As with any league, the context is everything. Your author shares this brief disclaimer as both a reminder for your own best interest as an owner and as a primer to start this article. There are many important questions you need to know the answer to in o...
In this coming series, I will be diving into each NFL team and putting forth my predictions on what I think they will do in the 2021 season. I think having a set of reasonable or expected projections can help us during our drafts. They can help differenti...
For the Heady Mafia and loyal members of the #DFFArmy out there, you can take a break from reading this paraphernalia as it’s not about you. Although, please get ready to forward this to some people in your life. This barely conscious smattering of word...
Good to see you all back! For those of you who haven’t yet read my first installment, check it out here. In this installment, I’ll try to shed some light on which of my specific roster builds did the best and worst. Finally, we will close with some o...
Fantasy football without the grind of setting a bunch of lineups? That has to be the dream. This past offseason I decided to try some paid best ball contests to see if I could make myself a more well-rounded fantasy player. At DFF, we believe that every a...
If you don't play best ball, you'll find some solid tips for your first foray into that world. If you stick to redraft, you can find some interesting trends in ADP changes....
For years the downside to being a draft-aholic was realizing a few weeks into the season that the time and energy associated with setting a few dozen fantasy football lineups every week takes a lot of the fun out of the game. But between the ever-popular ...
The best part of fantasy football hands down is drafting. Best ball formats allow the fantasy player to draft a team and then forget it. No weekly conundrums on who to pick off the waiver wire, or who to start. Draft your favorite upside players and sit b...
Rookie Fever wanted to do a Rookie mock draft with Fanaro, Swags, and 2drink. Things you need to know: You can only draft Rookies There are no rule Swags gets first pick 2drink likes the Caboose (Follow him @FL2drinkminimum) 3 different best ball strategi...
As MFL10 slow drafts wind down, I will be over two hundred leagues this year and have done many at each price point. If you have done any MFL20/50/100s in the last two months, you have likely seen me in your draft (@Styntru2u). As slow drafts run down, I ...
You’re at the bar. You know that the beer you’ve been drinking all night is perfect. Hitting the spot, you aren’t going to wake up with a hangover. You’re cruising. It’s comfortable and you’re in control. Then that friend shows up, and you kno...
For those who do not know what the “FFPC Pros vs. Joes” is, it is a 12 team league consisting of six “Pros” vs six “Joes”. This league was created by Darren Armani (@fantasymojo) who owns Fantasy Mojo which gives you all you need from draft bo...
Before I got into Fantasy Football, I was obsessed with poker. As good poker players know, you don’t necessarily need to have the best hand to win in poker. There are many variables that can give you an advantage when playing against only two others on ...
In this third installment of the DFF Best Ball draft series, we again outline the analysis on the mindset of player selections and strategy. Note: There is likely to be some variance with certain players who we’ve selected, as is typically the case this...
For those that do not know me, my twitter handle is @FFLinx, and I do a high volume of best ball drafts yearly. I do several hundred drafts a year, and this year I am well over one hundred already. With redraft season coming up and the height of best ball...
People who play fantasy football are subject to interesting biases. Many of us get fixated on one simple play (i.e., the Terrelle Pryor catch last summer that pushed his ADP into the 3rd round) or assumption (i.e. Andy Dalton is bad) and then refuse to bu...
The Baltimore Ravens have not had a truly dynamic back since the days of Ray Rice. However, don’t mistake the lack of household names for lack of value in the Raven backfield. Strictly talking “best ball,” Javorius “Buck” Allen is the back that ...
Zero RB is heavily debated every year, and the debates burn even hotter in the slower parts of the offseason like right now. Ever since the great “RB Apocalypse” of 2015, RBs have dominated fantasy leagues while WR scoring has been trending downwards ...
Welcome back for our second Best Ball Draft of the season! The 12 of us got together to try and build the best possible team, according to the best ball format (If you’re unfamiliar with Best Ball, check out this link). In our first draft, we tried to p...
With best ball draft season in full swing, I’ve been a big advocate of a contrarian strategy in drafts this year in my MFL10 drafts: grab two elite TEs early. This strategy is blasphemous to many great best ball players, and for good reason one could ...