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Our Quiz of the Day Tuesday offered up a generous threshold for relevance in fantasy football – averaging 10 PPR points per game. It’s not easy, but it’s attainable enough that 145 players did it a year ago. Bumping up the threshold, though, makes it more exclusive. Last year, there were still 58 players who […]

Just about any NFL player can put up 10 PPR points in a game. It’s not a high bar to clear. Even averaging that over a whole season isn’t that big an ask – 145 different players averaged 10 PPR points per game in 2021, from Cooper Kupp at 25.85 to Brandon Aiyuk at 10.02. […]

Anyone can tell you the Packers and Buccaneers had two of the best records in the NFL last year, the Jaguars and Lions two of the worst. 2021 is fresh on our memories. But can you remember which teams have fared the best and worst over the last 10 years? Today’s Quiz of the Day […]

In Thursday’s Quiz of the Day, we asked whether you could name every team’s most recent 1,000-yard receiver. It wasn’t the easiest task in the world, but at the same time, every team has had at least one 1,000-yard receiver since 2015, and everyone but the Jets has gotten there since 2018. So the names […]

It’s easier to go for 1,000 receiving yards these days than 1,000 rushing yards. Last year, 26 players cracked 1,000 receiving yards, compared to only seven on the ground. Over the last five years, those numbers are 109 and 50, respectively. So naming the most recent 1,000-yard receiver for each franchise should be easy for […]

Intellectually, as a fantasy football player, you probably already downgrade flex options past their 30th birthday. It’s ingrained in us — players drop off as they age, 30 is the kiss of death, all that. Let me tell you right now that however much you downgrade the older players, it probably isn’t enough.   Obviously, […]

They say, in the theater, that the worst night to see a play is the second night. First night, everyone’s on point. Later, the kinks are ironed out. The second night? The adrenaline is diminished, the wrinkles show. The second episode of Survivor is often the same way. The first episode is devoted to at least […]

Rushing for 1,000 yards in a season doesn’t guarantee you had a dominant fantasy season, but it gets you a lot of the way there. So you’d think it would be easy to remember the last player to do it for each team, right? Let’s find out. Can you identify the last 1,000-yard rusher for […]

Leonard Fournette re-upped with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tuesday after a brief flirtation with the Patriots. In his two years in Tampa, Fournette has scored 16 touchdowns, including two through the air, adding him to the amazing 90-name-deep list of players who have caught a touchdown pass from future Hall of Famer Tom Brady. Which […]

When a player puts up at least 10 PPR points in a given game, he’s had a fine week. Not a world-beating week, but if you have him in your fantasy football lineup, it’s at least some degree of acceptable. A low bar. But when he does it over and over, and you learn you […]

The NFL schedule changes every season. But the constant is a team’s intradivisional games. If you’re the Colts, you might face the Chiefs one season and the Jets the next, but you know you’re playing two games each against the Jaguars, Titans and Texans. It’s a small piece of knowledge, but it’s one we can […]

The NFL schedule changes every season. But the constant is a team’s intradivisional games. If you’re the Colts, you might face the Chiefs one season and the Jets the next, but you know you’re playing two games each against the Jaguars, Titans and Texans. It’s a small piece of knowledge, but it’s one we can […]

With Davante Adams on the move Thursday in a blockbuster trade, it got us wondering: Where does Adams rank among PPR points among non-quarterbacks over the last six years? Spoiler: He’s No. 1 (you’re welcome for one answer). There are 34 skill players with at least 1,000 PPR points since 2016. Today’s quiz wonders how […]

Wednesday’s Fantasy Quiz of the Day asked how many of the top 20 “last season of a career” fantasy performances you can recall. Today, we’re going the other way with it: Who has had the best fantasy rookie seasons since the merger? There are some big current names on this list, some Hall of Famers, […]

NFL free agency is set to kick off Monday. With that in mind, it’s worth a quick look back. What active players have fared the best in their first season with a new team? Whether by trade, free agency or anything else, let’s take a look back on the players with the most PPR points […]

We got two hours of Survivor 42 Wednesday. We got two eliminations (one voted, one removed). We got a visit from medical, multiple advantages and the biggest smile ever from a contestant who wears her emotions on her sleeves more than anyone in the world ever has. Welcome to the new season. Each week, I’ll […]

If Tom Brady had stayed retired, his 374.7 fantasy points in 2021 would have obliterated the record for most fantasy points in the final season of a player’s career. But since Brady is back, let’s take a look at the top final-season performers now. Today’s fantasy quiz of the day wonders how many of the […]

Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison have the all-time record for most touchdowns between a quarterback and a single pass-catcher in NFL history, at 112. That’s going to be a tough one to catch, especially considering only four duos of active players have even reached 50 together, and of those, two sets aren’t teammates anymore. There […]

Within a few episodes of a season of Survivor, you can generally get a feel at least for the contestants who will at the least make it far, and maybe for the real contenders. Before the season starts? It’s all conjecture and guesswork, y’all. But let’s do it.   The 42nd season of the show […]

Putting up 20 fantasy points in a game is a good week. Putting up 30 probably wins your fantasy team the game. Putting up 40? There are only a handful of those a year, and when they happen, we remember them … don’t we? Can you name every player who put up a 40-burger in […]

Thursday, the quiz of the day focused on players with the most seasons of at least 100 PPR points over the last 10 years. 22 players have done it at least nine times. Today’s quiz ups the threshold: Who has had the most seasons of at least 200 PPR points over the last decade? 200 […]

Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD runs in the last 10 years we can remember. We don’t have anyone with hundreds of scores like Monday’s passing […]

As crazy as it sounds, there hasn’t been a repeat No. 1 overall finisher at running back since 2002-2003. In the 19 years since, 19 different running backs have led the league in PPR scoring. Can you remember the whole list? Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy […]

Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD passes in the last 10 years we can remember. Sometimes we have a guy with 317 touchdowns! Sometimes we have […]

The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl by being (a) one of the best teams in the league, but also (b) one of the healthiest teams in the league. The team famously re-signed basically everyone, and in 2021, they repeated (a), but by the end (b) had fallen apart like … well, one […]

Scoring 100 PPR points in a season isn’t a huge feat. In a 16-game season, that’s only 6.3 points per game. So would you be surprised to learn that only 22 players at any position have scored that in at least nine of the last 10 seasons? Getting there once is (relatively) easy. Getting there […]

Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD receptions in the last 10 years we can remember. We wrap up this miniseries of TD scorers with the receiving […]

In Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season, someone ran for 250 yards … and somehow didn’t even lead the league in rushing that week. (I’m not going to tell you who, that’d be a spoiler.) That little fact has always blown my mind. Imagine running for the 13th-most yards in a game ever, and […]

Ten years is a long time. Do you think you can name all of the top 25 single-season fantasy PPG leaders in that time? With no games played minimum (that might be a clue to one of them!), who put up the most PPR points per game in a year since 2012? Take our quiz […]

The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl by being (a) one of the best teams in the league, but also (b) one of the healthiest teams in the league. The team famously re-signed basically everyone, and in 2021, they repeated (a), but by the end (b) had fallen apart like … well, one […]

We’ve been looking at 2021 for most of these Fantasy Football Quiz of the Day tests, but today let’s broaden our horizons – how well can you remember the top fantasy performers dating back to the Year 2000?  Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz of […]

There were 48 top-12 finishers in PPR scoring in 2021 – 12 quarterbacks, 12 running backs, 12 wide receivers, 12 tight ends. How many of them can you name? Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz of the Day? Click here!)