What To Expect When You're Expecting…For Fantasy Football
A quick thank you first to the team of RotoSaurus for bringing myself and Spectre. This should be a fun little endeavor we are about to embark on. That said, I want to take a minute in my first article for RotoSaurus to set expectations about what you, the reader, will get from my fantasy football articles. Wouldn’t it be nice if players did this for you? -If Greg Jennings said he’ll play all 16 games and get about 1000 yards and 10 TDs as a Viking -If Percy Harvin and Marshawn Lynch said they can put up top 5 RB and top 10 WR stats together (Edit: I wrote this before Harvin had hip surgery, how nice of him to say he”ll be out for almost the whole season now?) -If Larry Fitzgerald said he’ll bounce back to a top 5 WR Wouldn’t that be nice? Instead they don’t. And you’re left to research, study, prepare, and then hope everything you expect comes to pass. See, I’m making this easy for you. Here are 5 expectations about my writing for this season. 1. I’m not a big numbers guy (I’ll leave that to Dusty and Spectre). Before you call me a hack and quit reading, let me explain. There’s this huge trend going on of advanced metrics and crunching numbers in some formula in hopes of predicting the future. Read any fantasy article on a major sports website and these advanced numbers are everywhere. But this isn’t blackjack where if you know the cards you can create the formula to make millions. If it were, every “fantasy football expert” would be in Vegas. The small problem with numbers is there will always be numbers supporting either side of the argument. Here’s one example. This RB’s average yard per carry … Click here to continue reading…