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Fantasy Football Lover's- Matthew Berry's 100 Facts for 2020



The great dilemma about fantasy is taking guys from teams you hate, but ask yourself, do you want to win? If you want to just play, then draft all Cowboys & you won't. There are countless strategies to put a winning roster together not to mention a whole lot of luck. You can finish drafting & be the offseason champs on paper, but then the season starts & injuries snake bite your dream team. The rules you play by are also important since we have PPR v Old School plus all the different options that a league has possible.

The Mel Kiper of ESPN Fantasy Football is Matthew Berry who has milked this cow to become rich. He is right & wrong all the time, he is like any other so called expert out there. Even some of the new analytic wonder boys give bad advice. There is no one reliable way to win so just gather all the info you can & roll with it. Even the locks of the week will be wrong when you needed it the most. As long as it was the smart play, don't sweat it & keep grinding while seeking info to make better choices.

There are still many factors that go in picking your team. How big is the league & what level of football smarts are the other owners? Is it a family league ware Aunt Karen wins because lady luck blessed her selections? Is it online with strangers who don't put in the time week to week & never should have signed up? Is it the work league ware winning means bragging rights for a whole year?

Berry does this column every year & it makes for a good read as he is quite the slippery devil. His job is just to pollute the air waves with facts, figures & lies while you need to sift through that pile of info to make a decision. So let's see what he comes up with this time around & it's up to you to decipher since it could be the right call but due to the way the ball bounces it was the wrong call.

1. In 2019, nine of the top 10 fantasy quarterbacks had at least 200 rushing yards.

2. Last season, Dak Prescott had the second-most deep completions in the NFL.

3. The third-highest completion percentage on deep passes.

4. The fourth-most deep pass attempts.

5. The fifth-highest yards per attempt.

6. This year, the Dallas Cowboys drafted CeeDee Lamb, who was tied for second in the nation in TDs of 35-plus yards last season.

7. Last season, Prescott had 11 weekly finishes as a top-12 QB.

7a. Only Lamar Jackson had more.

8. Since Amari Cooper joined the Cowboys, Prescott is the second-best QB in total fantasy points.

8a. As of this writing, he is being drafted as QB6 on ESPN.

9. Last season, Kyler Murray was fourth in pass attempts outside the pocket.

10. He was 21st in touchdown percentage on passes outside the pocket.

11. Since 2018, new Arizona Cardinals addition DeAndre Hopkins is tied for the most touchdown receptions on plays where his QB is outside the pocket.

11a. He also has the second-most receiving yards on plays where his QB is outside the pocket.

11b. ... and the third-most receptions on plays where his QB is outside the pocket.

12. During Bruce Arians' final two seasons as the Arizona head coach, the Cardinals ranked fifth in pass percentage (63.8%).

13. Last season, Arians' Buccaneers ranked sixth in pass percentage (66.5%).

14. In Tom Brady's past 16 games with 40-plus pass attempts, he has 301.2 fantasy points (18.8 per game).

14a. That point total would've ranked as QB6 last season.

14b. Jameis Winston was QB5 last season with 305.4 fantasy points.

15. Last season, Aaron Rodgers was held to less than 15 fantasy points in 10 of 16 games.

16. He had his lowest completion percentage since 2015.

17. He had the third-lowest completion percentage in the NFL on deep passes.

18. He was off target on 20% of his throws, the fourth-highest rate in the NFL.

18a. In fact, since the start of 2018, only two other QBs have been off target on a higher percentage of throws.

19. Both pass-catchers the Green Bay Packers added this year, via free agency and the draft, are coming off a major injury (WR Devin Funchess and third-round rookie TE Josiah Deguara).

20. In head coach Matt LaFleur's first season, Aaron Rodgers had his fewest pass attempts in a season in which he played all 16 games since 2014.

21. Last season, the Green Bay Packers went 13-3, their best regular-season record since 2011, and went to the NFC Championship Game.

22. Last season, the New York Giants were fourth in overall pass percentage.

23. They were third in red zone pass percentage.

24. Daniel Jones had at least 20 yards rushing in seven of 12 starts.

25. Despite having just 12 games in which he attempted at least five passes, Jones had four games with 28 or more fantasy points, tied for third most in the NFL.

26. From Week 8 on last season, Jones was the fifth-best QB in fantasy.

27. Jones played ZERO snaps with Saquon Barkley, Sterling Shepard, Evan Engram, Golden Tate and Darius Slayton on the field together last season.

That's enough stealing, if you want to read moore, use the provided link or shortcut. At the end of the day, the guy in the mirror is responsible not the guy on TV, the internet or the guy who did this. It's called Fantasy Football for a reason, it's pretend, so just have fun with it especially this year when so many things can go wrong & winning with an asterisk is not worth bragging about. Winning is everything & I hate losing, but this year I will lower my expectations. If you are playing this year, best of luck to you!

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