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Fantasy Football Dos And Don'ts Week 15

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It's playoffs time, which means that these tips are at peak importance.

DO Stick With What's Been Working

DO Stick With What's Been Working

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If you're in the playoffs, there's a reason you got there. It's because your team is good, and they've been performing well all year. (Either that, or you're a master computer hacker.) If your team is good, and they've been performing well all year, don't all of a sudden get cute and think that you should bench Peyton Manning for someone with a great matchup. That's the kind of overthinking that results in you scoring 50 points and spending your whole day Sunday throwing darts at a picture of yourself that you printed out and taped to your living room wall.

DON'T Keep Starting Players If They Aren't Actually Working

DON'T Keep Starting Players If They Aren't Actually Working

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That being said: don't keep playing a guy just because you've been playing him. Sometimes a team will succeed in spite of a week spot in the lineup, but you overlook said spot because you've been winning. For example, I have Jeremy Kerley pretty firmly ensconced in my second wide-receiver spot. I'm in the semifinals of my league this week, and I was considering whether I should play Kerley or Darrius Heyward-Bey, who, despite being a pretty high draft pick, has been riding my bench thanks to injury and a few zero-catch games. But when I looked into it, Kerley's performance is pretty rough: over his last two games, he's put up a grand total of 4.4 points. I've been on a winning streak, but it hasn't been because of him. So, out goes Kerley, and in goes Heyward-Bey, who went for 82 yards and a score last week against Denver.


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