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2026 Underdog Big Board Rankings Evidence Based Football Analysis Covering Best Ball, Season Long, and Dynasty

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2026-26 FFPC Playoff Challenge Ownership Projections The FFPC Playoff Contest is gloriously simple... until you sit down to actually make a lineup. The rules are objectively straightforward. Roster Requirements You select one and only one player from each playoff team to fill out 14 spots, which looks like this: * QB * RB * RB * WR * WR * TE * FLEX

2026-26 FFPC Playoff Challenge Ownership Projections

Quick Slant: MNF - Thank You for Reading, Here's to 2026! Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Rams * Falcons In this place, where I would usually drop some descriptive prose—some wannabe, I don’t know, Cormac McCarthy or whatever it is, which is neither particularly good nor in any way appropriate for a fantasy football article (thanks, Pat, for putting up

Quick Slant: MNF - Thank You for Reading, Here's to 2026!

Quick Slant: SNF - To Awake a Sleeping Giant Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Bears * 49ers Ben Johnson nodded at Dan Campbell, confirming it was time, and Campbell nodded back. Soon, the faint sounds of whistles and clapping were background, while Johnson was alone in his office, a charcoal-gray sky brewing off the Detroit River outside, staring into the

Quick Slant: SNF - To Awake a Sleeping Giant

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - To Find a Blade Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Ravens * Packers The Ravens are backed against a wall. They have a 9% chance at the playoffs. They cannot make the wild card; their only pathway to the tournament is to take the North from Pittsburgh. They play each other next week in what would

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - To Find a Blade

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - Conquering on Their Minds Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Texans * Chargers With 6:15 left in the second quarter, the Texans came out in Deuce Close; the Chargers were up 6-0. Stroud took the snap, whipped around counterclockwise, and handed off to Mixon. Tuli Tuipulotu was ushered past the hoop, too far upfield, and

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - Conquering on Their Minds

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 3 - And to All, a Good Night Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Broncos * Chiefs 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the town, The Broncos were dreaming of wearing the crown. Their jerseys were folded, packed up with great care, in hopes that a West title soon would be theirs. The players were nestled all snug

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 3 - And to All, a Good Night

2025 Week 17 Rankings These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff (just like the rankings). Note

2025 Week 17 Rankings

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 2 - Jettas, with Your Grill So Bright... Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Lions * Vikings Gary: (With a slight nod) If I live to be a hundred, which seems optimistic under the circumstances, I doubt I’ll ever forget that snowstorm a few winters back. It arrived politely, then stayed, the way weather does here, until the world

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 2 - Jettas, with Your Grill So Bright...

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 1 - How Major Tuddy Stole Christmas Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Cowboys * Commanders Every fan down in Big D liked the Cowboys a lot, but Major Tuddy, who lived just north of Rockville, did NOT! The Hog hated Dallas, the whole football season. Now, please don’t ask why; no one quite knows the reason. It

Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 1 - How Major Tuddy Stole Christmas

Quick Slant: SNF - Not Dead Yet Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * 49ers * Colts On Monday, December 8, Philip Rivers turned 44. In the quiet southern tradition of his Alabama home in picturesque Fairhope, just off the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, it should have been a day of birthday cake celebration for the St. Michael Catholic

Quick Slant: SNF - Not Dead Yet

Quick Slant: SNF - As Perennial as Peonies Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Patriots * Ravens Where the Ravens under HC John Harbaugh stand is somewhat unfamiliar. They are a franchise that always seems to maintain their cool—a thoughtful, measured, and steady team that is almost always in the mix come playoff time. The Ravens blend toughness and

Quick Slant: SNF - As Perennial as Peonies

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - Sentiment Gives Way to Modern Consequence Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Packers * Bears Stepping off the Northwestern Elevated Line at the Wilson station, your foot would clunk over wooden planks bolted to a riveted steel skeleton suspended some 16 feet above Wilson Avenue. You’d head south toward Broadway and the headhouse, utilitarian and cold, made

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - Sentiment Gives Way to Modern Consequence

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - To Reclaim Winning as Their Default Calibration Mat Irby's Quick Slant * Eagles * Commanders In social cognitive psychology, a loss of confidence can often be traced to a decline in self-efficacy, a term coined by Albert Bandura in a 1977 article for Psychological Review. Simply put, self-efficacy is the belief that one can do what is being asked

Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - To Reclaim Winning as Their Default Calibration

2025 Week 16 Rankings (Previous post was not displaying rankings correctly). These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated

2025 Week 16 Rankings

Week 16 Rankings These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff (just like the rankings).

Week 16 Rankings

Quick Slant: TNF - Belief Is Provisional Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Rams * Seahawks For the Seahawks, there seemed to be no grand championship plan, just items going off the shelf and replacements shipping in, like retail. Geno Smith was out, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Dre’Mont Jones. Sam Darnold, Cooper Kupp, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Josh Jones

Quick Slant: TNF - Belief Is Provisional

Quick Slant: MNF - This Dreadful, Often Painful Cause Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Dolphins * Steelers I’ve committed an unreasonable amount of my life to sports, and if you’re with me here, odds are you have as well (hell, getting through my intros alone requires the devotion of a Labrador). Still, it’s worth pausing now and

Quick Slant: MNF - This Dreadful, Often Painful Cause

Quick Slant: SNF - A Ball Arcing Into Winter Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Vikings * Cowboys Gray mounds of shoveled-off snow were still bunched in the corners of Bloomington’s Metropolitan Stadium; it was 28 degrees. Brent McClanahan barreled over the thin, yellowing grass, barely blanketing a firmament of soft brown mud, and fell into the end zone, and

Quick Slant: SNF - A Ball Arcing Into Winter

2025 Week 15 Rankings These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff (just like the rankings).

2025 Week 15 Rankings

Quick Slant: TNF - The Anaconda Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Falcons * Buccaneers By the time your synapses have caught up with what’s happening, it’s already got you. You tell yourself there is a way to escape, so you flail with all your might; blood rushes to your extremities, filling your chest, your shoulders,

Quick Slant: TNF - The Anaconda

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Quick Slant: MNF - A Wingnut and a Carriage Bolt Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Chargers * Eagles There will always be a rivalry between the East and West Coast. It’s more than Lakers/Celtics or Tupac/Biggie; it’s Heffner/Hoffa, Gehry/Lloyd Wright, and Disney/Sinatra. It’s the stiff pragmatism of the Ivy League versus the drop-out

Quick Slant: MNF - A Wingnut and a Carriage Bolt

Quick Slant: SNF - The Two Texans-es Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Texans * Chiefs The palms and sunshine of Miami stood in stark contrast to the cool midwinter of Dallas, where Hunt, 26, worked at his father’s oil company. He was from money; he had been trying relentlessly to acquire a piece of the NFL—recommending

Quick Slant: SNF - The Two Texans-es

2025 Week 14 Rankings These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff (just like the rankings).

2025 Week 14 Rankings

Quick Slant: TNF - Dare to Believe Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Cowboys * Lions The Silverdome was alive. The stands were in constant motion, an anthill underfoot; the noise rose like a giant kettle at full boil, whistling and shaking the walls. Faces showed pure joy—dancing, singing, waving towels—convinced this was the day—January 5,

Quick Slant: TNF - Dare to Believe

FAABulous Football Week 14: The Waiver Season Finale I can't believe this is it, the final FAABulous Waiver Article of the season. If you are still here reading this, congratulations, you probably have some teams with a chance to make it into the playoffs and/or sprint. The wire is getting thin, I hope you planned ahead and

FAABulous Football Week 14: The Waiver Season Finale

Quick Slant: MNF - Take Nothing For Granted Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Giants * Patriots When the clock hit double zeroes in the Meadowlands on December 29, 2007, two things felt equally absolute: the Patriots, fresh off the first 16-0 regular season in NFL history, were an undeniable team of destiny; their opponent, the Giants, who had backed

Quick Slant: MNF - Take Nothing For Granted