Today I'm launching a podcast called "Fantasy Football for Winners' 4-Minute, 44-Second Fantasy Fundown." As the title suggests, it's a very brief rundown of some of this weekend's moderate-to-extreme bargains and busts at QB, RB, WR, and TE. The content applies directly not only to regular leagues, but also to DFS (Fan Duel, Draft Kings, etc.):
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There's no idle banter in this podcast. No pauses for commercials or coughing fits. Just like this blog, it's fairly no-nonsense. Just fantasy football. And hopefully enough unconventional assessments to give you an edge.
If you like it, please follow on SoundCloud or shoot me a quick message; everyone's time is precious, so I want to keep doing things like this if it's useful to enough people.
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One word of advice heading into our first Sunday of the season: Unless you're in a very deep league, don't hold onto that WR5 you just might start a couple times all year. In other words, if you're in a league that rosters guys like Paul Richardson, Kenny Golladay, Kenny Stills, Breshard Perriman, and other teams' #3 wideouts, then clearly these players hold value as potential WR3s+ if someone above on the depth chart gets hurt. They're your WR cushion in a league where someone like Charone Peake is the best WR available.
But for the rest of you, why are you holding onto a WR5 when plenty of other WR5s are on waivers? Do not--I repeat, do not--settle for a cushion amongst dozens of other cushions.
Before the day's opening kickoff, swap that middling WR for an RB lottery ticket--in other words, any of the dozen or more RB handcuffs available in your league. I'm talking about Marlon Mack, Malcolm Brown, Matt Breida, Branden Oliver, or D'Onta Foreman. If they're all taken, go for potential handcuffs in murkier backfields like Jamaal Williams, Kenyan Drake, Tarik Cohen, Kerwynn Williams, or Chris Ivory.
The downside of this strategy is that it's a spin on the roulette wheel. One handcuff might give you a 10% chance of striking gold sometime this season. The upside is that if you guess right, your team will be considerably better overnight without needing to invest a huge amount of FAAB or a high waiver pick.
I did this many times last season. Far more often than not, it didn't work. But occasionally it did, like when I added Devontae Booker around Week 5. A couple weeks later, C.J. Anderson got hurt, and suddenly I had a potential RB1 (yes, Booker's buzz was huge at that time) who would have been that week's biggest waiver pickup. Then before his first start, I packaged him in a deal for Amari Cooper.
So I converted a seemingly once-worthless fantasy player into a top 16 WR. And all it took was a willingness to spin the wheel.
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Questions have been ramping up lately, and no doubt we'll crack 100+ this morning. A huge thanks to the FF4W contributors for their terrific insights. Hit us with your sit/start questions, and we'll do our best to give thoughtful, research-based opinions.
https://soundcloud.com/user-780565013
There's no idle banter in this podcast. No pauses for commercials or coughing fits. Just like this blog, it's fairly no-nonsense. Just fantasy football. And hopefully enough unconventional assessments to give you an edge.
If you like it, please follow on SoundCloud or shoot me a quick message; everyone's time is precious, so I want to keep doing things like this if it's useful to enough people.
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One word of advice heading into our first Sunday of the season: Unless you're in a very deep league, don't hold onto that WR5 you just might start a couple times all year. In other words, if you're in a league that rosters guys like Paul Richardson, Kenny Golladay, Kenny Stills, Breshard Perriman, and other teams' #3 wideouts, then clearly these players hold value as potential WR3s+ if someone above on the depth chart gets hurt. They're your WR cushion in a league where someone like Charone Peake is the best WR available.
But for the rest of you, why are you holding onto a WR5 when plenty of other WR5s are on waivers? Do not--I repeat, do not--settle for a cushion amongst dozens of other cushions.
Before the day's opening kickoff, swap that middling WR for an RB lottery ticket--in other words, any of the dozen or more RB handcuffs available in your league. I'm talking about Marlon Mack, Malcolm Brown, Matt Breida, Branden Oliver, or D'Onta Foreman. If they're all taken, go for potential handcuffs in murkier backfields like Jamaal Williams, Kenyan Drake, Tarik Cohen, Kerwynn Williams, or Chris Ivory.
The downside of this strategy is that it's a spin on the roulette wheel. One handcuff might give you a 10% chance of striking gold sometime this season. The upside is that if you guess right, your team will be considerably better overnight without needing to invest a huge amount of FAAB or a high waiver pick.
I did this many times last season. Far more often than not, it didn't work. But occasionally it did, like when I added Devontae Booker around Week 5. A couple weeks later, C.J. Anderson got hurt, and suddenly I had a potential RB1 (yes, Booker's buzz was huge at that time) who would have been that week's biggest waiver pickup. Then before his first start, I packaged him in a deal for Amari Cooper.
So I converted a seemingly once-worthless fantasy player into a top 16 WR. And all it took was a willingness to spin the wheel.
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Questions have been ramping up lately, and no doubt we'll crack 100+ this morning. A huge thanks to the FF4W contributors for their terrific insights. Hit us with your sit/start questions, and we'll do our best to give thoughtful, research-based opinions.