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Fantasy Premier League Planner – Week 2

The Premier League season is long, dark and full of terrors for draft fantasy soccer managers. The grind of staying current on injuries and anticipating squad rotation on a week-to-week basis is tedious, and often confusing thanks to a hefty dose of conflicting reports and misleading quotations. While flipping a coin to pick to decide between players is an effective strategy about 50% of the time, if you’re looking for long-term success in draft fantasy soccer, Fantrax has you covered 100% of the time.This season, the…

Fire & Ice: Wheel(er)ing and Dealing

Once in a while, it's fun to hop into the Way Back Machine to put the present into perspective. Today we're talking about former early first-round picks - Zack Wheeler and Dylan Bundy. Wheeler is a bit older, taken by the Giants with the sixth overall pick back in 2009. Bundy was a couple years behind him, plucked fourth overall by the Orioles in 2011.Their journeys have both been difficult. Despite being drafted in '09, this is only Wheeler's third season over 100 innings at the major league level. Things have been even…

Fantasy Premier League Draft Week 1: Risers and Fallers

You can’t win or lose a league title after ninety minutes of football. You can, however, get yourself all excited about a 30-point haul from the randomer you pulled out in the 16th round of your Fantasy Premier League draft or convince yourself that the “sure thing” that you picked in the 4th looks like he’ll spend the majority of the season banished to the bench by his unhappy manager (Anthony Martial).As fantasy football managers, we’re experts in jumping to conclusions and forming opinions on players after watching…

Fantasy Stock Watch: Reacting to Preseason Overreactions

Let the preseason overreactions commence! Week 1 of the preseason (aka overreaction weekend) is in the books. Looking at the current ADP on Fantasyfootballcalculator.com, it is quite clear that everyone who flashed in the first exhibition game has moved up.Seriously. That is how it is in the preseason, and we are just getting started. Let’s try and temper those expectations and project real outcomes based on preseason overreactions in this week’s edition of Fantasy Stock Watch. Reacting to Preseason Overreactions…

The Evolution of Starting Pitching Part 1

There is a big reason that pitchers tend to be more injury prone than their offensive brethren. Pitching is by far the least natural motion that a baseball player can do with the human body, second only to an exaggerated eye-roll once an umpire makes a mistake. Our ancestors may have thrown spears to hunt, but they didn’t do it hundreds of times in an hour and they certainly didn’t do it with a cylindrical rock either. It’s because of the limitations of the human body as well as changing trends in the game that pitchers now…