Can't believe it's almost football season again. Time for a new fantasy football season. Just a quick post to say I think it should be a very interesting year. There is so much up in the air. Just look at teams like Green Bay, or the two teams here in the bay area. A lot of teams are in transition, a lot of players have moved around, and even some ( Read more... )

We're 10 weeks through the NFL season. I have no hard numbers, but I feel pretty confident that the injury carnage this year has far surpassed the previous 2 seasons (I've only done fantasy football for the past 2 years).

In the previous articles I stressed drafting RB and WR depth to guard against busts and injuries. There have been plenty of busts ( Read more... )

I highly recommend doing a few mock drafts, preferably from the actual spot you will be drafting from in your real draft. This will get you used to what players typically fall where. I also recommend searching for a couple of "expert" mock drafts, looking them over, and reading the accompanying analysis.

Summary of recommended number players to take at each position:

• QBs: 2 and only 2
• TEs: 1 or 2
• Ks:   1 and only 1
• DEF: 1 or 2
• RBs: 5 or 6

OK, so I offered a plan for how many of each position to draft and when to draft them. Now all you need to know is which players to take. So now I need to write 5 long posts about different players, right ( Read more... )

I'll (finally) try to start putting it all together. Hopefully I was able to explain with some accuracy and clarity why the different positions in FF have different values ( Read more... )

I'll talk about one last concept concerning the positions: predictability. As you might guess, at most positions you can count on most players performing fairly similarly as they have in years past. Yes the experts try to gauge which guy might falter due to age or injury, or excel due to a new team or opportunity, but in general most of the ( Read more... )

There are all sorts of resources available to learn more about fantasy football, including books, magazines, websites, blogs, radio/TV shows, and podcasts ( Read more... )

So if you believed me in part one, you believe it should be a priority to concentrate on drafting at the positions with the most scarcity, RB and WR. Now let me talk about something I've seen termed "peer value" (probably has other names as well). Peer Value addresses the issue of how much value a player has when compared to others at his position ( Read more... )

First let's talk about player value by position. A typical team will start a QB, TE, K, DEF, and then usually some combo of 5 RBs and WRs. Our league is set up to start 2 RBs, 2 WRs, and then a "flex" position which you can start your choice of an RB or WR. So every week more than half of your points are going to come from the WR and RB position ( Read more... )