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Updated August 27, 2024 Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been quite successful in fantasy football. I’ve been asked, “What’s your secret?” Well, there’s not a secret [...]

Winning in fantasy football is fun. There’s a thrill in building your team and beating your league-mates. However, there are a few critical mistakes that many fantasy owners make that [...]

When the salary cap was introduced in 1994, the narrative that the team owners and league executives pushed was that they needed a mechanism that would ensure that each team spent (roughly) the [...]

The NFL salary cap and free agency were first implemented in 1994, in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of NFL players in the late 1980s. The two sides negotiated for several years. The 1994 [...]

On March 14, 2024, the Los Angeles Chargers traded star wide receiver Keenan Allen to the Chicago Bears. Allen has one year left on his current contract. He’s slated to become a free agent [...]

Rookie salaries and contracts in the NFL are often misunderstood. Even many media types that cover the NFL don’t seem to fully understand how it all works. In 2011, as part of the new [...]

Running backs have been severely devalued in the NFL over the last 20+ years. But in fantasy football running backs are still essential to building a competitive fantasy team. Many fantasy owners [...]

The 2023 NFL season will be my 29th season playing fantasy football.  Of my previous 28 seasons playing fantasy, I’ve been a commissioner 24 of those seasons. Over the last 15 seasons or so [...]

During the NFL offseason, the NFL does not count the full salary of every player on the team’s 90-man off-season roster towards the salary cap. That’s where the top 51 rule comes in. [...]

The fifth-year option is a contract provision in the NFL that applies to all first-round draft picks. This provision was negotiated by the NFL owners and the NFLPA as part of the [...]

Many times in my life I’ve said that fantasy football is all about value. The fantasy football owner that gets the best values in his fantasy draft is the owner that’s most likely to [...]

I’ve been playing fantasy football since 1996 and I’ve had a lot of success. The main reason that I’ve been successful is really quite simple, for the same reason why some real [...]