Pay for a top quarterback? Please.
Just as good as the top-billed QBs
In this year's fantasy football player pool, it's more important to grab running backs and wide receivers early on than to pay for top quarterback and tight end names. In most non-skewed QB scoring leagues, I'll take a snap-grabber in the bottom portion of the top 10 or 12 ADP and pair him with a midrange backup.
Especially if his ADP sticks with the figure listed at Mock Draft Central, Tony Romo is my ideal fantasy target: high-octane O, another year of O-line cohesion - most importantly, coming off an abbreviated season and possibly underrated because of it. Tap your mouse here for more »
Pedro Alvarez: A dangerous – but maybe necessary – voyage
Walk the plank? Plunder might await
Thanks, Skynet: I was able to keep up with baseball news on vacation via my Droid, thanks to (warning: self-promotion) our FREE KFFL app (download for iPhone and Android!).
Last week my mind was on Wrigley Field, Busch Stadium, the Goose Island beer garden and catching up with old friends, among other things. In recalibrating to the fantasy world, I realized we'll eventually be seeing a highly regarded youngster surface from the farm to change the landscape of the fantasy crop of third basemen.
Oh, no, Lonnie Chisenhall came up today. I'm talking about a "Forget-me-because-I've-been-terrible" commodity - Pedro Alvarez (quadriceps, neck), who fizzled to start 2011 and has had several false starts during his rehab. Tap your mouse here for more »
Jordan Schafer: Running (and Bidding) on Faith
Schafer not-so-Slowhand
When I was back in New York over the winter, I went to Infinity Records with my best friend Sean. It became a tradition of ours since he moved out of Massapequa and back to his native Staten Island, and we've kept up the annual pilgrimage when I visit from San Diego.
I wasn't planning on buying anything because I (sadly) don't own a record player, but, as usual, the place sucked me in. Tap your mouse here for more »
A meditation on South Park and selling low
A-Ram: sell or stick?
I had never felt the way I did Wednesday night after finishing a South Park episode. Sure, most of the half hour was littered with fart noises and flying feces, but, in typical fashion, the gross-out portion came to a full, rational circle in an even more sobering conclusion than usual.
In digesting the midnight re-run, I knew nothing changed: One of my havens for humor - from pop culture to poo - might be saying a self-reflective and -critical goodbye to its disturbingly gorgeous farce. (Check out the captivating reactions sprawled across the Interwebs in praise and sadness over what might be the show's most impressive entry.) Tap your mouse here for more »
Adam Dunn’s fantasy baseball fate in his hands?
Dunn done?
Jayson Stark has more solid nuggets in his Tuesday feature, which touches on scout reactions to struggling players.
One of them addressed Adam Dunn's 2011 ... yuck.
But, for the sake of examining a horrific power outage, let's revisit the statistical side: Tap your mouse here for more »
A plea for statistical sanity
Not every extreme is anomalous
Often, left-on-base percentage can be used as an indicator of luck - good or bad - for a pitcher. Thus, in theory, such higher- or lower-than-average figures (average being generally 72 percent) cue your intentions of trading or acquiring these soldiers of varying fortune.
But when this is cited as a reason to trade away a closer, for instance, because the percentage is bound to fall ... it's another crime against fantasy baseball and statistics. Tap your mouse here for more »
