Fantasy Football: How to redeem your season after an 0-3 start

No matter what your starting record is in your fantasy football leagues, there’s still a path to winning your league. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Getty Images)

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If your fantasy squad sits at 0-3, welcome to Super Bowl week. You’re in it right now. Mathematically, this might not actually be a must-win, but we would not recommend losing for a fourth straight week.

Way back in the preseason, we mentioned the fact that fantasy teams starting 0-3 in Yahoo public leagues last year only qualified for the playoffs 12% of the time. You don’t even want to know about the odds for 0-4 teams. As you might imagine, they are, um … not great.

Of course, you don’t need an expert to tell you that it’s time to consider winning one of your matchups. The how-to is the tricky part.

Here are a few difficult truths — and one optimistic nugget — you need to confront if you’re a winless manager:

🤝 Maybe it’s time to lose a trade.

Or rather, it might be time to take a long-term hit on a trade that improves your probability of winning in Week 4. Different managers should have different time horizons right now, depending on their placement in the standings. An 0-3 team with an injured star like Christian McCaffrey or Puka Nacua (or A.J. Brown or Cooper Kupp) on its bench needs to seriously consider any offer that increases the short-term point projection. You don’t have the luxury of patience. CMC can’t help you win anything but the consolation bracket.

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🚫 Please note, however, that you do not want to allow the vultures to scoop up your legitimately useful and healthy players.

Let’s not deal away CeeDee Lamb in exchange for two or three mid-tier dudes. As a…

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Publish date : 2024-09-26 14:18:26

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