Melissa Jacobs

In an effort to broaden the eyeballs coming our fair site, I added Reddit to our cocktail of social media late last week. Other than liking and disliking random pieces of content, it was tough to ascertain the site’s intricacies. Well, when I submitted ...

Let me start this week’s Startability Index with my Week 9 lock: the Chargers defense! OK, honesty alert, this is being published late Thursday right, well after the Chargers racked up 14-20 fantasy points, depending on your scoring system. Whether you ...

Is it really already Week 10, meaning fantasy playoffs are just a blink of an eye away? Well, I better give you some good fantasy advice this week! The Packers and Redskins are two of the four teams on a bye, and owners will be scrambling to find suita...

Whoa, this week really sneaked up on us, didn’t it? I know you are all here for start/sit advice but I’m wondering if you have a Thanksgiving conundrum similar to mine. Diehard football fan/writer (me) wants to watch all three games (duh!). Family is ...

Welcome to the Week 11 Startability Index, also know as my favorite part of the TFG week.  Pressing “publish” on the Index means that our three games of agony and boredom are over – we’ve got a football game tonight! Ok, it’s the Bills and Dolp...

There are many tense moments which make fantasy football so . One of them is when your fantasy season comes down to this all-important in-or-out week.  It may be Week 13 in the “real” NFL world, but this it is fantasy’s Week 17. You may be like ...

The Startability Index is a slight spin on your usual Start/Sit advice. I mostly take reader/Twitter follower requests for players, and sprinkle in some extra guys worth covering. Players are assigned a “Startability” number from 1-10 based on thei...

UPDATED: Given the tragic events in Connecticut Friday we decided not to complete and publish our full Startability Index until Saturday morning. Please tell me everyone who was here last week and the week before is back. Back for the second ...

Perhaps I am pregnant because I smell fantasy everywhere. My keyboard smells like Drew Brees passing for over 5,000 yards again. My water bottle smells like the Seattle secondary averaging two picks a game. And my dry erase board smells l...

Patience, my friends. Patience. It’s the hardest virtue to hold on to after Week 1 when certain star players disappoint out of the gate. Yet it’s critical to keep a sense of perspective so that your fantasy team doesn’t prematurely fall of the rails...