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Football Hotpage > Week 1 – Let The Games Begin!

By Marc Melzer -- Thursday, September 09, 2010 (0 Comments)
Is it just me, or does it seem as though the 2009 pre-season went on forever? Well, we are finally ready for the season opening weekend, featuring the now-traditional Thursday night game featuring... Read more...

Late-Season Reinforcement

By Todd Zola -- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 (0 Comments)
Every September, there is a handful of September call-ups that pick up significant playing time hence can contribute to your fantasy squad.  Here is a review of a quartet of players that can... Read more...

NFFC Draft Review

By Perry Van Hook -- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 (0 Comments)
I had my NFFC Online Championship draft on Wednesday evening. For reference the starters are QB/RB/RB/WR/WR/WR/TE/Flex (RB/WR/TE) plus K and DST There is full PPR for WR and TE, but only half a point... Read more...

Papelbon could be out of Boston; Mark Prior won’t give up

By Jason Mastrodonato -- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 (0 Comments)
Jonathan Papelbon may be at the end of his career on the Boston Red Sox. After blowing a lead against the White Sox on Sunday night, things couldn’t look much worse for him in this town. It was a... Read more...

A day late and a dollar short

By H. Buster Esq. -- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 (0 Comments)
It is hard to get the gumption to write a column about a team that is just plain putrid. Since the last installment about my pathetic NFBC team, the team showed signs of life.  Mired in the basement... Read more...

September 6, 2010 (Week 23)

By Lawr Michaels -- Monday, September 06, 2010 (0 Comments)
Happy Labor Day all around as we all race to the finish. Of course this holiday means sunshine and the end of the summer and barbaque, but, right now it also means over the last week the MLB teams... Read more...

FF Draft Trends This Weekend

By Perry Van Hook -- Sunday, September 05, 2010 (0 Comments)
Many of you who play fantasy football may have had your draft already or be drafting this weekend, BUT there are still plenty of leagues that will draft in the coming week. The World Championship of... Read more...

Week 23

By Christopher Kreush -- Sunday, September 05, 2010 (0 Comments)
Arizona Diamondbacks – The Diamondbacks will send Ian Kennedy to the mound twice as they host the San Francisco Giants for three games then head to Colorado for three with the Rockies. Kennedy has... Read more...

What Went Wrong (2010 Edition)?

By Lawr Michaels -- Saturday, September 04, 2010 (0 Comments)
The true answer to the query posed in the title is a one word epithet: Everything. Which is a little funny, as once again--in Tout for the tenth straight year--I really did nothing different than in... Read more...

All This and Football Too

By Lawr Michaels -- Saturday, September 04, 2010 (0 Comments)
I have to say I wish I was in the middle of a handful of pennant races. The sad truth is I am in the hunt in my Scoresheet League, and my Strat-O-Matic team has a chance to make the post-season, but... Read more...

Everything you need to know about the September call-ups

By Jason Mastrodonato -- Thursday, September 02, 2010 (0 Comments)
If all goes as planned for pitcher Jenrry Mejia on Saturday night, the New York Mets will leave Wrigley Field for a night of celebration in downtown Chicago. They’ll be buying rounds of beers and... Read more...

Call-Up Prognosis, Round One

By Rob Leibowitz -- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 (0 Comments)

Last week, as we all know, was the expansion to 40-man rosters and the ensuing minor league call-ups. We will continue to see more call-ups as various teams fall from the minor league playoffs, I... Read more...

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (more on Strat-O-Matic)

By Lawr Michaels -- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 (0 Comments)

Most likely, as my league mates, who kept filling my virtual mail box with box scores from their games over the lovely long holiday weekend, I too spent some of my down time is dice land, setting... Read more...

The BABIP All Stars

By GaryJ -- Saturday, September 04, 2010 (0 Comments)

A lot of fantasy baseball analysis is tied in many ways to looking at outliers and then predicting that those outliers will be unable to repeat their performance in 2010. Read more...

My Personal Waterloo

By Brian Walton -- Saturday, September 04, 2010 (0 Comments)

In the 2010 National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC), I was placed in a challenging league with a group of 14 other solid players, including three teams run by industry names. Read more...

Claymation

By Todd Zola -- Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (0 Comments)

Today, we will focus on a couple of young hurlers with a lot more in common than a preppy first name.  Both have excellent pedigrees with high expectations.  Both are having outstanding... Read more...

Unfortunate Injuries

By Rob Leibowitz -- Sunday, August 29, 2010 (0 Comments)

It is the week before one of the busiest transaction periods – the September first call-up period. What that means for this week’s demotions, provided they were optioned as opposed to... Read more...

Week 21>22

By Perry Van Hook -- Friday, August 27, 2010 (0 Comments)

September 1st will fall after free agent bids this weekend and lineups are set next Monday, so it does not seem wise to post a list of who may and may not be called up then because in most leagues... Read more...

Salary structure in keeper leagues

By Perry Van Hook -- Sunday, August 15, 2010 (0 Comments)

In the last Shopping Cart, I made a reference to leagues where you might acquire a player in FAAB and what his salary would be if he were to be kept next year.

And in last week’s... Read more...