Recency bias is a hell of a drug. Under its influence, you can find yourself investing everything in tiny sample sizes, or fading players off the back of one bad week. In order to win your league, you need to be able to break free from the trappings of recency bias and make sensible, rational…
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Week 6 Bounce Back Candidates — by Tyler Belawske
We all have bad days. But, it’s how we handle it the next day that displays the bigger picture. Just like our everyday lives, football players can have a day to forget on the field too. How do they bounce back? Practice, practice, practice. Here are four fantasy relevant players (you probably started) with less…
Week 5 Trade Targets – by Ben Barton
It’s remarkable how quickly value changes in fantasy football. Look at the Pittsburgh Steelers running backs right now. Le’Veon Bell walked into the season as a top-two pick, only to refuse to play on the franchise tag offered to him by Pittsburgh. All of a sudden, second-year running back James Conner was the most valuable player on…
Start ‘Em or Sit ‘Em: Week 1 – By Matty Daniels
Start ‘Em Quarterback – Andy Dalton vs Indianapolis Colts Andy is blessed with facing probably the worst defense in all of football entering week 1. With the offseason acquisitions of Cordy Glenn and Billy Price, Dalton will have a lot more time to put the ball down the field. John Ross seems to have taken a…
The Volume Chronicles: Receivers – by Gabriel Cabistani
If you’re reading this article, I’m (almost) sure that you went through the painful reading experience (might be a slight exaggeration of my part!) that was ‘The Volume Chronicles – Running Backs’. If so, kudos! Thank you so much for keeping up with me and to keep following our content. Moving on from the editorial…
Fantasy Implications: AFC East Divisional Breakdown – by Matty Daniels
New England Patriots Quarterback – Tom Brady I really don’t think there is a whole lot of convincing needed here. Brady is arguably the greatest QB in the history of the NFL and 2017 showed no signs of slowing down. Although I don’t see 2018 being much different, I’m going to keep an eye on how…
3 Bold Predictions for 2018 – by Tyler Belawske
The definition of bold is showing an ability to take risks; displaying confidence and courage. In the fantasy football community, we each have an opportunity to predict what will happen in the coming year and take a stand, particularly in cases where others believe our prediction to be unlikely. Most are simple, while others are…
Fantasy Football: Who’s overvalued/undervalued? – By Tyler Belawske
How many times have you come out of your drafting thinking, “ Yes, I nailed this, give me the title now” or on the flip side have you thought “ Oh man, that drafted sucked”? Both reactions are perfectly normal when you draft players based on their average draft position (ADP). Draft them too soon…
