Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: So you made the semifinals — now what?

One round down, two to go! Whether you’re coming off a bye or emerging victorious on the strength of any one (or several) of the dominating fantasy performances from Week 15, we’ve got the advice you need to keep the momentum going through to the championship.

If you were eliminated from the playoffs this past weekend and you’re just here out of habit, I love it! Starting Tyreek Hill, Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry was supposed to turn out better than this. Nobody told me either that Mac Jones, Cooper Rush and Drake Maye were the key to winning the week while Jameis Winston, Brock Purdy and Tua Tagovailoa were fantasy poison.

You’ve got three options now. One, you can look back on a wild rollercoaster of a season with fondness, appreciate how far you got and reflect on whether you could have logically done anything different. Sometimes the answer is no. You do your optimal best and the fantasy points will sometimes go the other way. But if you can learn anything about your tendencies to hold onto and start players based more on name value and ADP than actual performance and matchup, or when to blow your whole FAAB or if you should be more open to trade offers, take the lessons.

The other way to go is all-out rage. Play loud harsh music, delete all (other) fantasy apps and podcasts, do a good amount of sulking and of course, wish the worst on the leaguemates who beat you with freaking Jerome Ford or Rashad Batemon.

Lastly, give another fantasy format a try. Play DFS. You’re here, you might as well use the information!

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Back to the managers who are advancing: before we get into some specific player-related advice (I’m putting them in bins according to levels of trust this week), I want to follow up on some points from last week and zoom out to a league-wide look at motivation. Motivation matters a LOT this time of year. Teams with nothing to play for may rest…


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Publish date : 2024-12-17 17:10:00

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