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2019 NFL Roster Cuts and Transactions
Today is officially “cut down day” for the NFL. Each team must finalize their final 53-man rosters by the time 4:00 PM ET rolls around today. Given the plethora of cuts and transactions scheduled today, it’s best to find out which ones are the most fantasy impactful. Let’s take a look at the most fantasy-relevant Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
NFL Injured Reserve/PUP list
Below is a look at the NFL injured reserve/PUP list for the 2019 season. Players who start the season on the PUP list can be promoted to the active roster by week 6 of the regular season. Players starting the season on the injured reserve are eligible to play after Week 8. PlayerTmPosInjuryMax GarciaARIOLKneeHakeem ButlerARIWRFingerJosh Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Breakout Tight End
Every year one of the most important factors in winning a fantasy football league is identifying breakout players. Considering that, there should probably be some articles on identifying breakout players. Today’s piece will be addressing the Tight End (TE) position. Breakout players come in all shapes and sizes, and depending on the preseason value, help Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Mind of Marsal – Players I’m Avoiding at Their ADP
Happy Friday my Fantasy Guru fam! Before we get started today, if any of the readers are in Florida, I’m hoping you stay safe this weekend with the oncoming hurricane. With that said, it is the end of the week and by now you should already know, it is that time of the week where Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Breakout Wide Receivers
One of the most important factors in winning a fantasy football league is identifying breakout players. In this day and age, many league formats have expanded to three starting receivers and an additional fourth receiver that can be used in the FLEX spot. Finding breakout players — particularly at a position as deep as wide Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Friday Finds
Jose Altuve is ripping it up. Think you can say the same thing about Aquino. Caratini has been better than Gary Sanchez in a pretty major category. Starlin Castro is on fire. deGrom always is, but the Mets never support him. J.D. Davis has been a second half star. Wilmer Flores has too – when Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Breakout Running Backs
Every year one of the most important factors in winning a fantasy football league is identifying breakout players. Considering that, there should probably be some articles on identifying breakout players. Today this piece will be addressing the running back (RB) position, arguably the most important position in the game (fantasy football). Breakout players come in Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Quarterback Breakout Players
Happy Thursday Fantasy Guru Fam! Hopefully everyone is having a great week. After last season, I am pretty sure every fantasy owner is looking for this year’s Patrick Mahomes. If you think this article will lead you in that direction, you can stop reading now. Look people, what we witnessed last season does not happen Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Mound Mavens, August 29th
Looking at arms, Ray surveys the current state of the starting pitcher. He’ll touch on a bunch of arms currently in the news, while also trying to make sense of a myriad of rotations that seem unclear how they are proceeding in the short-term such as the Red Sox, Dodgers, Royals and Nationals. HAVE YOU Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Dynasty Strategy: Losing Prominent Players
Structural advantages were something we discussed a while ago, and it will be the main focus of this piece for the next couple of weeks. There’s a few very important concepts I use as building blocks, that once explained, will make the success probability charts easier to apply strategy-wise. Dynasty leagues have a plethora of concepts and ideas Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Training Camp Report 8/28
NFL Training Camp is a busy time of year. This is when the coaches implement their system, playbooks are drawn up, and every position on every team is up for grabs. Injuries are as common as practice cones and tackling dummies. If you blink, you could just miss the preamble to a breakout season. Fortunately, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
From the Gut – Stud and Dud Pitchers since the All-Star Break
Let’s take a look at some studs and duds since the All-Star break among the pitchers. Though the All-Star break is a about 20 games beyond the actual halfway point of the season, I do still like to use it and will do so as my arbitrary cutoff point for the purposes of this analysis. Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: The Final Month
We’re a few days away from the final rankings update of the 2019 Fantasy Baseball Season (September 1st). That means, we’re officially entering the stretch run for the season. With just about a month left to go in the regular season I thought I would give some thoughts on how to handle the final month Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
JuJu Smith-Schuster: The New No. 1 in Pittsburgh
The performance of WRs promoted from their teams’ #2 to #1 and how many targets is Smith-Schuster likely to see this year. You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Closer Chart – August 28th, 2019
Closer constantly change. Who is in charge at the moment? The 2019 season is underway and, predictably, it’s a disaster. Some teams seem to have no plan at all. Other teams are continually searching for answers to get the last out, either because of poor performance or injury. Very few are the situations that have Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Mound Mavens, August 28th
Bailey and Bundy are improving. Not so much for Davies. Gonzalez and Gonzales are in here too. Lauer and Lopez? Yep. Who is this guy with a name from the 1800’s in Melville? Is Ray, great name by the way, anything more than a strikeout arm? Teheran has been pretty darn effective for months now. Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
ADP Report – FFPC August Update
Continuing our ADP Reports series, this week we’ll be diving into what changes have occurred over the previous month in ADP over at the FFPC. Remember, FFPC drafts differ in quite a few ways the other formats we’ve covered, namely the TE-Premium scoring (1.5 PPR) and the duration of drafts generally lasts 28 rounds. Learn Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 8/28
(1) Juan Soto is already a better hitter than Bryce Harper. (2) Rankings for 2020? (3) Brandon Lowe don’t for year. (3) Waiver-wire: HITTERS (Amed, Buxton, Canha, Fowler, Fraley, Nick Solak, Chris Taylor) and PITCHERS (Steven Brault, Detwiler, Font, Happ, Houser, Pablo Lopez, Musgrove, Norris, Puk, Roark, Tanaka, Waguspack, Urena as CL?). You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Draft Plan Podcast Series Hub
Episode 3 posted Thursday, 8/22! John Hansen returns to FG for this series outlining his 2019 Draft Plan: The guide to everything you’ll need to know before your league’s big day! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Draft Plan Podcast Series: EP4
In the final preseason podcast, the guys bring back an old Fantasy Guru favorite in “Good Vibes/Bad Vibes” by going through all 32 NFL teams. They identify players poised for a breakout year as well as some that are going way too highly in drafts. You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Future NFL Draft Prospects: August 27th
The NFL is built upon what college football provides… The NFL is built upon what college football provides. Every year there’s a focus on incoming rookies, and players that are going to make impacts for their new teams, but where did those players come from? What did they look like as underclassmen in college? How Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Training Camp Report 8/27
NFL Training Camp is a busy time of year. This is when the coaches implement their system, playbooks are drawn up and every position on every team is up for grabs. Injuries are as common as practice cones and tackling dummies. If you blink, you could just miss the preamble to a breakout season. Fortunately, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
On The Clock: Pick 12.05
Happy Tuesday my Fantasy Guru fam! It’s that time of the week again, we are on the clock! Each week I will walk you through a scenario you may be faced with on draft day and present multiple options, then choose the way I would go about it. There might also be weeks where I Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2019 PPR Gold
You’ve asked for it and we listened. We’re bringing back a fan favorite article titled “PPR Gold”, highlighting specific players that thrive in this point-per-reception scoring format. PPR has grown more and more popular over the years and is now a staple among many of the premiere sites. This article will highlight the surefire PPR Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.