Oct 6, 2010

Upset Alert!!!!! Not the games….my stomach.  The season is a quarter of the way through for all teams with the exception of those with a week #3 bye, and just when you figure teams are beginning to show their true make-up, they do a 180-turn and disrupt everything.  Take the Packers for instance.  Coming off an uninspired loss at Chicago, facing...

Sep 30, 2010

A friend of mine asked me earlier last week how I go about deciding which players to start and which to sit in fantasy football each week.  He implied that it couldn’t be that difficult.  Of course, I brought up the “countless hours” of reading and analyzing stats and match-ups each week for every team in the league as well as following up...

Sep 21, 2010

  Sometimes you just need to get lucky.  But after a horrific 1st week of the season, I’ll take all the credit I can.  Being an avid Philly fan, I knew the Eagles would struggle against the run (and as it turns out, play-action passing).  What I couldn’t see happening was how effectively the Lions would react to this weakness (Stewart Bradley...

Sep 14, 2010

Ouch!!!!!  Not enough band-aids in this world to cover up my wounds from Week 1.  Granted, they were self-inflicted so I guess that makes me something of a masochist.  All I can say is….”Thank God there’s 16 more weeks of action to enjoy.”  Hopefully, I’ll redeem myself by then. Besides the obvious Peyton Manning/Tom Brady...

Hey folks…do you have your checklist of things to do before kickoff?  I don’t mean chores around the house.  We’re talking about fantasy football selections and we need to get to it earlier this week with the traditional Thursday night game to open the season.  Let’s see now.  We’ve researched every team and player, analyzed...

Sep 6, 2010

A lot has been written about fantasy football drafts and all the nuances each league offers.  Trust me – everyone thinks he or she is an expert when it comes to predicting how players will perform this upcoming season.  The truth is that no one, not the broadcasters, reporters, nor football insiders can predict with certainty how each season will go. ...