Fantasy Basketball Newbie, Part 1

If you’ve never played fantasy basketball before the NBA’s season is just about to start and now is your chance. You play by picking your favorite superstars and letting them accumulate points, rebounds, blocks, etc. for your team. There are several ways fantasy basketball leagues can be run and we’ll look at the different popular setups you will be able to choose from. So exactly how does fantasy basketball work? Well if you’ve ever played fantasy baseball or basketball it will seem very familiar. To start the season you’ll draft a roster, usually with around 10 starters and several bench players to serve as backups. There are five positions in basketball: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center. Depending on where you play fantasy basketball, they will judge...

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What Did We Learn - Week 2

Week two is all over in the NFL, and I have to say the general level of sucky play was drastically down on the offensive side of the ball. With of course the notable exception of the Minnesota Vikings. Even the 49ers put on a strong showing against the reigning Super Bowl champs Monday night, signaling they’re not ready to be written off as dead just yet. But back to those Vikings, and Ole Gunslinger, Brett Favre, whose performance these last two weeks is a distant cry from what he gave owners last season. He looks almost unable to throw out there, hell he barely looked like he could walk into the stadium. The receiving doesn’t seem to be much better, but who’s to say Percy Harvin and Bernard Berrian couldn’t catch competently thrown passes? Favre was rusty coming back last year, and older...

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What Did We Learn - Week 1

With one great week of fantasy football beyond us, it’s time to look over the events of the weekend and see what we’ve learned. It’s safe to say the league looked a little rusty in just about every opening game. The Vikings-Saints match up was a disappointment offensively and that set the tone for the weekend. One guy who wasn’t a disappointment was Arian Foster. Ben Tate had been one of my favorite fantasy sleepers, but his injury opened up the spot for Foster to take over the Texans run game completely and he didn’t waste the opportunity. Some analysts are looking to blame the Colts defense more than praise Foster, I think they’re being too clever. Right now Foster is a #1 RB until proven otherwise. Don’t trade him, don’t think every RB match up against the Colts is guaranteed money, don’t...

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Who to Start On Week One

Being a fantasy football coach is a little bit like being a college football coach in that you don’t get any real preseason games. Sure your players back in real life play four preseason games, but what does your star running back taking four carries for 13 yards supposed to tell you? As a fantasy coach the two most important things you need to know are how a player is going to be used within his team’s setup, and how many fantasy points is he likely to earn in that role. Right now, I don’t know how C.J. Spiller is ultimately going to be used. I don’t think his coach even knows. I don’t know how many snaps Beanie Wells can take before his knee falls out and Tim Hightower has to go in. I don’t know how many carries Chester Taylor will steal from Matt Forte. I need to see them actually play...

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