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In the early 1990s, NFL players wanted a much larger slice of the league’s overall revenue. One of the mechanisms that was crafted to help accomplish this was the salary floor. What is the [...]

The average NBA salary in 2023-2024 was $9.7 million. The average WNBA salary during the same time period was $147,745. This is clear evidence of sexism, right? (Can you sense the thick sarcasm?) [...]

Heading into the 2025 off-season, the New Orleans Saints were reportedly $64+ million over the NFL salary cap. According to the alarmists online, the Saints were in “cap hell.” If you [...]

Major League Baseball has more nostalgia and a more storied history than the NFL. The NBA has a massive global following, basketball is played in more nations than American football. And events [...]

Jalen Hurts is an unorthodox QB. He’s not the prototypical passer that NFL teams covet. Hurts does not have the accuracy of Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert. He doesn’t have the arm [...]

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 [...]

Updated March 19, 2025 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 [...]

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 [...]