Keith Black

In Defense of the Kicker

2nd of May, 2013

Everyone has that cousin you don’t talk about. That friend who just sort of disappeared after high school. The people in our lives that, for one reason or another, we tend to forget about, ignore, or exclude from our mind space as we think about more important or relevant things. The Kicker is the weirdo […]

2013 Player Profiles: Matt Bryant, Lawrence Tynes, Kai Forbath

1st of April, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Matt Bryant, K, Atlanta Falcons Half of the kicker battle is being on a good offense, and the Atlanta Falcons are about […]

2013 Player Profiles: Percy Harvin, Wes Welker, Mike Wallace

21st of March, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Percy Harvin, WR, Seattle Seahawks One of the two biggest newsmakers this year, Harvin is a guy that fantasy players love and […]

2013 Player Profiles: Brandon Marshall, Reggie Wayne, Danario Alexander

1st of March, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Brandon Marshall, WR, Chicago Bears Caveat: Marshall has been a guy I have not ever owned on any fantasy team. Exactly none […]

Player Profiles: Torrey Smith, Mike Williams, Justin Blackmon

19th of February, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Torrey Smith, WR, Baltimore Ravens My inkling is that a Super Bowl victory should shoot Smith up draft boards. That makes a […]

2013 Player Profiles: Randall Cobb, Stevie Johnson, Cecil Shorts

11th of February, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Randall Cobb, WR, Green Bay Packers One guy shooting up draft boards is the dynamic Randall Cobb. The speedy Packers wideout opened […]

2013 Player Profiles: Victor Cruz, Steve Smith, T.Y. Hilton

8th of February, 2013

The Player Profile series breaks down the 2012 performances of key players at each position in order to project where they should be drafted in 2013. Dig in, read up, and look ahead. Victor Cruz, WR, New York Giants Cruz was somewhat of an enigma coming into the 2012 season. Popular opinion was pretty split […]

AJ Green, Julio Jones, Dez Bryant and Standard Deviation

1st of February, 2013

This year, more than any other, I’ve seen a ton of talk in the fantasy universe about consistency. The thought is, in my opinion, right on the money. Point-per-game averages don’t really tell the whole story. For instance, if a guy scores 0 and 30 points over a two week span, and another guy scores […]

Defending Chris Johnson: Was His 2012 Campaign Really That Bad?

17th of January, 2013

Often, in fantasy football, we get a lot of noise and chatter in the ether. Twitter has made it easy to get our news, opinions, frustrations, and whatever else out into the ether extremely easy. Often, what you will see on Twitter is a runaway train of news, ideas, or narratives. That is, people get […]

2012 Rankings Post-Mortem: Assessing Expert’s Accuracy

7th of January, 2013

The most inherent difficulty in fantasy football has been, is, and always will be the air (or lack thereof) of consistency. Fantasy owners struggle, and have struggled, with finding some kind of accuracy, some sort of fortune-telling ability whether it be of real-football analysts, fantasy-football analysts, statisticians, coaches, psychics, and any other number of sources. […]