First post of 2012 covers Free Agency

I am back with this blog for at least the next four months after shutting it down last summer. The reason I shut it down was because I was getting too many questions from readers in the comments section to answer them. While I’m more than happy to answer all questions when I have time, the comments aren’t supposed to be a back-and-forth Q & A like a chat session. The comments are really for readers to chime in with their own thoughts, and as you may have noticed we did a ton of chats last year (60+) to answer reader questions. In fact, I had several in-season chats go 100+ minutes, so I answered hundreds and hundreds of questions in 2011.

Now on to my first post in 2012…

If I’ve noticed one thing about free agency over the years, it’s that most of the players who aren’t elite options at their position and move on to new teams don’t do squat for fantasy. This is why teams like the Packers and Steelers, who rarely participate in the early buying stages of free agency, are consistently good. If another team isn’t willing to pay an impact player they currently own, then [...]

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