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Fantasy World: Where Fantasy Stats Predict the Super Bowl

Rick Paulas

With the Big Game at the End of the Season finally set—only a week-and-a-half of hype left!—nearly all of the analysis is going to be abou...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009

Fantasy World: The Keeper Rankings

Rick Paulas

Like life, in keeper leagues there's no such thing as "the offseason." Now, when most citizens of the Fantasy World are enjoying the playoffs from the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 07, 2009

Fantasy World: Awards Season

Rick Paulas

...time for reflection, and there's no more important topic to reflect upon than the past fantasy football season. Let's hand out some hardware! The Hope Diamond Award for Most Valuable: DeAngelo Williams: No...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 31, 2008

Fantasy World: State of Urgency

Rick Paulas

...it's all come down to this. Roughly five months ago, you started preparations for your fantasy football draft, purchasing a number of draft guides and scouting a handful of preseason games in an effort...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 17, 2008

Fantasy World: Beat the Bye

Rick Paulas

...pick up these novels. Ever. Spend Some Quality Time With The Family By which I mean, watch football with your family without your laptop on your lap. This will accomplish two things: (a) give you...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 10, 2008

Fantasy World: Time to Wake Up

Rick Paulas

Like the great and hideous monster of Lake Loch Ness, the fantasy football sleeper is an enigma lurking beneath the surface of a murky football season. Capture the beast, and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2008

Fantasy World: Battle of the Matts

Rick Paulas

...that young Matt Cassel and Matt Ryan would be two of the biggest shocks of the fantasy football season. Cassel had the Herculean task of stepping in for the NFL's star quarterback and went...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2008

Fantasy World: Designer Imposters

Rick Paulas

Last weekend, NFL fans were treated to one of the more rare events in sports. No, not the 49ers' win, as much fun as that was. I'm talking about the B...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2008

Fantasy World: NFL Parlay!

Rick Paulas

...What would be the perfect seven-highest-scoring-players parlay for the next seven weeks of fantasy football action? (Once again, I'm ignoring the non-fantastical Week 17.) So let's take a look...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2008

Fantasy World: Detroit Lions, M.D.

Rick Paulas

The Detroit Lions are the Robitussin of the Fantasy World: The cure for all your ills. Bleeding? Rub a little Lions on it. Is a running back not perfo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2008

FANTASY WORLD: BEATING THE BYE-WEEK BLUES

Rick Paulas

...default follow-up question to any fantasy baseball-related query is "Do they play in Colorado?" the football equivalent has become "Are they playing the Broncos?" For whatever reason, this year's version of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 01, 2008

FANTASY WORLD: RIDING TANDEM

Rick Paulas

...and his favorite wide receiver. Alright, a pitcher and catcher is a tad better, but this is football column people! In The Fantasy World, there's no greater feeling than owning both sides of a...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2008

FANTASY WORLD: FIXING YOUR DRAFT MISTAKES

Rick Paulas

...Total! Drafts! The reason for the massive amount is so I'll finally be able to watch football like a human being. Think about it: With so many players, I can stop worrying about so...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2008