As you know, tight-ends are making one of the biggest impacts in professional offenses as well as fantasy football. But, as far as significant changes in the fantasy football tight-end rankings, there are only two among the top twelve, one due to injury and one due to a performance concern. However, there are several TE2s that are turning some heads. Continue reading
Category Archives: Tight-Ends
Tight-End Rankings Updated – Fantasy Football 2012
As you know, tight-ends are making one of the biggest impacts in professional offenses as well as fantasy football. But, as far as significant changes in the fantasy football tight-end rankings, there are only two among the top twelve, one due to injury and one due to a performance concern. However, there are several TE2s that are turning some heads. Continue reading
Tight-End Rankings – Fantasy Football 2012
Tight-ends are making one of the biggest impacts in professional offenses as well as fantasy football. As mentioned in The Fantasy Greek’s quarterbacks rankings, in a new era where passing the football in the NFL is king, the greatest challenge for fantasy football players is finding the “Solution to Dilution.” With rules crafted to protect quarterbacks, and with rules giving wide receivers and tight-ends more opportunity to catch the football and make plays, you have to look at adding a quality tight-end sooner, rather than later, in your fantasy football drafts. If you want to read more about the historical aspect of the impact of tight-ends are having offensively, see our “Evolution of the Tight-End Position”. Continue reading
Favorable Fantasy Football 2012 Schedules – By Position
Now that we have covered the ranking of teams with the least favorable schedules in fantasy football by position, it’s time to turn our attention to those team with favorable schedules. Below, you will find a ranking of those teams with FAVORABLE schedules for the 2012 season. This is purely a statistical analysis based on fantasy points allowed by position in 2011, through Weeks 16 and 17 (depending on the length of your fantasy football season). Continue reading
Unfavorable Fantasy Football 2012 Schedules – By Position
For those of you who followed The Fantasy Greek through the latter part of the 2010 season, and 2011 season, you may recall The Fantasy Greek provided in Weeks 11 and 13, as a planning tool for your rosters, a ranking of those teams with the best and worst schedules for Weeks 14 to 16 and Weeks 15 to 17, (the weeks of most fantasy football league playoffs), for each primary fantasy position: QB, RB, WR, TE, and DST. Even though the 2012 season is now almost two months away, we can still look ahead to team schedules and get a sense of where teams stand in terms of their strength of schedule, by position, for fantasy football purposes. Continue reading
Tight-Ends: Pre-Season Fantasy Football Rankings
We talked about the running back position being revolutionized through the proliferation of running-back-by-committee situations as well as the fact that more running backs are effective both running and catching the ball. Yet, tight-ends are making one of the biggest impacts in professional offenses as well as fantasy football. If you want to read more about the historical aspect of the impact of tight-ends are having offensively, see our “Evolution of the Tight-End Position”. Continue reading
Updated Pre-Season 2012 Fantasy Football Rankings by Position
It’s been a little over a month since our first pre-season fantasy football rankings by position. Since that time, there has been some significant player movement in free agency. Peyton Manning had us holding our breath and speculating what team he would sign with before deciding to sign with the Broncos. Vincent Jackson is no longer a member of the Chargers, but now a member of the Buccaneers. Brandon Marshall has joined Jay Cutler on the Bears. Tim Tebow is now a Jet. Randy Moss a Forty-Niner. There are many more players on new teams. And, it’s not over. In roughly three weeks, the NFL Draft will determine the starting point of many young careers. Continue reading
Pre-Season 2012 Fantasy Football Rankings by Position
For those of you who have followed The Fantasy Greek for the past two seasons, we like to kick off the new football season with our pre-season 2012 fantasy football rankings by position. For many of you, you are wondering how your favorite team will be affected through free agency. With no lockout this season, we should know a bit about how rosters will start to shape-up in terms of your team’s key positional needs with free agency about to begin.
This was the most exciting fantasy football season we have seen yet. Continue reading
Ranking by Position – Tight-End – August 31st Update
| 1. Antonio Gates (9) | 13. Chris Cooley* (20) |
| 2. Dallas Clark (10) | 14. Tony Gonzalez (6) |
| 3. Jermichael Finley (27) | 15. Todd Heap (24) Continue reading |
Ranking by Position – Tight-End – August 27th Update
| 1. Antonio Gates (9) | 13. Chris Cooley* (20) |
| 2. Jermichael Finley (27) | 14. Greg Olsen (8) |
| 3. Dallas Clark (10) | 15. Todd Heap (24) Continue reading |
