Fantasy Football: 4 league-winning tips you won’t hear everywhere else

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Back in the old days, we received our fantasy football news once a day from a TV or radio broadcast and gathered our tips and tricks from a magazine that came out in July and never saw a useful update. Those days are gone. Now we get news the second it happens and our advice from one of eight gazillion articles or podcasts published all the way up to draft day. As a result, there’s far less that we don’t “know” heading into the season.

But we dig deep here at 4for4 … so I’ve mined up four nuggets of wisdom that you won’t get everywhere else. Whether spin-offs of more popular advice or outright sleeper tips, these are less mainstream concepts that can (and will) help you win your leagues.

Optimize the value of slow starters (particularly rookies) with early-year fill-ins

Back in 2015, the St. Louis Rams selected running back Todd Gurley 10th overall, despite the torn ACL he had suffered just five months prior. They eased Gurley into the lineup, sitting him for Weeks 1-2 and giving him just 14 snaps in Week 3 … before feeding him 248 opportunities the rest of the year. He ended up finishing as the RB7 after being drafted around RB27. Now imagine if you paired Gurley with a solid low-cost back to fill in the gap … someone like Danny Woodhead (RB40 in ADP), who saw 41 opportunities over those three games. Woodhead’s first three weeks plus Gurley’s next 12 weeks would have given you 244.5 fantasy points over the full fantasy season — good for RB2 overall.

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What’s the point of this trip down memory lane? To highlight the value of pairing a slow starter — whether a rookie, recovering from injury, or both — with an inexpensive short-term stop-gap. My personal favorite combo in 2024 is running back Jonathon Brooks (second-round rookie recovering from a torn ACL, ADP of RB28) with Jerome Ford (ADP of RB39). The situation is an uncanny mirror for the Gurley-Woodhead one, with…

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Publish date : 2024-08-28 19:29:44

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