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Perfect Draft Challenge: Lessons & Takeaways (2023 Fantasy Football)
We’re running a fun little game here at FantasyPros called the Perfect Draft Challenge in which you get a do-over on 2022 fantasy drafts. You already have the answer key because you know how the season turned out. It’s just ... → Read More
Fitz’s NFL Playoff Rankings & Tiers (2023 Fantasy Football)
Maybe you aren’t ready to be done with fantasy football yet and have joined a playoff league. A lot of the playoff formats use cumulative scoring, so it’s not just about picking good players — it’s about picking good players ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 18 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
Hello, diehards. I realize that some of you still have skin in the Week 18 games — two-week championships, toilet bowls, etc. — so I’m rolling out my weekly tiers article one last time. The final week of the regular ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 17 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
There are so many ways a fantasy season can go awry. You can be the person who catches every opponent at the worst possible time and ends up leading your league in opponent points against. You can be the person ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 16 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
Last month, on the occasion of a Browns-Bills game being moved to Detroit in advance of a snowstorm in Buffalo, I wrote about weather effects on fantasy football. Concerns about bad weather are often unfounded, and there are many times ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 15 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
Are you nervous? The Week 15 action hasn’t begun yet, but my palms are sweaty already. What can I say? That fantasy playoff anxiety hits me every December. Before we get to the tiers, let me humbly offer one small ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 14 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
Before we get to the Week 14 tiers, let’s talk about luck for a moment. This is the final week of the regular season in most fantasy leagues — a time of year when fantasy managers are inclined to curse ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 13 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
With the fantasy playoffs just ahead, start/sit decisions become even more fraught than usual. One misstep could knock you out of playoff contention and leave you tormented by regret for months. So let’s not have any of that, OK? Let’s ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 12 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
It’s Thanksgiving week, so let’s start with something far more important than my rankings and tiers for fantasy football — my rankings and tiers for Thanksgiving menu items. I’m 100% certain these rankings will prompt no disagreement whatsoever. Check out ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 10 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
It’s amusing how certain we are about depth charts and player roles every August when we’re drafting our teams. And then, of course, by Week 10 or so, the chessboard looks completely different. (“Hey, how the heck did my bishop ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 9 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
What fresh hell is this? It’s bad enough that we’re in a dreaded six-team bye week — a byepocalypse, if you will. Further complicating matters is the large number of significant fantasy contributors whose status for Week 9 is up ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 8 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
We’re coming off a depressing week in which we lost Jets RB Breece Hall to a season-ending knee injury and also saw some other significant fantasy contributors — D.K. Metcalf, Mike Williams, David Njoku — go down with what are ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 7 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
This is a tough week for a lot of fantasy managers. Two of the league’s most potent offenses — Buffalo and Philadelphia — are on bye this week. Minnesota is on bye, too, which takes away Justin Jefferson and Dalvin ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 6 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
The bye weeks are here. Hello, darkness, my old friend. The byes can be disruptive, sending you into the dimly lit, cobweb-filled corners of your roster with a flashlight. I avoid going into the attic of my house as much ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 5 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
The tiers article is getting a makeover. For the first few weeks of the season, I offered quick thoughts on just about every player listed in the tiers. The Primer already offers information and opinions on every fantasy-viable player, so ... → Read More
Fitz’s Fantasy Football Week 4 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022)
We’re three weeks in. We’ve measured up our opponents, thrown a few jabs. Now it’s time to really start mixing it up. My weekly tiers column is meant to add a bit of color to my player rankings and perhaps ... → Read More
Fitz’s Fantasy Football Week 3 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022)
We’re two games into the new season, and things still feel unsettled. Perhaps it’s because so few teams use the preseason as a dress rehearsal these days. As a result, the first few weeks of the regular season have a ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 2 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
Isn’t it great that we finally have some new data to chew on? Week 1 answered some of our offseason questions … but it also raised some new questions. I’m going to walk you through my Week 2 rankings, sort ... → Read More
Fitz’s Week 1 Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Advice (2022 Fantasy Football)
We fantasy enthusiasts spend all offseason looking at players through a wide-angle lens. What is Player X’s ceiling? What is his floor? What sort of season-long numbers can we expect from him? Where and when should he be drafted? Now ... → Read More
Pat Fitzmaurice’s Fantasy Football Week 1 Rankings (2022)
Here are my fantasy football rankings for Week 1. You can find our expert consensus fantasy football rankings for the week here. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom ... → Read More