Wild Card Round: Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Thirty two teams started the race for Super Bowl LI back in September, but now just 12 remain as the postseason kicks off this weekend with four wild-card games. If your favorite team is still alive, congratulations. If not, enjoy the last few weeks of the 2016-17 fantasy football season while it's still here! The goal of... Read More

Week 17 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Say it ain't so, NFL. Say it ain't so! Week 17 is actually here. This Sunday will mark the final full NFL weekend for about nine months. It's a painful feeling that never gets any easier. The only upside is that Week 17 is the only week of the NFL season in which we get... Read More

Week 16 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, which means we all receive the rarest of treats -- an NFL football Saturday. Two games will still be played on Christmas, along with the standard Thursday and Monday night games. But the remaining 12 games? We get to binge watch them on Saturday, and then spend Sunday... Read More

Week 15 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Well, that was ugly. Fantasy stalwarts like Drew Brees, Russell Wilson, Mike Evans and Jordan Reed, among others, turned in absolute duds in Week 14, which of course happens to be the first week of the fantasy playoffs for most season-long leagues. The beauty of daily fantasy, of course, is that one week's duds don't... Read More

Week 14 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Christmas is just about three weeks away -- what's on your list for Santa Claus? If you're a daily fantasy football player, touchdowns are surely high atop the wish list. How about doubling the value of a single touchdown? Sounds great, right? It's not a Christmas miracle -- it's just the benefit of a productive... Read More

Week 13 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Have you checked the calendar recently? It's December, and that means the fantasy football playoffs are right around the corner for season-long leagues. For daily players, only five regular-season weeks remain. I say this every season, but it bears repeating -- the NFL season goes by too fast. Enjoy it while it's still here! The... Read More

Week 12 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Happy Thanksgiving! It's the time of year to reflect on everyone and everything you're thankful for. Things like 300-yard passing games, multi-touchdown performances and, of course, garbage-time fantasy points. There should be plenty of those to go around this weekend, so be sure to give thanks. The goal of this weekly column is to help... Read More

Week 11 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes in last Sunday's win against the New England Patriots, which certainly made fantasy owners happy. Fantasy owners of Wilson and Doug Baldwin, who caught all three of the scores, were surely elated. Stacking Wilson and Baldwin effectively doubled the worth of those three TDs. The goal... Read More

Week 10 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston likes throwing to wide receiver Mike Evans. Check that -- Winston loves throwing to Evans. The third-year wideout was targeted a whopping 17 times last Thursday, resulting in an 11-catch, 150-yard, two-touchdown gem for fantasy players. A Winston-Evans stack was highly productive last week. The goal of this weekly column... Read More

Week 9 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

If you played Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (513 yards, four touchdowns) last week, that was a great move. If you paired Carr with wide receiver Amari Cooper (12 receptions, 173 yards, one TD), that was a brilliant move. Hitting on a majorly productive stack like Carr and Cooper can often be the difference between a... Read More

Week 8 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

What's better than one touchdown? Two touchdowns, of course. When you pair a quarterback with a receiver, tight end or even running back on the same team, any touchdown passes thrown to that player effectively count twice. It might be only one touchdown on the NFL scoreboard, but it counts twice for your fantasy lineup.... Read More

Week 7 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Fantasy players that paired Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers with Davante Adams (132 yards, two TDs), Randall Cobb (95 yards, TD) or even Ty Montgomery (126 total yards) for Thursday night's game are sitting pretty right now. Those that paired Rodgers with Jordy Nelson (nine yards)? Not so much. This, in a nutshell, displays the... Read More

Week 6 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Tom Brady returned from his Deflategate suspension last weekend, and no one was happier about it than his top two tight ends. Rob Gronkowski finished with five receptions for 109 yards, but Martellus Bennett shined even brighter -- six catches, 67 yards, three touchdowns. Daily fantasy players that stacked Brady and Bennett were probably pretty happy,... Read More

Week 5 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Some weeks go your way, and some weeks don't. For example, if you didn't roster Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and/or wide receiver Julio Jones in your daily fantasy lineups last weekend, well ... it just wasn't your week. Ryan (503 yards, four TDs) and Jones (300 yards, TD) were historically great, and anyone that stacked... Read More

Week 4 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Julio Jones and Brandin Cooks are two of the most dangerous wide receivers in the NFL, so it came as little surprise that they were popular stack options with Matt Ryan and Drew Brees, respectively, in a high-scoring shootout this past Monday in New Orleans. Of course, the fact that they combined for three receptions and... Read More

Week 3 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Last season, the New Orleans Saints and New York Giants combined for 101 points in an epic early-November shootout. So, naturally, the rematch this season produced a whopping 29 points and one offensive touchdown. This is just the latest reminder that football is a random, unpredictable game. Any given Sunday, right? Eli Manning and Odell... Read More

Week 2 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Stacks

Football is back. Is there a sweeter three-word sentence in the English language? If so, I haven't discovered it yet. After seven months of waiting, the National Football League returned last week, and it wasted little time in delivering great drama, as we were treated to six games that were decided by two points or less. There were... Read More

Week 1 Daily Fantasy Football Stacks

Hello, old friend. It's great to finally see you again. NFL football returned Thursday night, giving us a thrilling 21-20 Denver Broncos win against the Carolina Panthers. Sure, we all filled our lives with seven months of free agency, trades, the NFL draft, training camp and four weeks of preseason games, but let's be real... Read More

Handcuff or Running Back by Committee? Analyzing Backfields For Fantasy Football

Workhorse Backs Are Now A Rare Breed The days of the workhorse running back in the NFL are gone. Long, long gone. Blasphemy, you say? Let's consult the raw numbers on this one. From 2006-2013, at least 22 running backs carried the ball 200 or more times in each season except 2011, when the total... Read More

Fun Ways to Determine Draft Order For Your Fantasy Football League

Before you need to worry about whether you should take a running back or wide receiver in the first round, you must first know what pick you have in your fantasy draft. The draft is one of the highlights of the fantasy season, bringing friends and family together in houses, sports bars and online forums around... Read More

Fantasy Wasteland - Five NFL Offenses to Avoid in 2016

Sometimes it's best to just say "no." Well, at least "probably not." You should never go into a fantasy draft with a list of players that you absolutely, under no circumstances, would consider drafting. Every player has value at a certain point and, as Herm Edwards told us back in 2002, you play to win the game! With that... Read More

Five NFL Offenses to Target in Fantasy Drafts: Cardinals, Saints and Steelers

The idea of stacking, or pairing multiple players from the same NFL team on your fantasy team, is nothing new. It's generally more common on daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel, where a successful pairing of a quarterback and pass-catcher is often crucial to winning a big-money guaranteed prize pool tournament, but it's become... Read More

Five Players to Target in Standard Leagues, But Fade in PPR Leagues

In the fantasy football world, two statistical categories are valued over all others -- yards and touchdowns. Sure, how points are determined for those yards and touchdowns may vary from league to league. But outside of the most obscure scoring systems, virtually every league is going to award points for yards and touchdowns. One category that many... Read More

Drafting Running Quarterbacks in Fantasy Football: Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Tyrod Taylor

The allure of the running quarterback has existed for years. Randall Cunningham was one of the first true dual-threats at the position in the 1980's and '90s, an era that also produced all-time great scramblers like Steve Young and John Elway. It was the arrival of Michael Vick in the NFL as the No. 1 pick... Read More

Is Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott Worth a Top-Five Pick in Fantasy Drafts?

Whether or not the Dallas Cowboys addressed their greatest need, by selecting Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft, is up for debate. What isn't up for debate, however, is whether or not Elliott landed in one of the best possible situations for his fantasy... Read More

From Timeshare to Bona Fide Stud - Devonta Freeman's 2015

Thirty ninth. That's where second-year Atlanta Falcons running back Devonta Freeman ranked in RotoBaller's PPR positional rankings for Week 1 of the 2015 season. By Week 7, he was No. 1 on that same list. The former Florida State standout burst onto the fantasy scene with a three-touchdown, 193-yards-from-scrimmage eruption against the Dallas Cowboys in... Read More

Beast Quake, Skittles and Action, Boss: Marshawn Lynch's Career Retrospective

Marshawn Lynch is a magician. No, you say? Well, how else can you explain one man making nary a peep with his mouth, but creating a rumble so large that it registered on a seismograph with only his legs? OK, OK, magician is probably pushing it, but Lynch has safely assumed hero status in the... Read More

Wil Myers Overdue For a Breakout Season

Remember when Wil Myers won the American League Rookie of the Year Award back in 2013? Really, we swear he did. What began as a career seemingly destined for All-Star nods and other superlatives has sputtered for two years due to injuries and inconsistency. Myers was limited to 60 games in his debut season with... Read More

Brandon Crawford an Underrated Option at Shortstop

Quick quiz -- how many shortstops had more home runs than Brandon Crawford (21) last season? That would be just one, Houston Astros wunderkind Carlos Correa. And how many had more RBIs than Crawford (84)? Well, zero. You get the point. The San Francisco Giants infielder enjoyed a breakout season in 2015, establishing career highs... Read More

Andrew Cashner Could Cash in During Contract Year

Last season was a mixed bag for San Diego Padres starting pitcher Andrew Cashner. The right-hander saw his ERA and WHIP balloon from 2.55 and 1.13 in 2014, respectively, to 4.34 and 1.44 in 2015. That's bad, but there was some good, too. Cashner started 31 games, eclipsing the 30-start plateau for the first time... Read More