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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Final Preseason Sleepers and Busts: From Rip van Winkle to Ryan Leaf, Part 1
"ONLY SIX DAYS SIX HOURS AND EIGHTEEN MINUTES." - Alex Sappe, 08/29/14.
The preseason winds down once again, boys and girls, and our thirst for the gridiron has reached a fever pitch. Fake footballers are finalizing their rankings, scanning for the last bits of news to emerge from camp and roster cuts, and generally acting as degenerates so often tend to. More importantly, most depth chart battles...
Friday, August 29, 2014
Barclays Premier League Week 3 Predictions
I already quickly mentioned some of my Week 3 predictions during the latest edition of the Footballistically Speaking Podcast, but I wanted to finalize them and get them down on the site with some really quick analysis included.
Burnley vs Man United
Prediction: 1-1
Analysis: What is going on with Manchester United? Only two premier league games and one horrendous Capital One Cup game...
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Footballistically Speaking: Gabe Carimi, Instant Relegation, and the Week 1 & 2 Recap
With the first two weeks of Barclay's behind us, your fearless leaders Mike, Alex, and Lucio come in and give their insight. Turns out after only two weeks, champions and relegations can be declared. Listen on iTunes or here!
Chelsea looks dominant coming in. Will it last? (spoilers: no...
Monday, August 25, 2014
Preseason Trends and Exhibition Injury Pointlessness
Preseason football, more than any other organized sport, exists mostly as a risk-riddled cash grab. I love watching young hopefuls climb their respective depth charts and analyzing backup players, which ostensibly gives the preseason its purpose; but when coaches claim to force their starters to play in exhibition games as punishment, there's something very wrong with the practice. A rash of serious...
Monday, August 18, 2014
Arbitrage All-Stars, Volume 3.5 (ypc)
The last ADP column left me yearning for more. Value-shopping is a habit and I may be addicted, a thought that occurs as I choke down day-old "bread" because it was on clearance. As I had mentioned, lots of aRBitrage plays (see what I did there?) exist this year, potentially more so than in recent years due to a fairly widespread changing of the guard sweeping league backfields. Wear on previously-gold...
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Footballistically Speaking Episode 1: ZAMORA!, Undisclosed Fees, and the League Preview
After much built-up hype, Footballistically Speaking is underway with our preview of the English Premier League! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast feed (in the sidebar to the right of this post) if you want to keep up with the series throughout the season. We'll be putting out new episodes every other...
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Arbitrage All-Stars, Volume III
As the preseason enters its third week and drafts pick up steam, innumerable eyes are glued to the Twitterverse, slurping up data streams from all 32 camps. I count myself among the new-age zombies; I must have at least a dozen web alerts set for certain players and teams, to watch over depth chart battles and injury problems and generally exacerbate my anxiety. I'm already two drafts in, with one...
Monday, August 11, 2014
Arbitrage All-Stars, Volume II
After bathing in the colorful outer-space operatics of Guardians of the Galaxy twice this week, I was sorely tempted to title this next installment "Awesome Mix Volume 2." Alas, continuity binds me to convention. So, we return to the draft market study to run down another overvalued player, this time one from my favorite position, the tight end. Perfect specimens of the new, huge-athlete, high-flying...
Friday, August 8, 2014
Arbitrage All-Stars, Volume I
In perusing the completely unhealthy glut of fake football articles I read, I've come to understand the concept of arbitrage (credit to rotoviz.com for first planting the seed in my brain). In financing (i.e. the real world), arbitrage basically entails making a profit off of market inaccuracies. To us, though, arbitrage points out incongruence in player ADP (average draft position) and offers potential...
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Point, Counterpoint: A Treatise on Zac Stacy
Point, Counterpoint: A Treatise on Zac Stacy
Settle in, boys and girls. I have a tale to spin for you, about a young man's battles against pirates, miners, Nordic savages, and terrifying birds of prey... better known as Zac Stacy's upcoming NFL season. If you've already read Alex's article on...
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Article 3: Stacy, Can't You See You're Just Not The One For Me (til later)
Article 3: Stacy, Can't You See You're Just Not The One For Me (til later)
Why will Zac Stacy be a fantasy bust this year? First off, let me thank Lucio for sparking this debate for my latest article. In our league, he's keeping Zac Stacy in the 12th round (obviously totally acceptable for a player...