For years, Albert Pujols was the definitive choice at first base for fantasy owners looking to get the best player at that position. Following his worst season as a major leaguer in 2011 at age 31, the newest member of the Los Angeles Angels has lost his position atop the first-base ra...

 
Even though the Super Bowl is consistently the biggest sports story of midwinter, if not the entire year, baseball briefly took the spotlight this past week when free agent Prince Fielder finally found a suitor for his skills and signed with the Detroit Tigers.
Fielder was the l...

 
Of the estimated 32 million fantasy sports participants in the U.S., as projected by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, many are content to play only fantasy football, or possibly add fantasy baseball to keep busy during the summer. Others, however, have an interest in playing fanta...

 
Perhaps no better indicator of the recent aerial revolution in the NFL is the plight of the fantasy running back. As teams have begun to pass the ball more often and employ a committee of backfield members instead of a lone rusher, running backs have quickly lost their grip within the ...

 
Eight months from now, fantasy owners will gather to select their teams for 2012 with the history-making quarterbacks of the past year fresh in their collective memory. The season just ended can serve as the setting for some valuable fantasy lessons in the wake of unprecedented quarter...

 
Results at the tight-end position in fantasy football during 2011 were somewhat surprising. The top two tight ends separated themselves from the field by a wide margin and are both in only their second season in the NFL. Conversely, the third-best tight end in 2011 is a 15-year veteran...

 
After Saturday's games, fantasy football leagues are either just about ready to crown a champion for the year or set the championship game matchup for next week. The majority of owners have no meaningful moves yet to make, so we will take this opportunity to begin the 2011 fantasy foot...

With the NBA season one week from getting under way, many fantasy leagues are holding drafts this week, now that much of the player movement has settled. With that in mind, here is a 2011-12 fantasy basketball preview.
Guard rankings: 1. Derrick Rose, Bulls; 2. Dwyane Wade, Heat; 3. Russell W...

 
The so-called "second season" of fantasy football begins today in many leagues for those owners lucky enough to advance to the playoffs. At a point where the margin for error in decision-making is nonexistent, a couple of general rules of thumb are worth reviewing.First, do not overthi...

 
The month of November often serves as a decisive period for NFL teams. They either establish themselves as playoff contenders or fall by the wayside. In the same manner, a handful of players have had such poor Novembers that their fantasy owners are concerned about their own playoff fu...

 
The injury bug of 2011 continued during the past week, and the most recent victims have included a number of top-tier running backs. Once again, fantasy owners are left scrambling to replace some of their leading scorers, and options are relatively limited; however, a few longshot acqu...

 
Week 10 of the NFL season saw a number of starting quarterbacks suffer injuries. Matt Cassel, Matt Schaub and Michael Vick all were hurt, causing fantasy owners to reconsider their needs at the position.The injury to Cassel has the least impact on fantasy owners; Cassel, who is likely ...

 
In most fantasy leagues, the deadline for owners to consummate trades is rapidly approaching. The purpose of a trade at this point of the season can be to bolster a team for the push toward qualifying for the playoffs, to strengthen a team already in good shape for the fantasy postseas...

 
Almost every week this NFL season, running backs have suffered injuries that cause them to miss games. Today, the following running backs are listed as no better than questionable, and some have already been ruled out: Jahvid Best, Peyton Hillis, Ahmad Bradshaw, Beanie Wells, Joseph Ad...

 
Halfway through the fantasy football regular season, some players selected early in fantasy drafts have hardly lived up to expectations. Owners have a few choices with what to do with these underperforming stars: drop them, trade them, bench them or start them. Here are a few examples ...

 
The trade deadline in the NFL often comes and goes with little fanfare. This year was certainly different with a handful of trades being consummated, most notably the transaction in which disgruntled former Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer ended up in the silver and black of the Oa...

 
The middle third of the NFL season, when bye weeks commence, has the potential to create difficulties for fantasy owners. The most challenging weeks are those when six teams are off the schedule. Weeks 5, 6, 7 and 8 all have a half-dozen teams with a bye, whereas four teams have byes i...

 
Through one quarter of the NFL season, the top fantasy scorers at quarterback include players most owners would expect to see: Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady. An unanticipated entry into the elite tier of fantasy quarterbacks is Carolina's Cam Newton.Newton began the season wi...

 
This is not the first (nor likely the last) time that the adage "once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend" appears in this column, but it certainly bears repeating after the numerous knee-jerk reactions made around fantasy leagues in response to a bevy of unexpec...

 
Brandon Lloyd caught six passes for 89 yards in Week 1 and gave fantasy owners approximately what they expected from him. A week later, Lloyd was a major reason more than a few fantasy owners lost their Week 2 matchups when he aggravated a groin injury in pregame warm-ups and was not a...