Target Trends: Week 8
Welcome back for another exciting episode of “Target Trends.” Another round of games means we get more data to analyze. More data usually means our focus becomes a little clearer. Before we get to this...
View ArticleWeek 9 Target Trends:
Another week in the books, and what a week it was. We saw 10 players score multiple TDs, rushing or receiving. Of those, four players (Alvin Kamara, Tony Pollard, D’Onta Foreman and A.J. Brown) had...
View ArticleWeek 9 Fantasy Football Trade Targets
Week 9 Fantasy Football Trade Targets. Each week we’ll take a look at the top trade targets for each position. Trade targets can be any player at any time throughout the season. The objective...
View ArticleWeek 10 Target Trends: The Marshall Plan
Week 9 is in the books, and while we didn’t see the same number of high-scoring players as last week, we saw one who probably won’t be matched for a long time. Joe Mixon scored a whopping 54 fantasy...
View ArticleWeek 10 Fantasy Football Trade Targets
Each week we’ll take a look at the top trade targets for each position. Trade targets can be any player at any time throughout the season. The objective (when possible) is to “buy low” and “sell high,”...
View ArticleWeek 11 Target Trends: “Hocken” A Loogie, “Son”
Week 10 provided us with a receiving performance for the record books. For the first time in NFL history, we saw a rookie WR catch his first three TDs in the same game. Coming into Week 10, Christian...
View ArticleWeek 12 Target Trends: Strange Things
Week 11 was strange in the NFL. It started on Thursday night with the Titans planting a flag at Lambeau Field after a convincing win versus the Packers. On Sunday, the Eagles needed a comeback versus a...
View ArticleWeek 12 Target Report: “Zay” It Ain’t So, DK!
My readers of the past couple of decades will tell you this wouldn’t be an authentic Frascella column unless it opened this way: MIKE WHITE, BABY! LET’S GO!! I generally open our weekly foray into...
View ArticleWeek 13 Target Trends: Plenty To Be Thankful For
Week 12 gave us a temporary reprieve from the bye weeks. All 32 teams were in action, and fantasy owners were thankful for a number of big performances over the long weekend. Of course, there were a...
View ArticleWeek 13 Target Report: Allen’s “Wil” Wasn’t Enough for a “W”
It was yet another bizarre and dramatic week in the NFL, one highlighted by lowlights: Jimmy Garoppolo (broken foot) is out for the season; Deshaun Watson finally returned and looked absolutely awful,...
View ArticleWeek 14 Target Trends: It’s Crunch Time
It’s crunch time. The final week of the regular fantasy season is here in most leagues, and if yours are like mine, only a few teams have secured their playoff tickets. What’s more, these must-win...
View ArticleNFL Week 14 Target Report: “Evan Almighty” Explodes Out of Nowhere
Let’s f’n go!!! It’s playoff time in the land of fantasy football, and I couldn’t be more pumped. Some quick pointers straight off the top: This is a major research week in terms of streaming tight...
View ArticleWeek 15 Target Trends: Playoffs Are Here!
Can you believe the fantasy football regular season is over? As it tends to happen every year, the NFL season takes so long to get started, but once it does, it seems to go by at a blazing pace....
View ArticleWeek 15 Target Report: Fearsome Foursome for Fantasy Final Four
Countless hours of research. Long, sleepless nights. Tossing and turning in bed… start or sit? Start or sit? Moments of believing we are actual NFL general managers. All that over-exaggerated drama...
View ArticleWeek 16 Target Trends: Final Four
The penultimate edition of the Target Trends article is here. If you’re still alive in the final four of your fantasy playoffs, congratulations. Don’t start coasting yet. The games get more competitive...
View ArticleWeek 16 Target Report: Did Christmas Make You “Richie” Rich?
After three consecutive days of gluttonous eating and drinking – yes, my family even does Christmas Eve-Eve – I’m sitting down at 11:41 p.m. EST to bring you my weekly target report. Some might call...
View ArticleWeek 17 Target Trends: For All The Marbles
Here we are…Fantasy Football Championship Week. If you’re playing for all the marbles, congratulations. I’m still alive in two of my three leagues, so I can’t wait for the games to get started. The...
View ArticleWeek 17 Target Report: The End of the Fantasy Season Brings Tears
“I’ll never let go, Jack… I’ll never let go.” — Titanic “I wanna go home.” — Bubba dying in Forrest Gump “Brooks was here.” — Hanging in The Shawshank Redemption Which one you goin’ with? Any way we...
View ArticleAvoiding the next Russell Wilson: 2022 QB Sleeper and Bust Analysis
Every fantasy player is searching for the coming season’s new league-winning quarterback. The guy you pick up in the later rounds who leads you to the promised land. Sure, you could spend an early pick...
View ArticleI Drafted Jonathan Taylor, I Have Regrets: 2022 RB Sleeper and Bust Analysis
I drafted Jonathan Taylor… five times. Five times I had the first pick and I took JT. CMC, Ekeler and Henry were all close in my rankings but I always took Taylor. Unsurprisingly, I lost every one of...
View Article2023 Undervalued Running Backs: Isiah Pacheco Leveled Up
Just because there is still confetti stuck to the uniforms of the Kansas City Chiefs players and the champagne is still dripping down the locker room walls doesn’t mean it’s too early to look ahead to...
View ArticleIn The Pitts; Searching for Tight End Value in a World of Mediocrity: A 2022...
Kyle Pitts was to be the next great tight end. Functionally a wide receiver with a tight end designation, he was always going to step up from his TE5 finish in 2021, right? Well most of us thought so!...
View ArticleThe Biggest Fantasy Winners in Free Agency
With most of the biggest moves in free agency made and paid, let’s have a look at who’s impacted most for fantasy. While the details included were accurate at time of writing, things will, of course,...
View ArticleMock Draft 4.0 – The Final Mockening
Mock Draft 4.0 Welcome to my final full mock draft before the 2023 NFL Draft. There will be news coming in as we approach the draft and I will be posting a minor update on Instagram on draft day, but...
View ArticleWhat to Expect From Rookie Quarterbacks in 2023
The biggest lottery in fantasy football is the output of rookies. To help us make some accurate predictions of what to expect from this year’s class, we’re going to look through previous rookies over...
View ArticleWhat to Expect From Rookie Running Backs in 2023
Running backs have the shortest lifespan of all footballers so when you draft one in dynasty, you’re hoping for immediate output. Likewise, when risking an early-round redraft pick on this year’s crop...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from Rookie Wide Receivers
While this year’s wide receiver class is quite weak, most redraft leagues will see 8-10 rookie WRs drafted, with several others in the conversation. So what should you expect from these young guns, and...
View ArticleWhat to Expect From Rookie Tight Ends in 2023
This year’s tight end class is one of the strongest in history, competing closely with the highly touted 2017, which brought us five tight ends in the first 48 picks, including Evan Engram, David...
View ArticlePost NFL Draft Quarterback Rankings – A Full Rundown
Today I’ll be taking you through my redraft quarterback rankings. These are primarily set up for a 1QB league, but I will comment on situations where Superflex would cause a major difference in...
View ArticlePost NFL Draft Tight End Rankings – A Full Rundown
Today I’ll be taking you through my redraft tight end rankings. These are set up for a half-PPR league, so minor adjustments should be made if you’re in a PPR league. I finished last season as the...
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