Welcome back to year #5 of the Fantasy Football for Winners blog. Hope everyone’s had a great (or at least, half-decent) hiatus. In March my wife gave birth to baby #3, which means we now have three kids under 5, which means chaos reigns.
And that’s as good a segue as any into fantasy football, where things aren’t always as they seem—where sometimes unpredictability is the norm. Today and for each of the next 200 days, I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing the past four seasons: writing about fantasy football and answering fantasy questions, and through it all, trying to make sense of reality before reality hits.
Because this community continues to grow at an alarming rate (last season started with about 6,500 people, and now we’re at 16,000+), I’ve hand-picked a few people to pitch in. Each is brilliant when it comes to fantasy football: one has his own blog, another is an established fantasy writer, another co-hosted a podcast, and so on. Tommy Barnett, Chris Heil, Robbie Lange, Steven Lawrence, Joel Verzosa, Aaron Weaver, and Matt Weavil are here to help answer questions all preseason and season long.
They’re contributing their valuable time because they share my belief that fantasy sites too often shut out their readers. We know each of you has valuable questions to ask and invaluable insights to contribute. FF4W was founded on the principle that “the right idea wins”—in other words, we revel in the fact that any of you are capable of being right when everyone else is wrong. Moreover, any question you ask might spur research that leads to more fantasy wisdom.
So you might find Robbie and I disagree on Matt Forte, or one of you adamantly rejects Joel’s views on Carson Palmer. Great. Keep challenging each other and us. Year after year, too many experts miss too many bargains and overreach on too many overrated guys. FF4W strives to be different. We’ll continue to push in the envelope in 2017. Don’t hesitate to push back.
These next 10 weeks we’ll focus on things many of you are familiar with: “32 Teams in 32 Days,” where I’ll offer brief rundowns of the fantasy implications of each NFL team. Then on to “Bold Predictions,” focusing on what I believe will be 2017’s biggest bargains and most painful busts. We’ll once again do a free Survivor Pool, with the winner getting a one-on-one fantasy strategy session next summer. And on this page you can sign up for my “Top 300 Pre-Draft Rankings” (Preseason Pass); just like last year, you can pay as much or as little as you want, and you’ll start receiving it weekly next month.
Looking forward to reconnecting with many of you and getting to know more of you this year.
And that’s as good a segue as any into fantasy football, where things aren’t always as they seem—where sometimes unpredictability is the norm. Today and for each of the next 200 days, I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing the past four seasons: writing about fantasy football and answering fantasy questions, and through it all, trying to make sense of reality before reality hits.
Because this community continues to grow at an alarming rate (last season started with about 6,500 people, and now we’re at 16,000+), I’ve hand-picked a few people to pitch in. Each is brilliant when it comes to fantasy football: one has his own blog, another is an established fantasy writer, another co-hosted a podcast, and so on. Tommy Barnett, Chris Heil, Robbie Lange, Steven Lawrence, Joel Verzosa, Aaron Weaver, and Matt Weavil are here to help answer questions all preseason and season long.
They’re contributing their valuable time because they share my belief that fantasy sites too often shut out their readers. We know each of you has valuable questions to ask and invaluable insights to contribute. FF4W was founded on the principle that “the right idea wins”—in other words, we revel in the fact that any of you are capable of being right when everyone else is wrong. Moreover, any question you ask might spur research that leads to more fantasy wisdom.
So you might find Robbie and I disagree on Matt Forte, or one of you adamantly rejects Joel’s views on Carson Palmer. Great. Keep challenging each other and us. Year after year, too many experts miss too many bargains and overreach on too many overrated guys. FF4W strives to be different. We’ll continue to push in the envelope in 2017. Don’t hesitate to push back.
These next 10 weeks we’ll focus on things many of you are familiar with: “32 Teams in 32 Days,” where I’ll offer brief rundowns of the fantasy implications of each NFL team. Then on to “Bold Predictions,” focusing on what I believe will be 2017’s biggest bargains and most painful busts. We’ll once again do a free Survivor Pool, with the winner getting a one-on-one fantasy strategy session next summer. And on this page you can sign up for my “Top 300 Pre-Draft Rankings” (Preseason Pass); just like last year, you can pay as much or as little as you want, and you’ll start receiving it weekly next month.
Looking forward to reconnecting with many of you and getting to know more of you this year.