As we head into Week 4, seasoned fantasy players and actual NFL front office people find themselves in similar positions. By now you’ve seen your guys perform for three weeks and you’ve pretty much calibrated your expectations for each guy. Some have exceeded your preseason expectations. Others have been major disappointments. Overall though, by now, [...]
Continue reading → Week Four begins the bye week schedule in the 2009 NFL season, and there are some popular fantasy rosters taking time off. The Panthers, Eagles, Falcons and Cardinals are all rosters loaded with players on fantasy teams, and now owners are searching for a rental replacement. Some players that might be viewed as rentals might become [...]
Continue reading → What a wickedly weird and wacky week in the NFL, and subsequently, fantasy football. I ended the week going 13-3 again. My upset of the week, the Bucs over the Giants, turned out to be my worst call through three weeks. The other two I missed were the Jags nipping the Texans, and the Steelers [...]
Continue reading → There are a lot of big fantasy questions after just three weeks this year, and there are the annual surprises. Usually, after Week Three, quick-trigger owners start making decisions they regret by Week Eight, and the injury bug starts to hit teams harder. To start 2009, there are a lot of quarterbacks that are raising [...]
Continue reading → The difficulty in trying to analyze or assess fantasy production and value this early in season is there simply isn’t enough data to accurately gauge how a player might perform against new defenses, with new offensive lines. However, there is one statistic that many people overlook in fantasy, and it gives us some idea how [...]
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