Month: July 2013

2013 Fantasy Football Running Back Redraft Rankings

Posted on by Davis Mattek
bellsteel

The running back position is easily the most important in fantasy football. The best players dramatically out score their lowered tiered counterparts. Unlike the previously ranked quarterbacks, waiting on running back talent will never be a viable strategy. To win a fantasy football league, not only does the position require top end talent on your team, but also very solid depth. With that in mind, these rankings are probably the most important that I will publish all offseason. Below, I’ll analyze a few guys that…

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Sports Wunderkind Fantasy Football Podcast: Live RSO Draft 7-16

Posted on by Davis Mattek
murray

In this edition of the Sports Wunderkind Fantasy Football podcast, Coleman and Davis sit down with Rich Hribar and discussed a live, 4 round Reality Sports Online Rookie Draft. Reality Sports Online is a unique fantasy football experience that is the closest thing you can get to being an NFL GM. The guys discuss all relevant fantasy football rookies and go off on some deeper fantasy tangents. You can check the draft here, and see rosters here. Sports Wunderkind RSO Pod  

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Chicago Bulls 2-0 in Summer League Play

Posted on by Josh Planos

Hard to really say what you can takeaway from two summer league games, but for the Chicago Bulls; progress comes to mind, as the Bulls beat the Denver Nuggets to improve to 2-0.  Marquis Teague appears to be developing into the backup point role they need him to fulfill come this time next year when Kurt Hinrich becomes an unrestricted free agent.   Teague had another solid performance Monday night, scoring 15pts on 50% shooting from the floor, with 7asts.  For the love of god,…

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2013 Dynasty Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings

Posted on by Coleman Kelly
micheal

My dynasty fantasy football goal this year was to put together dynasty ranks that I can keep updated constantly. Whenever I’m overthinking a trade, I can go back and look at where I have players ranked, then assuage my fears. To make these rankings, I used the method ProFootballFocus’ Scott Spratt wrote about here. I used point projections from the RotoViz Similarity Score apps, although it does come with one caveat: the app doesn’t know that Shonn Greene isn’t a starting running back anymore; it has no idea that…

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Will Dwight Howard be more Clark Kent or Superman in 2013-2014?

Posted on by Josh Planos
dwight

He’s a sliver short of 7-foot, weighs in at 265lbs, wears his jersey like a bib, and is (with the announcement of Chris Paul re-signing with the Clippers) the biggest free agent this summer.  Dwight Howard’s career numbers are pretty impressive: Defensive Player of the Year (2011, 2010, 2009) All-NBA 1st Team (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008) All-NBA 3rd Team (2013, 2007) All-Rookie 1st Team (2005) All-Defensive 1st Team (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009) All-Defensive 2nd Team (2008) …and yet he is continuously criticized and harped…

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