August 2011 News
Lottery Ticket Players By Division: AFC North
Published: August 31, 2011
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In the second part of this series, I’ll cover the AFC North. Once again let it be said: as opposed to a sleeper, a lottery ticket player is one which you anticipate getting via draft or waivers for virtually nothing more than the roster spot he holds, yet holds solid upside should things fall his [...]
Lottery Ticket Players By Division: AFC East
Published: August 29, 2011
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A Lottery Ticket Player and a Sleeper are two completely different things. A sleeper is someone you expect to have a breakout season, complete with the boost in stature and statistics. It’s a guy you draft at a reduced price because no one else sees him coming, except you, who’s not afraid to plug him [...]
Mastering the Auction Draft
Published: August 28, 2011
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Let it be said: there’s a lot of room for improvement in your auction drafting strategy. That really shouldn’t come as a surprise, after all, you probably haven’t been doing it for very long and you probably spend the bulk of your prep time focusing on players values as opposed to gaming your opponents. Fact [...]
Stories From The Thief’s Den…
Published: August 25, 2011
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(What it’s like to draft against The FST, and most of his family too.) So we all have that friend, right? You know, the one who talks incessantly about his/her fantasy team, even though you’re not in the league and you don’t particularly care what a great value they think getting Joe Flacco for one [...]
What Do Jose Reyes & Michael Vick Have In Common?
Published: August 24, 2011
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There’s no single player in the NFL attracting more fantasy value scrutiny than Michael Vick, deservedly so. The guy was virtually invisible during the first six years of his career while playing for Atlanta. He never threw for more than 20 TD’s in a season, and only reached 20 once. Hid TD:INT ratio was always [...]
Fantasy Football Draft Prep: The Basics
Published: August 8, 2011
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I’m going to start my coverage of the Fantasy Football season dialing us all back to the very basics of drafting. In no other sport is the draft more important than in Fantasy Football, mainly due to the reduced number of waiver wire potentials throughout the season, the varying nature of roster/scoring settings, and the [...]