Fantasy Football Guides
Everything you need to know — from how the waiver wire works to draft day strategy.
Basics
Waiver Wire 101: How to Win on Waivers Every Week
Everything you need to know about how waiver wires work — priority systems, FAAB, claim timing, and what separates a good pickup from a great one.
Read guide →Reading Injury Reports: What to Actually Do
A breakdown of the official injury designations with their real play rates, how to read practice reports across the week, and what action to take when a starter goes out.
Read guide →Usage Data: Why Opportunity Predicts Fantasy Points
Box scores tell you what happened. Usage data tells you what happens next. A practical guide to the three numbers worth checking every Monday.
Read guide →Bye Week Management: How to Survive the Middle of the Season
Bye weeks knock out every NFL team once a season — and sloppy managers lose winnable games to them. A planning framework that costs you nothing.
Read guide →Projections: An Informed Starting Point, Not the Answer
Where projected points come from, how accurate they actually are when somebody measures, and the four things worth checking beside the number before it decides your lineup.
Read guide →Strategy
FAAB Bidding Strategy: Spend Smart, Not Fast
Most managers either blow their FAAB budget in Week 1 or hoard it until it's too late. Here's how to calibrate your bids across the full season.
Read guide →Start/Sit Decisions: A Framework for Every Week
Start/sit decisions cause more anxiety than they deserve. Here's a repeatable framework for making the right call — and knowing when to trust your gut.
Read guide →Trade Value Analysis: When to Buy and When to Sell
Trade value is about the future, not the past. A guide to reading buy-low and sell-high signals, and how to structure deals that actually get accepted.
Read guide →Streaming Defenses and Kickers: Stop Wasting Roster Spots
Holding one defense all season is a losing strategy, and the data proves it. How to play matchups at D/ST and kicker — for free.
Read guide →Superflex and 2-QB Strategy: How Quarterback Scarcity Changes Everything
In superflex leagues, the quarterback math flips — but the winning approach isn't "draft QBs early and often." Here's what the data actually supports.
Read guide →Draft
How a Fantasy Draft Actually Works: Formats, the Clock, and Autopick
Snake, auction and linear drafts, what the queue and the pick timer really do, and the mechanical defaults that quietly draft a worse team than you would have.
Read guide →Read Your League Settings Before You Draft
The twenty minutes almost nobody spends. Which settings genuinely reshape your draft board, which ones decide your in-season life, and the handful people get wrong every year.
Read guide →Understanding ADP: How to Turn Draft Position Data Into Value
ADP tells you what the market believes about every player. Learning to read it — and disagree with it selectively — is the core skill of drafting well.
Read guide →Draft Strategy: Building a Championship Roster
The draft sets the foundation for your entire season. A framework for positional value by round, the handcuff principle, and how to nail your final picks.
Read guide →Value Over Replacement: Why the RB2 and the WR2 Are Not Worth the Same Pick
The oldest idea in fantasy analysis, worked through properly: what replacement level is, how to find yours, and why the answer changes with every league setting you touch.
Read guide →What Not to Do in a Fantasy Draft
Sorted by when the bill arrives. Some draft errors cost you on the night and everyone notices; the expensive ones stay invisible until your roster stops working in October.
Read guide →The First Week After Your Draft
The undrafted pool is the deepest waiver wire you will see all year, and most managers walk away from it. What to do in the days between your last pick and your first kickoff.
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