If we’re being completely honest, the best rookie in the American League this season has been Brett Lawrie, followed closely by Desmond Jennings and Dustin Ackley. The Rookie of the Year race should be between these three future franchise cornerstones, but it seems grossly unlikely that voters will give the nod to players who played [...]
Archive for September, 2011
On J.P. Arencibia’s Rookie Season
Posted: 13th September 2011 by Blake Murphy in Baseball, Blake MurphyComments Off
Intentional Grounding - Grounding Your Fantasy in Sunday’s Realities (Week 1)
Posted: 12th September 2011 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, FootballComments Off
Note: Updated Sep 13 for Monday Night games. The hope is that this will be a weekly Monday column for me throughout the football season, analyzing the prior day’s NFL games with an eye towards the fantasy implications. Over the next couple of weeks I will probably toy with the format a great deal, and [...]
Week 1 NFL Picks and Other Bets
Posted: 10th September 2011 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, FootballComments Off
For the first time, I’m going to try and post a weekly picks column on Friday or Saturday of each week. The lines will generally come from Bet365, my online sports book of choice, and will be pulled the day I write the column (I will make note if I jumped on an exceptionally juicy [...]
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There are dozens of different draft strategies a fantasy player could choose to employ on draft day. This is obvious - the old fashioned Triple-RB strategy, the QB-TE “elite options” strategy, a PPR-focused WR-RB-WR strategy, and many, many more. I’ve touched on some end-game WR and RB strategies in the past week, but today I [...]
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8-team, 10-team, 12-team, tiny league, gigantic league, I’m of the opinion at least 24 Running Backs should be owned in all leagues. I’ve never been in a league where less than two RBs are started, and most allow two plus a flex play. Add in bench options (at least one of which you’ll be keeping [...]
Wide Receiver End-Game Strategy
Posted: 2nd September 2011 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, FootballComments Off
Now that my own personal fantasy leagues have drafted, I can finally take the writing shackles off and scribe about fantasy football, without the risk of my competitors stealing my secret recipes from within these pages. In reality, probably none of this is groundbreaking, but in a competitive league there’s certainly a chance someone would [...]