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11 Tips To Intentionally Ruin A Mock Draft
Mock drafts are a charade within a charade. Fantasy football is fake; mock drafts are fake drafts to prepare for the “real” fake draft, for a fake team. The only purpose of mock drafts is to get a general sense where players are going in each round, and that’s only useful for the first five rounds. ...
How To Run A Fantasy Football League Without Making Everyone Hate You
Because your friends are lazy and untrustworthy, you were somehow the best choice to run this year’s fantasy football league, which means you’ll set up the draft, oversee trades, handle money, and use the internet an hour or two more per week than usual. Congratulations. Now, you just have to tackle...
Tony Romo Calls The NFL Greedy For Shutting Down His Fantasy Convention
A Tony Romo-organized fantasy football convention scheduled for next month in Las Vegas was canceled after the NFL warned participating players that they’d be in violation of league rules. It sounded like a weak explanation at the time, and now Romo says the NFL was just mad it didn’t stand to make ...
Report: NFL Called Players' Parents To Stop Fantasy Football Convention
The first-ever National Fantasy Football Convention, scheduled to take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas next month, has been canceled and rescheduled for 2016 in Los Angeles. The event was “organized” by Tony Romo, and other current NFL players like Rob Gronkowski, Le’Veon ...
How To Fix Fantasy Football Scoring With Simple Advanced Stats
With only one touchdown in Week 16, Aaron Rodgers ranked 15th in fantasy points among quarterbacks during fantasy football championship week, likely costing many a Rodgers owner a fantasy title. However, Rodgers' performance was much more valuable on the real football field, where his contributi...
Voicemail: Furious Fantasy Owner Threatens To Come Get His Money Back
If you've played fantasy football for long enough, you'll see nothing strange over a vetoed trade leading to one owner threatening to come over and beat up the league treasurer....
How Accurate Are ESPN's Fantasy Football Projections?
This post was originally published on Datascope. Republished here with permission. ...
Man Loses Fantasy Football Bet, Does Worst Al Pacino Impression
This reenactment of Al Pacino's famous Any Given Sunday speech has no business being funny, but it is, somehow. The reader who sent it along says the guy half-heartedly playing Tony D'Amato lost a fantasy football bet, and had to make this video as punishment....
Fantasy Football Commissioner Is Fed The Fuck Up
A reader forwarded us this email, which he says was sent by the commissioner of his fantasy football league, Alex. To be succinct, Alex is fucking sick of everyone's bullshit. A $300 prize brings out the worst in people, apparently....
Here, Have Some Fantasy Football Lineup-Helper Visuals
Do you really have time to be setting your lineup for the Thanksgiving games? ...
Two Grown Men Get In A Fistfight Over Fantasy Football
So, what exactly is going on here?...
Stevie Johnson Drafted A Really Great Fantasy You Team
When you get down to it, it is kind of strange that we get together and pretend to collect teams of employees, and award them imaginary points for things they do at their jobs, just because they work in football. So 49ers WR Stevie Johnson decided to put together his own "fantasy work team," and I t...
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Yahoo! Won't Let You Cut Adrian Peterson From A Fantasy Team [UPDATE]
Disgruntled fantasy football players are flooding Yahoo!'s forums with complaints that the company won't allow them to cut Adrian Peterson after his arrest on charges he beat his son....
Poor Bastard Loses Fantasy Matchup On Last-Second QB Kneeldown
Say it with me now: "No one cares about your fantasy team." But this dude got boned....
The Most Popular Fantasy Team Names
Slate's done the dirty work here, identifying the 30 most common fantasy football team names, as well as the most popular by NFL team....
The NFL Wants Kids To Learn About Fantasy Football In Math Class
The Wall Street Journal has a Q&A today with Mark Waller, the NFL's chief marketing officer. There's a lot of corporatespeak, and then the conversation turns toward the children. The NFL is most definitely thinking of the children....
Guy Loses Fantasy League, Has To Make Embarrassing Photo Calendar
This is a pretty great way to punish the person who comes in last in your fantasy league. Instead of merely living with shame in the abstract, make it tangible (and practical!) with a calendar full of embarrassing photoshops, like naked Prince Fielder....
Ruining Fantasy Football Mock Drafts: Still Funny
Notorious mock draft ruiner Stefan is back for another NFL season to screw up more inconsequential fantasy football drafts for people who are just trying to figure out where Zac Stacy's projected to go this season. It's currently the most entertaining harmless crime....
Man Seeks Girls To Host Fantasy Football Draft, Possibly While Topless
The cool bro you see above is, according to this Craigslist post, looking for two girls to host his upcoming fantasy football draft. All he needs is a couple of girls to run the draft board, serve the fellas some drinks, and, you know, wear a bikini or some sexy lingerie and maybe even pop those...