High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. When our family goes around the table to say what we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving, I have my answer: the FFPC playoff seeding system that rewards high-scoring teams instead of only those with the best record. That’s right. While everyone else says stock answers like “I’m thankful for my…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. It’s the last gasps. With two more weeks left in the regular season, this is the time of the FFPC Main Event schedule when my friends and I would be bouncing group text messages off each other on how best to shore up the high-stakes teams we manage together in anticipation of our looming…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. Observations from Week 9 in FFPC high-stakes leagues: Kirk Cousins continues to be one of the hottest quarterbacks since Week 5, having thrown for at least three touchdowns in four of his past five games, including on Sunday. So it’s absolutely maddening to see lines like these from his top wide receivers:   The Adam…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. I haven’t used this space that often this season to give detailed updates on the FFPC high-stakes teams I help run, but I’m doing so this week because I believe there’s a common unifier among those who play fantasy football: the bad beat. As opposed to the dominant teams we’ve had the past few…...

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…...

Kickers don’t matter, right up until they do. But let’s start at the beginning here. Every fantasy football team can be broken down into a functionally infinite number of decisions. Sure, the major decisions are obvious and limited, “Who do I draft here?”, “Which guy should I start this week?”, but there are a million smaller choices we make with decision-trees that stretch out to the…...

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…...

What do you do when you just can’t wait for the end of the season to determine the FFPC Super Bracket winner? You get in on some side action! We were facing up against high-stakes veteran and all-around good guy Dan Williamson (@OverHypedSleepr) this week, and Dan came at us with an offer of side action through the FFPC’s on-site wagering system. Now Deshaun of…...

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…...