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John Brown And The Cardinals Despise Your Fantasy Team
Arizona wide receiver John Brown was questionable with a bum hamstring before he was declared active for yesterday’s game, a 34-20 win in Cleveland, but spent the game a-mouldering on the sideline. Who knows why he didn’t play? Bruce Arians spoke about discovering and developing his WR depth and dis...
Chris Christie Flips Out On Debate Question About Fantasy Football
Things got testy multiple times at last night’s GOP debate, with the candidates repeatedly going off on the CNBC moderators for asking what they perceived to be biased or inane questions (even as they generally failed to provide substantive answers to the substantive questions). Toward the end, thin...
ESPN Gets A Ridiculous Amount Of Traffic From Fantasy Football News
ESPN may be getting ready to lay off a few hundred people, but the sports media behemoth still wants the world to know that it commands the attention of the all the world’s sports fans. ESPN just put out a rather boring press release trumpeting the 94.4 million unique visitors raked in by ESPN.com i...
You Will Not Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy
“[T]he top 100 ranked players enter 330 winning lineups per day, and the top 10 players combine to win an average of 873 times daily. The remaining field of approximately 20,000 players tracked by Rotogrinders wins just 13 times per day, on average.” [Bloomberg]...
Fantasy Football Loser Forced To Take Walk Of Shame
Reader Thomas sent along these photos, taken during Friday’s evening rush hour in Minneapolis. Without knowing anything else, I’d say someone finished last in their fantasy league last season....
A Good Way To Troll Your Fantasy Opponents
Matthew Berry shares a delightful little piece of fantasy-league gamesmanship: a photoshopped fake ESPN.com/Rotowire update on Dez Bryant claiming the WR is out for the season with a torn ACL. (He’s not. Don’t panic.)...
It Should Be A Crime To Hold Your Fantasy Draft This Early
Kelvin Benjamin, the Panthers’ obscenely talented sophomore receiver (and quite possibly the Panthers’ only talented receiver), will miss the entire 2015 season with a torn ACL suffered in a freak, non-contact practice injury. This is bad for Carolina, and bad for Carolina’s fans, but who cares abou...
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....
Which Fantasy Football Sites Have The Best Projections?
This post was originally published on Datascope. Republished here with permission....
How Accurate Are ESPN's Fantasy Football Projections?
This post was originally published on Datascope. Republished here with permission. ...
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? ...
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....