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Ask Me Anything Fantasy Football Diehards Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec 82020
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Full Screen: On Youtube                     ...


DFS TE Breakdown Video 2020
By John Laub
John Laub Go back to school with Emil Kadlec and the Gridiron Scholar at Fantasy Football University. Todays lesson explores identifying tight ends for DFS Cash Game lineups with Tips, One-Week Wonders, Scoring Average and PV ratio analysis as well as 2020 Week 1 ta ...


Live Expert PPR Auction Draft with Strategy 2020
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Live expert auction draft -- a PPR, 12-team, 18-round auction with a $200 bankroll. With Football Diehards Bob Harris and Auction Expert Brad Kruse in the Huddles expert Auction League draft. Auction results are included Below! Emil Kadlec will try to follo ...


Ask Me Anything Fantasy Football Diehards Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec 8 14 20
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Ask me anything fantasy football with Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec from FootballDiehards.com. Running back RB solutions and depth chart analysis of may NFL teams. 8/14 full screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9SDsp2Be6Y ...


live mock draft bob and emil 08 11 2020
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec along with 10 FootballDiehards.com subscribers do a PPR 12-team Mock Draft 8/12/2020 Full Screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWPe48Ohjs ...


2020 Coaching Carousel part 1
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Click for Part 2 Uncertainty Surrounding Years Changes Compounded By Circumstances Stop me if youve heard this, but in these unusual times. ... Okay. Im kind of just trolling you, but the truth is the unique circumstances surrounding pretty much everything weve ...


2020 Coaching Carousel part 2
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Click for Part 1 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES Noteworthy Newcomers: Offensive coaches Press Taylor, Rich Scangarello Head coach Doug Pederson shook up his staff by firing offensive coordinator Mike Groh and adding Rich Scangarello as senior offensive assistant, Andrew B ...


Backaholica 2020
By Gary Davenport
Gary Davenport The Ultimate Guide to Fantasy Footballs Most Important Position For many years, running backs were the unquestioned kings of fantasy football. The first round was all about grabbing the best running back available. It wasnt a matter of whether or not the first pick f ...


Slot Receivers Are They The Next Generation’s X Receiver?
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak In recent years the fantasy landscape has been overhauled with the advent of fading expensive running backs in drafts. Loading up on stud receivers became in vogue. However, the tides are again turning with a new wave of workhorse running backs and changing roles of the ...


20 Tips for Winning A Fantasy Championship in 2020
By Gary Davenport
Gary Davenport If youre reading this article, its probably for one of two reasons. The first is that you are a cognoscenti of fine literature, and its a well-known fact that when it comes to the written word, its hard to top a fantasy football magazine. Its true. I read it on the i ...


Zoltan Lives! The All-Knowing Offers Can't-Miss Fantasy Winners (and Losers) for 2020
By Gary Davenport
Gary Davenport As everyone knows, in each of the past two years I have presented the prognostications of Zoltan Zamfirescu, also known as “Zoltan the All-Knowing” – the Romanian soothsayer who was gifted psychic abilities when he was struck by lightning while talking on his cell phone ...


Strength of Schedule 2020
By Adam Hall
Adam Hall Strength of Schedule 2020 By Adam Hall and David Sciacca Passing SOS Team Map Rushing SOS Team Map Opportunity Hidden in the Numbers Going into an uncertain 2020 season the same questions remain in the fantasy world, which teams will falter and who will ...


10 Team Draft Analysis Yahoo 8 6 20
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris Follow along as Emil Kadlec and Bob Harris guide you through a 10-team Yahoo draft with half point per reception scoring. Find out how quickly running backs went, when QBs came off the board and whether that half point scoring system drove down the value of wideouts and ...


Fantasy Football Best Ball Draft Analysis 8 4 2020
By Emil Kadlec
Emil Kadlec Fantasy Football Best Ball Draft Analysis 8/4/2020 with Emil Kadlec of FootballDiehards.com drafting from the sixth position in a 12 team best ball draft. Using Underdog Fantasy website. 8/4/2020 Full screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cddh4CUsTag ...


FootballDiehards: Williams Opts Out, Edwards-Helaire's Stock Rising
By Bob Harris
Bob Harris With Damien Williams opting out due to Covid-19, rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaires stock is suddenly on the rise. Should you pay? Also, LeSean McCoy joins the Buccaneers and we take a quick look at possible ramifications. https://youtu.be/R0tdvaEDJVA ...


Predicting the Target Leader on Every Team AFC
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak In this two-part series, well look at every team and give a quick rundown of the betting favorite to lead the team in targets plus one darkhorse who has a chance of usurping the leader. The darkhorse might not be the second-most-likely player to lead the team in targets ...


4 Players to Fill the End of Your Deepest Rosters
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Drafting Christian McCaffrey was the quickest way to build an insurmountable lead of your competitors last year. Everyone wants to be the hero that nails the first round mega-breakout but if you didnt have a top-three pick in 2019, it was impossible to do that. The 2020 ...


3 late Round Tight Ends You Can’t Afford to Pass On
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Waiting until late in the draft to select a tight end has become commonplace for many fantasy drafters and the strategy is largely viable because of the hit-rate of these players. The best tight end performances typically come from the very top-end players being drafted ...


3 Handcuffs to Win Your Draft
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Handcuffing a running back is typically done to lower a fantasy teams floor by ensuring that, if the starting back goes down, you arent stuck without an elite asset until that back returns. Instead, you end up with a lite version of your star back in the form of their b ...


2020 Best Ball Team Building
By John Laub
John Laub 2020 Best Ball Roster Construction     With a heavy heart, I sit down and begin writing. Last week, I took three days away from fantasy football analysis to reflect on the peaceful protests demanding an end to police brutalit ...


Do Teams Give Impending Free Agent Backs More Touches
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Free agency is one of the few times NFL teams do nothing but tell us what they think of their own players and a handful of players available in the market. In press conferences and statements, coaches can praise a players route-running improvements, laud someones expand ...


Gridiron Scholar’s 2020 Best Ball Dream Team
By John Laub
John Laub Gridiron Scholars       2020 Best Ball Dream Team       For millions of Americans, the pandemic and subsequent economic crisis has turned life upside down, and the impact will alter our nation and culture w ...


2020 Rookie Class Overview Post Draft Fantasy Style
By Evan Tarracciano
Evan Tarracciano There is something very soothing putting aside the disharmony and chaos of the world outside and focusing on football that I find cathartic. Letting the stress of the world pass by for a few moments and taking a breather while I write this article is refreshing - in a ...


Top-5 Fantasy Winners of the NFL Draft
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak 5. Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas The Cowboys could not come to a contract agreement with Dak Prescott and were forced to hit him with the franchise tag. Theyll either be paying the ultimate price by giving him a mega-deal next season because of h ...


QB Metrics: What They Tell Us About Fantasy Value
By Adam Hall
Adam Hall The greatest predictor of future performance is past performance. Narratives, superlatives, expectations, and exclamations surround every group of rookies making the jump from the collegiate ranks to the pros. Every year a generational talent is touted as something spe ...


2020 Rookie Class Overview Post Draft Fantasy Style Pt2
By Evan Tarracciano
Evan Tarracciano Wide Receiver Considered by many to be the best crop of talent at the position since the historic 2013 class, the list of exceptional talent on display here was breathtaking. Though it can be argued who the top player was based upon skills ...


Do Rookie Quarterbacks Have Predictable Tendencies
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Most times, when a rookie quarterback enters the league, pundits will claim that the young passer will lean on a specific target, the tight end position, or any number of random archetypes. Daniel Jones was expected to lean on Saquon Barkley but the latter was injured f ...


Rankings the 2019 Rookie Tight Ends
By Kyle Dvorchak
Kyle Dvorchak Tight end is one of the most difficult positions to rank rookies. Most rookies at the position enter the league as backups and even the starters have a lot to learn. Route concepts can be more complex in the NFL for some tight ends while others have to adapt to the conc ...