Tom Vreeland 
Half PPR awards 0.5 fantasy points per reception. Full PPR awards 1.0 point per reception. Everything else — passing, rushing, receiving yards, touchdowns, fumbles — is usually identical, so the two formats differ by exactly half a point on every single catch. That one coefficient changes who you draft, who you trade for, and why … Read more
A PPR league is a fantasy football league that scores points per reception: every catch a player makes adds a set number of fantasy points to his weekly total, on top of the points for yards and touchdowns. A full PPR league gives 1 point per catch, a half PPR league gives 0.5. It is … Read more
The fantasy football waiver wire is a weekly claim system for unowned players. Managers submit claims, those claims process together on a set day, and the highest-priority claim wins the player. Anyone who loses keeps his roster spot. It is how you replace an injured starter three days before kickoff. Most of the confusion around … Read more
Fantasy football scoring turns real game statistics into points. Your league assigns a value to every stat a player produces, the platform adds those values together for your whole roster, and the total is your team’s score for the week. Learn the rules and you stop guessing why a running back who carried the ball … Read more
Fantasy football is a game where you act as the general manager of a virtual team made of real NFL players, drafting a roster before the season and scoring points from those players’ real statistics every week. That is the whole idea, and you can learn enough to play competently in an afternoon. People ask … Read more
Innings limits stop you from beating your league by adding pitchers every week, and handling one well comes down to three things: read your league’s exact rule, split the innings allowance across your roster and your calendar, then pick pitchers that fill that budget efficiently. Do that and the cap stops being a ceiling you … Read more
To manage a fantasy baseball bench during the season, give every roster spot one job, decide in advance what fills it and what it costs to hold it, and re-run that decision once a week instead of reacting to yesterday’s box score. In practice that means writing down your league settings, labelling each bench player … Read more