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2014 Fantasy Football Daily Fix: Week 1 Running Backs
Good morning! Each Tuesday of the NFL regular season I’ll provide you with several running backs who make good plays each week at DraftKings. Monday through Friday the Fix writers will provide you with a Daily Fix that covers each position, with a weekly roundup on Friday. I’ll break down
2014 Fantasy Baseball Week 15 Waiver Wire: 3 to Catch, 3 to Cut, 3 to Keep
In the Week 15 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re keeping up with Dee Gordon, cutting ties with Chris Johnson, and tapping into Steve Pearce’s potential. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players in fantasy leagues. This isn’t
2014 Fantasy Football: Offseason Movers — Chris Johnson
Every NFL offseason players change teams and it’s necessary to assess the change in fantasy value of those players, namely at the offensive skill positions. With that in mind, and preseason games and fantasy drafts just a few short months away, I’m kicking off a series looking at players that
The Atlanta Braves and the Big Fly in 2014
After recently profiling Andrelton Simmons for fantasy relevance in 2014, I noted that he had a 12% increase in his fly ball rate from 27% to 39% as well as an outlandish 17.8% popup rate, the latter of which led the majors last year. It seemed extraordinary that a guy
Total Run Index Sneak Peeks: Third Basemen
Miguel Cabrera took his first steps toward the Hall of Fame when he won his second consecutive MVP award. There are only two players in baseball history that have won two MVP awards that did not get into the Hall of Fame. Odds are good that Cabrera will have a
2013 Fantasy Football, Week 1 Start/Sit
Below are guys that I have ranked higher or lower than the FantasyPros.com expert consensus rank (ECR) by at least four spots. And I focus on the guys around the cutoffs to be starters for the week. For quarterbacks and tight ends that means guys that the ECR has in
2013 Fantasy Football Experts Round Table: These Players Will Finish In The Top Ten
Fantasy Footballers are likely drafting their way through the three-day weekend, the last (!) weekend before the NFL season is finally here. Knowing such, we reached out to some of the best fantasy analysts in the business today to ask them the following question: Name a player that you do
2013 Fantasy Baseball, The Fielding Edge: Atlanta Braves vs. Washington Nationals
One of my favorite parts of the tables I throw up is that they often tell a story you aren’t meaning to tell. In this case, we are looking strictly at fielding numbers, but in the case of both the Braves and the Nationals they tell a story of why
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Plate Discipline: Third Basemen
Like regular sports, fantasy sports is a results driven business. That being said, smart fantasy players have followed the thinking of innovative front offices in the sport. Whether you want to call it Moneyball thinking or simply a new wave is your call. However, they are using more and more
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Total Run Series: Third Basemen
We have just passed the quarter pole, so it is high time we look at how players at each position are performing and which ones will be on the trade block this summer. More often than not, seeing how players are performing can tell us which teams will be in