Recent content by alanivy

Spectacular post.

What about high risk, high rewards vs. safe and reliable? Argument for high risk, high rewards is that you feel you can replace the guy if he flops, argument for safe and reliable is that you don't have to worry about pushing it too hard anyway, so you might as well eliminate the possibility of...

While sometimes you play in a competitive money league, sometimes you're playing with family or guys from the office and it's less competitive. What strategy would you use if you found yourself in a 10-team league with a bunch of people who largely just follow ESPN's rankings? My strategy for...

I'm annoyed by the randomness that is fantasy kickers. An obvious option is to remove kickers from your league, but I think I'd have an easier time selling it to my league if instead I adjusted their scoring. I'm thinking about 1 point for extra points and 3 points for field goals, period (no...

Would you rather your league have lineup spots of 2 RB, 2 WR, & 2 Flex or 3 RB & 3 WR? Please elaborate. Does one better reward skill vs. luck, etc?

Dodds is projecting Vick to play 13 weeks. If you take his projections and get 13 weeks of Vick + 3 weeks of backup Carson Palmer, you get the equivalent of Brees (in my league's scoring format anyway). For now ignore your personal opinions of these players, just take his projections at face...

It is commonly debated whether or not Rodgers, Brady, and Brees are justifiable picks in the first round. One thing that VBD and other analysis of this subject do not seem to take into account, however, is that with one of these “Big 3” QBs you could skip drafting a backup, and just worry about...