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Fantasy Football 2009's Comatose Sleepers

The subject of fantasy “sleepers”, “super sleepers”, and “comatose sleepers” is often a touchy one. For the majority of fantasy players, who largely consider themselves in-the-know, ...

Written by Josh Galligan about 3 months ago 1,647 reads 3 comments
The Freudian Fumble Quiz: What Kind of Fantasy Football Personality Do You Have?

There are many different types of strategies that people choose to implement during their fantasy football season, and more often than not, it’s a direct reflection of their personality...

Written by Josh Galligan about 3 months ago 143 reads 0 comments
2009 NFL Preview and Predictions, Pt. 1: The NFC

While this was actually planned as a one-part AFC & NFC preview, this NFC breakdown eventually became so big to make it an effective doorstop when printed out...

Written by Josh Galligan about 5 months ago 356 reads 7 comments
Fanatical Fantasy Analysis: 2009 Running Back Strength of Schedule

Note: This article was written on the eve of the 2009 NFL Draft. You would have seen it in the opening sentence anyway, but I thought it best to get it out of the way RIGHT away instead of.....

Written by Josh Galligan about 5 months ago 494 reads 0 comments
The Real Sporting World Episode Three: "Drunken Interviews" (Satire)

Note: This is a fictional, make-believe show containing the likenesses of some our very favorite and colorful sports stars...

Written by Josh Galligan about 5 months ago 43 reads 0 comments
Seventh Heaven: The Top Seven Fantasy Rookie RBs for 2009

While the 2009 Draft didn't have a super-flashy, consensus No. 1 pick, the class as a whole does look to have a lot of depth and could potentially turn out to be very deep indeed...

Written by Josh Galligan about 5 months ago 660 reads 4 comments
Pigskin Jeopardy: Horrible GM/Owner Edition

NOTE: The following is a parody. It is entirely fictional and in no way accurately represents how the given person would act or react (well, maybe a little). If you don't like these types of things, then it would be wise to just go back the way you came..

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 169 reads 0 comments
NFL Powerless Rankings: Sept. 16, 2008

Ah, two weeks down, and two to go. There’s been some underachieving, some overachieving, and some conference-altering injuries...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 760 reads 0 comments
The Top-10 Things That Will Happen During or After Tonight's Season Opener

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking that it’s going to take me a little while to realize that the 'Skins/Giants matchup isn’t a preseason game. I've watched entirely too much preseason football...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 288 reads 4 comments
NFL Powerless Rankings: Sept. 3, 2008

After some low-to-mild success with my MLB Powerless Rankings, I felt it was only right to spread the nearly non-existent buzz to the wondrous NFL world we all know and love...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 436 reads 9 comments
NFL 2008 Preview and Playoff Predictions

Ah, can you smell it? No, not the sorry excuse for food you’re brewing in your kitchen—the NFL season genius! There’s a hint of fall in the air, and all of the locals are wearing the current player bandwagon jersey...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 1,975 reads 2 comments
The RB Odometer: High Career-Carry Red Flags

The biggest milestone that we seem to have set for running backs is for when they turn 30 years old. It’s not even a good milestone either, despite what the majority of the population will tell you...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 861 reads 8 comments
Target Practice: TD's and Yardage Points Per Target

I’m not going to try and hard sell you on why targets are important, don’t worry. If you are doubtful, or you just don't know what they are exactly, then you can read my previous article right here...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 360 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Matchup Extravaganza - WAS @ NYG

With the majority of drafts now done and the pre-season nearly over, it’s become time to look at the first few weeks of the NFL season as if they actually exist in our very same universe...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 114 reads 0 comments
Ted Ginn Jr.: Why You Can Pencil Him in For 70 Catches, 900 Yards And 6 TDs

With all the talk of Brett Favre this and Brett Favre that, the Dolphins sneaky acquisition of Chad Pennington went relatively unnoticed...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 889 reads 2 comments
Target Practice: Fantasy Points Per Target - Part 1

While researching further into the target information I had acquired with The Football Guys, Game Log Dominator (best thing since the forward pass I tell ya -- thank you Doug Drinen!), a light bulb went off in my head...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 68 reads 0 comments
The Magical 110: Analyzing WR Targets

To be honest, I’ve never really paid much attention to targets. Don’t ask me why, I just didn’t. I knew about them, but I never really tried to put them in context -- probably because I was too lazy...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 144 reads 0 comments
Comatose Sleepers: The Wide Receiver Edition

Since there is approximately 528 unofficial definitions for a sleeper, it is often hard to get a grasp or gain any middle ground on exactly what one is. Luckily, there is but one definition for a comatose sleeper...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 266 reads 1 comments
Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Pass Defense

For the tiered opposing run defense rankings: CLICK HEREWelcome to the second part of the Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 583 reads 0 comments
Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Pass Defense

Welcome to the second part of the Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings. If you haven’t read part one, these rankings will allow you to assign a filtered, position-specific value to a ...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 2,632 reads 3 comments
Fantasy Extravaganza: Top 25 WR’s Not In The Overall Top 25

If you think about it, you could put a monkey in front of a computer, tell it to pick many people near the top of the screen all the time and that monkey would likely have some impressive players on it’s roster...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 145 reads 1 comments
An Explanation for Mike Shanahan's Running Back Syndrome

Presently, fantasy owners run away from Denver's running backs like the ballcarriers have Ebola. You know, the disease where you bleed from every orifice? Yeah, that one...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 525 reads 2 comments
Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Run Defense

So there I was yesterday morning, thinking about strength of schedule in regards to fantasy football while enjoying my breakfast (a bologna sandwich) at work. Sure, it’s worth taking into account...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 1,267 reads 2 comments
Fantasy Football Extravaganza: The Top-20 QBs

I was going to make this a top-30 list, like the running-back edition, but ended up not having too much fun digging through the dregs of the league’s signal-callers in order to rank the late 20...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 867 reads 12 comments
Fantasy Football Extravaganza: Top-30 Running Backs

With approximately 75 fantasy football magazines currently available at any given supermarket and the preseason officially underway, it's safe to assume that the fantasy football season has officially begun...

Written by Josh Galligan about about 1 year ago 1,564 reads 6 comments

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Josh Galligan Article Archive

Fantasy Football 2009's Comatose Sleepers

The Freudian Fumble Quiz: What Kind of Fantasy Football Personality Do You Have?

2009 NFL Preview and Predictions, Pt. 1: The NFC

Fanatical Fantasy Analysis: 2009 Running Back Strength of Schedule

The Real Sporting World Episode Three: "Drunken Interviews" (Satire)

Seventh Heaven: The Top Seven Fantasy Rookie RBs for 2009

Pigskin Jeopardy: Horrible GM/Owner Edition

NFL Powerless Rankings: Sept. 16, 2008

The Top-10 Things That Will Happen During or After Tonight's Season Opener

NFL Powerless Rankings: Sept. 3, 2008

NFL 2008 Preview and Playoff Predictions

The RB Odometer: High Career-Carry Red Flags

Target Practice: TD's and Yardage Points Per Target

Fantasy Matchup Extravaganza - WAS @ NYG

Ted Ginn Jr.: Why You Can Pencil Him in For 70 Catches, 900 Yards And 6 TDs

Target Practice: Fantasy Points Per Target - Part 1

The Magical 110: Analyzing WR Targets

Comatose Sleepers: The Wide Receiver Edition

Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Pass Defense

Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Pass Defense

Fantasy Extravaganza: Top 25 WR’s Not In The Overall Top 25

An Explanation for Mike Shanahan's Running Back Syndrome

Filtered Strength of Schedule Rankings: Opposing Run Defense

Fantasy Football Extravaganza: The Top-20 QBs

Fantasy Football Extravaganza: Top-30 Running Backs

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