstar Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma. Iwakuma finished the year with a 138 ERA+, besting King Felix’s 121. Seattle also has a …
After a slow start to the 2013 season the Dodgers took off. Yasiel Puig burst onto the scene, and Clayton Kershaw proved to be the best pitcher in the league. The Dodgers finished the season on a high note, but also with a resolve to improve the team. These resolutions resulted in bringing over bounce-back …
(WARNING: THERE ARE GIFS AT THE END) Real estate, knick-knacks at a garage sale, and players, in the sense of professional sports, can be undervalued. For instance, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis interviews Kyle Bass, a hedge fund manager who made a fortune shorting subprime mortgage assets, who recently bought …
It’s hard to find a more exciting team than the 2014 St Louis Cardinals, both in Fantasy and otherwise. They have one of the best young pitching staffs in the game, led by perennial all-star Adam Wainwright, and an offense that rivals any other in the National League. After making an impressive run to the …
Welcome to your 2014 Arizona Diamondbacks Fantasy Baseball preview! While 2013 was a down year, from a Fantasy perspective, for many D-backs not named Paul Goldschmidt at least, who finished second in NL MVP voting behind his huge year. But 2014 provides an opportunity for a turnaround for some of their disappointing outputs. It has been …
The Pittsburgh Pirates finally rose from the depths of obscurity in 2013 by making the playoffs for the first time since 1992. "Pirate Fever" ran wild through the Steel City as the organization shared a glimpse of what the future likely holds for a ballclub that has one of the deepest minor league systems in …
As a Twins fan, I know I am not alone in asking "Is it 2016 yet?" What can be said about the 2014 Minnesota Twins? A team that has lost nearly 300 games in three seasons? Rebuilding? Obviously. Terrible front office decision making? Absolutely. New Management? Well, not so much. The Twins decided to hang …
For the third straight year, the Detroit Tigers advanced to the ALCS -- this time losing to the Boston Red Sox. They did this with the strength of their rotation, (156 GS by the top five and an AL record 1,428 strikeouts) and some lineup thump from Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder. The Tigers made …
If ever there was a lost season for a team, it was 2013 for the Milwaukee Brewers. Yovani Gallardo underperformed and Aramis Ramirez missed half a season. Then the bright star of Jean Segura came crashing down after the break and Rickie Weeks finally fell off the planet altogether. But there was something else that …
After suffering through baseball’s worst record from 2011–2013, the Astros and their fan base need something to look forward to. During the past three years, they are 118 games worse by record than baseball's best team, the Texas Rangers (280-206). To make matters worse, the Astros are 33 games worse over this time frame than …
The 2014 Cleveland Indians have potential in several areas, although most of their players will come off the draft boards a little later on Draft Day. There are, of course, a few above average players, like Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana, but for the most part, the remainder of the team will be lineup fillers …
The 2014 Cincinnati Reds had two of the top OBP men in the league in Joey Votto and Shin-Soo Choo, a rotation with no starter’s ERA over 3.80 and a lights-out closer in Aroldis Chapman. However, the Reds did very little in the offseason to change the roster. Their biggest "move" was losing leadoff man …
This 2014 Chicago White Sox club is a team in transition. After years of contending with veteran players -- especially on offense -- the White Sox will likely field their youngest team in years. The White Sox made several trades both at the deadline and in the offseason that have changed the major league roster …
We can’t get enough of the free Mock Draft Simulator, so we used it again for the 2014 Head-to-Head Mock Draft. Have you used it yet? Perhaps not, but now that Football season is done it’s time to focus on Fantasy Baseball! It is never too early to do mock drafts for the upcoming season. …
What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the Royals were on a lot of sleeper lists as the team to watch out for. Armed with a young nucleus, whose lineup was potentially lethal, the team seemed to be just a few pitchers away from becoming serious contenders. When the Royals traded …
Before we delve into the 2014 Tampa Bay Rays, let's discuss last year's club. Another year with a Bottom-Five payroll and another year with a Top-10 finish in the standings. Yaaaaawn. This whole "small market" thing has to be getting boring for Rays GM Andrew Friedman. By focusing on building his organization through the draft …
Last week, I got a digital copy of my favorite Fantasy Baseball magazine, “The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2014" and once again, I come away incredibly impressed. As I've mentioned in the past, like an old character actor dropping names at a party, I worked on several Fantasy Baseball magazines in my 14 years writing about …
Let’s face it -- unless you’re talking about the Lovable Losers’ past, you’re talking #CubbiesIn2017. The talk in fake circles last season was Anthony Rizzo leading the Baby Bears with 23 home runs, to the tune of a underwhelming .233 batting average and .323 on-base percentage. Similarly, Jeff Samardzija fanned 214 batters, but only won …
The last two offseasons for the Toronto Blue Jays have been stark in contrast. Last year was all splash, with GM Alex Anthopolous active in both the trade and free-agent markets. This year, the team was content to stand pat while letting a few contracts walk out the door. True to their nature, the Canadian …
The 2013 Washington Nationals epitomized the plexiglass principle, giving back 12 of their 98 wins from the previous season. Fans and Fantasy owners alike suffered whiplash from the inevitable regression, ill-timed injuries, and the inability to catch a break. Meanwhile, the young stars who were supposed to make up for it had their own problems. …
The Phightin’ Philadelphia Phillies provided some hopeful flickers of optimism in 2013, but it will remain a season marked as a low point in the franchise’s effort to squeeze out one more moment of dominance from the World Series core. The negatives hit hard for fans and Fantasy owners alike as we witnessed a future …
Before we discuss the 2014 NY Yankees, let's note that the Yankees' 2013 campaign was a Fantasy blunder. For only the second time in 19 years, the Yankees didn’t make the postseason. Able to manage 85 wins in a down year, the Yankees' front office made some big money changes in response. Last year's Yankee …
We're back with some more rankings, this time looking at 2014 Fantasy Outfielder Rankings. The outfield position, by default, is already a much deeper position than most of the others, especially when you consider each team has about five outfielders, with three starters, and many 12-team leagues only draft five outfielders to start. But I …
This is the second in an ongoing series of 2014 Fantasy Profiles. I will be looking closer at MLB's top prospects who should have a real Fantasy impact on the 2014 season. This time, I'm looking at Cubs prospect Javier Baez. Enjoy, and feel free to comment below, or even request more prospects, as well. …
The Mets as a team did not offer much to Fantasy owners last season, but can we expect more of the same in our 2014 NY Mets Preview? Matt Harvey was the lone bright spot in the pitching rotation, but his season was cut short thanks to an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery. …
I struggle to find topics to write about. Because, for me, if I don’t think a topic is interesting to write about, I don’t know how it could possibly be of interest for anyone to read. The past two weeks I’ve started and deleted several excel and word documents; I get to the point where …
The new mock draft simulator is out! The new mock draft simulator is out! Finally, after several offseason months, the Draft Wizard Mock Draft simulator is here! And now we can all run our own Fantasy Baseball mock drafts to see where different positions get thin, and where the experts think we should draft someone. …
Will the 2014 Miami Marlins be much different from the 2013 version? It’s not surprising that, after trading away nearly all of the franchise’s Fantasy worthy talent before the start of the season, the Miami Marlins finished the year at the bottom of the NL East. However, losing 100 games didn’t stop the 2013 version …
Before we get into the 2014 Boston Red Sox, let's look back at last season. You don’t win the World Series without ample talent, and the 2013 Boston Red Sox were no exception. Their championship roster was anchored by the only offense to surpass 800 runs (853), and they scored 7.2% more runs than Detroit’s …
Last year, Fantasy Baseball owners were thoroughly disappointed by the production they got from the recently acquired B.J. Upton. With the letdown and the hole that B.J. Upton left in the lineup with his lackluster performance, other players emerged and broke on to the scene. Evan Gattis and Chris Johnson had career years and both …
The 2014 Fantasy shortstop rankings are quite different than they were about 10 or so years ago, when players like Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Miguel Tejada were fighting for the top spot. Shortstop is a position which has long been considered scarce. Don't get me wrong -- it is still scarce, but some nice young …
In 2012, the Orioles had baseball's most unlikely playoff run. In 2013, they didn't have as much success, but they did have a handful of Fantasy Baseball studs at the plate. Also, last season, for first time since Mike Mussina sported an Orioles cap, they had a legitimate front-end-of-a-rotation-type pitcher in Chris Tillman. This past …
The 2014 Catcher Rankings might not be the sexiest place to start our season rankings for each position, but then again, I think chunky Christina Aguilera looks better than the skinny version. So what do I know about sexy!?! Many of you that know me know that I'm a huge fan of the catchers position. …
Welcome to the 2014 Texas Rangers Preview! Last year could only be described as a disappointment for Texas Rangers’ Fantasy Baseball fans, as they went from No. 1 in team batting in 2012 to No. 8 last year. However, not all was lost as Yu Darvish finished as the AL runner-up in the Cy Young …
Sure, I know what you are thinking when you read 2014 Fantasy Baseball: Second Basemen Rankings. "Seriously? This early?" Well, sure it may seem early, but in many cases it's not. I am personally drafting in three leagues right now! So, last week when I was scraping my car in record time because it was -32 …
This is the first in an ongoing series of 2014 Profiles. I will be looking closer at MLB's top propects who will have a real Fantasy impact on the 2014 season. We are starting with Tigers' top prospect Nick Castellanos. Enjoy, and feel free to comment below, or even request more Prospects as well. There …
The MLB Hall of Fame results came out last week, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at Fantasy Baseball from a historical perspective. So I looked at the top Fantasy Baseball seasons of all time, and thought about how those seasons give us a glimpse into larger offensive trends and …
The 2014 WR rankings are a great mix of up-and-coming talents and aging veterans, passing each other on the way up and down the rankings. Over the past few seasons, with the inordinate amount of passing yards each week, we're finding that wide receivers, in some cases, are more valuable than running backs. That's the …
This post will wrap up our series on 2014 Fantasy Baseball busts. We’ve looked at outfielders, infielders, starting pitchers, and now we will examine closer busts. As a supplement to this discussion we will look at the velocity loss leaders from 2013 at the end of the post. More so than any other position in …
The 2014 RB rankings look deeper than in recent years, but, unfortunately, that's only because there are a lot of veteran running backs that are slowly creeping backwards from 2012 and 2013. Although, I have eight different running backs getting drafted in Round 1 in my early 2014 Fantasy Football Mock Draft. The average shelf …
The holidays and the year 2013 are officially in the rearview mirror, but there is no slowing the 2014 MLB offseason. After a lengthy break from writing and most things Fantasy (except for Daily Fantasy Sports, I can't quit that) I am back to recap a few more winners of the Fantasy Baseball offseason. A …
The dust has barely settled on your 2013 Fantasy Football championship trophy, and you're already looking for 2014 QB rankings!?! You're a sicko. You're demented. You're my kind of Fantasy Football player! So we're looking at several months before we really know where all of the players end up playing in 2014, but there likely …
Is it ever too early to look at a 2014 Fantasy Football mock draft!?! We're into the new year, and we're ready to put the 2013 season behind us. Whether you won last season, finished in the playoffs or carried home your league's Toilet Bowl trophy as the worst team in the league – we're …
We looked at outfield busts two weeks ago and infield busts lasts week, while our attention will turn to the biggest starting pitching busts of 2014 this week; we’ll look at closer busts next week. (If you read the previous two articles you can skip the next two paragraphs, which describe how we define a …
As a continuation of our 2014 series on Fantasy Baseball busts, we will look at infield busts this week. We looked at outfield busts last week, and, as a reminder, we will look at closers next week, and starting pitching the week after that. (If you read the previous article you can skip the next …
If you are still alive, I am willing bet you either had Jamaal Charles or at least didn't play against him after his historic Week 15 outburst. A lot of people are in their championship this week, while some may still have a week left. It's time to earn that championship trophy. so let's take …
For the next four weeks we will look at potential bust candidates for the 2014 Fantasy Baseball season. Our attention will be focused on outfield busts this week and infield busts next week. To ascribe an analytic value to how we quantify a bust we will look at a player’s 2013 roto value and a …
This will be the first in a series of 2013 MLB Winter Meetings and evaluating Fantasy impact of the moves that are made. Come back throughout the Fantasy Baseball offseason, as we'll be tracking the trades, signings and roster cuts, and sharing how we think it affects the upcoming draft season. Feel free to drop …
If you're still reading our Week 15 Fantasy Start or Sit column, this is good news for your Fantasy season! It's do or die time for Fantasy Football owners right now. Will you be back reading this column next week!?! One bad move and you could be looking forward to August of 2014, and I …
If you’re lucky enough to still be interested in Fantasy this time of year, I applaud you. If you’re skilled enough to have earned a bye week this week, the players below could offer some backup off of the Week 15waiver wire. Picking those players up now, before the two winners of the Week 14 …
It's playoff time for many of us, and we just need that one player to get us over the hump. Hopefully, I can share some Week 14 sleepers that can help you forge ahead. Some of us need to get our heads out of our rump. I played Danny Woodhead over Ben Tate last week …
It is time for the Fantasy playoffs and it is no time to joke around. Make sure your playoff run keeps on going by taking a look into every Week 14 Fantasy Football matchup. Many times, your lineup decisions come down to one or two big decisions, so we hope this weekly preview will help …
Baseball season feels like a lifetime away, and as Fantasy Football season ends, and the cold winter months frost our hearts, the promise of another Fantasy Baseball season is left to warm our bodies with anticipation and hope. To help nurture that fire inside all of us, I thought it would be beneficial to look …
After everyone gained 10 pounds Thursday we were given a good day of football. Here is a look back at the action from week 13 and some helpful notes for your playoff run. Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions 12:30 pm Thursday This was a really ugly game for Green Bay. Matt …
Is This The End? There comes a time in every Fantasy Owners season when they realize everything comes to an end, and it's time to say goodbye to their beloved fake teams. For some, this moment can't come soon enough. For example, the owner with the fifth pick in 2013 may have been giddy after …
With the NFL bye weeks finished for this season, the need for players that are flying under the radar has diminished a bit. However, many of our rosters are suffering from injuries and plain old under performance. I'm going to hone in on four Week 13 sleepers that I feel can be game changers this …
Andy Germani takes a quick look at each game from the weekend in his Week 12 Fantasy recap. Did your players do what you expected them to do? What are we to make of some of these big games by no-names, and bad outings by some superstars? We're finally out of the woods, as this …
Here's a quick look at what we can expect from a Fantasy perspective this week. Enjoy the Week 12 fantasy preview of every game! Carolina Panthers at Miami Dolphins 1:00 pm If you are forced to start a Panthers running back, I think Mike Tolbert is the one. The Dolphins have struggled against tight ends …
The Fantasy Football season is in full throttle right now and you may be managing your team(s) to championship greatness as you read this. However, the 2014 Fantasy Baseball season is closing in and fanatics like me, who monitor the sport year round by tuning into MLB network and reading the Fantasy blogs, want to …
It felt good to be back in the saddle last week looking for players to help make that final push to the playoffs. Let's see how last week's sleepers performed before we go into the Week 12 sleepers. Josh McCown threw for 216 yards and no picks. Those aren't stats that are going to make your …
The Fantasy Football playoffs are a short sprint after a 13-week endurance run, and you have to think of them a little differently. This article was submitted as a guest piece from Andy Germani. We do like to post guest articles from writers, so if you're interested, read the bottom of this article to see …
This article will look at the implications of the new SportVU stats that the NBA has released to the public, and will apply the limited data we have from SportVU to look at the sustainability of assist totals for players this year (SportVU data in this post has been taken up to 11/19). First off, …
With a week off to refresh my creative juices (Thank you, Mr. Gonos), I look forward to providing you with some great Week 11 sleepers. Hopefully, last week, some of you had the foresight to start a player like Tavon Austin. I have to admit, I didn't see that coming. Not against the Colts. Brian Hartline would …
The Fantasy Fatcast continues their midseason 2014 Mock Draft, looking ahead to what Round 2 might look like. Eric Mack of Bleacher Report and Brett Tresky, who now has over 2,000 Twitter followers, join me, SI.com's David Gonos, to talk some Fantasy Football before Week 11! We also discuss the Perfect Lineup game at DraftDay.com, …
This post will look at the rest-of-season strength of schedule for all Fantasy Football positions. Last week we looked at the strength of schedule for the running back position, and it is time to finish off the work, pull out the spreadsheets, and come up with the calculations for the other five Fantasy Football positions. …
The fellas take a step back to look two steps forward, as they break down what they think the first round of a 2014 Mock Draft would look like. In this podcast, Bleacher Report's Eric Mack, SI.com's David Gonos and host Brett Tresky take turns making picks for a faux first round mock in Fantasy …
With six teams on bye weeks last weekend, and six teams on byes this week, many owners are looking for some Week 9 sleepers. Last week, many owners scraped the bottom of the barrel to fill their rosters. How did you do if you took my advice? Same as usual -- about half and half. …
Bleacher Report's Eric Mack and I join host Brett Tresky for another Fantasy Fatcast, where we discuss some trades in our leagues, some keeper decisions to make and the Week 9 matchups. But we also bring in DavidGonos.com columnist Devon Jordan to talk about his most recent article, which details RBs strength of schedule for …
Before we get right into the Week 9 Waiver Wire Adds, I'd like to note; Marvin Jones should have been included in this column already. The reason he wasn't is simple. Personal attachment to Mohamed Sanu. After watching his nifty three-week stretch last season, where he scored 4 times and was pegged as a Sleeper …
For the purpose of player evaluation, trade candidates, and rest of season rankings, I thought I would look at the team rest-of-season strength of schedule. For this article in particular, we will focus on running backs, but I will post more articles in the near future about other positions. How did I do it? Easy: …
This week, I am going to mix it up a little bit and look back at some sleepers I picked early this year and see how they have been doing as well as give you my picks for this week. But before we do that, lets see how last week's group performed. If you thought …
In this post we will discuss Fantasy Basketball projections for the 2013-14 season. As I discussed in my last post about Fantasy Baseball ranking based off of the 2014 Steamer projections, I love rankings based off of quantitative analysis. Rankings that take a statistical approach to value ascription lack the histrionic overtones and biases that …
Bleacher Report's Eric Mack and I get together for another podcast, previewing the Week 8 matchups (sorta) and looking at six different Fantasy players to target for this second half. There are a couple names that should surprise you, for sure. We also help several callers with their Fantasy Football lineup issues, including two guys …
Seven days ago, before this Week 8 Waiver Wire Adds column, I began last week's article with a list of injuries to a number of Fantasy Football's top flight talents. This week is no different. The 2013 Fantasy Football landscape has been ravaged with injuries, it is unlikely that anyone has avoided the carnage and …
Last week's pick were not quite as good as some of my prior picks, but I took a few chances on some very iffy players. Hopefully, my Week 7 sleepers will do even better. Tampa Bay's Brian Leonard didn't get a carry or a reception or a sniff at running back. I guess they will …
The Fantasy Fatcast boys got together for their regular weekly podcast this week, and we did a quick one-round 2013 Fantasy rookies redraft, just to see what we think of this class now that we're six weeks into the season. We also previewed the Week 7 matchups, which have some interesting games on the docket, …
The best way that I have found to come up with Fantasy Baseball projections is to take an existing statistical projection, and translate those numbers into fantasy value. Projections that use statistical models free players from fantasy analysts who have biases against players; “I’ll never own player X again after last year”; “He won’t be …
The injuries keep piling on, Julio Jones, Randall Cobb and DeMarco Murray will all miss time, to name a few and a number of players are emerging Fantasy Options. Personally, Andre Ellington could emerge a true Fantasy force come Playoff time and is someone to target in all formats. Additionally, if Nick Foles continues to …
Before I get into the Week 6 sleepers, let's see how I did last week. In honor of the MLB playoffs, I will categorize my picks with some baseball terminology. Home Run Vincent Brown killed it for the Chargers last week -- 8 catches for well over 100 yards. That's knocking it out of the park …
Mike Podhorzer has looked into the relationship of a batters’ average fly ball distance as it relates to their HR/FB ratio, and has found results that will allow others to more accurately project a hitter’s home run totals from year to year. This got me thinking. Which can be a good or bad, but in …
Before we get into these Week 5 sleepers, I'm not above taking a look at how I did last week. I finally called a QB that had a good game. After lighting up Dallas, Philip Rivers is having pretty good year. As a matter of fact, I'm starting him this weekend over Colin Kaepernick. Especially …
Another week, another injury to deal with. Darren McFadden owners are cringing and Ray Rice's are wondering why he even played at all. Andre Johnson proved that sometimes all it takes is a kick in the shin to catch 9 balls for 110 yards, while C.J. Spiller, Alfred Morris and LeSean McCoy are all dealing …
Since the major league season is over on Sunday, that means the end of fantasy baseball, and the end of this source for the best streaming options. I will write a wrap-up column that will be posted next monday that will summarize my performance over the last two weeks. But, there will also be many …
Last week was interesting for my sleeper picks. That's a nice way of saying that they pretty much sucked. What gives me some hope for future prognostication prowess is that I was close. What does that mean -- and what does that mean for the Week 4 sleepers? I had Chris Ivory picked to do …
The Bye Week bonanza begins now, which makes your waiver wire surfing all the more important and potentially rewarding. Keep your eyes peeled for potential improvements that others are dropping, or plan your own lineup complications a week in advance to avoid over spending, or potentially losing out. But ultimately, make your moves count. If …
The concept of the "man cave" has been revived to refer to a sanctuary where the man of the house could retreat and rejuvenate. Of course, the original man cave was an actual cave. Always got horrible satellite dish reception, though. Things have evolved quite a bit since then. Modern man caves now come equipped …
For the past 15 years, we've had the ability to use Peyton Manning in Madden Football and in Fantasy Football. The folks over at EA Sports sent me this infographic to share with my readers, and I hope you enjoy the look at his career Madden stats as much as I do. Playing Madden -- …
If you read any of the other articles in the streaming series, you can skip the first section of this post and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post will have …
I write Daily Fantasy Football strategy columns for DFSEdge.com each week, and that means I usually play on several different Daily Fantasy sites each week. And in my FanDuel column on Saturday, I thought it interesting how many crazy running back situations there are this week, due to injuries and the Trent Richardson trade. So …
If you read any of the other articles in the streaming series, you can skip the first section of this post and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post will have …
Time to take a look at some players that might be gathering dust on your roster, but this may be the week to clean 'em off and get them in the lineup. We're going to talk Week 3 sleepers! Last week my readers benefited from reasonable performances by my Week 2 Sleepers. Almost all of …
Two deep and it has been everything you've waited for since last December when your league's championship was won right? Remember it isn't time to give up on some top options. Steven Ridley will turn it around and Roddy White will get going eventually. Cam Newton started slow last season and was the best QB …
If you read any of the other articles in the streaming series, you can skip the first section of this post and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post will have …
In Fantasy Football, points are important, but points relative to the position a player plays is more important. Colin Kaepernick scored 30 points last week and was the second highest second highest scorer in fantasy football, but was that performance impressive when the top twelve quarterbacks—the amount of quarterbacks played in a standard league—averaged 25 …
Fantasy owners far and wide are chasing ever-elusive Week 2 sleepers -- the guy that will make the whole league gasp and wonder where he came from. It is safe to say that last week's biggest surprise was the Denver's Julius Thomas, which I gave to my readers. We won't talk about some of my …
If you read any of the other articles in the streaming series, you can skip the first section of this post and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post …
Week 1 is in the books, you won, you lost, you might have even notched the rare draw. Regardless, it isn't time to sit on your roster, here are your top Week 2 Waiver Wire Adds. We already looked at some potential additions this weekend, but after the action this week more have emerged. Week …
If you read the first or second column from last week, you can skip the first section of this post and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post …
You wont find Julius Thomas on this list. You saw enough of him Thursday night. Instead here are 5 Week 1 Free Agents to Target, even before we see anymore Week 1 games. It is unlikely that there will be an Alfred Morris type darling sitting around on Monday morning, but currently there are some available …
As I sat down and cranked out these Week 1 lineup rankings I shed a tear. I openly wept for the demise of my offseason rankings, where I dug deep, churned and stressed over. I cried for the multitudes of mock drafts that are meaningless now. I was sullen over the fact that – I …
If you read the first column, you can skip the first section and start to read where I go over the best streaming options. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming week; Monday’s post will have the best options for Monday through …
As we look down our rosters every week, sometimes we wind up with more questions than answers when we're trying to decide who to start. There are certainly no-brainers every week, but often we will be looking at a position on our roster that is weak. We draft players every year that we hope to …
Eric Mack is writing his start/sit column for BleacherReport.com, and I'm writing the Week 1 Start or Sit column for SI.com this season. We both discuss ,with host Brett Tresky, each of the upcoming Week 1 NFL matchups from a Fantasy perspective. Emack and Tresky also share their pick for the best survivor pick for …
For all of the Fantasy Baseball players that are in daily roto or head-to-head leagues, and need a few more strong outings to take home the championship in their leagues, this post is for you. From now till the end of the season, I will go over the best streaming options available for the upcoming …
If you’re checking out the Top 200 Fantasy Football 2013 PPR Rankings, then know that I have much respect for you. This means a lot -- and you should be proud. You are an evolved Fantasy species! By reading these 2013 PPR Rankings, you’re telling me that you are one of the 28 percent of Fantasy Football …
These 2013 Fantasy Football Rankings go 200 players deep, but you need to understand that a Fantasy owner should consider his own team needs from the top 60 or so players, rather than just go with the top-ranked player in these rankings. Or else -- you'll end up with like four quarterbacks. Once an owner …
While many think of PPR wide receiver rankings as essentially the same rankings as non-PPR leagues, there are obviously some subtle differences. In the past, we’d just aim for the slot receivers that were pulled as the team got in scoring position for an extra tight end. Or we’d target players that were on low-scoring …
To say that the 2013 Fantasy Quarterback rankings is a deep and talented pool is like saying Richard Pryor had a good sense of humor. Last year, we entered our Fantasy Football drafts knowing that there were three GREAT quarterbacks in Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and a handful of very good quarterbacks …
In every 10 Fantasy Football leagues, about three of them play in PPR leagues. For that 30 percent, getting good PPR running back rankings is essential! We aim to please this summer, as we take a look at the best PPR running backs in Fantasy. Near the end of the ‘90s, people began to understand …
Do the 2013 Fantasy Running Back Rankings even matter anymore? I mean, we've beaten you over the head recently with quotes on passing statistics, and how the NFL had a record 11 quarterbacks with over 4,000 passing yards last season. So obviously, running backs are about as useful as a Fantasy writer and skinny jeans. …
Fantasy owners in PPR leagues don’t normally change their opinions, too much when they look at 2013 Fantasy Football Tight End PPR Rankings. Or at least, they don’t change their standard rankings as much as PPR Running Back Rankings or PPR Wide Receiver Rankings. Basically, when adjusting your standard rankings to PPR rankings for tight …
As you’ve no doubt been reading over the past few months, the NFL has turned into a mega-passing league, which spills over into the 2013 Fantasy Wide Receiver Rankings. But unlike the quarterbacks position, this vertical explosion has given the wide receiver position depth in the Fantasy third and fourth strings. While the top quarterbacks …
The 2013 Fantasy Tight End Rankings are full of questions and potential and possible disappointment. You have incredible amounts of talent near the top, mixed with plenty of pitfalls and opportunities for busts. NFL offenses have become more prolific in the air than ever before, with 16 different quarterbacks throwing 500 or more pass attempts …
Look at you! Checking out the 2013 Fantasy Kicker Rankings! You should be commended and lauded for your thirst for Fantasy knowledge and your ever-growing need to be on top of your Fantasy game at all times. Now, you must understand that kicker rankings are the easiest/toughest to assemble. We have a great idea of …
There are a few things you should always keep in mind when you start to look at 2013 Fantasy Defense rankings on any site. Scoring systems, more than any other position, affect the rankings of defense/special teams greatly. As a matter of fact, some scoring systems don’t even use special teams in their scoring, or …
Fantasy rankings are an odd bird, to say the least. There are owners that rely on them and owners that totally dismiss them, claiming that rankings are simply information from the past...Not a picture of what players are going to do, which is what we really need to know. Let's be honest about something else …
You can only take in so many pieces of advice when preparing for your draft, so I thought I'd come up with some last-second Fantasy tips to confuse your mind further. Actually, did you know that during a speech, orators are told that listeners generally remember THREE things during that talk, so they try to …
I've been talking about how awesome the DraftWizard Mock Draft Simulator is, but one thing I haven't really highlighted yet is the Keeper Mock Draft Simulator part. I'm in several keeper drafts, three of which draft this week! So I've been doing a few mocks on this tool this week. What's cool is, you can …
To most they're simply Sleeper Picks, but I prefer the Super Sexy Secret Sleeper Pick phrase. So when you add a few 2013 Fantasy Football Sleepers to your roster feel free to add a few extra S words. Believe me, it feels good. Speaking of 2013 Fantasy Football Sleepers, who was in the know on …
Last year was a great season for rookie NFL players. I can't remember a season when so many rookies impacted Fantasy Football leagues. It certainly sets up for more great production from Fantasy Football sophomores for 2013. If you only listen to the talking heads, you would think that the quarterback play of last year's …
Can't get enough Fantasy Football? Sign up for an IDP league and add another dimension to your fake football Sundays. We've got your 2013 IDP DB Rankings to help you out! I already posted my 2013 Overall IDP rankings earlier this week, so check those out, too. And then, I knocked out the 2013 IDP …
I mentioned on my last post that I listen to a lot of podcasts. Two days ago, I listened to a recent edition of the BS Report, in which, Bill Simmons interviewed Brian Kenny of MLB TV. Although, I do not necessarily agree with the binary tone that Kenny takes towards certain issues, I understand …
The Quarterback position is DEEP! But, is rolling with a Quarterback by Committee a realistic fantasy option? But I digressing. I went wild Saturday night. My wife was bartending, I was home with the kids and splurged. I entered an APEX Fantasy Money League. The draft was at 6pm my time, which meant it was …
Can't get enough Fantasy Football? Sign up for an IDP league and add another dimension to your fake football Sundays. We've got your 2013 IDP LB Rankings to help you out! I already posted my 2013 Overall IDP rankings earlier this week, so check those out, too. And yesterday, I knocked out the 2013 IDP …
This is the second of a two-piece article to help Fantasy owners find breakout players this upcoming season. This article will be about young Fantasy breakout players who I expect to emerge from the middle of the positional rankings. The other article was about veteran Fantasy values who are primed to rebound and have breakout …
Can't get enough Fantasy Football? Sign up for an IDP league and add another dimension to your fake football Sundays. We've got your 2013 IDP DL Rankings to help you out! I also posted my 2013 Overall IDP rankings earlier this week, so check those out, too. Just beware that you may get even further …
You're likely getting ready for your draft this weekend or next, so these 10 Fantasy draft commandments should come at a perfect time for you. A Fantasy draft is a wonderful thing. Don't let it get the best of you. Enjoy it, take your time, don't be rushed. Get there in plenty of time. If you're …
The stock market is a lot like Fantasy Football. When a player’s value is at their lowest, it’s wise to invest in that stock, especially one that has nothing to lose. I have formulated a list of veterans that I believe are Fantasy value plays and whose stocks are relatively low. Some of these players …
Have you decided to dabble on the Dark Side and venture into IDP Fantasy Football? If so, here are your 2013 IDP Rankings, done by position and with a complete 195 Player Overall list. It is a tough go in these IDP Leagues though friends, there really isn't a set standard scoring system and with …
Just before tonight's Fantasy Fatcast podcast, my computer decided to restart, with 11 updates. (I don't need the lectures, IT guys.) So Tresky and Emack flew solo … together. They had a caller from Chicago, Joel Henard, ask some Fantasy questions about Jay Cutler, Matt Forte and second-year wide receiver Alshon Jeffery, who Emack is …
I listen to a lot of podcasts. I listen to these podcasts to pass the time and fill my head with information while I go through the monotony of everyday tasks: cooking, cleaning, driving, and doing the dishes. For me listening to podcasts is a passive activity, which allows me to gain the mental stimulation one …
One of the biggest questions on Fantasy owners' minds this year is, "Will Adrian Peterson come close to another 2,000 yards this year?" Let's take a deep breath and realize that only seven players in the history of the NFL have rushed for 2,000 yards in a season. And no one has ever done it …
I formulated a list in which I believe is crucial in winning your Fantasy draft. Some of these techniques and suggestions may be obvious or bizarre, but I believe it is a set of rules to help guide any Fantasy Football owner to success. With my analysis from past seasons and noted tendencies, I’ve taken …
The NFL Draft is behind us, training camps are around the corner, and now we can step back and look at rankings for the top NFL Fantasy Football Rookies for 2013. Last year's set of rookies was one of the best in NFL history, so it's going to be interesting to see what this group …
The 2013 Fantasy Football Rookie WR Rankings aren’t exciting and spectacular, filled with superstar college wide receivers like we had in recent years. In 2012, we were all atwitter over the arrival of Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon joining Jacksonville. And the year before that, we had Georgia’s A.J. Green having us drool with …
Checking the 2013 Fantasy Football Rookie RB Rankings is always a good idea, especially throughout training camp. Unfortunately, most Fantasy Football owners will be looking for a player like Doug Martin and Trent Richardson, only to be disappointed they took a rookie runner higher than the third round in their draft. It’s true, last year’s …
Nearly every year, we end up hearing a lot of hype surrounding some rookie tight end. This year, however, the 2013 Fantasy Football Rookie Tight End rankings are topped off by a player that is joining a team with a pretty good pass-catching tight end already. More on him in a bit! Last year, we …
Let’s figure out the best draft spot! One of the great features of using the Draft Wizard by FantasyPros.com is that you can not only mock for free – but you can mock to your heart’s content! So I decided to do 12 different Fantasy Football mock drafts this morning, and using their post-draft analytics, …
So you're on the clock and you're staring at a decision of Arian Foster vs Adrian Peterson as the first overall pick of your draft. I was in this position last year and also had Aaron Rodgers to choose from. Based on how bad Rodgers torched me in 2011, I took him and finished .500 …
On Tuesday night, I took part in a 2013 PPR Mock Draft held on MockDraftCentral.com by FantasyTrade411.com for their upcoming Fantasy Football draft guide. I was quite unhappy with my draft, as I chose to pick in the 12th spot, hoping to see what kind of advantages I could make for myself, having back-to-back picks …
Eric Mack and I did our second "Fantasy Fatcast" podcast Tuesday night, but we were joined by our new host, Brett Tresky, and our special guest, Tom Romaniw. We discussed the wide receivers position, now that we've lost a couple Fantasy starters to injury since last week’s podcast. We're still working out the kinks, as …
Some argue whether a Fantasy Football mock draft will help multiple people figure out what to expect in their upcoming drafts, but I don’t think anyone will argue how helpful doing a mock draft yourself really is. It’s one of the only exercises in the world that people just flat out enjoy. If only mock …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a Fantasy Football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all Fantasy Sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. And that's why I started writing my 2013 Fantasy Football All-Risk Team. For …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a Fantasy Football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all Fantasy Sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. And that's why I started writing my 2013 Fantasy Football All-Risk Team. For …
Over the past decade or so, we’ve seen some great wide receivers, especially compared to the couple decades that preceded them. That means the 2013 Fantasy Wide Receiver Keeper rankings have a little more weight to them than they did 15 years ago. With PPR, FLEX and 3-WR leagues sprouting up everywhere, this position has …
Doing up a set of Fantasy Quarterback Keeper rankings is always a fun exercise. You no longer see has-beens and old vets that should be put out to pasture, and instead you see promise in young quarterbacks, hoping they’ll fulfill their potential after being high draft picks. Then again, you also get cynical and you …
A few months ago, after a softball game and during several beers at Maguires, our local pub, SI.com’s Eric Mack and I started talking about doing a Fantasy podcast together. After months of putting it off, thinking we’d never get our act together, and thousands of chicken wings, we finally held our first “Fantasy Fatcast” …
The key component to any NFL franchise these days is the quarterback. Look at all of the past 10 Super Bowl champions; they all had Super Bowl-caliber quarterbacks. The teams I’ll be discussing are not Super Bowl-caliber teams. However, these quarterbacks are crucial for Fantasy production for numerous other players. I hope to clear up …
Every now and then, I like to step back and regroup, and explain what I’ve been doing lately. At least from a professional perspective, I want to share with you what’s going on with this blog, with this brain and with this rash that just … won’t … clear up. Why do you care? Why …
Depending on how many players you’re allowed to keep in your league, you might be considering these 2013 Fantasy Tight End keeper rankings a little harder. (I already took a look at the QB Keepers, RB Keepers and WR Keepers.) In general, if you are only allowed two or three keepers, then unless you have …
There is no more important position for keeper leagues than running backs, and these 2013 Fantasy Running Back Keeper Rankings should be the most important set of rankings you read on this site. My god, man, your Fantasy life depends on it! (Earlier this week, we previewed the 2013 Fantasy Quarterback Keepers.) First, though, I …
While we have control over what kind of toppings we have on our pizza and what kind of beer we drink—hopefully you enjoy strong IPAs, otherwise I have very little respect for you—there are many, more important structures in our lives that we have no control over: the laws of the cities we live in, …
When looking through the 2013 Fantasy Football Rookie QB Rankings on your favorite sites, you’ll no doubt be affected by the recent seasons put forth by players like Andy Dalton, Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, Cam Newton and Russell Wilson. Unfortunately, having visions of those stellar rookie seasons in your head will do you no …
Writing ain't easy. And being a Fantasy Sports writer ain't easy either – in spite of what every person that has every played Fantasy Baseball or Football thinks. And while writing a book about Fantasy Sports might not be easy either, my review of Matthew Berry's book, "Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World …
Everyone knows that a good offensive line makes a world of difference for skill position players, so these 2013 Offensive Line Rankings should help you decipher which QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs are in for good seasons ahead. Remember that a good running back is only as good as the offensive line that blocks for …
It's summertime in California. That means sunshine, the beach and plenty of baseball. With five popular MLB teams, tourists and residents have no shortage of big league entertainment. LA alone features two prominent teams, Dodgers and Angels, and it's not exactly a friendly rivalry. Fans usually point to the performance of their team for bragging …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a Fantasy Football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all Fantasy Sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. And that's why I started writing my 2013 Fantasy Football All-Risk Team. For …
We’re going to give you six very good passing teams that have non-committal wide receiver positions. And we're going to tell you which guys to look out for in your Fantasy drafts that can potentially help you win your league. Everyone loves wide receiver Fantasy steals! This will also make the receiver depth for each …
Most Fantasy Strength of Schedule (SOS) rankings utilize data points from the previous seasons defensive fantasy points allowed to determine who will have the easy or hard schedule in the upcoming season. This gives you a decent baseline, but obviously you need to apply some human intervention to the purely stat-based rankings to come up …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a fantasy football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all fantasy sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. For the purpose of this 2013 Fantasy Football All-Risk Team, players who aren't projected …
Free Fantasy Football draft tools are my favorite kinds of Fantasy Football draft tools. I've been playing this game for over 20 years, in an estimated 110 different drafts –- and my opponents are smarter than ever before. You have to stay ahead of the competition, and these tools are meant to help you do …
Over the past few weeks, we've taken a closer look at some of the different injuries Fantasy owners should be aware of as the Fantasy Football draft season approaches. We talked about injured quarterbacks, injured running backs and injured wide receivers in recent weeks. And today, we're wrapping up this series with a look at …
In an effort to come up with starting pitcher rankings that have a more predictive than descriptive value, I looked to implement a more meaningful metric in player rater evaluation than ERA—xFIP. For those of you that don’t know, xFIP is an offspring of FIP—fielding independent pitching—that was developed in the fashion of DIPs theory. …
Who are the top 2013 running back handcuffs? A great question indeed, but with all the running back committees in the league, perhaps the real question is who exactly is a true handcuff these days? You know, the type Michael Turner was in his Lightning Bolt days, or Maurice Morris was behind Shaun Alexander before …
Over Saturday, I aggregated last week’s ZiPS and Steamer rest of season projections (found on Fangraphs) into one list, and then translated those numbers into Fantasy value using Jeffrey Gross’ E.Y.E.S. formula to come up with what one may consider the most thoughtful rest of season rankings. When I say, "most thoughtful," I simply try …
Everyone wants to find the best Fantasy Football rankings. There may be no greater task than compiling your own rankings -- it is tough stuff man. As I've been plugging away on my rankings recently, I thought it'd be a good idea to go out on the road -- or surf the net, if you're …
We're continuing our series on injured players you need to know about this offseason, and now we're at the injured wide receivers installment. We've already covered the injured quarterbacks and running backs, so let's dig right in and check out the injured wide receivers to worry about in the summer of 2013. This is just …
This fourth installment of the legend of the 3rd year wide receiver breakout looks at a 3rd year wide receiver to avoid in your fantasy football drafts and auctions this draft season. We've already gone through 15 of the best 3rd year wide receiver seasons of recent memory, highlighted the big three 3rd year wide receivers …
How do you know who you can trust in fantasy baseball? It says here that you should hitch your wagon to this column - when I say you need to acquire a player (usually via free agency) you should! I play in deep leagues (lots of teams and lots of roster spots). That means that …
There is a special class of Fantasy Baseball player who we like to call "post-hype players." Basically, if a prospect has lots of buzz around them -– think Colby Rasmus -– and they have a dismal start to their major league career, there is a definite tendency to write them off. However, in many instances, …
Fantasy trades are the most divisive part of Fantasy Sports. It is one of two ways to improve your team, and doesn't involve any luck whatsoever, but rather your ability to know your hand and how to read theirs. The robbery of a good trade is euphoric, while to be taken for a fool can be …
In a standard 5x5 Rotisserie league, wins encapsulate twenty percent of a pitcher’s value. But because a pitcher has very little ability to dictate whether or not he gets a win, and we have a very limited, if any at all, ability to predict pitcher wins, we must conclude that wins are not sustainable. Sure …
It’s time to look at some underperforming players you might consider buying low or selling low in the first third of the Fantasy Baseball season. True, you should be extra cautious about trading for underperforming players or trading away ones you drafted in the early rounds. But this is also an opportune time to take …
This third installment of the legend of the 3rd year wide receiver breakout looks at 3 prime breakout targets to consider in your fantasy football drafts and auctions. We've already gone through 15 of the best 3rd year wide receiver seasons of recent memory and highlighted the big three 3rd year wide receivers in 2013. …
Once again, we know how important it is to keep up to date on injured running backs, especially since many of these guys will be picked in the earlier rounds. Never fear, as we check out the medical charts on a couple dozen injured running backs. You should also understand that you don’t always have …
The journey into the legend of the 3rd year wide receiver breakout began with a look at some of the best 3rd year wide receiver seasons of recent memory, from a number of the best wideouts of our generation. A list of 15 large seasons from the likes of Cris Carter in 1989, right through …
Today we will conclude our list of 2013 NFL coaching changes. In Fantasy Football, a player’s playing time and usage is essential when we evaluate their value. A good player that never plays is not as good as an average player that gets a large workload (i.e. every owner that had Michael Turner when he …
There are a lot of folks out there right now who would like to give Josh Hamilton (and Stephen Strasburg, and Matt Kemp, and Justin Verlander, etc., etc.,), and other players off to bad starts, a piece of their mind. We drafted you so high! We expected elite numbers all the time, forever, without exception! …
The legend of the 3rd year wide receiver breakout has entrenched itself into the fantasy football mindset, like "Bo Knows" entered our vocabulary after Jackson's lead-off bomb in the All-Star Game was immediately followed by Nike's influential ad campaign featuring him and the token phrase. This 3rd year receiver series will touch on 2013's top …
Well, isn't baseball a wonderful game, I mean seriously, can you imagine the rush of watching Angel Pagan's inside the park, game winning home run last night? You can see it here if you missed it. That was awesome and what a call! In other news, I am getting destroyed this week, in one of …
There were eight 2013 NFL coaching changes. "Wait," you say, "there were eight coaching changes? I thought there were only seven?" Don’t worry. You’ll see. The question "How will a coaching change impact a player’s Fantasy value?" is a complex one. Daniel Kahneman says, "If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a fantasy football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all Fantasy Sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. I kicked off my All-Reliable QBs, Running Backs and Wide Receivers already and for the purpose …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a fantasy football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all Fantasy Sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. I kicked off my All-Reliable QBs and Running Backs already and for the …
This week I want to share a few waiver wire columns that I thought were particularly good as a part of my weekly fantasy baseball preview. I take care of the waiver wire article over at The Fake Baseball and it can be a tough racket! However, roster management is sometimes even more important than …
So Gonos zaps me an email, "Hey man, want to host a Fantasy Baseball Awards Show?" and I was all like "For sure, dude, love to." I didn't realize that I was going to be handing out quarterly Fantasy Baseball awards for a sport that doesn't even have quarters! Furthermore, there are no after parties, …
Injured quarterbacks are just one of the many news items you have to track during the Fantasy Football offseason. You have to know who goes where in free agency, and figure out which veterans have new competition breathing down their necks after the NFL Draft. So it's easy to understand when we miss out on …
My, oh my, Fantasy Football sure has gotten fancy! Gone are the legal pads and magazines, and here come the iPads and laptops. Welcome to my list of the Best Fantasy Football Draft iPad Apps!
This article will look at the most added players over the last seven days according to ESPN’s calculations (the percentages are current up to Tuesday night). This exercise should be able to allow us to see if some recently successful performances have been authentic or fraudulent. While it may be justifiable to react and pick …
Earlier this week, I wrote about the luckiest pitchers of the year, but in this article our attention will be pointed toward the luckiest hitters of 2013. In the same way that our previous article used FIP to discover which pitchers have been the luckiest, we will use BABIP as our tool to discover what …
Tuesday, we broke out the first round of The Usual Suspects 2013 Fantasy Football Mock Draft and today it is on to Round 2! Last season, the top 2 rounds were filled with teams that likely got mixed up in back-to-back picks as notorious as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. That's right, 'Dumb and Dumber' and I'm …
It’s May. We are a month into the season, and there have been many surprises. Starling Marte is second on the player rater, and Clay Buchholz is the number one rated pitcher ... Wait, that does not sound right. But it’s true. However, while we know better than to believe that Starling Marte and Clay …
The 2013 NFL Draft gets everyone excited about what could be -- but there are several NFL veteran players that know their time as a starter might be short. It can't be a good feeling to see your employer go out and spend a valuable draft pick on someone they hope will be good enough …
When you think of a 2013 Fantasy Football Mock Draft, you rarely picture the opening scene of "The Usual Suspects", where a flaming matchbook is used to lite a wounded man's smoke. And then a gasoline trail, which races by a corpse while a dude in a trenchcoat takes a whizz. As the suspenseful score …
Last week, we held the very first Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft for the 2015 season. Oh my, we are proactive! We gathered together 12 of the very best Fantasy Baseball writers across the worldwide web, and stuck them into a time machine. We sent these to the year 2015, to hold the first baseball mock …
I love looking back at NFL Draft history, especially as it relates to Fantasy Football. So I thought I'd look back at rookie quarterbacks and rookie running backs to see what recent seasons have produced, as well as NFL history. And hopefully, this information can help us out as we look at the 2013 NFL …
I have been enjoying telling stories, sharing links and other fantasy baseball goodies, but this week I'm going to name my April Fantasy Baseball All Star Team. I have no clear criteria and no idea who is on this team yet, or why I am picking anyone in particular, so lets see how it goes! …
For NFL veterans, Draft Day is unlike any experience in the world. It’s a mixture of Christmas with a little bit of death mixed in. The new crop of talent comes in and it’s like Christmas for these NFL veterans. These veterans get new toys to play with and new weapons in their arsenal. Some …
In the NFL, talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. More so than comments by front office members, coaches, and team officials, the NFL Draft gives a true indication of what a team thinks of veteran players currently on their roster. This is a two-part article that will look at last week's draft …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a fantasy football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all fantasy sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. I kicked off my All-Reliable QBs already and for the purpose of this …
From the perspective of a person that watches their fair share of Rockies games, the Rockies 2013 season, up to this point, has a lot in common with the season of rejuvenated Twins pitcher Kevin Correia. The Rockies record has been greeted by much skepticism from Colorado natives, while Correia’s performance has been seen as …
I'm a fantasy hockey guy and Gonos asked me if I'd like to share a little 2013 Play-Offs talk here so you readers can hit the ice and enjoy the greatest tournament in sports! Here are your 2013 Fantasy Hockey Playoffs 3 Stars to help you win: 3rd Star: Fantasy Hockey on Twitter …
Last Week, I threw down a top 10 list of all my favorite fantasy baseball goodies, but this week, I'm only going to share one goodie. It is a cool little article from Thomas McFeeley called Rock Acts Placed in Starting Rotation and it is great stuff. I recommend checking back to last week's goodies list if …
There are all kinds of strategies to assembling a fantasy football team, but an approach I seem to find myself sticking to across all fantasy sports is ensuring to balance my high risk picks with what I consider safe and reliable options. For the purpose of this 2013 Fantasy Football All-Reliable Team, players who are …
Did you know that 11 percent of CBSSports.com leagues use “holds” as a statistic? Adding relievers with SP eligibility is a sneaky good way to pick up additional holds. So often, the RP-eligible starting pitcher is praised and coveted, especially in points leagues, but don’t over look the opposite who can be a significant contributor …
Once again, picking up saves on the free-agent market appears to be a popular move among the week's Tout Wars transactions. The Mixed League has 15 teams, and there are only 30 closers to spread around, give or take an injured guy and a reliever losing his job. So since some teams have three or …
This week, I've decided to do a Top Ten Fantasy Baseball Goodies List of all the best sites, articles and people who I've encountered thus far in 2013 and share them with you. 1. The Fantasy Rundown: You know that song about getting your picture on the cover or the Rolling Stone? I kind of feel …
For Fantasy owners, the NFL Draft is usually the audition process for Fantasy Football Rookie running backs that might make their way onto their Sunday lineups. In recent seasons, owners have been able to ride the success of rookies like Doug Martin, Trent Richardson, Alfred Morris, DeMarco Murray, LeGarrette Blount and Ryan Mathews. Last year, …
The season is a couple weeks old now, and we’re all starting to get into our grooves of daily research, add/drops, scouting and team massaging. But the Daily Fantasy Baseball sites want to let you know they think Friday, April 19, is a big frickin’ day! Several Daily Fantasy Sports sites have BIG promotions and …
It’s almost time for the NFL Draft! And once the NFL Draft hits, that means that Fantasy Football Drafts are right around the corner! Exclamation points! I saw this Infographic and thought it would be a great thing to share just before the NFL Draft. I love crap like this! Let’s discuss! Top 10 …
Your time machine just took you to March 20, 2015, where we’re about to hold a 2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft with 12 writers from across the interwebbernet. (That’s what we call it in the future.) Unfortunately, you’re only able to stick around for the first four rounds (because you have to avoid meeting your …
The Tout Wars transactions results are in!!! WOO-HOO!!! OK, so it's not really all that exciting. But still, Tout Wars transactions make a big difference in my Monday morning. Who did I get? Who did I miss out on? Who spent a bunch of money on players I'm not crazy about!?! Rookie SP Tony Cingrani …
I love good old fashion roto fantasy baseball, but points based head-to-head leagues are my favorite. I'm in 2 local leagues and am undefeated so far, which is awesome, but now I face my brother in both leagues in week 3. What are the odds? Don't answer that smart ass, it was a rhetorical question. …
Like many of you, I have been playing Fantasy Baseball for many years. In my case, this is my 23rd season (when exactly did I get THAT old?), and I also happen to be the reigning champion of my NL-only auction league. It’s not a league of published "experts," but it is a highly competitive league …
The NFL Draft is nearly upon us! Fantasy owners everywhere are wondering if there’s magic in the 2013 Fantasy Football Rookie Quarterbacks class, like there has been over the past two seasons! Spoiler alert: There’s not. But there are certainly some talented players that will see some snaps this coming NFL season, which means they could …
