Your team is winless. Your roster hopeless. Yet all is not lost. First, you can check out this blog's article on how to save your fantasy season.
Second, you can start playing daily fantasy football and try to win there with fresh new teams. Here is an excellent article by Chris Meyers at Athlon Sports called Introduction to Daily Fantasy Football -- 5 Ways to Help You Succeed.
Should You Try to Add An Injured Player's Replacement to Your Fantasy Football Team?
There's often a rush to claim an injured player's replacement off of fantasy football league waivers. But should there be? Many times these players end up being fool's gold. Here's a good article by Michael Leone at BN Blitz about how to evaluate a player's expected production to determine if he's worth burning fantasy football waiver dollars or priority on. While the article discusses Adrian Petersen in particular, the general concepts discussed work for every injury replacement situation.
2016 Fantasy Football Predictions
Take it with a grain of salt but here are Yahoo's 2016 Fantasy Football predictions.
2016 Fantasy Football RB Tiers
Though many draft strategies center on WRs these days, RBs are still the bread and butter of your team, if for no other reason than it's hard to get impactful ones. So you have to draft them early and often. Here's a breakdown of RBs by tier, courtesy of CBS Sports, to help you know who to target and when.
Fantasy Football Defense and Special Teams Strategy
I stumbled on an excellent article that 1) talked about fantasy football defense/special teams, which hardly gets any airtime and 2) better yet, provided some useful stats to help make lineup decisions. While the thrust of the article was daily fantasy football, many of the points apply to regular season-long fantasy football too.
You'll want to read the entire article but here's a quick summary:
You'll want to read the entire article but here's a quick summary:
- Pick a D/ST that faces a team that passes a lot. This increases the odds of getting interceptions -- including pick sixes -- and sacks. This is in the same vein as RBs getting carries/touches or WRs getting targets: more opportunity to score.
- Use the Vegas line to help pick your D/ST.
- Try to use a D/ST that is on a team favored to win.
- Try to get a D/ST facing a QB with a low completion rate and/or high sack rate.
Common Fantasy Football Mistakes
Good concise discussion of some common mistakes that fantasy football owners frequently make. Read, then avoid making those mistakes!
Matthew Berry's 2016 FF Draft Manifesto
If you've ever read a Matthew Berry post on ESPN.com, you know you have to skip the first half of the article to get to the good stuff. So in his 2016 Draft Manifesto, jump to bullet #1, from which you'll find a lot of good advice about drafting your team and running it successfully.
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