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Alan Harrison

Alan is the founder of TheFantasyFix.com and a contributor to RotoGraphs. Follow his rants on Twitter @TheFantasyFix.

Fantasy Football

Can an improved air attack, and a return to health on the ground power the Dolphins to the AFC East crown, and you to a fantasy title?  To find out, I’m taking my talent to South Beach… A lot of big name players changed teams in the AFC East this

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The Dallas Cowboys are in the midst of running back woes, averaging around 13 rushing touchdowns each of the last three seasons. They have yet to find the perfect combination of running backs to prove Dallas is among the elite running threats. However, whether or not it is the absolute

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Fantasy Football

There has been much written and said about the changes in the NFL.  A rushing league has morphed into a passing league; and with it a dramatic shift in fantasy draft strategy.  

Five years ago, anything besides a running back/running back strategy would be blasphemy.  Today we've flipped the script and a

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Fantasy Football

Welcome back for this week’s edition of the NL Wire. Last week’s edition was focused mainly on a group of older, somewhat grizzled group of veterans.  So for this week, I decided to return to the fountain of youth, so to speak. This week’s selections are focused on a trio

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Fantasy Football

Every season, we under or overvalue players in the offseason; it’s the nature of the beast. Whether it is personnel changes around them, scheme changes, or injury concerns… something jumps out and makes us either love or hate a player before the season even begins. Last week, we looked at

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Fantasy Football

2010 has blessed Major League Baseball with a memorable rookie class. Fantasy owners in Dynasty and Keeper leagues were quite familiar with this cast of characters long before they arrived in the show. In commemoration of their foresight, let’s take a gander at the top ten positional keepers for 2011.

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Fantasy Football

PPR leagues (point-per-reception) are similar to fantasy baseball leagues with extra categories like on-base percentage or strikeouts per-nine innings because a few people in the league will always place too much weight on the extra category. When this happens, talented players may slide down the draft board because the extra

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Fantasy Football

SLUGGERSCoco Crisp, OAK, 52 percent owned8 R / 1 HR / 4 RBI / 5 SB / .323 AVGThe Fantasy Gods commend any courageous Coco Crisp owner. His speed paid off witheight runs and five stolen bases last week, possibly single-handedly winning you stolenbases. It would be hard to keep

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Fantasy Football

Scott Baker has to be one of the most frustrating pitchers for any fantasy owner this year. When he is on, he is lights out (Sunday vs LAA 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 4K), but there is another side to Baker that doesn’t exactly sit well with owners. I

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Fantasy Football

Start ‘Em Ian Desmond, Washington Nationals, 23 percent ownedAs long as your league doesn’t count fielding percentage or errors then Desmond is your man this week. He’s been hot after the break, hitting .304 with a .790 OPS since. All of his games next week are at home where he’s

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