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A good start to my new column last week. Thanks to all for the kind words and feedback, if you have comments or suggestions I’d love to hear them; send them my way via Twitter @timmywhitehead. Also, big thanks as always goes to the Thief for keeping this site up, running and populated with great articles. He’s a busy guy, so buy him (or me) a beer if you have a couple dollars to spare. This week in the world of sports betting, I am going to cover where to place your bet and the most common types of bets available to players. Understanding the styles of bets and what all those fancy numbers mean is key to making an educated betting decision rather than throwing your money away on your favorite teams.

How To Evaluate NFL Talent For Your Team

So how do you evaluate talent for your Fantasy Football team? What I mean to ask is, when scanning through the box scores on Sunday, what are the specific traits that you look towards when determining whether a player is worth adding? I certainly hope the answer isn’t something as simple as ‘yards and touchdowns’ because that hardly tells the whole story or gives you a clue about the future probability of recurrence. Let’s take a look at the major positions and drill down to those specific stats that jump off the screen when analyzing.

Week Three In Review: Buy Low, Sell High

All the pieces of the NFL puzzle are finally starting to settle now, and the picture being drawn is hardly the one we’d have imagined. Buffalo leads the AFC behind the stellar play from a kid out of Harvard. Detroit sits atop the NFC because Megatron is literally unguardable. And all in between we’ve seen a bunch of shakin and jivin that’s opened up a plethora of opportunity to buy low, sell high, and thieve the competition. Check it out.

A Beginner’s Guide to Sports Betting

After a long hiatius from writing due to school, summer travels and (mostly) working on my golf game, I am happy to return to FST with a new weekly column on sports betting. Through a multi-part series, I will outline the basics and strategies involved in sports betting on football.

Everyone has a plan until they get knocked down. What are you gonna do?

How do you bounce back from the loss of Jamaal Charles? Obviously, if you own(ed) him, you invested a high round pick or a lot of auction money to get this guy. That’s for good reason, he’s easily one of the most explosive backs in the NFL, led the league in yards per carry last season, and finished second to Arian Foster in total rushing yards despite some 100 less carries. Now your top player for 2011 is DONE, how do you recover?

Analyzing A Trade From All Angles

Sometimes you’re the pigeon, sometimes you’re the statue. That was one of the first lessons taught to me in trading. Today, I may just have been the statue. What follows below is a detailed analysis of how I came to execute the deal just pulled off in my league. I’m going to cover the situation I was in, the thought process leading to the decision, and then the expected outcomes. But no matter how I try to color this deal, the truth of the matter is that I gave up the best player in the deal as well as a whole bunch of depth. I’m not entirely proud of the move, but I’ll let you judge whether or not it was worth it.

Week Two In Review: Buy Low, Sell High

Only in the sport of fantasy football can I go 3-1 across the four leagues I’m playing in, losing the 1 by a tiny margin, and yet still walk away feeling like garbage. I have a funny feeling you know exactly what I mean, whether you won or lost this week. It’s the nature of the sport itself. Nowhere else can a team like Baltimore look so dominant in week one, so absent in week two. How do you read that trend? In no other sport can you have so many spirits lifted on the back of Cam Newton, while so many others simultaneously destroyed by the like of Jamal Charles. Chin up fella’s, this is football and anything can happen on Sunday. Now let’s try and make so some of what we saw.

Homework Time: Five Questions For Sunday Football

The best source of information we have here in Thief Nation stems from a vast array of geographical locations across the world. While every single one of us is a fantasy football fan, we also hold loyalty to one specific team in the NFL that garners our utmost attention. I’ve always stressed fact over opinion when discussing player situations, and I’ve also stressed the importance of gathering the perspective from a local team fan over Joe Schmoe and his Hypetrain view. So with that, I’ve got five questions that I’m looking for answers to during the course of the day.

Please Tell Me You’re Not Still Snake Drafting?

I play in two different leagues, one uses the age old standard of Snake-style drafting (set order that reverses every round) and the other is the far more exciting Auction-style (using set amount of pretend money to “spend” on your players). There are those that will say it’s “too complicated”, but they’re just scared to be exposed and reveal they don’t know much more than what their published draft sheet tells them. They will say they want to know where they are drafting so they can prepare their strategy, i.e. I really don’t want to think about it. The auction is not that complicated. You still have the same number of roster spots to fill. The most important difference is you have a legitimate shot at ANY player you want. You just have to figure out how much you’re willing to spend on a particular player and that is where the fun comes in. Everyone values players differently so there is room to use this to your advantage.

Fantasy Football Lottery Ticket Players For Week Two

I feel like I’m beating a dead horse here, but given that readership has grown so much over the past week, it’s important to rehash the basics…so here goes. A lottery ticket player is one that is currently being ignored by much of the fantasy community. Their cost should be virtually nothing as most are found on your league’s waiver wire and if they aren’t, they would be an easy throw in to a trade. However, they also sit in a situation where, should chips fall a certain way, they could prove to pay off huge. I’ve got four such names for you and my advice is to stash one (or two if you have a deep bench) of these guys and hope he’s a winner.

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