High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. The scenario: We had an ailing Amari Cooper we wanted to start against the woeful Eagles secondary, but the Cowboys weren’t playing until Sunday night, and all our other best options were going in the early Sunday games. The decision: We rolled the dice that Cooper would be active…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. It’s pretty clear that a lot of teams are hoping Ty Johnson can save their FFPC Main Event seasons — or at least serve as a valuable player to stash. This is likely especially true of teams that elected not to go RB-heavy in the high-leverage rounds of the draft and are now paying the…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Here’s a perfect summary of Week 7 in the NFL: David Johnson, highly questionable all week, is declared active for the game, to the relief of his owners. He takes a handoff on the game’s second play, gains 2 yards, then sits the rest of the day. Naturally, his backup, Chase Edmonds – likely on benches…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Like I’m sure it is with most people who do fantasy football, my Sunday night ritual is to go through all my leagues and see what I need on Monday to win. Like I’m sure it is with most people my age who do fantasy football, I usually then immediately forget whatever it was I just…...

High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. Previously, on RotoViz: John Lapinski was paranoid that our Super Bracket opponent, who had yet to swap out three bye-week players from his lineup, would still somehow beat us, while I lamented that my high-stakes teams failed to cash in on the scoring bonanza that resulted in the rare…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. So, yeah, it’s come to this. I think we’re starting Mike Gesicki this week. In the perfect encapsulation of our season so far, our FFPC Super Bracket team has to bench our starting tight end, Evan Engram, because the Giants play tonight and he couldn’t recover quickly enough from his knee injury to suit…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Let me start off by saying that neither of our FFPC Main Event teams nor our lone Super Bracket squad had any of the following, either in our lineup or on our bench: Will Fuller (53.7 points in FFPC scoring); Aaron Jones (49.2); Christian McCaffrey (47.7); or Deshaun Watson (46). We did have Michael…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. More than a third of the 11-week FFPC Main Event regular season is in the books, and I am depressed. Things have gone poorly. In one Main Event league, we’re 2-2 and third to last in points. We’re also 2-2 in our other league, but in a virtual tie for last in points. In…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. I didn’t think I could see a worse score for a starting quarterback than the 0.9 points that Drew Brees recorded for our Main Event team two weeks ago when he injured his thumb. Then we started Case Keenum. That pretty much set the tone for our day in fantasy. But that was just…...

High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. Here’s an interesting stat: Through the first three weeks, D.J. Chark is the overall WR8 in FFPC scoring. Here’s another interesting stat: Through the first three weeks, Chark has been in our starting lineup exactly zero times. And here’s an interesting side note: Last year, someone named a team…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Like it is for a lot of people, the person most responsible for getting me into football is my dad. There is an infamous story in my family about the time when my mom needed to be taken to the hospital to give birth to my younger sister in 1979 and my dad tried…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. There are times when I feel like this column may be more useful if I gave waiver wire advice before bidding ends every Wednesday night instead of writing about the aftermath on Thursday. But do you want to know the truth? When it comes to waiver bids, no one really knows anything. Take this…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Sometimes, despite all the careful draft preparation, or the meticulously researched lineup decisions, or the precise planning of waiver adds and drops, what your fantasy week comes down to is pure, dumb luck of the schedule. Even with lackluster performances from our three high-stakes teams – two in the FFPC Main Event and one…...

High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. Monty: There’s a little-known rule about signing up for live drafts in the week leading up to the start of the NFL season: If you’ve got kids in grade school, always check to see when Back to School Night is. I’ve had at least one kid in school for…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. I knew this would happen. Every year, I tell myself not to add more leagues. If I do choose to join one, my rule is that it has to be different enough from my other leagues in some key area to make it worthwhile. Last year, for example, I joined dual 14-team leagues with…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Since last Thursday, no player in fantasy football has come with as much risk and reward as Antonio Brown. In the FFPC high-stakes leagues that drafted in the days leading up to the NFL’s opening Sunday, the balance of Brown’s risk versus reward changed practically hourly. But perhaps that’s fitting, considering the drafts took…...