Nathan Tish - Staff Writer

While there are countless variations of fantasy football leagues out there with their own unique settings, there is a fair chance that your trade deadline is looming and playoffs are not much more than a few weeks down the road. As the pace of trading picks up, each transaction that you weren’t involved in is a missed opportunity. With each trade made, two teams have improved themselves while you get left in the dust. Those teams won’t be interested in helping you improve your club [...]

Three weeks are complete, and we now have a more accurate measurement of what our fantasy teams are capable of.  By identifying strengths and weaknesses on our teams we can finally begin to make reasonable trade negotiations.  As you begin to throw trade proposals out there, proceed with caution.  Don’t sell yourself short by miscalculating the actual expendable depth on your line up.  You may have more than one starter assigned to the same bye week coming up.  Many trade possibilities simply aren’t worth the [...]

For the most part, the first week of fantasy football is always a crapshoot. We start our top picks, even if they don’t pan out as our top players because we just don’t know any better yet. The “would’ve/could’ve/should’ve” excuses don’t fly far, because you wouldn’t. You just don’t… Or at least, you shouldn’t have. Nonetheless, week one is our first good opportunity to assess what we’ve got our hands on this year. There are usually a handful of waiver [...]

Take a look at the running backs available this year and which players you’re willing to rely upon as the backbone of your fantasy football team. Seriously, go ahead. It won’t take long… And it won’t take long for these guys to disappear on draft day this year either. The short list of reliable, workhorse running backs is exactly why I’m counting on the old school draft method of securing running backs early once again this year. With that in mind, [...]