Hey fantasy fanatics! Who’s ready for week 11? How are your teams shapin’ up? Let’s take a look at the important injuries for Week 11 and who we all need to keep an eye on heading into Sunday.
Cleveland Browns Offensive Struggles No Surprise
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Cleveland Browns have started off this season a deceiving 3-4.
Their three wins have come against subpar teams including the Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, and the Miami Dolphins. Those three teams combined are a miserable 2-20.
Granted, the Browns are under a new regime with rookie head coach Pat Shurmur at the helm. Not having an offensive coordinator has also put a lot of pressure on Shurmur week-in and week-out.
With a lockout-shortened, OTA-free offseason, plus a brand new offense, one should have seen the Browns’ offensive woes in 2011 coming.
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Fantasy Football Week 8 Injury Updates on Hillis, Johnson, Green-Ellis, Tolbert, Stafford, Wells, and more
October 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So I’m going to be honest with you…I’ve kind of been focused on baseball this week. Don’t worry. I didn’t completely forget about football thought.
Here’s your injury update for week 8!
Fantasy Football Week 8 Start Em, Sit Em Lineup Advice, Projections, and Roster Q&A
October 25, 2011 By 89 Comments
I’mmm baaaaaaccccckkkkk!
Did you miss me?
Jon has himself a busy schedule this week, so he texted me this morning and asked if I’d be up for reprising my role as the author of our weekly Start/Sit column here at MSF. I have to admit, as soon as I saw his text I was pretty pumped.
Doing these posts every week, week after week, can admittedly be a bit of a grind, as I learned over the last couple of years; so I was happy to let Jon take it over this year and focus my efforts in other areas. But I’ve missed the weekly challenge of poring over matchups and stats and trends to figure out which players to recommend to you as starts and sits.
So it’s good to be back in the saddle.
Anyway, It’s not like I’ve been totally absent. I still offer commentary on Jon’s posts, answer questions in the comment sections, and monitor the @FantasyMSF Twitter account. So I haven’t really given you a chance to miss me even if you wanted to. Now though, for the first time all year, I have to go on record with start and sit picks.
I’m ready. Let’s roll.
Fantasy Football Week 7 Injury Updates: Reports on Peyton Hillis, Mike Wallace, Joseph Addai, Julio Jones, Antonio Gates, and more
October 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This has been a crazy week for injuries, but such is life as the season nears its midway point. Sometimes supposedly injured players practice, sometimes seemingly healthy players sit out, and then sometimes guys like Jimmy Graham gets placed on the injury report late in the week out of the blue. Let’s get started and see what this week’s key injuries look like heading into Sunday.
Fantasy Football Week 6 Start Em Sit Em Picks and Player Projections for Hillis, Hernandez, Dez, Stevie J, and more
October 10, 2011 By 106 Comments
Is 2011 going to be the highest scoring fantasy season of all time? All signs indicate that it could be. Last season, seven players finished the season with more than 270 points (ESPN Standard Scoring). After four weeks this season, a staggering 18 players were on pace to beat that mark…and nine of them were QBs.
Like I said at the beginning of the season, gone are the days of fantasy rule by the RBs. Of those 18 players, only 5 are RBs…simply a staggering thought to anyone living in 2006 or before.
Jay Cutler Dominates: Jay Cutler vs The NFL’s Best RBs
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’ve already shown you how Jay Cutler dominated against the Falcons and the Saints, and how he is a much better and more balanced QB than to Aaron Rodgers, but what you may not also know about our boy Cutler is he is also the NFL’s best running back.
Surprising, I know, but that doesn’t take away from how completely and ridiculously true it is. Cutler has 853 career rushing yards to go with five rushing touchdowns.
I think it’s about time for Cutler-Payton comparisons.
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Fantasy Football Week 3 Injury Updates: Peyton Hillis, Tony Romo, Beanie Wells, and many more
September 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
My fantasy team is about as good as the Bears’ O-Line against the Saints. Yeah…0-2, baby. But that doesn’t mean we can’t turn it around!
Let’s take a look at the fantasy football-relevant injuries going into week 3, including Peyton Hillis, Tony Romo, and Beanie Wells.
Fantasy Football Stock Report for Week 2: Flacco, Hillis UP; Ryan, Charles DOWN (and many more)
September 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Trying to forecast the early weeks of the NFL fantasy season is like…trying to pick a piece of hay out of a stack of needles. There is always going to be a breakout game from an unknown guy and a bad game from someone who is expected to have big games (Big Ben).
If there is one thing to know prior to Week 2 it is that you shouldn’t be excited one way or another about one specific game; but that doesn’t mean rest on your laurels. Fantasy football owners must be bold and we have some bold stock reports just for you.
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Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings: Don’t Be Lured By Sleepers In 2011
August 25, 2011 By 5 Comments
Everyone loves to draft a guy that he thinks is a sleeper. Why? Because it’s our way of proving to everyone else that, “Yes, I know more than you.” Beyond that, it’s simply quite fun to draft a guy that surprises everybody else.
Like I said before, it’s not that fun to draft Ichiro. You know exactly what you’re getting. (Or at least you used to know, before this season.) On the flip side, thinking about Jason Heyward’s upside gives us all visions of glory.
But when it comes to drafting running backs for your fantasy football team this year, save the “sleepers” for other positions.
Who Is Your Sports Version of Captain America?
July 23, 2011 By 2 Comments
Captain America came out in theaters on Friday, and it got me thinking: if I had to choose my sports version of Captain America, who would I pick?
I am not talking about someone who is a physical specimen like Captain America. I am also not just talking about athletes like Jim Thorpe, who might have actually been the real “Captain America.”
Instead, I am looking for an athlete who I would be proud to announce as an American athlete if someone from another country asked me who our country’s best athlete was. For example, I would take character into account (which automatically disqualifies LeBron James).
In looking for my candidate I decided to break it down by sport, picking one or more athlete(s) from each of the major three sports.
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Haters Gonna Hate: Madden cover boy Peyton Hillis dresses down for ESPN appearance
July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As they say on the Interwebs…by Peyton Hillis, not a single F was given today.
Here is how the Browns’ 2010 revelation and 2011 Madden cover boy looked on ESPN this morning:
How Many Parents Name Their Children After Sports Stars?
May 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Last week, the Social Security Administration released its official list of 2010′s most popular baby names. While I don’t really care that Jacob was the most popular name in 2010 for boys and Isabella for girls, I do enjoy playing around on the SSA’s Popular Baby Names website, which lists the 1000 most popular boys’ and girls’ names for each year since 2000.
After checking the popularity of my children’s names (Malachi was the 163rd most common boys’ name in 2010; neither Meyer nor Resha were in the top 1000), I decided to look into the names of popular athletes to see how many people were naming their children after popular sports stars.
Of course, the data for names such as Michael, Tom, Tim, Maria, and Mia isn’t terribly meaningful. These names are so common that there’s no way to know if parents are naming their children after Jordan, Phelps, Brady, Lincecum, Sharapova, or Hamm. But more unique athlete names yield some interesting results.
Vote Peyton Hillis over Michal Vick for Madden 12 Cover
April 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Madden fans have only five more days to vote on who will become the Madden 12 cover athlete.
The two finalists are Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick and Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis.
Fantasy Football Week 10 Start / Sit Picks and Projections
November 9, 2010 By
Remember in the movie Men In Black how they had that little device that could wipe someone’s memory clean? After last week, I wouldn’t mind someone doing that to me.
Though I did a good job answering specific questions with all relevant lineup/league info (as I feel I usually do), Week 9 was certainly less than stellar with respect to the top-line picks.
While I nailed Eli Manning as a start and Seattle’s D as a sit…that was pretty much it. See below. The carnage was ugly.
But you know me. Bad weeks only motivate me more to dig deeper into the numbers and trends. I am committed to making Week 10 a much more accurate week over all…as much for your teams as for my own.
