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Ray’s Ramblings: Pitchers, Hitters & Hawaii
Take a stroll through the mind of Ray Flowers… Xander Bogaerts is banging. Paul Goldschmidt and Jose Ramirez, two top-25 draft picks this season, have failed to remotely approach their expected outputs this season. Both men have had stellar Julys. Kepler and Mazara are two young AL outfielders going in opposite directions. Gary Sanchez really 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.
Filling the Void: Atlanta Falcons Receiving Options
It seems every offseason there becomes more and more player movement in the NFL. Between free agency, trades, the draft and players getting released, there’s an immense amount of fluctuation surrounding target-shares and how teams will distribute targets. The goal of this article is to evaluate what teams looked like in 2018 and what changes 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 7/25
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.
Selecting the Right Kicker for Fantasy Football
I hate Kickers. They can easily swing an entire fantasy matchup when you least expect, and they can also provide complete duds when you need them to come through most. I’ve been begging my home league to abolish the position entirely and add an additional FLEX position for years, but my friends are Neanderthals and 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.
Stock Watch: Risers & Fallers
How’s it going Fantasy Guru fam! Hopefully everyone is having a great week and if you live in South Florida like myself, I hope you have managed to stay dry with all this rain. Training camps are underway and tons of news will start popping up on a daily basis. Whether it is a player 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.
The Closer Chart – July 25th, 2019
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. There are very few situations with nary an issue. Each week we will try to get a 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, July 25th
It’s time to figure out what to do with some starting pitchers in fantasy baseball… Is Dylan Bundy worth a look? Danny Duffy… can you take that risk? How is Mike Fiers doing this? Domingo German has been blasted for the long ball of late. Kyle Gibson has slowed of late. How concerned should 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.
Training Camp Report 7/24
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.
Dynasty Strategy: Advanced Tactics X
There are many ways to build a winning dynasty roster, and through tons of experience playing, I’ve learned a lot of these principles. 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 are a few very important concepts 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 – ADP Review
This season, it may feel like we have more late-round studs coming out of the woodwork to surprise and help our teams than ever before. I can tell you from playing fantasy baseball for two decades and analyzing it for the last 10 years that what we are seeing this year is not outside the 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.
Drafting Defenses
Today, I’ll look at how fantasy team defenses perform relative to their Average Draft Position (ADP). Continuing with my very lengthy, highly technical, too deep analyses of fantasy defenses, today I’ll look at how fantasy team defenses perform relative to their Average Draft Position (ADP). If you want to follow me down all the ratholes 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.
2018 Fantasy Disappointments and Over-Achievers
It happens every year. There are players that far underachieve and outperform their ADP. Finding the overachievers can help lead to a successful fantasy season. The underachievers? Well, they can torpedo a season quickly if you burn high draft equity on more than one. I hate calling football players “disappointments”. Just getting to the NFL 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.
League Format: Dynasty
Happy Wednesday Fantasy Guru Fam! There are so many different unique league formats and scoring settings. Each week we have tackled a new format and the best way to approach it. So far we have covered PPR, standard, two-QB, super flex, half-PPR, keeper, and 14-team leagues. The next one on the list is dynasty leagues. 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.
BURR 2019: Week 18
Bullpen Usage & Reliever Ratings, or BURR, is an idea that Flowers and Mans have been playing around with since the 2017 season. The reason for their focus is simply that bullpens are a more important part of the modern game than ever before. You know what we mean. Whereas at one time starting pitchers threw 220 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, July 24th
Let’s look at some fantasy baseball pitching options… Chase and Shaun Anderson – are either worth an add if available? Bailey was blasted by the Astros. Oh well. Borucki returned to the majors. Will he stick? Clevinger is back to dominating with the Indians. de Leon of the Cardinals is generating a lot of interest. 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 Training Camp Battles – Wide Receivers
Football season is on the precipice of kicking off with training camps set to open this week. While our training camp roundups will give you all the pertinent need-to-know facts about how things are playing out with each team, I wanted to do a mini preview diving into some of the key training camp battles 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.
Future NFL Prospects: Rankings Update 7-23-19
I’ve now done 19 volumes of “future NFL prospects” and it’s once again time for an update… Through 76 players profiles, I have projected draft position for all of them (beyond Missouri WR Jalen Knox and USC WR Amon Ra-St. Brown). This is my initial process and base to place these prospects in order. Again, 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: 7/23
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.
Hot/Cold – Week 18
Are players performing up to expectations or are they struggling to live up to the hopes placed on their shoulders? That said, do we really “know” who players are? We should by now, right? Has the guy who started out hot seen his performance cave of late? Or perhaps a slow starter, whose overall numbers 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 Training Camp Battles – Running Backs
Football season is on the precipice of kicking off with training camps set to open this week. While our training camp roundups will give you all the pertinent need-to-know facts about how things are playing out with each team, I wanted to do a mini preview diving into some of the key training camp battles 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.
Prospect Watch 2019: Week 18
Each week, we provide a quick update on each of the top-40 minor leaguers who could help out in the fantasy game in 2019… Of course, there is an element of uncertainty with all of this, as we never quite know when a team will decide to call up a youngster or if that role 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
Brandon Woodruff has been sent to the IL. How long will the Brewers be without him? Urquidy will get some rope with the Astros. Soroka has hit a little speed bump. What does that mean? Two righties – Samardzija and Pineda – are both effectively eating innings. Same can pretty much be said about Musgrove 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.
Athleticism and Prospect Evaluation
A question that stands the test of time in sports is just how much does raw athleticism matter when evaluating players? Every sport has a different definition of athletic, and of course, there are outliers, but what are the meat and potatoes of this discussion? How should we view athleticism for football, and most importantly 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 7.08
Happy Tuesday my Fantasy Guru fam! It’s that time of 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 choosing the way I would go about it. There might also be weeks where I just 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.