So, that's what I thought we'd see more of in the regular season. And of course I'm referring to TY Hilton's wild, wild card weekend when he set franchise records for receptions (13), yards (224), and tied the team record of TD receptions (2) when they defeated the Chiefs at home. In fact, Hilton's yardage is now the third best single game performance in post-season history. A list that's headed by the amazing shmun-uh-bluh...yeah, you probably don't know these guys. Or maybe I'm just an idiot. Probably both. But nevermind all that, let's discuss a bit on this TY kid. I liked him coming into the season and so wish this were the TY from game one until now but you can't rush greatness. I'm mentioning my TY love so you don't think I'm bandwagoning here. What I AM doing is looking at how New England is going to try and match up with the little tyke. And believe me, he's a little dude and fast as heck. All this simply means Talib is probably not covering him much during the game due to the speed discrepancy. In effect, Hilton could follow up his historic day with another one this weekend as I see Andrew Luck and company in what might amount to another shootout and plenty of passes to go around. Truthfully, I'd be surprised if there were as many fireworks in the other games. Since the playoffs really do play out like a new season - just ask the Andy Dalton who couldn't match his great home numbers last week against what was considered a poor Chargers defense - your rankings have to reflect who you think is gonna win and how. I think the Colts and Pats are a shootout that'll eventually turn to Brady and company. I will fully admit I'm worried about PFM and company. San Diego really tried to grind down the clock on them the last two times the teams played. First game, Rivers didn't play well and the plan looked terrible. Next time? Rivers bordered on perfect. If you're expecting huge numbers like you'd normally get from your Broncos, I'd err on the side of caution if I'm playing in Daily Fantasy Leagues - and I am and I'm erring - I'm probably avoiding the big price associated. In all, these rankings shouldn't be too surprising. The good defenses are well reflected except the Panthers. The 49ers are a well-honed playoff team and I think too much jitter is gonna hit Carolina in their first go. If I can avoid owning any Panthers, I'd like to. Eh, I'm rambling at this point so I'm just gonna let'er go. Here's the second round rankings for the playoffs for the 2013 Fantasy Football season...
What a mess. This position has officially become Highlander because there really can be only one. You know exactly which one, don't even bother asking. Writing this list is gonna make me hate Tight Ends more than any man should. It wasn't even a Tale of Two Cities because even at the best of times, it was the worst of times. For all the promise of talent, I'm not certain many lived up to it. Don't make me even talk about Zach Sudfeld...but I'm already depressing you and we haven't even started. If there was ever a position to stream moving forward, TE would be the place. Though I haven't done the numbers, I'd bet there were way more 'out of nowhere' top 10 TE finishes in 2013 than at any other skill or QB position. It's all about matchups save for a few of these guys so my stance of not overspending on TE still stands, but hopefully I get myself roped into the right late rounder in 2014. Ugh, let's just get this over with. Here's the Top 20 Tight Ends from the 2013 Fantasy Football season...
So, it’s the playoffs. Which means things are all crazy and new in the NFL. So it only seems appropriate we make things all crazy and new here at Bet the Farm, too! How, you ask? With a brand spanking new playoff contest! Please, blog, may I have some more?
The 2013 RCL season has come to its triumphant close. What a year it's been! At one point I had an 8-0 team, no team got to 10-0, and the parity had the overall champion go down to the championship week. Thanks again to everyone for joining this year, and we look forward to having you again for RCL Football in 2014! You can check out the full interactive 2013 RCL Standings, fully updated with the final standings, in the tab up under “Leagues” that shows you
how you stacked up against your Razzball competitors in everyone's attempt at RCL glory.
2013 RCL CHAMPION: But it was no attempt for Gtoxitis, whom we all hail as RCL champion! Gtox brought the smack and backed it up in The Shadynastys league, winning the championship by a mere 6 points after a 12-2 regular season. The fantastic finish for Jamaal Charles led Gtox to RCL glory and the best team in the land. I'll contact you through your commenter e-mail for your prize and your name will forever be enshrined in the RCL mantle. 2013 - the year of Gtoxitis!
As my wife always said after peeing on a First Response and then finally getting visited by Aunt Flo the next day, better late than never right? Sorry to all who're expecting this yesterday. I had what you could call a hard New Years. Hard alcohol, hard on my liver, hard to walk upright the next day, hard to not throw up...the list of everything that was hard about it would be borderline exhaustive so instead I'll just say I hope I didn't fail you. For those of you looking for rest of playoff rankings, I'll be frantically working on those over the course of today, though there may not be an actual post on them. Let's just say, work really sucks. They expect me to actually do what they want me to do and not you...how rude! You can still find me and my rankings over at the Fantasy Pros guys whom I use. For those of you looking for the weekly thang, though, I show how I'm leaning down below. When you're only ranking this many guys, having a 'standout' is more like disagreeing on two or three rankings spots so again, I'm stuck talking about the Red Rocket, Andy Dalton. As the Vikings proved in week 16, Dalton can take advantage of a porous secondary especially when he's at home. Dalton has a 20:9 TD to INT ratio at home and a 13:11 on the road so against the Chargers - the 9th worst for fantasy points against to opposing QBs this year - I don't see how the dingy gingy can't be a dandy one this weekend. So with that in mind, I do have Marvin Jones slipping into my top 10 as he had a 6/85 during that same week 16. And yes, I put Foles one and Brees three. Remember what I said about Dalton's splits? Yeah, go look at Drew away from the dome. It's definitely not the D-Brees we all think of. But I'm delaying the inevitable around here. Let's get to week one of this great new season. Here's the wildcard round of the weekly rankings for the 2013 Fantasy Football season...
