News: This is one of those weeks where there’s a lot of overlap between our league news and NFL news, with the QB injuries making headlines. The Burrow injury casts the longest shadow in fantasy right now with what most are calling a “fantasy season ending” timeline for recovery. Slightly more mysterious and less significant are injuries to Purdy and McCarthy. Initial reports were that the Purdy injury was looking like multiple weeks but now it sounds like they may…
News: Welcome back to year 19 of Clan McDonald fantasy football. This detail may make some of us feel old. It may remind some of us of a time when Tony Romo, Kurt Warner and Greg Olsen weren’t just popular TV analysts, they were on our rosters and winning us games. Good times… This pre-season has been relatively drama free, which is nice. We had the Scary Terry mini hold-in and AOB had to sweat McCaffrey for a couple days…
News: Once again the final week of our fantasy season fell during our annual Clan McDonald Christmas gathering. It was nice to see many managers together in one place and even watching a bit of football together. With the Christmas day games, we had Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun and Monday night football and that definitely didn’t make line-up decisions any easier (especially with NFL play-off scenarios looming). With a full docket of games distributed across six days and even though…
News: I normally make every effort to get the newsletter out before the start of the following week but with football on Christmas day, we had a unique set of circumstances this year. Notable NFL injuries include Tank Dell with another heart-breaking season ender and Jalen Hurts, whose injury now threatens a deep Eagles play-off run – not to mention threatening the end of more than a few fantasy seasons to boot! In Clan McDonald we saw both top seeds…
News: Not really news but I’m finding the NFL schedule particularly challenging this year in fantasy terms. The bye week situation was the biggest one but then you add in these Saturday games and even the head-scratching Monday night double headers. Can someone explain to me why a league that loves money would schedule two games at the same time on Monday night? Say what you want about the Thursday night games but at least you have all the eyeballs…