Daniel Day Lewis is unquestionably one of the finest actors of our generation, but is he the finest? In a fantasy draft of actors, a lot of film aficionados would take DDL No. 1 overall, but some might use the top pick on...
With training camps open and the fantasy draft season about to begin in earnest, The Football Girl and I are taking a look at some underrated and overrated fantasy performers. I’ll offer up a list of blue-light specials, while The Footba...
Conventional wisdom preaches patience at the QB position in this year’s drafts and auctions (unless, of course, you’re playing in a 2-QB league). Good quarterbacks are abundant thanks to a flood of young talent at the position, and the...
I hate Darren McFadden. OK, perhaps that’s a little harsh. But my moth-to-a-flame attraction to McFadden in recent years has been costly. It’s cost me money. It’s cost me self-esteem. It’s cost me credibi...
Running backs are currency in fantasy football. No, wait ... that doesn’t do them justice. Running backs are currency, stocks, funds, precious metals and real estate. Your RB portfolio is critical to your success. Du...
We’re inching closer toward the heart of fantasy draft season. Most drafts still lie ahead, but many have been conducted already, and each day brings us useful new draft data. Based on the most recent Average Draft Position (ADP) data from Fantasy Footb...
(Note: This is an adaptation of a column Pat Fitzmaurice wrote for Pro Football Weekly in 2012.) There will be thousands of fantasy football trades consummated today. Maybe tens of thousands. But for every tra...
We’re just two weeks into a new NFL season, and isn’t it shocking to discover how much we were wrong about? We thought we had our fantasy football world mapped out so well. But you spend the entire month of August pounding the table ab...
Hard to believe we’ve already reached the quarter post of the fantasy season. It seems like only yesterday that I was hailing Ray Rice as the most foolproof of the top running backs, questioning Dez Bryant’s staying power, recommending...