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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 …

Jason Witten, 2013 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings

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 …

Jimmy Graham, New Orleans Saints 2012 Fantasy Tight End Rankings

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, …

Daryl Richardson, Fantasy Breakout Players

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 …

Miles Austin, Week 3 Sleepers

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 …

Ryan Mathews, RB, San Diego Chargers -- He's now a top-five Fantasy RB according to some.

Earlier, I looked at the Average Fantasy Rankings for Quarterbacks, and found a few players that several sites are in disagreement about, including Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers. But running backs – the backbone of any good Fantasy Football team – are usually the most deliberated of positions, and the average Fantasy Football rankings for …

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Taking Arian Foster first overall seems to be the smart pick for 2012, but what does the Fantasy Football history of the No. 1 pick suggest? Considering the No. 1 pick in Fantasy Football is more important than in any other Fantasy sport, you have to take this situation seriously! There are very few things that …

Emmitt Smith, RB, Dallas

What is the shelf life of Fantasy Football first overall picks? How long can a stud remain the No. 1 pick? I went back to 1971 and examined the first picks in Fantasy Football in every season up through last year. I only broke down the running back position, assuming they would be the top …

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Matt Vinnola has been the Texas Rangers Director of Baseball Operations since 2009, assisting General Manager Jon Daniels with day-to-day operations and other functions within the department. Before that, he worked in the front office of the Colorado Rockies for 12 years – including their “Rocktober” in 2007, when they completed the fifth-greatest comeback in …