I’ve taken the strategery rankings through week 6 and used them to look at the rest of the fantasy season. This first graph is the average rush defense ranking of each team’s next 9-10 opponents. This gives an overall look at how tough the remaining schedule is for running backs. I tend to look at the extremes because I am like X-games xtreme! Or because the extremes can show up easier in actual on the field numbers. There are a lot of teams with schedules that are all over the place. So it’s not as if the tough schedules are without nice matchups here and there.
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You can see our man JC Superstar has a very nice stretch of games coming up, but then it falls off a bit . . . The rich keep getting richer with CJ2K’s nice schedule . . . Don’t throw Felix Jones on the scrap heap with his future matchups . . . Mendenhall’s team has some tough matchups, but the rush D’s they face aren’t that bad . . .
Now let’s take a look at the last 3 games of the fantasy season, or as I lovingly call them, the playoffs. I find this to be really helpful to those of you who are sitting pretty in your leagues. If you are almost assured a spot in the playoffs! PLAYOFFS!? then look to target some of these guys. Like our man Knowshon Moreno. Yes his injuries are a concern, but if he’s healthy come playoff time you have great matchups . . . Maurice-Jones Drew is hurting some teams right now, but if you can get in the playoffs, yowzah! . . . Ronnie Brown has a tough week 14, but if you can get to week 15/16, watchout! . . . Cedric Benson doesn’t look poised to help you too much in the playoffs, hope for a few nice games coming up and see what you can get . . . Like I mentioned up top JC Superstar has some great games coming up, but then his playoff matchups are tough . . .
