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I Was On A Podcast [The Fantom Fantasy Sports Football Podcast] Talking Aaron Rodgers and NFL Draft Recap

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A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2013 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

I started this series up 3 months ago – see here for the 2012 opening piece. Now here we are, 3 months later, with nary a week until the 2023 NFL Draft. Let’s get back on track!

To bring everyone up to speed…

Super Bowl Prop Quiz – 2023

Every year my wife and I put together a Super Bowl Prop quiz. We’ve been sending this to family and coworkers since 2015.

The quiz is designed to make each answer relatively close in odds. There will be some contrarian choices available, but none of the two-choice options are like -650 and +800 odds, or anything like that. That’s why Rihanna’s hair color is Black or Other and not Black or Gold or Orange or Blue, etc.

Fun fact – I once had a 60+ person quiz pool won by a non-football fan in the Purchasing department…and she forgot to answer one of the 19 questions.

A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2012 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

Back in 2012, I remember thinking to myself that it would have been cool to be able to draft Andrew Luck in a dynasty football league when he was still 1-2 years away from the NFL Draft. Luck was a big time prospect and there was talk of him being a future #1 overall pick well before the 2011 college season. What I had in mind was fantasy football, but with a draft that looks more like the NHL than the NFL.

I didn’t realize at the time that this was a thing, so instead of joining a league that played like that, I popped open good ol’ Mr. Excel and started doing it myself.

Fantasy Football Offseason Update

As the NFL season turns to a close, and this time my wife isn’t pregnant with another kid and dealing with 24/7 morning sickness, I’m planning to keep the blog going between now and September.

While it may be possible to keep it going with just fantasy football-based content, or at least football, or perhaps at least sports, I’m planning to introduce a variety of topics to the blog. Board gaming is what I have in mind at the moment. I don’t plan to spend on a second domain name (the website is just under my name, after all) so I’m going to cram it all in at Byron-Cobalt.com.

Fantasy Zombies Showed Up For The Finale, But Did It Matter? – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Season Awards

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

TL:DR; – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

Quick Note – I had been planning to post this the day after the fantasy season ended, but waited a few days, for obvious reasons. Hello to the crazy people with Week 18 championship games.

If The Walking Dead finale was good, but nobody really watched, does it matter?

If Mike Evans and Tom Brady balled out in Week 17, but nobody started them in the championship, does it matter?

‘Twas The Day Before Christmas When Throughout The Playoffs, Fantasy Man’gers Were Handing Out Layoffs – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 15 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

TL:DR; – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

‘Twas the day before Christmas, when throughout the playoffs,
Fantasy Man’gers were handing out layoffs.
While players were drafted to fill teams with care,
By now in December, less vic’tries were there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of workhorse backs danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I without clothes,
Checked for the scores I’ve now learned to loathe.

If Your Goal Was To Miss The Playoffs, The Best Strategy Was To Draft Tom Brady – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 14 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

Short Version – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

Tom Brady has spent the last 5 years making fantasy managers question their sanity as they hesitate to draft a 40/41/42/43/44 year old quarterback.

Now, finally, in his Age 45 season, it seems like he’s lost a step.

If You Want To Be A Hall-Of-Fame Quarterback, Just Throw To Davante Adams – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 13 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

Short Version – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

For those following along with FGW since 2021 – or those who owned Davante Adams last year – you know he was almost the MVP fantasy football last year. Cooper Kupp was better in the regular season, Ja’Marr Chase was better in the playoffs, but Davante came through super hard in both parts of teh year.

On the Fantom Sports Fantasy podcast back between Week 10 and Week 11, I asked host Branden Timm whether he would want Justin Jefferson or Stefon Diggs the rest of the way. At the time, I thought that was a effectively the same question as asking “Who’s your WR1 for the rest of the season?”

I was clearly disrespecting Davante.

Josh Jacobs and Jalen Hurts Were The Steals of 2022 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 12 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

Short Version – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

If you look at the top 12 performers of 2022 so far, and check which rounds they were drafted on average, the list goes like this:

2nd Round, 3rd Round, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 5th, 1st, 2nd.

Those two fifth rounders: Josh Jacobs and Jalen Hurts.