Okay kids, it’s prediction time. As I wrote earlier this week, I love these match ups. I love the idea of one side of the bracket featuring the two teams with the most title game appearances (Robio/Griff) going against two teams that have both struggled to turn regular season success into a mug-worthy season. Let’s…
2013 Players
2013 Playoffs
The 2013 playoffs are here. If you’re one of the lucky eight, then this article is for you. #1 BUTT FUMBLES, 10-3 (ROBIO) JUST THE PLAYOFF FACTS, MA’AM I’m 20-6 in the post-season. My 20 wins are a league high and my .769 winning percentage is also the league best. I’m the only person to…
2013 All-Robio Awards
Like the NFL, we award our All-Robio awards when the regular season ends. Guess what just ended? So it’s time for the 2013 All-Robio First, Second and third team awards. Below you will see me reference “All-Robio points.” What this means is, I give 3 points for a first-team award, 2 for second team and…
First Rounds Picks, Not What You Always Want It To Be
First-round picks…they don’t need to be great, but you’ll certainly feel it if they aren’t any good. We’ve all had our share of bad, season-wrecking first round picks. Here is a list of every team’s worst first-round pick. Now how did I come up with this list. Well, I ignored keepers and kept the focus…
2013 Preseason All-Robio Predictions
Note to league members, of the eight players I predicted to be first-team All-Robio in 2012, only one actually finished the season as a first-team All-Robio player. So yeah, grain of salt. Of the 24 players on the first, second and third teams, 1/3 did finish on one of those teams. That’s not bad. First-team…
2013 Preseason Rankings
NOW…it’s official. The draft, that was the appetizer. The season doesn’t really begin until I make my preseason predictions. Last season three of the four teams I said would miss the playoffs did and the one I missed (Matt) I said would finish 8th, so I was oh so close. As for the champ, I…
2013 Mock Draft
ROUND ONE 1. Jeff – Arian Foster, RB HOU It comes down to three guys, Foster, Charles or Calvin Johnson. Starting next year, thanks to the scoring changes, running backs are going to be more valuable. If I’m picking, I’m taking the guy who has been an All-Robio player three straight years as oppose to…
First-Round History
The first-round doesn’t decide a championship, but it sure will help you become on. Let’s take a look back at everyone’s first round picks and see who nailed it and who blew the pooch. Note: The asterisk means keeper. ROBIO Overall, not too bad. No major busts. Since 2001, I’ve taken or kept nine running…
2013 Keepers, Who Got It Right?
The 2013 keepers are in and what’s the point of having me in the league if I don’t sit here and judge each and every one of you. ROBIO Matt Ryan, QB ATL (Round 3) | Marshawn Lynch, RB SEA (Round 7) I had one big decision to make and that was in category two.…
2012 Keepers Redos
The 2013 keepers are due in roughly two weeks, so let’s take a moment and look back to last year’s decisions. Let’s see if you made the right ones. DON CATEGORY ONE: He kept no one, but he should have kept quarterback Matt Ryan in the fourth, who not only finished sixth among all arms, he…
2013 Player Salaries
Here are your 2013 Salaries. The salary cap will remain the same…$110.
2013 Robioland Football…It Begins
Fucking 15 years old. Robioland Football is still jailbait, but damn we’re getting old. Can you believe it? Fifteen years of Robioland football. It seems like just yesterday I sat in my living room with Griff and six other guys, with our shirts off, rubbing each others’ nipples…no wait, that was something else. Actually, the…
The Rally
ROB BECOMES THE FIRST PERSON IN THE 13-GAME ERA TO RALLY FROM A 1-5 START TO PRODUCE A WINNING RECORD When do you throw in the towel? It’s a question we never want to face in a fantasy football season, but we’ve all been there. For those who start the season 1-5, the answer is…
2013 Keeper Options
Here are your 2013 keeper options for each team.
2012 Season Rewind
WEEK ONE Kolb Gobblers 1183.0 at o0o0o 1310.0 Quarter Pounders 1613.0 at Tebow’s Before Hoes 1708.0 Glory Hole Days 1560.0 at Mollipop 1410.0 The Dick-Taters 1263.0 at The Gooch Bruisers 1193.0 Romolicious 1612.0 at Spider Two Wide Banana 1326.0 Young, Dumb & Full of Cam 1100.0 at Tony Stark 1172.0 TUESDAY THOUGHTS No. 1 TEBOW’S…
2012 Players
2012 was a year unlike any other. A rookie quarterback (RGIII) finished first among all quarterbacks, while a second rookie, running back Doug Martin delivered a first-team All-Robio performance. Some stars shined as expected (Ray Rice, Arian Foster and Calvin Johnson are just a few), while others (Maurice Jones-Drew, DeMarco Murray and Michael Vick) faltered.…
2012 Draft Rewind
ROUND ONE 1. ERIC – Ray Rice, RB-BAL | Position Rank: #4 | 2,548 points Finally, Eric gets a first-round pick right. The ghost of Chris Johnson, Brian Westbrook, Shaun Alexander, LaMont Jordan, Julius Jones and Eddie George lingered in the air draft day, but Ray Rice exercised all those demons, leading Eric to his…
Robioland Baseball, 2013 Recap
TOP SEED HISTORY: Evan N., Jeff, Robio, Rich C, Denbo, Naides SCORING CHAMP: Evans N, Rob M, Robio, Rich C, Rob M, Naides 1. ROB MASTERSON He didn’t win the title in 2012, but Masterson holds onto the top spot for the second straight year. The Jersey boy is tops in wins (824), second in…
Game of the Century
ROBIO OVER ERIC, 1,973 – 1,871 | CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Heading into the 2012 title game, one thing was clear…Eric (Tebow’s Before Hoes) was the favorite. The CBS Guru certainly thought Eric was the better of the two teams, making me (Romolicious) a 384-point underdog. Even I jumped on the bandwagon. In my predictions, I gave…
Ranked Seasons, 2012
Here is the updated season’s rankings…all 164 of them. I’ve tweaked the math this year (you can see how I figure all this at the very bottom of this page). I’ve also added a new feature, you can now see just your seasons (because really, do you care about anyone else?) Anyhow, the get some…
2012 TITLE GAME – THE PREDICTION
It’s cousin vs. cousin the 13th title game in Robioland history. While the top two teams (Griff and Calderon) failed to escape the first-round, this is the third time in four years that the championship game featured two high seeds (1-4). This is a bit surprising considering how many upsets we have in this league.…
2012 ALL-ROBIO TEAMS
Here are the 2012 All-Robio awards. Just like the NFL, we only count what happened in the regular season. Below you will see me reference “All-Robio points.” What I’m talking about is, on the All-Robio Players Page, I award three points for First-Team All-Robio, two for second-team and one for third-team, to see who is…
2012 Playoff – The Big Picture
It’s on. We got two Rich’s, two Rob’s (for the first time since 2006), two Coomers and a Bob. The league has two Vozzola’s, but only one made it to the playoffs. Only three teams have won titles over the last six years, but two of them (Don, Matt) are sitting outside, looking in. Speaking…
History of the Final Week Spoiler
The spoiler…the man (or woman) who goes out in the final week and takes someone else’s playoff hopes, their playoff dreams, and crushes them like like Tim Burton crushes all my favorite child movies with awful remakes. Over the 13 year history of this league, it’s happen seven times. Seven times a team had a…
2012 Mid-Season Report
Technically with a 13-game schedule, the midway point of the season is actually midway through the week six games, but since 67-percent of the league gets to play ball in the quarterfinals, I’m deciding that the halfway point is after seven weeks of football. So how’s your season going? If you’re in this league and…
2012’s Wednesday Stats – Full Season Update
TEAM OF THE WEEK: Week 1 – Tebow’s Before Hoes (Eric), 1708 points Week 2 – The Gooch Bruisers (Griff), 1847 points Week 3 – The Gooch Bruisers (Griff), 1499 points Week 4 – Romolicious (Robio), 1787 points Week 5 – Tebow’s Before Hoes (Eric), 2041 points Week 6 – The Gooch Bruisers (Griff), 1594…
2012 Suicide Pool
Week one is done and so are Matt, Bob, Molly and Burrier. The good news for these folks is, I said that if we get a winner from this pool sooner rather than later, we’ll just do another one, start fresh. And if both Burrier and Griff win this week, we’ll have a winner. That’s…
2012 Predictions: Lil’ E Has The Goods
How does one make predictions. Sure I can do a ton of research (which I do), but do I simply add up the numbers and declare the team with the highest totals the winner? Seems easy, but I can’t really ignore other factors, right? Don’t I have to consider Colby’s abilities to do trades that…
2012 Draft – A Round-By-Round Quick Thought
Here are some “quick hits” as Don Banks would say regarding the 2012 Robioland Fantasy Football Draft. ROUND ONE The first-round went pretty much to script. While my mock draft didn’t nail all of the first nine picks (I got six of nine), if I was given two choices, I would have gone nine for…
2012 Post-Draft Mock Draft
If you’re reading this now, this means the draft is over. While I love doing actual mock drafts, I don’t like giving away my secrets, as well as others’ secrets that were given to me…but I still do a mock draft anyway. Let’s see how accurate I got. Let’s see if my mock team for…
Jeff Suffering Through Breakup Blues
JEFF GREENBLATT Heading into 2012, we are going into year four since the Jeff/Colby love affair was broken up. Life as a single player started off well for Jeff. He won eight games in 2009, he made it to the post-season as the 4-seed, while Colby was sitting home and watching. Yet, the previous two…
Molly’s Got Back
MOLLY COOMER For a long time now, Molly was pretty predictable. You knew she would win a game at some point during the season without breaking 900 points, you knew she was going to refuse to send nude photos to Burrier for $50 and you knew that she was going to draft a running back…
Burrier’s Squad That Didn’t Exist
RICHARD BURRIER Last year a lot was made about the fact that Burrier basically went wire-to-wire with the exact same starting lineup. Meaning the exact same starting lineup in week one also played in the championship game. That’s pretty impressive, if you’re into that kind of thing. However, those players weren’t all of Rich’s top…
Calderon’s Keeper Fails?
RICH CALDERON Mr. Calderon loves to see himself as the “best team to not win a championship.” Fact is, it’s true, at least statistically. However, I’m bored with this storyline. The big question should be, why do Calderon’s “great” teams continue to come up short? Why can’t any of these teams bring home at least one…
2012 Keeper List
Don Vozzola Jackson, Fred RB BUF A6 Jeff Greenblatt Hernandez, Aaron TE NE A7 Sproles, Darren RB NO A13 Molly Coomer Rodgers, Aaron QB GB A1 Cruz, Victor WR NYG A7 Eric Vozzola Forte, Matt RB CHI B5 Smith, Steve WR CAR A8 Bears DST KC B12 Colby Hall Brady, Tom QB NE A2 Green-Ellis, BenJarvus RB…
For Eric, Losing Begins At The Top Of The Draft
ERIC VOZZOLA There is no question who is the worst team in Robioland Football. It’s not even close, although Jeff is trying his hardest. Eric is dead last in just about everything: points per game (1,138), winning percentage (.367). How bad are his win totals? Colby has three more career wins than Eric in four…
Bob: Never Afraid To Catch A Break
BOB CASTRONE Before we get started, let’s get one thing straight. Bob is good. Bob is better than good. In fact, you can call him great…he won’t mind. However, it doesn’t hurt to be really good and really, really lucky. It’s just the facts of fantasy life. Look at almost any champion in this league…
2012 Keeper Rankings
Not too many surprises in the 2012 keepers. It’s a quarterback heavy keeper class, as five signal-callers are being kept, four of which are being kept just for season two. Overall, 30 players are being kept (our lowest total since 2004). Of the 30, eight are entering their third and final season). Of the 21…
Masterson’s Robioland Experience: Painful
ROB MASTERSON Injuries happen. It’s football. It’s large men bouncing off each other at full speed. Of course that’s the same description Rob uses to describe his college years, so there’s that. Anyhow, we all have to deal with injuries throughout our seasons. Last year, Molly lost two-top five players…but recovered to have a fantastic…
Colby: Jack of All Trades
COLBY HALL The trading of players is a huge part of fantasy football, unless you’re Don (3 trades in 11 years) or Molly (3 trades in 10 years) and no one understands this more than Colby. Sure, others have done more trades. I lead the league with 32 career trades and Matt is the champ…
Don’t Forget Griff’s Own L.T.
GRIFF COOMER We spend a lot of time talking about Richard Burrier and his amazing run with LaDainian Tomlinson. The fact is, it was a beautiful relationship between the two that lasted 4+ years (this is prior to the three-year keeper limit). However, Rich wasn’t the only one who benefited from this type of relationship.…
No One Sleeps Better Than Mr. Neatock
MATT NEATOCK Weeks prior to a draft, or in the case of Colby, months before a draft, everyone is thinking about who the hell they are going to take in the first-round. Of all the emails and G-Chats I get from other league members, that tends to be the number one concern on their minds.…
Oh Shit…It’s Don
DON VOZZOLA There are plenty of moments when you want to see Don. Christmas time is always nice. Early in the fantasy season is always a nice time. Mid-season, is good. How about towards the end of a long Robioland football season? Yep, that will work too. However, if there is one time you don’t…
Changing History: What If We Were a 6-Team Playoff Format?
During that tender moment after masturbating and before South Park re-runs come on, I think about Robioland Fantasy Football. Often, I imagine what this league would be like if things were different. For example, We do an 8-team format, no byes, while most fantasy leagues do a six-team playoff format, with the top two seeds earning…
2012 Salaries
Here are your 2012 salaries. One big change, the team salary is moving down to $100 this season. Last year we didn’t even sniff the top of the cap ($110) and I’ve actually made a few minor adjustments that lowers player’s values, thus I’m lowering the cap to a nice round number. If you want…
2003 & Beyond
Folks, Masterson and Burrier love to bust my chops and declare that anything that happened prior to 2003 shouldn’t count. Of course this eliminates all my championships, including the one I won when both of them were in the league (2002). The reality is, you just don’t erase history. You don’t take away the 1960’s Packers’…
2012 Newsletter – READ IT!
Welcome back to Robioland Fantasy Football. Can you believe it, but it is year 14 in Robioland? Yes, 14 fucking seasons of Robioland Fantasy Football. Of course we can’t really talk about the future unless we talk about the past. The fact is, we are coming off one of the most amazing seasons we’ve ever…
Champions: List of Players
Here is a near-complete list of all the players that have won championships in this league. However, the exception is I don’t know all of the players on my 2000 title team. QUARTERBACKS Kurt Warner: 1999 (Robio) and 2007 (Matt) Aaron Brooks: 2000 (Robio) and 2001 (Jason) Michael Vick: 2002 (Robio) Peyton Manning: 2003 (Rich…
2012 Way Too Early Mock Draft
As we all have learned over the years, I don’t really like doing mock drafts just prior to the season. I’m a competitor in this league, so why am I helping others? Of course most of my personal mocks I do are blown up rather quickly (thank you Bob), but my point remains valid. However,…