NFL Picks 2015: Week 17

by | Dec 30, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

Well, we’re finally here. It’s week 17. The NFC playoff participants have been decided. The AFC’s field is narrowed to weekly-picksjust a couple question marks. The fantasy football season is complete in every sane league. And now we’ll finish up with one more run at the picks.

Week 16 didn’t go too badly, considering the weird run of games throughout the day. Four of us hit 10. Fantasy Editor Maggio hit 11. Tony has a six-game lead in the standings – the battle between us is almost for second place, where two participants are within a game of Andy. Here are the standings: (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2015: Week 16

by | Dec 24, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Survivor pool

I’m just going to come out and say it – we’re mailing this one in. Let’s face it. If you’ve been paying attention to our picks, you’re long out of any survivor pools you entered. Sorry about that – next year we should pay attention to your picks rather than you paying attention to ours.

Happy Holidays.

Last week was much like the first 14 – a couple of us threw darts that hit, the rest of us missed. Here is who has been picked prior to week 16: (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 16

by | Dec 22, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

Not that we’re going to spend a lot of time peacocking or anything like that, but Tony is still picking at a top 10 level weekly-picksaccording to Pickwatch.com and each of us hit at least 11 games last week. Actually all of us did, except Rich, who nailed 12. So it was a solid week.

We’re actually holding our own in this segment. We suck at survivor pools and our bets have been just abysmal … but we generally can make a decent guess at who is going to win a game straight up.

Here’s where we’re at with standings so far:

Week 15 Season
Rich 12-4 138-86
Tony 11-5 145-79
Andy 11-5 139-85
Maggio 11-5 136-88
Vomhof 11-5 129-95

This will be a difficult week, what with the holidays and all. Will the teams out of the playoff race show up to play or are their bags already packed? Will the teams who need to win be focused or will their minds be on the last-minute Christmas shopping they have to finish?

Here’s what we think is going to happen:

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Fantasy Top 3 – Who to pick in 2016

by | Dec 18, 2015 | Fantasy Football

While roughly 40 percent of fantasy footballers sweat this weekend’s results to see if they advance to their finals, fantasy-football-logo1many of the rest of us are left to ponder what might have been – and what might happen next year.

It’s obviously early. There are still a couple months of the 2015 season left, counting playoffs. Then free agency and the draft will dominate the headlines.

But it’s never too early to start looking ahead. We convened a roundtable of Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio, Senior Contributor John Vomhof Jr., site Co-Founder Tony and Editorial Director Andy to see if there was any consensus on who the top three picks would be if drafts for 2016 were held right now.

And consensus there was not. See below:

Anthony, fantasy editor (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2015: Week 15

by | Dec 17, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Survivor pool

As Don Meredith used to sing at the end of Monday Night Football, the party is over.

Rich suffered his first actual miss of the season last week. Pretty good run to make it to week 14, though. Should have been in Vegas.

Comparatively, Tony, Anthony, John and Andy have combined to miss 22 through 15 weeks.

So, if you are still alive, you now know whose picks to watch.

Here’s the list of who has previously been used: (more…)