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Some of my toughest trade offer declined this dynasty offseason have involved Larry Fitzgerald. I've been offered him a few times in separate leagues for mid 1st round rookie picks. Sometimes the trades you don't make an end up haunting you (I turned down a high 1st offer that ended up being the...

Will begin the auction as soon as league fills and everyone is paid up. Hopefully by early February. After the startup auction, we will have a normal NFL style rookie draft every year. Link to league by-laws: http://football21.myfantasyleague.com/2013/options?L=24151&O=26 $80 annual...

One of the stats that I thing fantasy football folks like us often overuse is yards per carry. I generally think that we use it and value it a lot more than NFL folks do. I often see a low YPC used as proof here that a player shouldn't be getting carries or that he should be replaced, etc. The...

February 1 Edit: We are just about ready to start and had an owner drop out. Replacement needed. Link to full rules:http://football21.myfantasyleague.com/2012/options?L=62291&O=26

A pretty regular occurrence in the NBA is to see a team give up a draft pick, usually a 1st rounder, to another team to simply take an overpaid player off of their hands. For example, a couple years ago the Bulls traded the #17 pick in the draft and Kirk Hinrich (due $9 million) to the...

The recent thread asking whether the Browns could replicate the Bengals 2011 success forced me to take a closer look at exactly how the Bengals were able to pull off a winning season despite a rookie QB and lack of veteran talent. Upon closer examination, one of my discoveries scared the crap...

In doing a little preparation for an upcoming dynasty draft, I was really struck at how huge the QB numbers were in 2011 compared to 2010. I don't know if there has ever been such a monumental leap in scoring at one position from one year to the next. In relatively standard scoring (pt. per 20...

I am curious what everyone's expectations are as far as how fast some of these guys will run. Anyone want to throw out their predictions? (I made a quick list of some of the higher rated guys that are expected to run.) Mine are pretty uninformed, but I'll throw some guesses out there. QBs...

The Bengals should be a really interesting team to follow this offseason for fantasy owners. They have glaring holes at RB and WR. They also have 60 million in cap space and 2 first rounders to possibly address those positions. As a Bengals fan, here are some tidbits I've gleaned from recent...

In my opinion the Oakland WRs are some of the toughest guys for me to try to accurately value for dynasty purposes. It just seems like every couple weeks it looks like a different one of the group is going to emerge as the go-to guy and at different times Hue Jackson has come out and said he...

There are only a handful of guys at each position that are so talented that they are almost guaranteed to put up big numbers each year and they’re usually pretty easy to spot (Calvin Johnson, AJ Green, etc.). The real key in my opinion is finding guys in the next tier that have enough talent...

Partially out of necessity and partially due to a gut feeling he's due for a big day, I'm going with AJ Green today in a couple starting lineups. It appears to me that he has a nice matchup against the Broncos with Champ Bailey not likely to play. In addition, Dumervil is supposed to be out...

I compete in a few dynasty leagues that allow the drafting of a limited number of college developmental prospects and compiled rankings for recent rookie/developmental drafts. Even for leagues that don’t have developmental players, with college football starting up, it is time to start scouting...

I didn't see a topic for this game, so I'll get one started. Looks like 2 pretty bad teams going at it, but the Bengals offense looks surprisingly competent. The Panthers have not been able to stop them at all. AJ Green just caught a 40 yard TD from Dalton. He should have had another long TD...

When trying to figure out ADP for startup dynasty drafts, I've found the ADP on MFL pretty useful. However, since it seems impossible to separate out startup drafts and rookie drafts in their settings, the rookies are all skewed really high (for example, it combines rookie drafts where Greg...

According to the Bengals beat reporter: @joereedy Clearing up salary cap stuff -- In 2011-12, there is a 99 percent cash spent for the entire league. No minimums for individual teams ... @joereedy The floor and minimum cash spends for each team start in 2013 I've been trying to figure out how...

While I know that in the early rounds you want guys with long track records of success, I think one of the best ways to find the mid and late round guys with huge potential is to find guys who have at least proven that they can show fantasy impact in a small sample size. In looking at games late...

As someone relatively new to dynasty, one of the things I am struggling with a bit is how much to discount future returns (expected production in 2012 and beyond) vs. more immediate future returns (expected production in 2011). Let me give an example and I'll ask people to try to put it in...

The Ravens had gone 39 straight games without giving up a 100 yard rusher. With 7 minutes left, Cedric Benson has 26 carries for 119 yards. Cedric is showing he is a must start no matter how bad the matchup.

I predicted before the season that Cedric would be this year's Deangelo (Cedric was drafted in almost the exact same spot as Deangelo was in 2008) and after 3 games, I am more convinced than ever that I am right. Here are 4 reasons he is good now: 1. His last 3 games of 2008, he had 84...