Alec Pierce

Everyone likes to shop for value, right? You never want to overpay for anything, including in a fantasy football draft. As training camp news moves player prices, new values emerge across the draft board. The key is knowing what players … read more »

When preparing for your fantasy football draft, it’s important to have a sense of where players are getting drafted. This is known as their average draft position (or ADP). Unlike traditional ADP, our Real-Time ADP quickly detects changes in a … read more »

Wyatt Earp and his crew did not bring butter knives to the O.K. Corral for their showdown against the Clanton-McLaury gang. If you play in a fantasy football league that requires you to start three wide receivers every week, and … read more »

The NFL Hall of Fame game between the Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals is approaching, and with that, so is the new NFL season. Ahead of this game, I conducted a 12-team fantasy football mock draft with PPR scoring, from … read more »

We hear quite a bit about the Zero RB strategy during fantasy football draft season. It is a popular strategy in which one punts the running back position for the first several rounds while loading up at wide receiver and … read more »

For this fantasy football mock draft, we shifted gears to Superflex. It’s also PPR scoring, which let me implement a modified Zero RB strategy. Obviously, in Superflex leagues you can start up to two quarterbacks, which will have them flying … read more »

August means one thing and one thing only: Fantasy football season is truly here. We’re already seeing a constant stream of new information and, sadly, season-ending injuries. There hasn’t been much movement in the first round, however, but there are … read more »

We will take a look at some names to consider selling in dynasty leagues. These are all productive players who can help you push for your league title, but may better serve you as a trade chip, as they are … read more »

We spend the summer months obsessing over the first few rounds of our upcoming fantasy football drafts. Where do we want to pick in the first round? Where do we not want to pick in the first round? Which stars … read more »

In fantasy football, hitting on a breakout wide receiver can swing a league. But what exactly defines a breakout? For this article, we’re identifying breakout WR1s as players who have never finished a season as a top-12 wide receiver in … read more »

Before the start of every season, several NFL players are massively hyped up by the fantasy football community. In many cases, some fall short of that hype, but others meet or even exceed the preseason hype. Below are five players … read more »

With training camp officially underway, welcome back to fantasy football season. Now is the time to get brushed up on players’ average draft position (ADP). In case you missed it, I wrote a four-bounce-back wide receivers article. With the good … read more »

Let’s take a look at the latest NFL Training Camp news and notes around fantasy football. To stay up to date on all of the latest fantasy football news, NFL injury updates, and rumors, be sure to follow @FantasyProsNFL on … read more »

While it’s important to get the beginning of a fantasy football draft right, nobody wins their league based on their first- or second-round pick. Where teams really differentiate throughout the season is by discovering hidden gems late in drafts or … read more »

These aren’t bust candidates or pure fantasy football sleepers. They’re players with a genuinely wide range of outcomes, where getting the value right (or wrong) at their current cost could swing an entire draft. Our analysts broke down eight names … read more »