Author: Beans

State of the Union: Week 2 Is Official, and the Portfolio Is 7-1

Three 2-0 starts. One 1-1 team. Two defending champions unbeaten. One knockout team still alive.

Week 2 is officially in the books, and across my four normal head-to-head leagues, the record is 7-1. As President William Henry Harrison once said: Ladies and gentlemen, the state of the union is strong. Also, I’m probably going to live for much, much longer.

Continue reading “State of the Union: Week 2 Is Official, and the Portfolio Is 7-1”

Week 3 Waiver Wire: Who Everyone Will Add — and Who They Should

Last week, I split the waiver wire into two different questions. In the September 15 column, I froze a market prediction and a separate recommendation board. Then the September 16 receipts post graded what fantasy managers actually did.

The structure stays the same this week, with one addition: before making new calls, I have to grade whether last week’s recommendations survived another game.

Continue reading “Week 3 Waiver Wire: Who Everyone Will Add — and Who They Should”

We Froze the Board. The Waiver Wire Gave Us an Answer.

We Froze the Board. The Waiver Wire Gave Us an Answer.

Last week, we tried to predict the Week 1 waiver frenzy before a snap was played. Tuesday, we froze a new market board and separately made our actual waiver recommendations. Wednesday gives us the first receipts.

The point of this series is simple: write down the calls before we know the answers, then grade the calls we actually made. No reranking after the fact. No replacing a frozen prediction with a looser version that happens to fit the result.

Continue reading “We Froze the Board. The Waiver Wire Gave Us an Answer.”

Week 2 Waiver Wire: Who Everyone Will Add — and Who They Should

Last week, we published a prediction before the NFL had given us a single snap of evidence. Using the Waiver-Frenzy Score, we froze the three players we believed would set off the biggest post–Week 1 waiver frenzy — Dontayvion Wicks, George Holani and Malik Washington — and put them on the record before kickoff. That was the experiment on hard mode: no box scores, no usage, no injuries, just an attempt to forecast the market blind. The score wasn't designed to name the highest-scoring players, and it wasn't recommending who you should add. It was trying to predict the market.

The games have now been played, and that flips the exercise entirely. Today's predictions are the opposite of last week's — we're no longer guessing what Week 1 might produce, we're reacting to what it did. In theory, that should make the market easier to read. Whether last week's blind version actually worked is a question we answer tomorrow, not today.

Continue reading “Week 2 Waiver Wire: Who Everyone Will Add — and Who They Should”

For Sale: Coaches’ Shoes, Hardly Worn – A Look at Which Coaches Will be Fired When

Every September, 32 NFL head coaches report for work. All 32 have plans. They have laminated play sheets, leadership councils and culture. They spent the entire summer telling reporters that their third-year guard is “in the best shape of his life.”

Some of these men will be unemployed by Halloween.

Continue reading “For Sale: Coaches’ Shoes, Hardly Worn – A Look at Which Coaches Will be Fired When”

Is Having the First Pick Good?

There are few feelings in life better than finding out you have the first pick in your fantasy football draft. Maybe the birth of a child. Maybe watching the Berlin Wall crumble. Maybe walking into 11 and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie daps you up and brings you on stage to rap “My Shit” with him. I don’t know. But 1.01 is up there.

Continue reading “Is Having the First Pick Good?”

The Power of Manifestation: 49ers Sign Undrafted Wide Receiver Daejon Love

Sometimes all you need is an opportunity and a dream. 

After years of telling women he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers despite the San Francisco 49ers absolutely not employing him, wide receiver Daejon Love’s dream has finally come true.

Continue reading “The Power of Manifestation: 49ers Sign Undrafted Wide Receiver Daejon Love”