If you’re in a standard fantasy football league, your playoffs got underway on Thursday night during San Diego’s rout of the 49ers.

One misconception about this time of the fantasy season is that if you’re still in contention for the playoffs, you have a solid core of every-week starters and don’t need to scour the waiver wire. While you may be lucky enough to be in this position, it’s certainly not a given for contending teams. I [...]

I missed seeing Michael Vick tear the Redskins’ defense apart this past Monday night, but the next morning, when I saw the box score, it looked familiar. At the height of my obsession with the Madden NFL video game franchise, it was 2004. As Rivalspot readers may or may not remember, the version of Mike [...]

It’s Week 10 in the NFL, which means a few things. For one, we’re welcoming Thursday night games to the schedule this week with a good one, as Baltimore travels to Atlanta. So be sure to get those lineups set early. It also signals that we’re officially immersed in the second half of the NFL [...]

All right, here’s something I’ve never understood: Why are the most important games of sports seasons often played in weather conditions entirely different than what everyone played in all season long? After six months of playing in mostly warm, summer weather, baseball teams play the postseason in October temperature that’s occasionally close to freezing. And [...]

Dallas Clark’s season-ending injury got me thinking about what an unusual year it’s been for tight ends. Of course, you’ll always get at least a handful of injuries every year at any position, but this year’s group of tight ends seems especially snake-bitten. Clark and Jermichael Finley were two of the first three tight ends [...]

If you’re an Ahmad Bradshaw owner and saw the final line for the Giants this past weekend, you were probably pretty pleased. Even though he didn’t crack the goal line, 143 yards from scrimmage makes for a solid fantasy week in all but the cruelest of TD-only leagues. Of course, if you were watching the [...]

2010 may have been Major League Baseball’s “Year of the Pitcher,” but through five weeks, it doesn’t appear that the 2010 NFL season will ever be referred to as the Year of the Quarterback. You’d think we could find 32 guys capable of playing the position at an adequate level, but if there are 32, [...]

Before the 2010 NFL season got underway, I was talking to a friend about his Survivor pool — one of those contests where you pick a different team to win each week, and whoever goes the longest without getting a pick wrong wins. I wasn’t in a pool myself, but I suggested he take the [...]

Is there a more frustrating feeling in fantasy football than accurately forecasting a matchup that could be exploited, but getting the player wrong? Skeptical of the Patriots defense, I made a last-minute decision to start Fred Jackson in one league last week. I then watched for the next three hours as Marshawn Lynch got the [...]