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Tips on Injuries

By Staff Writer John Belaska Nothing has the ability to sink a fantasy owner’s season faster than an injury to a very important player. Understanding injuries is very important in fantasy football. If you cannot tell how much an injury will affect a player you could end up in very big trouble. Therefore,…

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Making Realistic Expectations

By Staff Writer John Belaska Pay very close attention; take notes if you have to. This is the most important piece of advice I can impart on your as you go into the fantasy football season. Make your player expectations realistic. If you think that your players are all going to set records, you are…

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Setting Your Starting Lineup

By Staff Writer John Belaska Now that we have finished discussing what to look for in players we can move into the next phase of building your championship team. Setting your starting lineup will be something that you have to do continuously throughout the entire season. You will have to check this each week. Every…

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Drafting Your Bench

By Staff Writer John Belaska One of the most important things to long term success throughout a fantasy football season is a strong bench. These are the player you will put in your starting lineup when things get tough. The bench players can be called up at any time for multiple reasons. Maybe one…

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The Forgotten Three: When To Draft Tight Ends, Kickers, and Defenses

By Staff Writer John Belaska One of the main reasons a strong looking team fails to make a league’s fantasy playoffs is that the owner has neglected three starting positions. Tight ends, kickers, and defenses, are easy to forget about during the draft because everyone is rushing to grab strong running backs and…

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Evaluating Quarterbacks and Wide Receivers

By Staff Writer John Belaska Last time, we discussed what to look for when trying to decide what running back to add to your fantasy football team. This will be a very similar discussion, but in regards to quarterbacks and wide receivers. These positions are both extremely important to your fantasy team, but for different…

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Evaluating Running Backs

By Staff Writer John Belaska It must be restated over and over again. No position is more important to a successful fantasy football season than your running backs. Running backs earn more points than any other position in the game. They are also scarcer than any of the other positions. This makes it a very…

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Your Team’s Core: Your First Three Picks

It is time to get into the meat and potatoes of how to win. Last time, I told you the key to winning depends on how much effort you put into research during the preseason. Now it is time to focus on how to draft. There is a very important saying in fantasy football.…

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Conference Realignment Continues at Staggering Pace

By Guest Blogger Rob Yunich: Last Sunday, Syracuse and Pittsburgh were officially welcomed as the newest members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Today, Texas A&M joined the Southeastern Conference. Nowadays, these deals have more to do with football and money than geography and rivalries. In case you don’t remember, Texas A&M was once a founding member of the Southwest Conference,…

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Rooting Interests

By Guest Blogger Rob Yunich: Some people around Washington, D.C., bleed burgundy and gold and some bleed red, white and blue. Folks in Pittsburgh bleed black and gold (which pretty much covers the three professional teams) and other further north bleed Red Sox Red. And, in the heart of North Carolina, you can either pick…

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