Declaration of Fantasy Football Principles

  1. It takes luck to win a FFB championship. It takes skill (or rather, the lack thereof) to lose one.
  2. Big players make big plays in big games. A tweener who becomes the ‘start of the week’ has a decent chance of flopping. Call this the ‘MNF test’. If you can’t bear to watch your benched player shine on Monday night, then you’d better start him.
  3. The ‘experts’ write in order to get paid. If they all write the same things, then they’ll lose their jobs, so they each try to be cute and different and that’s why some still think you should take MJD if you have the first pick. Experts who work for ESPN/Fox/CBS/NBC are doubly worse, as their networks show NFL games and so they have to say nice things about all players. I’d much rather trust what I see with my eyes or, at the very least, read in an independent blog. It was this realization that turned me from a fantasy also-ran into a force to be reckoned with!
  4. Keep your ‘dumb observables’ down. People remember the stuff you do, both good and bad. That said, dumb waivers moves are better than dumb trades.
  5. To paraphrase The Sports Guy, you never want to have a guy during his 'he lost it' year.
  6. When picking a D in one of the last 3 rounds (and only in ONE of the last three rounds), look at sacks and bye weeks. Ideally, grab one that got a lot of sacks last year and has a late bye week this year. If this isn't possible, go for the sacks and worry about the bye week later.
  7. With kickers, the same rule applies but replace 'sacks' with 'plays in a dome'
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