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John Lanfranca prepares you for the start of the NFL season. He releases his first football wager of the season and gives you one more season long player prop to exploit. What other games are the best targets for potential ...

The time has come. Amidst a backdrop of a global pandemic named Covid-19, the NFL commences this Thursday. Get your lineups in. Here goes nothing! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

Turn on the tape and Tyler Boyd finds a way to be wide open a lot and he can make contested catches which makes it easy to target him for a rookie quarterback with no game experience. His current ADP (WR32) continues to makes no sense.

B.J. Goodson’s no world-beater in coverage, and his IDP value may well carry an expiration date in 2020. But the 27-year-old has shown the ability to fill up the stat sheet when healthy in the past. So long as he’s starting, Goodson should be rostered in IDP leagues.

So why is the 4th overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft appearing here? Because the Jaguars just cut him. Not traded him. Not locked into intense contract negotiations. Straight. Up. Released. Him.

Here are the results from this seasons Great White Shark League Draft. Great White is the pinnacle of our leagues, comprised only of multiple Championship players that have played there way to the very top. Once again, it was a very competitive draft.

Perhaps the most interesting thing that we’ve heard from a variety of drafters is how many people are out on Alvin Kamara. Yes, that Alvin Kamara. A guy who is cemented as a top five pick in the vast majority of drafts is being faded by many.

If you're circling back around for a RB2 (or even RB1) in Round 3, there are several options to choose from. Among those are a handful of veteran backs who demonstrated top-10 fantasy upside in the past.

In his final seven games as a rookie, Slayton absolutely exploded, nabbing 31 catches for 467 yards and five touchdowns. These are hard numbers to ignore, and left simply with that, and the budding relationship with Daniel Jones, and you have enough of a reason to invest in him long term.

Christian McCaffrey is amazingly like another player from the way-back machine. Marshall Faulk from 2000 and 2001 with the one exception is that Christian McCaffrey scores more points! History does not repeat but it rhymes.

In a recent mock draft I participated in, I drafted Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan in the 10th round. It was one of those drafts where Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson come off the board, and then a staring contest ensues ...

John Lanfranca discusses some of the latest training camp news and how to react to it. Should you be reacting differently to reports on rookies vs veteran players? What is the best format to take a shot on the upside ...

Lamar Jackson and then Pat Mahomes? Mahomes first, then Jackson? It doesn't much matter, it's those two and then everyone else.

Courtland Sutton's a good bet to lead a Broncos team that added a pair of receivers in this year's draft in targets this year, and there's a very real possibly he'll blow the doors off his high-end WR3 asking price.

John Lanfranca discusses how it can become detrimental to your fantasy squad if you put too much stock in previous year’s season-end rankings. A potential value on the last place finisher in the NFC North betting market. And several late-round ...

Our Analysis Draft series continues with our Staff II Draft. This one is a best-ball draft, 12 teams, 20 rounds, where it's all about drafting a team that will not only last 17 weeks but can score in bunches too.

There is one word in fantasy football that looms above all others as the most important in the game. One concept that is the most critical. One notion that is the most vital to fantasy success. In fantasy football, there’s nothing more important than value.

FanEx is the first experts league ever, starting out of the fantasy football news group before there even were web sites. The draft content was a source for many young fantasy upstarts both in and out of the industry back in the early-mid 90's -- the league continues to this day. We'll be posting the analysis draft here this year.

Say the name “Sammy Watkins” to many fantasy managers, and you’ll get a dirty look. As he showed though, with an explosion of nine catches, 198 yards and three touchdowns in the season opener last year, he’s capable of posting an absolutely gonzo stat line from time to time.

We're opening up our Analysis Mock Draft season with a number of analysis drafts from our staff in various formats. To open, we're starting traditional with a standard 12-teamer, full point PPR with a Flex.

After playing in all 16 games eight consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2018, Stafford missed half of the 2019 campaign with a back injury. However, before Stafford got hurt the 32-year-old was quietly peeling off one of the better seasons of his career.

After Ben Roethlisberger was lost for the season, the Steelers’ entire passing game became as unappealing as anchovies on a fudge sundae. The sky is still the limit for Smith-Schuster..

In Episode 2 of the Fantasy Sharks Weekly Podcast, John Lanfranca will reveal ten important stats to know, each correlating to a player he is bullish on for the 2020 season. What do these stats really tell us? And do ...

It’s a long ways off but we’ve run some numbers and wanted to share an overview of where the best position is to be this year in a standard fantasy 12-team snake-draft. We’ve done analysis in the past on season ...

We’ll follow up with the all-important rookies for dynasty leagues list, but for redraft leagues we’ve put this together for you. Each player is assigned a value that we calculate using our evaluation algorithm, which produces a players expected fantasy ...

In a move that shocked no one, the Bengals got their franchise QB. While it is not enough to immediately make A.J. Green & Joe Mixon first round picks in fantasy drafts, their value has gone up a bit. As far as Andy Dalton's future, he should only be drafted by people who also got Burrow, just in case Burrow gets hurt.

The Bengals got their guy on the offensive side of the ball and now they can make out like bandits and get one of the best O-Line prospects in the draft to help protect him. Isaiah Wilson can immediately slide in to replace Cody Glenn and will be just as good as Glenn was.

While I do not have to sit in an airport to get to the NFL draft this year, I did still sketch out two rounds, here is Round 1. Keep in mind, these are picks based on rumors, where players have made visits and other general information based on team needs. Enjoy!

Red Zone statistics can be a valuable tool if used correctly.  Obviously, the teams with better offenses will have more opportunities and we can use this data to exploit certain match-ups or identify players that could be overlooked while looking ...

Chris Carson averaged over 4.6 yards per carry in his first two seasons in the NFL and his fantasy performances last year were impressive. He finished as the RB15 for the year, but over the course of the last six weeks, he was the RB11 and won a lot of people leagues in Weeks 12-16 where he was the RB5.

As recently as 2017, Ansah was a Top 12 IDP option among defensive linemen in Fantasy Sharks Default IDP Scoring. That sort of upside is very rarely available in DL4 territory on draft day.

The NFL is a wildly successful business. It consists of 32 teams that all have positive revenue and operating income in the millions. How many businesses can say that? Everyone is a winner in this business model.

If there is any knock on Sony Michel in this game, it’s that he failed to score from the 1-yard line, and fullback James Develin scored on the next play -- a familiar sight for anyone who rostered Michel last year. Develin will most likely continue to vulture some touchdowns in the regular season, but you shouldn’t let that turn you off from Michel.

Many experts have been high on Nick Chubb as a player for the upcoming year -- despite some glaring red flags. Others see the red flags at the cost of picking Nick Chubb at the start of the second round of drafts.

Since so many of you found my Consistency Rankings so useful-- and were nice enough to subscribe to my social media outlets-- I was inspired to come up with some projections for your drafts. These projections are one part Fantasy Sharks analysis, one part Consistency Rankings, and one part geeky math...

Preston Brown isn’t being drafted like a three-down middle linebacker for a bad Cincinnati team whose defense could be on the field a ton in 2019. Or like a player who racked up four straight 100-tackle seasons while with Buffalo — including 144 total stops two years ago.

He's not a sleeper. He's not a value pick. If you want him, you need to go out and ensure that you land him. Everyone in 2019 is on the same page when it comes to Chrisitan Kirk.

This past weekend has rapidly become my favorite of the year. I was again honored to represent Fantasy Sharks at the second King’s Classic fantasy drafts at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio.

Fantasy owners are understandably cautious after Adam Thielen’s production dipped in the middle of last season when Minnesota switched offensive coordinators, but he’s just too talented to pass up at his current third-round draft price.

Welcome back one and all to the 2019 Shark Leagues! This is where we separate the champions from the chum. Once again we are offering the best free leagues on the planet where the competition gets harder the more you win.