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Alex McCarthy

Alex McCarthy

Alex has become a hard core Diehard fantasy football dynasty player after discovering the format a few years into his fantasy career. His articles and dynasty rankings are well thought out and very detailed. Enjoy the man who isn't afraid to wear a crown - at least on the internet!

Using Strength-of-Schedule Analysis to Get Ahead 2022
(8/1/2022)

The Schedules The color-coded schedules that accompany this article provide a graphic representation of the caliber of passing and rushing defenses each team will play over the course of the season. Projecting a teams defensive performance for next season begins with analyzing their performance Full Story

Using Strength of Schedule Analysis to Get Ahead 2021
(8/4/2021)

The Schedules The color-coded schedules that accompany this article provide a graphic representation of the caliber of passing and rushing defenses each team will play over the course of the season. Projecting a teams defensive performance begins with analyzing their performance from last season, Full Story

Using Strength of Schedule Analysis to Get Ahead
(7/15/2019)

The Schedules The color-coded schedules that accompany this article are a graphic representation of the caliber of passing and rushing defenses each team will play over the course of the season. Projecting a teams defensive performance for next season begins with analyzing their performance from la Full Story

Dynasty Stockwatch 2019
(7/15/2019)

The NFL offseason may represent some much-needed time off for the players, but front offices are active year round. The seven months between the Super Bowl and Week 1 contain frantic flurries of activity in free agency, the draft, and the annual coaching carousel as GMs scramble to improve their tea Full Story

Bang for Your Buck 2018 Running Back Tiers
(2/26/2018)

A simple rankings list can be helpful when trying to get an idea of where a player generally rates among his position, but often the difference between Player 1 and Player 2 is a lot bigger than the difference between Player 2 and Player 3. This is where tiered rankings come into play. Tiers are g Full Story

Bang for Your Buck 2018 Wide Receiver Tiers
(2/26/2018)

A simple rankings list can be helpful when trying to get an idea of where a player generally rates among his position, but often the difference between Player 1 and Player 2 is a lot bigger than the difference between Player 2 and Player 3. This is where tiered rankings come into play. Tiers are g Full Story

Bang for Your Buck 2018 Quarterback Tiers
(2/26/2018)

A simple rankings list can be helpful when trying to get an idea of where a player generally rates among his position, but often the difference between Player 1 and Player 2 is a lot bigger than the difference between Player 2 and Player 3. This is where tiered rankings come into play. Tiers are g Full Story

Bang for Your Buck 2018 Tight End Tiers
(2/26/2018)

Bang for Your Buck: 2018 Tight End Tiers A simple rankings list can be helpful when trying to get an idea of where a player generally rates among his position, but often the difference between Player 1 and Player 2 is a lot bigger than the difference between Player 2 and Player 3. This is wh Full Story

Free Agency Stock Market Corner Part 2 Running Backs 2018
(2/14/2018)

NFL running backs tend to both develop more quickly and have a shorter shelf life than wide receivers, so the offseason free agency market tends to be correspondingly less robust (as teams often feel they can get game-ready RBs on cheap rookie deals). That said, there are a few RBs on the market th Full Story

Free Agency Stock Market Wide Receivers 2018
(2/8/2018)

With the 2017-2018 NFL season in the books and the Patriots satisfyingly defeated like the Disney villains that they are, it is time for the dynasty-inclined to look ahead to potential offseason movement and how it will affect player valuations. In this first installment of a mini-series on free ag Full Story

Dynasty Dumpster Dive High-Potential Prospects That Wont Break the Bank Part 1 RBs
(11/29/2017)

Like any good manager, you’re always looking to make moves that will improve your dynasty team. However, for various reasons you may not have a lot of capital to work with- maybe you inherited an orphan team largely devoid of value, or maybe you have the majority of your fantasy wealth tied up in a Full Story

Dynasty Dumpster Dive: High-Potential Prospects That Wont Break the Bank Part 2 WRs
(11/29/2017)

Like any good manager, you’re always looking to make moves that will improve your dynasty team. However, for various reasons you may not have a lot of capital to work with- maybe you inherited an orphan team largely devoid of value, or maybe you have the majority of your fantasy wealth tied up in a Full Story

Fantasy Playoff Preparation: Strength of Schedule Part 2
(11/9/2017)

If you missed the first part of the article you can find it (and a longer description of what is about to follow) here, but the gist of it is this: over the course of the fantasy playoffs in weeks 14-16, some players have two out of their three matchups against top-10 or bottom-10 defenses (against Full Story

Fantasy Playoff Preparation: Strength of Schedule Part 1
(11/9/2017)

So things are looking good for your team right now, and you’re looking for ways to prepare for a postseason run. You may have already mathematically made the cut or you may be in a position where it would be near-impossible to miss out, but either way you’re ready to shift gears into playoff mode. Full Story

The Art of the Rebuild: Part 2 Acquiring Assets
(10/21/2017)

Welcome back to The Art of the Rebuild, in Part 1 of which we discussed what sort of players you should be looking to sell off to kickstart your rebuild. Now let’s take a look at the assets you’ll be targeting with all of your newfound capital, starting with that most liquid of currencies- draft pi Full Story

The Art of the Rebuild: Part 1 Selling Off Assets
(10/21/2017)

If you’re anything like me, your 2017 dynasty season hasn’t gone exactly as planned. I lost my WR2 and WR3 (Julian Edelman and Cam Meredith) to injury before the season even started and watched for the first few weeks as my WR1 and WR4 (Julio Jones and Sammy Watkins) both struggled (as they are won Full Story

Crisis and Opportunity Week One 2017
(9/13/2017)

If our dearly departed Lord Petyr Baelish taught us anything, its that chaos is a ladder. A lack of constancy, he would argue, is lifes only true constant- and most fantasy football managers would agree when it comes to the game they love. If the NFL teaches us anything year-after-year, its that foo Full Story

Upside Hunting RB Draft Day Bargains
(8/25/2017)

ADP= Average Draft Position ECR= Expert Consensus Rank MBO= My Biased Opinion Jordan Howard ADP: RB8 ECR: RB8 MBO: RB4 Why He’s Being Doubted: 1. His athletic measurables are unspectacular and he doesn’t have breakaway speed. 2. He will likely be facing stacked boxes due to a la Full Story

Upside Hunting QB and TE Draft Day Bargains
(8/25/2017)

ADP= Average Draft Position ECR= Expert Consensus Rank MBO= My Biased Opinion Disclaimer: The VORP statistics referenced in the Aaron Rodgers and Rob Gronkowski sections below can be misleading if applied or interpreted incorrectly. VORP analysis does not take into account age or any factor ot Full Story

Upside Hunting WR Draft Day Bargains
(8/25/2017)

To get the most bang for your buck in a dynasty startup, you want to target players whose potential value is higher than their current price. Since I tend to avoid rookies, my favorite way to find these bargains is to look for players who have “red flags” that I feel have been unfairly applied and Full Story

Be Like Belichick Exploiting Market Bias Part One
(8/7/2017)

Respect Your Elders While we can use expert rankings and ADP data to try and establish “market value” for players, at the end of the day every league (and therefore every trade market) is different. By identifying the bias within yours you can target undervalued players and gain a distinct compe Full Story

Be Like Belichick Exploiting Market Bias Part Two
(8/7/2017)

The Young and The Restless While we can use expert rankings and ADP data to try and establish “market value” for players, at the end of the day every league (and therefore every trade market) is different. By identifying the bias within yours you can target undervalued players and gain a distinct Full Story

Expecting the Unexpected Lessons from the 2016 Fantasy Football Season
(5/31/2017)

For as much time as enthusiasts invest in fantasy football, you would think that we could predict player performance with near certainty. Every year we obsess over analysis and repeat subjective narratives until we convince ourselves that they’re fact, and every year so many of those narratives pro Full Story

Running Backs in Dynasty Football Stashing Sleepers and the Paradox of Value
(5/15/2017)

Simple Economics The conventional wisdom is that dynasty fantasy football is all about wide receivers. They have relatively long careers, they are less prone to injury than running backs, and the NFL itself is becoming more pass-happy every day. You can spend a lot of capital on a young stud WR, Full Story

The Good The Bad and the Boring Rookie Tight Ends Edition
(5/9/2017)

The Good, The Bad, and the Boring: Rookie Tight Ends Edition Every fantasy football prospect has their proponents and their detractors. If you want to hear exactly how and why a given player will become the next dominant force at their position, odds are you can find an analyst to tell you. Con Full Story

The Good The Bad and the Boring Rookie Quarterbacks Edition
(5/8/2017)

Every fantasy football prospect has their proponents and their detractors. If you want to hear exactly how and why a given player will become the next dominant force at their position, odds are you can find an analyst to tell you. Conversely, in most cases you can find an equally credible and ferv Full Story

The Good The Bad and the Boring Rookie Running Backs Edition
(5/6/2017)

Every fantasy football prospect has their proponents and their detractors. If you want to hear exactly how and why a given player will become the next dominant force at their position, odds are you can find an analyst to tell you. Conversely, in most cases you can find an equally credible and ferv Full Story

The Good The Bad and the Boring Rookie Wide Receivers Edition
(5/4/2017)

Every fantasy football prospect has their proponents and their detractors. If you want to hear exactly how and why a given player will become the next dominant force at their position, odds are you can find an analyst to tell you. Conversely, in most cases you can find an equally credible and ferv Full Story

Old Dogs and New Tricks
(4/27/2017)

The Fantasy Football Significance of the Marshawn Lynch and Adrian Peterson Signings With the recent signings of Adrian Peterson to the Saints and Marshawn Lynch to the Raiders, fantasy football managers who bought low on either have been breaking their arms patting themselves on the back. But i Full Story

Fantasy Football Dynasty 101 Rookie Draft and Player Development
(4/12/2017)

So youve finished your startup draft (hopefully with the aid of my Ten Draft Commandments- https://www.footballdiehards.com/fantasy-football-columns/html/dynasty-101-transitioning-from-redraft-to-the-one-true-format.cfm). Now your leaguemates are telling you that its time for another draft, this tim Full Story

Fantasy Football Fake News RBs and the Myth of the Athletic Glass Ceiling
(4/5/2017)

The media, as we all know, is overrun with fake news. It’s a huge problem- HUGE. This being the case, why should our sports media (or more specifically, our fantasy football media) be any different? The answer, of course, is that it’s not. Sports media is as susceptible as any other sort to grou Full Story

Dynasty 101 Transitioning from Redraft to the One True Format
(3/30/2017)

If you’re reading this, you’re not completely new to fantasy football. You’ve played the classic, traditional format also known as redraft, and you enjoyed it enough that you’ve decided to try out a more complex, involved, and (in my opinion) infinitely more entertaining format- dynasty. You’ve al Full Story