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Fantasy football managers tend to regard the bye weeks with dread. But the byes separate the savvy managers from the less astute managers. This is when it gets easier to tell the sharps from the squares. Sharp managers tend to … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (Week 5)

Welcome to an exclusive look into a live chat session with FantasyPros’ own Pat Fitzmaurice, held on the FantasyPros Discord server. This Q&A took place on August 15, 2024, where Pat answered a ton of questions from fantasy football managers. … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Discord: Christian Kirk, Terry McLaurin, Christian McCaffrey

Paramedics, teachers, babysitters, mechanics, bartenders and many of the other people we rely on in life don’t have bye weeks. Thank goodness. NFL players do have bye weeks, unfortunately, adding stress to the task of managing a fantasy football team. … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 5)

At this point in the fantasy season, it’s easy to fixate on the underachievers. How could you do this to us, Travis Etienne? Why hast thou forsaken me, Rachaad White? Et tu, Brandon Aiyuk? It’s easy to dwell on the … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (Week 4)

We are living in the Upside Down. Fans of “Stranger Things” know the Upside Down as a sinister alternative dimension that mirrors Hawkins, Indiana, the small town where the show’s characters live. Nothing in the Upside Down makes sense to … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 4)

The greatest feeling of accomplishment you can have in fantasy football is overcoming a lousy start to reach the playoffs. I had a team start 1-5 last year in the King’s Classic, an industry league that conducts its drafts at … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (Week 3)

Welcome to an exclusive look into a live chat session with FantasyPros’ own Pat Fitzmaurice, held on the FantasyPros Discord server. This Q&A took place on August 15, 2024, where Pat answered a ton of questions from fantasy football managers. … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Discord: Brian Thomas Jr., Ja’Marr Chase, Jonathon Brooks

We’re only two weeks into the new season, and a lot of fantasy managers are already in a bind. Injuries are mounting. Christian McCaffrey and Puka Nacua are out for a while. Cooper Kupp and Isiah Pacheco went down on … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 3)

Variance is a cruel reality of fantasy football, and never is variance more difficult to reckon with than in the immediate wake of Week 1 games. But of course, it’s always easier to reckon with when you’re 1-0 than when … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (Week 2)

Week 1 of the NFL regular season was weird, messy, confusing … and mostly fun. In other words, it was a representative sample of what we’ll be experiencing for the next 17 weeks. The first week of the new season … read more »

Continue Reading Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 2)