Pro Bowl Round-Up: Andy Dalton Pro Bowler, World Nears End

So here we are, continuing our weird no-man's land period for fantasy football news and analysis. We're not quite far enough into the off-season to start reviewing what just happened in 2014, and we still have one more week until the Super Bowl, so we find ourselves in this sort of weird zone, like I am with your mom. But as we get closer to Super Bowl Sunday, we might finally reach the end of the "deflate-gate", or seeing as how ending anything "gate" seems a bit dated, we could even call it "deflate-ghazi" for a modern touch. That being said, we do get some reprieve for the first Sunday without real football this season, and that's football where no one tries or cares, and everyone misses going to Hawaii, and where Michael Irvin gets to have a team to, I assume, help feed yet another coke binge. Also, it appears that this year, there wasthe added bonus of making it NFL's own petri dish of experimental football where there were narrower uprights, four two-minute warnings, and no kickoffs whatsoever. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Pro Bowl. These players represent the very best of the league, that is, after you rule out the players who are injured, the players who simply didn't want to go, and the players who are going to the Super Bowl. So yeah. We have Andy Dalton and John Kuhn. WOOOOOOOO.

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Championship Sunday Round-Up: Let the Narratives Begin!

by: Jay

So, after taking a few days to wait for the dust cloud of Championship Sunday to clear, we now have our Super Bowl teams; the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. And of course it wouldn't be a Patriots appearance without the inevitable "something-gate" taking place (this time, deflate-gate, which sounds like a sexual maneuver by Gronk), but I doubt this type of thing comes as a surprise. Even if it did, I doubt it was the reason the Colts lost by 98 points and couldn't tackle. But don't worry folks, we have two weeks for the media to fill in empty space, and while a Packers/Patriots match-up might have provided a bonanza of narratives, the Packers made sure to try as hard as they possibly could to make sure that it didn't happen. So here we are. The Seahawks and Patriots is, at least on paper, an intriguing match-up. True, the same could be said of last year's game, but here's hoping for a Super Bowl that's at least entertaining till half-time...

Rankings and Picks, Championship Sunday

January 17, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, 2014 Fantasy Football Rankings | 4 Comments

by: Jay

2014 In-Season Accuracy: 58.10% (31st out of 125 Experts, 60.70% Highest, 50.60% Lowest).

	Accuracy	Rank	Experts	Highest	Lowest	Score +/-	Rank +/-
Week 1	61.80%	22	134	66.10%	48.20%
Week 2	54.00%	35	135	61.30%	42.10%	-7.80%	-13
Week 3	57.40%	88	128	67.10%	44.30%	3.40%	-53
Week 4	56.50%	48	128	61.10%	42.80%	-0.90%	40
Week 5	56.50%	70	131	69.40%	47.00%	0.00%	-22
Week 6	56.30%	27	133	63.10%	41.50%	-0.20%	43
Week 7	59.70%	33	132	64.30%	46.50%	3.40%	-6
Week 8	56.30%	67	130	64.80%	45.20%	-3.40%	-34
Week 9	60.30%	23	131	66.00%	46.10%	4.00%	44
Week 10	57.80%	68	130	66.90%	48.40%	-2.50%	-45
Week 11	52.10%	64	131	67.60%	42.60%	-5.70%	4
Week 12	59.10%	29	129	66.20%	42.40%	7.00%	35
Week 13	58.40%	73	130	71.40%	48.40%	-0.70%	-44
Week 14	56.30%	59	131	63.70%	40.30%	-2.10%	14
Week 15	64.10%	24	128	68.20%	53.50%	7.80%	35
Week 16	56.20%	70	122	65.60%	45.30%	-7.90%	-46
Totals	58.10%	31	125	60.70%	50.60%

And now, your Championship Sunday Rankings and Picks…

The Stats Machine: Just The Stats Man!

January 14, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Buy/Sell |

by: malamoney

The 2014 fantasy football season is over Johnny. It's over!

So now let's take a few moments to talk about the players that The Stats Machine has a hard on for. I'm not sure I like the way that came out, so I'm going to rephrase it. Let's take a few moments to talk about the players that get The Stats Machine's bits and bytes on information overload. Without further ado-do...

Divisional Weekend Round-Up: The Calvin Johnson Rule Strikes Again

January 12, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes | 5 Comments

by: Jay

Welp, what the refs giveth, the refs take away. Something like that. And so it goes for the Cowboys, who saw their season come to end, not with a Romonobyl, but with a whimper. After a "questionable" call in last week's wild card game against the Lions, which the NFL spent the entire week trying to triage, the brutal karma of it all reared it's head in the ugliest way possible: The dreaded "Calvin Johnson Rule". For those of you unfamiliar with this rule, which get's enforced about two times per decade, here's the wording:

If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball after he touches the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete.

I guess you could technically rule this the correct call, but I would point out that Bryant's elbow is down first and the play should end right there. Or just from a simple eye test (you can see a better angle after the jump), this looks like a catch. OR you could conclude that Bryant went to the ground with his feet during the process of the catch, and then proceeded to do a "football play" by diving for the end zone. But what do I know? I will say this... I'm not sure Dallas fans can gripe about bad judgement here... Rick Perry is the elected Governor of Texas after all.

Rankings and Picks, Divisional Weekend

January 10, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, 2014 Fantasy Football Rankings | 6 Comments

by: Jay

2014 In-Season Accuracy: 58.10% (31st out of 125 Experts, 60.70% Highest, 50.60% Lowest).

	Accuracy	Rank	Experts	Highest	Lowest	Score +/-	Rank +/-
Week 1	61.80%	22	134	66.10%	48.20%
Week 2	54.00%	35	135	61.30%	42.10%	-7.80%	-13
Week 3	57.40%	88	128	67.10%	44.30%	3.40%	-53
Week 4	56.50%	48	128	61.10%	42.80%	-0.90%	40
Week 5	56.50%	70	131	69.40%	47.00%	0.00%	-22
Week 6	56.30%	27	133	63.10%	41.50%	-0.20%	43
Week 7	59.70%	33	132	64.30%	46.50%	3.40%	-6
Week 8	56.30%	67	130	64.80%	45.20%	-3.40%	-34
Week 9	60.30%	23	131	66.00%	46.10%	4.00%	44
Week 10	57.80%	68	130	66.90%	48.40%	-2.50%	-45
Week 11	52.10%	64	131	67.60%	42.60%	-5.70%	4
Week 12	59.10%	29	129	66.20%	42.40%	7.00%	35
Week 13	58.40%	73	130	71.40%	48.40%	-0.70%	-44
Week 14	56.30%	59	131	63.70%	40.30%	-2.10%	14
Week 15	64.10%	24	128	68.20%	53.50%	7.80%	35
Week 16	56.20%	70	122	65.60%	45.30%	-7.90%	-46
Totals	58.10%	31	125	60.70%	50.60%

And now, your Divisional Weekend Rankings and Picks…

Way-Too-Early Top-100 Rankings for 2015

January 8, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Fantasy Football Rankings | 9 Comments

by: waterloo

[Jay's Note: The Official 2015 Razzball Fantasy Football Rankings will come out in several months, but Michael has been awesome enough to give you guys a taste of how things stand right now. Way too early? Sure. Way too hot? Yes! Early AND hot folks... just like my love life.] 2014 was an interesting fantasy football year, wasn't it? It was the year of the rookie receiver, as Odell Beckham, Jr., Kelvin Benjamin, Mike Evans, Sammy Watkins and more took the league by storm. There were studs being studs, as well as studs being duds. The zero-running back strategy was implemented, and well, didn't work out that well for most people. 2015 is going to be even more of an interesting year, as draft strategies are sure to change for people. While it's way too early in the fantasy offseason to rank players, we figured what the heck, we may as well have some fun with it. That being said, I did rank certain players whose futures are unsure (Adrian Peterson, Marshawn Lynch) just because as of now, there is no news about what will happen. Don't worry, that'll change with updated rankings in the upcoming months...

Wild Card Weekend Round-Up: How Elite is Joe Flacco?

January 5, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes | 7 Comments

by: Jay

It's been commonplace around here to poke a bit of fun at Joe Flacco's expense, and I have to admit, it probably starts with me. Look, I don't actively root against the ~~eyebrow~~ guy. Granted, I don't root for him either, seeing as how it's like rooting for a speed bump. But there is a certain something about him that really fascinates me. And that can essentially be boiled down to the the gift that keeps on giving... and that's the process for measuring how elite Joe Flacco actually is (not just his eyebrow(s), which are too f*cking elite). Well folks, I think it's time, once again, to go through this process once more. After a convincing win against a Steelers team that was clearly missing LeVeon Bell and any semblance of a third down defense, John Harbaugh said this after the game: "Joe Flacco, what can you say... He's the best quarterback in football." Well, first of all, don't lead this off by asking "what can you say". I can say a lot of things, and none of them would be what you said, John. Granted, yes, Flacco has a long history of being part of a lot of successful Ravens teams, including a Super Bowl ring and being the only quarterback in NFL history to win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons. Of course, there's also the fact that he's not really that good of a quarterback. But hey, when you're just elite enough to win, who cares? I guess I don't. Then again, I'm now realizing that the Ravens vs. Patriots media extravaganza might be something I could have done without... been there, done that, ya know? Wait. What's that you say? We're going to have a Petyon Manning/Andrew Luck narrative to deal with as well?

Rankings and Picks, Wild Card Weekend

January 3, 2015 | 2014 Fantasy Football, 2014 Weekly Rankings | 7 Comments

by: Jay

2014 In-Season Accuracy: 58.10% (31st out of 125 Experts, 60.70% Highest, 50.60% Lowest).

	Accuracy	Rank	Experts	Highest	Lowest	Score +/-	Rank +/-
Week 1	61.80%	22	134	66.10%	48.20%
Week 2	54.00%	35	135	61.30%	42.10%	-7.80%	-13
Week 3	57.40%	88	128	67.10%	44.30%	3.40%	-53
Week 4	56.50%	48	128	61.10%	42.80%	-0.90%	40
Week 5	56.50%	70	131	69.40%	47.00%	0.00%	-22
Week 6	56.30%	27	133	63.10%	41.50%	-0.20%	43
Week 7	59.70%	33	132	64.30%	46.50%	3.40%	-6
Week 8	56.30%	67	130	64.80%	45.20%	-3.40%	-34
Week 9	60.30%	23	131	66.00%	46.10%	4.00%	44
Week 10	57.80%	68	130	66.90%	48.40%	-2.50%	-45
Week 11	52.10%	64	131	67.60%	42.60%	-5.70%	4
Week 12	59.10%	29	129	66.20%	42.40%	7.00%	35
Week 13	58.40%	73	130	71.40%	48.40%	-0.70%	-44
Week 14	56.30%	59	131	63.70%	40.30%	-2.10%	14
Week 15	64.10%	24	128	68.20%	53.50%	7.80%	35
Week 16	56.20%	70	122	65.60%	45.30%	-7.90%	-46
Totals	58.10%	31	125	60.70%	50.60%

And now, your Wild Card Weekend Rankings and Picks…