Jeff Mans and I were sitting around the metaphorical campfire, singing “Kumbaya” and talking about baseball, the future of the fantasy business and days of old. He reflected upon his Fantasy Alarm days and then, Eureka! Like a flash of lightning, the thought sprung from his mind… the MLB Weekly Preview. For those of you […]
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Fantasy Football Dynasty Strategy: Advanced Tactics VIII
Structural advantages were something we discussed a while ago, and it will be the main focus of this piece for the next couple of weeks. There’s a few very important concepts I use as building blocks, that once explained, will make the success probability charts easier to apply strategy-wise. Dynasty leagues have a plethora of concepts and ideas […]
MLB Weekly Preview: July 1-7
Jeff Mans and I were sitting around the metaphorical campfire, singing “Kumbaya” and talking about baseball, the future of the fantasy business and days of old. He reflected upon his Fantasy Alarm days and then, Eureka! Like a flash of lightning, the thought sprung from his mind… the MLB Weekly Preview. For those of you […]
MLB Weekly Preview: June 24-30
Jeff Mans and I were sitting around the metaphorical campfire, singing “Kumbaya” and talking about baseball, the future of the fantasy business and days of old. He reflected upon his Fantasy Alarm days and then, Eureka! Like a flash of lightning, the thought sprung from his mind… the MLB Weekly Preview. For those of you […]
MLB Weekly Preview: June 17-23
Jeff Mans and I were sitting around the metaphorical campfire, singing “Kumbaya” and talking about baseball, the future of the fantasy business and days of old. He reflected upon his Fantasy Alarm days and then, Eureka! Like a flash of lightning, the thought sprung from his mind… the MLB Weekly Preview. For those of you […]
NFL Rookie QBs and Fantasy Football Defense: Can One Simple Trick Earn Your Fantasy Defense an Extra Point?
Can one simple trick earn your Fantasy Defense an extra point? Yeah, you know it’s not exactly like that. But a little bit. If you’ve been here all off-season, you know I’ve written quite a bit about fantasy defenses already this year: Team Defense Scoring Trends Fantasy Defense Scoring: Does Base Alignment Matter? Fantasy Defense […]
NFL Receiving Back Usage – 6/12/19
How many NFL coaches typically use a fantasy-relevant receiving back? This is important because of two trends in fantasy football. First, the growth in the fantasy value of “receiving backs.” Second, the need to find receiving backs to fill the 2nd RB slot on “Zero-RB” rosters. To examine this, I need to define what I […]
MLB Weekly Preview: June 10-16
Jeff Mans and I were sitting around the metaphorical campfire, singing “Kumbaya” and talking about baseball, the future of the fantasy business and days of old. He reflected upon his Fantasy Alarm days and then, Eureka! Like a flash of lightning, the thought sprung from his mind… the MLB Weekly Preview. For those of you […]
The Value of RB Opportunities
Tyler Buecher’s article on the red zone efficiency of running backs reminded me of some work I did last season but didn’t publish. Here’s a couple of quick charts (PPR scoring). While they are from 2013-2017, I doubt they changed much in a year: The first one shows how the value of a running back’s […]
Who Gets WR Targets?
A couple of weeks ago, I published my cheat sheet chart that translates WR targets into fantasy value. Today, I want to look at how many targets a typical team’s WR corps sees: A #1 WR is the wideout on a team who gets the most targets; a #2 sees the 2nd most, etc. I’m […]
