Buy Low, Sell High, Lottery Tickets, & All That Jazz

It’s been awhile since we last spoke, so there’s a lot to update you on. For starters, an active trade deadline has opened up a few different opportunities to take advantage of off the waiver wire. Then, of course, we’ve got some serious injuries that have also opened up interesting situations that offer younger players a chance to prove their worth. Finally, there’s the need for me to explain my absence over the last two weeks, and to fill you in on the Cardinal Rule I broke via a move that locked up the win for me. Let’s get back to work.

Emergency Bye Week Fillers…That Are Available

Well we’ve finally come to the first bye week of the season, losing Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore and Washington. Unless you’re playing in an especially shallow league, chances are you’re sitting in a position where you’ve got to plug a hole and the waiver wire options are limited. I figured, since most of my best lottery ticket players are owned now, why not cover some of the most available players who make good plugs at each position this week. This post will cover only players who are less than 15% owned in leagues. Check it out.

Week Four In Review: Buy Low, Sell High

Believe it or not, the past four weeks of games mean absolutely nothing. Even if your team is currently sitting 0-4, it doesn’t really matter because we are just now getting into the part of the season where the real separation comes in: bye weeks. The existence of bye weeks can turn any 0-4 team around in a snap provided you’re the one with the suitable/effective replacements. Moreover, bye weeks are where you can convince another weak record team, who doesn’t have the luxury of losing any more games, into selling low on a stud to fill a gap on their roster. Bye weeks in the NFL start now, so let’s recap this week’s games and see where the opportunities lie.

Fantasy Football Lottery Ticket Players For Week Four

It’s Saturday night (or Sunday morning, depending on when you read this) and you just completed a nice 2-1 trade in your league that upgraded a position nicely, but also left you with a hole on the roster. You’re scanning through the names on the waiver wire and nothing jumps out at you, no obvious pickups. You decide to settle on a tight end, marking the second (or third) on your bench with a plethora of equal talent at the position still on the wire. Don’t do that, there’s still some low ownership hidden talent to be had and yours truly has uncovered a few of those gems.

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.

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.

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