Another weekend of cheers and tears is in the books for fantasy football lovers. Week 3 carried with it some large developments. Naturally, there are going to be plenty of fast takes and reaction pieces flashing across your screens over the next few days. It’s hard to tell which stories need to be taken seriously […]
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“Down goes Frazier!” is all I could think when I watched the San Francisco 49ers’ game today. If you waited until the 11th or 12th round to get Jimmy Garoppolo and didn’t back him up, hearing that he is done for the season must have been a nightmare. What’s even worse, if you have Kittle
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Injuries, trades, cuts… Week 2 of the NFL season had it all. It seems like every week there’s a big event that gets fantasy owners talking and analysts pumping out fantasy headlines. In the reactionary world of fantasy football, some of these headlines are bogus. But how can you be sure? What if that story
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Each Friday, Aaron Larson (@aalarson) and Michael Stephenson (@DFF_MSte) examine the hottest NFL rumors and offer their insights as to any potential fantasy football implications they might have heading into the weekend. So, grab your beverage or snack of choice and get ready to start the week off with some good old-fashioned fantasy football speculation
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The 2018 Fantasy Football season is officially underway and fantasy owners everywhere are either celebrating early success or mourning costly decisions. Whether your team is looking sharp, or you’re facing a difficult road ahead, you always have to be building your squad up. You can’t rest on your laurels now. Make trades, use your waiver
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There are so many ways to strategize your QBs in fantasy football. For my money, ensuring that you have the best possible chance to win every week is the only way to do that. While I don’t use 2 QBs that often, I do know that if you want to roster 2 QBs, you need
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We are back for a 2nd year! After the male team took the spoils winning 5-4 last year, the ladies have come back for revenge. https://dynastyfootballfactory.com/battle-of-the-sexes-2017-the-results/ This year, the competition will work a little differently. We have trimmed each team’s roster down to seven people and the whole format has completely changed. This year’s competitors
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You’ve probably heard the saying that you don’t win your fantasy championship at the draft. I agree with the sentiment for the most part, with a slight adjustment. I believe that you can set up your team to win a fantasy football championship at the draft if you can find over-producing players in the back
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Before we start, I know a lot of people already take preseason performances with a pinch of salt, but I am targeting the rest of people with this who see that [profiler]Damoun Patterson[/profiler] had a huge game and they start drafting him in leagues way above his ADP. Quarterbacks Okay, now quarterbacks are probably the
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In part one, the crew took a look at Saquon Barkley, Josh Gordon, Patrick Mahomes, Trey Burton and Jerick McKinnon. This time around we have five more fantasy stars that are at the center of debates across fantasy football’s entire landscape. It is time to have it out amongst ourselves and find out whether these
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As the fantasy football world heads into the draft season, you’re sure to see meticulous nitpicking over players at the top of the draft. Should Todd Gurley or Le’Veon Bell go first overall? Should Leonard Fournette or Dalvin Cook be selected in the first round? How many receivers have earned a first-round status? These can
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In Fantasy Football the clichés are constant and overstated. The term “Flag planting” is a notorious phrase that scouts use to take a stand on a position. The point of this article is to take a deep dive into four different players at four different positions. By planting my flag on these four players, I
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It’s my favorite time of the year, draft season. With best ball drafts in full effect and redraft right around the corner, we are starting to get some solid ADP for players. There are many players I have loved drafting at their current ADPs and will go over ten of them using Fanball’s July ADP.
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Football is a fickle sport; every year, there are seemingly dozens of no-namers who breakout and lead fantasy squads to victory over teams of all-stars who had terrible seasons. Predicting just who the next Jared Goff or Adam Thielen is not as easy as it sounds. But numbers don’t usually lie, so I looked to
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It always seems demoralizing in fantasy football during the season when a key player in your line-up goes down with an injury. You immediately start scrambling to check if you have their back-ups on your roster while you search aimlessly for an update on how serious the injury is. Once you learn the dreaded news
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Welcome back everyone! The mock draft specialists at Redraft Football Factory bring you the fourth installment of the PPR Mock Draft series. This month, the draft expanded to six rounds and we added a new member to the panel, Nathan Coleman. Moving forward, the Redraft team will add another round each month to give you
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I’m no fan of the Cleveland Browns. From their awful-color uniforms to their lackluster announcement of a uniform change a few years ago when they went from orange-orange to orange-red, to their horrid draft decisions over the last decade or so, I’m just never going to be able to get behind the Dawg Pound. That
Tyrod and Jarvis: Air Yards in the Dawg Pound Read More »
Welcome to March Madness. Sports fans all around the country are filling out their brackets and searching for this year’s Cinderella: the long shot that comes out of nowhere and exceeds everybody’s expectations. The feel-good team that most people have never heard of before. It also helps if they have a good backstory. But why
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A successful draft strategy can be attributed to thorough evaluations and accurate projections, but variance can throw a wrench in the plans of even the most seasoned of fantasy players. No position in fantasy football offers more unpredictability than the tight end. To combat the randomness of the position, today’s fantasy owners need to consider
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We all know the cardinal rule of fantasy football: You don’t win your league at your draft. You must, however, take into consideration the flip side of that coin: You can’t win your league without building a stable team foundation at your draft. The only way to do that? Know your options. If you subscribe
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